The Dickinson press., 1890-06-07
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.

Fargo votes June % on the question
OF issuing $50, 900 Of water works bonds.
A postofice has been established at
Quay, Rollette county, North Dakota,
with Ole Martin, postmaster.
The house committee of the whole rec
commended and passed q bill appropri-
atlng $1OO,0O0 for a site and public build
ing at Fargo.
Congressman Hansbrough has secured
the insertion in the regular agricultural
college appropriation bill of $45, 900 for
the Fargo college.
The session of the State Sunday School
association at Grand Forks closed
Thursday night. The next meeting
will be held at Lisbon.
"A Washington special says the bill
granting relief to settlers deposed from
the Northern Pacific second indemnity
belt will probably be killed in the senate
public lands committee.
The North Dakota Medical association
held its annual meeting at jamestown
last week. DR.. Coe, Of Mandan. was
elected president. The next meeting
will be held OF Fargo May %, 1891.
The house committee on public lands
has authorized a favorable report on
the bill granting the state of North Da-
kota section thirty-six or the public in
Cass county as a site for a state agricul-
tural college,
In the case of Editor Moffet, of Bis
marck. against L. N. Griffin for dam
ages for assault, Bob Roberts. an old
timer. swore that he himself committed
the assault. Roberts was indicted, plead
guilty. and paid a fine of 800.
While at dinner, at Fargo, Saturday,
Judge Alfred Wallin of the supreme
bench, was taken suddenly i'll. He was
emoved to his home and now lies in a
%precarious condition. The doctors are
reticent, but admit a%ppoplexy is feared.
The jamestown Alert says there is
much old wheat yet in the hands of the
farmers of North Dakota. The roller
mills at Valley City have taken in $1,000
bushels since seeding was finished. In
Stutsman county it is estimated that 49,
600 bushels yet remain in the hands Of
the farmers.
The French Canadians of Pembina
and the %neighboring counties in North
Dakota, have made arrangements to Gel
CITRATE June "a (St. Johns Day) at
Neche. 1t is expected more people will
assemble there on that day than OH any
Fourth of July celebration ever held in
any part of North Dakota.
AT a meeting of the Farmers Anti
Monopoly association, held in Grand
Forks. it was decided to incorporate and
to build warehouses at every railroad
station where enough farmers can be
induced to join the association. The
object of the association is to control the
local markets and ship direct to English
buyers in London and Liverpool.
Mr.. Donnelly, of the firm of Mccarthy
q Donnelly, of st. Paul, is at Fort Sisse-
ton. N. D.. with Il force of men to disin-
ter the bodies of the dead soldiers which
are buried there-forty-six in number.
They are to be reinterred in the national
Cemetery at Fort Custer, Mont. Lieut..
b. e. Mccoy, Of Fort Smelling, is there
to s%uperintend the government part
of it.
Thursday in the house committee of
the whole the bill appropriating 800, 900
for a public building at Fargo,
among many others was acted upon
f%avorably, but when the committee
arose no quorum of the house was pres
ent and the bill was not reported. The
effect of this action is to place the bills
at the foot Of the calendar, where they
will probably not be reached this session.