The Dickinson press., 1890-08-02
NEWS In THE DAKOTAS,
NORTH DAKOTA.

Dickinson reports q temperature Of
los in the shade Sunday.
There is talk of a Democratic CAM
paign paper at Grand Forks.
A state bank has been incorporated at
Lisbon with a capital of SIS, 600.
North Dakota editors start on their
trip to the Yellowstone park Aug. 8.
The population of North Dakota is e.
timated by Census Supervisor Dodds at
1900
E. S. Neal and Asa Fisher have been
confirmed register and receiver of the
Bismarck land Office.
The senate has agreed to amendments
providing $4,000 each for Indian schools
at Mandan, N. D., and Flandreau, S. D..
Plans for the new Manitoba depot at
Grand Forks have been accepted and
the work of building will begin at once.
The building will be entirely Of stone.
The Northern Pacific elevator, at Val
ley City, N. D., containing 5000 BUSH
els of wheat, burned. Twenty thousand
feet of lumber, owned by the Gull River
company, was also burned.
According to the secretary of the rail.
road commission but one elevator has
thus far taken out a license to do bust
ness in the state. There are over 600
elevators yet to be heard from.
"A surveying party under direction of
Division Engineer Pierson is at work on
the Northern Pacific, taking measure
ments for the resetting of mile posts
and collecting other data. This party
will work as far west as Mandan.
DR.. Elstad, a veterinary surgeon of
Grand Forks, has mysteriously disar-
peared. Last Saturday evening he was
called to attend a sick horse at East
Grand Forks. Since that time no traces
of his whereabouts are obtainable.
The original package vendors of Bis
of city license for the sale Of : li Eu1prs
They contend that the city is exceeding
its jurisdiction by passing o%rdinanccS
conflicting with the state constitution.
Messrs. Hutchinson, Herndon & JOY,
OF Lakota, have just purchased in Mon
a 1000 sheep and will engage in
sheep raising on a large scale. They
nave recently secured several large
tracts of land for pasturage purposes.
The first shipment of sheep arrived Mon
day more will follow in a short
time.
jamestown Alert: The sale of twenty
tive twine binders to q club of Stutsman
county farmers is a boom time incident.
Never before was farm machinery sold
so cheap as this season, and not for
three years have twenty-five wheat
growers of the county deemed it advisa-
BILE to buy as many binders. A notable
feature of the sale was that over half
the binders were paid for in cash.
The Minneapolis elevator men say
that the effect of the new laws in North
Dakota regarding public elevators are
very slight. Their storage business has
been a minor consideration. The farm
ers are realizing that it does not pay
them to pay heavy storage charges while
waiting for a purely speculative adj
vance In wheat, and they can sell their
wheat in the open market and buy al
option if they wish to share the profit of
such an advance.
North Dakota has just been divided
into two internal revenue districts, the
dividing line running from the southern
boundary line of Grand Forks county
directly west on county lines to the
Montana line. Maj. Warnock, of
Jamestown, who has heretofore had the
entire state as his district, will hereafter
have charge of the southern district,
while A. Haight, of Gilby, has been ap-
pointed as deputy collector for the north
ern district, with headquarters at Lari-
more.
Miss Bell Rose, of Pittsburg, Pa,
arrived at Jamestown Friday and was
married to Samuel Mcdowell, of New
Rockford. Neither of them had ever
seen the other before. The union
was affected through a Chicago
matrimonial journal, in which he in
serted a personal notice to which she re-
piled. Mcdowell is a well-to-do farmer
IS years old. She is 90. Mcdowell has
7S5 acres of wheat and 500 head of cat
tie and sheep. This is his sixth matri-
monial venture. Two of his wives have
died and three left him.