The Dickinson press., 1890-07-19
NEWS In THE DAKOTAS.
NORTH DAKOTA.

NORTH DAKOTA.
Jamestown has fixed the original pack
age license at $25 per month.
The North Dakota Stock Growers as
ISOLATION is getting out q brand book.
Great damage was done at Lisbon last
week by a tornado, but no lives were
lost.
A p%ostofice has been established at
Zion, Cass county. William Henchel is
postmaster.
At the special election at Grand Forks
Monday, the proposition to bond the
city for $50, 900 for a sewer system was
carried by a large majority.
The new officials of the Fargo land
Office have not yet assumed their duties,
office is very much behind hand.
M. J. Fadden, from Devils Lake. with
three horse thieves, landed them in the
Bathgate lookup. They had stolen five
horses near Walhalla. During the night
they escaped.
A Buxton correspondent says the cry
about a scarcity of labor in the state is
made by farmers with a view of bearing
the labor market. He says there are
plenty of men idle and willing to work.
The statistics of mines and mining for
this state, to be incorporated in the elev-
enth census of the United States. will
be collected by r. M. futile, of Man
dan. who has been appointed to do the
work.
Special Agent Lounsberry, of the in
terror department, is in North Dakota
from Nebraska to complete the investi-
cation of land cases in which Sparks
administration refused to issue patents
on the ground that the entries were
fraudulent.
Bishop Stanley has purchased George
R. Topliff's fine residence at James
town, and will use the same for a con-
vent and young ladies' seminary, which
will be opened Sept 1. The school will
be under the charge of the Sisters of st.
Joseph, who for years have conducted a
successful academy in st. Paul.
In response to a telegram to Col. Hen.
derson in regard to the deficiency for the
the Fargo Agricultural college Con-
gresham Hansbreugh has received a
dispatch stating that 1.-THE committee
has allowed 81, 500 for the experimental
station for the months of May and June
last, as urged by you"
The committee on Indian affairs has
agreed to adopt Senator Pierce's amend
ment providing for an Indian school in
the western part of North Dakota. The
provision gives $25, 900 for the school
and $4,000 for a site. It will probably
be located at Mandan, though this will
depend upon the action of the secretary
of the interior.
White Elk, the young half-breed who
murdered the squaw of another Indian
at Fort Berthold, waived examination
n has been bound over to await the
action OF the United States grand Jury,
The squaw accused of hiring White Elk
to ommit the murder was released on
the charge, but held in bonds to appear
as a witness at the trial.
Farmers and business men of the Tur-
tie mountain section formed a mutual
organization to protect themselves from
the enforcement of fraudulent and ille-
gal contracts and the foreclosure of
mortgages without cause and by I'M
p%rincipled men. This organization has
grown to such an extent that several
local organizations have been formed.
and at convention composed of dele
gates from the several local organiza-
lions held at Rolla last week a perma-
nent state order was organized. with w.
HI. Becker, Of Rolla, president.
William Franks and Ernest Wolf at
tempted to enter Sullivan's dry goods
store at Mandan. They were discovered
by Tom Gleason, the pugilist, and Ben
Morgan shot at both robbers with a
shotgun. Gleason shot at Franks with
q revolver. Franks was caught, and is
liable to die. Wolf escaped. These
robbers escaped from the Bismarck pen-
itentiary Sunday night. Franks was
sentenced for two years for robbing
Nelson's jewelry store at Mandan last
winter. Wolf was sentenced for life for
killing his wife.
The Jamestown Daily Alert has the
following anent railroad building in the
Dakotas: 1t is said that a company of
geological students" who have been
gathering specimens west of Aberdeen.
have turned out to be SURVEYORS. and
have been running railroad survey lines
thick and fast. The rumors of the ex-
tension of the Milwaukee road from
Eureka, it's present terminus, to Bis
marck, are renewed. This break into
the Northern Pacific land grant would
mean the subsequent extension of the
Edgely, branch in this direction. It was
stated last week by a man well posted
IN South and North Dakota railroad
projects that the Northern Pacific in
tended to build into Aberdeen this sea-
son, extending the Cakes line; also that
the steel had been purchased for the
completion of the 500 grade.