The Dickinson press., 1890-11-29
DAKOTA NOTES.

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Fargo wants q starch factory.
The Northern Pacific company pays
Jamestown a s., 1000 water tax.
The Fargo Jail contains forty prison.
ers, the largest YER on the roll at one
time.
The annual meeting Of the North Da.
kota Farmers alliance is being held at
Fargo this week.
Eighteen hundred sheep have been
shipped into McIatosh county within
the past few days.
The Grand Forks telephone exchange
will open for business Dec. 1,with sixty
seven subscribers.
Ex-senator Swanson has served q no.
tice of contest on Senator.elect McCor.
mack, of Ramsey county.
S;e5bins will contest Inks election to
fhe state senate from Rishland county.
Sevea Northern Pacific cars were
piled up in a wreck near Tower Tues.
day. No one was injured.
Friends of resubmission of the prohi.
bition clause. of the constitution claim
to be in a majority in the next loRis.
lature.
The United States pension bureau has
commissioned DR.. Carpenter, of Fargo.
as special examiner of the eve and ear
for the Fargo district.
Elwood H. Fell won $500 in a suit
against the Northern Pacific road al
largo, for being elected from . train.
The injury was to his feelings.
A freight wreck on the Northern Pa.
citic near Tower did considerable dam.
age to property, but no lives were lost.
The engineer was badly scalded, how.
ever.
Red River valley people enjoyed two
thanksgiving days this year-ono on
Wednesday for IN especially abundant
harvest and on Thursday on general
principles.
At the Grand Forks Catholic fair "a
suit of clothes to the most POPULAR
newsboy" called out the enthusiasm of
patrons to the extent of $4,000 votes. a.
10 cents a vote-$l,400.
A Grafton little boy fell upon a har.
row and a tooth tore his scalp while
another entered the cheek and showed
out the eyeball. Physicians were i'm
MeGiately called and the child is SLOWLY
recovering.
The Trail county seat case, which
wa to have been argued before Judge
Mcconnell at Fargo last week, was dis.
missed. An entirely new action was
begun, and the temporary injunction
made returnable Dec. 9.
Attorney General Goodwin decided in
the contest for sheriff of Ramsey county
that the county canvassing board had
no authority to count ballots" That lit
is a ministerial body and must make the
canvass from the face OF the returns"
Near Minot last week q brakeman re-
monstrated with a hobo for beating his
way" The tramp threw the brakeman
from the train, which was running
twenty-five miles an hour. Strange to
say theb brakeman was not seriously in.
jurea.
Bishop Stanley in his Sunday morn
ing discourse at Jamestown delivered q
scathing denunciation of gambling in
general, with particular accent on acrap
shooting" Mayor Fuller has issued or.
ders that "seben-come- '1eben" don't 90
hereafter.
Fred Clark, a victim of an accidental
shooting in the Mandan Indian scare
was taken to the Northern Pacific SAM
tariuln at Brainerd and died. He Gas
shot through the body by the careless
dropping of a revolver in a meeting Of
excited citizens.
The Northern Pacific has contracted
with a Minneapolis firm for sinking q
dozen artesian wells along the line of
its road across North Dakota. Contrac-
tors have begun work Oh the first one at
Buffalo and expect to be in the vicinity
Of Fargo all winter. The increased
traffic of the road renders it necessary
for a more abundant supply Of water.
A resident of Grangin, whose name
deponent saith not, having grown weary
of the old-fashioned, piodding way Of
accommodating a competence by industry
and economy, conceived the idea q short
time ago of investing in green goods.n
He accordingly proceeded to New York,
taking with him $500 of good, hard
earned money; and he has just re-
turned with $400 worth of experience.
The little 2-year:old boy of George
the 18th of October and it was supposed
to have been stolen. Recently a couple
of boys found the dead bodyo of the miss.
ing boy. 1t lay in a clump of dry bush
about three miles from home and about
twenty feet from Willow Creek. The
flesh was nearly all eaten off from the
face and neck, NJ doubt by mink and
birds.
The Northern Pacific has been obliged
to press every car it can beg, borrow or
steal into service during the last month
in order to cope with the wheat bust
ness. A 1ailroad official at Fargo is re-
ported as saying that the business of the
Northern Pacific for the month of No
vember would exceed that of any pre-.
vious single month in the existence Of
the road-that the earnings would be
fully So 5000, 900 for the month.
The state convention of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
opened at Fargo Tuesday, with fifty
delegates, representing twelve suhoydf-
nate societies, present. The following
officers. for the ensuing year were
elected: President, r. NJ. Carothers,
Grand Forks; vice presidents, Mrs. E.
Lucas, Lisbon; Ct. Nj. Carpenter, Grand
Forks; w. R. Peardon, Wahpeton; sec.
rotary and treasurer. William Lane,
Fargo. Lisbon was named as the place
for the next meeting.
According to the ANNUAL report Of the
commissioner of pensions North Dakota
has l,234 on the list, divided among the
different counties as follows: Barpes,
81: Benson, 20; Billings, q Foreman,
IL; Bottineau, IS; Buferd, II; Burleigh,
70; Cass, 05; Cavalier, 10; Dickey, 10;
Eddy, 90; Emmons, %; Foster, 20; Gar
field, ID; Grand Forks, 90; Griggs, IS;
Kidder, 20; La Moure, %; Logan, II:
McHenry, 21: Mcintosh, ID; Mclean,
90; Mercer, II; Morton, So; Nelson, AZ;
Oliver, IA; Pembina. %; Ramsey. Al;
Ransom, 30; RichlanI, 55; Rolette, 90;
Sargent, "a; Stanton, .; Stark, II, Steele,
80; Stevens, ); Stutsman, %; ToMnsr,
8; Trail, Is; Walsh, Al; Ward, 8; Wells,
2. Total. 1924.
$1s~ $500 $780, -.
VIssNA, Nov. 26.-Thirty-two miners