The Dickinson press., 1890-08-30
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS

Wheat reached the dollar mark N
Fargo last week.
A driving association has been organs
iZ;G 1T Jamestown.
Grandn is to have newspaper, The
Graphic. William Miller viii be editM
and publisher.
Sneak thieves got away with Sos whilD
Great Northern railway employees at
Neche were at breakfast. No clue.
A new postofice has been established
six miles west of Eldred. Petersb3 y
the name Of the Office, and Ed A. PfStf
schar is the postmaster.
Three Nelson county farmers have re.
Gently secured several large tracts Of
land and purchased 1000 sheep, and
will engage in that industry.
The board of trustees of the DEVILS
Lake deaf and dumb school announc@
that the school will be open and
ready to receive pupils on the second
Wednesday in September.
Hon johnson Nickeus, of jamestown,
is now making arrangements prepara-
tory to his departure for South America,
to enter actively upon his duties as
United States consul at Baranquilla.
The superintendent of the Pacific di-
vision Of the Northern Pacific road has
resigned, and is succeeded by superin,
tendent Joseph McCabe, of the St. Paul
division, a brother of Superintendent A,
j. McCabe of the Dakota division.
Jud La Moure has been elected chair
man of the North Dakota Republican
state central committee. Hon. P. ].
McCumber, chairman of the late state
convention, appointed by Col. E. c.
Geary, member of the committee at
large.
jamestown Alert: Public Examiner
Hayden, of Fargo, was on No. the
other night en- route to Bismarck. He
has recently discovered that the last
legislature adjourned without passing a
tax bill, the constitution providing that
the legislature shall make provision for
the first levy. In this dilemma it will
probably benecessary for the state board
to make an unauthorized levy.
Money has been missed from mail sent
to the register of deeds in Fargo, and
also to numerous private parties and the
Argus Printing company. Decoy letters
We're sent and their contents found on
the person of Charles B. Youngman, for
six months past night clerk i'll the Fargo
postotiice. He was taken before the
United States commissioner and held in
$500 bail, which was furnished.
Fargo Republican: Under the new
rule which elevators have adopted this
year farmers will be allowed twenty
days in which to haul and sell their
wheat. and at the expiration of the
twenty days if the farmer has not sold
his wheat the elevator will sell it for
him at the market price-the farmers
sign an agreement to this effect previous
to the company's receiving his grain. In
other words the elevator companies will
handle the grain but will not store it.
Or. G. J. Alloway, representing J. !, e.
Hill, president of the Great Northern
railway, passed through Grand Forks
Wednesday with TWO carloads of thor
oughbred Aberdeen Angus and short
horn bulls ranging in years from to
years. He also had i'll one car twenty
imported Berkshire pigs-the whole to
be distributed free to farmers along the
main line and branches of the Great
Northern west of Lalimore. 1t will be
remembered that Mr.. Hill several years
ago distributed couple of hundred
bulls in the Red river valley.
The state board of equalization has
been in session at Bismarck for week.
The question Of railway right of way
| taxation has been difficult one and ll;i:
taken much time. The Northern Pacific
officials claim thatit is exempt, as under
the territorial law. They, however,
agree to make compromise, and tc
save litigation pay taxes on value OF
| 81, 600 for the main line of $40 miles and
on ~, 800 on the branches of 450 miles
This would make their valuation nearly
s., ,O0O, 900. A telegram has been re.
ceiyed from M. D. Grover, ESQ.,. general
counsel of the Great Northern, saying
their corporation had accepted the gross
earnidgs system Of taxation, so the
bourd will have nothing to do with
them.
State Veterinary Surgeon Langdon
has been looking after glandered horses
at Pembina. He reports that on Mon
day he killed and buried in one grave al
that place no less than twenty-sevell
horses-twenty-f of which belonged
to State Treasurer Booker, two to w. j
S. Tr:,ill and one to Charles Atkinson
Some Of Mr.. Booker's were valuable
farm horses; none of them We're less than
a year old, and DIR. Langdon estimate!
the average value of the twenty-four a
800. He states that all of Mr.. Booker!
.121 in number-are now quarantined
that three have been isolated, and tha
there is no telling how many more ma,
take the disease. DR.. Langdon says tha
this is the most extensive and fatal out
break of the disease that has ever oc
Cured in the state.