The Dickinson press., 1890-11-01
NORTH DAKO1A NOTES.

Old settlers in North Dakota predict a
very hard winter.
E. NJ. Prouty, of Grand Forks, has
purchased 10000 Montana sheep.
The postof6ce Snyder, Tower county,
has been discontinued; mail to Cando.
The Fargo agricultural college has re-
ceived its $4,000 from the federal gov
eminent.
The Dakotas raised 10, 500 ,044 bushels
Of corn this year, al average of twenty
three bushels to the acre.
The rooms of the athletic and social
club, at jamestown, were formally
opened one evening last week.
Buxton wants to be tho county seat of
Trail county and has put up q SO, 900
guarantee and five acres of land as an
inducement.
Grand Forks new opera house will be
Christened the Metropolitan and will be
| opened Nov. 10. Governor Miller has
been invited to be present.
Eighteen carloads of cattle were
shipped from Bismarck last week. It is
only a short time since Bismarck butch.
ers were compelled to import cattle for
home trade.
A French1nan living about two miles
east of Grand Forks has been arrested
charged with numbering his 15-months.
old child by throwing it out of the win.
dow and burying it alive.
The Northern Pacific company pro.
poses to build Q new hotel in Fargo next
spring. 1t will be on the site of the old
Headquarters hotel, will be built Of
brown stone and pressed brick and will
cost 100000.
William Carmichael, aged 18, shot
and killed a farmer named John Block.
house in Emmons county last week,
The trouble arose over the pay for pas.
turing the boys pony. Carmichael has
been arrested.
Governor Miller has issued an orde,
OF quarantine against the sheep at Kid
der, Logan and Stutsman counties. on
the statement of the veterinary surgeon
that the disease of scab has become epi.
delnic among the sheep of the counties
named.
The state supreme court recently de.
cided the state bank law constitutional,
At a meeting of the executive commit.
ties of private bankers at Bismarck Sat.
urday it was determined to appeal the
case to the supreme court of the United
States on the constitutional questions
involved.
Two children, a boy and girl, arrived
IN Bismarck Wednesday from Sweden.
They came the distance without escort
nothing but cards tied to their clothing,
wifi, thu ~, co,$so,, UDs.--Y Nv ~
Going to Amt Franklin" Mrs. Frank.
lin, Of the Franklin house, was at the
depot to meet them.
Veterinary Surgeon Langdon says
that 'tepizootic pleuritis" is O quite
prevalent throughout North Dakota and
Minnesota. 1t is an affection of the
pleura, and if the affected animal is ex.
posed to draughts of air, OF is made tc
work after an attack of this kind, is is
almost sure to result fatally.
The town of Steele was startled
Thursday by an attempt on DIR. Har.
courts life by an irate father for the
attempted seduction of his daughter.
The would-be avenger is n of Kidde,
county's most respected citizens, and 8
prominent county official. The docto,
is candidate for the legislature on the
Republican ticket. He claims the
charge is a put-up job to secure his
defeat.
The committee appointed by the com
missioners Of Sargent county to visit st.
Paul and Minneapolis to confer with
the railroad officials in regard to secur.
ing reduced freight rates on fuel and
feed for the destitute in Sargent county
succeeded in getting the Great North.
ern, 500 and Northern Pacific lines t.
ship fuel and feed at half rates from
Nov. l to Dec. Is. The roads also agreed
to ship in ten cars each, freight free. TO,
those who are unable to pay any freight
charges. The Milwaukee road refused
to grant any concessions. The commits.
sioners will hold a special meeting to
take action in regard to the thirty free
cars.
Grading from the present terminus Of
the 500 line in Dickey county to the
junction with the Aberdeen, Bismarck
and Northwestern is being rapidly
pushed at the rate of q mile a day. 4
large force is also being employed on
the Aberdeen, Bismarck and North,
western grade, which has been unused
for two years, preparing it for track
layers. The work is being prosecuted
from both ends and from such inferno.
diate points as are accessible. The
bridges and culverts will be erected
during the winter, making the opening
of the line for traffic early in the season
an assured fact. From Bismarck north.
west the line will be extended into the
coal fields of Mclean county.
Fargo Argus: The stock company Of
the North Dakota millers, held a meet
ing at the Columbia to take measures
to increase the amount of flour exported
So great has the demand for their export
brand become that they cannot nearly
supply it. Prices have also increased
and the London agene, w. G. Hillyer
now gets from rs cents to 81 more a bar
rel than the quotation of Minneapoli.
flour, whereas, formerly when the mill.
shipped singly and had only their indi.
vidual brand, it brought IS cents less
The measures considered to increase tn,
supply were: To bring more mills into
the association and to increase the ca
pacity in any event. This is a brigh
outlook for the North Dakota millins
interest and also for the state and thu
farmers. Mills generally pay more TO,
wheat than the elevators, and whe1
North Dakota can largely grind her owl
wheat, the prices paid for grain will
rise correspondingly. 1t is said Mr.
Hillyer is from 1000 to 5000 barrels be
hind in his orders.
Gold Excitement at Pierre.
PIERRE, s. D., Oct. 29.-Parties VIII,
have been prospecting up the Bad rive