The Dickinson press., 1890-05-31
NEWS LIN NORTH DAKOTA

The g: A. R. veterans of Valley City
will dedicate a ns% hall June IL.
The nomination of John Waugh as
Indian agent at Devils Lake has been
confirmed.
North Dakota physicians held their
annual meeting at jamestown Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Fargo is making great preparations
for the tiremen's tournament to be held
there June II and 10.
Senator Pierce is North Dakota,s rep
resentative on the national congressional
campaign committee.
Work has begun on the foundation of
the new court house at Minot. It is of
brick and stone and will cost So, 900.
At Lisbon, the wife of Hon. R. N.
Stevens was accidentally shot dead by
her husband, while they were hunting
ducks. The coroner's jury exonerated
MI. Stevens.
DIR. Montgomery, a promising young
physicianNof Forrest River, had the sight
of both eyes destroyed while handling
vltrlol with q syringe. In some manner
a portion of the poison was thrown into
his eyes.
Governor Miller has named Hamline
P. Rucker, of Grand Forks, and Martin
Ryan, of Fargo, for worlds fair com
missioners, and Charles II. Stanley. of
Steele, and Peter Cameron, of Tyner, as
alternates.
At a meeting at Fargo the state Re-
publican executive committee decided
to call a meeting Of the entire state COM
mittee in Fargo June IS to decide upon
the date and place of holding the state
convention.
The North Dakota delegation has not
yet cached q definite conclusion as to
the candidate to be recommended for
receiver: of the Fargo land Office. sena-
tor Pierce says, however, it is probable
Nehimiah Davis, of Richland county.
will get it.
Judge Morgan, of the Devils Lake dis
trlct, is holding court at Forlnan to dis
pose of a large number of cases Judge
Lauder was attorney in before his cleo
ton. He will also try most of the liquor
cases, several criminal cases and some
other civil cases.
The skeleton of an Indian was found
near Washburn Sunday. It is supposed
to be that of War Eagle, who was sus-
pected of running off stock four years
ago in that vicinity and suddenly disap-
peared when the settlers started to hunt
him down. The condition of the skele-
ton indicated that the Indian met his
death at the hands of %vigilantes.
The North Dakota grain inspection
laws are declared to be a dead letter be.
cause of the insufficiency of the appro-
priation for putting them into effect, the
amount being only $500, while it cost
Minnesota $4,000 to get her grade btisi-
ness running.
Early in the present session of con-
gress an order of abandonment of Fort
Abraham Lincoln, neal Bismarck, was
made, but MI. Pierce introduced a bill
asking an appropriation for its mainte-
nance. Gen. Ruger, of Fort Smelling,
reported in favor of its abandonment.
but MI. Pierce secured an order from
the war department for Ruger to make
another report. 1t arrived last week
n was adverse. MI. Pierce took the
matter to the president and after several
conferences the president ordered the
abandonment indefinitely postponed.
The contract for supplying the North
Dakota insane hospital with native coal
has been let. There were eight bids re-
ce1Ved, all from partleS west OF the Mis-
souri,, except one, the Gull River Lum-
Der company, of Jamestown, whose bid
was the lowest, being 1910 per ton de-
llvered. The asylum is one mile from
the railroad track and, considering every
thing, the bid is the lowest ever made
for the institutions fuel. Three thous.
and to 1000 tons will be required. The
legislature passed a law requiring state
institutions to use native coal if it could
be had at s.. 25 or less per ton.
The Grand Lodge, I. o. o. F., elected
the following officers at their meet
ing at Deadwood. o. y. Bassford, Red
field, grand master; H. A. Piper, Rapid
City, deputy grand master; D. f. Roger,
Alpena, grand warden; John w. Good
ner, Pierre, grand secretary; George W.
Shaw, Springfield. grand treasurer; A.
g. Smith, Lead City, representative to
Watertown, q. P. p; "A. G. Witte,
Aberdeen, G S. W.; R. R. Briggs,
Sioux Falls, q. s.; George W. Shaw,
Springfield, q. T.; E. F. Law, Dead,
| wood, G. J. w.