The Dickinson press., 1890-12-27
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.


Jack rabbits are worth 10 cents pair
at Jamestown.
Wheat thieves are at work in the VI
cinity of Buffalo.
There are eighty students in the Fargo
Lutheran academy.
jamestown public schools have an en-
rollmeEt of AGO pupils.
The Fargo Street Railway company is
talking of extending its lines.
A., Cooperstown, Griggs county, has
Fargo has school population of 1 ,sga
OF which 50s are boys and ESQ girls
The North Dakota senatorial election
takes place the second week of the leg
islative session.
The Argus claims that there is lively
inquiry by new firms for business loca-
tions in Fargo.
There are still 100000 acres of public
lands in the Fargo and Grand Forks
land districts.
The Pembina branch Of the Great
Northern has been opened. It is thirty
two miles long.
at Fargo next Tuesday. A three days'
session will be held.
The North Dakota Educational associ-
atlon held a session in Fargo this week
with good attendance.
The first two governors of the State
of North Dakota selected newspaper
men for private secretaries.
There will be five contests in the
North Dakota legislature this winter
three IN the senate and two in the
house.
Ex. Governor Pillsbury, of Minneap-
OILS, IS quoted as saying that the 500
road will build 800 miles in the Da-
kotas next year.
The Tribune states that on Dec. II
several farmers came into Bismarck
and reported that blowing was going on
in many parts of Burleigh county. @
The report of Engineer Pettisrew of
the jamestown asylum shows that fully
one-third is being saved in the coal bills
by the use of Ignite fuel-Missouri
slope coal.
The chief engineer of the Pierre ex-
tension of the Northern Pacific m.
nounces officially that the road will be
running from Oakcs to the bIisso,7ri
river By Nov. /, 1871.
A Grand Forks man advcrtises "a fol.
lows: Wanted, u gentleman to under
take the sale of /. patent medicine. The
"dv.rtl;er guarantees that it will he
profitable to the undertaken"
The committee having in charga the
location of the North Dakota Mefbo,list
college will meet III the First Methoiiiat
church at Fargo, Jan. 90, 1891. to re.
ceive such sealed proposals as nav he
offered. ~
Michael Liston, who was sent to tho
penltentiary from Grand Forks for two
years ttnd six months for stealing wheat
has been pardorel after serving half
his sentence, because his family ia in
destitute circumstances.
A special course of instruction in +bo
North Dakota Agricultural colle~e at
Fargo, to continue twelve weeks from
Jan. 6, is announced. There viii be- q s50 90
practical lectures on agriculture and
related sciences. Tuition is free.
A Fargo jury brought in verdict of
$s,O00 in favor of Louise Patrich against
August Wlchman. This action was
brought for 50 900 for breach of promise
and seduction. The plaintiff is poor
son of a wealthy German family.
Two farmers of Mclean county had q
terrific encounter with three wildcats.
which had scented fresh blood of a deer
they had killed and pounced upon them
unawares. Before the animals were
Killed the men were terribly lacerated
and their clothes torn from their bodies.
Ihey were unable to move when found.
A meeting of the North Dakota Ma
tional guard was held at Fargo last
week. Committees We're appointed to
make estimates for the necessary ap,,ro-
priations for support for the next five
years, and to prepare a petition to Sen
ators Pierce and Casey and Congress
man Hansbrough. requesting them to
secure the ceding of the Rock Island
military reservation, three miles from
Devils lake, for the purpose of perma-
nent encamping grounds for the state,
In an article in the American Geolo-
gist for October Professor Upham Of
the United States geological survey.
gives long but interesting account of
the immense artesian basin that under.
lies North and South Dakota, The
professor seems to doubt that artesian
we'll irrigation can ever be made a sue
cess. The alkaline properties of the
water are not suitable for crops in the
first place, and the product of even the
largest wells is declared to be INSULT
cient for any considerable area. In
periments in irrigating in India, but
with slightly alkaline, have proved de-
sstructive, not only to crops, but to the
land