The Dickinson press., 1890-08-23
NEWS IN THE DAKOrAS
NORTH AkoT

EX-Reg1ster Battelle, OF the Fargo
land Office, will reside in st. Paul here.
after.
Grand Forks is infested with sneak
thieves and small robberies are of daily
occurrence.
Miss Villa Poole, of Minot, will ride q
ten-mile race with Miss Jennie K, Rush.
of Kentucky, at the Minnesota state
fair.
During a heavy storm at Mimic, N. d.,
the steeple of the Presbyterian church
was struck by lightning and badly dam
aged.
The Granite, a new weekly, is to ap-
pear at Grandin the first week in Sep
TENDER, under the management of Will
lam Miller.
Mrs. Senator Pierce has been taken to
b Hot Springs to see if she cannot
there find some relief from her sufferings
neuralgia and rheumatism.
A Mr.. Secor, of Valley City, rec emily
received a threatening white Cap"
letter. The authors have been discov-
cred and are said to be as meek as
Moses.
Eighteen Grand Forks citizens have
subscribed s., 100 as a guarantee fund to
secure Emma Abbott and her opera
company for the opening of their new
opera house.
The town of Sargent in that county is
to be moved two miles to a new site, and
two parties. have the contract for doing
the work. Eight of the principal bust
ness houses will be moved at once.
The Democratic state executive COM
mittee of North Dakota met and elected
Capt. Dan Maratta chairman, discussed
financial depression. and left the plan of
campaign in the hands Of the central
committee and adjourned.
The appropriation committee of the
house has refused to insert in the def
cheney bill the amounts due the states of
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Washington for expenses incurred in
holding constitutional conventions over
the $50, 900 appropriated for each state.
Eastern capitalists who have been
figuring to build q railroad from Cakes
to Pierre, have telegraphed the Pierre,
Duluth and Black Hills local railway
| officials that every arrangement had
been completed and that active work of
constructing the line would now be
pushed. Tho distance from Cakes to
Pierre is 100 miles.
Application is about to be made to
Governor Miller for the pardon of John
and Harriet Dilley, who were convicted
of manslaughter in 1885. Their time is
up in November, and the prison board
want to get them out of the state before
cold weather sets in, both being sickly.
The woman has been confined to her
bed for q year or more.
The Northern Pacific land tax cases
have been granted an oral argument be-
fore the supreme court on Oct. z. All
the railroad land from McLain to Foster
counties are involved; in fact, all the
railroad lands of the Northern Pacific
throughout the state-forty miles on
each side Of the track. If the state wins
it means over 100000 for the treasury.
Grand Forks Plaindealer: From Off
cial figures in the land officeit is learned
that there remain in the Grand Forks
land district only 675, 900 acres of gov
eminent land, which has not been filed
on. At this rate within six years every
acre of government land will have been
covered by claims. The vacant lands
are largely in the northwestern part Of
the district. Eight townships are being
surveyed this summer, leaving seven un
surveyed townships i'll the district.
There was a conference at the chamber
of commerce at Minneapolis last week
between the representatives of companies
operating elevators in North Dakota and
the railroad commissioners and attorney
general The object was a consultation
as to the best way out of the tangle re.
sulting from the passage of u number OF
conflicting acts bearing Oh grain interests
The decision finally arrived at was that
Il test case should be made up and bur.
ried through to the supreme court
where a decision OH the conflicting issues
might be had. During the interval the
elevators should run as private Gle.
vators. The idea of having a special
session Of the legislature was not favor.
ably received.
jamestown Alert: The secretary Of
the railroad commission states that the
board has received information that the
Northern Pacific is going to adopt fol
the future a far more liberal policy OF
dealing with shippers of grain in NORTH
Dakota. General Manager Mellen hi.
stated to the commission that the com
pany would give any responsible person
who desired to build warehouses or ele
vators On the railroad right of way the
privilege of doing SO, provided the par
Gleo itSlecu W AScp eAIC AOuocS OlNll 1Ol
business at all reasonable times; ani
that no discrimination in favor of the
elevator lines now doing business wculd
be permitted in furnishing cars. Til,
Northern Pacific will also off
cially that extra efforts to furnish ship
pers with cars will be made this year, ir
order that grain may be shipped to com
mission men, if desired, either in Min
noapolis, Duluth or Chicago.
Pig Iron Output.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The superin
tendent of census has just issued hi.
bulletin on the production of pig iron il
the United States for the year ended
June 30, 1890. The production aggre
gated 9,579, ITO tons, as compared Will
$751; 21 tons produced during the cen
sus year of 1880.
Senator Quay, in all interview, ex
planned that his resolution to postpone
action on the federal elections bill wa.