The Dickinson press., 1890-07-26
NEWS IN THE DAKOTAS.
NORTH DAKOTA.

Dickinson will ship 100000 pounds Of
wool this season.
Rio farmers have started a 5OO-pound
per day cheese factory.
Stark county's valuation for 1890 is
$5S9, $50, of which $512,347 is for real
estate.
The Trail county Democratic conven-
ton instructed delegates for Budd Reeve
for congress.
The territorial library was trans
ported from Bismarck to Pierre last
week by the steamer Chaska.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized the Union National bank of
Grand Forks to begin business with q
capital of $l00, Q00.
At the special election at Grand Forks
to bond the city for $4,000 to build a
sewer system, the proposition was car
ried by a large majority.
During the months of April, May ana
June the auditor of La Monre county
paid bounty on 10000 gopher scalps,
amounting to over S $500.
A boy named Fisher is held in 81 200
bonds at Bismarck, charged with as
saulting his father with intent to kill.
He was protecting his mother from tho
brutality of his father.
The Indian committee of the house of
representatives has reported an omnibus
bill for Indian schools, locating II in
Montana convenient to the most import
ant railroad center, in South Dakota at
Chamberlain, and in Minnesota ut Pine
stone.
Manager Murphy, of the Grand Forks
Gas and Electric Light company, has
closed a deal i'll Crookston. Mimi, where
by he owns the water power, water
works. gas works and electric light
plant of that city. The purchase price
was $175, 200.
A good rain and cloudy weather has
helped out the crop prospects in the Red
River valley. Wheat is filling nicely,
and with favorable weather cutting
will be commenced in three weeks, An
average of twenty-five bushels to the
acre is estimated.
Burglars entered the residences of
three different citizens at Grand Forks
Wednesday night. At the residence of
George Shannon they succeeded i'll steal
ing Il gold watch and chain. They
gained entrance by wrenching screens
from front windows.
The farmers in the vicinity of James
town, n. D.. have organized and now
have in operation Il cheese factory with
a capacity of 500 pounds of cheese per
day. The first output of the factory-a
load OF 1000 pounds-was marketed in
jamestown this week.
Bismarck Tribune: Warden Williams
is of the opinionthat Wolf, the life-term
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from the penitentiary recently, met his
fate i'll the Heart river last week. He
believes that Wolf either suicided or
was Accidentally drowned. The sup
posed body Of Il dead maj was seen
floating in the Heart river Friday night
by two men who We're bathing. The
men We're not acquainted with the facts
in the case of the missing convict, but
the description they give of the body
tallies exactly to that of Wolf.
The Northern Pacific has
representatives before the county boards
of equalization in counties where they
w railroad lands for the purpose Of
getting a fair assessment, and it is an
nounced that the road is preparing to
pay taxes on its lands. The tax will
amount to a large sum, and most Of the
county boards are evincing q disposition
to be liberal in the assessment matter.
In Stutsman county there are 243, 900
acres Of this land. The land tax is dis
tinctively such, and not in lieu of any
gross earnings. The question of the
taxability Of such lands has been in the
courts for a number of years, but this
move of the railroad company seems to
indicate a cessation of litigation.
Dispatches sent out from Jamestown
state that the elevators of North Dakota
will refuse to store grain for farmers
this year. The matter has been kept as
secret as possible probably in order that
no other companies should be able to
build warehouses in time to handle the
crop. 1t was determined upon, it is said,
soon after the law was passed
which makes all public elevators
pay an annual license of $3.50
tenths of the crop of the state has been
heretofore bought by the elevator COM
panies upon Duluth and Minneapolis
quotations. A farmer could store his
grain in these elevators for fifteen days
for nothing and keep it in store as long
as he desired to paya small fee therefor.
Now the elevators will refuse this on tho
ground that they are not public eleva-
tors, and the farmer will this year be
compelled to sell his crop at whatever
price the company chooses to allow him.
The above statements, however. are
denied by representatives of the eleva-
tors in st. Paul. They say the laws are
so stringent that the elevator companies
will either be compelled to do business
at a loss, OF disregard the laws. thus
making a test case us to their constitu-
tionality. They will probably choose
the latter course according to these au-
thorities.
ENTIRE CREW LOST.