The Dickinson press., 1890-12-20
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.

NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.
Mayville is short on wood.
Grandin will have another bank.
Fargo evening schools began Monday.
Lisbon has an over-abundance Of
sneak thieves.
Fargo's public building bill passed the
senate Monday.
Bishop Walker is now making his first
trip through the state in his cathedral
car.
Grand Forks is after the Lutheran
college of the Red River Valley associa-
ton.
Three prisoners escaped from the city
jail at Fargo by breaking the bars from
the window.
Fargo's public building bill passed the
house last Tuesday, 100000 being the
limit of cost.
Stutsman county sheep raisers want
the county to pay q bounty for wolf
scalps. The varmints are too numer-
Gus.
John Young of John Reynolds post Of
Fargo has been appointed an aid-de-
camp upon the staff or COMMANDMENTS
Chief Veazey.
The Northern Dakota elevator at Eli
oft, N. D.. was burned Thursday to-
gether with 10000 bushels of wheat
contained therein.
A gentleman who went to visit an old
friend at the Jamestown asylum lost
his pocketbook while there. He be-
lleves the lunatic picked his pocket.
The Great Northern road has printed
half a million circulars regarding the
resources of North Dakota, and will
distribute them throughoutthe country.
An emigration agent of the Northern
Pacific stated recently that the COM
pany is now receiving more inquiries
about North Dakota than any other por-
ton OF tributary territory.
Editor George B. Winship Of the
Herald has been appointed a member
from North Dakota of the pan-American
congress which is to meet in the United
States during the Columbian exposition.
Max Schultrie, Democrat, who was
coptestlng the seat ill the legislature of
I@loritz, Republican, at Mandan, has
Withdrawn his contest. The result is
that Morton county will be represented
by three Republicans.
Walter Cairns, Il clerk in the Botti-
ncau postofticr. is charged with taking
S147 from registered letters. He waived
examination before Commissioner Spald-
ing and was held to tho United States
court i'll the sum of 81 800, which bond
he furnished.
The Fargo Argus says there are 373,-
600 sheep in the state, which at an aver
age of eight pounds per head would pro-
duce a wool clip next spring of 1855, 900
pounds, and this at 20 cents o pound
would bring the farmers Of North Dac
kota $f595, 200.
The new Masonic temple, at Grand
Forks, N. D., was formally dedicated
Friday night with q grand ball and ban
quet. A large number of visitors were
present from other cities. The hall is
one of the most completely and ele-
gantly furnished in the West.
Burglars gained an entrance to the
depot az Hunter by prying up one of
the windows OF the Office and blowing
SpSA liz cttAC VI tuo kalll0I1Cdu EAOrSSS
company, secured about $175 in money
Simmons. They were evidently ex-
perts.
Superintendent McCabe, of the North.
ern Pacific, has let contracts tor about
$1,000 worth of rubble stone to be hauled
to the railroad track by farmers in Kid
der county. There will be 600 car loads
required. The stone is to be used for
reprop work or the west end of the
Northern Pacific bridge at Mandan.
The disbursement of the money among
the farmers will be highly appreciated
at this season of the year.
News comes from Mclean county of o
terrific encounter Sunday between a
couple OF farmers named Haugheberg
and Peterson and three wild cats which
scented the fresh blood of a deer the
hunters had killed. The wild cats fol-
lowed the men and pounced upon them
unawares. Both were shockingly LAGER
ated, and their clothes torn from their
bodies, but after q hard struggle the
animals were killed. When found the
men We're unable to move.
Senator Pierce says that an error was
made in the passage of the Fargo pub
lie building bill in the house Tuesday.
The house bill was put through instead
OF the senate bill, which passed the up
per branch last session. The situation
is that the house bill will have to be
steered through the senate before Fargo
will get its public building. Pierce is
not sure that he will be successful in
getting it through, but has hopes. The
same mistake was made in several pub
lie building bills.
A dispatch from Lisbon, N. D., states
that John Rotier and Joe Schommer
have been arrested there, charged with
stealing and breaking up farm machin-
cry to sell it for old iron. They have
been operating for some time and had
collected some 1000 pounds, which they
intended soon to ship by railroad. They
bad taken many mower and reapers
and plows which were nearly new, and
Ii Il d destroyed much valuable property
of their neighbors. They had the plum
der hidden in a slough. They acknowl-
edged their guilt and are held in $500
bonds to the district court.
The Forman, Sargent county, Item,
says: Omitted States Marshal Price
was in town Wednesday. While here
he served the county auditor with an
injunction restraining that officer from
selling for the delinquent taxes of 1889
railroad lands within the indemnity
limit in this county. Similar suits have
been brought by the Northern Pacific
company in twenty-one counties in the
state. The order restraints the audito,
from selling any of the lands described
not disposed of, which is about 10000
acres, on which the taxes for 1889 are
nearly $4,000. Dec. 16 is the date set tc
show cause why the temporary injunc.
tion should not be made permanent"
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NEW York, Dec. 1.-THE Lorillard
Brick Works company, of this city, and
Keyport, N. j., has been placed in the