The Dickinson press., 1890-11-22
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.

Fargo wants a sugar factory.
The Milton Tomahawk is dead and
buried.
Bismarck is to be again lighted with
electricity.
Fargo reports a brilliant meteor in
the southeast.
The artesian we'll at Mandan is down
1000 feet and still going.
An evening school is to be maintained
at Fargo during the winter.
The Rutland, Sargent county, Journal
discoEtinues publication this week.
Col. Lounsberry heard fifteen fraudu-
lent entry cases at Fargo last week.
Caledonia and Hillsboro are having a
hot fight over the county seat of Trail
county.
Twenty thousand sheep have been i'm
ported by Stutsman county farmers
this season.
Two Fargo business men offer to put
S6o, 600 into an opera house If q bonus
of $4,000 Is raised.
The pro-liquor men claim that thew
control the North Dakota legislature by
a majority of eight on joint ballot.
The Christian Endeavor societies Of
North Dakota are holding their first con
ventlon this week at Fargo. It began
Tuesday.
The final meeting of the joint COM
mission of North and South Dakota has
been called to meet at Bismarck on the
9th of next month.
Only two straight party tickets were
cast IL the ballot boxes Of Kidder
cconnty-one Democratic and one Re-
publican. at least that is the report.
The United States Sheep Company of
North Dakota has been organized with
q capital stock of $3.50, OO6.' President
Hill, of the Great Northern, was the
first to subscribe for stock.
The Northern Pacific has made a rate
on Ignite coal that will enable coai to
be laid down as far east as Fargo from
the coal fields of Western North DAKOTA
for $3.50 a ton, and other points in pro-
portion.
jamestown offers the Oxnards $3.50.
600 bonus for a sugar plant, but they
concluded to locate at Norfolk. Ne6.
The State of Nebraska gives a cent a
pound bonus on all sugar made in that
state, which is why, etc.
Newberry, the train robber, is In jail
at Fargo. 1t is understood that it was
through the "peaching" of Charles Bal
ley, now serving an eight-year sentence
at Sioux Falls for completely in the rob-
berry, that Newberry was ca ptured.
A gang of men is travelling about the
country offering to paint the roof of a
building for s.. When the work is done
the farmer receives u bill of $5for paint
ing the roof, just as agreed, but in addi-
ton thereto is the following: Forty
gallons of paint, $3.50 per gallon, $50.
Bismarck Tribune: It's the talk now.
adays that key beer will soon be on tan
ill this city, and that the bottled original
package of lager will have been con.
signed to the shades of innocuous de-
seutude. They're doing it at Fargo.
Grand FORKS, Jamestown and other
leading towns in North Dakota.
The canvassing board at Mandan
threw out the precinct at the west end
of the county because the Judges of
election had not sworn or certified to
the returns. This elected three Repub-
a II to the legislature instead of two
Republicans and one Democrat, Max
Shultre is the Democrat who was left.
Robert Ewing, notary public and late
nominee on the Democratic ticket for
state commissioner of agriculture, was
indicted at Pembina last week for max
ing an alleged fraudulent certificate on
a warranty deed for H. G. Arnold, who
had made out a deed on property that
commissioner and lives in Cavalier.
where u sheriff has gone to arrest him.
Brooks Bros elevator safe, at Ojata.
was opened by thieves Sunday morning
and $50 taken. Had the theft been com.
mitted a week ago upwards Of $1,000
would have been taken. The police ar
rested a man named Campbell on sus.
picion. Nearly $500 was found on his
person. He was identified by L.. D.
Beech. employe of Brooks Eros, as a
man seen hanging around Ojata Satur-
day.
On the evening of Nov. S w. Fl. Mat
teson, editor of The Fargo Sun, left his
house, telling his family he was going
down street to hear the latest election
news. He has not been seen in Fargo
since that evening. His family relations
were always Of the pleasantest kind.
He was only slightly financially embar-
raised and no reason can be assigned
for his absence. A report came from
Grand Forks a day OF two ago that he
passed through that city bound west.
further than this not a word has been
heard of him.
Fargo Republican: 1t seems that the
newly elected state officers will not be
able to "get there" quite as soon as ex-
pected. The legislature, in its scramble
after the Doodle, and being more content
in killing off" everybody opposed to the
lottery than in forwarding the interests
of the people, forgot all about the laws
necessary to give the constitution effect,
and so adjourned without providing for
any board which should have power to
canvass the votes for state officers. The
schedule of the constitution provides
only for the c%anvassing of tho votes cast
at the election authorized under it, and
this seems to leave no person or board
with authority to canvass the votes or
issue certificates of election. It looks as
though the new state officers would
have to await the action of the legisla-
Gufe III Uue 4uuUGeI, 4odV1uS t0o OlQ OH
GERS to run the machine" and draw the
salaries.
The initial work of organizing for
North Dakota representation at the
worlds fair has begun. The Business
Mems association Of Grand Forks has
decided to call a state convention with
the view of organizing a state worlds
fair association, the date of which CON
%vention is Dec. II, at Grand Forks. A
request is made for all local commercial,