The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.
The Lisbon, N. D., city band has bee,
appointed First regiment band of Nortl

The Lisbon, N. D., city band has been
appointed First regiment band of North
Dakota.
The North Dakota Farmers Alliance
will hold its annual meeting at James
town June 4.
The artesian well water at Hamilton
says it is pure. ~''S
The North Dakota Sunday school as
ISOLATION will convene at Grand Forks
May %, and the session will last two or
three days.
+. S: Demers, receiver of the United
States land office at Fargo, has been
taken to the jamestown insane asylu1Y
for treatment. .
Numerous meetings have been held by
settlers in the vicinity of Fort Lincoln
to protest against its abandonment,
They are afraid of the Sioux.
p. E: Ellerton's livery stable at May
vile, N. D., burned Saturday, with
twenty horses and all the carriages and
stock of feed. Loss, $4,000; insurance.
1880.
The Fargo fire department, board of
trade, mayor and city council, are send
ing out invitations to the grand annual
hremen's, band, base ball and wheel
mems tournaments, to be held in Fargo
June II, 10 10, and 90, under the aus
pices of the North Dakota Volunteer
Firemen's association.
The sale of $4,000 Al per cent 80
year refunding state bonds took place at
Bismarck Thursday. The successful bid
der was Barnard & Stomwood, of Bos-
ton, who pay $10,555 premium or about
9.34 per cent. This is a shade better
than the recent sale of Al per cents.
Col. Gearey, of the North Dakota Re-
publican committe, has called the exec
utive committee to meet in Fargo MAY
%, to discuss the time of holding the
state convention. Chairman Leistikow,
of Grafton, has called the state Demo
cratic committee to meet there Nav 81.
to decide on the date and place of that
convention.
The Fargo agricultural college board
met Thursday. They secured a forty.
acre tract a half mile south of the city,
appointed a local experimental board
consisting of Jacob Lowell, DR.. Sat
terthwaite and James Holes, and author
lied them to secure rooms in the CITY,
employ a superintendent, and 20 on
with the work of the experimental sta
ton at once. The college proper will be
organized this fall.
Governor Miller, Superintendent of
Public Instruction w. j. Clapp and H.
Dickinson, of Reynolds, trustees Of the
deaf and dumb school, met at Devils
Lake to organize and elect officers. H.
Il: Kruger was elected president, II. r.
Dickinson sorrofoyv or5 n N ...
urer. The law establishing the school
goes into effect July 1, after which the
board will commence to prepare to ope,,
the school in September. About twenty
pupils are expected at the start.
Following are the officers of the A. O.
U. W. of the two Dakotas, chosen at its
meeting last week: Grand master work
man, D. E. Hughes, of Jamestown; fore
man, Karl Gerner, Of Iroquois; overseer.
J. NJ. Chislen. of Hamilton; recorder, j.
D.. LAWN, Of Columbia; receiver, H. C.
Sessions, Of Columbia: guide, George w.
Elliott, Of De Smet; inside watchman, |.
M. Graham, of Wahpeton; outside
t Waterman Henry 4 Snyder, Of Pierre;
medical examiners, F. NJ. Grain, of Do.
land H. G. Sessions, G. G. Huff and
to the supreme lodge.
Legal proceedings against the Great
Northern have been ordered by the rail
road commissioners, to compel the com.
pany to haul a a Of coal to its destina-
ton at the rates fixed by the last legis.
lature. Cotton, of Ward county, is the
shipper, and is pushing the case to the
courts for q decision, which possibly can
be had by October. A railway Y was or
dered built between the tracks. of the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
roads at Grand Forks. The commits.
sion will, if legally empowered, endeavo1
to secure jobbers' rates for Fargo and
Grand Forks wholesalers.