Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-10-02
NEWS IN NORTH DAKOTA

Cavalier announces her first annual
fair Tor Oct. II and Is.
Electric street railroads and Other pro-
jects are talked of at Grand Forks.
The state normal school at Valley City
opened its doors to students Monday.
Two prisoners escaped from the Walsh
county Jail at Grafton Thursday night.
The Farmers Northwestern Elevator
company has erected warehouse at
Willow City.
Dickinson has cheese factory that is
proving highly remunerative to dairy
farmers in that vicinity.
Special agents have been employed on
the Fargo and Southwestern for the ex-
elusive business of billing out wheat.
w. J. Straub has commenced the pub
llcation Of q paper at Ogswcll, Sargent
county. 1t is called The Rustler' and
is Republican in politics.
The government steamboat Josephine
has arrived at Bismarck from Fort Ben
ton. The boat had on board sliagging
outfit and will commence operation in
the Missouri river near that point.
w. S. Day, United States detective of
the treasury department, arrested three
Cinnamon at Grand Forks Thursday,
who, from papers found on their persons,
We're proved to be smuggled across the
boundary from the dominion. They left
Winnipeg Saturday, coming all the way
by team.
Commissioner Carter has written Sur
EApnr.o1
him to award a competent and reliable
surveyor y contract for the survey Of the
| orlt-boundaries of the Fort Berthold III
dian reservation, as concluded bv agree.
| lnent with the Indians Of that reserya-
| ton in 1885,
Some admirers of the bravery of the
Indian police who lost their lives in the
capture of Sitting Bull, have directed
Major Mclaughlin to purchase monu-
| lnent and erect it where the police fell
on that memorable morning. The mon.
| ument has been ordered from a Mime.
apolis firm.
Fargo Republicans: Probably the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
never in its history has shipped so much
stock as it is now doing. Eight or ten
stock trains pass through here every
day, and the stock is remarkably fine
The grazing lands of Western North
Dakota are producing lots of fatness
this year.
The Portland roller mill was entirely
destroyed Wednesday night by fire. The
mill was owned by Martin Sonelebo
and had a capacity of $50 barrels. Ii
was valued at 10000; insured for S15,-
000 The mill was operated by Gibbs &
Edwards, who lost 4 900 bushels of wheat
aud three cars of flour, besides a large
amount of feed.
Commissioner Consesley, chairman
Major J. G. Hamilton, Grand Forks; r
NJ. Pollock, Casselton, and H. II. Rourk
state attorney OF Ransom county. an
pointed last spring by Governor Burke
to codify and revise the state laws. vii
meet in Grand Forks Oct. ), during the
session of the supreme court and will be
in session about three weeks.
A dispatch from Glendale says tina,
over half Of iImmons county, Fl ny mile.
west of here, has been swept by prairie
fire, resulting in the loss OF three lives
and nearly :l50,Uo0 worth of property
The fatalities reported ire u man, Iii.
wife and son, who We're trying TO saw,
their house md other buildings and sew
eral stacks OF wheat near by.
John Scott Mann, n cousin of Presi
dent liMrison's fatber-in-law, died M
Mnndnn last week. Mann was m oil
settler here md 40 years old. He tool
mp Clnim years ngo where most OF tl,
city, Of Minneapolis now stands, and tb,