Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-11
NUMBER 81.
NEWS IN NORTH DAKOTA

Barnes county claims 10000 sheep
against 1914 last year:
The Grafton Record says s1nudges did
great value in saving grain.
The LaMoure Chronicle estimates the
receipts for the wheat Of that county
will be Fl 100000.
At Dickinson, Monday of last week,
the mercury reached 100 in the shade
the hottest day of the season.
S. j. Swenson, charged with keeping
blind pig at Bismarck, has been bound
over to the district court in bonds Of
$1,000.
jamestown gardeners shipped West
Monday 900 pounds of celery, and are
making heavy shipments East and West
every day.
While shocking grain on Robert Lun.
dy's farm south of Grandin. three
men killed large black hear after
hard struggle.
A preliminary meeting looking tsward
ousting the half-breeds from tile Turtle
Mountain reservation was held at Dun
seth last week.
The board of directors of the pcniten-
tiary met ut Bismarck Saturday. They
organized as board of parole and adopt
ed rules and regulations.
A passenger train dashed into hand
car near Minot last week. The four
men on the car We're drunk, but man
aged to get out Of the way.
The superintendent of emigration has
directed the return of four Canadians
arrested at Pembina, for alleged VIC.
lation OF the alien contract labor law.
The Jamestown Alert would like to
have the government, in lieu of erecting
a S30. 900 penitentiary at Grafton, turn
over that sum to the state in good hard
cash.
The Great Northern exhibit at the
Iowa State fair last week was awarded
the diploma Tor the finest special display.
Minnesota and North and South Dakota
products We're shown in abundance.
Governor Burke has pardoned c. w,
Ranking. Ranking was sentenced from
Cass county i'll 1883 for abduction. It
was on recommendation of the penitsn-
tiary board that the pardon was made.
| E. Ashley Mears has placed q, 900
sheep with the farmers of North Dakota
and proposes soon to make heavy ship
ment to Eureka, S. D., and let them out
among the Russians Of Mcpherson and
adjoining counties.
-Four Thousand dollars are offered in
purses for the October meeting by the
Grand Forks Driving association, with
Irottng, running and paciag races.
Twelve hundred dollars will be given in
premiums in the stock exhibit.
H. P. Ruclzer, of the worlds fair com.
mission, thinks North Dakota will have
$4,000 exhibit at Chicago. A SIC, 600
wheat palace will be one Of the chief at
fractions. together with miniatures of
Grand Forks Fargo and the Dalrvmple
farm.
A son of Joseph Wurzer, near Bing.
hampton, was accidentally killed by
loaded gun which some member Of
the family had hung on the wall. L
was accidentally knocked down, the
charge, heavy one, tearing his back
open and killing him instantly.
The last census bulletin shows that in
1850 the assessed valuation of all prop
erty IN North Dakota was $8. .7S6,572. and
in 1890 it was sis, 1874, ,536, or an increase
OF 792 per cent, while the increase of
population was 395 per cent. The as
sessed value per capita in North Dakota
is reported at $42s04.
Fargo Republicans: The first dozen
days of shooting among the chicken
hunters shows that the birds are more
numerous than ever before. Nearly
every sport has been out, with or with.
| out dogs, but seldom returns witht at p
few evidences of the number of Lil.8s
that are now in the country. 7
A Baptist college, with full staff Of
professors, is to be started at Lisbon at
an early date. The scheme meeXs viii
the approval of prominent Baptists. and
Lisbon will do all she can to forward and
assist in the undertaking. The stnte
Baptist convention meets here early in
19teoer' taten' and final steps WIN then be
Agent Tharaldson, of thel Northwest,
ern Protective association, has made an
arrangement with the Great Northern
by which the company will load his
wheat from their river barges to cars
for It cents bushel. Mf. Tharuldson
thinks he can effect saving to the mem
bers OF his association of at [least 600 rer
car by the plan he has adopted for hand.
ling their wheat.
~ Colonel o. M. Towner, manager of a
st. Paul syndicate, formerly manager of
the Elk Valley farm, Larimore, has pur.
chased 20, 900 acres of land that has been
considered worthless, in slough, living
east of the Rcd river, opposite the north.
ern part of Walsh county. They intend
to drain this tract this fall, and are ret
ting steam plows manufactured to breaR
the entire lot to put into crop.