The Dickinson press., 1891-03-21
NEWS IN NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo is having an epidemic Of til
measles.

Fargo is having an epidemic of tho
measles.
The daily edition of The Mandan
Il has been discontinued.
Chris NJ. Dahl, of Bismarck has been
appointed deputy secretary of state.
The Bismarck state bank has been
organized with $40, 900 capital.
There is considerable doubt about q
state fair being held this year. no APP
preparation having been made for it.
Thirty-seven applicants for certificate
appeared before the county superinten-
dent of schools at Fargo, last week, for
examination.
Justices Of the peace now have juris-
diction in civil cases to the extent Of
5000. The old law fixed the maximum
amount at 800.
Hon. John Bidlake. the popular Cava-
ller county statesman, has been ap-
pointed on Governor Burkc's staff, with
the rank of Colonel.
The McHenly County Independent,
published at Towner, and edited by w.
D. Kilday. is a new acquisition to the
papers of the state.
Joe Remington, in Jail at Fargo for
numbering Elevator Agent Flett, has
decided to stand trial, but has not yet
employed an attorney.
Senator Casey objected, and Thomas
T.. DISCARD. Of Fargo, will not be regis
ter OF the Minot land office for a while.
The president will probably re-appoint
him, however.
1t may hi taken rs a settled fact that
the farmers of North Dakota have gone
into the sheep raising business. There
were 100000 sheep brought into the
state last year.
Governor Burke has signed all the
laws passed by the last legislature, ex-
cept six, and these are in the hands of
the attorney general for a decision as to
their constitutionality.
The Jamestown asylum artesian well
suddenly ceased to flowa few days since,
thus embarrassing the institution very
seriously. The asylum uses about !, 900
barrels of water daily.
Jamestown Alert: A Bismarck drug.
gist advertised for 5000 hasks-pints
and half pints-and kids about town
hied themselves TO the capitol and filled
the order inside Of four hours, and still
the legislatures defeated resubmission.
Collector of Customs N. e. Nelson,
will open the new customs district of
North and South Dakota ut Pembina,
April /. Timothy OBrien, of Neche,
will be appointed deputy collector at
Neche, and Henry Mcclure at Wall
hala..
sForty-two printing Offices in North
Dakota made reports to the commits
sioner of agriculture and labor. These
Offices paid for labor during the last
year tie sum OF s146. 25S-nearly as
much as all the other manufacturing
interests combined.
The new Australian law is not a
profitable one for printers. The print
ing of thousands of election tickets for
the different candidates being done away
| with, the new ballot being printed by
| the county. The number is also limited
| to three for every voter.
Heretofore the Osborn and Champion
harvester companies have had head
| quarters at both Fargo and Grand
Forks. The agencies of each have been
consolidated, and hereafter the Norta-
| western agency of each will be in Fargo,
which will be the general distributing
point for both companies.
Aberdeen News: The politics of
North Dakota have always been deemed
corrupt. That was one motive for terri.
torial division. Yet they have just de-
feated Il bill to repeal the prohibition
law and kept on the statute book the
law holding private bankers responsible
to state supervision, and passed some
good laws. There is a fear that a COM
rebound to the credit of the South Da-
kota legislature"
A Philadelphia young lady whose eye
caught a recent item to the effect that
girls were scarce in North Dakota, has
written to Il Bismarck paper that she
and half a dozen other Quaker City girls
will ON out here for husbands if there
is any show. She says the girls are all
refined, respectable, pretty and
thoroughly in earnest. They want good,
honest farmer husbands, and NJ" dudes"
Several young bachelor farmers i'll this
vicinity will at once open correspondence
and exchange photographs with them.
Walter Thurber, who is under arrest
in Bismarck charged with attempted
horse stealing, went into this inglorious
profession on a rather extensive sale.
He was detected in the act of running
off sixteen head of Dick Thistlewaite's
choicest equines. When pursued he
deserted the herd and made tracks over
the country, but was captured by This
| letewaite and Sheriff MCGEE. He is con-
sdered a tough character in that coun-
try. Thistlewaite is a man of means,
and will spend all his wealth if neces-
sary in Furnishing cases in which he is
interested.
A Washington dispatch says that Sen
| ator Hansbrough has called the atten-
ton of Secretary Noble to the odd Sec
tons of the Northern Pacific land grant
east of the Missouri river, and asked for
a settlement Of the titles. The secre-
tary promised to act as soon as the cases
reach him from the general land Office.
Hansbrough then called on Commits
sioner Croft and induced him to make
these cases special. Hence it is likely
that settlers who have purchased from
the Northern Pacific railway will oon
be able to secure titles to their lands,
and as soon as the titles are confirmed
the state can levy and collect taxes.
This will add about S75, 900 per annum
to the revenues Of North Dakota.
German catholi Leader Dead.
BERLIN, March 16.-Herr Windthorst,
the famous leader of the Centrist or
Catholic party i'll the German reichstag,
is dead.
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