The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-04-18
NORTH DAKOTA.


GRAND Forks will have 800, 600 tan
merry.
HILLsBoRo has the postal carrier system
and IS justly proud it.
Col. PLUMMER talks of removing to
the state of Washington.
= JAMEsTowN's telephone service was to.
tally wrecked by the wet snow last week
\/LARGE numbers of laborers sre being
Sent west to work on the Great Northern
extension.
THE manag cement of the popular Da-
cotah hotel at Grand Forks changes
on the 3Oth.
JAMESTOWN will have wool market,
under the provisions of the law prepared
by Representative Lutz last winter.
FRANK RUSSELL of Walhalla, Pembina
county, is developing a coal mine, and
the samples SO far tested are excellent.
xMcINTosH county leads in beet sugar
applications, so far. Ninety-one have
been filed with the commissioner of agri-
culture.
MEssRs CHrrTlcK AND ATKINSON of
Pembina have shipped six carloads of po-
tatOes, for which they paid the farmers 50
cents per bushel.
c. c. Beckwith, chief clerk of the Head
quarters hotel at Fargo, will compile and
publish new directory for Fargo during
this and next month.
Hon. r. N. STEVENS has a position in
the Attorney Generals Office at Washing
ton. He is to have charge of the Indian
depreciation department.
The 500 road is pushing northward
from Hankinson to Valley City; but
there are no indications of move on the
Aberdeen & Bismarck branch.
Miss BARTLETT, the unfortunate young
lady connected with the Pembna county
tragedy, is alive and we'll in Chicago.
where she lives with one of her brothers.
If you would like quotations on wool
sent you for this season, send your post
Office address to the North Star Wooden
Mill company, Minneapolis. 1t will cost
you nothing but the asking.
STocKMEN should send to the depart
ment of agriculture, Washington, D. c.,
for the work on "Diseases of Horses" !"
1t is illustrated with handsomely colorel
plates and sent free to applicants as long
as the edition holds out.
The Pembina Athletic club has organ
lied with the following officers: M. ii.
Miller, president; Ed. McCrea. treasurer;
J. G. Harvey, secretary. Managing COM
mittee: Geo. Leibinger, chairman, j. E.
Bouvette and S. M. MOorhead.
reporter that crop conditions have not
been so favorable in North Dakota since
1888 and that the state acreage this year
will be an increase over that of last year,
except in the far western counties.
XNoIiTH DAKOTA will not only have a
building at the worlds fair, but will open
a geological garden and show what manner
of fur bearing animals the state can raise.
One Uf the attractions will be team of
North Dakota elks harnessed to a buggy.
TIE Great Northern railway has put
train service on one hundred and eighty
miles of new extension to the Pacific coast;
the line opened running from Pacific
junction, near Fort Assinniboine, Mont.
to the Rocky mountains, which when
crossed into the Flathead Lake country, will
give that road two routes over the COUNT
mental range, the other being between
Helena and Butte.
OLGA, in Cavalier county, is to have a
cheese factory, and the farmers of that
locality appear disposed to diversity Their
industry.
f4 SEEDING has become general through
out the state. There is great deal OF
water in the ground, and on level or low
land the work is two to three weeks later
than usual.
BorH the LaMoure and jamestown
creameries will be operated this season
1t has been very difficult matter to
make creameries pay in this state, but
those in operation at the places named
above have been 80 managed as to yielG
some dividends
CAVALIER county is going to issue
bonds to the amount of $15, 900 to erect {
court house and Jail. The county seat
Langdon, has just authorized the expen
diture of $1,000 for school houses pur
poses. Both are good indications O! {
progressive community.
Gov. BURKE Tuesday appointed
George I. Foster, of Fargo, as member
of the board of commissioners of the sol
dier's home, Lisbon, in place of S. g
Roberts, heretofore named. Mr.. Foster