The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-11-05
NORTH DAKOTA

Two large prairie fires are raging north
and west Of Bismarck. The flames are lean
ing nigh and can easily be seen. Nothing
more can be learned.
1t is said that the irrepressible Major Ed
wards IS about to start the Daily Forum at
Fargo, beginning Nov. Z, and will use all
the old re- and dashes- that ne carried
Oft from the Argus.
James Brown, partly intoxicated, while
driving along Third street, Grand Forks,
fell from the high seat on which he was
driving, alighted on his head, was picked
up unconscious and taken to the county
hospital. His condition is critical.
Two Indian boys, about II and 10 years
Ola, were arrested near Steele and
lodged in jail, for breaking into and rob-
ping the residence of jacob Hoover at Tap
pen. They were en- route to Standing Rock
from the Devils Lake agency.
E.J. Moore has sold his interest in the
Leader newspaper, of Glendale to Ed. A.
Smith late of St. Paul. The paper will be
neutral in politics, abandoning the Dem
ocracy Smith e. Goddard is the style of
the new firm. Moore goes to Fargo to
take an interest in the Commonwealth.
1t is said that Maj. Edwards will start a
new paper in Fargo about the middle of
November and has already received good
advertising patronage. The paper will be
called the Fargo Forum, and will be pub
llshed every afternoon except Sunday. The
star will consist almost entirely of dis
charged Argus employees
"A man named Charlie, Curtis of Fargo
was shot in the neck while going to Moor
head by Northside bridge It is said that
two men named Pauline and Howard tried
TO hold him up and that the former shot
him when he resisted They then ran
across to Moorhead and were arrested in a
saloon there. 1t is not thought Curtis will
die. 49,"
Fred Smith and John Miles, arrested in
East Grand Forks, while attempting to dis
pose OF overcoats and other clothing, after
wards identified by Richardson & Thomp-
son, ofEmerado, were turned over to the
authorities at Grand Forks and bound over
to the district court. In default of 81, 900
pail they were committed to jail
A jamestown dispatch says: In spite of
good weather and an increased number of
threshers farmers see that there is little
hope of threshing out the crops in time to
40 any fall blowing. AS it generally freezes
up by Nov. 10, the case is desperate, and as
the situation is the same all through the
James River valley, a largely decreased
acreage is bound to follow. Stacking grain
is now being generally done where thresh-
Ing cannot be at once put under way.
f. D. Boyd, who was accused at Vermi1-
lion oftrying to take his own life, is slowly
recovering. He denies the attempt to commit
suicide but says he took some morphine to
stop the pain in his wounded leg He re-
ceived glnshot wound while in the army,
which has caused the right leg to shrivel
and be very painful. He claims to be work
ing his way to the soldiers home at Hot
Springs, where he hopes to get relief The
G. A. r. Post here has taken him in hand
A special from Minnewaukan says: The
weather has been fair and threshing
has been progressing finely. The bulk of
the wheat shipped from this section has
been No. l Northern so far. Very little in
comparison with the amount threshed,
however, has been shipped as yet. T. Ma
honey claims loss of 500 bushels from
his shocks by geese. e. P. Prichard claims
a loss of one-half his crop by not getting it
threshed. No person could hardly believe
the havoc they are capable of or believe an
attempt to estimate their countless num-
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