Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-08-07
NORTH DAKOTA.

NORTH DAKOTA.
North Dakota is entitled to one O
the ten cadets at large soon to be an
pointed by the president.
Kidder county has a few diseased
sheep, but these are being attended t,
by experienced sheep men.
Cavalier County has organized al
agricultural society and will hold
fair on the 18th and Is of October.
The people OF Dickinson have organ
lied fire department. A fund of $7O(
has been raised to purchase the nee
essary outfit.
Farmers around Devils Lake hav,
prepared for frost by piling straw
around their wheat fields ready tc
burn on Indication of a possible frost
Mrs. Senator Hansbrough Is quite
unwell and her husband though hope
tul states that she is losing strength
every day. They are now in st. Paul
A large number OF people living at
Fort Abercrombie and vicinity are
feeling very jubilant over the newi
just received, that valuable gold
mine has been discovered in Montana
on mining claim owned by them.
North Dakota, if the weather re-
mains favorable, says the Fargo Re
publican, will have, by January 1st
as much currency per citizen as any
other state. Forty million dollars
worth of grain is ripening. This sum
divided between our 100000 people
would give each 5000. The average
currency in the country per capita is
$24.
An Italian employe OF the Northern
Pacific died on the train last Friday
night while en- route to the company's
hospital at Brainerd to secure medi-
cal treatment. The dead body WAS
discovered early the next morning
when the east-bound train arrived.
The train was delayed at Bismarck
two hours while the coroner held an
inquest on the remains.
The fur robbery case at FARO
brings out some sensational features
as it progresses. Last Saturday JUS
tice Gray held Aid. Flynn in $1,000
bonds on the charge OF receiving stol.
en- goods. Mr.. Flynn has acknowledg-
ed from the first his connection with
the case, but said that he was endeav-
voring TO get in with the thieves to
turn them over to the authorities.
1t is intended to establish q State
Weather Service i'll North Dakota to
cooperate with the National Wealth
er Bureau of the Agricultural depart
ment. Stations of observations will
be placed in each county, whose re-.
ports will be published and dessemi-
mated monthly. The work will be
(wholly voluntary for q while, but it
will be OF such Importance to hesitate
that reliable and intelligent observers
ought readily to be found in each
county.
While hunting prairie chickens near
Campbell in Richland county, DR..
Heath was accidentally shot and kill
cd. The doctor, his brother and q
riend were walking through the high
grass. They carried their guns cooked
and were some distance apart. The
gun in the hands OF the friend was dis
charged, he knows not how, and the
charge took effect in the doctors body
under the right arm, producing instant
death. The deceased WAS single and
33 years OF aye. The coroner decided
that no inquest WAS necessary.
J.W. Newcomp, an expert repre-
senting Duluth elevators, was at
Grand Forks on the Sd inst. He has
made thorough inspection OF all the
country from Wahpeton to the Mani
toba boundary on both sides ofthe Of
the Red river. He says he. never be-
fore saw such fine standing grain. He
estimates the whole area at fifteen to
twenty bushels to the acre, with much
that will yield much more. John In
glis, all expert from Chicago, who has
Travelled since 1882, says Minnesota
and North Dakota stand at the head
OF the spring wheat states this year.
In the district court at Fargo, the
LIST inst, motion was made in be-
half OF Harry O'Neil to release the
building now being held because OF the
finding of liquor therein by the sheriff
Judge Mcconnell denied the motion
on the ground that the affidavits
failed to show that O'Neil, as the own
er OF the building, was ignorant of the
purpose for which it was used by his
tenant, Kennedy, and that he bad
failed to give Kennedy notice before
the arrests were made. He held the
case open, however, for additional
aftidavits to be introduced if desired.
A destructive hail storm did much
damage at the ranch OF Chas. E. Dob
son on the Cannon Ball recently.
The storm came upin the afternoon
and was terrorizing for the phenomenal
chunks of ice dropped from the clouds,
measuring fully nine inches in circum-
ference. When Mr.. Dobson went out
to view his focks, it was pitiful
sight that met his gaze. His hearder,
Ernest Hartmann, was frightened,
Lru,sed and cut and the sheep were
still more sorrowtully afflicted. For
ty head were killed outright and the
number wounded were not easily
counted. Il they hae not had the pro.
lection OF light brush patch the re-