The Dickinson press., 1891-01-03
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES

NORTH DAKOTA NOTES
Grand Forks assessed valuation -
$9,70s,0 1S.
Fargo and Moorhead will be Joined by
an electric railway.
North Dakota worlds fair directors
met at Fargo Monday.
The new Plymouth church at Fargo
was dedicated last Sunday.
Diphtheria is raging near Hope, and
several deaths are reported.
Judge Thomas is holding a term Of
United States court ct Fargo.
The Minneapolis board Of trade has
voted to aid Mcintosh county inhab-
itants.
Tho farm at the jamestown insane
asylum will be largely devoted to celery
raising next year.
Artesian we'll diggers at Fargo struck
q flow of water at a depth Of 1871 feet.
1t lows at the rate Of 500 barrels per
day.
The jamestown insane hospital last
yekr reduced its fuel bill one-third by
using Ignite coal mined en- the Mis-
souri,.
Damn, who stabbed Dumas at Neche,
has been committed to stand trial on
charge of willful murder. All saloons
In Neche have been closed.
Charles E. Wolfe has assumed edito-
rial control of The Sargent County
Teller, while Mr.. Lenton will conduct
its business and mechanical depart
ments.
According to The Northwest Trade
there We're 100000 acres of flax in Min
nesota and the two Dakotas this year,
while there were but $50, 600 acres in
Ireland.
The annual report of the state auditor
rhows there has been paid into the treas
ury during the year ended Oct. 81, $780,
5l1.e3 and expended for all rpose
S507, 044.45.
The fortunate farmers i'll Kidder
county are making as high as 81. so a
day with man and team. hauling rub
Bile stone for the Missouri river rip-rap
work above Mandan.
The wife of Bullhead. the Indian no.
licelnan who was fatally shot at the
capture and death Of Sitting Bull.
walked eighty miles without rest, and
across the snow-covered ylain, to be at
the death-bcd Of her husband.
William Bulge. tho Grand Forks
capitalist and politician, whose name
has been menti3Da! i'll connection with
the United States senntorsh;p of North
Dakota, was married last week to Miss
Minnie L. Graw, a prominent society
belle Of DEBORAH, Iowa,
w. H. H. Matttson, the editor of The
Fargo Daily Sun, who mysteriously dis
appeared the day after election. has
been heard of at Salem, Orc. HE has
written to his family, and Claims he
knew nothing of his movements from
the time he left Fargo until he reached
Salem.
Judge Mcconnell, of the district
court at Fargo, imposed the following
sentences: Webster Null, nine months
for embezzlement; George Kelly, ono
year and five months, burglary; John
Connors, John Fahey and Barney
O1Brien, one year and four months, rob.
berry.
Efforts are being made to secure the
pardon OF Orrln p. Queal. who was con.
victed of manslaughter in Ward county
two years ago and sentenced to spend II
term of years in the penitentiary. An
uncle of Queal, a wealthy Minneapolis
lumber merchant, has interested him
self in the matter.
Senator Pierce sends Tho Fargo Ar
gus a bottle OF syrup made from sugar
heets by 81 German woman living north
of Bismarck. She had no machinery
for it's manufacture, and simply presses
the beets and cooks the product. The
family raises enough beets every year to
not only supply themselves with syrup,
but to keep the neighborhood in the ar
ticle.
Hon. James Matthews, of Larimore,
says he came to North Dakota for his
health. He has found it, his weight in
creasing from 1876 to 170'pounds. Incl
dentally he has gathered up about 1000
acres Of land. He had 1900 acres in
crops this year, and sold his wheat at
81.25 per bushel. He has about 200
head of blooded horses that he has
raised while he was resting.
Agents of machinery houses at Fargo
have received instructions that thei,
services will not be needed after Jan. /.
This is the outcome of the recent forma.
ton of the American Harvesting Ma.
chine company at Chicago. About IL,
men will be thrown out of employment
in Fargo. Added to this is the rumo,
that North Dakota headquarters of the
new company will be located at Grand
Forks.