The Dickinson press., 1891-05-30
NORTH DAKOTA.

NORTH DAKOTA.
Copious rains have fallen throughout
North Dakota this week.
The wool clip in Wa,d co, MY sesti.
mated to be worth $4,000.
Grand Forks has ii new brick yard with
Il capacity of 10000 per day.
Bismarck will organize a permanent
stock and agricultural society.
Ale. House has been appointed post
at Lane, MclIenry county.
III. &. MERIT, OF Fargo, las applied for a
for a national bank atLisbon.
Hugh Kelly, aged II years, wa drowned
at Grand Forks while playing around a
barge.
James ii. Copeland, cashier of the Bot
tineau County Bank, died very suddenly
last week.
Hon. L.. A. Iceland has retired from the
Edgcley Mail, leaving Lee Ovcrlces in
sole control.
xStraWbcrricS are II cents a box in Fargo
which the Argus thinks is about as low as
they will get.
State Senator j. NJ. Patch has been APP
pointed mastering officer of the q. a. Il
for Mouth Dakota.
Mary Jane Tay lor, of Grand Forks, was
granted a divorce from her husband. on
recount of cruelty.
NORTH DAKOTA will get for its militia
from the government under an act OF
tie last congress S2,764.
a. A. D.Wolf, postmaster at John>town
Grand Forks county, resigns and rec
ommends Chas. Il. Evans.
The trustees OF the Valley City Norma
school think of using native stone as
building material instead OF brick.
Hon. j. ii. Miller, for many years sheriff
of Riclland county, is Il victim of dropSy
and is not expected to last long.
VALLEY City's r%ostoiice fight has been
settled at last, by the appointment of Pcdel
j. Peterson, the Scandinavian candida G
Hon. NJ. n. Johnson has secured II daily
mail for The towns situated on tie Turtle
Mountain branch of the Great Northern.
1t will 90 by stage.
A. Mckay, II. Tanning and Thomas
doore were arrested at Devils Lake fol
iiolating heprohibitory law have been
acid for trial in $3.50 bail.
The Indians of the Standing Rock res
crvation are % o to receive pay for the
ponies taken away from them in 1876.
The amount Is about 100000.
"A Devils Lake merchant has sold sever
al old fashioned spinning wheels lately,
the revival of the sheep industry having
created a demand for them.
There is Il case on the Ransom county
court calendar in which Il husband brings
suit against Il neighbor for $4,000 for
alternating his wife's affection.
Mayville boasts OF the possession of a
juvenile brass band Of Is pieces. The ages
of the members range from s TO II years,
and they are said to be proficient.
,rNkn f,rnnt Nnrthnrr hoe ,n,rnI,asaI a
depot site four miles North of IIillsboro
and will at unce begin building. The
tirandins will build an elevator there this
season.
>Four saIoonkeepers have been arrested
at Devils Lake for violating the prohibi-
tory law. The fight is being made on
saloons by the leaders of the w. c. L. U.
organization.
man named ETA. Frank, from Roclrs-
ter, attempted suicide near Bismarck, by
jumping from a train and stabbing him
self. yesterday. He is in the hospital. He
had been on a spree.
Thomas Mcclellan has been running a
blind pig at Warllrton. Sheriff McI.aren
found HIM in bed at the Headquarters
hotel i'll Fargo, with q loaded revolver by
bis side. The sheriff took the revolver
and the saloon man too.
~. Anken, the cheese manufacturer
north OF Taylor, has started up his factory
and will utilize the milk of between 30(
and 400 cows this season. The farmer.
are getting 80 cents per cwt. for their mill
an advance of ten cents over last year
AS a result of a conference by the pro
hibitionists of lIillsborO, the sheriff i:
armed with a search warrant and sus
picious looking packages arriving b,
freight areclosely watched. Ii their con
tents are found contraband they are seizet
and c%Oniiscated.
The famous Seventh cavalry, which dis
tinguiSlled itself in the Indian trouble las
last night, having been transferred Il
Washington city. The boys say they az
through fighting Indians and are goin!
down to wait on the president.
TIE dispatches indicate that the rain
fall has been general all over North Da
kota, and in most sections it has becl
sufficient to moisten the ground aver be
low that Of the spring rains. On thu
Missouri slope nearly an inch and
quarter of water fell, and the condition
of crops is how as perfect us could be de
sired.
SENATOR'S Casey and Hansbrough hav'
made up a purse of $3.50, to be known Il!
the senatorial prize and contested for il
a free-for-all hose race at the firemen'
tournament at Fargo.
Ed. 1. p. Staedc, who recently faiiet
ut Devils Lake, states that he and Mr.
Whinple will each bring Il libel suit fu
$4,000 against Senator lIonsbrough, VIII,
is proprietor af The Inter Ocean, and Oh
his return from Washington in June viii
have him arrested for criminal libel.