Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1892-12-30
in MORT IL DAKOTA

y Three Foster county hunters recently
killed nineteen deer.
| The LIE Mourc Weekly independent
has suspended publication.
Two hundred thousand bushels of
wheat have been marEeted at Inkster
this season.
Pasqualc de Florc, IL Devils Lake mcr.
chant, has been found guilty Of selling
liquor to Fort Totten indians.
George Levy, wanted hy Bismarck
authorities for forgery, has hrril nabbed
at Rochester. n. Y, on the same charge,
A Hillsboro dispatch says II. I. King
mans name will be presented i'll the
legislature is IL candidate for the scn;,-
torship.
Bertha Better, a lG-year.old girl has
| Deen arrested near Cashrl, charged
with infanticde, the slranglng of her
nowly.born babe.
Flats have been received at the Minut
ianu Office OF forty-ona townships sur
voyed last summer and which are now
Michael Ryan, convicted of shooting
at Officer Sullivan of Grand Forks,
with intent to kill. has been sentenced
to ten years in the penitentary.
The barn on the farm OF the Jacob
Miller estate at Arvilla burned last week.
Ihirty-four head of horses We're burned
The barn was valued AT $1,000 ANA the
stock at 100000.
Devils Lake has determined Lv special
election to issue bonds in tho sum of
$l7, 500 for puhlic school bu.liing,
The bonds run for twenty years and
draw 2 per cent.
Frank Peck, a Grand Forks gamlD
was shot in IL saloon in that city bA,
barber named McConkey. The bullet
shattered his thigh bone, probably ne
| cessitating amputation.
Advices from Washington say that
| the resignation Of Colonel plum,ner, re-
ceiver OF tho Miuot land office, has been
withdrawn. Colonel Plummer ten
| dered his resignation several months
ago.
Senator Casey's joint resolution uu-
| thorlzing the loan of the Red River cart,
i'll possession Of the national museum,
to the North Dakota worla's fair COM
! mission for exhibition at Chicago, has
passed the senate,
l.ioyd's new opera house in James
town is nearly completed and will be
opened i'll Jamuary. 1t is tlree-story
| brick structure. costing $4,000, and
thoroughly equipped with every mod
ern convenience. The theatre has a
capacity of $50.
The repor: of the superintendent. of
the Jamestown insane asylum shows
that there We're 22l patients i'll the hos
pltal Nov /. 1890. Daring the two
years that passed 173 patients were ad-
mitted, 437 cases We're treated. lGG pa.
tlents We're discharged and 50 died.
Iwentyveisht indictments have bsen
found against Rpiette county citizens
for fraudulent filings. The cashier of
the bank at st. Johns. the register OF
deeds OF the county, several halt breeds,
the clerk of the court and his deputy
have been inlc;ol by the United S.ates
grand july AT Grand Forks for perjury.
Fargo Argus: The North Dakota
worlds fair board is doing good work
and will make creditable exhibit at
Chicago, in spite of the small appropria.
tion. Best of all, they have got the la
| dies of the state interested, aud they are
working like beavers to raise funds and
prepare special exhibits The Fargo
ladies exp ct to raise rs much as So, 80.
Secretary McGiun;s is authority for
the statement that Il second pe!r;tiea
stump has been discovered four miles
! west Of G,en Cl!en, which measures
| feet high and s feet in diameter, and
| weighs ~ tons. 1t is perfectly free
from the earth and can be removed
without any great trouble Mr.. McGin-
| his says it is suitable for polished table
tops, and will 10 doubt be secured as
one of the c"riosities to he placed on ex-
hibit in the North Dakd "a building.