The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-12-17
NORTHWEST NEWSLETS.
NORTH DAKOTA,

The Whalen elevator at Glendale
broke down under it's weight during
the recent grain blockade.
An epidemic of measles prevails at
Lisbon and many adults are down
with the disease.
Colonel John Bidlake, of Osnabrock,
has been appointed superintendent of
live stock at the worlds fair.
Two freight trains collided on the
Great Northern at Walcott and nine
teen cars were ditched. No one was
hurt.
The Darlington Citizen says the
contractors on the 500 have received
orders to push the work west regard
less of expense.
Martin Elkhall, prominent farmer
living east of Grand Forks, died from
fracture of the skull received in a
runaway accident.
A gang supposed to be professional
thieves, entered the hardware store
of Bjorneby & Newgard at Grafton,
and stole eight or ten revolvers and
about 100 jack knives, which amount
to about $3.50.
AS the result of an exploring expe-
dition, Professor Daughters, of
Grand Forks, proposes the con-
struction of a navigable waterway
from the Lake of the Woods to the
Red River of the North.
The station of Spiritwood has
received this year so far about $4,000
bushels of wheat and about $4,000
more tributary to that point are still
unmarketed. Of this amount $4,000
bushels are on one big farm-the
| O'Brien farm.
The North Dakota Milling COM
pany, consolidated, has commenced
operations with headquarters in
Grand Forks. The company has
been capitalized at sl,250,O00, and
now includes nineteen of the leading
Touring mills in the state.
The Hankinson starch factory has
just been paid 81 900 by the state as
bounty on the manufacture of starch,
under the law of 1890, giving reward
of 81 for every 100 pounds Of starch
manufactured in the state from
potatoes. Last year the factory
earned 81, 800 bounty.
the monster new coal sheds for the
Great Northern at Grand Forks.
When completed, and the equipment
in place, a train load of coal can be
unloaded in few minutes, and a
locomotive tender can be loaded with
coal in half a minute, making a great
saving in time.
The body of Maurice Olson, a young
printer of Fargo was found dead on
the morning of the 29th inst, resting
against a tree with revolver by his
side. Everything indicated that it
was a case of suicide. Olson was an
employe Of the Argus and had been
assisting in the makeup there for six
years past. His people have all
removed from Fargo, his sister being
in Helena and an uncle in Pierre.
The boy was about twenty years old,
had a good bank account and was
a quiet, well-behaved fellow, and no
cause has yet been discovered as to
why he should have taken his own
life.
The commission to codify the laws
of the state and territory of Dakota
is in session at Bismarck, revising it's
work for the state printer. The
report to the legislature will make
about 800 pages, without containing
any of the laws. This report will be
considered by the legislature, and
then the commission will take up the
laws passed at the coming session Of
the legislature, and have two years
more in which to complete the work.
The work of the commission extends
back to the territorial laws of 1873,
and will be completed by the first Of
January. 1t is to include those
passed by the various legislatures
down to the special session Of last
summer.