Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
NORTHWEST NEWsLETs,
NORTH DAKOTA.


The Kickapoos took 81, 900 out o.
Glendale.
Edward w. Jenkins. of Durbin
has been granted letters patent for d
threshing machine.
The Turtle Mountain Indians NAV
De removed to a reservation of 100. 0O
acres at old Fort Rice.
FRANK Plummer has received the
appointment of custodian of the
North Dakota state building at the
worlds fair.
During the month of November
1900 acres of land were patented in
the Bismark district and about an
equal amount filed upon.
The foreign population OF North
Dakota constitutes 44.6 per cent. of
Tue total poDulation-more than in
any other state in the Union.
A non-partisan reception was
rendered to Governor-elect Short
ridge, at jamestown last week. Fire
works, torchlight procession and
speech making were INDUCED in.
John Bottrell, of Elkwood, who is
nearly ninety years old, claims to
nave caught with six small traps
during the past three years some
thing like 5000 gophers.
The United States grand Jury in
session at Grand Forks returned
twenty-five additional indictments,
making a total of f~orty-seveu, the
largest number ever returned at any
session Of the court in this state.
A sketch of the plans of the Fargo
public building will be ordered in
Washington within ten DAYS. The
delay has been on account of a long
failure to secure title TO the
property. The work will probably
not commence until next spring.
Mrs. Ole r. Albertson, of York,
Benton county, left her house Satur-
day night for a short time. While
she was away some paper caught
dre from the stove pipe and the room
was soon completely filled with
smoke, which suffocated her two
little children. The mother has
become insane.
Charles Haltimes, Of S~herbrooke,
has failed for 500, 600. He was
unable TO realize on paper taken for
horses he sold to the amount of
3 1900 or $4,000 and was forced to
the wall. 1t is said that many of the
farmers who bought of him will lose
the animals they mortaged. Hal
times has disappeared.
w. j. Anderson, formerly receiver
Of the United States land office at
Grand Forks, tells the Northern
Farmer that the area of the Red
reservation is 1900, 600 acres: 70
per cent. is timber land; % per cent.
is pine timber is not subject to
entry but will be sold by the V
ment. Not owe l Oper cent. of tract
IS good for cultivation. The soil is
bat it is a fine stock country.
The Kidder county wolf hunt and
rcund-uo, which has been looked
forward to for some time past, came
)H Friday. About 100 mounted
kidder county farmers, who have
'Stfered from the depredations of
these pests, participated in the hunt.
which resulted in a large number of
the wolves being killed. A bounty of
b is given by the county for each
T~olfscalp to encourage the extinction
Of the animals.
Last Friday mornings train
brought into Fargo Fritz Schlutze
md Miss Anna Schlaet, of Arthur
The couple were clipping and lost no
time in going to Judge Rebat, where,
being Of proper age, they had
40 dificulty9 IN securing a marriage
license, after which the couple were
united in matrimony. From all
it was learned that the
parents of Miss Schlaot objected to
the marriage. e.