The Dickinson press., 1895-08-17
STATE NEWS.

STATE, NEWS.
The Steele Ozone has reduced its
size to six.column quarto.
The state treasurer has called for
bids from the various banks on the
state deposits.
The saving in expense at the state
penitentiary for the past i've months
has been $4,000.
The Mayville artesian we'll flows
about 5000 barrels every "a hours. It
is only 400 feet deep.
Stanton now has a daily mail, and
settlers along the route from Mandans Z
to Stanton, three mails a week each
way.
The July number of Col. Lounsber.
ry's magazine, The Record, gives good
write.ups of Grand Forks and Devils
Lake.
Crop reports for last week were
generally favorable. The yield is bet
ter in most instances than was antici-
pated.
Mrs. Judge Bartholomew has been
appointed state delegate to the ma
tional prison congress at Denver in
September.
]. D. Wallace Of Drayton has been
appointed member of the state board
Of equalization for the new seventh
judicial district.
A. B. Strickler has been appointed
to the state equalization board vice
Louis Connolly rendered ineligible by
being elected county commissioner.
State statistics for the past fourteen
years show the date of killing fr0sts
to be little later year by year-as
late as September IA being recorded.
Devils Lakers who own bird dogs
have organized for mutual protection.
Heretofore when dogs were trained
so as to be valuable they have been
enticed from their owners.
Gov. Allin has appointed Max Rab-
inovich Of Grand Forks commissioner
for this state to the cotton states in.
ternational exposition at Atlanta, Ca,
from September 18 to December 81.
J. J. Jordan, it is said, will soon
retire from the Herald staff to take
up newspaper work elsewhere in the
state, and w. L. Straub who has made
a hit on the Oaks Republican, is to
take his place.
The trustees of the Mayville Nor.
NAL showed certificates of cash de.
posits and the corps of teachers has
been approved by the state board.
Valley City is given until September
9TH to raise the necessary amount.
Hon. N. E. Nelson of Pembina,
father.in-law of Senator LaMoure and
A. Montague of Dickinson, filed in
December, 1870, at Pembina, the first
homestead claim filed in the territory
now comprising the state of North
Dakota.
Mrs. Geneva M. Van Meter, who
has been the capable editress Of the
Glendale Commercial for some
months past, has laid down the role
of editress and has the position of as
sistant principal of the high school of
that city. Il. w. Farrar is the pres
ent editor of the Commercial.
Billings county returns 1888 head
of range cattle, assessed at 500 per
Bottineau county has 2 head assessed
at $10.50, cattle in Trail county are
assessed at SO, and in Cass at $I8 per
head, and so on. Here is work for
the state board of equalization.
The state railway commission is
after the elevator warehouse compa-
MES OH the matter of license. The
new law provides for the licensing of
each separate warehouse, and Aug. l
was the time when these should have
been paid and filed with the commits.
sion. The penalty is $25 per day for
each day after Aug. 1. There is like
ly to be fight in the courts.
State Treasurer Nichols says that
his Office is now paying the state ex-
pense list for March. Within the
next sixty days he will have COM
menced paying the current expenses;
and before the year expires all of tho
floating debt will be taken up, leaving
only the bonded Indebtedness of the
state and the current expenses, for
which the revenue of the state will
be sufficient. In view of the fact
that the retiring administration left
a debt of over 100000, this is re-
markable showing.