The Dickinson press., 1896-10-17
IN NORTH DAKOTA
tateresting News Items From all
Parts Of the State,

Interesting News items From all
Parts Of the State.
jamestown is again lighted with cleo
trlcity.
Mrs. Bauer Of Abercrombie lost a fine
barn by fire.
The Rolla cheesery has shut down
for the season.
About 1925 worth of lumber was
stolen from a Wimbledon lumber yard.
More fall blowing will be done this
year than for several past seasons.
Burglars got away with 500 worth
OF goods at COlfax.
A quantity Of dynamite vas found
under the Hillsboro starch factory.
Potato digging parties IRE the fad in
Emmons county just ut present.
The Northern Pacific is putting III
more side-tracks at jamestown.
y A Grand Forks wife beaten named
Joe Qua was given four days to leave
town.
Wimbledon's town we'll has proved a
failure and the authorities are now
pulling 1t up.
C. E Raney of jamestown was bound
over to await district court. Blind
pigger.
A horse thief escaped from the coun.
ty Jail at Lisbon. He was out exer
cising other prisoners in the jail yard.
Ranchers in Williams county are to
SUE the Great Northern for setting fire
to til. ranges and destroying property.
A prairie fire got away from SOM
boys near Fairmount and ate up eight
wheat stacks before it vas satisfied.
III. Brooks safe at st. Johns was
blown open and $50 in cash and $500
in wheat checks taken.
Miss Kalgren, a Minneapolis bicy-
clist, was injured in a al at Grand
Forks, dislocating her shoulder.
John Smith has brought suit against
the city Of jamestown for $4,000 dam.
ages, caused by a defective sidewalk.
The North Dakota Sunday School as
ISOLATION held their annual meeting ut
jamestown.
A herder was found dead near
jamestown, the indications being that
he was kicked Or dragged to death by
his broncho.
The postoffice at st. Johns was burg
larized and the safe blown open. Post
Office Inspector Clement will investi-
gate the matter.
Jamestown's $1,000 refunding city
bonds got only two bids, one for $500
and the other for $500, leaving $1,000
with no taker.
Z. v. Law of Cleveland, Ohio, shot
himself in his room at Grand Forks,
the bullet entering near the heart. He
will die. He had just been released
from the Moorhead Jail for burglary.
John Bailey, a sheep herder from Bill
lings, Mont, was found dead on the
prairie near a sheep camp eight miles
south of jamestown. The Of the
death Is unknown. He was twenty-six
years old.
Emeran d. White has been appoint
ell teacher at $50 per month in the H.
dian school ut Standing Rock, N. d.,
vice Antoine Derockbrain, resigned.
Or. Walter K. Beatty, physician at
Grand River school, Standing Rock
agency, has resigned.
g. e. Raney Of Courtmay was arrest
ed and bound over to the district court
at jamestown for maintaining q public
nuisance and violating the state pro-
hibitory law. This is the first 'pig''
case for months in this part of the
state.
The body of Erlander Erlanderson,
DR.. Haldorson's driver, was found on
the stubble Of a wheat field adjoining
Park River. The body was cold when
found. A revolver was in the right
hand and q cigar in the left. The rea-
son for suicide is unknown.
Receiver Martin made q ruling in
which he refuses to longer recognize
Attorney s. B. Pinney as an attorney
in the land Office at Fargo. The trouble
seems partially a personal one, as Mr..
Pinney declares his intention to prefer
charges against Register Sunderland
and Receiver Martin. Mr.. Pinney has
practiced in the land office for over
forty years, and will disregard the
ruling Of the officials, as he is in good
standing with the department at Wash
ington.
A ranchman named Bedwell, living
about twenty miles from Edgeley, was
chloroforn'ed while asleep and about
fifty head of his best steers cut out of
the herd and driven eff He came tn
town the next day, and a posse was
formed aud pursuit commenced. Word
has. been received that the rustlers
were overhauled and all captured, to-
gether with the band Of stolen cattle.
Teams were at once sent out to bring
them in. The Northern Pacific depot
was broken into and the safe blown
open the same night, but only about
500 was obtained by the two burglars.
A couple Of cattle rustlers from
Dickey county were caught ut James
town with two carloads of stock load
ed for the Twin Cities. The stock was
stolen from a ranch near Monange and
driven overland. Bidwell Bros, own
ers, with the sheriff, reached here an
hour after the thieves. One of the
rustlers formerly resided in this coun
ty and the other in Montana. The
third man of the gang escaped, but
will undoubtedly be captured. Three
years ago these lei successfully ran
off q herd from the same locality and
shipped them from jamestown with.
out detection.