The Dickinson press., 1896-08-01
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
Parts of the State.

Enterestin. News Items From all
Parts of the State.
Crop reports from the Jim river val
ley are tiattering.
The lnkster brass band has been or
ganized
Stutsman cOunty's live stock interests
show Il rapid and healthy growth.
Stutsman county is paying cash for
its warrants.
The army worm is doing some dam
age In Pembinl county.
Crop, hay and stock conditions of the
southern aid western portions of the
state are said to ha booming.
Candos new fire engine has arrived
and been tested to everybody's salts
faction.
The business portion of Bathgatc had
a narrow escape from destruction by
fire.
A farmer named Hewitt. near Perth,
says he was driven frOmhis farm by
French weed.
A Grafton prisoner tried to escape
up IL chimney, but the sheriff smoked
him out with Il gun.
A good deal of winter wheat will le
harvested by the hogs this year, as it
Is so thin as not to be worth cutting.
l.isbnn Mltarworks contractors are
having trouble in getting their pump
Ing machinery from the factory.
A farmer lost his home by fire near
Steele. ami the neighbors promptly
raised Il liberal subscription.
Rev. J. Lincoln Jones has become
pastor of the Darlington Congregational
church, vice Rev. Gimblctt.
Postmaster Wiley Of Alilnor. await
ing trial for emlezzlins pOstottice
funds, has been removed from office.
Ex-Gov. Mi!,er writes WahpetOn
friends that he is now settled in his
new Duluth home.
Uncle Sam is expected to do some
work on the M;s>3;::i between Mandan
and Bismarck soon.
The French weed is said to have
forced the abandonment of some farms
up along the international line.
Darlington will have IL night watch
man during the remainder of the sum
mer.
The name of the Even pOstOffice in
Foster co,i:!ty has been changed to
Haven.
The annual session of the grand lodge
of the knights of I'ythias was held ut
Fargo.
T.. c. Tolley. the man who killed
Gust Rouse at Kennlarc. has been COM
mi:tnl to Jail until the district court
cOnvcnes.
Harry Page, an Old-timo jamestown
chcclkraisrr, has driftcd back home and
is again in Jail. He was recently re-
leased from the pen.
A party Of McnOnitcs have been pros
pecting ut LandOn and will also illvcs-
tjg;lto Ramsey county before bringing
Il colony from the East.
The droutll in the Black Hills region
is serious. The grass is dried up. and
1t Is estimated a thousand carloads Of
hay will have to be hauled into the
country this winter.
Application will be made TO Gov.
Allin within Il few days for Il pardon
for Agnes Baldwin, who WAS sent to
tho pcnitentiary from Devils Lake for
eight years for manslaughter.
The two hobos thought to be the
mlrdcrers of J. A. Brown of Oakcs are
serving ninety days for vagrlncy ut
AssinibOi:,, n. w. H., and cannot be eX-
traditctl until their sentence expires.
An elephant with the Wallace show
got loose in the streets OF pembina,
created Il stampede, smashed IL couple
Of buggics amt had Il set-tO with one Of
the other elephants.
A PortlaE,! butcher missed a half of
a beef and followed some buggy tracks
to Mayville and, with the aid of an
officer, found the meat in the cellar of
Il house. whose occupant then willingly
paid over the price of the food.
Judge Thomas has authorized the
sale of the assets Of the National Bank
of North Dakota mt Fargo to John "A.
Percival Of Devils Lake. Mr.. Perciva!
pays x2Oist!. 1t has not been definitely
decided whether the bank would be
re0rganiz,"l or not.
two l;oys from Portage. Wis, were ar
rested ut Fargo on authority of IL tclc-
gram from DI. Sclloemiicil. The doc
tor arrived here Yesterday and left for
home with his son last night. The
boys ran away from home two weeks
ago, and came West in search Of en-
plOyment.
William Miller, it is charged. worked
u fake mining deal on number OF Nor
wesians in the Red river valley last
fall, robbing them of several thousand
dollars. Ee was arrested in the Twin
Cities. but escaped ell route for Fargo.
He was recently captured in st. Louis
on Il similar charge and the Fargo lu-
thoritics will try to have him brought
back.
The artcsian well recently completed
on the farm Of w. $. Howard in lay
lor township, near Milnor, is causing
much uneasiness among farmers in
that vicinity The flow was struck ut
Il depth of $50 feet and is Il sus!lcr i'll
all that the term implies, throwing Il
siX-inch stream to Il considerable height
above ground: The flow was struck
less than a month ago, but it has al
ready filled IL ten-acre slough to Il
depth of over eight feet and the over
flow is now spreading in every dircc-
ton and threatens The adjacent grain
fields. The we'll was sunk for irriga-
ton purposes. but bids fair to convert
the adjoining premises into IL frog farm.
A blind bcggar and his boy of twelve
were resting in the rear Of Brook;
Bros elevator at Hillsboro. when in
some way. no one knows how, the boy
was caught in the shaftins that com
municates the power from the power
house to the elevator. The shaft is
some twenty feet long. and was revolv-
ing at the rate Of 100 times per minute.
The boy was carried around for some
time, until the engineer could stop the
engine. When released his head was
badly cut in several places, and his
legs, which struck the ground with
great force ut each revolution. were
both broken in several places, one be-
ing almost whipped to pieces. Medical
aid was called and pronounced his |
chance for recovery hopeless. but on
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