The Dickinson press., 1897-07-10
I STATE NEWS.
Fargo did not celebrate.

STATE NEWS.
Fargo did not celebrate.
Devils Lake is to have a new
planning mill.
Severe hail is reported in many
parts of the state.
The German population of Cav
aller county are about to organize
a German society.
s, District court convenes in EN-
mons county next Monday, when
Defender will be tried.
The Mandan ball team were
beaten by the Bismarckers on
Saturday and Monday.
A large moose six feet in height
and weighing 1900 pounds was
captured, in the northern part of
the state last week.
The city council of Bismarck
refuses to take any more water of
the Water Co. for the reason that
the city is hopelessly in debt and
sees chance to rescind the fran
chise granted said Water Co.
The Grand Forks opera-house
has been sold at public auction to
Nv. F. Ball of Fargo, representing
the Commercial National Bank Of
Boston, who was the only bidder.
The bid was 632,21o.l6, the
amount of the first mortgage, held
by the above named bank. There
are other mortgages, aggregating
$4,000 on the structure.
August .Normand was sentenced
on the 3rd to Imprisonment for
lite for the murder of Andrew
Hilestad. He is to be tried this
month for the murder of another
member of the Hilestad family
and it is believed that the Jury
will fix a death penalty, in which
event the question will arise as to
whether Normand shall serve his
life sentence first or be hanged.
A clerk in the Bear trade palace
at Grand Forks has confessed to
the manner of the origin of the
fire in the Syndicate block at
Grand Forks last winter. He
states that he was carrying the
ashes out of the basement Of the
store at night, when he was called
to wait on customer and set
down the hot pan on a case of
millinery and went off and forgot
it. He makes the confession be-
cause the insurance companies
are fighting against the payment
of the insurance.
The sales of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad lands throughout
Minnesota and North Dakota are
amounting to 100000 monthly,
there being an unusual activity on
account of new settlers arriving.
This activity is not confined to
railroad lands by any means, as
shown by the fact that filings at
the United States land Offices in
these two states have been larger
than in any year since 1892. The
sales of Northern Pacific lands in
the Bismarck district, have thus
far aggregated $4,000 acres, which
about equals the total sales in
this district for the past five years.
Autumn sales also promise we'll.
Grand Forks Herald: The
Jamestown Capital says, it must
decline to kick about Bray's ap-
pointment because, ut recognizes
in Mr.. Bray rustling party leader
who took his medicine, like man
in the last state convention and
then worked faithfully for repub-
lican success in the campaign
which followed" Kicking of
course amounts to nothing now,
but just as a matter of fact it
might be we'll to remind the Capt.
tai that Bray did not take his
medicine like a man in or after
the state convention last year
having stood up in that conven-
ton and recorded himself as op-
posed to the republican national
platform there endorsed, and for
months afterward through the
Hansbrough organ that he per
sonally conducted in this city
viciously abused and opposed the
republican state ticket, and the
knife he and his pals of this city
had for Frank Briggs and George
Nichols was used at the best oi
their ability at the polls on elec.