The Dickinson press., 1897-01-23
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
Parts OF the State.

Coal thieves are ut work at Minor.
The StWlsn.an county Jail is empty.
The leolla roller mills have resumed
operations.
The ward boundaries of AIlnOt are. to
he changed.
Elgclcy elevators report wheat COM
ing in quite freely.
W. J. SIa,!holt of Oakcs lost sixty
sheep in the recent blizzard.
Dr. Read was rappointed county
commissioner of Morton county.
Twenty-Five hogs were smothered at
Lisbon dn!:t- til" recent blizzard.
Randolph llol,lrug Of Sergeant coun-
ty wants to he oil inspector.
The receipts at the Grafton nostofiicc
during 1SHi were $3.50.
James Russell is in Jail at Fesscnden
OH the charge of forgery.
sixty eases of beer were captured in
the Ancta blind pigs.
Peter Land has been arrested at
Rugby for blind-pigging.
The Bismarck electric light plant is
In operation.
Jack Fox died of alcoholism at Olga,
so The coroner said.
The WilliStOn council has a(loDted m
anti-gamlling ordinance.
The First National Bank of Cavalier
has SiO.WO cash on hand.
The report is again out that the
l'lckcy county murderers may get a
new trial
burglars broke into the Glass general
store ut Glasston. Dry goods and gro
cerics were taken.
Peter Gilleran of Oakes was run into
by runaway team and severely, but
not fatally. injured.
Tom Anderson Of Grand Forks was
sentenced to thirty days in Jail for
choking his wife.
The Indians down on the Sisset0n re-
s"rvati0n are said to be in n destitute
condition.
Thompson Granville. n Pierce county
FARMER. was held up and robbed of $40
at Grand Forks.
The Wahpeton schools have been
closed until the diphthern epidemic
has abat,d.
The cost Of maintaining the public
schools of Lisbon during 1896 was
$7.OO2.tai
Dogs killed six antelope near Devils
LAX" last week. The antelope ran ill.,
to Il farm yard and could not get out.
David Armstrong. at Willow City,
has been appointed deputy sheriff of
Rnftinnrau county
Charles Olson offers n reward of S21:j
for III" recovery of the body of his
brother. who was lost in the storm near
Valley City.
4 new flow of water was struck in
me F'ornan well at the depth Of 100
feet. hut the well will be sunk 100 or
3'D feet deeper.
IL is reported that the body of n
blizzard victim has been found on Il
Tree claim near Harlem, Sargent cOlln-
t!.
The EInmons county commissioners
have aai"cd to pay SlOO per annum
toward the support of physician
there.
While Club Iseitz. aged fifteen, was
crossing the railrOat yards at Dickin-
son lie was run down by The switch en-
CINE and mangled in such Il manner
that he died shortly after.
~ G. Swain. whose wife elop,:d with
farm hand and suicided ut Valley
City. has sold his farm nca" New Rock
ford, for $2.NW. He intends leaving
that section OF the state.
DIR. Bell of Conway. who was sen.
fenced to the pcnitcntiary about year
ago on a charge preferred Jy Young
girl, has been pardOncd by the govern
or.
An iratc wife at Grand Forks, una
Bile to longer endure the abuse of a
drunken husband, summoned an officer
and had her nuisance of a spouse sent
to the city bastile for his nights lOdg-
ing
The branch Flower L. Haslan CLOTH
ing store at Devils Lake burned to tl,.
ground. WI. Rogers, notions. and NJ.
Il. Kilday. millinery. occupying the
adjoining building, had their stMlS
damaged by water. The total loss il
about $4,000, covered by insur lnce.
Illeo. Ecrgsland and Carl Ketteson.
two Park River boys, have been ar
rested. charged with stealing grain
from John A. Owen, Il farmer. who
lNeS several Il1lieS WeSr OF tHfk It1Ttf.
I.angdon citizens expended S2G.ND
for new homes and other improve
m"nts during the past year.
William Shmre. young man rcsid-
ing at Page, and who has been attend
ing the Iowa state university, coming
home to spend the holidays, has met
with q horrible DEATH it is believed.
On Monday, the day of the storm. he
left home to call on couple of young
ladies' who lived short distance away.
He has no been heard from since. AMI
every effort has been made to find him.
1t is feared that he was a victim of the
blizzard.
Safe Hover ON Trial.
Fargo. \. D.. Jan. 2O-Edwaryl Camp
bell. charged with attempted safe
blowing. was put on trial in the dis
trict court for the job at LcOnarl's on