The Dickinson press., 1897-03-27
IN NORTH DAKOTA
lateresling News Itens Frsa all
Parts OF the State.

lateresling News IteAs Fren all
Parts Of the State.
Timber wolves are numerous around
Willow City.
The Willow City pigs" have been
closed by the sheriff.
by large wolf.
Churches Ferry expects Il building
boom in the spring.
School lands in Grand Forks county
leased for $3,751.39.
Rev. Peters of CandO has gone to
Virginia for immigrants.
r. w. Milham of Glendale has taken
charge of the Oakcs Touring mill.
Valley City is figuring Oh a 5000
electric Tght plant.
l.ang,lon will vote OH the question Of
bonds
Mikey O'Bricn, Reynolds blind
pigger, has been pulled for perjury.
The survey Of the post site mas been
completed at Bismarck.
Three more patients have been dis
charged from the insane asylum.
Churches Ferry has voted to incor-
porate.
1t is reported Governor Briggs will
make Southern trip for his health.
Veteran Ton, Ellsberry at Rolla has
been granted an original pension.
The Grafton charter scheme was
turned down by majority Of 141.
Diphtllcria patients at Willos City
are rapidly improving.
A guest at the Merchants hotel in
Grafton dropped a $175 diamond ring
In the wash stand sink.
The $4,000 damage suit OF Dunstan
VS.. the city Of jamestown resulted in
a verdict in favor Of the city.
Contracts have been let for the con.
struction Of $4,000 brick block at
Langdon.
The Andrews g. Gage elevator, which
burned at Drayton recently, will be re.
built.
An attempt was made to set fire to
tho national elevator at Harlem Inst
week.
E. D. Ervine Of Emerado is missing,
and with him 500 Of money belonging
to the Foresters lodge of that place.
Casselton township has $1,000 in its
treasury, and the people will not be
taxed tho coming year.
Tho insane asylum lands are to be
bonded for the erection of additional
buildings.
| An N. p. freight train got stuck in
the snow at Windsor, and the engine
was derailed.
John Cameron, living in the Turtle
mountains near Dunseith killed four
bears with an axe.
There is no doubt but the severe
winter has caused the death of large
number of prairie chickens.
Az effort will be made to secure a
pardon for Jesse Lindsey Of Dickin-
son, convicted Of horse stealing.
Charles Guyon of Valley City tried
to start a fire with kerosene, and had
his hands and arms badly burned.
John Il. Schultz has been appointed
county physician of Ikidder county, Mt
a salary of $50 per month.
A temperance league has been Or
ganized at Jamestown, as a result Of
the Rankin lecture.
Mrs. Il. III. Court, a we'll known and
highly respected settler, died recently
at Buffalo.
William Sperber of Oakdale, Dunn
county, has been granted an original
pension.
John Smith of Jamestown, who was
| injured on q defective sidewalk, sued
tho city for $4,000, and got 5000.
John P. Fitzgerald, killed in the re.
cent wreck near La Moure, carried S9,-
OOO life insurance.
The long distance phone will be ex.
tended to LangdOn next season-it Is
said.
The site for the state reform school
has been secured and the work Of COIL
future.
Langdon will have electric lights,
and the town has made fivc-year
contract with the company putting in
the plant for lighting its streets.
The Drayton roller mill is giving
thirty pounds Of flour, ten pounds Of
bran, and five pounds Of shorts for one
b,,sllel No. hard wheat.
The body of an unknown man was
found at Buffalo. 1t is not known
whether It was a case Of foul play or
of freezing in the recent blizzard.
The people of Vicking have sent a
petition to Washington asking that the
mali route between that place and
Oberon be restored.
II. Young Is under arrest for sneak
thieying at Jamestown. Young had
been lodging In the churches and burn
ing the parsons fuel.
Twenty-Five Indians from the Fort
Yates reservation want to sever tribal
relations and take up claims in the
vicinity Of Painted Woods.
J. II. Bossard had Patrick Burns ar
rested at Grand Forks, charged with
the larceny of a deed from his office.
He was arrested at East Grand Forks.
The deed was valued at 5000.
William Kelley, a farmer living near
I.arlmore. got lost on his way home
from a neighbor's. and wandered about
thirty miles during the night. He was
quite badly frozen.
Joseph A. Mcl;achren Of ElkwOod.
committed suicide by hanging himself
from q rafter in William Thom's gram
ary. The cOrOner's jury returned a
verdict Of premeditated suicide.
At meeting Of the Fargo city coun-
ell q resolution was passed to submit
the question of establishing and main
tanning public library, to a vote at
the election on April 5.
Judge Pollock created a sensation ut
IIillsboro by holding Michael L.
O'Brien, blind pigger, to the next
ternt Of district court, under bonds Of
81 600 for perjury. O'Brien sworc pos
itiyely he wasn't guilty and the Jury