The Dickinson press., 1897-10-23
0TAT1 NBWO..

ize hire department.
Editor Goddard of the Ellen
dale Leader has been appointed
postmaster at Glendale.
Kidder county agrees to pay a
Pennsylvania doctor $50 per
month to act az their county ply
sician.
The Oakes Republican is hap
py because I. F. Marshall, a BAN
ker at that place. has fattened
and shipped to market 16 c ars of
cattle.
James Stewart plead guilty to
smuggling cattle across the ma
tional boundary line at Pembina
and was fined $1,000 and costs,
which he paid.
The Bismarck Tribune says that
Uncle Ben Corbin, the boss wolf
hunter of the Missouri slope, is
prospering-I47 wolves killed this
year. and $500 bounty on 'em.
The Gull River Lumber Co. has
the contract to furnish Ignite coal
for the state Capilol building
at the at S2.o3 per ton. The
probable amount to be used in a
year is 500 tons.
A government steamer recently
discovered an almost inexhausti-
bic bed of ice in the Missouri
river near Mandan. 1t lodged in
the spring and was covered with
sand. ,s
A big new engine has just been
added at the asylum and a new
500 lamp electric dynamo will be
put in in a few days. 1t requires
400 lamps to light the different
buildings at the asylum and as;the
original dynamo had but $50 lamp
power the lights have been very
dim at times when all were in use.
Judson Hart. the 12-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Harte
of Stutsman county, met a horri-
bic death Tuesday. He was rid
ing a horse and the animal stum-
bled throwing him off, so that his
foot caught IN the stirrup and held
him. The frightened animal ran
for half a mile, and when he was
stopped the head of the little fel.
low was crushed in and life was
extinct.
Money in the permanent school
fund is increasing rapidly. and the
board is making extra efforts for
its secure investment. The state
treasurer has been requested to
correspond with eastern capitalists
who hold North Dakota school
bonds to ascertain at what figure
the bonds can be purchased. A,
present there is about S25o,ooc
idle funds on hand, and the board
IS anxious for safe and permanen,
investment for it.
+ A lad once attending the agri
cultural college at Fargo anc
went insane over a young lady
there, recovered and went to
Michigan, where he has broker
out again, and the authoritie!
there have telegraphed to Fargo
to make arrangements to tax,
care of him-but as he neve
claimed a residence in this state
Fargo will have nothing to d,
with him. But this shows hov
| different other states are in hand
ling the insane. Here an unfor
tunate comes to the state. goe
crazy, is sent to the insane asylum
and remains for an indefinite pc
Rod a charge upon the state
This generosity is too generous
an injustice to the state, an,
should be corrected by sendin,
the insane from other states bacl
where they belong.-Bismarcl
Tribune.
Judge Glasspell has rendered
decision in the case of the North
ern Pacific vs.. Wells county, a sui
to restrain the sale of lands fo
delinquent taxes. The taxes Q
the road have been delinquent 70
nine years, with one exception
and the county advertised then
for sale under the provisions q
the Wood bill. The road brough
suit to restrain the sale, on til
ground that the taxes were illega
Judge Glaspell has decided thu
the design of the law was to rem.
dy the illegality or irregularity {
taxes in the past, and that tn
taxes are due and collectible. Til
decision is interesting as this
]. the first case that has bee
brought under the law. A simil;
: case will be, brought for trial
| Fmm0ne eo,,nf,, h.,,;or he>n o.