The Dickinson press., 1897-11-27
NATH NEWS.

sTATR NEWS.
New coal mines are being
opened at Minot.
The railroads are cutting down
their forces for the winter season.
Thomas Heart. Jamestown,
gets sentence of three years
for burglary.
The Ramsey county auditor has
turned over S188 to the state
game warden.
Agatha G. Patterson. wife of
Mayor Patterson, has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Bismarck.
A Minor postmaster, Elmer
Wiley. was found short in his
accounts and sentenced to i'm
prisonment.
Mclean and Mercer counties
are likely to have number of
Indian voters by virtue of the re-
cent supreme court decision.
The N. P. agent at Coopers-
town has been served with an in
junction forbidding his delivering
any c. o. D. whiskey packages.
Editor E. H. Kent of Lakota
has been arrested on a charge of
criminal libel, Mayor Patterson
of Bismarck complaining witness.
Gilbert B. Furness, late of Og-
densburg, N. Y, has been appoint
ed division surgeon for the N. P,
at Mandan, vice DR.. Reid, deceas-
ed.
L. E. Booker is suspected of a
second case of forgery in connec-
ton with another accommoda-
ton note that has turned up.
The gentleman is still at large.
All sorts of rumors have been
going the rounds regarding L. E,
Booker's sudden disappearance.
II is generally believed that he
was guilty and that had he stood
trial he would have been con.
victed.
The November apportionment
of the state tuition fund has been
made by the department of pub
lie instruction. The total amount
of the apportionment is $4,000
81, being a per capita apportion-
ment of S1.36 for 72,132 children.
The Langdon Courier Demo
crat states that Col. John Bidlake,
consul at Barranquilla, will re-
main in the United States of Col
ombia after the expiration of his
term as consul. He is said to
have been offered the position OF
general manager of a railroad in
the interior of the country and
will accept the position.
E. T. Curtis, a farmer living
near Moorhead, has ordered a
special windmill, the wheel to be
80 feet in diameter and is sup
posed to furnish eight-horse
power, with a good wind. The
mill will be used to grind feed,
bale hay. saw wood and do other
things about the farm.
Ralph Chase was operated on
in Bismarck for a seed in the eye.
The operation was not successful
and he was taken to Fargo where
the eye, as a last resort, was re-
moved; but septicaemia had al
ready set in and he died of cony
vulsions ,;as a result. Deceased
was son of Judge and Mrs.
Chase, Of Bismarck. +
Judge Winchester heard the
divorce case of Perry VS.. Perry at
Mandan and denied the decree.
The husband claimed a separa-
ton on the ground of cruelty and
his principal witness was a for
mer husband of his wife, from
whom she had secured a divorce
on the ground of adultery. The
wife, in support of her case, put
in letters that she had received
from her husband while she was
in Europe and at the time the
husband complains of cruelty,
couched in the most loving terms.
Another bit of evidence put in
was that shortly after the hus-
band had come out to Mandan to
take up residence, his lady stem
ographer had appeared on the
scene and had been quite intim-
ate with the plaintiff.
From the Lone Star State comes
the following letter written by w. r.
Gass: editor 0f fhA Mt Warnon lTaY