The Dickinson press., 1897-10-09


DTA1B MBW1.
Diphtheria IN various parts Of
the state. 4
A farm near Grand Forks
brings Sl5ooo.
Richland county has "a hoboes
and piggers held for trial.
The jamestown fair is 81. 500 in
debt. The property may be sold.
Mcintosh county. having a
population of 6.ooo has no physi-
clan
The state is advertising for 500
tons of Ignite coal for use at the
capitol.
1t cost c. 1. Cook, a New York
hunter. S2s for shooting a farmers
COW in the leg.
Stutsman county. the eastern
part, is in bad shape owing to the
late prairie fires.
Destructive prairie fires in EN-
mons county. Steele and many
other parts of the state east of
the Missouri.
John Abbott. claiming to be a
harvest hand. was arrested on sus-
picion of having been connected
with the N. P. hold-up.
Francis Hoyt. an inmate of the
soldiers home, has received a penl
sion of SIS from the government,
and back pay amounting to nearly
$1,000.
Bisbee is to incorporate "The
Bank of America" with a capital
of $1,000. At Kuhn the La
Moure County bank has just been
incorporated. Capital stock. S1o.-
ooo.
Capt. R. F. Voolfolk, one of
the best steamboat men on the
upper Missouri river, died Mon.
day night. Deceased came to
Bismarck in '7o. and was citizen
much respected.
Editor Moffet of Bismarck was
arrested Monday morning for IL
bel, States Attorney Allen the
complainant. This is Mr.. Moffet's
third arrest in the past six weeks.
Inspector Swineford has inves-
tigated the charges made against
Register Sunderland of the Fargo
land Office, and it is claimed that
the facts in the case do not war
rant dismissal.
Two men in the vicinity of
Oakes who had exchanged wives
met last week with murderous in
tent. Norton, who succeeded in
killing Shelton, is held for mur-
der. The place where the shoot
ing took place is called Little
Utah. four or FIVE residents Of the
place having changed wives in
the past year.
The Bismarck Tribune says that
A. F. Burleigh of Seattle, former
ly one of the receivers of the
Northern Pacific, is said to be en-
listing capitalists in a scheme to
build railroad from the coast of
Alaska, at a point accessible by
steamboat, to the head waters of
the Yukon river. 1t is stated that
he has had surveyors in that coun-
try, and they have found a route
for road that will be practicable,
and without any great grades, or
sharp curves, much better than
was expected could be found.
United States court convened
in Fargo Tuesday with both grand
and petit juries. Among the most
interesting cases to be tried is
that against Banker Salyards Of
Minot, who is under indictment
for violation of the banking laws.
Several moonshiners have been
arrested and will be tried. In the
suit of the state and the railroads
to enforce the maximum rate the
state has asked for a continuance
as there is no money at hand now
to defend the case.
The month of September having
been the warmest of which any
record has been kept by the
weather bureau at Bismarck
speculations as to October arr
rife. The records for twenty-five
years show the mean or norma
temperature at Bismarck, for thi:
month to have been 44 degs. abov,
zero. The warmest month wa!
that of 1892, with an average Of
4o degrees; the coolest, 1873, will
an average of 40 degrees. Th,
highest temperature was SO de
grees on the 5th, 1889; the lowest