The Dickinson press., 1897-06-05
STATE NEVIS.

attorney General Cowan is
after the b. p's in Devils Lake.
Morton county gets some over
1900 in personal taxes from the
In Bismarck pound master
has been appointed to take up
any stray stock.
Murderer Normand's case is be-
ing attended to in district court
at Grand Forks.
May has been unfavorable for
the crops of the state but the June
rains will help out.
The 5th annual assembly Of the
Devils Lake Chautauqua will
meet July to Is.
The month of May brought out
two new dailies and two weekly
papers for North Dakota.
1t is reported the Northern
Pacific is to build branch along
the Red river from Fargo to
Drayton and tap a fine farming
country.
Nels Intel will sue the Great
Northern railroad company for
$4,000 at Grand Forks. He was
injured by a snow plow at Lari-
more last winter.
Some of the farm boys are
making nice hauls of young
wolves. The weekly press Of
the state contains frequent notices
of catches of entire litters which
net from SEQ to $50 or more.
Williamsport, Emmons county,
is a temporary city-during the
Spicer murder trial. A large del
egation is up from the Indian
agency. Two blind pigs are run
ming, and should the Indians and
loafers get drunk there is danger
of a collision and bloodshed.
A. M. Powell OF Devils Lake
who has been instrumental in get
ting a great many Dunkards to lo2
cate in the state, is en- route east
to attend the national camp meet
ing of that body-which will
mean more Dunkards for the
state. f
1t is understood that the head
quarters of the North Dakota
Milling ASSOCIATION which have
been at. Mandan for some time
will be moved to Minneapolis.
Receiver Lyon will locate there
temporarily and his Office force
from Mandan will also be taken
down.
Max Burkhardt, who had been
in the state insane asylum since
SO, has been discharged, and will
return to his home in Germany.
He was employed in the engineer
ing department of the Northern
Pacific on the Missouri division
and is said to have a splendid
mathematical education.
At Walcott, Richland county,
fifteen masked women made a
raid on the intemperance resort o t
one Larson. They horsewhipped
the proprietor with cat o'nine
tails, broke open the booze bar
rels, let the liquor run out, and
took other steps toward breaking
up the place.
Thererecently arrived at Eureka
twelve families, consisting oi
thirty-six people, who came di'
rect from Russia, and who expect
to settle in Emmons county
They we're on their way since
March 5th, and lost three of theil
number by death, two on the
ocean and one at Aberdeen.
| The state bank of Kuhn is ne
more. At the last term of dis
trict court in La Moure the orde
| of dissolution was signed BY
Judge Glaspell. The bank wa:
organized in 'o2, but the stock
holders believe they can realiz'
better results from the use o
their capital in private enterprise
George Macheel, a carpente
and contractor, ended his life in
tragic manner at Hankinson. HI
has been drinking heavily for tn
past three days, and crazed b,
liquor, he shot twice at his wifi
and children, driving them from
his residence uninjured. Paper
were made out for his arrest i'm
mediately, but when Constabl
Schrader went to make the arres
he found Macneel lying dead il
a pool of blood, having shot him
self through the head. He leave
a wife and six small children.
Notwithstanding the appare en-
unusual cold weather which ha
characterized the month of May
the mean temperature for tn
month for twenty-three years j
| 81 degrees and the mean temper
ature for the month this year wa
56. The highest temperature re
corded for the month was 90 O
the 4th the lowest was 28 on tn
I4th. The total precipitation to
the month was I.1o inches whic
is 1.3o inches below the averag
for twenty-three years, which
2.4I inches for the month of May
The weather bureau gives ou
the following advance data TO
the month OF June for twenty-tw
years: TEMPERATuRE,-Mean Q
, normal temperature, 65 degrees
the warmest month was that 9
1854, with an average of 6o dc
grees; the coldest month was tina
of 1887, with an average of 50 de
grees; the highest temperatur