The Dickinson press., 1897-09-11
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Breckenridge IS to have an
$1,000 school house.
A Hankinson man falls in front
Of q binder and IS killed.
Finley. in Steele county. is to
have a new paper.
Trail county is having a new
5000 Jail built at Hillsbolo.
J.J. Jordan, editor of the Fargo
Argus. has been granted a di-
vorce.
St. Thomas boasts OF having
shipped 10 cars of cattle and hogs
this year.
Attorney General Cowan and.
wife returned last week from the
National Park.
Mr.. Williams of Bismarck killed
a mammoth American eagle in
Mclean county.
A young man at Bartlett fell
from a load of hay. was run over
and instantly killed.
Edward Hogan. supposed to be
in North Dakota. is wanted by
the Fergus Falls authorities.
A divorce has been granted at
Fargo to Mrs. Abbott. a New
York l7-year-old bride of one day.
Fargo has a wire fence COM
pany. incorporated for $4,000.
Monday was Labor day but not
a legal holiday in this state.
On Tuesday the 9th annual
meeting of the N. D. Congrega-
tional association was held in
jamestown.
The Northern Pacific has placed
a Waterman at the Missouri bridge
to prevent people from crossing
after six o'clock.
Judge Fisk holds that elevator
property must be taxed in each
county. The companies like to
have their property taxed at head
quarters.
VIM. Woodruff, a Fargo dray-
man, is charged with incest with
his l4-year-old girl. Failing to
secure $1,000 bonds, he went to
Jail.
EDITOR CUSHING offers to give
$40 toward downing the liquor
traffic at Bismarck, and the Trib-
une intimates that Cush. has a
record for downing liquor.
1t is the opinion of the Times
Record that Editor Moffett will
be imprisoned and. prosecuted
until he leaves Bismarck-"the
Sodom and Gomorrah of North
Dakota"
A Bismarck small boy went to
prayer meeting, took a seat back,
fell asleep. was unnoticed when
the meeting closed and was locked
in. He had a big scare, and so
did his folks.
H. c. Kilday, a son of a promi-
nent merchant, Newark, N. J., was
run over by a Great Northern
train and killed at Armenia. He
was trying to swing under the
train.
Cass county will dig a ditch ten
miles long and from twenty-four
to forty feet wide. through Berlin,
Howard and Wiser townships, for
drainage purposes.
The 4-year-old daughter of Jo-
seph Conn, was standing in a field
of grain, %unobserved, and was
caught by a binder and horribly
mangled. She lived but a few
hours.
Twenty-four thousand sheep
from Billings and Glendive. Mont.
were unloaded at Sterling last
week where they will Craze for the
next six weeks before shipment
to market. Farmers in the vicini-
ty kick because their ranches will
be spoiled.
Hon. N. E. Nelson. Jud La
Moure's father-in-law-and a bet
ter man in some respects than
Jud-will accept the collectorship
at Neche, vice H. G. Ebbinhau-
sen resigned. Eventually Mr..
Nelson will be chief of the dis
trict. [Mrs. Montague of Dickin.
son is a daughter of Mr.. Nelson.
The salvation army is enjoying
quite a boom this week through
the efforts of Mrs. Combs, a cadet
from Mandan, whose singing has
attracted large audiences. In ad.
dition to being a good singer, she
is an intelligent and earnest
speaker-easily the best that has
appeared in the army barracks fol