The Dickinson press., 1897-08-21
STATE lRWA.

TENDER 90.
The pieces Of a tramp were
found along the railroad near
Jamestown.
Maud lverson. oysars old. liv-
ing near Cakes, was drowned.
while in bathing.
Three thousand harvesters have
been shipped into the northern
part of the state.
Mayville Tribune: Wheat is 7sc.
in Mayville today. the highest
notch reached in the past six.
years. A year ago the price of.
wheat here was but SIC a bushel.
It is said that Mrs. Archibald
is to be superseded by a Bismarck,
lady as matron of the state in-
sane hospital. Mrs. Frances Hol-.
ly is the lady named as her sue
cessor.
Norris Driscol, a tramp, was
found in a box car at Grand.
Forks with his head battered in,
and will probably die. A colored
man named Green has been ar
rested on suspicion of having
done the deed.
An explosion in the 500 coal
mine at Minot few days ago, was
caused by the carrying of a lighted
lamp into the mine. George Egan
was SO badly burned that he died,
and ID. Amya teamster was also
badly burned.
Grand Forks Herald: A car
load of Italians came in from
Minneapolis last night to work
on the Great Northern surfacing
crew. With all the men here look
ing for work(7), the railroads are
unable to get enough to supply
their demand just now.
Wahpeton people have engaged
in a work of practical charity, and
20 poor children from Minneapo-
lis have been received by the good
people there and will be given an
outing and the benefit of the fresh
air and the harvest fields for sever
al weeks.
Four of the blind piggers of
Minot, Woodward, Louis Homhn,
AL. Campbell, and Ole Lefsted,
have been arrested for selling IL
quor and bound over until district
court convenes. A. Kenyon, Tom
Kelley and George Ellwood skip
ped out.
Much damage was done by a
snow storm in the vicinity of
Wilmot, S. D., last Saturday. A
terrific wind accompanied the
snow and in two hours, fully two
inches of the beautiful covered
the ground. All standing grain
and garden stuff was more or less
blown down.
A pamphlet copy. of the pre-
MUM list Of the 9Th annual fair
of the North Dakota FairAssocia-
ton to be held at jamestown
81 to "a inclusive, has been
received. In this book, which,
by the way, is a neat job from the
Alert Office, is tasty page adv of
The Columbia-M. L. Parker's
store.
Charles Mccormick of Lari.
more has been arrested and held
in $1,000 bonds charged with as
saulting Mary Sundt. a Norwegian
Mccormick was a
cook, and told the girl he was a
prosperous farmer, and wanted to
employ her. He took her in a
buggy, telling her he would take
her to his farm, and after he got
her several miles out of town he
assaulted her.
Bismarck. Tribune: The cold
storage building at the east end Of
town has been sold by the North
ern Pacific Refrigerator Car com
pany, through its agent, J.W. Fo-
ley, to l. P. Baker. The building
was erected in the early eighties
by the company when the dressed
beef plant of the Marquis de Nor
es was at its height. and was used
for the storage Of beef and other
perishable articles, and for the
icing of cars en- route to the east.
Valley City T.-R.: The wheat
acreage in Barnes county this
year will be about 10000 acres.
If the weather continues as favor
able as it has been. the past week,
the average yieid4will moi, be far
from 10 bushels per acre, which
will make the total yield about
2,o8o,oO0 bushels. The require
ments for seed and bread will. be
about 100000 bushels. which will
leave 100000 bushels to be
placed upon the market. The
price will be 20 cents a bushel
higher than last year, and on this
crop the difference in price will
amount to ss56,ppo. With this
amount of spending money peo-
pie will be comfortable.
The Bismarck. Settler office,
owned by W. P. Moffett, was
wrecked early Sunday morning by
unknown parties. Presses were
smashed. forms pied, furniture,
books and cases OF type taken in
to a wagon and carried to the
Missouri river, near the old brew
cry building, where it was con.
signed to the depths of the Mis-
souri, river. MI. Moffett esti.
mates his. loss at from t4oo "a
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