The Dickinson press., 1897-02-06

The Ramsey county Jail has ten in
mates now besides the officials.
The new postoffice at Cypress, in
Cavalier county, is ready for business.
I.idgerwood has 100 school children
enrolled.
John Lyons of Bismack has been
granted an original pension.
Fifty Russian families are expected
to settle in the vicinity of Willow City
this spring.
Grand Forks pavement tax amount
cd to over 1900, over 55 per cent Of
which has been paid.
u George Warnock of jamestown will
have the railway mail run from Bis
marc6 to Helena.
The money-order business of the
Dickinson pOstoffice amounted to $17,-
2S2.2O in 1906. A good showing.
The Mandan roller mills have been
thoroughly Overhauled, and will re-
sumo operations this week.
Mrs. Charles Yule of Valley City sus-
tained a fractured rib from falling on
the ice.
Harry Carr of Crystal has been ap-
pointed deputy register of deeds of
Walsh county.
a neighborhood feud RACES at Win
SOr, feature of which is the killing Of
horses and other stock
Cost Elike of Grand Forks is in Jail
for stealing cedar blocks. The smell
of the smoke gave him away.
Ole Nilsson, q farmer near Wahpeton,
was held up and slugged by highway
men. He was robbed of $410.
The electric light plant at Grafton is
owned by the city, and is paying $500
over and above expenses each month.
Presidential Elcctor Nels Dyste de-
ley votes at Washington Friday.
One Nicholas Goldt is under arrest
at Harvey for assault with danger
GUS weapon.
The First National Bank Of Park
River has moved into it's new quar-
ters.
jamestown will entertain the next
meeting of the state dairymen's associ-
alton.
William Rickbell, seventeen-year-
old Cavalier boy, was sent to the re-
form school this week.
Jimtown's chief Of police has served
notice that selling tobacco to minors
don't go in future.
William Hardie was arrested at Rol-
Ia, charged with horse-stealing. The
crime is alleged to have been commit:
ted at Brandon, Man.
Burt Bradway, the Fargo lad who
got into bad company and stole cigars
from the Great Northern, gets six
months in the reform school.
DR.. Bentley has been appointed q
member of the Burleigh county board
Of health, and also of the insanity
board
Sneak thieves have made several
visits to G. w. Newton Of Willistoa
during the past week. About $500
worth Of property has been stolen.
The James River Mutual Fire and
Lightning makes fine showing for
1896, elects new officers and starts in
afresh.
John Frederickson and Oscar Lind
stronl, living near jamestown, had a
narrow escape from death by asphyXi-
alton last week.
liz ulhCI VI ICySCAuCAS w AO was
mixed up in q shooting scrape last
George Blair four times, perhaps fa-
tally.
John A. T. Bjernson has been ap-
pointed postmaster of Kuhn, while AL
bert Arumseich is to be the new stamp
FOUNDER ut Pisek, Walsh county.
The permanent school fund was In
creased on Monday by $4,000 from
Richland county; $1,000 from Cass,
and $1,000 from Pembina.
Neche's marshal announces his in
tention of arresting all boys carrying
weapons in that city and of conliscat-
ing the arms.
The store of N. s. Nfoen at Devils
Lake was burglarized, and one Fred
Amse is now in Jail charged with the
deed.
NJ. ]. Cowan, night yardmaster of
the N. F. ut Grand Forks, was quite Sc
verely injured by being caught in a
snow plow.
Some of Enderlin's people want to
incorporate and some don't. and the
question: will probably be voted on in
the spring.
Strychnine is condemned by farmers
! and spOrtsmen as a means of Kidding
the farmer Of the pestiferous gopher,
as it also lays out many prairie chick
ems.
Joseph Deton, while at work in the
lnkster roller mills, fell distance Of
about ten feet from beam in the mill,
resulting in fracture of his shoulder
| to a considerable extent.
| The school children of Grafton are
taking considerable interest in tlepos-
iting money in their savings bank i'll
connection with the school. They
have about $500 OH deposit now, and
the most of it is bearing Z per cent.
Fire almost totally destroyed the ci.
gar factory Of Jarvis 4 Figenshau and
the jewelry store of H. A. Stone ut
| Grand Forks. The origin is unknown,
! but started in the cigar factory OH the
second floor.
Two coal thieves have been sent to
Jail at Mandan.
Section Foreman Hillman had a mar.
row escape from death near LaAIoure.
They were riding on a hand-car, met
an engine in a heavy fog, and had Just
time to leap from the track before the
collision came. The hand-car was
smashed to atoms.
Two citizens, Ge:rge Blair and
George Parker of Fessenden, became
engaged in an alteration in the hotel.
The latter seized 38-caliber revolver
and shot Blair in the abdomen. He is
resting apparently easy, under the in
fluence of opiates, but the attending
physician has little hope of his recov-
cry. Parker is in Jail.
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