The Dickinson press., 1898-02-05
STAIENEWS..

STATE NEWS. sse's's'
Fargo has anew wire fence
Anchor.
d Ramon and Ledgerwpod are
4 building new se~reaaneries.
Civil service sxamiiat atoms will
be held in Bismarck, March 90.
E. Ashley Mears of defunct
bank fame is going to Klondike.
Hillsboro has a new manufac-
turing company to make egg
trays to prevent eggs breaking in
transit.
The First National bank of
Larimore has been forced to
close its doors. Too much real
estate-at boom prices-the
cause.
The county superintendent of
schools in Burleigh county urges
the outlying districts to hire only
frst-class teachers and offers his
assistance to secure such.
From Mimic comes the report
that there are wagon loads of
dead fish in the river frozen to
the bottom in places and the
water almost stagnant and of
course unfit to drink.
Cattle thieves have been taking
from the Standing Rocks Indians
and selling to the Mandan but
cheers. The Live Stock Associa-
ton Of North Dakota is on the
trail of the offenders.
An effort will be made to have
the next Legislature divide the
Third judicial district. There is
too much business. The counties
of Cass, Steele and Trail COM
prise the third district.
Devils Lake has a cooperative
store with forty stockholders,
mostly Ramsay county farmers.
They declared an 8 per cent divi-
dend last week. The association
did business for the year 1897 10
the extent of $4,000, and their
losses from bad accounts were
less than one per cent.
From Leeds comes the biggest
snake story yet. Two men were
removing straw from an ice-house
preparatory to reflling when they
found a layer of snakes a foot
deep. Exposed to the air they
squirmed and Kissed but soon
were Supplied by the cold and
when frozen were carted off-23
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bushel basketsfull.
A member Of the state board
of health has been through En-
mons, Mercer and Logan counties
to see what can be done to stop
the spread and ravages of scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles, ETC.,
among the Russian Settlers. He
found everything in bad condition
disease very prevalent, mortality
great and the people, who are
fatalists, unwilling to seek or even
accept medical aid.
The special sale provided for
by the Wood bill is on in Dickey
county where the sheriff is selling
1900 tracts of land-a large part
town lots valued at 81 each and
charging $500 costs for each
tract. His bill will be about
$4,000. This is the first sale un-
der the special act and the out
come is anxiously awaited. Citi-
zens tried to restrain the sheriff.
The vast annual destruction of
grass, hay, grain, buildings and
other property by prairie fires has
become so dangerous to individu-
ais and the state that the question
of how to prevent the annual raw
ages and arrest the progress of
the fires when started have be-
come of vital importance to
North Dakotans. In Dickey coun-
ty the plan has been suggested
of having ample fire breaks
around each township and
through the center from north to
south and from east to west. This
would con6ne all fires to a limit
of three miles and they could be
arrested before gaining uncontrol-
able force. The highway tax in
that county is excessive, amount
ing to 50 on every quarter section
andsnearly all the work done on
public highways from this fund
has been a damage. The natural
roads of the state are excellent
and the diversion of this fund to
the construction and maintenance
of township fire breaks is believed
would result in the less thickly
settled portions of the state in
vast benefit to the people.