Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-08-12
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS

NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Fargo claims a population Of $4,000.
Hope is to have another 20, 600 bushel
elevator.
The Fargo police are rounding up an
average of 200 harvest hands and hobos
daily.
The Tribune says it is the intention
to iron the 500 into Bismarck before
spring.
Ed. Governor Miller estimates the
wheat crop of North Dakota this year
at 40, 600, 900 bushels.
Hillsboro bankers are buying out the
lumber dealers on the Halstead branch
and will control the entire business.
Police Officer Blue of Grand Forks
was shot in the head while attempting
to arrest q tramp. His recovery is
considered doubtful.
The state board of equalization has
made a general raise in values Of lands
in the Red river valley, while reducing
values in the western portion of the
state.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com.
pany has just paid to the treasurer Of
Emmons county the sum Of $31, 500 for
delinquent real property taxes for 10
years past.
The Fosston extension Of the Great
Northern, the new short line from the
Red river valley to the head Of the
lakes, will be ready for inspection in
three weeks.
Fargo has a hero in a small boy who
was let down into a we'll head first BY
a rope tied to his feet to rescue o little
8-year.old child that had fallen in.
Both came out uninjured.
Billings county has sold &l3, 900 OF
refunding bonds at par. The bonds
are optional after 10 years and draw
5& per cent. They are the first bonds
to be issued by the county.
Bugler Greb of the North Dakota
regiment, who was left behind because
Of illness at San Francisco, has recov.
cred and been granted a furlough. he
has returned to Valley City.
The people in the western part Of
Pembina and the eastern part Of Cav.
alier counties arc thinking Of forming
o new county. Too many miles from
the county seat is the trouble.
s. B. Bartlett of Casselton, fusion
nominee for attorney general, declines
to accept the nomination. The central
committee will fill the vacancy, and
either John Carmody of Trail county
or 81. r. Turner OF Fargo will be the
nominee.
There are now only II inmates in tn
North Dakota soldiers home at Lisbon
many being IN furlough during tn,
harvest season. Work has begun OF
the waterworks system for the home
but the material for the tower an,
tank has not arrived yet.
The total property valuation in tn,
state is go, DOC, 900 personal and $50.
O00, 900 real; with about $13, 900, 00
railroad valuation. The total assesse,
valuation in the state is $97, 600, 600
The tax levy vas axed at 3.8 mills 70
general purposes and 5.l0 mills TO
general purposes and Clio Of a mill 70
bond interest.
! Kidder county has fled q petition ii
. the United States court at Milwaukee
praying for an order requiring tn
Northern Pacific receivers to pay take
, amounting to $57, 02S. 16 upon the land
I generally known as the lands east Q
' the Missouri river. There are Av
years. back taxes due upon that POI
ton Of the lands that lie in Kidde
j. county.
: The Bismarck Tribune says the SHY
: ments Of cattle from the ranges In th
western part Of the state will be heav
this year for the reason that three q
, the largest cattle outfits in the western
/. part of the state are going ont Of th
!, business, and have instructed thel
range foremen to gather all animal
{ that are any way at for shipment an
A market them. The total number Q
4 head of stock owned by the three firm
8 is probably $4,000.
The report Of the condition of Mort
!. Dakota banks on July IA shows tbs
since the date OF the last report, Ma
s, the average reserve held has d
creased from 49, IS to 1880 per cen
The total resources decreased frol
!. s 7,429, 997 to 1857, 1853; loans and di
cunts increased from &4,506, 728
Q 81 1928. 76S. and reserve decreased frol
g. 07, $40 to $773. 342, Of which gol
holdings increased from $226. 878 [
$252. 574. The deposits decreased frol
: t4.876. 272 to s4,543, l76.
Tho Gresham at BOSTON.
BOSTON, Aug. 9.-The United State
revenue cutter Walter Q. Gresham q,
: rived curing the day. having sale
;. from Chicago through the great Lake