Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-02-18
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS

SBert fsdshas bccr appointed post.
master at Cando.
Tower City has organized Christian
Citizenship league.
Fargo will probably have Il new hotel
before the end Of the year.
Contracts have been Let for a $4,000
addition to the Hotel Nlatropole at
largo.
The First National bank of Bismarck
will open a banking institution at
Steele.
The Mirror reports Il Klondike expe.
dition from Kindred with capital stock
at $4,000.
A baseball game between Enderlin
and Sheldon was played at the former
place Feb. s.
Senator Gordon's residence at Grand
Forks was da..lageu to the extent of
$4,000 by fire.
The Jamestown city council has
passed Sunday closing ordinance and
ieuuceu IT'S pOllce force.
Real estate transfers aggregating
$7o, 900 are reported in Jamestown dur.
ing the month of January.
The asylum for the insane ut James
town is overcrowded aud the superin.
tendent refuses to receive any more
patients.
1t is stated that the Klondike mine
owned by Thomas Lippy of Fargo is
paying at the rate OF 81 900 day above
expenses.
Henry Livingston of Williamsport
has been granted a pension dating
from June, 1892 the back payments
reaching $500.
The Scottish Rite bodies at Fargo
have purchased ground for IL cathedral
and will begin WORK upon the building
in the near future.
Senator Hansbrough mas introduced
new bill for the establishm III ,nt of a
post at Bismarck, in place OF Fort
Yates, which will be abandoned
a movement is on foot for the con.
struction of a railroad from Valley
City northeast to Grand Forks, via
Willow Lake, Sherbrooke and Hatton.
The defunct bank properties formerly
operated by E. Ashley Mears have
been offered for sale by the receiver,
but there were no bidders and no sac,
A rumor is current Mt Milnor that tho
Minor branch of the Northern Pacific
will bo extended from that place to
Edgeley, La Moure county, the coming
spring, and thence to Bismarck.
The Courtcnay (Stutsman county,
State bank has been organized with
$1,000 capital stock and will do bust.
ness for rs years. The stock is owned
by Darlington and Fesseuden parties.
An epidemic of measles prevails in
the southwest part Of Sargent county,
and young and old are afflicted alike
with tho ailment. One hundred and
fifty cases are reported in the town of
Britton.
Colonel Robinson Of Fargo, who was
recently injured at Los Angeles, Cal,
may be a cripple for life. He attempted
to board a moving electric car and fell.
tearing the ligamcnts loose from his
right knee.
The financial statement of Ransom
county shows marked Improvement
in its financial affairs, the amount OF
county funds in the various banks ag-
gregating over $54, 90. as against Il ,98s
one year ago.
Gus A. Sylte has been arrested at
Eau Claire, Wis, by Chief Higgins.
The prisoner is about rs years of age
He is wanted at Hillsboro, this state,
for passing forged check on the First
National bank of that place for 5000.
Word comes from Hope that Mary
Luxton, who fatally shot her lover,
Ole Halverson, at Inkster last fall, and
who was subsequently acquitted, has
been very i'll. So serious was her con-
dition that for some time her life was
despaired Of.
At Hillsboro the jury in the case of
Morris GUNNER, on trial for the muir.
der Of Theodore OHM of Minneapolis,
brought in q verdict of not guilty.
Gunner detected OHM in the act Of
robbing his garden and demanded chat
he accompany him to the village Jail.
OHM started to run, when GUNNER
fred, killing him.
Applications for farm loans to the ex.
tent of about $4,000 have been al.
lowed. They are divided among the
various counties as follows: Benson,
81, 100; Trail, $40, 900; LaMoure, 81 900;
Steele, 81, 400; Cass, $4,000; Ramsey,
$2,76o; Griggs. $4,2s5; Grand Forks,
Sc, 500; Pembina, $1,000; Richland. S..
$50; Walsh, $3.50; Cavalier, $1,000;
Nelson, $500; Burleigh. $1,000.
Private advices from New York city
convey the information that Colonel
w. G. Plummer, the best known char.
acter in the state of North Dakota,
and well known all through tie North
west, is confined i'll an asylum, and has
lost his mind. He labors under various
hallucinations and the reports that
have been received would indicate that
his chances of recovery are slight.