The Dickinson press., 1898-05-14
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Mrs. Moffet edits the Settler
while the Captain is away.
Bismarck gets the Methodist
state conference next year.
A Belle Fourche man advertises
to cure lump jaw in cattle.
VIM Bulge is to be appointed
postmaster at Grand Forks.
Taylor Crum has been denied a
rehearing and he stands forever
disbarred.
The state fire tournament for
1893 will be held at Casselton
June 21-23.
Chief of Police Best of Fargo, a
brother of R. L. Best of Bismarck
died a few days since.
The N. P. boys at Fargo have
purchased a large edition of "Old
Glory" which is to float from a
7o-foot pole.
AS soon as Co. G of Valley
City had left for Fargo a mass
meeting was held and a new COM
pany of 70 members was formed.
c. H. Anheier of Fargo has re-
signed as bank examiner to take
effect July 1. Senator Gordon of
Grand Forks has been appointed
to take his place.
When Co. A of Bismarck is
mustered into U. S. service anoth-
or company is to be formed there,
while Devils Lake and Valley
City already have second compa-
MES.
A change in the course of the
Northern Pacific track is being
made in Burleigh county. The
Sterling grade is the heaviest on
the division and this will be avoid
by running about a mile south. 1t
will leave the present line a mile
west of Drisccll, and return to the
present line at Mckenzie. The
change will leave the town of
Sterling a mile off the road.
A dress, the material of which
was made from pine apple fiber at
Manila in the Philippine islands
attracts much attention in Strong's
show window in jamestown. The
material is called pima goods and
was brought by Fred Klapp to
Philadelphia where the dress was
made up several years ago. 1t is
a handsome gauzy fabric, white
with light green stripes.
! Pursuant to the promise made
the Lakota Sylvaton Society by
W. w. Barrett state forestry COM
4 missioner, to present each of the
first one hundred members with
50 two-year old trees, the officials
have word that the same are on
the way and are three-year-olds
instead of two. Each member in
good standing, or who wantsssto
join at once, can have fifty of
these trees up to one hundred
= members.
j. Mrs. Andrews of Fargo, receiv-
ed a letter last week from her son,
c. c. Andrews, who has been alb
sent from there for five years. He
S is a brother Of Frank Andrews Of
Co. B. who was chosen orderly by
Col. Peak because of his neat mil
n itary appearance. c. c. wrote
two years ago that he was going
s to Cuba to assist the insurgents
and since then had not been heard
from, but it seems that he did not
get to Cuba then and enlisted in
the United States navy instead.
He is now on Admiral Simpsons
+ flagship, the New York, and when
he wrote the admiral was prepar.
ing to sail for an attack on the
Spanish fleet.
e A relative of Commodore Dew.
ey has been discovered in North
d Dakota. Col. A. C.. Dewey, treas
urer of Sargent county, is a first
y cousin of the commodore, and the
two attended the same school
n when boys in Vermont. The
fathers of A. c. Dewey and the
i commodore were twin brothers
= and it was through influence Of
his uncle that the commodore first
secured a place in the navy. Mr.
Dewey remarked before the battle
that unless his cousin had greatly
changed his nature there would
be no backing down on the part
e of our navy. From the printed
pictures of the commodore a
great resemblance between the