The Dickinson press., 1898-08-13
AKOTANEWS

NORTH DAKOTANEWSi
Fargo oiainasn population Of 1900.
Hops. = g have another 5000 bashsl
sleyator.
Tho Fargo police are rounding up an
average OF 700 harvest hands and hobos
daily.
The Tribune says It IL the intention
to Iron the 500 into Bismarck before
spring.
Ex-Governor Miller estimates tho
wheat oropNof North Dakota this year
ct 10000, 600 bushels.
Hillsboro bankers are buying ont the
lumber dealers on the Halstead branch
and will control the entire business.
Telephone lines are to be put in con-
neoting Park River. Langdon, Wal.
halla. Grafton, Neche and Pembina.
Ex.Attorney General standish has
been nominated for county judge on
the fusion ticket In Grand Forks
county.
Police OHicer 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 q 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 fol-
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 q we'll head first by
. rope tied to his feet to rescue a little
8.year.old child that had fallen in.
Both came out uninjured.
Billings county has sold $4,000 Of
refunding bonds at par. The bonda
are optional after 10 years and draw
81 per cent. They are the first bonds
70 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 are thinking Of forming
q new county. Too many miles from
the county seat is the trouble.
8. 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 H. r. Turner of Fargo will be the
nominee.
There are now only Ia inmates in the
North Dakota soldiers home at Lisbon,
many being on furlough during the
harvest season. Work has begun on
the waterworks system for the home,
but the material for the tower and
tank has not arrived vet.
The total property valuation in the
state is go, 600, 900 personal and $780,.
100000 real. with about SIS, 900, DOC
railroad valuation. The total assessed
valuation in the state is $97, 900, 600.
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general purposes and 5.lO mills fo1
general purposes and $40 of a mill fol-
bond interest.
Kidder county has fled q petition in
the United States court at Milwaukee
praying for an order requiring the
Northern Pacific receivers to pay taxei
amounting to $57, 028. 10 upon the landi
generally known as the lands east OF
the Missouri river. There are five
years. back taxes due upon that por.
ton Of the lands that lie in KiddeI
county.
The Bismarck Tribune says the ship
ments Of cattle from the ranges in ths
western part Of the state will be heavy
this year for the reason that three Of
the largest cattle outfits in the western
part Of the state are going out Of thd
business, and have instructed, their
range foremen to gather all animals
that are any way fit for shipment and
market them. The total number Of
head of stock owned by the three firms
is probably $4,000.
The report Of the condition of North
Dakota banks on July IA shows that
since the date OF the last report, May
8, the average reserve held has de.
CREASED from 1888 to 1890 per cent.
The total decreased from
81. 429. 997 to 1857, 46s; loans and dis.
counts increased from a, 500, 1913 to
a, 628. 76s, and reserve decreased from
d, 1910 to $778, 842. Of which gold
holdings increased from $228, S7S to
e352, 574. The deposits decreased from
a, s7e,,s 7a to t4,,648, 176.