Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-02-16
NORTH DAKOTA


dren, an increase during '9S of ~.
A new bank has been organized ut
Williston, with w. II. Denny OF Mime
waukan as cashier.
A. r. Mailer, a Grafton man, who
has returned from Oklahoma reports
| the country down there to be booming.
The Grand Forks Gun club has or
ganzed, and will hold several shoots
next summer.
District court is in session at GRAFTON,
and number of blind-piggers were
found guilty and sentenced.
T.. Bowen, who has been acting post
master ut Bathgate since Jan. l, 1888,
has been appointed regularly.
NJ. Garvey Of Darlington, whose leg
was injured some weeks ago, is said to
be dying of blood-poisoning.
Wahpeton rel oices in the prospective
acquisition Of the Great Northern
shops, now located at Breckenridge.
Mrs. John Russell of Valley City fell
in a roller skating rink and broke both
bones of her right arm.
C.. J. Sturgeon will answer to
charge Of selling liquor contrary to law
"Htil tit lltAl term VI tUt uiS'iNb
court conveneS in LaMoure county.
The city council Of Jamestown is
considering the question Of an artcsian
we'll for fire protection, and have about
decided 10 put one in.
Stutsman county has 1.126 boys and
1o3J girls of school age. a total OF -
161 who are of school age. an increase
during the year of 23l.
Brakeman Marble Of the Milwaukee
road had n thumb and finger pinched
off while coupling ears at dickson on
Friday.
Fargcs new Waldorf hotel will he
managed by cX-State Treasurer Geo.
Nichols and Samuel Mathews. and VIII
be opened about May /.
jamestown is again having trouble
with It's artcsian well, which has taken
10 throwing mud and gravel over the
surrounding scenery,
]. a. Winsloe. one of the officials of
the Buffalo Exchange Bank, is miss
ing and leaves large number of anX-
ious creditors.
c. G. Gowran of Grand Forks has
| purchased the bond and real estate
business of r.. Il. Fulton X Co. the lat
ter firm making their headquarters IN
| Chicago.
There is scarcity of trainmen at
Minot, and last week there We're not
enough crews to handle the freight
business on the Williston division OF
| the Great Northern.
An attempt will be made to pass a
| hill through the Legislature designating
Valley City as the place for holding the
state fair instead Of Mandan. where
these fairs have been held heretofore.
A number OF Judge Sauters friends
| at Grafton happily surprised him one
| day last week and presented him with
| costly leather covered library chair
as token of their esteem for him.
w. :. Blackwell. LaAICure county's
new county attorney. gives it out that
| blind pigs will not be allowed to run in
| LaMoure county during his term or
| office.
a man who has been running bind
| pig in LaMoure left town recently
boasting that he was taking with him
| $500 in cash, the profits on six months
| business.
Jake Wirth, Barnes county farmer,
has been arrested for attempting to
burn school house about ten miles
southwest of Valley City. The eyi-
dence against him is said to be strong
Philip Kilian. Burleigh county
| farmer was accidentally killed recent
| ly. He was hauling feed, and is sup
| posed 10 have fallen off the load anc
been run over.
| Judge Winchester has decided that
the Emmons county records must be
taken back to Williamsport. whence
they were taken, before decision will
be rendered in the removal case.
Prof. Brannon of the state university
has practically demonstrated that good
brick can be made from Dickinson
clay, a discovery which may possibly
mean much to the western part OF the
state.
| Lisbon has cheese factory which
did good business last season, the de-
mand for its product exceeding the ca
| pacity of the factory. The plant is 10
be enlarged and operated on a larger
scale this summer
Gen. Miller shipped some arms and
| accoutrements to the three new compa-
nies of state militia recently organized
| at Langdon, Hillsboro and Glendale,
consisting of fifty stands Of rifles anu
other articles necessary for equipment.
A $4,000 verdict was handed in by a
Wells county jury recently, after a de
| liberation of fifteen minutes in the case
of Jeffery VS.. the 500 railroad. This Is
the largest verdict for personal inju-
ries in the Northwest.
| peonle of Rraddock th., new EN-
mons county town, complain that the
town was laid out on thu wrOt,E sids e
| the railroad track. The Inns on M
north side, they say, will keep them
from properly spreading themselves.
| Marie Hicks, the far-famed window
smasher, is abroad in the land ana
last week put in an appearance at the
county auditors office In LaMoure and
demanded transportation to Glendale,
which was readily granted.