Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-20
NORTH DAKOTA

| Thirty-tive immigrants filed on land
| n the Minot land Office Saturday.
Cando has a base ball team, and they
are getting new uniforms.
Consul General Bray has been max
| ing a tour of New Zealand.
Gov. Fancher has returned from a
| trip to the coast.
The total vote cast at the Bismarck
| election was LAG.
Leeds is getting her share Of the i'm
II igration this spring.
James Buchanan, one Of the Oldest
residents of Drayton, is dead.
Landseekers from Iowa are purchas-
| ing large punches of soil around En-
Ierlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. Emmers, old-tlme
residents Of Cavalier, have removed to
Spokane.
The star route mail service has been
extended from Elisa to Fisher, In Ro-
/ lette county
The itinerant hypnotist Is still gath
cring up the stray shekels about the
Inall towns Of the state.
| Ht ilaNS thS
Congregational church building at
| lWahpeton.
The Steele County Driving assOcia.
| tion will hold it's second annual meet
Ing July 3, 1, and D.
Milton people are taking consider
nble interest in the good roads question
this spring, and will spend some mon
ey along that line.
A military drama will be presented
by Hillshoro Thespians in the near fu-
ture. Company | and Echo Cornet
band will participate.
| The machinlsts in the Northern Pa
cific shops at Mandan have organized
n lodge Of the International Associa-
ton Of Machinists.
| There are several new cases of small
pOX at Glasgow. Business is suspend.
ed and train crews are not allowed to
leave the railroad limits.
! Williams county commissioners re-
fused petition for wolf bounty. and
the matter seems TO be quite an issue
there
! The Grand Forks health authorities
are so frightened over a small pox
6care that they have ordered a pest
house built.
! Frank Mcknight of Cando was tried
at Rolla last week, charged with at
tempted robbery, found guilty and
given nineteen months Imprisonment.
The LaMoure band has received a
set Of brand new instruments, includ-
ing a piccolo, clarinet and slide from
,l,x, 4 ,..rr l..tt tsnI II
awe the natives.
! The Great Northern is said TO be
about to abandon it's Devils Lake
shops, making one division from Minot
TO Barnesville, where all the train men
will end.
J Boeing's drug store, at Mimic, had n
narrow escape from fire last week. 1t
is supposed someone set fire to a large
dry goods box of excelsior, standing
beside the building.
While Robert Walker of Courtenay
spent the winter In England. others at
home spent the time relieving his gran
ary Of 314 bushels of wheat and 100
bushels of flax.
! The cost of heating the new Sheldon
school house during the past winter
was only $50 more than the cost Of
heating the old and very much small
er building year ago.
Robert Anderson, one of Valley
City's big merchants, has purchased
the mercantile business of Trotter
Eros. at Park River, which he will
conduct in addition to his Valley City
emporium.
yptlun 7 a., hae I,1iI,1
test for superintendent of schools I'm
Morton county. in favor Of w. +. Lor-
in, the Republican candidate. and
against Seitz. The case viii probably
20 to the supreme court.
The few remaining bachelors Of Wal
halla viii give bah in the near fu-
ture The attention Of the gentlpr sex
in general is invited to the splendid
opportunities to be afforded at this
function.
Lisbon people are going 10 buy lit
tie pleasure steamer to navigate the
waters of the Sheyenne and transport
them on summer days to Fort Ran
som, where they will drink lemonade
and eat hard-boiled eggs
Information just received from VI
'borE. turner county, states that word
reached there from Mayfield that the
children of Ole Peterson were poisoned
, Monday by eating wild parsnips out of
the ground. DR. Stewart was called.
Before he reached the Peterson place
two Of the children were dead and one
other was in danger of dying. The
other two may recover.
The Dakota Southern Telephone
Company has been recently incorpor-
ated at Wonsocket, with the following
officers: Chas. NJ. Hopkins, of Aber-
deen. President: Glib DIE. of Woon-
socket Secretary. and Robert 8. Vas
sey, OF Washington Springs, Treasurer.
The company proposes to construct
and operate telephone line from VOL
sey to WOonsocket and washington
Springs.
Under the game law passed last
spring the fish wardens Of the state
are also given the duties Of game war
den. and the appointment, which in
the past amounted to but little, now
has considerable Importance to II.
Several such appointments have heen