Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-03-30
NORTH DAKOTA

~ 1890
North Dakota range cattle never
wintered in finer shape.
Wolves have killed a number or
sheep in StuCfman county.
A cheese factory will be one of the
many additions to Langdon.
There will be no jury cases tried mt
the present term of court in Hillsboro.
Edward Engerud has been appoint
J ed assistant states attorney of Cass
county.
A party OF Iowa land seekers have
bought 1000 acres of land In Ramsey
county.
Ellendale capitalists have secured
control of the First National Bank OF
Aberdeen.
Henry Sander OF Grafton had his
left leg broken in a runaway a few
days ago.
Two or three new towns viii be es-
tablished along the line of the Coopers-
town extension.
G. A. Henry, of the Wahpeton col
lege took first honors at the state utter
collegiate contest,
A number Of young Fargo toughs
have been arrested for disturbing Sal
walton army meetings.
A ~pcstoffice has been established at
lison, LaMoure county, with J .B. Nil
SOC as postmaster.
Miles Churchill of Valley City is said
to have been offered $4,000 for a patent
horseshoe.
The Northern Pacific has a number
90 INnIfa,,. o. x,n, Ia x-tn.r 100 1fAry
on the Dakota division.
Fifteen applicants for license to prac-
tice pharmacy took the examination
at Fargo, and seven failed.
Applications for divorce are coming
In rapidly at Fargo, and the attorneys
may have TO work overtime.
Work will begin on the Cooperstown
extension OF the Northern Pacific as
soon MS the snow is OFF the ground.
Dickey county has just paid Off the
last of its seed wheat bonds, and has
but $1,000 bonds outstanding in all.
An analysis of the water used for
city and domestic purposes proves it
ir,pure and unfit for drinking pur-
poses.
Alfred Morris. eldest son of NAL
colin Morris of Wheatland, slipped ON
the ice, breaking his right leg in two
places.
The city engineer of Fargo has been
instructed TO prepare plans for n brick
trunk sewer, to cost something like
$4,000.
Sherbrooke was the scene OF a suicide
last week. John T.. Nicholson ended
his life by taking strychnine. De-
~spondency and a coy girl the cause.
j. III. Hatfield, a pioneer Of Dickey
county. fell unconscious while work
ing in his barn, of apoplexy, and died
several hours later.
w. A. Walsh of North Dakota, EN-
ployed in the treasury department, has
been promoted from a clerkship at
$50 to $1,000 a year.
State Treasurer sDriscoll has pur-
chased $1,000 worth OF stock in the
New Northwestern Fire and Marine
Insurance company mt Grand Forks.
A man attempted to rob the Harvey
State bank, but failed, and was cap
tured. His kit of tools consisted Of u
base ball bat, log chain and crowbar.
Congressman Johnson says he is
about to devote his entire attention to
farm operations, and viii make mt
merous Improvements on his farm at
Petersburg.
Adam Groyrath has been arrested at
Harvey, being caught In ain attempt
to blow open the safe OF the German
State bank. 1t is alleged that this is
his third attempt.
Ole Mackson OF Pembina, n. D., has
been authorized To act as custodian of
the Fort Peinbina abandoned military
reservation, without compensation,
vice Ora Il. McCumber, relieved.
The Northwestern Fire and Marine
company has been organized
at Grand Forks. The capital stock is
100000, and prominent men from all
parts OF the state are stockholders.
1t Is rumored in Mayville that Presi-
dent Carhart. the able head of the
MARVEL normal school, will decline a
reappointment to his present position,
TO accept one in a more lucrative field.
Rodney Church, a son of ex-Gov. l..
X. Church, is among the soldiers
wounded at Manila. Young Church is
a member of the Washington regi-
ment.
n. II. bdiity, the NdlitN 1ly ldTpeu-
ter. who lost a foot last week by put
ting IL under a Northern Pacific train,
had an accident insurance policy, and
gets $1,000 for his foot.
Fritz Hensel Of LaMoure county lost
his barn by fire. A few days after he
came to LaMoure for n load OF lumber
TO rebuild, dropped a keg of nails on
his leg, breaking both bones and ia
fiicting a painful and serious injury.
William Deering has beer released
from the county jail OF StutsmaD
county, where ne had been confined
on a charge OF selling liquor without a
government license. No Indictment
was returned against him by the grand
jury.
Agent Bingenheimer of the Standing
Rock reservation has returned from
a trip TO Washington. where he was
highly complimeMed by the Indian
department for the satisfactory man
ner in which the reservation affairs
are conducted. He has been allowed
an additional stenegrapher.