Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-02-16
NORTH DAKOTA

n new Dank mas Deen OrSdHlzeu AT
Willistcn, with w. III. Denny OF Mime
waukan as cashier.
A. T. Mailer, a Grafton man, who
has returned from Oklahoma, reports
the country down there to be booming.
The Grand Forks Gun club has or
ganized. and will hold several shoots
next summer.
District court is in session at Grafton,
and n number of blind piggers We're
found guilty and sentenced.
f.. Bowen. who has been acting post
master at Bathgate since Jan. i, 1898,
has been appointed regularly.
NJ. Garvey Of Darlington, whose leg
WAS injured some weeks ago Is said to
be dying of blood poisoning.
Wahpeton r~ejoices 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. ]. Sturgeon will answer to n
charge OF selling liquor contrary to law
when the next term of the district
court convenes in LaMoure county.
The city council OF jamestown is
considering the question Of an artesian
well for fire protection, and ave about
decided to put one in.
Stutsman county has 1,126 boys and
l.035 girls of school age, a total OF -
16l who arr OF school age, an increase
during the year of 231.
Brakeman Marble of the Milwaukee
road had a thumb and finger ptnched
off while coupling cars at Hickson ON
Friday.
Fargo's new Waldorf hotel will be
managed by eX-State Treasurer Geo.
Nichols and Samuel Mathews, and Will
be opened about May 1.
jamestown is again having trouble
with its artesian well, which has taken
TO throwing mud and gravel over the
surrounding scenery.
j.. A. Winsloe. one OF the officials OF
the Buffalo Exchange Bank, is miss
ing, and leaves a large number of NIX
ious creditors.
G.. G. Gowran of Grand Forks has
purchased the bond and real estate
business OF Il. X. Fulton x Co, the lat
ter firm making their headquarters IN
Chicago.
There is a scarcity OF trainmen at
Minot, and last week there We're not
enough crews TO handle the freight
business on the Wllliston division OF
the Great Northern.
An attempt will be made to pass a
bill 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 Sauter's friends
at Grafton happily surprised him n
day last week and presented him with
a costly leather-covered library chair
as a token of their esteem for him.
w. s. Blackwell, LaMoure 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 a bind
pig in LaMoure left town recently
Boosting that he was taking with him
$500 in cash, the profits on six months
business.
Jake Wirth, a Barnes county farmer,
has been arrested for attempting to
burn a school house about ten miles
southwest OF Valley City. The evil
dence against him is said to be strong.
Philip Kilian, a Burleigh county
farmer, was accidentally killed recent
~. He was hauling feed. and Is sup
posed to have fallen of the load and
been run over.
Judge Winchester has decided that
the Emmons county records must be
AIKEN back TO Williamsport, whence
thnp xx-n,.n alra - - w-a..
be rendered In the removal case.
Prof. Brannon OF the state university
has practically demonstrated tina good
brick can be made from Dickinson
clay, a discovery which may possibly
mean much to the western part OF the
state.
Lisbon has a cheese factory which
did a good business last season. the de
mand for its product exceeding the ca
pacity Of the factory. The plant is TO
be enlarged and operated on a larger
scale this ummer
Gen. Miller shipped some arms ana
accoutrements TO the three new compa-
MES OF state militia recently organized
at Langdon, Hillsboro and EIlendaie,
consisting Of fifty stands OF rifles and
other articles necessary for equipment.
A $4,000 verdict was handed in by q
Wells county jury recently, after q de
liberation Of fifteen minutes, In the case
OF Jeffrey VS.. the 500 railroad. This is
the largest verdict for personal inju-
ries In the Northwest.
People OF Braddock, the new EN-
mons county town, complain that the
own was laid out on the wrong side of
the railroad track. The hills on the
north side, they say, will keep them
from properly spreading themselves.
Marie Hicks, the far-famed window
smasher, Is abroad in the land, and
last week put in an appearance at the
county auditors office i'm LaMoure and
demanded transportation to Glendale.
which was readily granted. T.
Aug. Rousselot, a farmer living near
Bottineau, was frozen to death In q
blizzard last Wednesday. He started
to go to he house OF a neighbor, ana
the next day his body was found In the
snow frozen stiff.