Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-02-27
STATE NEWS.
Grand Forks is after a fax fibre mill
and a soap factory.

Grand Forks is after a flax fibre mill
and q soap factory.
The farmers in Wells, Eddy and Fos-
ter counties have formed an alliance
against the payment OF their notes given
to the Realty Revenue Guaranty Co,
which operated in this state and was
shut out BY the commissioner Of insnr-
ance.
Napoleon is to have al bank, the
STOCK Growers" and the fixtures have
come. The bank will be opened on
April LIST. The share holders are Il. %.
and j. j.. Delaney and r. b. Church.
MI. Church comes from Owatonna,
MINI.
]. Cunningham of jamestown has.
bought a 120-acre farm in Michigan
where land is worth 500 an acre and
will sell out his farm here for 81 an acre
and tryit in the east where many farm
ers are leaving for this state. This is a
reversal Of the ordinary movement.
The proceedings Of the second Tri-
State Grain Growers convention held at
Fargo last month have been published
at the expense, it may be mentioned,
Of railroad and elevator companiesof the
northwest. They are gotten up in the
form Of a two-hundred page book, nicely
bound, illustrated and indexed. The
volume is a most interesting and valu-3
able one. not only for its technical infor-
nation, but also or account Of the en-
pertaining "reminiscences it contains of
early days in the Red River valley.
Towner Stockmen: Just what effect
the wolf bounty law has had on the
Kidding of the state from the sneaking
vermin, we are unable to say, but judg-
ing from the present conditions Of this
county, it must be for the peter. Even
cold weather of late has not, SO far as
we can learn, caused them to pack as
they did three years ago and make the
usual raids on sheep and cattle, We
hear Of but few being seen along the
roads of this county this winter, while
during the winter Of 1869 " it was not
uncommon to see al dozen at a time.
Lisbon Free Press: FL. Morse, the
upholsterer, has received authentic in
formation from the war department,
through the adiutant generals Office
in Minnesota, confirmingth sad news of
the death of his son Arthur, of Go. d.
18th u. s. infantry. His death occurred
July Both, as a result of meningitis. On
his arrival at Manila he was taken to
the hospital sick and never recovered.
The father Of the deceased noticed the
death in the reports from Manila, but
was not sure that it was his son until he
received the official information this
week.
"A Kokomo. Ind, dispatch says:
T%hirty-one Howard county families will
leave early next month for North Da-
kota, TO take government claims and
purchase railroad lands. They will be
joined by fifty or more families from
Carroll, Miami, and Clinton counties,
making a colony Of nearly 400 persons.
They will settle in the locality Of Grand
Forks, N. D. The emigrants are made
up largely Of Amish and Dunkards. a
year ago a large colony OF these sects
went to Dakota, and this year nearly all
of them will go, leaving but few in this
part of the state.
The National Flax Fiber Co, which
has. established mills at Sheldon, Moor
head, MayVille, Armenia and other
points, has just closed q deal for the
purchase Of one Of the largest cotton
mills in New England. The property
included in the transfer comprises the
entire village of Slateryille, Rhode
Island, and consists Of six mills, sixty
dwelling houses. T50 looms and 25.OOe
spindles. Seven hundred hands have
been employed there. The original
cost Of the property was not less thar
10000 The company will convert
the mills from their former use to the
manufacture of fine fabrics from North
Dakota flax. fiber.
Three Workmen KILLED.
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