The Dickinson press., 1901-06-29

Mrs. w. L. Richards is visiting in
Hebron.
John Budda of R%ichardten says the
hail escaped him.
Nine cars of Sentinel Butte wool ar
rived Friday to'be bailed.
P. H. Rumble commenced hauling his
wool this week. He has a large clip.
The wool press was started this week
and will be kept busy for several weeks.
The Misses Knight. Merger, Defe-
bach, Mabel and Grace Currie are plan
ming a visit to Haley.
The photograph of a group of bar
horses is a credit to the proprietor-H.
c. Quinion.
Wool at Wibaux is selling for 10 and
II cents and at Billings,one paper states,
IL cents is being paid.
S. F. Stpughton, a former N. P. agent
in this county, has just sold a third in
terest in his Montana gold mine for sI6,-
600.
Col. A. P. Peake was in the city on
Thursday. He said that the. hail did
/ some damage at Valley City this week
but otherwise the crops were in fine
shape.
Mrs. r. N: Stevens was ar eastbound
passenger on the delayed train Wednes.
day morning. Her husband is still at
Nome.
Roy and Eddie Hevener left Friday
morning in company with their aunt,
Miss Racie Ambhul, for Fox Lake, this
state.
Engineer C~rosthwaite and Geo. Metcalf
have a very fine clip of wool this year.
Their average is about n pound per
fleece better than last year.
Frank Meade has been very sick since
last Sunday. but was reported quite a
little better Yesterday and will probably
be around again in a few days.
Banker w. L. Richards returned from
the north Thursday evening. He swan
the Little Missouri with his horse and
foated his wagon over on a raft.
Mesdames Clark and Hughes, OF
Brainerd, the former a sister, visited
Mrs. d. S. Littlehales during the past
week. They are en- route to the Coast
A.. M. Packard reports lots of rain
at Gladstone-more than at Dickinson
and says that with favorable weather
for two or three weeks he will have some
of the finest grain he has ever had.
VIM. Gardner consigned his WOOL
about $4,000 pounds-to Philip Jagode &
Co. 1t was a fine lot. Mr.. Gardner was
we'll pleased with the average weight pc,
Aeece-yearling wethers averaging TX
pounds.
1t is reported that John F. Harnden
son of ]. w. Harnden of Antelope, has
been engaged by the Gage Elevator Co
of Minneapolis, totake charge Of oI
their numerous elevators east of the riv
er. Mr.. Harndeh is one of our wei,
known and enterprising young men ol
eastern Stark county, who has recently
completed a course at the Valley City
Normal School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crane, late of the eastern
part of the state, who have a cattle ranch
north of the Little Missouri, made an at
tempt this week to cross the river but
gave it up land returned to- Dickinson
Thursday evening. Their old time friend
and family physician, DR.. McLain, is Out
from Minneapolis and after making a
professional visit in the city will go out
to the Crane ranch for a little recreation
The fellows who burglarized Frank
Lish's hardware store were caught ir
Jamestown and were returned to the city
by Sheriff Goodall. They we're taker
before Police Magistrate Ryan where
they gave their as Jim Burns, Ra,
Russell and Chas. Clark. Two of then
had been before Mr.. Ryan gave differen
names then. They we're bound over Il
the district court in the sum of 5000
each.
Miss crowl gave a bicycle party to
few of her friends in honor of Miss Mer
gen, who leaves shortly for her home il
Mortified. The following persons par
~ticipated: Misses Aud, Deffebach, Rudi
selle, Lynch. Ray, Burke, Currie, knight
Merger; Messrs. Phelan, Harkins, Toll
efson, Morris, Jensen, Van der Las, Baisc1
Senour, Hughes, Currie. After "a lonl
ride on their wheels the party returned
to the house where ice cream and cak
was served.
This week Matt Bradley of Portage
La Prairie, Manitoba, is closing a dea
with ALI White for the w S brand q
horses excepting about 20 which MI
White keeps for his own use. Mr.. Brad
ley pays 81 900, and is to have the use o
the w S horse ranch this season. Las
spring Mr.. Bradley paid $4,000 for
band of these horses which he shippe,
to Canada, and Mr.. White had previousl,
sold several hundred dollars worth o
horses, making in all over $4,000 that h
has realized from his horse herd. MI
White never made much talk about hi
horses and during the years when the,
were scarcely worth anything in the mar
kets, he was improving his stock ant
waiting for better days. The closing on
of the w S horses will give Mr.. White
larger,range for his cattle.