Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-03-11

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Granville, like all othe, thriving
North Dakota towns. wants to incor-
porate. ..5
y, D. Gagnier, the veteran printer,
had q his home at Fargo badly damaged
oy fire Friday. Insured. . =. ---.---.t
Cashier Ed. P. Nilsson Of the Ana
moose Sc State bank is missing andsswitnl
lin about 1000 Of the deposits.
Dickinson has cash balance Of
$500 in her treasury, and has unen.
numbered property amounting to $40, II
600. 1
Mysterious Smith, who is we'll
known 'g7 all over the state, is now push
ing the pencil on the Ende4lin indie
pendent
Colonel Lounsberry slipped on the
icy walk on Front street at Fargo
Thursday night and suffered severe
bump on the head.
The nomination Of Ellef K. Myhre
to De postmaster at Valley City, N.
D., has been sent to the senate for
confirmation.
Nv. j. Gardner was convicted Of
rape at the Rngby term Of court and
sentsncee to 81 yenteen years in the
Ipen at hard laDor.
At the-annual meeting Of the local
~. Q. I. at Fargo, it was voted to
.Ehold the eleventh annual session at
Winnipeg June 10 and II.
Because she loved neighbours son
better than her husband, Gottlieb
sievert shot and killed his wife at
Denhoff last Saturday. He ID in jail
I. The state enforcement league sets
out with the determination to kill off
all the blind pigs in the state. "A
field secretary will be put to work.
Father Robstineck, the Catholic
priest at Dickinson, organized an
independent political club among the
German speaking population of that
I city
The third trial of VIM. Barry for
the murder of Andrew Meliem, near
Milton, will be called on Tuesday,
March 20, and will be heard by Judge
Cowan at Grafton.
Fargo had $25. 900 fire early Sun
day morning in which the Christian
son Dry Goods Co., lost their business
and number of other business houses
sustained heavy losses.
John Nelson, one Of the pionee~
merchants of Wahpeton, and receiver
OF the Grand Forks land Office, is
bankrupt. Assets placed at $50, 900
: and liabilities at $3s, 600. A. O Leach
is the appointed trustee. s:55.
II is understood the secretary Of the
interior will decide the contest be-
I, tween Bismarck and Mandan over the
! location of the Indian school in favor
Z OF the former city, OF the site recon
mended by Indian Inspector McLaugh-
lin. .5s$
George Murray of Steele, has peen
} appointed feel T officer Of the state en-
forcement league, and tie piggers
have some interesting times ahead Of
them if Mr.. Murray is as active as he
was when he was prosecuting officer
of his county.
W. a. Leadbetter was thrown
thirty feet by an explosion in one of
the coal mines at Kenmare. The only
!, time Leadbetter lost was in getting
back to his work f.om the place where
he landed and the mine officials did
not dock MIN for being absent while
he was going up and coming down.
The new owners CT the famous
.dude ranch in Billings county in
| tend to keep up the old reputation Of
}, the place. in fact, to surpass il. They
will make special efforts to attract
J, young men from the east who are
anxious T. see what real western life
is ike There are hot times yet in
store for the old place.
In the person Of John a.. Keenan,,
\ Larim ore liveryman, that city har-
& bors an lnhuman brute who deserves
the full extent of the law for cruelty
to animals. Early last fall he put a
I number of horses into an enclosed
] pasture field with nothing to eat aud
I without any shelter. The , ,or ami
mails are now all at the verge Of death
i from starvation.
i The Pembina Pioneer Express has