The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-05-18

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600
The plan of the county auditors
association is to secure an assessment
of the property of the state at some
thing like the actual valuation and
reduce the high rate of taxation,
which has been a bugbear to outside
investors, who are not familiar with
the low rate of assessment.
600
The lid seems to be on at Minot
as often as in Fargo.
coo
Last year 1t is estimated the peo-
pie of Stutsman county paid $4,000
to tree peddlars.
600
Frank Chapman, national bank ex-
aminer, is candidate for reelection
to the legislature.
600
Some of the new gang" fellows
find the office scarcely ever chases
the man, and they are out hustling
like blazes to land.
If assessments were made by one
man in each county instead of a man
from each township, they would at
least be more uniform, If not any
| more accurate.
O. Go
Morton county is entitled to nine
delegates to the state democratic con-
vention. The Mandan Pioneer knows
of three democrats still left in the
county and there may be a few more
among the recent settlers.
600
The new immigration magazine is
sued by the state department of agri-
culture contains 100 pages of good
matter about the fertile lands and
the great opportunities offered by
North Dakota.
The N. p. park at Mandan has been
improved.
Bismarck's baseball team went
bump. The players were Of socialis-
tic tendencies and wanted to divide
up the receipts after each game.
The Indian appropriation bill car
ries with it amounts aggregating
$158, 94S.S7 for the Indians of North
Dakota of which amounts $57S74.S7
is the deficit of $145,OOO due the Cut
Head Sioux of the Devils Lake In
dian reservation for their ceded
lands.
600
Few cities in this state have made
such rapid strides in the way of i'm
provements or are taking such pride
in adorning and beautifying city as
Mandan. There is considerable rival
ry among the owners of property to
see who can have the most attrac-
tive home.
600
The insanity commission examined
Chas. S. Bromgren, of Melville, and
as a result he was sent to the state
hospital for treatment. The patient
has been sailor and discharged from
the navy. Having a pronounced case
of melancholia. he will be transferred
to the insane asylum at Washington,
d c., where treatment for such pa
tients is afforded.
600
Bismarck had a Methodist rally.
600
The insurgents have howled so
much about the gang they seem to
have disgusted a lot of their own
friends.
Linton is a distributing point for
the Standard Oil Co.
O-0-N
The Linton Advocate has reformed
and Editor Patterson is sunny tenn
pered. There was not single roast
on the wicked editor across the way
lin the last issue to reach The Fo-
rum.
Attorney Courtney Of Page has
been invited to deliver the Fourth of
July Grafton at Piper City, ILL.,, at the
reunion of his fathers old regiment.
600
The Page Record predicts a place
on the state ticket for State Senator
Talcott of Buffalo.
600
The Page Record man must be one
of the kind of fellows who can see
through keyhole with both eyes at
once-as he was astonished that The
Forum would publish anything not in
harmony with its views.
600
More farmers are planning to har-
row their grain this year.
900
The Dickinson Recorder believes in
keeping mum on local criminal mat
tSAS I'll ZIG Soui - ildNS lldu u WHIT
at the thing.
600
Wilton is enjoying prosperous
period, in common with other Sec
tions of the slope country.
O-0-O
Gordon, the alleged, horse thief,
wanted at Drayton, was discharged as
a strong case could not be made
against him.
600
Company III of Jamestown has
bought a fifty-foot lot opposite the
central school and will proceed as
soon as possible with the building OF
an armory. The site is most desir-
able one.
0)-SO-O
The Pembina Pioneer Express
wonders why it is that the ''new
gang has to go all fhe way to Alas