The Dickinson press., 1907-02-16
FOR SALE
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dress P.O. Box 323, Bismarck, ND.

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A fancy line Of collars at Mrs. ]. L.
Browns. 2-l6-tf
G. E. Frisbie and A. H. Anderson OF
Belfeld were in Dickinson between
trains Monday.
The three national banks were closed
Tuesday, February II, and the post
office was closed a part of the day, it
being a legal holiday.
The Beach Commercial Club is TAX
ing steps to organize the town. At the
last meeting the action of the Billings
county commissioners, regarding the
erection of a new court house at.Medora,
was condemned and resolutions in op-
position to such action drafted.
Vaughn, manager of the Standard
Oil company's business in this town,
received the first carload of oil for
several weeks Monday. In about one
week, if this shipment had not been
received, an oil famine would have
followed. Many families had been with
out oil for the past two weeks.
Mrs. Lloyd H. Dow returned to Dick
inson Monday evening from Madison,
| Wis.,, where she had been spending
some little time at the home of Mr..
BOWS people. Mr.. Dow accompanied
her as far as Bismarck where he stopped
over to attend to business matters, and
arrived in this city a few days later.
Christ Paulson and family left Beach
last week for Taylor, where they will
visit for the rest of the winter with a
brother OF Mr.. Paulson's. They will
leave in the spring for Lakeport, Cali
fornia, where Mr.. Paulson recently
bought a farm consisting of IS acres
MI. Paulson has been a rancher in the
Bad Lands for about 20 years, having
conducted a ranch IS miles northwest Of
Beach.
A number will be interested to learn
that Howard Eaton, the weil-known
westerner who resided for more thar
twenty years on the Little Missouri
river, in the vicinity of Medora, has pur
chased a large number of Paul McCor
mick's,elk, which roam in the immense
pastures OF the Custer Cattle company
north and west of Billings. The ami
mails will be sold to different geological
gardens and public parks in the coun
try. MI. Eaton is a brother of Mrs. P
J. Pelissier of this city and is at presen
in Mexico on Hunting trip.
G. w. and Nels Madesen, who arr
located seven miles south west of Bel
feld on the edge of the Bad Lands, wer'
in Dickinson Monday. G. w. Madesel
came from Wisconsin a little less thai
a year ago and later his brother, Mel
Madesen, +. G. Benjamin and Mrs. A
H. Williams came out. These people
are much pleased with their new home
and have not found the winter severs
They say that in Wisconsin it is tn
usual thing to have four months of a
severe weather as North Dakota ha
had the past few weeks and such warn
pleasant weather as prevailed her
beginning February 7, is unknown Their
during the winter months.
States attorney, M. l.. Mcbride, d.
H. A. Davis, Sheriff Hartung and Tudg
A. P. Folsom were called to Lehigl
Sunday morning to o~ficiate at a COZ
oner's INCEST held over the body Of Joh'
Higgins. who died at the boarding.
house Saturday evening. Higgins wa
a man about IS years old and had ap
peared in fair health to those who wer
acquainted with him. Last week h
spent a few days in this city and wa
known to have consumed a generou
portion of something stronger than wei
water. He had supper at the boardin
house Saturday evening and died in hi
chair a few minutes later. The coroner
verdict shows that death was caused b
heart disease. But very little is know
of Higgins and practically nothing
known of his relatives. The undertake
attended to the funeral arrangement
and interment was made Monday afte
noon in the Dickinson cemetery.