The Dickinson press., 1909-03-27
Bids will be received at the office Of
the Dunn county auditor at Manning up
to April S for Is slush road scrapers.


the Dunn county auditor at Manning up
to April S for Is slush road scrapers.
B. o. Kindley's home at Fayette was
destroyed by fire recently. The fire
caught from an a:h pan it is believed.
Nothing was saved and the loss will
be 500, including many family relics.
The Bresden-Larson Lumber Co. of
Scranton with a capital stock of $780,
600 has just been granted q charter.
Headquarters will be at Scranton and
a chain of lumber yards along the
Milwaukee.
Arthur Johnson of Alpha narrowly
escaped death recently. He was digging
a we'll and trying to remove a stone
with a bar, when it collided with a
piece of dynamite, He was hit by the
rocks and quite badly bruised.
The Rockford Land Co., which recently
purchased the large tract of land in
Dunn county from the Owens Land &
Livestock Co., is sending a $4,000
steam pillow outfit to break up two or
intersections of land. They expect to
retail the land to eastern parties.
A liars club has been formed at
Manning with w. P. Brooks, high
and mighty liar; c. w. Alfeldt, horri-
BILE liar; Art Judson, internal liar ;
John Bang, terrible liar; John Shew,
artistic liar: R. W. Easton, ordinary
liar; Charles Miller, extraordinary liar.
James ". Umstot and Guy v. Over
acker Of Marmarth, doing business under
the firm name of Umstot g. Overacker,
have filed, a petition. Of. bankruptcy.
Liabilities are 81, 2s9gs q, and assets ::s4,-
SOS. Of which. 81, 600 is claimed exempt.
AT. the Gascoyne township election.
.Messrs. Gessaman, Sherman and Berry
were reelected supervisors and Mr..
Buchanan, clerk. In the Fischbein town.
Ship. Messrs. Berg, LaGalais and
Reinier were elected supervisors and
Henry Fischbein. clerk.
Judge W. c. Crawford heard the ap-
plications of five people for naturaliza-
ton at Manning March 8. Francis Mad
varnik. Joseph Nadvarnik, Michel Bolan-
ger and John Hag were successful and
Gustaf Carlson failed to bring before
the court the witnesses whose names
had been posted with the application;
The. ,Dakota-M Montana Telephone Co.
is making arrangements to build a tele-
phone. line from Scranton to Buffalo,
the new county seat of Harding county,
S. D. Another line is now being bull,
from Belle Fourche to Buffalo. This
will give connections from Belle Fourche
to Dickinson.
George Rose of Dickey county has beer
appointed as n of the appraisers, Of
and on; the Sanding Rock Indian reserva.
ton for North Dakota. The work will
take six months and the board will
include n representative of the Indian
Bureau, m Indian and one representa-
tive, each from North and South Dakota.
The Manning social club was organ.
lied last. week at Manning with R. w.
Easton. president; John Bang, vice
president Joe Brew, secretary C. H.
Ginder, treasurer; E. X, Jenkins, man
ager Chas. w. Atfeldt, captain of base.
ball team. The prime object of the clut
is baseball, but ~socials, dances, debates,
etc., will be given.
Mrs. John Weist, the Mott woman
who was taken to Illinois as an insane
patient, is making her home in Mott
and is said to be quite sane now. She
will remain there pending an adjustment,
of the matter of responsibility between
Hettinger county and the immigration
branch of the Department of Commerce
and Labor. St. Paul.
Rev. Alexander Douglass. living
northwest OF. Beach, fell and broke his
ankle while at work on his claim re-
Gently, and: lay for 4S hours until he
was discovered. He suffered a great
deal as he was helpless the way he fell.
Beach is tt have an auto livery this
spring, managed by A. M. Peterson Of
Harvey.
At the Beach village election. R. l..
Nichols, Ed. Hoverson and E. E. Dick
inson were elected trustees; Geo. Nc
Clellan, clerk; j. w. Brinton, treasurer
and A. H. Lytle, assessor. At the
township election. j. D. Halstead and
Henry %Feldhusen were elected super
visors. O. M. Olson, treasurer; E. E.
Mikkelson. clerk and A. j. O'Keefe,