The Dickinson press., 1911-05-27
RANCH AND FARM.

DR.. H. Anderson will 30 to Beach in
a few days to look after some reported
cases of elandered horses.
Pete Brown expects to start shearing
his sheep about June 10th. He says
that he has not had any offers for wool
this season. .y $,
A meeting of the :Tri-state Wool Crow
ers Association will be held al Bowman
on Saturday. June 3. All wool growers
in this section of the state are urged to
be present.
Eight yokes of oxen and two teams of
horses belonging to W. H. Hanson of
the Log Camp, stopped at Medora on
their way to break up and seed the Nick
Moliter farm just north of town.
The cases against Archie Belden came
up for hearing May 10. but were post
poned to get more witnesses. The state
case will be heard May rs. and King
VS.. Belden will come up June 10TH
Medora Herald.
The Rock Springs. Wyoming, Miner
says although wool buyers have been in
Rock Springs for the past four weeks. no
sales have been recorded until the past
week and in that time almost a million
pounds have been sold and almost a
half million pounds have been consigned
to the Chicago Wool Storage warehouse
and still a number of large clips are vet
remaining in the hands of the owners.
The sales are much lower than a year
ago, the prices ranging from IA cents to
IS cents, according to the staple.
George Tear was back this week from
the vicinity of Glendive where he helped
to shear out the buck band at the Thur
ston ranch. The first of next week Mr..
Tear will return to the same ranch &C.
companied by Alex Dinsdale, Earl
David. Hans Elkin and Hamilton Bros.
of Oakdale. The price for shearing
ewes will likely be eight cents this
year. So far there has been no offers
made for wool in this territory, and all
indications point to lower prices than
a year ago.
According to exchanges the recent
rainfall was quite general in the west
ern part of the state. Medora claims
2. IS inches rainfall. Beach 1 SO and in
the Milwaukee towns it is said the
ground was saturated to the depth of 4
to E inches, which would seem to indi-
cate a half inch precipitation. At
Glendive los inches was registered.
West of Dickinson severe electrical dis
turbances accompanied the rainfall, go
telephones being burned out at Beach.
Crops are in a splendid condition in
most sections of Western North Dakota
now. :,
Anton Schlapman, near Gladstone, has
200 acres of wheat s0wn and 80 acres of
oats. He has pasture fences to change
and may hot gel around to do much
more seeding this season. Mr.. ,Schlap-
man has about so head of stock but de
doubts if he can provide suitable pasta
rage for as many cattle another year and
will likely reduce the number in the
fall. Another extra job at the Schlap-
man farm is the replacing of a loft.
dam which was cut out by water re-
Gently. He will reinforce the dam with
lumber so there will be little danger
from high water in the future. The
pond is fed by springs and comes up
close to the house and covers two or
three acres of land.
After a chase lasting since March, L.
H. Carter was arrested a few days ago
at Bentz, Saskatchewan, Canada, and
brought back to La Moure, or a charge
of horse stealing. Last March F. 7.
Garieau of La Moure lost five horse and
L. r. Overly lost four. At first it was
thought that they had strayed. but as
search failed in finding them. it was
concluded that they had been stolen. A
Pinkerton detective was employed and il
was found that Carter had shipped g
carload of horses in the early spring tc
South St. Paul. Both. Garieau's and
Overly's horses were found, some of
them having been sold to Illinois people
and three in Dakota county, Minnesota.
Carter fed at once. and he has been g
fugitive, from justice ever since. He
resides in Edaeley, where he was 6
former liveryman.
The preliminary trial of Dutch Kray.
enbrink, James Clayton and Dan Sears
on the charge of stealing the horses be-
longing to J. H. Livingston, was held at
Lennon recently. Krayenbrink waived
examination and his evidence was the
most important feature of the trial. Eiv-
ingston. the owner of the horses. testi-
fled as to the circumstances of the steal.
ing and his Identification of the team left
by Krayenbrink. The defense INTRODUCED
no testimony. All parties were bound
over to the circuit court, Krayenbrink's
bond being fixed at 81, 500 and those oil
Sears and CLAYTON at So. 900 each, Az