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WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA,
Now that the name of a "Michigan
town bas been changed to "Cronje"
It becomes really Imperative 'that Am
ericans should begin to practice on the
correct pronunciation of the word.
Queen Victoria went to London on.
the 8th of Starch for a few days' stay
at Buckingham Palace, and her ar
rival was made the occasion of a popu
lar demonstration of welcome and re
joicing. Moved perhaps by the spec
ial bravery shown by the Irish regi
ments in South Africa, the Queen gave
directions that the shamrock should be
worn by the Irish regiments on St.
Patrick's 'day and 6he has announced
her purpose to/make a visit to Ireland,
for the first time since 1861.
In the «arly part of the century the
query, "Who buys an American book?"
expressed English appreciation of Am
erican literature before Longfellow,
Bryant, Emerson, Lowell, Hawthorne,
and others won hearing and recogni
tion abroad. Until very recently a sim
ilar query might almost be made as
to American art—"Who buys an Amer
ican picture?" Recent auctions in New
York show
not only are there per­
sons who buy American pictures, but
they pay good prices for them. It is
said that not less than $500,000 has
been paid within the last twelve
months for pictures by American ar
tists at public and private sales.
The Texas anti-trust law, which it
generally recognised as one of the
most stringent of its kind, has been
sustained by the Supreme court of the
United States, in the case of the Wa
ters-Pierce Oil company. This com
pany, which is alleged to be a member
of the Standard' Oil trust, was charged
with violating the Texas laws against
the restraint of trade. The court held
that the company in question, which
was organized outside of Texas, ac
cepted the restrictive laws of that state
as conditions of the permit by which it
was admitted to do business, and was
therefore bound by them.
"Curbstone religion," as exemplified
by the Salvation Army, has recently
observed its twentieth anniversary in
America. In a marked degree this or
ganization ha! carried out the theory
of practical application. A Salvation
Army lasB will go into any home where
her •services are needed *nd do the
"next thing." One of them recently
carried a hut child into its tenement
home. Staying to help the mother, she
offered to cook dinner. When the hun
gry man of the family returned to en
joy the novelty of a carefully prepared
meal, he announced his approval by
saying to his wife: "If that's the kind
of thing you learn at church, you may
go to meeting all you want," a per
mission hitherto persistently refused.
The tenement house committee of
the Good Government clubs, having
effected great improvements in the
housing of the New York poor, now
presents some figures which must ap
peal even to the greediest of capital
ists. Buildings erected on sanitary
principles, with plenty of light and
air, water, heating facilities and other
conveniences, are paying dividends ol
from twelve to fifteen per cent, while
the squalid and unhealthy dwellings
beside them can hardly be forced to
yield five and six per cent. In one
tenement house the average rent of
rooms Is eighty-five cents a week,
and the room has at least one window
with clear sunlight For every tenant
there is running water .and «tQMt Mat,
together with free hath andl lanndry
privileges in the basement. Xhia
'building has never paid lew than 10
per cent, while the dilapidated flat un
comfortable houses which adjoin It
pay only 7 per cent Here Is some
thing for the landlords to think about
A little boy in Ohio, oast adrift on
the world by the sudden death ol
father and mother, was found by th«
wayside praying for protection from
the hardships seemingly imposed •pen
his yonth. The gentleman who thui
discovered him, a millionaire brewer,
took him home and installed him ai
one of his own. Though not church
goer, he figured that there eould not
be much bad in a boy who would thui
show his faith in Providence and final
ly he became convinced himself that
jhe was simply £n instrument ef Provi
dence used In answer to a child's faith.
He lately sold out his business and
is now devoting his life and fortunt
to the rescue of other orphaned ones.
Little occurrences of this nature do
not find much 'space for recital in the
newspapers, but whenever they do get
into print they present a convincing
argument that the world is not so bad
as might be judged from reading an
of one of our metropolitan pa
pers. If newspapers would give pref
erence to the good deeds of mankind
there would be little room left for
criminal and stock gambling reports.
The so-called "Spooner bill," which
has been reported to the senate by the
committee on the Philippines, is a pro
visional measure which puts the ad
ministration of the islands wholly in
the Of the president until fur
ther action by congress. The authori
ty conveyed Is practically the same as
under which the president has
administered affairs in Hawaii, and the
Mil Is closely modeled upon the set of
1808, which ^ive President Jeffersen
a«ttoritroT.r iko fe the guest of the Castellans In Par
•..i.jvi Mm Tjinliltnt nurrfiMn
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From the Capital.
There are nearly 200 vacant second
lleutenencles.
The navy department has contracted
for submarine boats.
Plans for the coining Pan-American
congress are being perfected.
Army officers in Porto Rico will re
tain civil positions until Aug. 1.
Secretary Gage recommends placing
more lightships on the Great Lakes.
Elaborate ceremonies will mark the
Inauguration of Allen as governor of
Porto Rieo.
The Hay-Pnuncefote treaty and the
canal bill will probably go over until
the next session.
Mr. Cortelyon has been appointed pri
vate secretary to the president, to suc
ceed Mr Porter.
The war department is taking steps
to aid the families of officers and men
who fail to support them.
March exports broke the record. The
increase in imports during the last nine
months was mostly in. manufactures.
The supreme court has deckled that
congress caunot forbid express compa
nies collecting war tax from shippers.
Representative Griffiths of Indiana
introduced a bill repealing the stamp
tax on checks, drafts, etc., and on
proprietary medicines.
The postoffice department has issued
a fraud order against a Boston firm
which advertised the three-star ring5
and a lucky box for $1 each.
Phya Prasiddhi, erivoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of Slam,
laid bis credentials before President
McICinley at the White House.
Rural free delivery has been estab
lished by the postoffice department, to
commence May 1, at Hubbard, Iowa
Boscobel, Wis., and Lancaster, Wis.
The president has announced the res
ervation of about 25,GOO acres of public
land located at the mouth of the Mis
sion Creek, at Eagle City, Alaska, for
military purposes.
Lieut. Com. William Winder has been
ordered to take immediate command of
the Michigan, on the Great Lakes, in
place of Commander P. Garst, whose
orders to that duty have been revoked.
United States Minister Irwin, at Lis
bon. has reported that the Portuegese
government lias made all necessary ar
rangements for the payment of the
judgment, amounting to nearly $5,000,
000. on account of the award of the De
lagoa bay arbitration.
The president sent a message to the
senate askiug that $25,000 be placed at
the disposal of the secretary of state
for the payment of the expenses of a
conference of the republics constituting
the Union of ^mcrican Republics,
which he recommended in his'last an
nual message.
Unfortunate Happening*.
A storm did $20,000 damage at Mo
line. 111.
Rain has done much damage to prop
erty in the Gulf states.
it
A tornado overturned houses near
Winfleld. Kas., killing two persons.
Fire destroyed Morris, Diskln & Co.'s
box factory, in Jersey City. Loss, $90,
000.
One man was killed and two others
seriously injured in a $400,000 fire in
Brooklyn.
W. H. Gunn of Peru, Ind., was shot
by a companion, who mistook him for
a panther.
A Norwegian bark was shipwrecked
off Warsaw, but the captain and^crew
Were saved.
'A
tornado in "Lafayette county. Mo.,
Injured five persons and destroyed con
siderable property.
Fire caused a loss of about $75,000
in the n-attress and iron bed factory
of Charles H. Rogers & Co. at New
Tork.
William and .Tames Powell, sons of
Former Mayor John F. Powell of Wau
fcegan, 111., were drowned at Mel
bourne. Fla.
l'eriftiml Mention.
Senator Wolcott has been mentioned
4M a vice presidential possibility.
James Tuttle, a pioneer, died near
Atlanta. 111., aged ninety-three yfears.
The University of Edinburgh has con
ferred the degree of LL. D. upon Am
bassador Choate.
Murat Halstead has accepted the
presidency of a new college of journal
ism in Cincinnati.
Bev. W. J. Rutledge, who is said to
hf^ve "been first to suggest the G. A. R.,
4iea at Jacksonville, 111.
Cknnmodore Richard Peck, secretary
Of the New Haven Steamboat com
pany, and one of tbe oldest and best
known steamboat men of the United
States, died at New Haven, Conn., in
bis 'eighty-fifth year.
Frank. H. Hooker, treasurer of the
Henry Hooker Carriage company, New
Haven. Conn., and former secretary
and treasurer of the United States Car
riage Manufacturers' association, died
at his home in Orange.
Vorlesrn Gontp.
A rich goldl discovery has been re
ported in Luzon.
British Columbia, is being overrun
With Japanese labor.
Two French merchant vessels are to
be built in Germany.
Carousek. the well known chess
player, is dead at Budapest.
Citizens of St. Malo, France, hung
Joseph Chamberlain in effigy.
War between Japan and Russia is
considered inevitable In Japan.
St. Petersburg doubts that Ferdinand
will proclaim Bulgaria a kingdom:
It has been officially denied that Rus
sia is making warlike preparations.
A railroad across Greece, to cost $9,
000,000, will be finished in four years.
Turkey refines to abandon increased
Import duties, as asked by the powers..
Emperor Menelik of Abyslnnia will
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Sins Mi Sinner*.
Frank Purcell, at Princeton, Ind., was
declared guilty of murdering Rufus
Ross at Augusta, Ind., in January. He
was given a life sentence.
John E. Farrar, teller of the Water
bury National Bank of Waterbury, Vt.,
charged with embezzling $33,000, was
held for trial under $10,000 bonds.
Mrs. Belle Howard is at the Cottage
hospital, Peoria, HL, and will probably
die. The supreme court affirmed a de
cision sentencing her to seven years in
the penitentiary for tbe murder of Etta
Buckley.
Morgan Boone, colored, swaggered
through an excursion train at Slaugh
tersville, Ky., cursing and brandishing
a pistoL He broke a white man's
skull with a coupling pin. Boone was
killed and his body thrown from the
train.
J. Clements, an employe at the in
sane hospital at Fergus Falls, attempt
ed to commit suicide'by hanging him
self at his home on Lincoln avenue,
Fergus Fals, Monday night. He was
discovered and cut down "before life
was extinct, and is being examined a$
to liis sanity.
Otherwise. -gf
The Illinois flag law has been de
clared unconstitutional.
Northern Indiana will have 10,000,
000 acres in sugar beets.
The Trans-Mississippi congress was
held in Houston. Texas, last week.
The Blackstone National Bank of
Boston will go into voluntary liquida
tion.
A woman who had starved to death
was found in the pew of a New York
church recently.
New York police commissioners re
fuse to issue any more boxing licenses
under any circumstances.
Union carpenters of Chicago will ask
Dewey to refuse to review the parade
from any stand not built by them.
The customs receipts in the Philip
pines for the months of January, Feb
ruary and March, 1900, were $1,669,379.
So far as possible Gen. Wood is
placing Cubans in office and the policy
of educating islanders is progressing.
Hoke Smith has sold his Interest in
the Atlanta Journal to H. M. Atkinson,
Moses Brandon and J. R. Gray of Atv
lanta.
The presbytery of Northumberland at
Danville. Pa., adopted an overture to
the general assembly, asking a reform
in the creed.
Congressman Henry D. Loudenslager
was unanimously renominated by the
Republicans of the First New Jersey
district.
The broom factories of Ohio an
nounce an advance of 25 cents per doz
en, following an advance of 50 cents
in February.
Men who returned from the Philip- 'ar
pines on the transport Tartar, now in
per hour minimum wage,
Mrs. Leslie Carter scored great suc
cess in "Zara" at London, although the
play itself did not receive the enthusi
astic reception anticipated.
Bertha Warnken of Cincinnati, who
married Julius Moyse, the bogus Capt.
Clark, at New Orleans, has entered
suit against her husband for divorce.
Mrs. James T. Dunn of New Haven.
Conn., formerly Miss Elizabeth Cowry
of Chicago, was granted a divorce on
account of her husband's drunkenness.
At the auction sale of Hereford cat
tle at Chicago fifty head sold for $35,
000. One bull brought $7,500. One and
two-year-old heifers went for $3,000
each.
At Philadelphia the Cambria Iron ana
Steel company, at its regular quarterly
meeting Wednesday, declared a divi
dend of 50 cents per share, payable
May 15.
A distinguished authority on consti
tutional law at New York gave out
facts in several cases, which appear to
prove that in Hawaii a virtual state of
slavery exists.
Gen. John C. Gllmore. chief of Gen.
Mile^ staff, continues critically ill at
his residence in Washington, as the re
sult of his participation in the Porto
Rican campaign.
At a meeting of the Pittsburg cham
ber of commerce a resolution was
adopted petitioning Secretary Long to
give the name/of Pittsburg to one of
tbe new armored cruisers.
The passenger lists of European
steamships out of New York show that,
in spite of the reports of scarcity of ac
commodations. few of them carried.
any tiling like a full quota of passen
gers.
Gen. Joe Wheeler, of the Eighth Con
gressional district, Alabama, has re
quested Gov. Johnston to call a special
election to fill the vacancy caused by
his resignation as a member of con
gress.
The postoffice at Lake City, S. C., has
been re-established, and Mrs. *Detta J).
•Carter, white, appointed postmistress.
There has been no postoffice at Lake
City since the colored postmaster there
was killed by a mob two years ago.
The members of the Masonic lodge
at Wheaton have purchased a site on
the main business street and begun the
erection of a handsome building, 40x80
feet, two stories high. The groun$
floor will be finished off for an
opera
house, and tbe second floor will be
used for lodge rooms. The- building
when completed will cost about £8,000,
NORTH DAKOTA
STATE
T* NEWS.
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Material for the new Washburn road
Is coming in rapidly.
A daily train now runs north from
Jamestown on the N. P.
A fifteen-year-old Stutsman county
£irl married a one-legged man.
The next term of United States court
will convene at Fargo May 15.
The people's Bank of Wahpetori has
reorganized with $20,000 capital.
John Houston of Bathgate lost bis
elegant home ty fire last week.
The steel range peddlers have put in
an appearance in the vicinity of Hope.
A Sheldon boy made a lunch of
Rough on Rats and never turned a
hair.
Now is the time the young boy with
the gun gets in 'his graft on the go
phers.
Jamestown will have a summer
school beginning July 30 and contin
uing three weeks.
The Harvey Milling Co. Shipped a
consignment of two carloads of flour
to Liverpool, Eng.
While riding a horse the animal
slipped and fell on George Brady of
Kulm, crushing a foot severely.
It is said that Fredrus Baldwin may
run independently against Judge Rose
for the office of state's attorney.
A telephone line has been extended
from Valley City to Getchell and there
are twelve farmers along the line.
Considerable townsite property is
changing hands at Walhalla and a
small boom is looked for this season.
H. E. Arnold bas secured a number
of dairy cows and bas commenced the
building of a creamery a mile from
Devils 'Lake.
A. Carrington farmer smashed a rig
belonging to a boy and tried to get out
of paying for it but spectators made
him dig up.
An automobile has been received at
Valley City by Beeman & Allen which
is to be used for passenger transit
about the city.
The Weary Willies are arriving in
tbe state for their summer's outing
and will receive warm receptions in
several towns.
I Four gentlemen of Pembina have
bought a gasoline launch and it will
be used by pleasure seekers on the
I Red river this summer.
I An engine on the southbound James
town Northern jumped
fhe
track a
short way from Carrington and de
layed traffic for an hour.
I Thomas Punton of Ayr, Cass county,
came neat losing his arm from blood
poisoning caused by a scratch on the
finger from a harness buckled
I Wilton is already talking Fourth of
Mrs. Mary J. Furman, Nashville, I The new time card has gone into ef
Tenn.. has bequeathed her estate, #al{^fect on the Jamestown and Northern
ued at $200,000 to $250,000, to Vander- "and tile trains are run so that there is
bilt university. a daily train service to all points as
A* the result of a conference 400 season that will not levy a tax for cor
journeymen tailors who have been on porate purposes. The other place is
a strike in Chicago for several weeks flown in New England.
will go back to work. Northern Pacific authorities have as-
A general strike of carpenters was or- mred the people of Bismarck that a
dered at Davenport, Iowa. The men: new passenger depot will be built on
demand an eight-hour day and 25 cents te site of the old Sheridan house
July celebration and Mayor Macom
ber says the vicinity will turn out 300
people to hear an orator on that day.
as
Leeds.
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San Francisco, report that the islands Braddock by cutting bis throat with a
are rich in gold. razor. He had been suffering from
Coal miners and operators met at sickness and was thought to be tem
Brazil. Ind., and agreed to the semi- porarlly insane.
monthly pay day. Three thousand men I Mapleton is noted as the second city
returned to work. In the United States heard from this
F. L. Ellis committed suicide at
during the coming summer.
The largest party of immigrants to
Bowbells of the season numbered 300,
and during the week tbe total number
was about 800, tbe most of the settlers
making filings immediately.
S. M. Lockerby has resigned as
state's attorney of Sargent county. The
resignation was accepted on condition
that he was to remain in any further
prosecutions of the famcus gopher tail
cases.
Farmers are urged to be especially
:areful in giving census enumerators
lull information on live stock statis
tics. as a great effort is being made to
have this department accurate and
somplete.
Ira O. Jenkins was held without bail
to the district court on the charge of
murdering August Stark. He and his
father were arrested shortly after the
finding of Stark's body in a coal mine
north of Bismarck.
Five horses got on the track in front
at the Great Northern flyer a short
way from Knox and all were killed,
rbe train was running at a high rate
pf speed and that it was not derailed
teemed miraculous.
Jake Brendt was arrested at Fessen
den and pleaded guilty to burglarizing
Speiser's hardware store. Later It de-'
veloped that Fred Peppie was mixed
ap in the deal and he was arrested at
Anamoose and bound over
A young son of a Bathgate citizen
put on his father's vest in which he
found some matches with which /he
set fire to Lewis Poavey's liVery
stable. Timely assistance prevented
a disastrous fire.
The lack of sufficient clerks in the
land office at Minot has made a great
deal of extra work for tbe officials-and
they are given credit for the« efficient
mamfer in which that office, har been
conducted.
The Valley City police claim to have
knowledge as to the burglars who
robbed Hougen Bros.' safe: They are
supposed to be members of an organ
ized gang with quarters In the cities
and the detectives are «working on that
clue.
There was another jail delivery in
Fessenden and it took an all-night ride
and two teams to overtake the prjs-
0Ber
jn the hills. The prisoner worked
an hour on one of the- bars' and got
out' the same way the "birds^dld last
fall When four at one time flew.
The Grandln postoffice has a new set
of fixtures.
The Soo is to spend $1,500 this year
tn Hankinson.
Buffalo people hue planning for a
new town ball.
The Lidgerwood mill Is being still
further improved.
There are eighty children at the
Elbow Woods agency.
The Bartlett postoffice has been
made a monejv order office.
j. p. Ranee succeeds Prof. Kimball
as the principal of "the Mlnto school.
The Alliance Hail association is in
•the field for business again this season.
Albert Thorne, an Englishman, sui
cided at Portland by the poison route.
An Ontario man is to bring some
French Canadian settlers to a Pembina
man.
James Liberty of Minto has sold his
elevator to the Duluth Elevator com
pany.
The St. Anthony and Dakota Eleva
tor company is erecting an elevator at
Bartlett.
E. E. Willoughby of McHenry re
ports sales of machinery aggregating
$1,000 a day.
The wife and daughter of ex-Gov.
Sbortridge have located at Devils Lake
to practice osteopathy.
McHenry has sixteen bsuiness firms
and more coming in. There is a goodl
opening for a flour mill.
An Iowa man will submit to the
council of Washburn a proposition to
put in an electric light plant
At the election of Company at
Dickinson H. J. GruscLus was elected
first lieutenant, vice A. J. Ostprn.
Prairie fires have been numerous in
the vicinity of Williston. but not near
enough the settlements to do any dam
age.
Owing to the early seeding this year,
farm bands are scarce, as the usual in
flux of workingmen has not yet ar
rived.
Ground l»a6 been broken in Bottineau
for a block to be 26x70 and built of
brick made at the Bottineau brick
yards.
Five of the hoboes who held up a
train at Hebron got thirty days. The
others will have a-trial in the district
court.
The weather was never more favor
able for seeding and spring farm work
than it is this year in -the Red river
valley.
W. C. Candee of Dickinson was
ptricken with complete paralysis as he
was recovering from an attack of rheu
matism.
A Wheatland citizen complains that
his seven-year-old son was brutally
flogged by two of the local school
teachers.
Attorney Simcoe of Dickinson has
been fll since his return from Maine,
where he was called by the illness of
his father.
The old settlers of Ramsey county
will organize an' association and will
hold their first meeting at tbe Chau
tauqua on July 3.
Three brick business blocks, several
residences and more paving are on the
list as some of Wahpeton's improve-,
ments for the year.
Harris' drug store and Bishop's
butcher shop at Oakes were burglar
ized and Sheriff Axtell is taking steps
toward the capture of the thieves.
A fire started to burn off hay land
got beyond control and a large amount
of hay in stacks belonging to W. Gros
venor, near Casselton, was burned.
There is plenty of vacant land about
McHenry that can be bought on easy
terms, but the country is rapidly being
settled with., a good class of settlers
from the East.
The railroads in this state are
making war on the hoboes who are
caught stealing rides,, and one was ar
rested at Bismarck and given ten days!
for beating the railroad company.
W. W. Star, a new settler, found $20
on the streets at Churchs Ferry that
another immigrant had dropped and
left it at the bank for the owner, a
man named Hausman, who rewarded
the man for his honesty.
The board of management of the
Valley City normal school has re
elected the old faculty for the ensuing
year with the exceptionfof Miss Har
ris, who has resigned.
Controller Dawes approved the con
version of Bottineau County Bank of
Bottineau to the First National bank
with a' capital of $25,000. F. B. Noble
and N. E. Thompson are named as in
corporator8v
James Wardel, night clerk at the
Ontario hotel at Minot is missing, to
gether with some money and a watch
belonging to the proprietor of the
house. Wardel has heretofore borne
a good reputation.
Mrs. John Proudlove of Bathgate has
begun suit for $5,000 against the Great
Northern Railway company for in
juries received last fall frojn a fall con
sequent on broken planks in the depot
sidewalk or platform. Her arm was
broken and she received other injuries
for which she thinks $5,000 would
about compensate ber.
Sheriff Jones closed all the resorts in
Wabpeton and confiscated about $1,500
worth of bar fixtures and supplies. No
warrants were issued for the arrest of
the proprietors of the places. The raid
has effectually closed the places and
it is said that no criminal proceedings
will be commenced against tbe owners.
Several sales of claims taken by
Stutsman, county men are reported at
good figures. James Doods, who lives
near Melviller took a claim in Wells
county two years ago. He borrowed
(400 on it and
thiB
spring sold his
right for $1,000. Another claim taken
five years ago recently 'sold for $3,000.
Before justice Nels Bernston in Sil
vesta township, .Walsh county, recent
ly, a fine of $20 and costs was imposed
an John Myers, a member of the school
board, for making an effort to prevent
the Aardahl children, whose father is
afflicted with leprosy, from attending
the district school, Mr. Myers has ap
pealed the case to the district court
The county commissioners of Walsh
county are. taking hold of tbe good
roads problem, and proposals are ad
vertised for the construction of twelve
or. more bridges to be built in that
joucty this season.
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FARCrM'S GREATNESS'
Empbasimed by Mayor Jobnaon i»
His Annual Me»Ba«e.
Mayor Johnson of Fargo submitted:
his annual message to the city council
on the beginning of his fourth term as
mayor The communication was ex
tensive and covered many points of in
terest to the municipality. After felic
itating the council op the city growth
during the past year, in which more
money had been spent for buildings
than at any other period of the city a
history, the. mayor predicted greater
expenditures along that line this year,,
.and cited some of the work already'
planned. Especial attention was called
to the number of residences to be built
indicating that the city was becoming:
one of homes, and that the increase i»
population from outside sources neces
sitated increased 'accommodations fop
the people. The wholesale trade of
3898 had amounted to $9,153,209. In
1899 it was $10,726,015, au increase of,
$1,573,805. Dec. 31, 1898, there waa
on deposit in Fargo banks $1,ft9,924.
Dec. 31. 1899, the amount was $1,765,
(591. The Fargo clearing house in 1898
handled $14,677,849. In 1899 thel
amount was $17,921,159.
The sale of stamps and box rents for
the Fargo postoffice increased frojn
$35,077 in 1898 to $38,074 in 1S99. At|
the end of the present fiscal year, in
June, Fargo will rank as a first-class
office, a distinction never before at
tained by a city of the same popula
tion. The advantages of Fargo's hotels
were pointed out. including the in
crease by the addition of the big Wal
dorf during the past year. The total
registration of Fargo's hotels during
the year just passed was 157,013. The
activity of Fargo's real estate waa
shown in the comparison of the figures
for the last four years. The amounts
in 1896 were $181,578 1897, $212,876
1898, 228,942 1899, $314,956. or an In
crease in four years of $133,080—al
most 90 per cent These figures indi
cate that investors are not much afraid
of Fargo. The freight handled in
Fargo in 1898 was 4,608,840,000 pounds.
In 1899 the total was 4.608,840,000.
A high tribute was paid the locftl
volunteer fire department, and it was
suggested that a system be devised for
a graduated payment for the services
of the members. At present only the
drivei-s and the chief are on salaries.
Under the head of city improvements
during the past year it was shown(
that four and two-tenths miles of addi
tional paving were laid at a cost onQ
$107,013 14,828 feet of sewer, of whicU
4,8S0 was 36-inch brick, wasi laid at a
cost of $47,955 12,696 feet of water
mains were put in at a cost of $12,190,
making a total for improvements in
the city of $167,168.
The mayor is now on a stated salary
of $100 per month. In the past the
salary, or stipend, has been only $200
per year, and Fargo has been governed'
the most cheaply of any municipality
of its size in the world. All of the
maj'or's appointments were confirmed
except that of T. S. Norgaard for
auditor. This was rejected by a vote
of 8 to 3 and J. M. Rowe who ha»
served for the last two yeaVs, holds
over.
Chief of Police Bowers. Superintend-.'
ent of Water Works Thimens. Street
Commissioner Johnson, City Assessor
Wade, Building Inspector Campbell
and a number of deputies were reap
pointed. Richard Fields wafe appoint
ed city weigher, to succeed Joe La
Mont. dismissed, and Tom Hall- cap
tain of police, vice Grant.
Korth Dakota Weather.
With this number -the Weekly Croa
Bulletin of the Nortb Dakota sectloni
commences for the season of 1900.
The weather during the past two
weeks has been very favorable for
farming operations. No rain of any
I consequence has fallen this month, and'
I tbe reports of all correspondents are
so uniform in describing the condition
of the ground and what the weather
has been, that only that portion relat
mg to the progress of seeding has been
used.
The ground is in excellent conditioq
in all parts of the state, but, as no raiq
bas fallen, it is quite dry everywhere
where, and In most sections moisture'
will be nectssary before grain that has
been sown will germinate. The days
have been quite warm, followed by
freezing nights, in some scetions the
ground freezing so that It could not be
worked before noon. In the southeast
ern part of the-state buds and grass
are beginning to turn green, but as a
rule vegetaition has not yet made a
start. All reports agree that a more
favorable beginning for a crop year
has not been known In this state.
Wheat seeding has been lu progress
since the first of the month, and in
some sections is nearly finished, while
it is well advanced in nearly all p»i*tn
Some oats and rye have been sowti,
HuhEl?er?,,y speaking, there has been
but little done aside from wheat seed-'
ing.
KNOCKED OUT.
In the case of Helland vs. Teigen, de-v
cided at Aneta, Nelson county, recent--'
ly. in justice court, Justice George K.
Ibayer presiding, it. was held, after
elaborate argument and due delibera-'
tlon, by a unanimous court, tliajt a dis
charge in bankruptcy, under the feder
al bankruptcy act of 1898. Is no bar to.
a suit against the bankrupt on a prom
issory note, although said note was'
duly scheduled by the bankrupt and
the creditor had due notice of the pro
ceedings in bankruptcy. The consid
eration for the note in suit was twot
mules tliat died shortly after they were
purchased by the bankrupt. Whether
'the court was in any way influenced'
by that feature of the case is uncer
tain. The decision will probably pot
be accepted as final by the bankrupt,
so this case cad liardly.be said to settle
beyond a doubt the validity of the law
at least, not until the statutory thirty
days for appeal has expired.
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ALASKAN MARBLE QUARRIES.
Two Fsrgo Men Go to Thoroagklr
Investigate Theaa.
City Engineer Crabbe and A. W.
Beals of Fargo are in Alaska surveying
mining claims, In which local parties^
are interested. It is claimed there ue
valuable marble deposits there, aad
Mr. Beals. who is an expert, is looking
up the matter. As there are no marble
quarHes on the Pacific coast, it Is
claimed the find will revolutionize the'
Industry in the western part of the
Unkpd States
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