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BY JOHN SAITXHLUHD.
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA
it It aud that the bank of Franc#
fcas an invisible studio In a gallery be
hind the caahiera, 10 that at a given
signal from one ot tbem any suspected
customer bas bis photograph taken
nrithout bis knowledge
A famous canine cemetery is to be
•een behind the summer palace at Pek
ing, where 1,000 dogs, the pets of the
various monarchs of China, are laid to
rest. Each animal has a monument
•rected to it, some of tbem being of
Ivory, silver and gold.
The largest loaves of bread baked in
the world are those of France and
Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy is
l»ked in loaves two or three feet long,
while in France the loaves are made in
the shape of very long rolls, four feet,
or five feet in length, and in many
toses six feet
Th£ transfer tax on the estate of the
late Henry Villard has been paid to the
County Treasurer of Westchester coun
ty, New York. It amounted to $34,414,
less 6 per cent for prompt payment, a
total of $31,747.19. This Is the largest
transfer tax ever paid In the county.
The federal tax amounted to $26,842.
The estate, as appraised, is valued at
92,983.821.
Among Glasgow's city institution*
Are wash bouses, conveniently situated
In working class localities, where
housewives get the use of a washing
stall, a lightning dirt extractor and
other cleaning appliances, as well as ot
a, drying stove, all for 4 cents an hour,
and an ordinary family washing can be
completed, ready to take home, within
couple of hours.
The value of the metallic products ot
Abe year is given at $527,218,084 and of
the non-metallic at $447,790,862. The
9atter class includes, of course, the
coals—$168,000,000 in bituminous and
$88,000,000 in Pennsylvania anthracite
—$64,600,000 in petroleum, $20,000,000
toorth of natural gas, and large value
In stone, brick, clay and cement, with
various other minerals.
Robert I. Aitken has been chosen a&
the sculptor for the American navy
monument, to be erected in San Fran
jciaco. It is to cost $45,000, and the
larger part of this amount has been
subscribed, Claus Spreckles contribut
ing $10,000, and John W. Mackey and
Uayor J. D. Phelan, of San Francisco,
S&.000 each. President UcKlnley is ex
jpected to break ground for the monu
%ent during his visit to the city.
A "new" Dead Sea has been discov
ered by Dr. Sven Hedin in Thibet. It
4s a world wonder, enormous in ex
igent, but so shallow that to navigate
one must, drag the boat half a mile oi
snore before it can be boated with a
|oad. But the most remarkable char*
acteristic is the almost incredible
amount of salt contained. The bottom
is an unbroken crust of salt, and the
Iboat and oars are as white as chalk,
even the dress of the rowers soon be
coming whitened.
A somewhat curious school has beek
opened at Bangkok by an English lady.
The pupils are 15 in number, and the?
are all princesses of the royal family
of Siam. .They are taught to do every
(thing that a good housekeeper should
do. They cook, wash clothes, bake,
sweep rooms, lay the table, arrange the
^Bowers, and, in short learn to mak
themselves generally useful. The}
leave the school to be married at the
age of 15, and it is said that a Siamse
princess now makes an admirable wife
It is believed that a living represen Eliza H.
^discovered by Sir Harry Johnston. The
(Helladotherium was found in a fossil
tstate in Qreece and Asia Minor, and
Cthe
supposed to be extinct. According
TimeB, the animal discovered is
ithe size of an ox, is distinctly related
4o a giraffe, is found only in the dens
lest part of the Congo Free State for
ests, and is quite inoffensive. Its flesh
la said to be excellent eating. The
liope is expressed that the animal may
{be domesticated, and we may yet en
joy the luxury of Helladotheriun)
«teaks.
The dull pupil, to whom school prtzet
tiave bieen only unattainable dreams,
at last received some recognition.
A. teacher in the Boys' High School ot
Eg.
Srecy,
Tears'
rooklyn has initiated the plan of giv
prizes, not for eminence of attain
jnent, but for general improvement.
This method, instead of being based on
the pupil's competition with his fel
Jowa, is grounded in his competition
•with himself. It assumes that it is
fnore of an honor to gain a prize for
steady improvement, which means
ttalthful and persistent work, than to
sain one for a high percentage of,
scholarship, which may be the result ten years.
«f great natural ability. It is hoped The Cuban* constitutional convention
'that the encouragement may lessen the by a vote of 16 to 11 accepts the Hatt
dumber of pupils—nearly one-third— amendment,
who now drop out of the high school
(before the completion of the course.
A hideous doubly crime has Just been
contested by a French convict now at
Noumea. It appeVf. i^tyin 1896 he which
iurdered his wife at Vironchaux, .near court.
and threw her body into a well, Gen. Pultney ....
hneband was afterward arrested far
To divert suspicion from himself he the
then assassinated a neighbor and bur
ied his remains in a wood The miss
ing man- Was sentenced to twenty
penal jwrvitnde by defaplt. The
gwatrnc*! to penal aervltude for ilfe^t*oad, td famtficot
f/'.- VMhlagtM Xotn.
Eighteen provinces have been organ
ised and officered in the Philippines.
The United States continues supreme
among the coal-producing countries.
Frauds in connection with hemp
shipments have been discovered in the
Philippines.
Officials at Washington deny the re
port that the federal bankruptcy law la
being abused.
The government crop report shows a
decrease in spring wheat acreage of 1„
235,000 acres.
Treasurer Hollander of Porto Rico re
ports the island revenues sufficient for
the island's maintenance.
President McKinley has given out a
statement declaring that he would not
accept a nomination for a third term.
The Illinois proves to be the fastest
battleship in the American navy and
the fastest of her class in the world.
Statistics show that it costs $160 per
year to educate, clothe and feed each
Indian child in the Indian schools.
Representative Eddy's efforts to have
lands on the Red Lake reservation
opened for settlement are meeting with
favor in Washington.
Casualties.
Five men were killed and seven were
injured in a dynamite explosion on a
Mew York railroad.
Seventeen men dead and seven In
jured was the result of the mine ex
plosion in Pennsylvania.
A railroad wreck occurred near Pre
toria, June 7, in which nine soldiers
were killed and many injured.
A cyclone swept over Oklahoma re
cently, killing several people and doing
inuch damage to property and crops.
A car of dynamie exploded in a col
lision on the Lackawanna, killed six
men and fatally injured three more.
Jack Morris of New York, the treas
urer of the Barnum & Bailey show, fell
from a railway carriage between Bud
weis and ^Velleechln, Austria, and was
seriously injured.
Oliver Crosier and Emil Bergdorf
were drowned in Summit lake, near
Akron, Ohio. They, with Michael Shay,
were crossing the lake In a boat, when
Bergerof began to rock it, and the frail
craft upset.
Fire at Eeverett, Wash., destroyed a
lodging house. Edward Kelly, a mo
torman, went Into the burning building
and found the landlady. Mrs. Flittering,
enveloped in flames. He succeeded in
getting her into the street, but she died
of her injuries.
People Talked About.
Edmund Archibald Stuart, earl of
Moray, is dead. He was born in 1851.
It is said that Yale will confer the
degree of LL. D. upon Archbishop Ire
land of St. Paul.
Miss Louise Taylor, islster of Con
gressman Taylor of Ohio, was married
to Edward Jones at Youngstown, Ohio.
Richard Griffith, one of the best
known press telegraph operators In the
tountry, died at New Orleans.
N. B. Carskadon, a prominent Kansas
City atorney, dropped dead of heart dis
lase. He was born In Kaser, W. Va.,
(n 1860.
Lieut. George R. Bennett of the Ninth
United States cavalry has been detailed
us professor of military science and
tactics at the Iowa State university.
3. P.
Morgan
has determined not to
tthlbit publicly his recent art acquisi
tion, the lost and found Gainsborough
portrait of 4he duchess of Devonshire.
Retro Mascagnl, the Italian com
poser, has signed a contract for an eight
weeds' tour in the United States with
in Italian orchestra, leaving two months
bence.
According to the Vienna correspondent
«f the London Daily Mail the announce
ment of the engagement of Prince Fer
dinand of -Bulgaria to Princess Xenia
if Montenegro is imminent.
Palmer,
tatlve of the Helladotherium has been O«FV M™.
man, died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs.
Palmer was-a daughter of Jude Lysan
der Houk, and wrote over the pen name
of "Snow Houk."
wife of Eugene B.
Judge W. P. Beck, an old-time at
torney of Pueblo, Colo., whllevaddress-,
Ing the county court in a lawsuit,*fell
to the floor and shortly became uncon
scious. He was taken home and short
ly afterward died.
W. H. Barris, D. D., first professor of
theology in Grlswold college, a promi
nent Episcopal clergyman and for
forty years curator' of the Davenport
Academy of Sciences, died at Daven
port, Iowa, aged eighty-three.
W. H. Harris, D. D., first professor
of theology In Grlswold college, a prom
inent Episcopal clergyman and forty
years curator of the Davenport Acad
emy of Sciences, died in Davenport,
Iowa, aged eighty-three.
Forelsn.
A number of deaths from starvation
have occurred in Johannesburg, Trans
vaal.
A, French railway official says that
American-made
engines, burin• too .much
coal.
Ireland's census shows a decrease of
248,204 in the population during the past
Rotterdam, Holland, ship brokers ad
vertise 'to accept freight through to
Chicago with bulk unbroken.
Henry Labouchere was lined fiJSQ: fins
contempt of court in commencing on a
was at the, ftlme still to
:ney'* division' ha* captured
hroth
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Acting President '.Schalk-Burger, oh the
Swaziland border*
The StUwell group ot American cart
taliats have, purchased the PacnW*,
Zacualtipan Tampl,c ,rallr,oad. Thj
road will be extended from Sandoval*
A beautiful young girl was assaulted
by a deaf mute and probably fatally
injured.
Two men were killed and two others
injured In a street duel lir Aoutsoft.
Texas.
Three men were convicted in Chicago
of selling merit board questions to po
lice sergeants.
Richard L. Smith of Madison, Wis.,
committed suicide because his wife
sued for a divorce.
A supposedly wealthy''New Yorker
killed an actress and then committed
suicide in a Chicago hotel.
The nine-year-old son of William
Dawes, near Pana, 111., shot and killed
his Infant brother because it cried.
A girl student In the Nebraska State
university pilfered from the other stu
dents and was sent home In disgrace.
A Georgiajnob tried to take, a negro
murderer from the sheriff, and one man
was killed and another severely wound
ed.
Mrs. Kimberlin, associated with ex
Gov. St. John of Kansas in mining en
terprises in Colorado, committed sul
clde at Colorado Springs.
R. W. Burk, wanted at Sioux C!ty,
was captured at Indianapolis. His
Iowa, for forgery and embezslemem,
downfall'was due to gambling.
Alljah Heathcote, a Des Moines con
tractor, shot his wife because of jeal
ousy. Heathcote is now lh jail. His
victim is at the point of death.
R. W. Burke, wanted in Sioux City,
Iowa, on a charge of forgery and em
bezzlement, is reported to have been
arrested in Indianapolis.
Lieut. Henry T. Mitchell of the Forty
flrst regiment, has been arrested and
will be tried by court martial on the.
charge of embezzlement, at Bacalor, of
$277 of public funds.
John Gray Foster, brother of the wife
of Gov. 'McMillan of Tennessee, was
shot and killed on his plantation, hear
Shreveport, La., by a negro laborer. A
posse Is now Inpursult.
John Neely, a young farmer, near
North. Vernon, Ind., shot himself at
his sweetheart's home because sje
would not marry him until fall. He
wanted the wedding on July 4.
An attempt to blow up a bridge and
wreck an express train on the Union
Pacific, six miles west of Green River,
Wyo., was frustrated by the accidental
discovery of 800 pounds of dynamite
hidden in a ravine..
James Crabtree Is under arrest at
Cape Fair, Mo., charged with thel mur
der of sixteen-year-old Alice Stallion,
his granddaughter. The girl's mother
and two uncles are also under arrest
for the same crime.
Sheriff W. T. Morris, In attempting to
arrest two Mexicans about ten mlies
west of Kennedy, Texas, was shot a^Qd
mortally wounded by one of them. Mr.
Morris then killed the man who shot
him and wounded his other assail&t.
The wounded-man escaped, but officers
are In pursuit.
Otherwise.
A general strlks of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen on the Maine Cen
tral system has begun. Eight hundred
men are affected.
The 500 machinists, p.ipe fitters and
helpers who struck at the Depew shojJ
of the ew York Central at Buffalo a
few days- ago have 'returned to theii*
work.
The proposed races on the north shore
between the Shamrock II. and the Con
stitution, the Independence atad the Col
umbia for Mr. Lawson's $1,000 will prob
ably be abandoned.
Col. William F. Cody Is making a&
effort to locate the proposed nationaf
home for indigent Elks at Cody, a new
town In the Big Horn basin, Wyo., that
has beeti recently laid out and named
after him.
Principal Booker T. Washington ot
the Tuskegee normal and industrial in
stitute has been notified by John Dj
Rockefeller that he will be glad to pro
vide money for the
erection
^v O
of one of
the much-needed dormitories for boys
at* the institution.
President Harper of the University oi
Chicago announces that the university
has begun to establish affiliated prepar
atory schools In different parts of
Europe. These schools will be breaches
of academies which, are affiliated with
the university in tills country.
News has been received by relatives
in. Hopkihsvllle Ky., that Miss Ollie
Tyson, a poor Todd county girl, has
fallen heir to great wealth. She has
learned through attorney^ that she will
receive $2,000,000 from the estate of an
uncle who died.recently" in Australia.
United States Senator Beveridge,, ac"
cording to. the St. Petersburg corre
spondent of the London Daily :Mall, will
not find much difficulty in securing from
the Russian
governmen
a concession
for A steamship line from the United
States tp Vladivostok or Port Arthur..
Joseph H. Manley is said to ha^an
nounced that he is a candidate for the
nomination for- governor of Maine at
the conclusion of Gov. HlU's term. Mr,
Mahley declares that he favoira a one
year term for the governor an^.tlieaup*
presslon of the whlsicy traffic .'
AM a result of losses sustained in title
Jacksonville lire tbe'Pacillc,
Sire Inmir
ahce Company of New York has retlred
from:
"active v-busihesi«.://'The ^Wpaiijf
claims as' a result of the^^rt^
Aggregated JgO.OOO^ Its rtsks |Mive been
reinsured with ^he W^tehester Ffre In«
surance Company ...«^\^ew,or)jt.-
MotherAmadeys,the
4t the S«St^*»
fat Cleveland,
LakeW.ood, a
l*ty yet^k
^ept for ftirtjC
•die 'VahA^theri «!l^6Kel)ii
ters l»vtag in «»lcllg« 4^
J.
the
out
is I'ERFKCT ROT.
That's What Army Oftcers S»T ot
the Allesrhtlons of Fraad.
San Franci3co, June 15-^Capt. A. W.
Kimball, post quartermaster of the
Presidio, made the following statement
In regard to the allejgdfj frauds in, tl\e
sale Of quartermaster's supplies be
longing to the. government:
"I am the officer that Is concerned In
this matter, yet no one' has. made any
inquiry of me.- I am the only bonded
officer at the post, and the only one
accountable, and disbursing officer. If
there has been anything irregular I
would be pleased to givie all the assis
tance in my power in the search for
the guilty men. If there are any. All
the government things sold In the
pawnshops are sold by discharged sol
diers from the returning volunteer reg
iments.
Col. J. B. Rawles, artillery corps,
post commander, said: ..
"All this talk of fraud Is-perfect rot.
People have
been
nagging for .a year
on the same 'subject. I have been
aware of the soldiers selling their
clothing for a long time. One of th^
puzzling and perplexing things In army
management is to keep the soldiers
from selling their clothing: I am con
fident that no quartermaster's iergeant
or civilian employe is Implicated In the
selling of even a shoestring." v/„
DYNAMITERS AFTER DOWIE.
Threaten to Blow Him Up Unless He
Stops Operations.
Chicago, June 15. Dynamiters are
after Dowle. The doctor and all his
works are to be elevated to a new
sphere of usefulness If the plans out
lined In a letter to Chief O'Neill yester
day are carried out. An Infernal ma
chine is to do the business. Chief
O'Neill is asked to keep his men away
so they won't get hurt when D.owle
comes down. The letter is incoherent
and rambling in construction, but de
clares that a dozen or so of skilled men
belonging to an 'anarchist set, people
who have become disgusted with
Dowle, have wprked three months on a
clever dynamite plan, which-is in read
iness to blow him and every place ha
has up unless he gives assurances he
will stop present operations.
SMALLPOX SCARE.
An Epidemic Is Feare«l in the Worth
era Part ot Michiwan.
St Joseph, Mich., June
15.—Reliable
•reports received here from various lo
calities in Van Buren county, tome
-forty miles north of Benton Harbor,
state that a smallpox epidemic i*
feared In the strip of country from
Bangor to McDonald, a small station
on the Pere Marquette railroad. Some
200 people In this strip, which Is not
over twenty miles long, are suffering
with the disease In a mild form. Two
deaths occurred In the last forty-eight
hours. The last victim was Frank
James, a telegraph operator who lives
In thfe stricken territory. James was
suddenly taken with the disease Sun
day evening and died the following
morning, suffering with great 'agony.
REMOVAL TO CANTON.
It Will Occur
RS
Soon as Mrs. Me-
Kinley's Condition Will Warrant.
Washington, June 15.—All |he reports
from Mrs. McKlnley's sick room are
encouraging and' plans are making for
her removal to Canton as soon as she
is in a condlHon that will safely war
rant It.' When that will be Is still prob
lematical. No othop plans are in con
templation. Great care is taken to
£uar) Mrs. McKinley from overtaxing
her. very limited' strength. She' ei
perience? no discomfort from the heat
and the complaints causing the great
est apprehension continue to yield
slowly to treatment.
\f
Tools
Hutchinson,
His
Kin.,
},was
Own Life.
June 15.—Because
he. believed he.^as going.blind J. A.
Tuttle, traveling. freight agent of the
Rock Island railroad* for many years,
traveling auditor of the Memphis road,
committed suicide in an undertaking
establishment in this city by firing a
bullet through his head last night.
Tuttle recently consulted an Oculist
who told him that he would lose his
eyesight in the near fUtiire.
Epidemic of Blaclc Smallpox.'
El Reno,.Okla., June 15.—Dr. White
has returned frbm the Kiowa and
Apache country where he has been to
investigate smallpox rumors and re
ports that an epidemic of'black- small
pox, fatal in neftrly every instance. Is
raging among the Indians. This Is the
country soon to be opened for settle
ment.
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Polaqnlnc
Snspectsdj|i^
Wabasha, Minn., June/15.—The coun
ty authorities yesterday. exhumed the
body of tbe young child of Mrs. Lilly,
Wilson, which died a couple of weeica
ago, and sent the stomach to St. Paul
for examination. They are suspicious
4hat'poison was administered. The
child died In'convulsions.
Wreck and DmwBlnK.
St. Johns, N. F., June 16. The
schooner Czar, bound to Labrador with
fishermen and their families, seventy
perrons. Was ,driven ashore on Cabot
island, on the north coast ,of New
foundland in a dense fog and gale on
Sunday'night, Fonr nwn were drownie^l
and six.others injured
S Lt^idon,
C&pk Town .isubsci^bpd t* the
tomary oath and took bis seat in the
(London, June 15.^It Is reported that
Mme Christine NllasonV Counted Mi
randa, the Swedish. Pflma donna, ia
ib June l6.^tf.|#x«
gptverumfjit circle'thftt ji/
to, levy
anavual goJd,m
of the 8out%
SSjM
ajiedby
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NORTH DAKOTA
STATE
^ITEINEWS-
Bartlett has many new settlets^
Bowdon Is arranging for racesi
Hoople will observe the Fourth.
Langdon reports a case of smallpox.
Emden how has a daily mall service,
vice.
The hotel at Mapes was burned last
week.
Grand Forks has a residence building
boom.
Bowbeils will, have a celebration on
"July 4.
More smallpox is reported in Griggs
county.
Grasshoppers are reported around
Cooperstown.
Postmaster Alderman, of Alderman,
has resigned.
Stockmen report
grasB
this year unu­
sually nutritious.
Dentist Coe has removed from Hank
Inson to Wahpeton.
Deals In relinquishments are frequent
In the new counties.
Hlllsboro merchants will close at 8
p. m., except Saturdays.
Traveling medicine companies are
again infesting the state.
Grafton is preparing to give the Old
Settlers a royal reception.
The gold discovered near Bottineau
didn't pan out satisfactorily.
A yearling bear was captured near
Walhalla by Paul 'Deerlnger.
Fifteen .families from Southern Min«
nesota will settle near Oakes.
Twine sales by the penitentiary offi
cials have been good this year.
Miss Klara Kjos of Eden, Wells
county,. became suddenly,insane..
Barbed wire fences are used for tele
phone connections in Griggs county.
Woodland township, Kidder county,
refunded a bunch of bonds recently.
S. L. King lost his barn, stock and 300
bushels of grain near Carido, by fire.
Cooperstown's population is 832, ac
cording to the school census returns.
There is a proposition for the estab
lishment of an. oil mill at Devils Lake.
Bottineau hal two incipient blazes
last week, but escaped .serious damage.
S. It King, living near Cando, lost his
.barn* stock and,300 bushels of grain by
flrfe
The next meeting of the German
Evangelical synod will be at Hankin
son.
Maria Hicks, the window-smasher,
was at Jamestown recently, westward
bound.
Bob Mltton Is to add a three-story
addition to the Merchants hotel at.
Wahpeton.
Capt.. Coggswell of Devils Lake has
returned for a second time from the
Philippines.
The iceman has had a partlal _yaca
tlon, and the woficf dealer Sad another
Whackral.ua.
Fence wires near Cooperstown have
been utilized for the carriage of tele
phone messages.
B. C. Boyd was elected a lieutenant of
Company at Hillsboro, to succeed W.
A. Kelly, resigned.
There was a 1,000 pound lump of coal
from the Wilton mine on exhibition at
Fargo during the festival.
The Northern Pacific will straighten
cist the Curve at Sedalia, where the
track now describes a letter S.
The'foliage seems'to have got ahead
pf the theasuring worms this time, and
tittle further damage is anticipated.
Cooperstown will celebrate the glori
•BB Fourth, and the programme laps
eyer unUl the eveiAng of the following
gay^:"-
Bismarck will enact ordinances for
the taxing of dogs and prohibiting the
pasturing of cattle on the streets of the
city.
*he Bismarck high school will gradu
ate no students this year, but the alum
ni association will hatre a banquet just
the same.
It is probable tfcat the five cases
agalnft Andrew.Llndelle, former secre
tary of the state enforcement league,
will be dropped.
E. Smith Peterson has just been no
tified by Gov. White that he has been
appointed on his. personal staff with
the rank of colonel.
John Blrkholta of Grand. Forks will
•tart a bank in one of the new towns
on, the Great Northern extension from
Bottineau to Richburg.
At Ardoch, after all other plans to get
'rain had failed, some one suggested a
picnic, and: the flood gates of heaven
were left ajar in a hurry. 'f
A lamp exploded In the office of the
Rannam Land compiany at Lisbon, and
considerable damage was done before
the flames could be extinguished.
Some families were quarantined in
Origgs couhty. One man, however, did
not, want to otiey the health officer, but
tbreata of arrest brought him'to time
,• Relatives bf Maj Beardsley present
ed Xr. Orr Saunders of Grand Forks
with a, handsome" driving horse, for
c$d&g4oi| the. m^jor' in his last, illness.
lands.Outside the Jamestown dty lim
its. 'jeie time was when people could
not get their lands into the,city fast
in
•tomjmy^oole has emerged from pH
yate lltt.lobg enough to report that
his ranch prospects are all nght, and
ContmctoA -tuivis oye^:
200
teams at
&I.U SikJJLi
a5
#5%
Bowdon boasts of its shirt waist men^^
Tramps are becoming a nuisance, at
Dickinson.""
Knox wants to adopt tne contrail
school plan.
There Were nine graduates of the El»
lendale high school.
Dr. .T. C. Smith of Thompson has rer
moved to St. ^Thomas.
Fosholdt" Bros are erecting a bricte-.j,. v-, _!
building at Coiirtenay. fjp
The abandoned Pembina reservation*
will be sold In October.
Glenullln expects to ship half a mill* |r
Ion pounds oir wool this year.
Sykeston is to have a creamery,
among its other improvements.
There is said to be a peck of trouble
in Pembina over smallpox bills.
Cut-worms have dione a good deal otW
damage to corn In Emmons county. v1,
The people in the northwestern part
of the state are jubilant over the ralnB.
•The rapid growth of Russian thistles:
has caused some alarm In Wells
ty.
Lots of settlers are entering Emmons
county by way of Braddock-on-the«
Soo.
Mrs. Erlckson of Standy, Richland
county, was badly injured by a vicious'•
bull.
Saddle ponies for South Africa are-^
being purchased in the vicinity of Dick
inson.
Out of thirteen teachers examined by
Supt. Seltz of Morton county, only two
passed.
There is said to be lots of Illegal 8?h
ing in Strawberry lake, in McLean-'
county.
The Hurd Land company sold 100,000*,
acres in the vicinity of Bowdon a few..i... -:,.i.!..!i..:
days ago. irsss,^--v
All of the Stutsman county appli
cants for teachers' certificates were
successful.
The new branch of the direst North-
em from Lakota will be called the Da-. :,. ,.,
kota & Northern. 'i
A petition is being circulated for a
new postofflce southeast of Serglus, in .......i,
Bottineau county.
Who will succeed Bishop Edsall is a
question that is being discussfed in
Episcopalian circles.
Sheyenne's fire department had a.
successful test the other day, and
pronounced all O. K.
Frank -Henning of baketa has thev.
contract for furnishing meat to the rail
road crew of the Dakota & Northern. ,,
Corporal Billy Thomas, formerly of I
Company K, at Dickinson, has sued a
firm for J5,Q00 for violation of contract.
Ben M. Bowman of Ellendale sued)
Ben Swanson on the charge of slander,
but the jury decided in favor of Swan«
son.
Mrs. Maud Clark of Harvey has gono.^^^|?
to live wltht her parents at Ellendale,.
after securing a divorce from her hus» im%^^%
band.
Some Oakes horses sent to the Cana
dlan racing circuit are reported to
ahead of the expense account neat^*.|^4
A Wisconsin man who recently pur-^'
chased a Stutsman county ranch, is
shipping In some fine cows and an lm
ported bull.
George Welch of Morton county,
while digging a cellar on his farm, dug
up three skeletons. Nobody knows who'
belongs to them.
Henry Vaughn of Bottineau county
didn't wait for the appointment of his
successor as postmaster at Superior^
when he suicided.
The telephone line from Mandan to
Oliver county Is completed and in run-'
iiing order. Several farm houses along
the line have 'phones.
At Kindred those who were not
burned out took in their neighbors, and)
everyone is getting along comfortably
until new buildings can be erected.
The firemen's track at Dickinson is
claimed to be the fastest in the state.
and. some, records. are expected to b^•
broken In the tournament next week.:
Reports from various sections show
that the frosts of last weed dldVnii
damage e|xcept to garden stuff. and
even many tender vegetables escaped.
Ole Clemenson of Fargo, While In in
enthusiastically intoxicated conditloi^,
smashed a pane Of glass with his flat,
and cut an artery, bleeding to death a#
a result.
The wool season is on in the weatenit|
part of the state, and* the: warehouses I
are filling up. The condition of, tho-?
market is not: satisfactory to the flock*
masters,
Past Grand Master Ellsworth of the-|
A.. O. Ut.W^, has been appointed
grand master by Grand :,Mast#f.ri|C^S(^'
shaw, and will cohtlnue the wor^
orgaAlslnglod^es.
kan. indicted, on .'aCharge of /^forglta#']
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The new opera house at MancJan is-,
nearly completed, and will be opened
June 21 with' a grand ball.
The mall clerks now run from James
town to Miles City, instead of Billings,
ninety miles being cut off.
The .iron for the Walhalla water
works has arrived, and the work of ex
cavating is well under way.
Mandan will economize by cutting
one man off the police force. The force ...
will thus be reduced one-half.
Two men were buried In a cave-In at
Walhalla, while digging a ditch, but
'were rescued with little injury.
The assignments for the summer.^
schools are nearly all made, and the
educators will soon be getting busy.
Capt. T. C. Patterson of LIsbon ha®r.
Tieeti commlBSlbned surgeon of the na»
tional guard, with the rank of major.
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ot''^raaiaoc^-^
runaway while,,hauling a load of
OTer ^Ight: The Mlle^
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