Nelson County, ND - Lakota Herald news briefs published between Dec 1, 1899 and Aug 10 1906 North Dakota State Historical Society microfilm numbers 11160 and 11161 Transcribed on March 20-23, 2000 by: Mary Lindbo, mjlindbo@msn.com NDGenWeb Archivist Joe Zsedeny, jzsed@slic.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ (c)2000 Mary Lindbo December 29, 1899 ----------------- Hallock is having a diphtheria epidemic. Portland is justly proud of its excellent fire department. N. P. Rasmussen's new elevator at Dazey is well under way. The Jamestown Northern has gone back to its three-times-a-week service. The Hotel Minto has changed hands and L. A. Kamrowski is the new proprietor. Fargo is endeavoring to raise a $100,000 endowment for the Congregational college. Rev. Shaw of Cooperstown has accepted a call to the Congregational church at Wahpeton. Col. Robinson is in Washington to attend the meeting of the national Republican central committee. A number of cattle have disappeared in Kidder County this year and it now is thought a clue is had as to the thieves. Cass County, the past year, raised one-tenth of the flax crop of the United States, and North Dakota nearly one-half. Rev. Zellars, of the Congregational church of Mayville, preached on the inspiration of the Bible, holding that belief in its inspiration is in some cases untenable. W. C. Fairbanks of Lakota has been appointed United States commissioner, vice Charlie Adler, who removed to Minneapolis. A grievance committee of Great Northern employees is at St. Paul endeavoring to adjust their differences with the road. The ice harvest in the northern part of the state has begun. Up in Pembina County the ice averages over a foot thick and grades A1. James McDonald of Fisher is looking for his roan pony and saddle, both of which disappeared at the same time that the hired man did. Rev. Donald McKenzie was made pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Larimore, a service of installation being held there for that purpose. The Sargent County grand jury has been called, and will specifically examine the gopher tail deals that have involve the county in a debt of $9,000. Chief of Police Ross of Larimore tendered his resignation to the city council, and it was accepted. Mr. Ross will start a billiard parlor at that place. W. J. Stanley of Wahpeton had a narrow escape from death by being run over by a team while the drivers were having a free-for-all race down the boulevard. Mike Hindrich of Mandan beat and bit his wife until she was covered with blood, and some of her fingers nearly chewed off. The brute was bound over to the district court. It is said some of the settlers in Bottineau County will have trouble locating their claims next spring, as there is some confusion over a range, making a difference of six miles. George Garvin was arrested at Ellendale on the charge of violating the prohibitory law. He waived examination and was bound over to the district court. Bonds being fixed at $800. McHenry has a new blacksmith's shop. The Cathay band has been reorganized. District court is in session in Valley City. Wyndmere is to have a new millinery store. A new billiard hall is being built in Wyndmere. Emma H. Cotton, Williamsport, gets an $8.00 pension. Good business is reported to prevail throughout the state. The M. E. church building at Knox is nearing completion. The Washburn townsite company has been incorporated. The schools throughout the state are being closed for the holidays. Louis Houg is missing from Emerado and his friends fear foul play. The Grand Forks Gun club has wound up its business for 1899. A sneak thief at Buffalo stole $15 from the trunk of a schoolmarm. Five new school houses were built in Rolette County this past summer. The McHenry house at McHenry has been closed for want of boarders. Courtenay farmers sent two carloads of horses to the Minnesota pineries. Some devilish cuss at Tower City gave his dog a drink of carbolic acid. The Methodist church building at Moselle has been moved to Wyndmere. Stutsman County farmers who held flax have been selling while the boom is on. Dramatic companies find Dakota to be a prolific field for operations this year. Enderlin will bond for $4,000 with which to buy fire fighting apparatus and sink wells. The flax fiber building at Mayville is completed and now awaits the placing of the machinery. The cheese factory at Lisbon has had an output of twenty-nine tons of cheese this year. Stone is being hauled for the foundation of the new I. O. O. F. hall to be erected in Rugby. The wholesale houses of the state are reported as doing a big business before the holidays. Adam Walters of Stutsman county applied to the United States court to be declared a bankrupt. Fred Leithner of Barnes County recently taken to the insane asylum, is deaf, dumb and insane. Fred Reuter is another Mandanite who refuses to pay any further bills contracted by his wife. A dividend of 20 per cent will be paid the depositors of the First National bank in Pembina. Henry Koehler was convicted of burglary at Valley City. He robbed Will Martin's house last summer. The Rolla school house is too small for the large attendance. A new building will probably be erected in the spring. The new reservoir in Milton has been completed and filled with water. Milton will now be able to compete with the demon fire. The postoffice at Pembina has been assigned to the presidential class, to take effect January 4. Salary of postmaster increased to $1,000. W. A. Booth of the Edna stock farm, near Valley City, sold six head of Shorthorn cattle to Col. Brown of Minneapolis for $1,200. The Grand jury at East Grand Forks has returned a verdict of murder against Bishop Dorsey, who killed a man in Dan Sullivan's saloon. Judge Lauder denied a divorce to the plaintiff in the Hoge case at Fargo and granted the decree to the defendant wife with $100 a month alimony. January 26, 1900 ---------------- The Soo survey has been completed to Jamestown. The Dickinson Congregational church society is to be reorganized. M. L. Elkin was elected president of the Goose River bank at Mayville. Malcolm Morrison fell from a freight car at Hannah and broke his ankle. Grand Forks has a new A. D. T. service attached to the Western Union. The Northern Pacific has paid $6,169.40 personal taxes at Grand Forks. Miss Flanegan of Gardar fell while skating and fractured her collar bone. Seven men with families, from Harlem have filed on land in Ward County. J. D. Truemner has erected a windmill near his hardware store at Cavalier. Thieves entered the house of Peter Lee at Edinburg and stole about $60 in cash. Thomas Moffatt is captain of the Cheyenne Hose company at Valley City. P. Brecker, aged forty years, died at his home near Lidgerwood, of typhoid fever. Gertrude Douglass, aged sixteen, died at her home in Drayton of consumption. Emma Haggarty is postmistress at Peterson, Cass County, by recent appointment. T. J. McMahon is in the Traill County jail awaiting trial on the charge of embezzlement. Fred Lee, a Fessenden boy, has struck a rich lead and silver mine near Wallace, Idaho. Interest continues to increase in the new law department of the University of North Dakota. Devils Lake citizens are now figuring on electric lights for the streets of that flourishing city. A new brick block will be erected at Dunseith and the material is being hauled on the ground. Schafer, Stark County is a newly-established postoffice, with Charles Schafer as postmaster. The proposed bridge across the narrows at Devils Lake would cost in the neighborhood of $6,000. Gov. Fancher has been asked to pardon Joseph H. Till, who was sent to the penitentiary for life. Charles Telford has begun the foundation work for a two-story building, 50x70 at Cass Lake. Some fiend entered the barn of John Porter near Crystal and cut out the tongue of one of his cows. Messrs. Brown and Reed of Hamilton, whose buildings were recently destroyed by fire, will rebuild. The Perth postoffice is now a money order office, which is a great advantage to the citizens of that living burg. At Milton, the freight receipts for December 1899, exceeded those of the same month of 1898 by 73,100 pounds. A. J. Nelson is charged with selling diseased meat at Ashley and the McIntosh county board of health is after him. Wolves are plentiful in the northern part of the state this winter and are doing considerable damage to livestock. The cement works at Milton have been shut down for the remainder of the winter on account of a scarcity of water. The Portland school directors have sold the old school building to the village and it will be converted into a town hall. W. R. Haig, a prosperous farmer of northwestern Ramsey County, raised $1,000 worth of flax on fifty-five acres of land. Papers in the northern and western part of the state continue the gladsome tidings of new settlers and improvements. Ben Fulton of Harlem, for having stolen goods in his possession, was sentenced to spend a year in the state penitentiary. The people of Blanchard are becoming interested in a flax fiber mill and it is likely that one will be built there during the year. Many of the farmers in the vicinity of Ellendale are using lignite coal at a cost of $3.75 per ton, and it gives excellent satisfaction. Archie Hendrie, a former Great Northern operator at Wahpeton, is back from a two-years stay in Alaska, where he has been very successful. A young man named Aanadahl was bringing his sister to Valley City on a load of hay, which tipped over, the young lady suffering a broken ankle. The farm residence of Sheriff Brynjulson of Fessenden narrowly escaped destruction by fire. The hired man hung his pantaloons too close to the stove. Lidgerwood has a number of telephones in use, and it is proposed now to establish a central station, which would add greatly to the convenience of residents. The commissioners of Benson County have been taking a trip through the state looking at court houses. They will erect a $20,000 building and was to see one that suits them. The wife of Thomas Bridges of Oriska, formerly county commissioner of the First district, died at the asylum in Jamestown last week. Mrs. Bridges has been an invalid for the past fourteen years. According to the state records the flax acreage of Walsh County the past year was wr,294 acres. The commissioner estimates the total flax crop of the state at fifteen bushels per acre, or the total crop for the state 7,174,000 bushels. The price averages a little over $1.11 per bushel. Milton is to have a farmers' institute. Edgeley is soon to have a new flouring mill. Enderlin has a new lodge of Knights of Pythias. Sheldon storekeepers close at 7:30 during the winter. State's Attorney Blood of Bottineau is after fish stealers. The proposition to incorporate Bowbells is to be pushed. A central telephone office is contemplated at Lidgerwood. The Merchants Hotel at Northwood was opened last week. John M. Powles has been appointed postmaster at Milton. A free reading room at Reynolds has been opened to the public. The Monarch elevator, at Verona has been closed for the season. N. P. Rasmussen's new elevator at Dazey is about completed. A cheese factory organization has been effected at Wyndmere. The Dunn Drug company succeeds W. J. Graham at Park River. The residence of Louis Zimmer of Grand Harbor was destroyed by fire. Col. J. J. Bassett is endeavoring to establish a Grand Army post at Rugby. The new fire engine for St. Thomas has arrived and is pronounced all O. K. James Scott, living near Barton, lost his house and contents by fire last week. The village marshal at Cando is making war on all dogs without licenses. J. E. Williams has sold his ranch near Dickinson to Gus Elfstrom for $15,000. Frank Post of Lakota got filled up on poor whisky, went home, thrashed his wife and fled. The new state bank, to be established at Rugby, will build a new brick building 25x40 feet. Edwards, the alleged blind-pigger at Courtenay, was acquitted, the jury begin out but five minutes. It is rumored that Father Dillon of Oakes was recently drowned at sea, but the story is unconfirmed. At Milton, the Great Northern report shows a marked increase in all kinds of freight left there except booze. Thomas Brown, the well known pioneer and business man of Langdon is living on a farm in Pembina County. Louis Goeschel, Jr., of Mandan, fell and broke his thigh while playing a game of ball at that place a day or two ago. Lewis Grange, while attempting to catch a runaway team at Sheldon, was knocked down and quite badly injured. The Indians on the Devils Lake reservation are said to be in bad circumstances and many are in want of sufficient food. John C. Campbell, who died in California was brought back to his former home at Park River for burial, left an estate valued at $50,000. A large force of men are at work on a new flouring mill being built on the site of the one recently burned at Devils Lake and it will soon be completed. A. M. Engelbretson, while working on the well at the railroad station at York, slipped and fell into the water, having a narrow escape from drowning. Vigilant Hose company, at Valley City, will purchase a hose cart built for racing purposes, with which they expect to win laurels at the next tournament. The militia boys at Grand Harbor have received their guns, and will have their drills in the court house. They expect the rent for an armory will be sent soon. Hon. E. P. Day was made chairman of the board of county commissioners of Ramsey County for the ensuing year, and seems to be a general choice of the people. During last fall Ole Torgerson of Leeds slipped and fell, running a piece of straw into one of his ears. He has become quite deaf and an operation became necessary. The newcomers who arrive in North Dakota should be urged to plant a grove of trees around their houses or farms and shown the necessity of caring properly for them. Gilbert Torerson of Durbin discovered two men attempting to steal his horses one night last week, and fired his gun at the thieves. He thinks some of the shot took effect. Anton Fauntz was shot in the leg by his step-son, near Alicia and was taken to Lidgerwood, where Drs. Shanley and Shiels located the bullet with the X-ray machine and removed it. Adam Douglass, living near Wyndmere, while riding on horseback, was thrown, causing a hemorrhage of both the brain and the bowels. The injured man is in a very critical condition. The farmers' elevator at Cummings, which was built last summer has been doing a very gratifying business this season, handling about 65 per cent of all the grain marketed at that point. Grafton has a man whose hair, two or three years ago was almost white, but is now black again. He is forty years old, and claims that his hair is returning to its natural color through faith. Throngs of landseekers still continue to come to Wilton, and the prospects for a large number of immigrants in that section of the county next spring seem to be good. About 5,000 are expected. Judge Glaspell fined a juror at Jamestown $6 for being twelve minutes late. He said it cost the county about 50 cents a minute to run the court, and he wanted the county to break even. March 23, 1900 -------------- Bismarck gentlemen have organized a social club. Land is being sole in Barnes County for $10.00 an acre. Much building will be done at Lidgerwood this spring. A fortune teller roped in the people of Mandan last week. S. Dweberry is the new cashier of the Bank of Carrington. D. Carlos McAllister will put on Queen Esther at Grafton. Hamilton Woodmen are engaged in a very lively membership contest. J. B. Rapelje of Bismarck is spending the winter on the Mediterranean. Landlord Patterson may hang on to the Sheridan Hose at Bismarck a little longer. The Italians for the grade work on the Northern Pacific are beginning to arrive. H. Frazier of Tower City has received an order from Montana for five loads of Scotch life wheat. After two years absence in the Klondike Mrs. Ed Stone has returned to her home in Bismarck. Forty-nine candidates are reported for sheriff in Richland County with several precincts to hear from. Frank Neva paid a fine of $20 for slapping Julia Suchla twice at a Polish sociable gathering at Jamestown. Milton has a newly organized kid band and they filled their first engagement at the rink in Osnabrock. Ex-County Superintendent Taylor has been appointed deputy clerk of the county court at Grand Forks. The school board of Tower City paid another bond amounting to $500 last week, leaving only $1,000 to be liquidated. G. M. Bemis, a traveling missionary at Jamestown, was sent to the county jail for twenty days for beating his wife. The remains of Ole T. Lakken, who died in the Philippines will be brought back to his home at Kindred for interment. Northern Pacific surveyors are surveying the line from Milcor to Oakes and the people of both places have hopes. The number of horses being shipped into the state this year and the prices received for them is a reminder of the early days. There are said to be only forty-nine candidates for sheriff in Richland County, with a few outlying precincts to hear from. Sergeant Martin Hummel of Fargo gets a job in the folding department of the document room at Washington at $75 a month. Stutsman County has a new voting precinct named after Lawton, the gallant leader of the North Dakota troops in the Philippines. James Quinn, a Company I boy, got ten days at Wahpeton for swiping a jack knife and some other personal property from a companion. A valuable driving horse belonging to T. N. Quinn of Lisbon slipped and fell while being driven down the street and died from the injuries. J. D. Williams, formerly auditor of Wells County, was stricken with dumbness while on a visit to Minneapolis and is unable to speak a word. Some Jamestown property holders bring suit to have their lots excluded from the city limits. The lots are outlying and valuable for little but agricultural purposes. The hockey enthusiasts of Hannah have received their complete outfit and will go into training at once and later on expect to have a game with some of the boys across the line. G. L. Scott, a lawyer of Bottineau, will branch into the real estate business and will make special inducements to farmers from the East to settle on Bottineau County lands. A young fellow at Jamestown kindly caressed his best girl at a social and she had him arrested, charged with slapping her. He was fined $20. Moral: Young men, do not caress too hard. James Kennedy and daughter of Fargo are spending a pleasant season in Washington visiting many attractions in the capitol city. They will return home in about a week. City Attorney George H. Walsh of Cass Lake, uses in his office the chair which was presented to him by the state legislature of North Dakota in 1894 when he was speaker of the house. The Watrous Engine company of St. Paul has contracted with the Dickinson authorities for the delivery of a first-class steam fire engine and hook and ladder truck, with chemical combination. Mayor Steel of Jamestown, whose term expires the 25th inst., declined to appoint a city assessor, holding that the appointment of an official by him would be an act of dishonesty to his successor. The county commissioners of Grand Forks county have accepted $5 in settlement of a suit for $7,000 against ex-Treasurer Dave Homes for funds deposited in the Grand Forks National Bank when it failed. There is an inexhaustible supply in limestone in the northwestern part of Briggs County and the residents of that section are thinking of going into the sugar beet business. Beets are said to grow better in limestone soil. The club dances at Monango are very pleasant affairs. Wheatland wants a better equipment for fighting fire. Wahpeton Congregationalists want a new church building. George Garbutt has opened a bottling factory in Grafton. The St. Thomas fire department has been reorganized. Sixteen landseekers from Wahpeton will settle near Bowbells. Fred Piper of Oakes has assumed charge of the Lidgerwood Hotel. Contractor Pederson of LaMoure is missing and the citizens mourn. N. G. Larimore and James H. Matthews of Larimore are in Washington. Ole E. Lande has been appointed postmaster at Galesburg, Traill County. The North Dakota town that does not want a fiber mill is yet to be hears from. Edward Pierson of Fargo got his hand into a beef slicer and sliced off his finger. Kate Benson, a notorious character, has been arrested at Rosseau for manslaughter. At Langdon the people are already making preparations for celebrating the Fourth of July. G. W. Brady of Oberon has secured an appointment as engineer at the Indian school at Pierre, S. D. The attempt to convict a Napoleon man of selling beer failed as the witnesses couldn't identify the stuff. Roy McGregor of Oberon came near being asphyxiated by coal gas, but woke up before entirely overcome. Miss Neta Dale of Fargo was run down on Tuesday by a team of frightened broncos and seriously injured. Finley people got the smallpox scare and nearly everyone in town has got a sore arm, the result of vaccination. The armory building at Lisbon is undergoing some improvements under the supervision of Capt. Call, of Battery A. Conductor Liseum of Fargo was thrown through a pane of glass in the cupola of his caboose and his face badly cut. Jamestown aldermen are figuring on plans to supply the city with water at proper pressure. What's the matter with the well? G. G. Molden, the hardware merchant recently burned out a Sharon and had to be carried out on his sick bed, is dead. Thieves made way with a quantity of grain belonging to J. Lee near Neche, but no clue has been found that would lead to their detection. Postmaster Swenson of Hoople has again moved the postoffice to the quarters formerly occupied and now hopes that he is settled permanently. The flow of the water from the artesian well at Portland has greatly diminished, and means will be taken to pump the water in case of fire. Finley has an improvement association which meets monthly and discusses and acts on all matters pertaining to the betterment of the town. A Larimore preacher is said to have preached in several towns last week and delivered from one to three sermons each day for the entire week. Mrs. George Hogan of Bottineau County went violently insane over religion and had to be taken to the asylum with her limbs strapped together. A brick building will probably be built in the spring on the site of Sullivan's grocery at Wheatland, together with several other substantial business blocks. The village of Dickinson has passed an ordinance prohibiting the carrying or shooting of firearms within the city limits, and thus cowboy land is getting metropolitan. A man was in such a hurry the other day to leave Jamestown for Grand Forks that he forgot to pay his board bill. He was invited to stay fifteen days longer. In the Boyle land case at Bismarck where the penitentiary board sought to condemn thirty acres of land for the use of the institution, the jury assessed the damages at $900. Farmers in the vicinity of Tower City have discovered a new species of bacteria prevalent among their stock and are having considerable trouble in exterminating them. The mass meeting at Michigan City called to debate the new school house question was somewhat divided in opinion, but a large majority was said to favor the new building. The people of Wheatland township have arrived at the conclusion that some means of fire protection is needed and before long will probably take the initiative steps to provide for it. Edgar LaRue, secretary of the Chautauqua at Devils Lake, is in receipt of a letter from J. M. McCulloch, stating that he has decided to build a standard gauge railroad to the Chautauqua grounds instead of a narrow-gauge, and has ordered material accordingly. Aneta wants a new school house. Land values are said to be taking a lump out in Emmons County. An auxiliary militia company is being organized in Stark County. The small towns throughout the state are beginning to show signs of life. Roy Acherman has purchased the John Alpperbash residence in Jamestown. N. O. Noben has recently sold a quarter section just south of Grafton for $6,000. Mrs. Tucker of Page has purchased an interest in Mrs. Smith's store at Wheatland. Company D of Devils Lake has received its guns and will soon commence drilling. P. C. Toste of Wimbledon was attacked by a vicious horse and seriously bitten on the face. J. A. Albrant is the new proprietor of the Grand Pacific Hotel at Grafton, Robert Shepard retiring. Work is progressing rapidly on the new hotel at Cathay and the building will soon be opened up. J. B. McArthur sold his entire farm of about 240 acres, near Wheatland, to Lewis Grant of Durbin for $23 per acre. People are beginning to hustle for county jobs as politics grow warmer, North Dakota will have a warm time this year. The elevators at Bottineau have received orders to ship all wheat on hand this month, which will make about 170 car loads. Owing to the increased stock business at Lisbon the Northern Pacific will rebuild the stock yards there on a much larger scale. Delaney Bros., well known stockmen at Dickinson, are among those who will be interested in a bank which will be opened at Napoleon. A thirteen-year-old boy at Great Bend was thought to be dead. Later it was concluded that he was in a trance and interment was deferred. Bowbells school district received bids for the building of six school houses. The contract was awarded McLellan & Dilworth at $415 each. John Brunk, a young Englishman, was cutting wood near Hannah and severely froze his feet, necessitating the amputation of several toes. The baseball enthusiasts of the Lidgerwood schools gave an entertainment the other evening which netted them $17.50 with which they will buy equipment. Jerome Sweeny, living on a farm near Olga, Cavalier County, has made a discovery of oil flowing from a well which is on his place. It will be investigated in the spring. Jacob Mehrer, the butcher at Taylor, was presented with a quartet of babies the other day by his wife - two boys and two girls. The children were born alive but have all since died. The Lidgerwood State bank, capitalized at about $20,000, will be open for business about the 15th of next month. Mr. House has already commenced work on the building leased by him to the bank. There is some indignation at New Rockford owing to the belief that the buildings recently burned there belonging to a Mr. Greely was done by the fire bug and a reward of $100 is hung up for the culprit. An immigrant who arrived at Bowbells last week with a car load of belongings and had covered 900 miles was discovered to have smuggled his wife and child through under a wagon box the entire distance. Two halfbreeds, named John LaRoque and William DeLarme, were arrested up in Cavalier County by Sheriff Robertson on the charge of stealing timber from state school lands. Several others were implicated. Hon. A. H. Laughlin, in addition to his duties as superintendent of the census, has embarked in the business of buying and selling cattle and has shipped in 200 head of young stock from Iowa for sale to Ransom County farmers. Railroad Commissioner Walton says that a large immigration to all parts of the state is expected this year. The railroads are doing a fine work in getting the vacant land occupied by actual residents. The country along the Soo and the Northern Pacific is being rapidly taken. Deputy State Auditor Lucas states that within a week the state auditor will take up for payment $10,000 worth of wolf bounty certificates and says that this will take up those registered up to 4,500. The collections of taxes have swelled the wolf bounty fund to the extent that this payment can be made. Five alleged timber thieves have been arrested in Cavalier County charged by Land Commissioner Laxdal with trespass on state school lands. The commissioner says he is compelled by the number of such trespass to take action of this kind and will also bring prosecutions against trespassers on hay lands. Reports from Baddock are to the effect that the Emmons County state bank building is well under way and will soon be ready for occupancy. Mr. Bloss has concluded not to rebuild and will seek another business location. Mr. Head has bought the Reamann stock and building and will continue in business. March 30, 1900 -------------- Wahpeton has the Soo road fever. Linton is to have a blacksmith shop. Wells County has fifteen prisoners in jail. Mandan is to have a new opera house. Grand Forks defeated Mayville at whist. Bike thieves are reported at Grand Forks. F. E. Griffin is a new machinery dealer at Crary. Towner is just over a diphtheria quarantine. Esten Halvorsen, a well know Traill County farmer, is dead. There is some talk of fixing up the old artesian well at Oakes. Another story is to be added to the Wisbecker Hotel at Frandin. Mayor Goodman is erecting a handsome residence at Hillsboro. The soldier boys are looking forward to a great encampment this summer. G. N. Stork of Griggs County has refused $1,000 for a pair of twin calves. The Imperial Elevator company will erect a large elevator at Perth about May 1. A flock of geese were seen flying in a northerly direction at Mandan a few days ago. Postoffice service has been established at Rosehill. H. D. Emert has been appointed postmaster. The new Methodist Church at Northwood is said to be a handsome structure and a credit to the city. Nineteen families of Iowa immigrants have reached Jamestown, en route to Sykeston, Wells County. The residence of Hon. Carl Brown, near Oberon, burned last week. Loss, $2,500; insurance $1,000. Senator Twitchell sold a bunch of steers for $3,000 and immediately began to run for sheriff of Cass County. Emmons County people are still discussing the case of Martin Van Soest, who is accused of setting nineteen fires. W. H. Brown of Michigan City has received an increase from $6 to $8 in his pension; Mary J. Angell, Oakes $8. Larsen & Hagen of Hillsboro have purchased a stock of goods at Bottineau and will go into the general merchandise business there. County Superintendent Molyneaus of McHenry County announces that three school houses will be erected in the vicinity of Granville this summer. Andrew Larson, an employee in a livery stable at Hillsboro, made an assault on his employer, and, in default of fine, is a guest of Sheriff Sorum. The officers of Belmont township, Traill County, are congratulating themselves on the complete liquidation of all debts and still have a surplus in the bank. The suit against the bondsmen of the late city treasurer, M. L. Gordon of Grand Forks, has just been compromised for $900. A shortage of $4,200 was claimed. The drifting of the snow up in Bottineau County last week made hard going for all stages and in consequence they were not running on scheduled time. The business men and the stockmen at Coggswell have raised a $500 purse for the horse races in June. Besides the races a stock exhibit will be a leading feature. A thief stole a horse and rig belonging to Edward Jacobson at Valley City and started out of town with the horse at full speed. The horse returned later with the remnants of the rig. The new bridge across the James River, near Oakes, is completed, and the county commissioners are now inspecting the work before making final settlement with the contractors. Fred Bentley, representative of Wyman & Ball, Fargo, has been at LaMoure looking after the firm's interests in that section, with a view of placing some fine farms on the market. Mrs. Isabel Dysart, an old settler, aged seventy-five years, died suddenly at Minnewaukan, while sitting in a chair reading. Death was due to heart failure succeeding an attack of lagrippe. A McHenry County man who had been absent from his claim for more than six months, on account of sickness, reached his place last week to find that a contest had been filed the day before. An unaccountable explosion of a cook stove took place in the home of J. A. Zeller, at Wimbledon. Pieces of the stove were thrown with great force, but, fortunately, none of the family were struck. The man who was starting a fire in the Germania State Bank at Anamoose thought he was using kerosene, but it was something else, and the bank building and adjoining millinery store will have to be rebuilt. Pat Phalen, a former resident of Osnabrock, Cavalier County, was killed in battle in the Philippines. He was a member of Troop I, Third Cavalry and was shot and killed by the side of Fred Cull, another Osnabrock boy, with whom he enlisted. The best flax story is now reported from western Walsh County, where a farmer raised 2,500 bushels of flax from 100 acres of a $750 farm, and is still selling it at home for $1.75 per bushel for seed. A $4,375 crop off a $750 farm is pretty swift farming. Mrs. A. R. Clemens died at Jamestown. A Masonic temple is to be erected in Langdon. R. G. Sarvis has been appointed postmaster at Lanoma, Barnes County. Thieves stole 200 bushels of flax from the warehouse at Venio, Ransom County. A Dunseith lady was baptized through a hole in the ice a few days ago. The creditors of Grand Forks National Bank get another 5 per cent dividend. Will Code, son of the M. and N. agent at Grand Harbor, has struck it rich in Idaho. Register of deeds' fees in Richland County for three months reached nearly $2,500. The Valley City postoffice fight has been settled and E. K. Myhre carries off the plum. The Square Butte cheese factory in Morton County is using 2,000 pounds of milk a day. Minnewaukan has voted to issue $10,000 bonds for the erection of a new school house. A man giving his name as Kramer seems to have been working the Valley City preachers. Brakeman Robins had the misfortune to lose a finger while making a coupling at Williston. Several new buildings will be built at Williston this year, and among them will be a Catholic Church. Thomas Forbes of Buford, Williams County, is getting his ferry boat ready for the spring business. Mrs. Robert Rowe sold 160 acres of land at Minot for $3,000 cash and will build a college in that city. It is reported that prairie chickens are being shot up in the Turtle Mountains regardless of the law. A petition is being circulated in Williams County to increase the number of county commissioners to five. The Hauges synod of the Lutheran Church of Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota will convene at Grafton June 6. An attempt to chloroform and rob Mrs. Stewart, landlady of the Boston Hotel at Fargo was frustrated. Livingstone, the Washington convict captured at Jamestown, has been returned to serve out his sentence. A paper was signed at Lakota last week for the erection of a jail. The record stands 108 for and 1 against. B. F., a carpenter in the Northern Pacific round house at Fargo, was badly injured by a fall from a scaffold. The ice in the Missouri at Mandan has broken up and it is expected, with another warm spell, it will all go out. Herbert Ingraham and Willie Rogers, two Perth boys, have enlisted in the United States cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas. The cowboys of Dickinson think their privileges are curtailed since the authorities prohibit the carrying of firearms. P. P. Rice will build an addition to his store at Hope, and will increase his stock of general merchandise accordingly. Cashier Jones of the Rugby State Bank has a string of running horses that he expects some great things of this season. Mayor Johnson's forthcoming annual report will show that 160,000 persons have registered at the various hotels there this year. Elevator companies are rushing the wheat out of the state to avoid taxation, which will be imposed if it remains after April 1. Rev. G. L. Arnott of Elliott has tendered his resignation as pastor of the M. E. Church at Elliott and will leave soon for Toronto, Canada. Postmaster Lesh of Bowbells has arranged to accommodate about 200 roomers at his farm buildings during the immigration rush. Engineer Green and Fireman Keho, who backed into a Great Northern train at Casselton, have been let out of the Northern Pacific service. Fred Hoisington, general appraiser of abandoned military reservations has been at old Fort Pembina this week, and will tackle Fort Buford next. Out on the stock ranges it is reported that a few cattle have died from blackleg and the wolves killed a few, but the aggregate losses have been very small. It is said that the new towns along the railroad extensions in the northern part of the state are long on blind pigs and enforcement league spotters are to investigate. W. D. Skidmore, arrested for rape at Dickinson, and bound over for $2,000 bail, has married the young girl in the case, and the matter will probably be dropped. A good many farmers in the northern part of the state are finding that mules make very serviceable farm animals and are making purchases for the spring work. There is a case of small pox in the family of Frank Heley at Hankinson. The family have been quarantined, and no serious results or spread of the disease is anticipated. Northern Pacific surveys have completed their survey from Milnor to Oakes. The Republican expects trains to be running from St. Paul through Oakes early in the summer. Some 17,000 hides from the beeves issues at Standing Rock were shipped from Baddock a few days ago. The hides were sole to the highest bidder and brought nearly $4.50 each. April 13, 1900 -------------- Farmers are preparing for seeding. Settlers are here and more are coming. Two feet of snow at Dickinson last week. Valley City people still want an opera house. A farmer near Olga thinks he has discovered oil. Two car loads of settlers have arrived at Barlow. Slatterly Bros. of Bottineau are building a stone store. Grafton's Business Men's Club has been incorporated. Cavalier County reports 280 farms proved up this spring. Wells County is receiving a large number of new settlers. S. F. Corwin has been appointed city assessor at Jamestown. Emmons County is getting a large number of new settlers. Poultry fanciers over the state are adding to their fine birds. Mrs. Sloan of Bismarck has started on her return trip to Alaska. A considerable number of cattle are being shipped into the state. Wheatland's new town board is at work on the well proposition. Hope wants a telephone exchange, and is sure of thirty subscribers. Bowbells received 135 tons of merchandise in three days last week. Lieut. Gov. Devine has been ill in Minneapolis but is recovering. The depot at Forman was destroyed by fire, caused by a defective flue. There is to be a telephone from Bottineau to a point on the Mouse River. The Red River Valley University at Wahpeton has closed a successful term. Some 1,800 Dunkards passed through Chicago en route to the Devils Lake region. Charles Ekeberg, a prominent resident of Hoople, Walsh County, died in Arizona. Several large stock farms have been started in the past year in Ransom County. All the best land within a radius of thirty miles of Bottineau has been taken up. The twelve-year-old son of Railroad Commissioner John Simons died at Valley City. Game Warden Gokey and another Dawson man shot forty-eight geese one day last week. Presiding Elder Klingel of Pembina County has served his time limit and will be transferred. Frank Ray of Bottineau was arrested on the charge of monkeying with goods under bond. J. R. Sherwood of Knox lost his home by fire while he was attending a wedding a mile away. President Brown of the Chattsworth, Ill., bank, has purchased two or three sections of land near Page. Farmers' institutes throughout the state are bringing out the merits of brome grass as a fodder plant. The Wahpeton colony in Southern California is expected to return to this state about the middle of April. John Rockford, a deaf man living at Devils Lake, stopped in front of an engine and was instantly killed. J. F. Calahan of Casselton, it is said, will have charge of the Devils Lake summer school this season. The city of Grand Forks will sue the county for delinquent tax interest and penalties aggregating some $20,000. The Northern Pacific road estimates that it carried 500 car loads of immigrant movables to the state in March. The flax fiber mill at Fargo made a shipment of twenty-seven cars of product to its eastern establishment last week. The new list from the Devils Lake land office shows that 109 parties have recently proved up on land in Towner County. Joseph Kouta, a Bohemian farmer living near Pishek, Walsh County, was thrown from his wagon and his neck broken. Judge Sauter gave Thomas Coleman of Cavalier five years in the penitentiary for false affidavits in proving up on a claim. Several car loads of telegraph poles and piling for the Washburn road have arrived in Bismarck and are being taken north. Iowa and Nebraska farmers are buying land in Stutsman County. One man from Nebraska bought a half-section for $2,000. About 280 farms have been proved up on in Cavalier County, and will become subject to taxation for the first time this year. Charles and Roy Barringer, two young men from Forgy, Ohio, have arrived at Willow City and will take up claims there. The bank building at McHenry is nearing completion and Cashier Torguson expects to open the institution for business soon. The new artesian well at Forman is completed and an enclosure has been built over it to keep the refuse matter from the water. Sheepmen in the vicinity of Oakes are arranging for a wool warehouse in order that they may have a wool sales day proclaimed there. North Dakota has another grain growers' association, organized at a meeting held at Grand Forks. Thomas Dodd of Hope is president. The wheat crop in Walsh County is expected to be very light this year, owing to the fact that most of the farmers will sow their land to flax. Wimbledon citizens are planning for a big blowout on July 4. Conditions for farming are good this spring. Several new buildings are being built in McHenry. Four thousand more immigrants have arrived in the state. The Business Men's club at Grafton is now thoroughly organized. Pembina County farmers are going quite extensively into the honey business. Milner has six real estate agencies, and all are having a big run of business. J. D. Beacon will erect a large brick machine and implement warehouse at Cando. The directors of the State Bank of Buffalo expect to incorporate under the national law. Work will soon be begun on the new hotel to be built in Bismarck by Landlord Peterson. James Holes has already started in on his spring work on his farm just north of Fargo. Rev. John Arnold of Wimbledon is giving the boys of his flock free instruction in German. Fritz Goth of Styles, Richland County, was given thirteen days in jail for stealing 10 cents worth of wood from an elevator company. Capt. Honstain, an old resident of Emmons County, has sold his farm to a South Dakota man for $3,000 and will move with his family to Minneapolis. The Great Northern shops will be removed from Minot to Larimore and extra machinists will be sent to Williston to keep up the repairs on that division. The state enforcement league commends the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Express companies for their discontinuance of the shipment of C. O. D. liquor packages. Upwards of 200 car loads of sand have been ordered for concrete work on the Dickinson division of the Northern Pacific. The sand will be taken from the company's pits at Gladstone. It is reported at McHenry that a star mail route is to be established along the railroad, but the rumor has not been confirmed. Meanwhile the people are anxiously awaiting better service. The eighth annual Chautauqua will be held at Devils Lake June 30 to July 23 and the best program of the series has been arranged. A good number from Fargo will attend this year. A man who arrived at Aneta with a car of immigrant goods, while standing on top of the car fell to the ground and received injuries about the head that rendered him unconscious for several hours. It is claimed that the city officials of Ellendale took comps and did not demand a license for a show. It is reported that proceedings will be commenced against them for the amount of the license. The second train of homeseekers that arrived at McHenry brought about 100 people and their stock and other belongings. Other members of the party had come on ahead and prepared homes so they all are not located on the lands they will till. M. Just, a Norwegian lately arrived from Norway, went violently insane while coming to Cooperstown. He was robbed in New York City and it is thought the matter preyed on his mind. He was taken to the Jamestown asylum. Preparations are being made for considerable work on the line of the Northern Pacific this summer, and the shipment of Italians west is in progress. A crew is at work on the Jamestown division and others will be put on soon. Commissioner Thomas has notified the people of Oakes that if they will provide a wool storehouse and notify his department, he will proclaim a wool market there, and include Oakes in the annual proclamation to be issued early in May. Twenty-five empty sheep cars were burned at Dickinson in the Northern Pacific yards. There were 200 cars in the yard, and the firemen and railroad men had a lively time for a few minutes. The fire is supposed to have been caused by tramps. M. Jennings who, with his son Ira, is suspected of complicity of the man Stark, in Burleigh County, has confessed that he hid a revolver shortly before his arrest, though he previously stated that he had not had a revolver in his possession since 1865. After an inspection of the flax fiber mill at Fargo, Fred Koester has returned to Cando and announces that he will build a mill, to be run in connection with the flour mill at that place. The new mill will have a capacity of ten tons per day and will be in operation in time to take care of this season's crop. People in Emmons County protested so vigorously against the pardon of young Martin Van Soest that the authorities at the Plankinton reform school concluded to keep him there. Martin had a penchant for setting fires and the people of Emmons County consider him a very undesirable boy to have about. Little Tommy Shoemaker of Pembina was left in charge of his three-year-old brother the other day while his mother went shopping. Tommy became interested in a book, and the baby went on an exploring expedition. He found a match and a pretty pink candle, but the neighbors put out the fire before much damage was done. The members of the national guard who served in the Spanish War are to have a few dollars extra pay coming to them on account of that service. The men were paid for the time of their assembling at the various rendezvous up to the time of their enlistment in the volunteer service, at the federal government rate for enlisted men at 52 cents per day. By a recent decision of the war department they are to be paid for that time at the state rate.