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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1886
Page
4
The Inter Ocean touts broad reach for ads in Devils Lake and Larimore area papers. It notes large circulation and nonpartisan stance, mentions Buxton Bee and Larimore Pioneer, and cites editorials on city elections and Arbor Day plans. Military-related and territorial politics feature in a Washington special on Dakota division.
A North Dakota column denounces the ring papers for opposing capital removal to Bismarck while noting the Hill bill would place the capital in Bismarck and have the territory assume public building debts. The piece condemns the ring leaders, praises reform, and argues divisionists back the measure to gain spoils. It also singles out Ordway as a key conspirator and calls for accountability.
A local editorial laments a decades long cycle of shootings on the North Shore and the Oswald trial set for next week. It condemns reckless gun culture, urges civilising progress, and notes the impact on families while warning of a broader pattern linked to concealed weapons.
The piece muses on science’s progress amid cyclone danger while detailing Minnesota’s Sauk Rapids destruction and Brainerd fallout. It notes furniture damage, a large iron rod found mile from the mill, dust embedded in victims, wheels displaced inside a wreck, and widespread debris from the storm.
The piece recalls Ordway Johnson as a congressional committeeman candidate tied to the Pierre convention that nominated Judge Gifford for Congress. It notes Johnson later opposed Gifford, implying he might have favored another strong candidate like John Br if he had aligned with the Democrats.
The text describes Mr. Johnson as a longtime ally of ex Governor Ordway and outlines Ordway’s influence on congressional committees through Democratic allies. It notes opposition to a party loyalist being chosen and mentions a new order directing contested claims to a review board, seen as harmful to settlers compared with a recent order delaying final proceedings.
In Washington reports link James Ward of Pierre to a possible Dakota governorship, but Ward denies the claim. The Pierre affair and a bank dispute involving Ordway are cited as motives behind hostile articles, while Day and other figures push for Dakota postmaster appointments and Sioux bill progress amid factional Democrat strife.
The week’s crop returns are uniformly gloomy, with Kansas counties like McPherson showing the poorest yields yet and plowing underway in some areas. Other states face mixed results from winterkill and dry weather, while Missouri and Dakota report varying prospects for spring wheat and seeding. Congress debates Dakota state admission with amendments on division.
In a correspondent's letters the writer critiques party harmony and leadership. He notes the looming division over a one seventh standard and a Solonx bill, praising Judge Gifford while criticizing a shadow ally. He predicts Democratic struggles post convention and urges unity to bolster the party’s prospects in the territory. The author stresses the need for coordinated action and cautions against factionalism undermining candidates like Gifford.
The Ramsey County free term of court convenes next Monday in the city. Judge McConnell is expected this evening along with many attorneys. The term will likely last two weeks as the grand jury prepares a lengthy docket including cases such as the Territory of Dakota v. H. M. Creel for assault with a dangerous weapon and related actions.
The territory as plaintiff faced W D Conniff and John Goggins in a morning session. William Hurst testified he was accosted near Fourth Street leading to a scuffle, with Hurst injured and ankle misaligned. Justice Wlabart ordered Conniff to pay 100 dollars and Goggins 74, with jail time about 20 days if defaulted.
A windy Thursday around 1 o'clock a fire alarm was raised by smoke seen under a door at Jollie's City laundry. Firemen arrived quickly. Mr Jollie extinguished the flames. The incident noted freezing conditions on Fifth Street, a forecast echoed by the day’s scattered notices from Devils Lake and Ramsey County about public notices, postal letters, and local affairs.
Special correspondence from Crary details early spring farming, wheat sowing, and pansy blooms, with road meetings and a new road line discussed by town supervisors. It records arrivals from Humbird with stock, family plans, and local officials promising expeditious action, plus notices on land patent review, government vigilance, a veteran's endorsement of a pain remedy, and local commerce ads and livestock sales.
An old sale and ad page mentions Duke Soap cleaning clothes without boiling, wallpaper at McTaggart and Malo neys drug store, a fall line at The Fashion saloon, ginger ale porter and Buas’s gee ale, McBrayer whisky, and Dakota Investment Company financing and bond offers. Also notes for county warrants and loans, with Grand Forks city loans and bond offers.
Public notice announces a city election in Bavils Cairo on May 3 1486 at the Bugis Mouse on Kelly Avenue. Five trustees one clerk one treasurer one marshal to be elected from districts the polls open at 8 and close at 4 with officials and witnesses listed amid scattered legal notices.
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