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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1889
Page
2
A scattered Devils Lake column surveys North Dakota statehood prospects, political shifts, and local civic calls. Reports on governors plans, railroad fare bills, and upcoming elections frame statehood as a catalyst for growth, infrastructure, and local governance.
Through Breepers parties desiring to attend the gathering can obtain arranging car accompaniments from St Paul to Washington on Burlington train by handing seven dollars. Barley bought by 8 Spoke Barley Bought with cash. Aga pays the highest market price for barley. 4411
A Washington telegram reports the president signed the bill admitting four new states. Grand Forks and East Grand Forks leaders seek Minnesota help to build a Red River bridge at the Forks, with Grand Forks voting bonds for 840,000 and Minnesota to appropriate 10,000. Nearby chatter covers capital location at Devils Lake and Northern Dakota prospects.
The artesian well week reports little progress as contractors drive three inch pipes only three feet further into a soft quinkseed layer. By 8 PM total depth stood at 1520 feet. Course of action remains uncertain though optimism remains for eventual good flow.
A fragmentary ad style piece praises a road to heaven and mocks purgatory. It touts Pathe and a cure for throat lungs ailments including consumption via Dr Wage's Remedy with dubious medical claims.
Conferees complete the omnibus territorial bill report with Barnes dissent over presidential proclamation for admission. The measure provides for North Dakota South Dakota Montana and Washington statehood with Dakota divided by the seventh standard parallel. Delegates to conventions elected in May and July qualifying for constitutions ratified by voters in October. Archives remain at Bismarck until inter-state agreement. South Dakota may join with two representatives. lands for education sold at minimum ten dollars per acre for a permanent fund, with mineral lands excluded from grants.
The Interior Secretary rules against protestants in Joreph W. Allen et al v Lewin Mer Filletgl about Sioux Indian townsite scrip on unsurveyed land. Decision says locations intended to sell scrip violated law, affecting adjacent town lands along the Northern Pacific railroad in Montana Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Prices listed for apples and barrels at DeFlore's with assorted items. Mentions include Havana Pros Dris and الغ. References to horse breeders and a Caporal at Rameey County Breeders Association stall and a Frank Devila Lake event. Miss Gilbert's millinery and local market items appear among scattered notes.
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