rop-or’sruiniiment oi contract? with themgaged**’: ” ~ I rep re?NORTH DAKOTANS AT MONTREAL EnglisW. W. Jermane Finds Quite a Colony of North Dakotans in Canadian City.W. W. Jbnmane. the Minneapolis tanH cbegininto iJournal’s Washington representative, is now sojourning in Canada, and in a letter from Montreal savs of for-gestonlyargo oneall. are goldrich mer Dakotans:Major A. W. Edwards, of Fargo, is wearing the honors of his new office of consul general of the United States at Montreal as comfortably as a man wears an old glove. He has become well acquainted with the leading business men of the Canadian metropolis, who like him the better they know him. and are quick to speak of him to visitors in complimentary terms. He is in strong contrast to his predecessor. Major John L. Bittinger. of St. Joseph, Mo., who was unpopular in efec- Canada, and who was finally recalled on that account. In October Major Edwards will go to Washington, to attend the annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee, and witness the un-wns- veiling of the Sherman statue, south* tries °* the treasury. Perhaps during the nore holidays he may visit North Dakota. —reJ This will be his first trip home for bout many months. He spent the last win-n in ter in Washington, where for a number of week he was very ill, and came to Montreal immediately following his that appointment and confirmation. Histhis ci his ad If at of non-linal unty one the dol-mor-lessdualoflisttime fg*Htinj ness rThemost on thifive n is in LondcayerveryandtriesFor to Fa short at allithation a ridednany friends in the northwest will be ncial' Klad to know that his health is great-pro-1 ly improved and that he is now nearer being his old self than for a year. Mrs. Edwards, who has been spending, ppor-J some time with him, proposes to start utely i tor home the last of this week. Iclt;3iieves with-i theAnother former North Dakotan, and a former Minneapolitan, also located in Montreal, Is Frank M. Anson, nowcom-1 manager of the export business of W.