Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-05-01

Will Topliff, Of Jamestown, has sold his :
st. Bernard dog, "Count" for $500.
The sum of $4,000 was paid for a 600
acre farm near Grand Forks lately.
The Fargo Agricultural college board
call for 100000 brick by July l.
The Northern Pacific is reported to be
about to build from Minor to LaMoure.
Prof. Brown, of Wahpeton, has been
chosen leader of the Fargo brass band.
A telephone service between Fargo and
Casselt0n is soon to be put in operation.
The Guarantee Investment & Trust
company, is a new banking house at Dick
inson.
Burglars robbed Kasberg's hardware
store at Valley City, of $500 worth of
goods.
Grain has sprouted quickly this spring,
IN wheat fields are already becoming
green.
There are $50 Indian children in the
Fort Totten school. Among the teachers
are ten u
E. A. Herman, an inmate of the Devils
Lake Jail, made a desperate attempt to
commit suicide.
Morton county has 1876 blind pigs, but the
grand jury failed to return indie tmentS
against the keepers.
DIR. Langdon reports that there are a
good many glandered horses in the north
ern part of the state.
Land Department officers disagree as to
whether or not the land law wipes out all
pending land contests.
A colony of S%cotchmen will soon locate
in Grand Forks county and engage extern
sively in sheep raising.
The jamestown Northern line, owned by
the Northern Pacific, is to be extended
from Leeds to Dunseith.
Seven hundred Scandinavian immigrants
bound for North Dakota, arrived on the
steamship Hekla April 6.
1t is doubtful if there ever wa a greater
demand for farm lands in North Dakota
thar there has been this spring.
Crop prospects continue bright. The
weather has been dry enough the past few
days to facilitate the work of seeding,
Conway, in Grand Forks county, is to
have a newspaper, and the village of
, Thompson, in that county, wants a bank,
The grass is As Ereen and the season as
far advanced in Pembina and Walsh
counties as in Minnesota and South Da.
kota.
R. W. Greenfield has resigned as postmas-
ter at Grand Rapids, LaMoure county, N.
! D., and recommends G. W. Sale as his
successor.
Farmers have every reason to be full OF
hope and courage to put in just as large a
crop as they can put in we'll. They cannot
miss it this year.
Nick Damn, who killed Dumont in a
brawl at Neche last December, committed
suicide in jail by hanging himself to the
| bars Of his cell window.
The people of North Dakota, outside of
the Red River Valley, haven't felt so
| cheerful over the crop outlook since the
| spring of 1882, at they do now.
The following are the dates announced
for the races in the Red River Valley cir
cult: Fargo, June II, 10 and 49,; Moorhead,
June %, "a and Is; Grand Forks, July 2, 8
and 4.
c. A. M. Spencer and Col. Elton agreed
! upon a site for the United States peniten-
tiary at Grafton, subject to State Audi
tor Bray's approval when he returns from
Hot Springs.
Superintendent of Public instruction
| Ogden has established an institute lecture
department, the object of which is to cult
| vate patriotism and an improved citizen
| ship for the state.
Rev. W. M. Ward, of Portland, has fled in
| disgrace from the state, leaving his family
| in destitute circumstances. He was unduly
| familiar with a woman who had recently
joined his church.
The Cass County Teachers Institute
| will be held at the court room in Fargo
| May 4 to 8. Superintendent Joseph Ken
nedy, of Traill county, will be the conduc-
tor, and Senator Worst, of Emmons
county, lectures.
Although the cutting Of timber on gov
eminent land is allowed to actual settlers
for the improvement of their claims, it is
wrong to cut the young, healthy trees, as
they affect the amount of moisture so
necessary to crops.
Mrs. A. B. Ward, wife of the notorious
and malodorous Gen. Ward of Grand Forks
died this week in Minneapolis. Since the
doughty generals flight, she has been