Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-28
AROUND THE Il

=. DulIoWS Was 1a6G MOnuay dp-
pointed postmaster at Genesee, Sargent
county.
About 800 bushels of wheat we're
burned by a prairie fire near Lisbon
Tuesday.
The Lisbon school board advertised
for a principal and received thirty five
applications.
The Fargo Republican has counted
the sheep in North Dakota and finds
there are just 100000.
The wheat raised on the soldiers
home site at Lisbon averaged twenty
eight bushels to the acre No. l hard.
The Valley City Daily News has
passed into oblivion. The Times Record
says the venture was a successful one.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved as a reserve agent for national
banks the Merchants National bank of
Devils Lake.
Many farmers throughout the state
reckoned on two pounds of Irvine to the
acre for binding, but they find that it
requires from three to four pounds.
The pay roll for the Missouri division
of the Northern Pacific last month was
$40,478.34. The station earnings at
Dickinson for the same period was $685.
3O6.99.
Hon. John Burke, member of the last
legislature and a leading attorney of
Rolla, and Miss Mary Kane of Wauke-
sha, Wis.,, were married last Monday by
Rev. Malo.
The Minot journal strongly advocates
the organization of Williams county,
a large territory in the northwestern
part of the state with a disfranchised
population extending into the thous-
ands.
The date of the first new wheat mar
keted at Rutland was last Monday, from
the farms of United States Marshal
Price and Isaac Lincoln. The yield is
from 20 to Is bushels per acre and grades
No. l hard.
Devils Lake Inter Ocean: Sheriff
Wagness left for jamestown, Wednesday
morning, with Maggie Golden, of Bart
lett, who has been a county charge for a
good many years and has finally been ad-
judged insane.
Cakes Republican: S. B. Andrus reports
ayield of sc bushels of wheat from 3
acres. This he sold at the ELEVATOR for No.
l hard and received 50 cents. He also
threshed 500 bushels of rye from a SOW
ing of IL bushels of seed.
R. E. Wallace in Bottineau Pioneer: I
left jamestown Monday, coming by the
way of Fargo, Grand Forks and Devils
Lake, and nowhere along the route have
[ seen such magnificent crops as here.
Bottineau county is a long ways ahead
of the Red river valley.
The Valley City Patriot warns FARM
ers against the schemes of certain st.
Paul wholesale houses which are work.
ing a slick fraudulent game on our IN
suspecting farmers. Deal with your
home merchants if you wish to avoid the
Vaccinations Of slick swindlers from for
eign seaports.
Judge Templeton of Grand Forks has
rendered a decision in the Mimic liquor
cases, holding that the sheriff could not
seize property unless intoxicants were
actually found on the premises, and Or
dered that the premises and property be
released in the cases Of the state VS.. Jar
Wis & Reilly, Currie & Hall and Irwin &
Rudrick.
About l o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing of last week the house of John DAILY,
some four miles north of Englevale, was
discovered to be on fire. The family
barely had time to escape from the burn
ing building and saved nothing
but an organ and a sewing machine.
The origin of the fire is unknown. There
was no insurance on the house or it's
contents.
Turtle Mountain Times: There came
near being a terrible tragedy in the
French settlement, five miles west of
Dunseith last Monday. DeTonancourt,
who it is reported has been insane at
one time, became excited over some trif-
ing matter and grabbed a large knife,
is
threatening to kill his wife and children.
They fled from the house and came to
town, but have returned home since. 1t
was a narrow escape for the family.
Minor Teller: At Cakes, Dickey
county, the agent who sold Irvine for the
Alliance company, seems to have been
the victim of misplaced confidence. He
sold Irvine from samples and took farm
ers' notes and mortgages and sent them
in to the company with his orders. Now
when the Irvine is received, it is found to