Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-16
AROUND THE STATE,

Geo. Huntley, travelling salesman for
P. Il. Kelly & Co., st. Paul, died at Far
go last Sunday.
A gang of carpenters arrived at Valley
City, Wednesday, from Minneapolis and
began work IN the first of three large
elevators to be erected on the 500 road
in that city.
The travelling agent of the North Da-
kota Elevator company, w. w. Barton of
Fargo, made the local round last week,
and states that hundreds of miles of
wheat can be seen in shock in the Red
River valley.
August Wichman has made applica-
ton to the district court at Fargo for
lease from the county jail,
where he has been confined because of
failure to satisfy a judgment of $4,000,
obtained against him for seduction.
Mrs. Simon Owen of Cooperstown died
on the train, Wednesday, between VAL
ley City and Sanborn. She had been to
Minneapolis for treatment for cancer,
but went too late. The doctors could do
nothing. Her remains we're sent to
Cooperstown.
Dixie and Sinclair have been awarded
a contract for the subdivision of six
townships in McHenry county, north
Of the main line of the Great Northern
railway. 1t is said to be a fine section
of country and Colonel Towner intends
to locate a colony Of Germans on it in
the spring, who will 60 into the raising
of barley extensively.
A Minneapolis capitalist owns $4,000
acres Of North Dakota land that cost
him Sl.43 an acre. Last year he offered
it at SO an acre and this year has refused
$40. He says he will sell it to some man
at $15 an acre who will in turn sell it to
some farmer a year or two later at 1925 an
acre. The farmer, if he understands his
business, can pay for the land from the
profits on his first two crops.
A st. Paul dispatch says the EGreat
Northern railway has made arrange
ments to furnish North Dakota farmers
with sixty threshing outfits by October
18th. This company has already sent out
seventeen outfits and has several others
ready to go. The Northern Pacific has
also sent out several crews and machines
: and will get others forward at once The
rate for machines and five men is class A
from place of loading to destinations, and
return free; approximately SIS for the
round trip. a round trip rate Of SIS for
men is made on all lines.
A north-bound Great Northern freight
train, when approaching Gardner,
jumped the track and plunged into some
empty freight cars that were standing on
a sidetrack. The engineer and fireman
jumped, and the former was only slight.
ly injured. The engine and six or eight
cars were piled in a heap and the con.
tents of the cars more or less damaged
In n car, just back of one of the cars
that was smashed into kindiing wood,
was a trotting horse valued at S $500, but
fortunately the animal was not seriously
injured.
jamestown Alert: Lorene Lorenson
was the victim of a serious accident yes.
terday afternoon. In attempting to board
an east-bound stock train while the same
was in motion, he was thrown from the
caboose to the track, barely escaping be.
ing run over by the push engine which
was helping the train up the grade, but
suffering almost fatal injuries from being
dragged quite Il distance. His skull was
fractured, n leg was broken and his
spine badly hurt-so much so that DIR
Rankin expresses doubts as to a recovery
Lorenson's home is at Spiritwood, anc
he was spending Sunday in the city with
friends. He has been employed as a sec,
ton hand by the Northern Pacific.