Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09
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trade.
Ex-senator Fisher of Tower City is
building a photograph car.
Nd. W. Brown has disappeared from
Fargo with $4,000 of contract money.
Nicholas Zirbes has resigned as post
master at Lone Tree, Ward county
The Stanton Pilot says crows are de-
stroying the corn up in Mercer county.
Wahpeton is experiencing an cpl
demic of robberies and general lawless-
ness.
Commissioner He]geson has raised his
state estimate of wheat from II to %
bushels per acre.
j.. @. Sperry and Aloise Shenk of Daw-
SOL we're in the city as witnesses in a
final proof case Monday.
r W. w. Hills of the Grafton News and
Times has gone to Neihart, Mont, where
he will cake charge of the Herald.
G. S. McCandless, editor of the Botti-
neau Free Lance, has received his ap-
pointment as postmaster at Bottineau.
Colonel Yorkey has settled all bills in
connection with the encampment, which
cost $4,760, about $4,000 less than the
last encampment.
i The fremen of jamestown have held q
meeting, elected new officers, decided to
buy new hose, remodel everything and
give that city good fire protection.
r. D. Hoskins, in Grand Forks Herald:
The most important cases on the supreme
court calendar, in my judgment, are the
Trail county seat fight, the Haas liquor
case and the seed lien case.
Judge Chase united a couple Of loving
hearts Monday. The names OF the
contracting parties are John G. Tonteen,
of GAINESVILLE, Mimi, to Miss Sigrid
Thornvaldson, of Sterling, N. D.
George Kropp of Dawson proved up
on 100 acres of Kidder county land Mon
day. Mr.. Kropp is one OF the SUBJ
stantial farmers of that county and
among his improvements is a $4,000
barn.
W. H. Fallon, chief of the North Da-
kota weather service, is making trips
through the state in the interest of the
weather department. He has stations
as far west as Dickinson and expects to
get an observer at Minot.
Senator Casey estimates that they will
hsve 10000 bushels of wheat this year.
This will be enough to fill 116 cars and
will make four train loads Of t~wenty-nine
cars to the train, all raised on 5000 acres,
and at the present price of seventy-eight
cents a bushel would make the nice little
sum of $4,000.
j. A. Rose, of Niagara, paid $500 for
a quuarter section of land last spring.
This was new land broken and back-set.
= He raised and marketed $40 bushels of
wheat-thirty-four bushels per acre
which he sold for seventy-four cents,
yielding him $4,025, or $1,305 over total
cost of plant and crop.
- Tom Miller, a freight conductor on the
Great Northern, while out duck shooting
near Minot, Tuesday, had a battle with a
tame buck deer: which nearly cost him
his life. The horns penetrated his legs
in five places, from four to six inches.
Miller lives at Devils Lake, and will be
laid up for some time.
Fargo Argus: There is something
wrong with inspections of wheat at Du-
luth when a farmer is locked ninety-two
bushels on a carload Of wheat-after the
same has been run through the cleaner
of an elevator. This was the case the
other day, and earlier in the season wheat
from the same field ran overweight two
and a half pounds to the bushel.
Mrs. Peter Thompson, of Plymouth,
has swarm of bees that her brother
in Minnesota gave her last fall, just to
see what bees would do in Dakota. The
bees have so far this season filed two
boxes with honey-amounting to about
fifty pounds-and are now filling the
third box. This shows that bees-as we'll
al everything else-are a success in
North Dakota.
The Presbyterian Synod of North Dako-
ia convenes at Grafton Thursday, the 9Th
inst. Rev. j. M. Anderson of the Bis
marck Presbyterian church is down on
the programme for the opening sermon,
a response. to the address of welcome,
and an address entitled: "a Glance
Forward" Attorney General Spencer
will deliver an address on "The Enforce
ment of the Law" The Synod will be
in convention four days.
J. w. LIGHTHOUSE, at Kelso, the other
day put little over 5000 bushels of No. 1
hard wheat in the elevators from his 143
acres. He sold it for $4,000. He bought