Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09

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adjutant general of North Dakota and
grand commander of the G. A. r. DR..
Bentley has. until a few days ago, been
under treatment in the hospital here
where a successful operation in removing
an abcess was performed by DR.. Stone.
He is nov on his way to the Hot Springs
to recuperate.
Edgeley Mail: A good story is related
of an Edgeley farmer who had too little
faith in his wheat crop. After carefully
estimating he figured the yield at Is to
Is bushels to the acre. So sure was he
that it would not exceed Is bushels that
he agreed to let his wife have all over
that amount for spending money. The
thresher showed Is bushele to the acre,
and the farmers wife has $1,000 for pin
money.
Hon. Geo. H. Walsh says that little
joke on him about grading down his
wheat in Duluth was only spite work
and he expects soon to ship his wheat to
West Superior where an honest North
Dakota grade can be had. There is not
2 per cent. of the present crop marketed
and a large portion of this greataharvest
may find its way to West Superior. A
great many of the large elevator and mill
firms are being converted to the new idea
and Minneapolis and Duluth will not
play those little jokes much longer.
DR.. Merchant, in Glendale Leader: 1
will have $4,000 marketable heads of
cabbage from my irrigated farm east of
town, and they are splendid, too. I shall
make arrangements to store as many of
them as possible, having rented the base
ment of Bowsfield's building for that pur-
pose. I think they will average five
cents per head. Plants which we're
transplanted as late as August l, and
which good judges claimed would amount
to nothing, are making fine heads. They
have all grown wonderfully during the
past two weeks.
Jamestown Capital: There seems to
be great confusion in guessing at wheat
rates this year. A Barnes county farmer
took a load of wheat from his last years
crop, which then graded No. l hard, to
Valley City the other day and the buyers,
%supposing it this years crop, the best
grade offered him was No. 8. The reason
given for the low grade was Frosted"
and it was given by three different buy
ers. The farmers so far as they can
should store their wheat in granaries on
their farms and let the buyer come after
it and buy it on its merits. They will
come.
All the railroad companies are calling
attention to the critical situation in the
North Dakota wheat fields, where the
grain is still to a great extent in the
shock, and little threshing done. Gen.
eral Traffic Manager Hannaford of the
Northern Pacific says: SIN the six Red
river counties of North Dakota alone
there are 100000 bushels of wheat.
The farmers are utterly unable to get it
threshed. There are two months work
there and threshing outfits are being
brought from Illinois, Indiana and even
Ohio, to help out the farmers.
Superintendent Ogden: We had one
of the most interesting md successful
school meetings at Fargo ever held in
the state. The objects accomplished
were: % Agreement of the leading ed
ucators of the state to establish a uni
form course of study for all state schools
80 that a pupil can m in any
grade for which he is fitted, in any school
in the state, and continue his course in
any such school until he graduates from
either of the normal schools or the state
university. (2) The high school course
graduates the pupils into the freshman
class of the university or into the profess
sional departments of the state normal
schools. (3) The common district school
course now published was sanctioned
and a brief appendix ordered so as to
make 1t more explicit.
Fargo. Republican: About 1:3O o'clock
this afternoon Alex. Chisholm, a laborer
who has been working for some time on
L. A. Barnes farm, west of Fargo, was
instantly killed by lightning as he was
riding horseback in the fields not far
from the house, and the horse on which
he rode was also killed. He was immedi-
ately brought to Fargo and placed in
Undertak or Rice's morgue. His breast
was still warm at 3:30o'clock. Drs. Wear,
Campbell and Kurtz examined him and
pronounced him dead. The bolt struck
him back of the head smuggling his hair
slightly. Word was sent to the coroner
and his clothingwill not be removed till he
arrives. His home is said to be near
Brainerd and a telegram was sent to his
parents. Hei is apparently about twenty
years old and was a fine specimen of q