Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-26
AROUND THE STATE

house at cost OF $4,000.
The Baptist society of Steele are max
ing arrangements to erect substantial
church ediioe in that city.
A new postofiice named Sodhouse has
been established in Rolette county, with
Ingrebret Ingrebretson as captain.
The establishment Of postofice at
Fort Rice, Morton county, with Miss j.
B. Smith as post-mistress, is asked for
from the department.
Senator Fuller is said to have sold
about $4,000 dollars worth of horse
flesh the past few days, all in Stutsman
county.
. Editor Showers of the Wheatland
Eagle has purchased "a little red wagon"
and deems the occasion worthy of an ex-
tended notice.
Dick Copeland reports the first mile
stone in the publication of the Leader
as being successfully passed and all indi-
cations pointing to bright future.
The Normanden, the leading Scandi-
navian paper of Grand Forks, will estab-
lish branch Office in Fargo and try and
make it interesting for the Posten of the
latter city.
Valley City people claim that $4,000
worth of wool will be marketed there
the coming season. The clip cf several
focks exceed in value half the cost of the
sheep last fall.
. Fort Totten Indian school will have a
lot of new buildings and Capt. Herman,
the genial navigator of the satanic lake,
will do the work. Twenty-Five thousand
dollars is appropriated by congress.
The St. Thomas Times is ten years old
and as it's editor is city auditor, police
justice, member of the board of educa-
ton and last but not least, member of
governors staff, he should have his
hands full.
The commissioners of Mclean county
have resolved to purchase one of the
patent frebreak burners from Judge
Rice of Mandan. All who have used
this invention speak highly of it's practi-
cal operations.
The little four-year-old son of Joseph
Christ fell into we'll at New Rockford
Tuesday and was drowned. The franctic
mother, without power to render assist
ance, witnessed the vain struggles of
the little fellow for life.
, The Drayton Echo claims that there
are farms in that county-Pembina-
large that a man few days ago had his
barns blown down and did not discover
the loss for several days, not being able
to see them from his residence.
Milton, Cavalier county, wants to
snake the court house out of Langdon
and offers as an inducement $500
building and site free of expense to the
county. All of wich will probably cause
one Of those delightful county seat fights.
The war department has awarded a
contract to st. Paul parties to remove all
the bodies of soldiers now buried at
abandoned posts in the state. They will
be taken to the national burial ground
on the Custer battlefield and there rein
tered.
Judge Templeton will be the orator of
the day at Grand Forks on the 4th of
/. July. Among other attractions adver-
tised is a double wedding, with the
usual list of presents for the gallant
swains who may present THEMSELVES for
sacrifice on the altar.
$a. The Fargo Agricultural college board
has unanimously elected Mr.. S. S. Lyon,
Of the First National bank, the treas
urer OF the organization. The time in
which the board would receive bids for
the erection of the buildings of the
school has been extended to July LIST.
Timothy O'Brien, the sweet singer of
Pembina county, and who has many
friends in this city, is now deputy COL
lector OF Uucle Sans revenue at Neohe
and promises to see that no Chinaman
comes in or that Canadian fire water
pays any duty-if in the hands of his
friends.
Judge Connella, who for SO many years
had been the 'local" for the Fargo Re-.
publican, has resigned his position and
removed to his old home in Kentucky,
the Estate Of handsome women, thor
oughbred horses and pure whiskey," !" as
I he expresses it. He leaves many friends
who will wish him we'll wherever he may
plant his stakes.