Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07

is realized, it will be difficult to get hands
to harvest and thresh it.
While playing ball at Casselton, Tues
day, Ed. Rutledge was knocked sense.
less with a pitched ball.
The New Rockford Transcript SAWS the
armer of Eddy county want 200 willing
farm hands for three months.
The News and Stockman estimates the
average yield of wheat in McHenrv
county at thirty bushels per acre.
W. Fl. Standish has received the an.
polntment of assistant attorney general
with headquarters at Devils Lake.
1t is said that Consul johnson Nick
Gus will resign at an early day and re-
sumo his residence at jamestown.
The Lakota base ball team chal-
lenges the Devils Lake and Larimore
teams to play a match game for $50 a
side. .
Target shooting has been prohibited
IN Grand Forks since the shooting Of
little Joseph Armstett, who has since
died.
Hankinson has a potato starch fac
tory completed. The farmers have
planted 1000 acres of potatoes to supplv
it with this fall.i
There is a wall from nearly every
county IN the state for harvest hands.
Help is very scarce and good a will
be PAID to men who are willing to work.
Attorney General Spencer has been
petltloned to appoint N. G. Young and
). H. Abrams assistant ATTORNEYS to
prosecute liquor cases in Pembina
county.
There was a car load of wool recently
shipped from Oberon by the Fort Totten
Indians. That shows how the poor In
dian is progressing in the arts of indus
try and peace.
Superintendent McCabe cannot oct
men to clean the Russian cactus from
the r~ight-of-way out west and writes to
have the road supervisors take up the
problem and send in the bill to the COM
pany.
The assessed valuation of horses for
Grand Forks county this year as COM
pared with 1890 shows a gain of $780,
595; cattle show a decrease of S8.425
and sheep increase 8,125 in numbers and
$15,300 in value.
N. K. Hubbard, who has extensive
land interests in the vicinity of Cassel.
ton, Cass county, has had a force If
thirty men at work the past two weeks
pulling and destroying the wild oats
from his premises.
Pembina Pioneer Express: Two new
officers have been added to the custom
force at this point. Capt. B. H. Webster
OF Pembina has taken the position of
night inspector, and Mr.. G.. G. Thorp of
Britton, S. D., is immigrant inspector.
At a recent meeting of the commits
sioners of Towner county, Mrs. E. A.
Chapman, of Cando, whose mental fac.
ulties were affected last winter by a So
we're attack of grippe, was pronounced
insane and ordered transferred to James.
town. q
The 500 railroad company has issued
a circular which states that the line from
Hankinson to Valley City will be fin
lshed~ Immediately and will rapidly be
constructed in a northwesterly direction
through to Regina in the British possess
sions.
Hail losses in North Dakota this year
have been comparatively slight. Score.
tary q. L.. GRADER of the Farmers Mutu-
al Protective association says that his
company has had but thirty-two losses
reported up to date this year against $50
at this time last year.
The North Dakota game laws provide
that prairie chicken or pinated grouse.
cannot be killed between the first day of
December and the goth day of August
following; no song birds at any time; nor
shall any person hunt on the cultivated
land of another, without consent.
The First Regiment band has received
from the First National bank a present
OF a new bass drum "as is a drum" tt
is 40 inches in diameter, "a inches
across, made by the celebrated Carl Fis-
cher of New York. It is a magnificent
instrument and has lots of music in it.
The North Dakota Millers' association
met at Fargo July 30. The association
was represented in a prosperous condi-
ton. The following officers were elected:
President, is. Hillyer, London, En-
gland; acting president, D. B. Shotwell,
Fargo; vice-president, L. B. Gibbs, May
vile; treasurer, J. M. Turner, Mandan:
secretary, G. Il. Winters, Grand Forks;
directors, D. B. Shotwell, Fargo; p.
Names. Grand Forlyc. WI m uona. ~