Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-15
AROUND THE STATE,

tne spring.
An escaped lunatic was captured by F.
B. Dodge at Mapleton, N. D.
Hon. Geo. H. Walsh has opened a real
estate office in Grand Forks.
There is trouble reported in the ranks
of the Dickinson enforcement league.
The North Dakota Agricultural col
lege began the winter term Wednesday
morning with fifty-one students.
The Walker brothers have leased the
Fargo Argus job rooms and will con-
tinue to turn out tirst-class work.
Miss Bertha Whangrang, of Fargo
who sued Fred Egbert for $4,000 for
shooting her in the ankle, got Il verdict
of $2,5OO.
A meeting of the republican executive
committee will be held in Fargo on
January IL, upon a call from Chairman
B. F. Spaulding.
The Grand Forks chamber of COM
merce has taken a new start. George B.
Clifford has been elected president and
George B. Winship secretary.
Fargo Republican: VIM. Rea, this
afternoon, shipped fourteen cars of
sheep to Chicago over the Northern Pa
cifc road. He has been fattening them
at his farm south of Fargo.
The North Dakota members of the ma
tional committee of the peoples party
have perfected a state organization by
the election of a central committee, com
prising one member from each county in
the state.
The second term of the Valley City
normal opens a~uspicionsly with increas-
ed attendance. $4,000 will be expended
for a building early next spring. Pro-
fessors Sifton, Moses, Boles, Hand and
Herrine are the faculty.
The county commissioners of Mclean
county declared the office of clerk of
the district court vacant and appointed
Hans G. Nygard. 1t seems the gentle
mar elected, Frank johnson, has left
the country and cannot be heard from.
There is great CONSERVATION among
those who have been breaking the pro-
hibition law in Minot. Witnesses were
examined by District Attorney Gregory,
and it is understood that arrests will be
made. There are nine of them in the
same boat.
The fight for the Grafton postoffice
is becoming interesting. Postmaster
General Wannamaker has received a
letter from the chairman of the county
committee of Walsh couoty setting forth
that Brentner, one on the candidates, is
not a good republican and voted against
the republican nominee for congress last
fall.
The past year has shown a marked in
crease in the order of the Knights of
Labor in North Dakota, and the prelim-
mary steps has been taken to perfect a
state assembly of this popular brother
hood. AS at present organized, each
local assembly in the state is an indie
! pendent body attached only to the gen.
eral assembly.
At Grafton Friday Henry Ludd was
sentenced to five years in state prison.
Ladd attacked his employer, Gallagher,
last fall while stacking and shot and
stabbed him, but Gallagher recovered.
Just before his sentence Ladd COM
menced a long speech on "man." When
the judge finally stopped him he knelt
down and prayed for judge, jurors aud
others.
A man named Hrabek was caught
Tuesday night stealing wheat in q novel
manner by the marshal at Park River.
He bored a whole in the car and inserted
a tin tube and secured the wheat in
sacks. Wheat has been missed for some
time. A detective from st. Paul was up
to ferret it out. The marshal had to fire
several shots before he secured him.
His case will come before the term of
court now in session.
Colonel Plummer of the Minot land
Office says that there has been but two
filings on public lands since the office
was opened. The residents are mostly
engaged in stock business and wish to
preserve the ranges. Consequently they
have organized and will make it unpleas-
ant for any party who looks up land
with a view of making entry. Further
more, the stockmen refuse to file on the
lands they occupy. They have formed
a league offensive aid defensive, and
will neither make entries themselves nor
allow any one else to do sc. This re-
tards settlement and knocks the colonel
and his colleague out of theirtfees. Col
onel Plummer has written the commits
sioner of the land Office and also to the
congressional delegation urging that the
department take steps to protect settlers
who wish to make entry from the
threats or violence Of this cowboys