Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-01
AROUND THE STATE.

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A frost signal station is to be estab-
lished at Hunter.
The Dickinson Congregational church
is to be enlarged and improved.
A little blaze in the Forks destroys
about $4,000 worth of property.
Fargoites are displeased at the result
of the tournament and cry foul.
Blind piggers are being pulled"
p~romiscuously in and about Fargo.
The Alert wants the Jamestownites to
arrange for a Fourth of July celebration.
Callahan, in Cess, and Wadsworth, in
Stutsman, were reelected superintend-
ent of schools.
A Great Northern freight a jumps
the track, near Moorhead. No particular
damage was done.
A Norwegian visits Moorhead, imbibes
too freely, falls off a train near Fargo
and is badly injured.
The North Dakota town that does not
celebrate the Fourth this year, is
absolutely mot in it."
VIM. Cuskelly, one of Dickinson's
Oldest residents, died at Oakdale, near
that place, last Tuesday.
A sea serpent is said to be have been
seer at Devils Lake. And he who saw
it wasn't a drinking man, either.
VIM. Withell and Miss Jennie Posey
we're married at Jamestown, Wednesday
evening, by the Rev. s. E. Ryan.
Grand Forks papers warn the people
against the taking of counterfeit coins
which are said to be in circulation there.
John Wilson's cook skips from Fargo,
with a miscellaneous assortment of prop
erty to which he had no right o r title.
W. G. Listokow, of Grafton, appointed
national committeeman for North Da-
kota, is one Of democracy's best men.
It is estimated that fully 10000 people
attended Robinson's circus, during the
afternoon and evening performances, in
Fargo.
One of the largest audiences ever seen
in Fargo, assembled to witness the com.
mencement exercises of the Fargo high
school.
Major Hamilton of Grand Forks, has
undergone a competitive examination
for the recording clerkship of the United
States senate, with fair prospects of sue
cess.
Mrs. E. E. Hancock, of Fargo, was as
saulted by an unknown person, receiv-
ing a nasty blow on the forehead. Young
Parks of Moorhead is charged with the
crime, but has not yet been arrested.
A band met the Yerxas upon their re-
turn to Fargo, and, as it is claimed that
Bismarck did not win Ethe race farley,
the Republican says that some Of the
speakers will say in plain words that the
Yerxas are still invincible.
Grand Forks Herald, Thursday: Gov.
Burke wa rendered o reception by the
citizens last night at the Dacotah. The
First Regiment band of Lisbon we're
stationed in the hall and d~iscoursed
music during the evening. Gov. Burke,
Railroad. Commissioner Walsh, Sup
e%rintendent of Public instruction Ogden,
and the governors staff, received the
callers in the parlors of the Dacotah.
There was a large number in attend
ance.
Jamestown Capital: The Wells Bros
captured a buffalo COW near Cleveland
in the western part of this county last
Saturday. They also captured a heifer
last Wednesday afternoon supposed to
be a calf of the COW captured Saturday.
Allison Wells says the COW will weigh
about 800 pounds and the heifer about
1,100 pounds. He say that they are
very thin having been chased almost
continually since spring. The buffalo
were captured only after wearing out
six or seven horses and being chased for
hours. They are at present confined in
the stock yards at Cleveland and Mr..
Wells says are rapidly becoming domes-
ticated.
Grand Forks Herald: While the
death of Col. D. W. Yorkey was ex-
pected, it was a sad blow to his friends
yesterday to learn that he had expired at
his old home at Syracuse, N. Y. His
death was the result of diabetes which
led to consumption. Since last winter
he has been in the east in hopes that the
climate together with advanced medical
skill would build him up, but, the dread
disease Of consumption had laid a firm
hold on him, and nothing could be done.
Only a few weeks ago he was advised to
go to California, but he was too weak to
attempt the trip, and he has since failed.
He was born and raised in the state
Of New York and came here in 1881
when this country was yet in it's infancy.
He settled at Grafton and began the
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