Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-12-02
AROUND TIKI STATE.

Democrats had a big jubilee at Graf
ton Tuesday night.
Work on the 500 road has been dis
continued for the winter.
George Martin, a Northern Pacific
switchman, lost an arm by falling under
a car in the jamestown yards, and died
of his injuries.
Col. L%ounsberry in Fargo Republican,:
No, indeed, l am not a candidate for the
senate. My leg is still sore from the pull
it had two years ago.
Jgelsenes, the man who attempted
suicide on the train some days ago, has
been adjudged insane and will be taken
to the asylum at Jamestown.
In Eddy county G. J. Maddux, the
editor Of the Transcript, was showed
under for states attorney by the mag
n~ificent and crushing majority of just
n vote for Keime, democrat.
About $50 people enjoyed a banquet
at Sherbrook, N. D., as the result of an
election bet on Harrison. The celebra-
ton wound up with fireworks, all at the
expense of the republicans who made
the bet.
Senator j. NJ. Patch of Eddy county,
has sued the Northern Pacific railroad
for $4,000 for the destruction of the
Merchants hotel property, New Rock
ford, by fire, the claim being made that
a spark from an engine started the blaze.
At Devils Lake Charley McGraw,
aged 16, stole $25 from Mrs. Bunker's
restaurant, where he was a waiter, and
had bought a ticket for Grand Forks,
but the lateness of the train detained
him till 10 p. M, when he was arrested
and $21 recovered.
Fargo Republican: Capt. Wilson has
been promoted to a majorship in the
North Dakota national guards. And
this will doubtless result in the promo
ton also of Lieut.. Grafton to a cap
taincy. The friends of Capt. Wilson are
extending congratulations.
The body of Frank Brown of Fargo,
murdered at Frazee, Mimi, last Sunday,
arrived at Fargo, Thursday. The
funeral took place yesterday under
charge of the Typographical Union.
Van Sickler and his wife we're buried
at Detroit by the county authorities.
j. N. Hawthorne of Park River, was
arrested Sunday by Deputy Sheriff
Briggs and brought to the county jail
at Grafton to answer to the charge of
seduction. The next day be hustled
around to procure a marriage license.
The young lady is a resident of Park
River.
There was a jail delivery at Wahpeton
Wednesday night while the sheriff was
eating his supper and seven prisoners
escaped. One boy of II was r%ecaptured.
He says they were four months digging
through the wall with a table fork. One
of the escaped parties is a gambler who
was arrested for robbery.
Minneapolis Tribune: H. P. Rucker,
one of the North Dakota Worlds Fair
commissioners, and w. j. Anderson,
county auditor of Grand Forks county,
were in Minneapolis, Wednesday. MI.
Rucker says the people of his state are
manifesting a strong interest in the
exhibit that will represent their state at
the big fair and that twenty-five men
are now at work arranging the grains
and grasses that have been collected.
Col. Morton in Fargo Argus: There
is a sample Of the soil that Mr.. Wade is
taking with him to represent the Red
River valley at the Worlds Fair, and let
me tell you, my boy, that column of dirt
that Governor Dickey proposes to show
the world at large at Chicago, will be
the best advertisement that we will have
there. The idea was an inspiration.
You may fool the average farmer on
grains that he has never seen grown, but
you cannot deceive him on the quality of
the soil and the subsoil of land that he
contemplates cultivating. Wade tells
me that he found soil in the neighbcr-
hood of Major Darling's eight feet IN
depth. Now, think of that, eight feet
of top soil, then a strata of marie, and
then blue clay. Marie is lime, and
lime means wheat, and wheat means
money, though 1 am compelled to admit
at this time, that it taxes a good deal of
wheat to mean much money. We ought,
all of us, to feel grateful to Governor
Burke for the appointment Of the pres
ent board of Worlds Fair managers,
from President Hector down, they are
rustlers. You might have hunted the
entire northwest over, and would not
find such a combination of energy and
intelligence, as is represented by Messrs.
Dickey and Wade.
F. W. Cathro: We had a good meet
ing at Fargo. Manager Dickey deliv-