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

Langdon complains of insufficient fire
protection.
Theodore A. Messenger, of North Da.
kota' has been granted a pension.
The son of Hon. N. M. johnson, who
was dangerously ill, has recovered.
An ice rink is suggested for the
amusement of the residents of James.
town.
There is increased complaint of the
Great Northern train service on the Bot
tineau branch.
The Old Settlers association of the
Red River valley meets at Moorhead
next Wednesday.
Rev. @. Mason, a Observation-Disclosures
minister at Devils Lake, has been ar
rested for Islander.
Col. John Bidlake, of Osnabrock. N.
D., has been appointed superintendent
OF live stock at the Worlds fair.
The Darlington Citizen says the con-
tractors on the 500 have received orders
to push the work west regardless of az
pense.
jamestown has another seigeo of house.
breaking. An unsuccessful attempt was
made to burlgarize the residence of
Philip Plattenberg Sunday night.
f.. s. Brubaker, imprisoned in Hon.
duras for political o%fenses, will probably
be liberated on the Both inst, when he
will Immediately return to North d.
kota.
MI. s. Frazier is experimenting the
work of retitting the Moorhead mill for
the new owners. the North Dakota Mill
ing association. The capacity of the
mill will be made 500 barrels a day.
January LIST, the salary of the register
OF deeds of Sargent county, will be
sl,25O. The assessed valuation of the
county being under $2,OOO,OOO, the sal
ary of the county treasurer will be
$1,000.
Fargo is agog Owe the suicide of
Morris Olson, an employee of the Argus,
who blew his brains out Tuesday morn
ing. No cause is assigned for the deed
unless it be the persistent reading of
the Argus.
Col. W. H. Brown of Grand Forks,
was accorded the honor of naming the
new G. A. r. post at Michigan City, and
christened it Joe Hooker, after Fighting
Joe. The new post starts out very aus
~piciously.
A gang, supposed to be professional
thieves, entered the hardware store of
Bjorneby & Newgard, Grafton, Friday
night, and stole eight or ten revolvers
and about 100 jack knives. which amount
to about $3.50.
The certificate of organization for the
new bank of Kuhn has been recorded.
A. II. Paether of Minneapolis, E. L.
Welsh of Henderson, Mimi, Charles
Pentz and J. B. Sharp of Kulm, are
stockholders. Capital stock $4,000.
Kuhn is the new town on the 500 extern
sion.
A force of forty men are at work on
the monster new coal sheds for the
Great Northern at Grand Forks. When
completed and the equipment in place a
train load of coal can he unloaded in a
few minutes, and a locomotive tender
can be loaded with coal in half a min
ute, making a great saving in time.
More wheat was marketed at Hope,
N. d., last week and this than has ever
been before in the same length of time.
The elevators have been crowded to their
fullest capacity, while Mr.. j. G. Lang,
the street buyer, has had all that he
possibly could handle. All this besides
what farmers have shipped for them
selves.
Hon. johnson Nickeus in jamestown
Alert: II was delayed by a slight sick
ness, and did not leave Saturday for
South America as I intended and as re.
ported. Expect now to get away in a
few days to catch the boat out of New
York December 10 for Barranquilla. 1
lind the climate of British Columbia
much more even than that of North d.
kota, and I believe I enjoy fully as good,
it not better health there than here. It
is warmer, of course, but you know what
to expect and grow accustomed to it,"
If They will Do 1t. why
Ward County Reporter: The funny
event of the week was the fulfllment of
an election bet. At 2 o'clock last Satur-
day afternoon our worthy postmaster,
w. E. Mansfield, appeared on the street
dressed in grotesque fashion humbly
wheeling a very large w~heelbarrow which
was decorated with flags and from which
several cow.bells merrily jingled. In
the coach sat Hon. John A. Botz, q Dyed
in-the-wool democrat. MI. Wanamaker's
assistant explained to the b%ystanders
that republicans always kept their
promises, and he vas merely keeping
one he had made.
The democrats will have q majority of