Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-19
property, the defendant arranged for the
payment of the mortgage and the petit
ton was Wednesday withdrawn.

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payment of the mortgage and the petit
ton was Wednesday withdrawn.
Jos. Tombs: Harvesting has begun il
some portions of Walsh county. Thu
barley is being cut. The yield of grain
will be fair this year, but I'm afraid the
recent hot weather has injured it SO w
will not get the top notch, No. l hare
grade.
A merchant: That report about the
poor quality of the potato crop may b.
correct, but I don't think it applies t.
the Missouri slope. I have received
new potatoes equal in size to goblet
and sound and mealy as could be de
sired.
J.R Gage: l can't tell you why the
chamber of commerce failed to connect
because I forgot about the meeting, my.
self. Yes, I think We should send dele.
gates to the reciprocity convention, il
but to let them know that we understand
what reciprocity is.
Doctor Harcourt, who has been north
of Steele, recently, says that many farm.
ers who had the most excellent of crop
prospects, have had their crops almost
wholly ruined by hail. This is the sec.
ond or third year this has happened, and
it is very discouraging.
County Commissioner Oahall, who
was in the city yesterday to attend the
democratic pow-wow, say that harvest
ing has commenced in the vicinity of
Apple Creek and grain will be all ripe
this week. He reports the yield good
and the quality of the grain excellent.
DeWitt's barber shop beneath the
First National Bank, is non est, d%efunct,
no more. Dewitt left here some time
ago, in company with a foot racer, and
since his departure business has been
slack, other things have been detrimen-
tai to business, and the shop has been
closed.
Fargo Forum: The. Forum has a re-
port to the effect that Hon. John M.
Turner, lately appointed on the Worlds
Fair board, is soon to become a perma-
nent resident of Fargo, and being a sue
cessful business man of broad guage
ideas-Fargo can be congratulated upon
his coming.
The body of VIM. E. Rodgers, the
young man who committed suicide at
Dickinson, was taken through to St.
Paul on the baggage car attached to
train No. 4, Sunday night. The father
of the young nan doubts the suicide,
and says his death resulted from an
overdose taken carelessly.
Editor Wilson of the Pioneer, who
was in the city Monday, made a state
ment, concerning the recent ball game
that didn't come off. Mr.. Wilson con
frmed the statement that the Mandan
team knew nothing about it and said
that they we're just as indignant at the
sender of the challenge as are our boys.
Fargo Forum: The Mellon brothers
of Pittsburg were the bondsmen of the
Prick, Carnegie crowd-a dozen of them
at $4,000 each. The judge said when
some objected: "I'd take them as
bondsmen for $50 times the amount"
Dick Mellon was a banker in Bismarck
lees than ten years ago.
Fargo Argus: Secretary Flittie a
now be found at his country home In
Portland, surmounted IN a check shirt
and ecoased in a pair Of blue overalls,
squirting tobacco juice into the eye of
the potato bug. Nj. Flittie has lost
none of his old-time b~uoyancy, even if
he has been q creditable and popular
secretary of state.
A reward of $500 has been offered by
the authorities OF the city of Grand
Forks, for the arrest of the murderer of
Hans Botheim; the county authorities,
also, will offer the same amount, and
this with the reward offered by Govern
or Burke in behalf of the state, makes
the total $1,5OO.OO and should inspire
efforts to capture him.
Judge Winchester, Stenographer
futile, Attorney General Spencer and
States Attorney Register returned from
q session of court at Williamsport, Sun
day. The trial of Lynn, the Emmons
county states attorney was the most i'm
p~ortant case, and it resulted in the &C.
quittal of Lynn after a hard fight. The
jury was out all night.
North Dakota Churchman: The con.
vocation Of this missionary jurisdiction
for 1892, will meet, 80 Bishop Walker
tells us, at Bismarck, towards the close
Of September. The exact date we are
not able to give at present. But no doubt
notices will be sent out by Rev. Cham.
bers giving that information in due sea.
son.
E. a.. Wilson: I shipped $1,000
pounds of wool during the wool season
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