Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-29
AROUND THE STATE,

NJ VI <AoAAOys
D. W. Buckwalter of Windsor sends
$5 to the jamestown Alert for the starry
ing Russians.
Blind piggers Andy Dipple and an
other fellow at Grafton got 5000 fine and
80 days each in Jail.
Stark county sheep men are petition
ing the county board to offer a bounty
for the killing of wolves.
Profs. Sifton, Barnes and Misses.
! Bates and Perrine constitute the faculty
at the Valley City normal school.
State Treasurer Booker has gone to
California. He will join Jud LaMoure
and Captain Griggs at Los Angles.
The 500 road is said to be contemplate
ing an extension northwest from Merri-
court, in Dickey county, in the spring.
A meeting will soon be held at Fargo
to prepare for the organization of a lodge
of colored Masons-the first in the state.
d. NJ. Evans has severed his connec-
ton with the Aberdeen News to accept
the presidency Of the Redfield Is. d.
college.
n Walter Muir, ex-president of the North
R Dakota alliance, says he thinks the ALI
ance will support the prohibition candi-
Il date for governor.
News has been received at Dickinson
sof the death at Malone, N. Y, of Hon.
w. S. Dickinson, after whom the spright-
ly west Missouri metropolis was named.
T. G. Satra has sold the Portland
Press to Messrs. Hughes and Forbes,
who will take charge of the paper after
this week. These gentlemen will make
the Press a straight out and out demo-
cratic paper.
A st. Paul dispatch says: Last Sep
TENDER, Charles Singreen went to North
Dakota threshin1. His aged mother is
now advertising for information of his
whereabouts. He was last heard from
at Leeds, North Dakota.
The $4,000 pounds of flour donated by
the North Dakota Miller's association is
now being shipped to New York. A con-
siderable amount in addition to this was
contributed by citizens of the state.
Mayville, Valley City and Sheldon take
the lead in private donations.
It is quite probable the travelling mems
annual charity ball will be omitted alto
gether this year, as the members of the
fraternity upon whom the work has de-
volved heretofore, find their time so COM
pletely occupied by business that they
cannot devote the necessary time to the
ball to insure its success.
The Forum-while enjoying a pleasant
Z call from Lieutenant Governor Allen,
who was on his way home from Bis
marck Sunday-learned that Mr.. Hedge
e the state commissioner of statistics,
will report 100000 bushels of wheat
as the yield in the state for 1891! This
is nearly fifteen million more than any of
us have estimated.
jamestown Alert: The scientific pre-
diction of a return of abundant rainfall
in North Dakota, which prediction was
first published in the Alert nearly three
years ago, is being certainly fulfilled.
Three years ago the Alert published the
g opinion of a government geologist which
was that a cycle of wet and dry years alter
mated in this region and he derivedhis rea-
sons from several years of close scrutiny
OF streams, ponds, lakes and the growth of
vegetation on their shores. The predic-
ton then made was that the returning
wet period would begin in 1890, and in
all probability continue seven or eight
years, and possibly longer. Last year
a the complete accomplishment of the
beginning of the prophecy, with the ao.
c"ompanying good crops, which are the
invariable attendants of sufficient rain
fall on North Dakota soil. The present
winter has brought an immense snow
precipitation with it, more snow being
on the prairies than for the last six years
This melted snow means a reflling of
the ponds and sloughs, and a saturation
sof the ground with moisture. 1t also
means another big crop, and a revival of
North Dakota prosperity on substantial
and fast developing basis.
The annual report of DR.. w. G. Lang
don, state veterinarian, shows that 2,5lO
horses, 512 cattle and 25,477 head OF
sheep were shipped into the state last
year. Five of the horses proved to have
CHAMBERS, and>were destroyed and the
exposed ones q%uarantined. A large
number of the sheep had the scab and
they were %quarantined in the morgan
lied counties, and after being thorough
" "dipped" were allowed to be distri-
buted. Among the thousands of cattle
owned in the state but six outbreaks of
ssymptomatic anthrax (blackleg) were re-
ported. There we're but four cases of
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