Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-02

route to Dickinson with his parents.
lied on a Wisconsin Central train near
Chippewa Falls, Wis, and wa buried in
st. Paul.
The jamestown Alert is out with n
snake story. 1t speaks of G. l.. Wells
capturing n snake near Spiritwood lake,
measuring 16 feet in length, and 8 inches
in diameter.
Three Sherman houses have burned
IN Fargo. Now the citizens are anxious
to have the Headquarters change it's
name to Sherman, just to see if there is
anything in q name.
A man named Sherwood, claiming to
be connected with the Great Northern
road and writing up the country through
which the road passes, is put down as a
fraud by the company.
The State Industrial school board has
located the site for that institution on
the land Of the DeCoster, Pennington &
Wells addition. The price paid for the
forty acres was SIS an acre.
Railroad Commissioner Cameron has
been out to Bisbee where the people are
clamoring for a depot and finds they are
entitled to one. The business of the
station amounts to over 1926, 900 a year.
The Grand Forks district is making a
show of itself in refusing to take Rev.
Ryan, formerly of Bismarck. If they
knew what a good fellow Ryan is per-
haps they wouldn't kick so vigorously.
1t is said that Senator Hansbrough
has decided to build a fine residence at
Devils Lake, which would seem to dis
courage the hopes Of Grand Forkers
that he would make that city his home.
The other day the Dakota at Fargo
published an item to the effect that
Chief of Police Hennessy of Grand
Forks was on a drunk in Fargo. Now
the Dakota will have to stand a libel
suit.
1t is nov given out that Editor Tro-
vaten will be manager of the Scandi-
navian edition Of the new Independent
combination at Fargo, and E. J. Moore
manager of the English edition and job
rooms.
The Fargo Argus makes the startling
headline announcement that Fargo at
one time had but one building, and that
all other buildings have been built since
the first n "sprang up out of the bare
prairie"
j. l.. Cotton has sold an interest in
his Ward county coal mine to Lisbon
parties for $4,000. 1t is possible the
new firm will be more successful in Sc
curing railroad rates than Mr.. Cotton
has been.
North Dakota acquaintance of U. S.
Marshal Frye will regret to learn of his
death from an overdose of morphine on
Saturday night. He was one of the
most highly respected gentlemen of the
northwest.
Fargo had an electrical storm Sunday
night that kept the fremen on the run
for several hours. Mary Loney charged
with beating a Mrs. knott of Fargo, has
been adjudged insane and taken to
jamestown.
A MI. 8. Stillwell, accused by his
nephew in Schuyler county, New York,
of getting away with $500 and another
mans wife, fifteen years ago, was ar
rested in Fargo, Friday, and placed under
$1,000 bonds.
Later reports show that not so much
grain as was first supposed was blown
out of the ground, or uncovered by last
weeks wind storms. III the Missouri
slope country no damage whatever, has
been reported.
Col. Morton of Fargo, is seeding
$40 acres this season but one-half to
barley and oats. The colonel believes
the acreage of wheat should be reduced
in order that the surplus and low prices
may disappear.
Mrs. Thebet of Park river, is an in
mate of the county %poorhouse, in Walsh
county, and insane, and efforts to keep
her from destroying her children have to
be made, frequently. Her husband is in
the %penitentiary at Bismarck.
It is rumored that E. G. Carruth of
Crookston, and w. E. Mckenzie, of the
same place, have made arrangements to
purchase the Grand Forks Plaindealer
and conduct it as a frst-class, straight
out democratic paper hereafter.
Jack Wolfe of Glendale, left town for
q little fun-on the outside, and his
wife, thinking he was deserving her, had
him arrested by telegraph at Edgeley.
He was brought back and jailed, but the
wife relented and reconciliation fol-
lowed.