Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-01

Will % asked 10 contribute sou towards
d~efraying the expenses of destroying the
Russian cactus.
A couple named Edeson "worked''
Dickinson for numerous livery, hotel
and other accounts, and then walked to
a station four miles out of town, took
the train aud skipped.
1t is reported that the mail service on
the 500 lines west of Hankiuson is to lie
discontinued soon. Only pouches made
up at Hankinson will be sent out in the
care of the trainmen.
The Troy farm near Dawson has been
purchased by a syndicate of Polanders,
who will divide it into small farms,
people it with Polish families and raise
beets for sugar culture.
The Minneapolis and Northern eleva.
tor at Bathgate burst Tuesday, throw
ing about 10000 bushels of wheat on
the ground. Men and teams worked all
night and have it cleaned up.
liver Johnson, a Hillsboro nan, was
taking IN the shady side of life in St.
Paul the other day, and was touched for
$50. The police found his money for
HIM, and sent him off rejoicing.
Wheatland citizens say it's a shame a
man should be arrested for selling two
ounces Of carbolic acid and an ounce of
~aconite, when the sellers of the West
kinds Of booze go unprecedented.
Master Mechanic Phelan is making a
tour of the division with Superintendent
Wilson examiDg bridges, and approaches
and taking other roadway precautions
before extreme cold weather begins.
It is said that in some of the school
districts in Stutsman county, the office
of treasurer is hard to fll-no one caring
to handle the funds after the Lloyds'
failure, and the consequent loss by some
of the treasurers.
Ole Evenson, of Minnewauken, aged
%, a bachelor, committed suicide Tues
day, by shooting himself through the
heart. The body was found on the
highway near his residence, about ten
miles west from town.
A Grand Forks laborer hid S35 under
the depot platform the other day
afraid he would be robbed-and next
day when he went to get it, he found
some one had been ahead of him and
the money was gone.
Judge Caldwell of the United States
circuit court in Minnesota, has made an
order naming Alfred D. Thomas of
Fargo as associate judge with Judge
Nelson, for holding the federal court in
that state until Jan. 5, 1895.
VIM Bray, who will be remembered as
M Of the pitchers and captain of the
professional ball team in Grand Forks
in 1887, and who now lives in Tacoma, is
the champion %one.fourth, one half and
one mile unn of the coast.
In jamestown a divorce has been
granted to Mrs. Anna G.. Kenney, by
Judge Rose, from Reuben G. Kenney,
a sea captain of 7OS North Second street,
Tacoma, Wash. The grounds we're de.
sertion and a failure to support.
f, Rush river drain, known as No. 1, in
Cass county is already completed. II
cost $10.800. Sixty thousand and thirty.
five cubic yards of dirt we're removed AID
the ditch is three and one-half miles
long and was let in eight divisions.
A farmer at Sa5in in the Red River
country raised 5000 bushels of potatoes
from forty-five acres and has disposed OF
several carloads at 70 cents per bushel
He sowed wheat on last years potato
ground ond 1t averaged him % bushels
per acre.
E. j. Calthorp of Bottineau, lost &
handful of tive-dollar bills on the prairie
seven months ago, and the other day
while riding along, near the place, he
found a (which may or may not have
been one of those lost-but he was
pleased just the same.
Byron Lewis of Jamestown, who hat
just served out a term in jail for stealing
grain, was again arrested on another
charge of stealing and plead guilty. HI
was discharged on a promise to leave tn
state within twenty-four hours. Levi
has left for the state of Michigan.
NJ. Starkweather of Cakes had a pc
horse. It recently kicked Stark through
the side of a barn and broke two of hi
ribs IN the fracas. Afterwards it KICKED
another horse through a wire fence ant
nearly killed it, and the owner ha
changed his opinion of the animal.
jamestown Capital: The railroad EN-
ployes who are affected by the cut il
wages, ordered to take effect the first q
January, do not take kindly to it, AM
unless the differences are harmonized be
fore that time there may be a big strik
on the N. P, of engineers and fremen.
Percy Baker, the freight brakeman
who lost a limb in an accident while q
uorb IN tho Grant Northorn vords z,