Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-11-24

personal injury, $4,000, caused by acct
dent on train on jamestown & Northern
near Darlington last April.
A rather sad case occurred down at
Cakes the other day, when G. E. Peter
had his father arrested for abusing
the family, and after he was tried, enter
ed another complaint of insanity, and
had him taken to jamestown.
John A. Benoit of Rolla, shipped 5000
of seneca root to Minneapolis,
This was Mr.. Renoit's second
shipment this fall, the total amount
handled by him this season approx
mated closely to 10000 pounds.
The ladies Of Churches Ferry, dis.
gusted with the slowness of mortal man,
have dubbed together, purchased two
small lots, and will undertake to build a
town hall. They have already secured
several hundred dollars for the work.
Banker Mears of Fargo Is again in
trouble. Judge Mcconnell appointed A.
A. Guptll temporary receiver of the
North Dakota Title and Insurance COM
pany, and Mears refused to turn over
the books. Mears is now in Jail for con.
tempt.
Washington botanists gravely assert
the weed which is raising Cain in North
Dakota now is saltwort and not cactus.
The average farmer doesn't care q con-
tinental whether it is saltwort or wiener
wurst, so long as it is here. He wants
to get rid of it.
1t is said in Valley City that W. H.
Pickens, who had Bill Williams arrested
last week for stealing his wife's affec-
tions, has offered Williams a 1,OOO.mile
ticket and a modicum of the coin of the
realm if he will put that distance be-
tween him and his wife.
North Dakota postmasters appointed
are: Petersburg, Nelson county. N. M.
Venburg, vice l.. H. Peterson, removed;
Walhalla, Pembina county, J. F. Hens
ley, vice ]. F. Mayer, removed; Willow
City, Bottineau county, A. D. Tanguay,
vice G. o. Romansen, removed.
Adjutant General Topping has &c.
cured a permit from the wal department
allowing Lieutenant Farnsworth, now
detailed as an instructor at the Univer-
sity, to accompany Colonel Miller Of
jamestown, upon his tour of inspection
of the North Dakota National Guard.
A singularly mated couple passed
through from the west the other night.
The gentleman was gray haired, ap-
parently between so and 60, and the wife
a rosy checked girl apparently about 16
! years of age. The couple came from
Glen Ullin, a small station west of Man
dan.
Secretary Arnold has called a meeting
of the North Dakota Press association
to meet at the Headquarters hotel in
Fargo on Friday evening, the Oath inst,
for the purpose of %electing officers and
the transaction of any other business
that may properly come before the meet
ing.
The appointment of Senator Bidlake
of North Dakota as consul to Baran-
quilla, Columbia, is one that has been
unaccountably hanging fire. Senator
Roach, who is pushing it, does not give
up hope, however, but says that he looks
to see it made as soon as congress reas-
sembles.
A dog on the streets of Larimore,
Saturday, trotted peacefully along with
a CHASTITY find between it's teeth, consist.
ing of a mans arm from the shoulder
and including the hand. So far the rest
of the body has not yet been found,
although the vicinity is being carefully
searched.
The Great Northern had two men
Void and Jacobs, arrested the other day
for stealing cases of beer from cars.
They have retaliated by having Superin-
tendent Ponsonby arrested for perjury,
on the ground that he swore out the
complaint without being acquainted
with the facts.
William Griggs, father of Capt. Alex.
Griggs, founder of Grand Forks, died
Monday, aged IS years. For nearly
forty years he has suffered from paraly.
sis. He was the father of sixteen chill
dren, nearly all of whom are now living;
also has forty.six grandchildren and
twenty great grandchildren.
At Wahpeton papers. have been made
out and will be served at once by Mr.,
George against a we'll known and popu-
lar physician and surgeon Of that city,
claiming $4,000 damages for alienation
of affections of plaintiffs wife, and it is
said an additional suit for $1,000 for at.
tempted blackmail, will be commenced
As the Canadian Pacific and 500 lines
have given rates from western points to
local points in North Dakota without
the consent of the Northern Pacific