Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-21
condition Of the river during the coming

condition Of the river during the coming
year.
The Grand Forks News says that
James Collins, who killed Moore ut
Mimic, spent Sunday at the Northern
with his wife, o and daughter, and left
yesterday for Montana, where he joins
his brother, The day before Moore's
brother was at the Northern. Mrs
Collins has resided at Grafton ever
since the tragedy, working at the
millinery trade and supporting herself
and little ones.
Argus: In the United States court
yesterday, Fred Geleaks was found
guilty of selling liquor to Indians and
was fined $50 and sentenced to thirty
days in the Ramsey county Jail. Will
lam Fitterling was found guilty Of
violating the postal laws and wal fined
$50. John Frederick. who pleaded
not guilty Monday to the charge of
robbing school lands, was arrested, but
got q continuance till the Bismarck
term of court.
St. Paul Dispatch: There arrived in
the city yesterday from the barracks at
Columbus, Ohio, thirty.eight recruits,
twenty-five for Fort sully and thirteen
for Fort Yates. The contingent for
Yates were detained in St. Paul and
sent to Fort Smelling, as 1t was under
stood that the water in the Cannon Ball
river between Mandan and Yates was too
high to allow OF their transportation to
the fort. The detail for Sully went on
as there was no obstruction in their way.
Colonel Lounsberry: William A.
Stark Tuesday pleaded guilty to petit
larceny in Mandan district court, and
was fined 800. The evidence in the
White case was all in when I left, and
the defense just making it's plea. White
admitted to having forged Diapers
name to the back of the check, and said
he would have plead guilty to forgery,
but not to grand larceny, as charged,
since he claimed Draper gave him the
check. Most of the civil cases we're dis
posed of.
Joseph Dietrich returned from his
farm Sunday evening, bringing little Joe
with him. Doctor Fraser dressed the
boys hands and feet, and during the
night he rested quite comfortably. The
doctor says it will be impossible to tell
for several days yet whether or not
amputation Of any of the frozen men,
bers will be necessary, as it is impossible
to tell now to what degree the vitality of
the bone is destroyed by the frost. He
hopes, however, to bring him through
without amputation.
Frank Berthral, the Fourth street
butcher, and a farmer, who went into
the shop to collect a bill, had a little
falling out Saturday afternoon. It
seems that the farmer, unable to collect
his bill, threatened to take satisfaction
out of Berthral's physical makeup, and
that gentleman displayed his dislike of
the threat by chasing the farmer out of
the place with a cleaver and butcher
knife. No n was injured, although the
air was filed for a lime with some very
aromatic swear words.
jamestown Alert: Governor Short
ridge, Adjutant General Topping of
Grand Forks, Col. Black of Valley City,
Col. E. s. Miller, Lieut.. Col. Peake and
Capt. White of Valley City, Capt. H. G.
Flint and Adjutant Schwellenbach we're
in conference Saturday in the city, with
a view to sending the militia to the
worlds fair during the summer. BY the
payment Of a nominal sum it is under
stood that the members of the militia
will be sent to the fair, though plans are
not completed as yet.
Brad Hennessy, who ran a fve-day
daily in Bismarck during the recent
session of the legislature is not at all
modest in his estimate of the cash value
of his character. A dispatch from West
Superior states that lit is rumored that
W. B. Hennessy, formerly editor of the
Evening Telegram, West Superior, and
later editor of the Grand Forks Plain.
dealer, will sue the Superior Leader for
100000 for libel in alleging that he had
neglected his family and was fleeing to
Australia to escape indictments against
him in North Dakota. Hennessy is un-
derstood to be at Eau Claire, on the
Forum, and is expected here to.
morrow"
Fargo Forum: The executive com.
mittee of the State Firemen's association
is in session to-day with President j. M.
Edgerley Of Bismarck, Secretary O.
Bassett of Fargo, A. NJ. Packard of Man
dan and B. Cameron of Hillsboro pres.
ent. MI. Greene, the member Of the
committee from Devils Lake is absent.
The meeting was held in the secretary's
Office this morning and the business dis
cussed was of q general nature. Thew