Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-11

week, and dragged, receiving injuries
which will probably prove fatal.
The railroad commissioners have
ordered a tri-weekly service on the
Cando branch of the Great Northern
but the trains are not running yet.
County seat troubles are again on in
Caledonia. Persons claiming authority
are there to remove county buildings
and local forces have driven them of.
Herman Anderson had his throat cut
from ear to ear, Wednesday, in a row,
about seven miles down the river from
Grand Forks. A woman was al usual
mixed up in the case.
1t is said the North Dakota officials at
the fair base their greatest hopes for
success in the wheat competition upon
grain which comes from Stark county
west of the Missouri.
It is said Vice-President Stevenson
was introduced to seventeen applicants
for the postotiice and thirty.four candi-
dates for the land Office during his brief
stop in Grand Forks.
Editor Warnock of the Capital touches
up Kellogg of the Alert, and says that
the sentiment against the prohibition
law is almost entirely confined to the
Alert editorial sanctum.
A cut worm descended in the eastern
part of the state and threatened to
destroy all vegetation-when q parasite
descended upon the worms, killed them
off-and all is serene again.
A Duluth detective is travelling along
the line, searching for the %16-year-old
daughter of Mrs. A. Breslund, who ran
away from her home in company with
some man about twice her age.
The barn of H. Stinson at Everest, was
burned Thursday, together with sixteen
horses, thirty-ive tons of hay and some
farm machinery. The fire is supposed
to have been the work of hobos.
The Inkster Tribune remarks that
the temperance houses have placed,
fancy sceen doors at right angles inside
their houses to keep the peekers from
seeing who is drinking lemonade.
Ex-Attorney General Spencer had q
rather close call at Lake Melissa the
other day. He got a little too far out in
rough water, and exhausted, but was
pulled out by some fishermen near by.
Congressman johnson says North Da'
kota is the best state in the union fol
the raising of blooded horses, and has
bought some thirty finely bred mares
from Senator Power of Montana, tc
breed on his farm.
Insurance agents have finished an in
spection of the city of Grand Forks. and
tits said their report will commend the
efficiency of the fire department., but will
condemn the neglected condition Of
alleys and back streets.
CIark's Female minstrels do not seem
to meet with public favor in Fargo. Belle
Mattison's paper, the Sun, characterizef
them as "blousy looking biscuit.shooterf
and pot.wrestlers," and says it has mol
even the merit of being as nasty as the
handbills would indicate.
Mrs. j. F. HUTCHINSON, the wife of q
disabled union soldier, has been sue
ceeded by E. NJ. Hackett as postmaster
at Abercrombie. She took the office
when the salary was about a dollar q
week, but now that it up to $500 a year
one of the faithful must be removed
with it.
Up at Mountain, in the northern part
of the state, a good sized cyclone found
it's way recently. Trees were uprooted
grain cut off close to the ground, light
frame houses overturned and shattered
to pieces. Thunder, lightning and hail
accompanied the storm, and three head
of cattle were killed by lightning.
A Devils Lake wife made a tour o.
the "pleasure resorts of that city, re-
Gently, looking for her erring husband
She did not find him, but informed
every keeper of a resort that if they
ever sold him anything again, che
! would make it warm for them. Those