Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-12-14
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.
Fifty-eight divorces have been granted
in Fargo since juno l.
The North Dakota G.. A. R. encamp-
ment will be held at Valley City next
June.
Major Waugh, formerly Indian agent
at Fort Totten, has died IN Eddy, New
Mexico.
About 400 shriners participated in the
reforming of the unregenerated brethren
at Fargo.
Walter Balderson of Lisbon was shot
dead with a shotgun in the hands Of a
companion.
The sixteen ounce baby at Towner,
which has achieved the distinction of
being the smallest baby in the state, died
on Tuesday.
The ~3-year-old child of r. M. Parma
baker of Casselton, fell from a hammock
and broke it's neck.
Benjamin Hagaman, who builded the
Fargo opera house and the Hotel Column
bia, has died in Chicago.
Howard Eaton, the Medora ranchman,
has shipped twenty-eight elk east to
Pittsburgh for a private park.
George S. Webster, cashier of the
James River National Bank at James,
town, has died Of typhoid fever.
The eighth annual meeting of the
North Dakota Educational association
will be held at Hillsbrro, Trail county,
Dec. q and %.
It turns out that the man arrested at
Spokane was not Trumbull, the missing
Fargo express agent, but an innocent
man who resembled him.
Wilson Cunningham, an insane man,
was found at Buffalo with his neck
across a rail of the Northern Pacific
tracks, meditating suicide.
Valley City is to have new jail build
ing, with cages and hose cart room on
first floor, it is said, and council room
and city offices on the second floor.
George Locklin, of Picton, was in
stanty killed Thursday afternoon in the
Turtle Mountains by the accidental dis
charge of a rifle. He was seventeen
years old.
The Wahpeton opera house was opened
Thursday evening by the Colhoun Opera
company, which was greeted with a
$1,000 oouse. Mayor Garter delivered q
neat address and the people are happy
Report comes from B%arranquilla, South
America, that Consul John Bidlake has
struck it rich since arriving III his new
home. TITS said that he is part owner Of
a tract of land on which an overhowine
oil we'll has been discovered.
H. Dingman delivered thirty-fve hogs
at Churches Ferry the other day tina
brought him as much money, says the
Sun, as 1000 bushels of wheat at thu
present price. He fatted them on les|
than 500 bushels of off grade wheat.
The new armory of Company H, N. D
N. G., at jamestown, will probably b.
the finest in the state when all fixed up
The main armory is 38x75 feet, with
16-foot ceiling, and without a pillar o.
post to obstruct movements when drill
ing.
The completion of the west wing, ;
heating apparatus, a water supply, {
barn and facilities for teaching the stu
dents trades are some of the things thu
legislature will be asked to provide fol
the deaf and dumb institution at Devil
Lake.
The 600-acre farm of Alfred Dickey
which includes the entire section will
the exception of the TOWNSHIP of Dickey
LaMoure county, which it surrounds
has been sold to Charles A. Searle, who
for several years past has rented the
land on shares.
A grand council of the United Com
mercial Travellers is to be organized il
North Dakota, with headquarters a
Grand Forks. It takes three subordi
nate councils to allow this move, anc
the state has now one each at Crane
Forks, Fargo and Wahpeton.
The search for Tromer, who has mys
%teriously disappeared and is thought tt
have been murdered, is continued in L;
Moure county. Several parties are &C
tive in their efforts to gain information
and find the body Of the man. A we'll
Hands Off.