Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

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March, to vote on the question of issu.
ing bonds to the amount $4,000 for new
county buildings.
1t is said a farmer brought four dress
ed hogs into Lakota last week which
Melted him S100.5O more actual profit
than he realized from all the wheat he
raised on the farm.
The management of the asylum is
getting a new optical lantern for the
amusement Of the patients, and have
ordered a quantity of slides from kodak
negatives taken by DR.. Archibald.
Ben Rose, collecting agent of the
Moline Stoddard company Of Mime
apolis, and Miss Lora Gagnier eloped
from Willow City Saturday night and
were married by Father Bachand of st.
John, Sunday morning.
In breaking up a large piece of Ignite
coal at Jamestown, Irwin Ferris found
imbedded therein a portion Of a rib
about eighteen inches long and five
inches wide, supposed to have been the
rib Of an m animal now extinct.
The Fargo lodge, A. o. U. W, now
claims to be the largest in the state, and
in the two Dakotas. At the last
meeting 102 members were initiated,
bringing the total membership up to
1863; 243 members were added in eight
days.
Max Bass is perfecting arrangements
at Teegarden, Ind, for the emigration of
a colony from that place into Towner.
county. It is probable that a number
of others outside Of the colony will also
decide to make their future home in
North Dakota.
The county commissioners of Nelson
county have decided to rent the court
house for travelling dramatic or profess
sional entertainments at the rate of SIS
per night, $40 for local entertainments,
except political meetings. and school ex-
hibitions, which are free.
During the latter part of March there
will be leased in La Moure county
1880 acres of school lands. Land ap-
praised at less than SIS per acre will be
leased for a period of five years. But
1,O45 acres out of the total amount to be
leased are under cultivation.
For some time to come there need be
no fears that the supply of Columbian
stamps will be exhausted in jamestown.
Postmaster Smith states that he has a
supply of about $1,000 on hand which he
thinks will last during this quarter. The
old style we're ordered but these sent in
lieu.
Receiver johnson of Lloyd's is having
the receipts for the Is per cent. dividend,
expected daily, prepared ready for sigma
ture sc that no time will be lost in dis
bursting the money when it arrives.
There have been within the last two
days judgments taken against several
debtors OF the bank.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the books of Charles Ackley, the
absconding secretary of the Glendale
Building and Loan association, find
him short about $3.50 for the year 1898.
The shortage, if any for previous years
will be small. Ackley has been heard
from at Valasco, Tex.
Sheriff Fadden of Grand Forks, is
nursing one of his hands, which was bad:
ly %distiRured by the insane woman whom
he took to the asylum at Jamestown last
week. The unfortunate woman became
very violent on the way there, and it was
with the greatest difficulty that she was
restrained from seriously injuring her.
self and others in the car.
John Austin of Grand Forks, has Sc
cured q writ Of habeas corpus from
Judge Corliss for his 11-year old
daughter, whom he desires to recover
from the possession of her grandmother.
Some time ago, Austin's wife died, and
the child went to stay with her grand
mother for a few days, and o the old
lady refuses to give her up.
John Donnelly, a farmer living north
of Grafton, OF one-eighth of an acre
raised five bushel of beans; which he
sold at $3.50 per bushel which amounts
to $12.25, at the same rate one acre
would produce 40 bushels which would
amount in money to 800; he sold butter
in n year to the amount of 500, and
horses, cattle, hogs and potatoes to the
amount of $500.
Onion socials are o in the rage in
Pembina. Six young ladies stand in a
row and n of them bites a chunk out
Of the onion. A young man pays 10
cents for q guess as to who bit the
onion. If he guesses right he kisses the
other five girls; if he misses he kisses
the girl who bit the onion. It is a great
"sassiety' game in the estimate of the
inhabitants of the border.