Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-09-21

would take Is men six days tc pull up
the weeds, and on the adjoining quarter
blowing could not be done as horses are
unable to force their way through the
cactus.
W. HI Shipe, one Of the owners OF the
Richland Roller mills at Hankinson
has q farm near that town and this year
had q ten-acre watermelon patch from
which he has already marketed over
1000 fine, large melons.
A Stutsman county farmer purchased
a good farm horse at auction sale Satur-
day morning for 1926. Bidding on the
animal began at $3.50 and slowly crept
up to 1929, where it hung for some
time. Cash money was paid for the
animal, which included a rope halter.
Andrew Erin, a faamer living about
twenty-five miles Of Jamestown, was
kicked in the breast and stomach by a
horse and died Sunday. He lived but a
few hours after the accident. The de-.
ceased leaves a wife and five small chill
dren. He was about 30 years Of ago.
The prairie grass has rapidly turned to
the hues Of autumn and is also we'll
cured by the dry weather. The grass is
very short and dry on the prairies and
capable Of burning freely. Prairie fires
ought not to run as rapidly this season
or be as hard to extinguish as in other
years.
Caspar Rapp, a man in middle life and
leaving a wife and five children, was in
family killed Tuesday afternoon about 4
o'clock while working with a threshing
crew in the country near Cakes. The
particulars are not altogether clear but
it is learned that he became %entaneled
in a belt and was horribly mangled and
crushed.
From fifty to sixty men have been EN-.
ployed scooping up the grain on the site
of the collapsed elevator at Addison.
Nearly fifty cars have been loaded, and
there is still a third as much left on the
ground. The grain is mixed with dust,
dirt and splinters of wood, and will have
to undergo a thorough cleaning before
shipment.
Hermann Nilsson, a Finlander, was
found underneath the Northern Pacific
bridge at Grand Forks, with his leg
badly broken. 1t was amputated and
his recovery is doubtful. When he came
in from the harvest fields, he had s35
hid in his stocking, but it had disappear
ed. He does not know how he got
where he was found.
During a rain storm at Hillsboro light.
ming struck the Synod Lutheran church
on the corner Of Caledonia avenue and
River street, completely demolishing it's
fine steeple. The lightning ran down
the frame work of the steeple, shatter-
ing out all the windows, throwing shiny
les a distance of 100 feet entered the
audience room, ran down a stove pipe,
cut a neat hole in the floor and termin-
ated ina post in the cellar, which shat
tered it to splinters.
News has just been received at Medora
that Jack Freeman, a restaurant keeper
OF that place, shot and killed a tramp
named Bull, near Hodgets, Mont, Tues
day. Two men came to Freeman's res
taurant on Saturday evening and re-
manned for the night. Sometime before
morning they left, taking with them a
Winchester rifle, which had been left i n
Freeman's charge. Tuesday he followed
and overlook them near Hodges and
shot one dead. 1t is learned that Free
man went on to Glendive and gave him
self up to the sheriff.
Frank Sullivan was stabbed and killed
by John Keegan at LaMoure, Tuesday,
the result OF a drunken row. The men
were employed with a threshing outfit,
near that city, and Tuesday evening got
into q quarrel during which Keegan
pulled a knife and stabbed Sullivan in
the stomach, inficting wounds from
which he died Wednesday morning
The murdered man leaves a wife and
two children. Keegan was captured al
once and now lies in chains in the i'm.
provised county Jail, the old building
going up in the smoke Of the late fire in
that city.
Prof. Tyndall, a mind reader, WHO is
said to rival either Bishop or johnson, Is
amusing Grand Forks people. At the no.
tel Dacotah the other evening,a pinahole
was made throug the side of a letthe,
grip, in o 1853; the pin then taken
to the floor below and concealed under
the mating. The professor duly blind.
folded and reading the thoughts of the
members Of the committee attending
him, found the pin, and then went up
stairs to No. 158 and lifting the flap OF
the grip, placed the pin without hesita-
ton in the hole previously made. The
professor carries upon his person a let.
i for Writton aa a worn;nr ~ oh,r-.