Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-05
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Barnes comfy couple, want a divorce.
They were married by the "Heart and
Hand" correspondence route, and don't
get along.
Mayville had a little shooting affair
last Tuesday. John Frier was the shoot
or and VIM. Gugel the shootee. The
former is under bonds in the sum Of 1880
to appear before the dist riot court.
United States Marshal Price has ap-
pointed George Aud deputy at Dickin-
son. Mr.. Aud has been instructed that
in case Of a strike the trains must be run
and he must be on hand with deputies as
needed.
Two jamestown school teachers got
lost in a binding snowstorm the other
night, and passed the night in a deserted
cabin, several miles from town. A scare
and a considerable chill we're the only
ill effects.
A son and heir has come as a Christ
mas present in the home of MI. and Mrs
A. P. Nelson of Sims. There is nothing
remarkable about this, except in the
fact that the father is in his 10th year
and the mother in her 18th.
Minot people believe.a -four and feed
mill would pay; that a tannery could be
made a success, and the business of cur
ing and packing meat could be carried on
at a profit. They want also a board Of
trade and other metropolitan adjuncts.
Fargo policeman arrested a tough the
other day on whose person was found a
loaded revolver, thirty cartridges,
twenty-nine skeleton keys, a knife and
four yards Of light rope with a hook on
the end Of it. He got thirty days on
suspicion.
The second annual meeting of the
North Dakota Veterinary Medical assoc
citation, composed wholly of graduates,
met at Hillsboro last Saturday and trans
acted considerable business of import
ance, besides electing officers for the en-
suing year.
Postmaster Trumbull of Reynolds, re-
turned from the east the other day, and
was accompanied by a bride. The people
OF Reynolds heard about it before his
arrival, made a big bonfire in honor of
his coming, and met him and his bride
at the depot with a brass band. f.
Down at Chamberlain, S. D., Miss
Carrie Brainard, Of North Dakota, and
Daniel Lake, a farmer living near Run
ming Water, this state, we're married
recently. They had never seen each
other until the day preceding the we'd
ding. The marriage was brought about
by correspondence.
Mrs. John Lenvig, q lady living about
eight miles from Valley City, was found
frozen to death Wednesday afternoon,
about ten rods from home. She started
to walk to Valley City on Saturday last,
and as it was showing, it is supposed she
became bewildered, and in trying to get
back home was frozen to death.
f. A. Fox of Towner, says the farm
ers between Willow City and that place
are thoroughly alarmed over the pres
ence of the Russian cactus. A strip of
land eight. miles wide by ten miles long
is overrun with the pest, and unless
something is done to check it is feared
it will spread all over the cultivated
lands of the Mouse River valley.
The body Of Charles Roch, a farmer
living in the southwestern corner of
Grand Forks county, was found in the
snow near the Fort Totten road. eight
miles west from Larimore. Roch was in
Larimore on Sunday, the 18th inst, and
wal partly intoxicated. It is snpp cd
he lost his way and persisted in the
storm. The coroner is investigating.
Up at Leeds as an outgrowth of the
~illfeeling between two rival dances there
Christmas night, some one entered the
school house, where the one dance was
to be held, through the window and
took a dead skunk and dragged it around
on the floor, and left it there, with the
expectation Of breaking up the dance.
The dancers had to do some tall scrub.
bling, but they held the dance Just the
same. " f s-&
Father Jerome of Fort Totten, gave
his Indian Pensioners a grand Christ
mas time at the mission Christmas eve.
Over 800 Indians from all parts of the
reservation we're present. A large
Christmas tree, laden with presents and
decorated in the good old fashioned way
had been provided. No one was forgot
ten and the delight and surprise OF the
Indians when Santa Claus distributed
his gifts can hardly be imagined.
North Dakota farmers are beginning
to diversity. William Ely, a bonanza
farmer Of Mayville, will put in about 500
acres Of flax and about $50 acres of corn.
W. A. Mccain, another bonanza farmer.
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