Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-09
fell under a car, and his left forearm was
completely severed. He has been taken
to Brainard.

TO Bralnerd.
Joe Goodhue, a half-breed, living near
White Earth, beat his wife until she
died from the effects, and then hauled
her body around the county from house
house. He afterwards skipped out, and
is still missing.
It is said a man at Wheatland, last
year, raised seven acres of navy beans,
yielding thirty-one bushels to the acre.
He shipped these to Duluth and they
netted him $40 per bushel, or a return
Of $74.OO per acre.
There is renewed agitation on the
county seat removal from Sykeston to
Fessendon in Wells county. The people
along the 500 and north are anxious for
the change, it is said, yet the town which
gets the prize will have to fight for it.
One of the old settlers Of Pembina,
named Joseph Gaudet, fell on the side
walk Wednesday night and broke his
leg. Drs. Harris and Cameron had the
leg cut off below the knee. The physi-
clans think Gaudet will die from the
effects.
A Red River valley farmer estimates
the cost of raising a bushel of wheat in
1898, with twelve bushels yield, to be IS
cents. This was raised on a farm of 725
acres, 500 of which we're in wheat, 100
reserved for hay and pasture, and 1875
summer fallowed.
The Harvey Advertiser has not sus-
pended publication as the public are led
to believe. G. F. Weiland says: The
malicious work of a couple of %conspira-
tors sidetracked us for three issues, but
we got the switch turned and are again
out on the main track.
The inaugural contest on the Ameri-
a racing course at Cakes. is billed to
come off at that place April 8, 4 and S.
Everybody in the state having a gray
hound is invited to be present and enter
his dog for the contest. The first prize
is $50; second, s65; third 1882. Entrance
fee is SIS.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the decision Of the circuit
court Of North Dakota in the case Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
against Jane Everett awarding her ST.
075 damages. The husband of this
woman was killed while coupling cars at
jamestown.
A new Sunday school organization has
been formed in Fargo to be known as
the Baptist Boys Brigade, the object of
which is to form a battalion of boys and
young men who agree to eschew bad
language, tobacco, liquor, and pledge
themselves to attend Sunday school
regularly.
Notwithstanding the terribly sad ex-
perience Grand Forks has had for the
past few weeks, it is reported there are
people in the city who persist in using
the contaminated water from the city
service pipes without boiling Ito purify it
and some are utterly reckless in the
abuse OF sanitary laws.
The North Dakota Milling company,
has declared and paid a 10 per cent. divi-
dend on it's capital stock of 100000.
This is a showing which must give very
good satisfaction to the company when
it is considered that the past year has
been the most disastrous over known to
the milling business in the northwest.
There are three candidates up tor
mayor of Valley City, S. A. Nisher, F.
H. DeVaux and J. J. Dobbin. The is.
sue in this election is the blind pig
question, and as each candidate says
that if he is elected they will all be GUST
ed, the election is liable to come down
to a question of individual popularity
alone.
A. M. Powell has disposed of his in
terest in the Benham house at Devils
Lake to t le Bhon Manufacturing com
pany, of st. Paul, for $4,000. It is un-
derstood that the purchasers will COM
plete the third story and put the hotel
in first class condition, after which it is
said that Benton Hatch, formerly Of the
Gladstone at jamestown, will assume
charge.
At Dundee, six miles. north Of Park
river, Thorston q. R~ustgaard shot his
hired man, w. Thompson, in the neck
making a serious but not fatal wound.
Thompson at once ran to a neighbor for
help. On his return they found Rust
gard shot through the head, with a
revolver in his hand, evidently having
committed suicide. There is no known
cause for the deed, but it is supposed he
was suffering from temporary insanity.
Silver Rogstad. who committed sui
eide at Grafton, Monday, was to be an
important witness. before the district
court now in session there, and his evil
dence would probably have convicted
prominent citizens who are selling
liquor. 1t is thought by many that if he
testified against them his life would be