Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-18

CelVeQ injuries from which 1t died.
Joe Hughes papers, for the postofice
at Fargo, have gone to the president,
and his appointment is expected at any
time.
It is now said some of the signatures
to the protest against Joys appoint.
ment as postmaster at Grand Forks,
were bogus.
The Standard Oil company has made
an appropriation for enlarging it's ware
houses and building several new ones in
this state.
The attractions Of the James River
Valley Fair, Sept. 1923 are recorded in
the handsome premium list gotten out
by the association.
Clerk Montgomery of the United
States court, is said to have received
over $500 in fees for services during the
Great Northern strike.
E. J. Moore has been elected grand
master workman, A. o. U. W., for the
two Dakotas. The next grand lodge will
probably be held at Jamestown.
A H%ankinson farmer last year raised
800 bushels Of potatoes from two acres
of ground, and he is now selling 'em at
rs cents-an income Of $500 per acre.
The annual meeting of the state medi-
cal fraternity of North Dakota will be
held in the court house at Valley City,
Wednesday and Thursday, May 10th and
18th.
Peter Eden, a German, collector for a
machine firm, has disappeared from
Glendale, and has left a wife and two
children, who are ignorant of his where
abouts.
A comparison by states shows North
Dakota has paid into the beneficiary of
the A. 0. 2. W. a total of s48,534, and
has drawn from the fund $4,000, max
ing a debtor balance of S3,466.
The business men of Wahpeton ten
dered their fire department. a reception
Tuesday evening, and presented them
with an elegant and costly banner IN
recognition of the services of the depart
ment.
At the term of United States court
which convenes in Fargo on Tuesday
next, considerable business will come
up beside the Mears and Lloyd cases,
among which is a murder trial-a soldier
at Fort Buford, accused of killing q
comrade.
Advices from Valley City say a strike
is on at the State Normal school there
At a recent meeting the Normal school
board declined to re-engage Miss Emma
Bates as a teacher for the next year, and
as a result all Of the pupils refuse to at.
tend school.
Miss Annie johnson left home in Man.
itoba five years ago and has not writer
her people since. An uncle recently dice
and left her his entire fortune in British
Columbia. A search was started for hel
and a brother discovered the missing
girl in Grand Forks, and she returned
home with him.
North Dakota is becoming known al
the best chicken shooting ground in the
country. The American Field contains
the notice of q leading dog trainer of The
South, M. W. Titus of Waverly, Miss.
who advertises that he will leave fol
North Dakota in July, with a string Of
dogs to break to chicken.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morning, 6
dog ran into the house of Mrs. H. r
Douglass, of Fargo, who thought it YVES
mad, and called two men who we're pass.
ing to kill it. They came inside an6
asked for q gun. She raised up the
pillow to get the revolver and disclosed
the hiding place of a gold watch. About
this time she tainted, and when she re,
covered the dog, men and watch were
all out of sight.
Sam Smith, the colored man who muir.
dered Ole Peterson at Towner, was pre-.
vious to coming to Minot an army pri.
vate stationed at Fort Buford, being dis.
charged after fourteen years of honor.
able service. He states that he killed
Peterson in self-defense. Charlie Gre.
CORY, the we'll known Minot attorney,
has been engaged to defend him.
Joe D. Mills Of Grand Forks, during
the month of April wrote Northwestern
insurance to the amount Of slO4, 900
This is the largest amount ever written
in any one month by any agent in North
Dakota, and the second largest written
during April by agents Of. the North.
western in the United States.
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