Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Parts OF North Dakota.
Fargo has settled a $500 damage suit
for $50.
Ignite coal has been discovered by
farmers near Colfax.
J. J. Irwin has been appointed post.
master at Park Biver.
Col. E. S. Miller has been nominated
for mayor Of jamestown.
Considerable excitement in Fargo
over the coming city election.
Few townships in Grand Forks county
elected courts of Cancellation.
A Cass county farmers institute will
be held at Casselton, March 23d.
The end Of the epidemic in Grand
Forks is said to be near at hand.
Geo. Klause of Grand Forks, f~orfeits
500 for selling cigarettes to boys,
Bidders were not very anxious at til
Lloyd real estate sale in jamestown.
Ed Ransom, Sheldon druggist, has
been arrested for alleged "blind piggery."
Ben Reynolds, injured at Gardner,
will sue the railroad company for $4,000.
1t is said the populist state conven-
ton will be held at jamestown on June
18th.
Warren Denning of Cakes, was seri-
ously injured in a game of football last
week.
Dickinson is growing "quite a big
town now" and will probably o be
incorporated.
The Kindred hotel in Valley City gave
a free dinner to the boor of the county
n day last week.
A Steele county farmer says farmers
will not be able to pay over So a month
for help next year.
Marshall Mcclure, a former Devils
Lake newspaper man, is in jail at La
Junta, COL, for forgery.
Wild geese and ducks are said to be
arriving from the south a week earlier
than for thirteen years.
Nineteen candidates passed examina.
ton before the state medical examining
board at Fargo, Wednesday.
Two suicides and two divorce cases in
Walsh county last week. The Record
says it's another indication of an early
spring. l
The business portion of the town of
Everest in Cass county was wiped out
by fire Sunday. The loss will reach
$4,000.
Oscar Schumacher of Acton, aged 4
years, had his leg broken in two places,
n was otherwise badly injured by the
falling of a heavy log upon him.
DR.. Cook of Fessenden, and DR.. Camp
bell Of. Brainerd, want DR., Moore's place
at the insane hospital, the latter intend
ing to engage in practice outside the in
stitution.
The next Lloyd bank dividend will be
declared as soon as the comptroller can
get IN the assessments on the bank stock.
The first half of these assessments is due
March 10Th.
At a meeting of prominent manufact-
urers and business men of st. Paul, Mon
day night it was decided to test the
merits of North Dakota ignite at the
Wood Harvester works and Northwest
foundry.
Complaints have been lodged with
the city authorities in Grand Forks,
against Great Northern engineers for
violating city ordinance in running
trains Owe city crossings faster than 4
miles per hour.
Maj. Fawcett of Cando, convicted last
November Of violating the prohibitory
law at Cando, was taken to Devils Lake,
Tuesday and delivered to Sheriff Barton
Oy SherlH McCune to serve out the inn
prisonment part of his sentence.
Grand Forks News: The Drayton
Echo says the farmers of that vicipity
will seed as much wheat as ever and
trust to Drop failures, etc. Then asks:
"See?" Yes, a damphool is always a
damphool and can be no damphooler.
Uncle Sans paymaster, N. D. Shelly
paid over $1,000 to a number Of Sioux
Indians at Fort Totten a few days ago,
the last installment of $4,000 due them
for services as scouts during the Minne-
sofa Indian war many years ago.
District court was to convene at Rolla
Wednesday, March 81, with petit and
grand %jurles, but owing to the neglect in.
keeping 200 names in the box from
which the jurymen are drawn, both
juries have been thrown out by Judge
Morgan.
At a mass convention of the citizens
of Cavalier, Towner and Rolette counties
held at Rolla, yesterday, steps were tax
en- to organize a company for building a
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