Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-06-01
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Fargo business men will take a census
of the city.
Langdon has subscribed $1,000 for a
new opera house.
jamestown is getting ready to enter
tain the independent convention.
w. W. Fisher of jamestown has
started on a trip around the world.
The First Methodist church at Fargo
was badly damaged by fire yesterday.
Fargo's old fire bell has been returned
to the factory and a new one ordered.
Stutsman county is said to have nine
candidates for sheriff, already in the
field.
The First regiment band Of Lisbon
will be present at the state militia en-
campment.
Valley City has a Young Mems Re-
publican club with fifty members. W.
F. Dunlap is president.
Spiritwood lake, zeal jamestown, is
to be stocked with bass and other fish
not to be found in it's waters at present.
VIM. D. Spencer, charged with the
murder of Mcintyre, at Devils Lake, has
been held to the district court without
bail.
Ex-senator Casey is convalescing from
his serious illness in Chicago. Fears
we're entertained that the disease might
prove fatal.
The state Sunday school convention
will be held at the Methodist church in
Valley City on Tuesday and Wednesday,
June 26th and 9th.
The Fargo Argus will publish a fire
annual, illustrated, on June 9TH, giving
all of the points of special Interest," of the
big blaze a year ago.
It is said that the combined salaries Of
the appointments secured by Senator
Roarch for North Dakotans, other than
postmasters, is s152,590.
Capt. VIM. Farrell of S&utsman coun-
ty, patented a steam wagon shortly be-
fore his death, for which his relatives
have since been offered largo sums by
eastern firms.
The Fargo Republican says it has the
best authority for stating that when the
Hirshfeld VS.. Hlrehfield divorce comes
up in Fargo, Mrs. H. will be on the scene
with her attorneys ready to fight the
case to the bitter end.
An enthusiastic populist in Dickey
county, with plenty of time on his hands,
and an undying enmity toward corpora
tions, suggests that delegates to the pop
convention in Jamestown make the trip
overland-in the old style way.
Rev. M~ahaney-well known in Bis
marck-who is now a candidate for super
intendent of schools in Pierce county
is in trouble-charged with some crooked
work-in exchanging I. o. us of a de-
funct bank, for promises Of support.
The James River National bank has
withdrawn it's suit against the Mer-
chants National bank of Minneapolis.
The action was brought IN the United
States court at Minneapolis for the re-
covery of $3,881.43 and interest, and was
withdrawn because the amount has been
greatly lessened by payment of dividends.
In the United States court at Fargo
the grand jury has the Buford murder
case under consideration, it being ex-
pected that an Indictment will be sent in
some time to-day. So far fourteen wit.
nesses have been examined. No motive
for committing the deed is known be-
yond the claim of the defendant than
the resenting Of an insult offered him
by the murdered corporal, the night be-
fore.
Senator Hansbrough expects to return
to North Dakota and spend what portion
Of the summer remains after congress
adjourns. Mrs. Hansbrough's health is
slowly improving and she is now OK.
pected by her physicians to permanently
recover her health. Several difficult and
critical operations have greatly reduced
her strength, and on n or two oo'
~casions she has been at the point Of
death.
A. N. Currie, a young white man and
witness at Fargo, before the United
States court, was arrested by Sheriff
Barnes yesterday afternoon on the
charge of attempted rape on the person
Of Center Of the Day, an Indian squaw
who is also there as a witness. The
squaw is at least go years old, blind in
one eye, and most repulslve looking
while the prisoner is q rather nice look.
ing young man. At the trial, the de.
PENDANT was discharged.