Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-10
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

0u &4Okx 0Ak
Parts of North Dakota.
Emil Inglebretzen was struck and
killed by lightning at Churches Ferry.
The people of jamestown seem to all
drift out to Spiritwood lake these hot
days.
A party Of English agriculturists are
looking over farms in Grand Forks
county.
The East Lehigh coal mine has been
sold by A. F. Reilly to J. F. Brodle for
$4,000.
Grand Forks county will harvest an
average of fourteen bushels of wheat to
the acre.
James Hill, a Wahpeton restaurant
man, has received $4,000 from a rela-
tive in Ireland.
John Richardson of Steele, arrested
and convicted of horse stealing, escaped
from the sheriff.
Grand Forks is to purchase a site, and
erect a water fltering plant, the first
step toward securing a supply of pure
water.
Harry Berget of Jamestown, struck
Trueman Dearborn on the head with a
rock, indicting what may be fatal in
juries.
The people of Sheldon showed their
good spirit by sending a ton and a half
of -four to LaMoure as a gift to the fire
sufferers.
A committee of English, Irish aud
Scotch agriculturalists are visiting in
Grand Forks to get some North Dakota
ideas about farming.
Fargo Methodists want a couple of
thousand dollars from outsiders to help
rebuild, at a cost of $4,000, their church
recently destroyed by fire.
The LaMoure ChronicIe, with true
North Dakota grit, M out ION time
notwithstanding the fact that the Office
was burned two Gays before.
A Grand Forks county farmer hired
two strangers to help him harvest, and
they harvested $40 and a suit of clothes
from his house and skipped.
Capt. Gleason Of jamestown, will
make a campaign tour with Messrs.
Fancher and Worst, and tell the voters
why he is an Irish republican.
Robert Moran, the only man arrested
in Fargo for being connected with the
strike, will be released from custody on
Saturday, the expiration of his sentence.
Orange Wright, who was nominated
for the senate by the populists OF the
Sixth district, declined the honor be.
cause he did not want to stand on the
platform adopted.
It is reported that a gang Of nearly
200 hoboes are camped near Inkster, re-
fusing to work for less than 50 a day,
and foraging on the farmers gardens
and poultry at night.
The vault in the fire destroyed county
building at Williamsport, has been
opened, and the contents found intact.
The safe is a total loss, and it will tax.
about $500 to replace the property lost
by the county.
Elias Erickson of Steele county, feel
ing unwell took a dose Of strychnine to
relieve his distress, thinking that the
poison would have the same effect upon
him that laudanum, of which he was
out, would have. He lived but a few
hours.
The Rolette county commissioners
passed resolutions strongly condemning
Senator Roach's bill providing for the
REIMBURSEMENT by the Turtle Mountain
band of Pembina Chippewa Indians to
the United States, title to unceded lands
claimed by the Indians.
Judge J. E. Sullivan, a prominent
attorney Of Grand Forks, has been
bound over for trial in the district court
charged with embezzlement, preferred
by one of his clients. Judge Templeton
has appointed 9 committee Of the bar to
inquire into sutlivan's methods.
The board Of trustees Of the hospital
for the insane have instructed Superin-
tendent Archibald to notify all counties
that owing to the overcrowded condi-
tion Of the hospital no more patients will
be received from the different counties
until vacancies are made by the dis
charge Of patients now under treatment.
Compliments the Troops.
Brigadier General Merritt has issued
an order complimenting the regulars for
their efficient services in the recent
strike. The order in question is issued
by the department Of Dakota, and rreferss
particularly to tho work done along the
line Of the Northern Pacific, az follows
Its with genuine satisfaction that the
general commanding the department. con.
mends in decided terms the conduct Of the