Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-28
A NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Dig talr this fall.
Grand Forks will play ball with a
neighboring team for $3.50 a side.
The jury in the case against Banker
Mears at Fargo couldn't agree, and we're
discharged.
It is rumored that Mrs. J. J. Corbett,
wife of the champian slugger, is at
Glendale, after a divorce.
1t is reported from Grand Forks that
Dan Stewart, the missing cashier Of the
Great Northern, is short $4,000.
Charles Wade-out of Worthwhile at
tampting to swing off a passenger train
at Grand Forks went under the wheels
and one leg was ground to a pulp.
Robert Schilling, the Milwaukee pop,
who feeds twice a year on molten lava
from the crater of Vesuvius, and picks
his teeth with thunderbolts snatched
barehanded from an angry sky, is loose
in the state again.
Grand Forks has just completed a
tennis ground that is said to be better
than any found in the larger cities of the
northwest. There are five courts and
all are maintained in the most perfect
order. Two men are employed regu-
larly whose sole duty consists in keep
ing the grounds in condition.
The body of a boy, about IA years old
was found on the west side of Devils
lake, several miles from Devils Lake city
Monday. 1t had evidently been in the
water a couple of weeks. TIL believed
to be the body of an Indian boy from
the Fort Totten schools, the victim of
foul play, as the head bears a number of
wounds. There was nothing on the body
but a shirt, ~suspenders and a pair of
garters.
The University board of trustees held
a meeting last week and formerly di-
rected the University should not be
closed. They reported $4,000 as the
amount subscribed toward keeping the
institution open during the next two
years, and half the state yet to hear
from. Professor Merrifeld and all of the
professors Except Prof. Bechdolt, who
goes to Washington) have been re-
engaged.
Ex-Sherif James A. jerks OF Grand
Forks county, who died recently, was
the first sheriff in the state to hang a
man by due process of law. In 1885 he
hanged a murderer named Miller, who
had killed the wife and child of a
preacher. jerks used to say that he
could never forget the scene on the
scaffold at the Miller hanging, for the
doomed man made a scene after the rope
was put about his neck and swore to his
innocence in the most solemn mancer,
pointing to a man among the witnesses
and accusing him Of the killing. It was
afterward proven most positively that
Miller died with a lie on his lips.
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Are your crops insured? II, not, don't
sleep till you see S. M. Pye & Co., agents
for the best hail company, at the Capita.
National Bank.
Travel Picking Up.
Railroad authorities say that regular
tourist and excursion travel run over
North Pacific coast lines is better than
ever at this time. The season for them
is about SO per cent better than last
season, and is one of the best on record.
An unusually large number of COM
mercial travellers are on the road and
carry. unusually heavy baggage, which
proves jobbing conditions and gem
eral business conditions in tributary
towns are substantial and progressive.
Alaska travel is booming, and not a
berth can be secured on any Alaska
bound steamer of the Pacific Coast
Steamship company before the end of
July, full bookings having been made
for the sailings of the Topeka, July 8
and %, and the Queen, June q. and July
-. Yellowstone Park travel is more
than twice as strong as 1t was last year
at this time. On of the biggest Yellow
stone parties of this season will be that
of the Cincinnati Post, for which the
Northern Pacific is arranging to run q
solid train from Cincinnati August s, ar
irving here August 10th.
A New System.
The Northern Pacific railroad is con-
templating a departure in the manage
ment Of the motive department of the
road looking toward a reduction in ex-
penses by the better utilization of it's
motive power. The company receives
pay for carrying freight at so much per
1C0 pounds or ton, and it is therefore of
the highest Importance that each engine
should work to full capacity and with
out reference to the number Of cars
which are only non-producing re-
ceptac les for freight-transport the
highest number Of tons of freight of
which each engine is capable.
To this end a dynamometer car sup
piled with an apparatus to measure the
force, or power, necessary to haul a train
OF known WEIGHT. is now in nse IN his