Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-13
STATE NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From All
Parts Of North Dakota.

L~isbonvwants waterworks, and a com-
mittee has been appointed to see that it
gets 'em.
Ed Jerrauld, a Cass county boot
logger, got 5000 fine and ninety days IN
Jail.
Louis johnson of Wi;liston, shot him
self through the lung while cleaning a
revolver. He may recover.
The Plaindealer says Geo. H. Walsh,
who recently returned to Grand Forks
will make the race Tor the legislature
next fall. .# w.
William Quinn is in the jug at Jim
town because he pulled a gun and threat
ened to kill a man who wouldn't give
him a ride. 4..
A hundred excursionists from James
town took advantage of low rates from
there to Detroit Lake, and passed a day
there very enjoyably.
Grand Forks is arranging a silver de-
bate between Mayor Anderson of that
city and United States Senator Hans
brough as one of the attractions of the
street fair.
Prof. William Mathers, bandmaster of
the First Regiment band, has resigned
after over four years of efficient service
in the regiment. r. I. Andrew Intle-
house, for many years a prominent men,
Der of the band, will assume the leader
ship.
The maintenance of the state uni
versity being o an assured fact it will
open it's doors for it's twelfth annual
session on Tuesday, October 1. 1t is
announced that the approaching session
will be one of the most prosperous in the
history of the institution.
George Porter's estate has been settled
IN jamestown. The matter was brought
into court July 10, 1894, and a final decree
has been issued dividing 2,52l.42 acres
of Stutsman county land, and 1900 acres
of Burleigh county lands in twelfths
among the eight heirs.
Stuart Wells has the honor of being
the first member of the jamestown
Cycling club to make a century run. He
started from Fargo at $50 on Monday
morning and arrived in jamestown at
1890 o'clock at night-lO4 miles by his
cyclometer in sixteen hours.
County Commissioner Anderson OF
! Gror1 Eor1/c o1,rkx, lot q fro oooorc
while he was burning straw, and a heavy
wind drove it to the Banker farm and
destroyed a section of wheat in the shock
but a heavy rain occurred and put out
the blaze. About l,50O bushels of wheat
we're lost.
In a free for all fight at Harlem Satur
day night a hobo, name unknown, wa
80 badly cut about the abdomen with 6
razor that his recovery is doubtful. An
other participant had three fingers
nearly severed from his right hand. One
Peter Russell, had a portion of All ca
bitten off.
1t is said a meeting of Representatives
from the American Railway Union o.
the Great Northern system will be hello
at Devils Lake on October 7th. Al
that time action will be taken on the
difference existing between the com
pany and the men, especially the foul
dispatchers who were discharged som
time ago.
What may develop into another muir
der occurred near the city hospital ir
Fargo Tuesday night, whe1 three mer
assaulted another on the Northern Pacific
tracks, and beat him into insensibility
with pieces OF iron. They we're seer by
hospital employees, who ran to the scene
with revolvers, and held the three mer
under cover till the arrival of the police
The visit to Grand Forks of Attorne,
Leonard, who represents the creditors
for the $4,000 that caused the collapse
of the North Dakota Milling association
has been the cause of considerable talk
in financial circles as to the probable
outcome of the case soon to be heard as
TO whether the receivership will stand
Hugh Thompson of Crookston, has made
an application to remove the receiver
and place the affairs of the association
in the hands of q trustee.
Some time ago six men died at May
vile, and 1t was alleged at the time that
doctored whisky was the cause. A sample
OF the whisky was sent by DR.. Mont.
gomery of the state board of health, to
expert chemists for analysis, and the re-
suit was given out a few days ago. No
deadly poison or any ingredients that
would cause death was found in the
whisky that was analysed. This must be
considered a destructive blow to the
theory of the six men being poisoned by
"doctored" whisky, which was generally
accepted as being true, although the
local physicians did not take much stock
in it. Assuming that the whisky theory
is false, this leaves the cause Of the death
of the six men q deep mystery, no other