Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

ance of the company have been trying to
force him out and turn the paper ove
to the Argus. A warrant is out for
Hooper's arrest on a charge of assault
with intent to kill.
The losses this season by the Alliance
Hail association of jamestown, now
amount to something over $4,000. The
storm Of July 25 cost the association in
Barnes county alone $4,000. The total
losses in the state last year we're only
$1,000.
The city council at Glendale has
passed the curfew ordinance, which takes
effect after it's publication on Thursday.
A new bell has been purchased and hung
at q central location on Main street, and
on it's ringing at 9 o'clock p. m. all chill
dren under 16 must be off the street.
A coroner's inquest is being held in
Fargo over the remains of Jacob Thorn,
who was murdered Sunday at Gardner.
Thorn came from Minneapolis, where his
wife and family live, at 1920 Washington
avenue. An unpaid check for 500 was
found in his pocket.
It is reported that A. Fl. Garfield, the
aged music dealer of Aberdeen, S. D.,
who left his wife and children penniless
to elope with ~15.year-old Bessie Moore,
was cen with the girl at Langdon on
Tuesday, where he hired a rig to drive
across the Canadian boundary into Mani
toba.
The members of the North Dakota
Editorial association are going to take
a day off this fall, and visit the Cotton
states andi International exposition at
Atlanta, Ga. VIM. Miller, editor of the
Mlnnewaukan Siftings, is chairman of
the committee to arrange for the excur-
sion the first week in September.
There undoubtedly never was a time
in the history of the Red river valley
when the weather was so favorable to a
rapid harvest, and the farmers taking so
much advantage of it as now. Reports
from every section of the valley state
that by the end of the week all grain
will be down and many portions will be
ready for the thresher.
The new board of trustees OF the
Methodist University at Wahpeton met
Thursday and organized, electing Rev.
Eugene May, Fargo, president; P. j,
McCumber and T. Fl Carter, Wahpeton.
vice presidents; j. R. French, Wahpe.
ton, treasurer. The board accepted the
proposition of the friends of tue univer.
sity to donate $4,000 on condition that
the board raise another $1,000 by sub.
scription.
An incident attending the arrival OF
one of Stutsman county's increasing in.
FAINT population has excited considerable
comment among the neighbours, and par.
~ticularly among the gossips and old
country people. This was the child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Romer, farm people
Of the county, being born a few days
since with a caul, or lucky veil. The
fortunate infant, according to a firmly
held tradition of worldwide credence
who is born with a caul, or membrane
covering the face, is surely protected
against drowning and will be fortunate
in other matters.
An instance where a divorce case die
pan out the usual way comes to the no
tice of the jamestown Capital. A Bos
ton man, claiming to have grounds fol-
his action, arrived in that city a few
months ago, and applied for a decree Of
divorce. just as his case was about tc
be presented for final adjudication bis
wife appeared on the scene this week tt
contest the matter, and incidentally tc
urge upon her liege lord and master the
error Of his ways. AS a result a recon
Citation was brought about, the couple
renewed their old relations as man anc
wife.
Mrs. Pat Burke of Jamestown, out
witted a couple Of impertinent tramps
the other day. While carrying water
from Il we'll a half mile distant, she wal
%accos!ed by three hoboes with the state
ment that they wanted the pail and iii
contents, and when she refused to lei
them have it one Of the ruffians said hi
| proposed to take it. Preferring to spill
| the water rather than let them have the
benefit of her long walk after it, the
| woman p~luckily dashed it into the faces
of the hoboes, and then, calling to he,
husband in a neighboring field, made
! good her escape.
The character Of a great many Of the
surplus laborers in the state at this time
is evidenced by the following from the
Walsh County Record: There seems tc