Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-06
ST TIE NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

E. FEHn E"rEs -fHSrEH
day with a large attendance.
A prisoner in the jamestown Jail over
powered the iailor and fed yesterday,
but-was recaptured.
A Grand Forks man arrested for kill
ing more than 25 chickens this year,
which the law allows each hunter, was
fined for lying.
Portland, Trail county, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday, and the business portion
of the town is in ruins. Five business
blocks we're destroyed.
John O'Shea, of the law firm of Freaks
& O'Shea, of Wahpeton, while out on
the farm Of H. A. Lucken, near Lidger-
wood committed suicide by hanging.
Cause unknown.
The big 9 barn at the Jamestown
hospital burned Sunday, with a net loss
of about $500 to the institution. There
was $1,4OO insurance on the barn and
$500 on the contents.
The Mandan Fair association extend
an especial invitation to Burleigh county
farmers, and those in all slope counties
to participate in the live stock and
poultry competition.
Foster county pigs have all closed up.
It is reported that injunctions we're to
have been issued against the "sightless
porkers" and the proprietors closed up
to avoid having any conflict with the
law.
Hon. j. G. Gill finished threshing a
half section of wheat and the yield was
IS bushels and 10 pounds of clean wheat
to the acre. He is at work on another
half that will equal if not surpass the
first.
Parties claim to have discovered the
location of the gold deposit near Medora
for which Wyoming searchers have been
searching for the past two months. A
big rush of mlner is expected. The de-
post is said to be very rich. "
Valley City is actively at work secur-
ing funds to continue the Normal school
at that place. The committee is much
encouraged in it's work by the offer Of
Miss Marie Paige to give a series of con-
certs for the benefit of the institution.
The first concert will be given in that
city next Wednesday evening.
Sheriff Briggs and Chief of Police Burt
of Valley City made a clever capture of
a trio of crooks who have been robbing
cars along the line of the Northern Pa
cifc. The men are Frank Hatton Joe
Smith and Fred Stevens, and they have
been bound over to the district court in
$500 each, and are now in Jail.
General Manager Kendrick of the
Northern Pacific, returned to st. Paul
not at all pleased with the hunting in
North Dakota. In their four days hunt
in Pembina county, a private car, five
men, barrels Of dogs and guns succeeded
in killing but Is chickens.
j. H. Roberts, while digging a we'll
about three miles from Darlington, last
week, struck a good vein of extra fine
Ignite coal, samples of which have been
brought to the city. The vein was found
at a depth of "a feet. If it proves to be
Of any extent, the fine quality of the
fuel will make it a valuable find.
Deputy Revenue Collector Lieber has
made a formal seizure of the Dobmeier
brewery, at East Grand Forks for VIOLA
tion of the revenue laws in the matter of
cooperage, the point beng that supposed
half barrels of beer have been found to
contain more than that amount.
An organized movement is on foot
among farmers to ship potatoes from
this state to Ohio and Pennsylvania,
where the crop is short. The same
freight rate as on wheat can be secured,
about ten cents a busbel, and the price
obtainable is said to make it profitable,
as the crop is unusually large.
Threshing on the first section of wheat
on the Darlington & Casey farm has
been completed. It is as light a yield as
any that the farm will produce this
year, and the $40 acres produced 20
bushels and 3 pecks per acre. This is a
very satisfactory yield and Senator Casey
naturally feels gratitied at the result.
Tuesday, Lieutenant Ely, the officer
remaining at Fort Pembina, disposed at
public sale all the supplies and property
which still remained at the fort after
the departure Of the troops. Street
lamps, stores, bran, hay, feed, furniture
and all went under the hammer. This
sale closes the post at Pembina as far as
the government Is concerned.
R. r. Simmonds, the ~absconding mem
Der of the firm of Simmonds & Sherman,
the Metropole %tailors, at Fargo, was cap
tured at Winnipeg. Simmonds was
made to disgorge all of his ~ill-gotten
gains, which is said to amount to about
$500. He thinks that the climate of