Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-13
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered from Ex-
changes Throughout the State.
Judge Morgan has thirty criminal and
ninety civil cases to handle at Devils
Lake.
DR.. Sifton of Valley City, has gone to
Europe to take a postgraduate course
in medicine.
Loran Smith, a foreman, was badly
bitten at Washburn by a vicious stallion
belonging to Larry Casselman.
The jamestown Alert would like to
know what has become of the cases in
United States court against the Lloyds.
A life insurance agent skipped from
Lakota, leaving an unpaid board bill
and shy about 5000 due the company.
The Turtle Mountain Indians are be-
coming FESTIVE again at the alleged fail
ure of officials to keep faith with them.
The railroad shops at Fargo are being
denuded of workmen, nearly all of them
having been sent to Brainerd and Man
dan.
The Northern Pacific argues to set
aside land tax sales before Judge Thomas
in Fargo. The matter is being consid-
cred.
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The recently patented lands of the
Northern Pacific will add about $685.
GOO to the taxable valuation of Wells
county.
Advance information from the Grand
Forks Plaindealer is that blind pig spot
tiers are about to make mother run for
Bismarck.
Two sharpers, pretending to represent
the Grand Forks wooden mills, and sell
ing shoddy cloth, have been taken in
tow at Pembina.
Dickey county proposes to hold mass
meetings, to devise a scheme to dam up
the Maple and Jim rivers, and save the
spring water supply.
Miss Hannah johnson, a pioneer
farmer Of Nelson county, is making an
effort to become P. M. at Petersburg
Congressman Johnson's home.
The Plaindealer says the next militia
encampment will be held at Grand
Forks. How about the state encamp-
ment grounds at Devils Lake?
There are twenty-six inmates Of the
Soldiers Home now-and more expected
later on-all enjoying themselves as well
as possible, everything considered.
Howard Lane pulled W. j. Browns
nose, at jamestown taking payment in
this way Of a bill owed him, and then
Brown had Lane arrested for assault.
The Nelson County Herald will issue
a big holiday edition-one feature OF
which will be pictures Of, and an article
concerning, the various state officers.
The states attorney Of Grand Forks
county receives numerous anonymous
letters from persons who want pigs
closed up, but he can't act upon them,
Fessenden will have a big blowout on
the completion of the Wells county
court house, at which time President
Worst, of Fargo, has been invited to de
liver an address.
The Richland County Gazette says
while Ex-Governor Miller might like the
North Dakota senatorship as well as
any other man, he is not neglecting his
business on that account.
Rumor has reached Washburn by way
of Mercer county, that the well known
expert horseman Perfecto Ferdinando,
was recently found dead on the reserva-
ton near Elbowoods. He had the appear
ance Of being shot to death.
Ex-Agent Haines Of Kindred, has been
placed in Cass county Jail to await trial
in the charge of embezzling $1,000 OF
the Great Northern Express company's
money. Haines tells a very straight
story and maintains that he is innocent,
At the commissioners election in
Logan county this fall, but five votes.
besides that Of the candidate, were cast
the day was stormy. The five men
voting constituted the election board
and got 50 per diem and mileage fol
their services.
A Grand Forks expert has been test
ing the filtered water, and finds 125
colonies Of bacteria in a given quantity.
as against 43O colonies in plain, un-
strained river water. After sixty hours
there were 10000 colonies in the river
water, and 1900 in the filtered water.
The case of the State VS.. James Ford.
charged with the murder of Gustave
Wrolson last summer, is on trial al
Devils Lake before Judge Morgan. This
victim was given some s'dope" in whisky
which resulted in his death.