Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-12
STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Parts Of North Dakota.
Fargo is to have another hotel out Of
the old Argus building.
The Benson County Star plant, at
Leeds, has been destroyed by fire.
Martin Anderson, IS years Of age, sui
cided at Northwood because his land
lord asked him to pay q bill.
Ex-Railroad Commissioner Stevens has
moved TO Minneapolis and entered the
butter and egg commission business.
The artesian we'll at Hamilton went on
q tear last week and nearly flooded the
town out before it was gotten under con-
troll.
Valley City has organized a hook and
ladder and two hose companies in antici-
patton of the completion of the water
mains.
Willow City has gone into the broom
making business, and good articles are
sold, from corn grown in Bottineau
county.
A New Rockford citizen offers a re.
ward of 500 for the conviction Of parties
who distributed poison to bird dogs in
that city.
The young ladies of the Epworth league
at Forest River have formed at anti
tobacco society, and since the last meet
ing OF the league several of the young
men have quit smoking.
William Ditton, a farmer near Nc
Gamma, was caught between an engine
and a feed mill last Saturday, and was
badly crushed. Several ribs were broken
and M piece driven through his lungs.
The school for the deaf at Devils Lake
has just received from the Smithsonian
institute at Washington a contribution
OF a collection Of geological specimens,
including 120 different species of ore and
rocks gathered from all parts of the
United States.
A Rolette county clergyman suggests
to the people of that county that they
set apart May 1st as Gopher day, and
that in each township organization be
effected by choosing two sides, and the
side killing the largest number of goph-
ers be served with a supper by the losing
side.
james Ross, a prominent merchant Of
~Tewaukan, Sargent county, was held up
Sunday night while returning home from
Sisseton, S. D., and robbed of over $1,000.
The money had just been paic him by
Indians out of the amount they received
from the government, and he was on his
way home. There is no clue to the rob-
bers.
A Barnes county farmer sent a half
pound of haxseed TO Professor Bolley Of
the agricultural college. That gentleman
examined the seed and found it con.
tanned more than a hundred mustard
seeds, many. pig weed seeds, som rag
weeds, some wild b%uckwheat, several
pieces of cactus brush and two cactus
seeds.
The results of wheat feeding are highly
satisfactory, and South ST. Paul packers
are making tests which prove the wheat
fed hog the equal in every way to those
fattene1 exclusively on corn. A load of
l2-month-old hogs fattened on wheat at
Valley City averaged 1886 pounds and
sold at 10 cents a hundred above The
regular market at South st. Paul last
week.
Reports from Dickey county say that
a good many farmers have begun to take
care of their own thistle patches by
burning off the weeds, and that hundreds
of acres have been burned over this
spring. The dry weather permits this to
be done, and the farmer whose land is
invaded by the thistle and who wants to
put in a crop, must do his exterminating
himself, and now.
Cavalier Republican: Ed Murphy, the
legless mar Of Devils Lake, is spoken of
by the state press as a candidate for the
state game warden. Ed Murphy has
fought the battle of life on a North
Dakota farm and supported a family
during the past fourteen years, to our
knowledge, and has prospered beside
neighbors who, although possessing
something like two more legs than he.
starved out and left the country. He is
we'll educated and would fill the office
with honor.