Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

klllng The hsL IN the river.
North Dakota received 246 cars of Pa
ciic coast shingles during the year 1894
Cando papers call attention to the
need of better fire protection for that
city.
DIR. DePuy of Jamestown, bicycles
with the thermometer ten to twenty de-
grees below.
Fourteen blind pig cases came up at
the term of court in Walsh county and
were dismissed.
Daniel Hackins, who fell down and
broke his skull at Grand Forks, has died
from his injuries.
John Joice, a Grafton blind bigger,
gets ninety days in Jail and $3.50 fine by
Judge Templeton.
There is only one prisoner in the Cass
county Jail. Fargo morals seem to be
steadily improving.
Reserve Hook and Ladder
of Jamestown, gives $40 to the Butte fire
department sufferers.
Mrs. Bush of Valley City used gasoline
in washing, and suffers from a badly
burned face and hands.
Henry Currie, charged with setting
fire to and destroying part of the town
of Mimic, has been acquitted.
The Grand Forks News attributes
poisoned wells and typhoid fever to the
practice of poisoning eophers.
J. D.. Luttrel, a former Fargo cigar
maker, now of Spokane, has fallen heir
to an estate of 100000 or over.
After breaking his arm at a slippery
corner, a Grand Forks citizen is of the
opinion that the streets there need salt
ing.
Senator Roach has turned over his
quota of seeds from the agricultural de
partment to the Nebraska drouth suf-
ferers.
A resident of Fargo is endeavorinP to
get the Salvation army to come down
from Grand Forks and purify the gate
way city
Among other things, the Barnes county
cactus convention counsels farmers to
keep up good courage and avoid discour-
aging talk.
John H.. Peterson of Grafton, has died
from injuries received on January 7,
when he was knocked down and dragged
by an engine.
Dan Hackins, an employee of the North
ern Pacific at Grand Forks, fell down "a
flight of stairs and crushed his skull.
He will probably die.
A contribution of about $75 cash and
a quantity of provisions and clothing has
just been shipped from Mayville to the
sufferers of Nebraska.
States Attorney Spencer of Walsh
county, will compel complainants against
blind pigs to give security for costs be-
fore cases will be brought.
c. J. Cory, an eastbound passenger on
train No. 2, Monday, died on the train,
near jamestown. He was On routeifrom
Portland, Ore. to jackson county, Wis.
A farmer named Josiah Allen, inx<Sar-
gent county, puts up Russian cactus for
hay, and claims it is superior to prairie
grass. Josiah Aliens wife has not vet
been heard from.
Cigarette smoking has become so
prevalent among the kids in jamestown
that the city marshal has published an
order warning all dealers not to sell to
boys upder l6 years of age.
General Standish has figured out that
the tax revenue from the lands to be
made taxable by the issuance of patents,
as stated a few days ago, should be
S369,OOO, at $40 per quarter section.
The Great Northern railway is after
someone who steals packing out Of the
axle boxes of the freight cars for fuel.
AS a result of it a car taken from Leeds
heated, broke an axle and vent into the
ditch.
At Cakes Saturday, the North Dakota
Coursing club held a meeting and de-
cided to hold a spring coursing-prob-
ably about April Is. The club is in
good condition and a successful time is
anticipated.
Mrs. Emily J. Emmons, who is accused
by Ellendale papers of having taken her
husbands money and household furni-
ture and lighting out, which action
caused him to go insane, has brought
suit in Richland county for divorce.
A barber named Thompson, at Grand
Forks, has been arrested, charged with
Offering to take a bride in connection
with the grand jury Investigations of
East Grand Forks gambling. He was
placed under $500 bonds at Crookston.
A Grand Forks boy wisely makes the
suggestion that while the police are
keanino the hoys nn1or IL off tho o+root