Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-18
STATE NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Parts of North Dakota.
William Cowie was found guilty of
robbery at Grand Forks, and will get not
less than years in the pm.
Fargo wants a filter and q base ball
team, now, but can get along with the
filter alone if it can't have the other.
The fair managers in jamestown say
they can't run a fair as a Sunday school
picnic, and must pursue a more liberal
policy.
Some tin-horns attempted to open up
a beer hall in Mandan, with pretty girls
to tend bar, and other attractive features
but the authorities refused to grant
them a license.
The payment of freight on uncleaned
wheat shipped to Daluth is quite al
item. A farmer tells the Fargo Forum
he shipped two cars-one cost him
$1,000 and the other Sl1.SO freight on
dirt. He lost the dirt as we'll as the
freight.
The mediation committee of the Am
erican Railway Union for the Great
Northern system held a meeting at
Devils Lake Wednesday evening and
considered the scale of wages, etc. They
are comforting with farmers with regard
to transportation rates, etc. 1t is re-
ported that several secret service m en-,
employed by the Great Northern, are
watching the movements of the A. R. U.
delegates.
Superintendent A. R. Dalrymple of
the Grandin farm in Trail county gives
the following figures to give an idea of
the magnifcence Of farming operations
on that immense plantation, as we'll as a
good general idea of crop averages in
that section. The total amount of wheat
harvested on that farm was 280,O3O
bushels; average per acre, "a bushels, IS
lbs. Oats, 1855 bushels; average per
acre, Al bushels, 81 lbs. Barley, 22,390
bushels, 80 lbs; average, % bushels, 40
lbs.
A suit has has been CONNIE need
against Nicholas Comfort, of Towner, for
$4,000 damages, sustained by Peter
Hamm. A statement of the case sho WIS
that in December, 1893, Hamm asked
Comfort for money that was due him and
was refused. Ths asking of it 80 en-
ragged Comfort that he made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to shoot Hamm as be
rode along the street. Not succeeding
in that he secured a revolver, mounted
a pony and started in pursuit. When
he overlook Hamm he fired a shot at
him, which took effect, and according to
Mr.. Hamm's statement, made him a
cripple for life.
Axel johnson, a harvest hand, was
cremated in a burning straw stack on
the Mcmahon farm southwest of Fargo
at an early hour Friday morning. John
son came to Fargo in company with an
other harvest hand, and the theory is
that the mon went over to Moorhead to-
gether, and succeeded in getting pretty
drunk. The'return home was evidently
quite late, and johnson not wanting to
awaken the people in the house, went to
sleep in a stack of straw, a short dis.
lance from the barn. During the night
the straw IN some way became ignlted,
and before johnson could arouse from
his drunken stupor, his clothing had
fire, and he was frightfully
burned, death finally coming to reli eve
his suffering.
Curfew.
AS many of the smaller cities in Min
nesota and adjacent states have lately
passed what is called a "curfew' ordin-
ance, by which persons under say sixteen
years, are liable to arrest if found or the