Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-15
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From 81,
Parts of North Dakota.

Congressman has returned to
The state from Washington.
Fargo will be RECALLED with the Wend-
.und murder trial, beginning tomorrow.
Mandan will have a private telephone
line from the city to the court house on
the hill above the city.
jamestown business men have held a
meeting and declared for rigid
economy in city government.
A telephone system is being put in the
Jamestown asylum, to connect the sew
eral wards and departments.
A broken axle caused a freight wreck
by which nine cars we're landed in the
ditch Tuesday near Williston.
A letter was received at the Grand
postoffice last Sunday that was a
part of the mail on the lost Elbe.
The county commissioners for Pierce
county have bought the bank building
ing at Rugby and will turn it into a court
house.
The farmers of Leroy township in Cav.
a]ier county will offer a bonus Of $4,000
to induce the Hines railroad to come
their way.
Major Fleming was presented at the
reunion of the Scottish Rite bodies at
Fargo with a brick from the Blaine
house.
Ramsey county is buying %strychnine
for the poisoning Of gophers, and offers
a bounty Of a cent per gopher tail during
April and May.
The Wheatland young men have
formed eve are Good, Too" society
in opposition to the angel" society or
g%anized by the young ladies.
Mr.. Mercer Of the Inkster Tribune
says that farmers near Inkster will plant
%sunlower hedges around their farms to
keep out the Russian cactus.
The Neche Oak Leaf was issued this
week in the Office of the Bathgate Demo-
crat. Editor Lee says next fall will see
a fine town at Neche and a large number
of new brick blocks.
The contract has been awarded for the
water works system at Valley City. It
will be run by steam instead of a wind
mill as was first planned. A FIRE com
pany will be organized.
The Fargo Agricultural college board
organized yesterday, eleotlng Colonel
Robinson president, and J. o. Smith eec.
rotary. No change will be made in the
faculty until the fiscal year ends ir
June.
A young man named Perry Brown
we'll, an elevator agent at Darlington
under bond for receiving stolen flax
skipped out and it is said took SOM
funds belonging to the elevator com
company.
The University of North Dakota ha'
received an acceptance to it's challeng'
for a debate with the University OF
South Dakota. April 26 will be the date
and it will be held in the university al
Grand Forks.
The mobiles of the Mystic Shrine vii
give their annual Easter party at Fargt
on Monday evening, April Is, at E
Zagal Temple, and will entertain thei
friends with all their accustomed hos
pitality and courtesy.
There have been five deaths in tn
Dakota juridiction of the A. O. U. w
during the past month-three in Soutl
Dakota and two in North Dakota. Fou
Of these will be paid from the genera
fund, which makes the assessment TO
March 81.
Johnny Gearey and Charlie Lavelle
two Fargo boys of some ID years Of age
skated a distance of fifty miles on tn
Red river Wednesday. They visited tn
home of E. w. Morse at Wild Rice,
distance of twenty-five miles by tn
river, skating back in the afternoon.
The Fargo implement dealers hav
completed arrangements for the Imple
ment Dealers convention, to be held a
Fargo on March 10. From 100 to Is
dealers from the outside are expected i
attendance, and the meeting will doubt
less be OF much benefit to all concerned
A few evenings ago the bartender in
Devils Lake pig, who sleeps in the place
turned in for the night and carelessl
leaving his lighted pipe near the bed, tn
bed clothes caught fire, and had he nc
awakened at the time he did the popula
ton of the city would have been d.
creased.
The officers and members of compan,
D, of Devils Lake, will probably dc
vote but little time to their militar
duties during the next two years. Th
state owes the company about $500 IL
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