Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-01-25
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Ju~A0So OOAO AuA A0oV "COhs
The Grand Forks salvation army is
still playing to crowded houses.
Rev. John Copeland of Dickinson lost
a brother in the recent Butte horror.
Valley City wants a K. P. lodge, and
has a number of applicants who wish to
join.
At a union meeting of the churches at
Larimore a protest was filed against re-
submission.
The Hillsboro city council is bothered
to know how to get good water for drink
ing purposes.
The first postofice in the state, at Fort
Stevenson, established in 1867, has been
discontinued.
Grand Forks had a successful female
minstrel show, under the auspices of the
Daughters of Ham.
The Richland county grand jury re-
turned two dozen indictments for selling
liquor and other misdemeanore.
Philip H. Shoot of Austin, Mimi, has
purchased the Devils Lake News, w. G..
Buckley retiring from the ownership.
Casselton is talking of reorganizing
it's racing association, and getting a pro-
fessional trainer to take charge of the
track.
Mrs. Hans Seims, the mother of a
large family of children, dropped dead a
few days since in her home on South
Grand river.
The Ramsey county commissioners de-
cided last week to absolutely refuse the
use of the court house ball for entertain
ments or dances.
The Grand Forks A. o. U. w. has 1875
applications for membership, and is
looking forward to having the largest
lodge in the two states.
Alter the recent explosion at Butte,
the cities of Fargo and Grand Forks are
looking about to see if any powder is
stored within their limits.
While the school children in Grand
Forks county number Al less this year
than last year, in Burleigh county there
has been an increase of 60.
G. L. DeLoss, found guilty at Grand
Forks of using the mails for illegal pur-
poses, has been taken to the nationals in
sane asylum, at Washington, D. C.
Gunder Anderson of Grand Forks has
died from injuries received by being
struck by a Northern Pacific train while
crossing the tracks near the bridge.
There were 5,054 chattel mortgages
and 1872 reports of chattel mortgage fore
closures filed in the register of deeds
office in Pembina county during the year
1894.
Charles De Loss, the United States
prisoner being taken to the national in
a asylum at Washington, jumped from
a rapidly moving train near Minneapolis
and otherwise distinguished himself. He
was finally r%ecaptured.
Representative Picker intends to pro.
pose an amendment to the Indian appro-
priation bill, appropriating $174,OOO to
pay the Sioux Indians for ponies stolen
from them from 1868 to 1873. The
member of the Indian committee have
promised to accept the amendment.
An abstract of reports to the comp
troller of the currency of the condition
of the national banks of North Dakota,
December 10 last, give total of
$8.558,375; loans and discounts, S5,091,-
1853; reserves, s6O3,258. The individual
deposits amounted to s4,778,O54. The
average reserve held was $26.81.
Walsh county has a family of Curries,
and the Grafton News and Times says
that not a term of district court has been
held but that some member of the family
has been mixed up in it, and that they
cost the county on an average of 81 1000
a year. One Of them is now on trial for
setting fire to the town of Mimic.
Two weeks ago the postmaster at Park
River refused to receive the Park River
Witness for mailing on account of the
advertisement Of three prizes to be given
to the three largest purchasers during a
specified time at a store, on the ground
that it was a lottery advertisement. Ed
itor Wyard referred the matter to the
postmaster general, and the matter has
been decided in favor Of the Witness,
and the postmaster notified that he made
a mistake.
DR.. Adair, of Lisbon, is the owner of
the champion long endurance dog, an
individual of the spaniel breed. About
two weeks ago the doctor visited the ar
mory in his town accompanied by this
dog. A few days afterwards the doctor
! missed the dog, but was unable to find