Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
STATE NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From Ali
Parts Of North Dakota.

The jamestown fair is on and the city
crowded with visitors.
A Cass county blind pigger pulled a
gun on a deputy sheriff aud is in Jail.
A masked robber attempted to hold up
a Grand Forks Chinaman, but gave it up
as a bad job.
Colonel Lounsberry says the Septem-
Der Record will have a circulation Of
5000 copies.
Fargo will hold q special election
October 15, to vote on $4,000 bonds for
new waterworks and sewers.
Robert Rodman, a Great Northern
brakeman, fell from a train near Argus
vile and was instantly killed.
The jamestown Alert publishes a long
article to prove that irrigation in the
Jim River valley would be profitable.
A Stutsman county farmer drove off
two officers who attempted to levy on
his wheat with two shotguns and a rifle,
and was arrested.
The Fargo lodge of Elks are making
arrangements for a banquet, which will
be rendered the League baeball players
on Thursday next.
Superintendent IF Forestry and Com
missioner of Fish and Game W. W. Bar
rett is getting ready to make an exhibit
for the state at Atlanta.
John Kruger of Devils Lake has been
arrested for administering a drink of
boiler cleaning compound to a young
fellow named Piper, at Devils Lake, two
years ago, with fatal effects.
Two men who attempted to "hold
up" a brakeman on Northern Pacific
freight train No. SO, at Eckelson, last
week, we're captured at Spiritwood and
turned over to the authorities at James
town,
Andrew Yernsen, a druggist, was held
up zeal the bridge that crosses from
Fargo to Moorhead, and was robbed of
SLIGO cash. The robber was a gray-haired
man. The officers gave chase, but he
escaped. @
George W. Bennett, a we'll known rail
road man, while acting as engineer for a
threshing outfit eight miles northwest
of Devils Lake, was run over and killed.
He wal backing the engine up to tho
separator at the time of the accident.
At Wimbledon, Barnes county, "boot-
leggers" of the vilest kind of whisky are
at work. They have a novel manner of
dlsposing of their wares. It is said they
place a pint bottle in a pair of socks and
sell the socks for Is cents.
The taxpayers of Fargo will pay some
thing over six cents Of the assessed val
uation of the city for taxes this year.
The levy returned by the city is Al 2.5
mills, and the county and state taxes
will bring il up to a little than
six cents.
Judge Morgan has denied the motion
to dissolve the iDjunctions against the
saloons in Devils Lake, issued by Judge
Sauter. The cases will be tried at the
December term Of the district court.
Meanwhile the sheriff is in charge of the
closed places.
A Wells county farmer drove into Fes.
sender with a load of wheat, which he
snapped for a big load of booze, and
when en- route home, in a maudlin COLI
dition, drove his team into a barb wire
fence, and they were injured SO badly
they had to be killed.
Carl %Jurgensop, q Wahpeton blind pig
proprietor, was convicted last week of
violating an injunctional order Of Judge
LADDERS court restraining him from sell
ing liquor, and was sentenced by the
Judge to four months in the county jail
and. to pay a fine of $500. b
The following state officers of the w.
C. 7. u. have been elected: President,
Miss E. Preston; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Mrs. Carrie Allen; State Evan.
gelist, Mrs. Elizabeth Crummie; Super.
intendent of Foreign Work, Mrs. A. M,
Bennett; Treasurer, Mrs. Barbara Wylie
Andrew Helmer, ST., a farmer near
Rolla, was arrested Tuesday on a charge
of rape on his Is year-o old grand daughter.
The child claims that criminal relations
have existed for several years. Helmer
waived examination and was bound over
to the district court.
The initial steps have been taken at
Fargo for the organization of North Da-
kota choral society. Local musicians
met and chose D. Carlos McCollister,
the Chicago tenor, as director. Musical
organizations Of Grand Forks, James
town, Bismarck and other cities will be
asked to take part IN the organization
and oratorios will be sung in different
cities in the state this winter.