Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-23
STATE NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Jamestown young fellows have organ
lied a gymnasium, as the Jamestown
Athletic club.
Fort Pemblna has been abandoned
and the troops have gone to Fort ASSN
aboine, Mont.
H. F. Miller has shipped to Duluth
the first carload of new wheat from Caes
county this season. The wheat will all
grade No. I hard, but the average yield
cannot be rightly estimated until more is
threshed.
During a storm Tuesday evening
lightning struck a blacksmith shop at
'Cashel, Walsh county in which four men
we're standing at the time. Fortunate
ly, no one was injured, while the build
ing was somewhat torn up.
Chas. Ebbinghausen and family of
Grafton were nearly made the victims of
some miscreant who literally saturated
their house with chloroform last Satur-
day night. Happily for them, the odor
of the stuff was discovered in time to
prevent serious results.
The Cooperstown branch will keep up
its record for marketing the most wheat
for the length of road of any railroad
branch or main line in the United States.
It is estimated that within a radius of
some forty miles of Cooperstown there
will be shipped this year over 100000
bushels of wheat.
st. Thomas experienced a severe storm
Wednesday,. The rain poured down in
torrents and drove all kinds of standing
grain to the ground. The farmers are
compelled to cut their grain mostly one
way on account of it's being lodged, oats
and barley especially so. The hail did
considerable damage in some places
north and west of town. It is very
heavy. One farmer offered to sell his
entire crop fer $25.
H. F. Miller of Fargo, threshed 1850
bushels of No. l hard from eighty acres.
Frank Dellair's place, in jamestown,
was burgled of 1928 in money and some
clothing.
. Thieves broke into Whitney's hard
ware store IN Grand Forks and got 5000
worth of plumber.
Geo. F. Stanwood of st. Thomas has
been placed under $500 bonds for send
ing IN obscene letter through the mails.
Thieves made an entrance in S. P.
Pratt's jewelry store at Glendale by the
rear window, and succeeded IN getting
about one hundred and twenty-five dol.
lars worth of jewels.
The Forum says that a member of the
gambling fraternity, who is about to
graduate from the Kelley institute, is
authority for the statement that there
dre s~eventy-two places in Fargo where
intoxlcants are illegally dispensed.
Darlington had a novel game of base
ball last week-a game between the nine
of that place and a hobo nine made up
from the tourists lying around the town.
A stake of $40 was put up to be played
for and the hobo nine won by a score of
20 to Is.
Shortly before 6 o'clock Thursday
evening Acting Mayor Schuyler and
members of the city council laid the first
cedar blocks or the street pavement
whicd is now in progress in Fargo, and
which, when finished, will extend over
two miles of the principal streets of the
city.
On Wednesday night a crew of boiler.
makers from Minneapolis, who we're at
work on repairs for threshers' outfits al
Minnewaukan, had their tools stolen,
and up to yesterday no trace of the miss.
ing property had been found. The tools
we're valued at 5000, and it is supposed
were taken by hobo workmen who in.
tended leaving for other parts of the
state and doing boiler and engine work.
A destructive wind visited Larimore
last Thursday and Friday, and did i'm.
mense damage. AS two-thirds of the
crop then standing was dead ripe, thou
sands of bushels of grain were scattered
on the ground, in many cases as much
as two bushels to the acre.
Some fine buildings are being built IN
Neche to take the place of those burned
last spring. The Bank of Neche, with
brown stone front, is perhaps one of the
best buildings in the state. Next is a
large general store, then a drug store,
and the Hotel O'Brien, which is by far
the best hotel north of Grand Forks
The hotel is of solid brick with steam
heat, electric bells, and will, by the mid
die of September, be ready for business
Wells county for the last year has
been considerably annoyed by horse
thieves. The last robbery was of a pei
pony, stolen from a young lady Of this
place, Miss Maude Parker, and the
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