Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-04
STATE NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

Senator Lamb is building "a fine resi-
dence in Lakota.
E. P. Wells, restored to health, has
returned to Jamestown.
The league ball game at Grand Forks
is reported as very musty.
Safe-blowers at Edinburg secured ss35O
in money and $500 in notes.
It is said the Great Northern will put
in Il $4,000 steel bridge at Grand Forks.
Robert Ewing, one of the old settlers
of P,embina, was killed by an Infatuated
bull Saturday.
The fall meeting of the Fargo races
opened today with the largest field in
the history of the club.
Colonel Robinson has been at the bed
side of his sick father at Myrtle, Mimi,
during the past few days.
Mrs. George Steinway, wife of one of
the piano makers of that name. has just
received a divorce in Fargo.
Grand Harbor, a town near Devils Lake,
is said to be very tough-pigs galore
and very wicked surroundings.
Lisbon holds a special election Octo-
Der %, to vote on the issuance of $4,000
bonds for a 81 stem of waterworks.
Mrs. Charles Thomas, once a promi-
nent Valley City lady, died this week
from excessive use of intoxicating liquor.
J. G. Gill Of Casselton, Senator Roach
and "Uncle" John Russell of Valley City,
were judges OF the Jamestown baby
show.
Twenty-Five thousand tons of hay we're
destroyed by fires near Rolla last Sun
day. About fifty stacks of wheat we're
burned.
Robert Metcalf of Nelson county,
raised 708 bushels of wheat on twelve
acres of land, SO bushels to the acre, and
claims the record.
The papers up in Judge Morgan's dis
trict are mildly! limiting that the Judge
ought to be elevated to the supreme
bench next year.
A barn belonging to L.J. Guthmueller
of LaMoure county, was burned, with
all it's contents, including two horses and
much machinery.
Two Edgeley men were held up by
hos IN the J An estown yard, but made
a fight, and the highwaymen were cap
tuced and lodged in Jail.
No significance should be attached to
the fact that Hon. D. S. Dodds has
finally secured the contract for survey
ing the new cemetery at Lakota.
John Rudolph, a Logan county farmer,
was held up by a couple of ruff ans and
relieved Of SIS. He had $50 in a red
bandanna around his neck that the vii
lians didn't discover.
At Jamestown the clothing store of
l.. H. We'll was burglarlzed and a large
quantity of clothing taken. The tracks
of a single buggy at the back door was
all the clue obtained.
State Fish Protector Barrett has beef
heard from again. He promises to put
$500 fish in Stump Lake next spring.
He says the fish placed in Devils Lake
are alive and doing nicely.
A Bismark correspondent to the La
kota Herald says that Governor Allin is
against hanging and with a supreme
court judge will go over the testimony
in the Kent case very carefully.
At jamestown Receiver johnson of
Lloyds bank, sold a number of lots
at auction. They went rather low. The
half interest in the Gladstone hotel was
bought by A. Height & Co., for s12, 900.
VIM. o. Lowden, the forger of Has
tings, Mich, has been returned to that
state upon a requisition from Gov. Allin.
The capture was made by Sheriff Serum
Of Darlington, who gets the reward Of
800.
1t is somewhat OF a joke on Senator
Casey that he, a member of the cactus
commission, should get a couple of nc
tees from the county commissioners of
Foster county to destroy the pest on his
farm. I,
A Northern Pacific freight was held
up near Buffalo by .tramps, and John
Freeson, Frank Richards and Charles
Jemrak we're robbed and severely beaten.
The robbers secured some $50 IN all.
Richards had his collar bone broken.
The Nelson County Herald declares
that u present state administration
taking it right straight through is the
best the state has ever had. The