Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-05
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From Ali
Parts of North Dakota.

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gone to heaven by the poison route.
The new enforcement league is getting
to work in Fargo, and several places
have been closed up tight.
The town Of Courtenay, twenty-five
miles northeast of jamestown, was al
most totally destroyed by fire last week
Forty thousand acres of corn will be
planted in the Red River valley this
spring, according to exchanges in that
part of the state.
The Northwestern Stock Growers con-
%vention will meet at Dickinson April Is.
All the northwestern railroads will have
representatives present.
A chapter of the order of the Eastern
Star was organized Wednesday evening
at Dickinson. The chapter starts out
with a membership of over thirty.
A. A. Trovaten, formerly publisher of
the Norwegian paper Dakotan, has gone
to Minneapolis to commence the publ
cation of another Norwegian journal.
Atthe prohibition convention in Fargo
a new enforcement league has been or
ganized, and a plan proposed to raise
$4,000 a year fer the enforcement of the
law.
The Chautauqua association now has
a clear title to its land at Devils Lake.
1t proposes to bond for $4,000 to pay off
its indebtedness and build an auditor
ium.
While burning cactus, Fred Peck. of
Berlin, near LaMoure, set fire to his barn
which was consumed together with a
team Of horses aud farm machinery.
Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
The lecture delivered by Eugene V.
Debs at Fargo will be printed in pamph-
let form and distributed among railroad
men and others wanting the leaders story
of the big strike of last summer.
The police court case in which some
thirty jamestown residents are more or
less interested, and the hearing of which
was postponed to the 2Sth inst, is likely
to be settled up without trial-so it is
whispered around that town.
The remains of the five unfortunate
children who came to their death in the
Minot fire we're inferred in one grave,
the little ones being laid side by side.
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Mayor Tompkins had charge of the Ger
emonies which we're most impressive.
Last Saturday Sheriff Briggs, of Barnes
county, arrested thirteen persons charged
with violating the prohibition law, as a
result of the inquiry conducted last week.
They were taken before Justice Peake.
Examination was waived and they we're
bound over to appear before Judge Rose.
Fire destroyed the farm implement
warehouse of Senator E. J. Young, at
Tower City, Tuesday, at about 4 p. m.
A portion of the contents were de-
stroyed. The loss is placed at about
s1,500, partly covered by insurance.
There is no clue to the cause of the fire
which might have been accidental.
A meeting was held at the school
house in Valley City Monday night to
talk about continuing the normal school.
1t was discussed pro and CON- and a COM
mittee of seven Yves appointed to make
arrangements for a mass meeting to be
held next Monday night, al which some
definite plan will be adopted to present
to the normal board which meets April 4.
A circular concerning Sunday school
association matters says that of the 60, 900
children of school age in The state, 43, 900
are not attendants of Sunday schools.
The association will hold a state conven-
ton at Grand Forks on May s, With the
main object of devolving plans to bring
more of the children into the Sunday
schools. The railroads have given re-
duced rates to delegates.
H. T. Helgesen, ex-state commissioner
of agriculture, has just returned from a
trip to Oregon and California. He re-
ports these states to be full of people out
of employment, and who cannot find
work to do. He does not see how they
are to live. Mr.. Helgeson is more than
ever convinced that there is no part of
the United States that offers better op.
portunities to the poor man than does
North Dakota.
Work on the new government build
ing at Fargo has commenced at last.
Contractor Miller, who was the success.
full bidder, has arrived and set a crew Of
men to work clearing up, preparatory tc
brick laying. Teams have been engaged
the past week in hauling rough brick te
the ground, and the stone and pressed
brick is on board cars in the railroad
yards, so that there is nothing to prevent
an early completion of the building.
North Dakota's German citizens seen
less peaceful than Teu.ons are usually
given credit for. Villers, convicted a
LaMoure for attempted murder, is
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