Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-23

"SotsN0 u AuSohLu ~dS VI
Sargent county, having lost his wheat
crop by hail has engaged to teach a
school.
Hunting parties from the Twin cities
are already coming into the north part
of the state and by the time the day of
legal slaughter Of chickens arrives there
will be enough hunters TO make an at
tack all along the line.
A blind pigger of Buffalo, was arrested
Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Best, of
Casselton, and sixteen cases of beer
seized together with all the accoutre-
ments of II irst.class gambling joint.
This makes two b. p.'h that the league
have found and stopped within a few
weeks. o.
Jimmy Hales, a brakeman on a pass
enger train, had in encounter with ho-
boes on the rear platform of his train at
Grand Harbor last Monday. He was hit
with a slung shot and knocked from the
train while the latter was in motion, re-
ceiving injuries that are painful if not
serious. He was taken to Devils Lake
for medical treatment. His assailant es-
capped.
The plant and stock of the North Da-
kota Independent Publishing company
was sold at mortgage sale Saturday. 1t
was bid in by G. P. Stein, manager of
the Minnesota Type Foundry company,
who also acted as the agent of the Brown
" Tracy company, both Of st. Paul.
There were no other bidders and the
plant was bid in for Sl,650, the face of
mortgage. B. B. Stevens has been ap-
pointed receiver of the North Dakota
Independent and will continue it's publ
cation. It IS claimed that the resources
of the paper are more than enough to
pay all liabilities.
The threshing engine belonging to
Hon. John De Groat of Hillsboro ex-
ploded Friday morning, severely injur-
ing the engineer. The engine was a
complete wreck.
George H. Walsh, ex-speaker of the
North Dakota house of representatives,
is on his way to Grand Forks to harvest
his wheat. Mr.. Walsh is now living at
Fort Smith, Ark. He says there are
now three white men to every Indian in
the Indian territory, and the govern
ment has several surveying parties out.
SO there is every probability of the next
congress arranging to throw the territory
open to settlement. It will take two OF
three years to complete the arrange
ments.
The editors won the ball game from
the lawyers in Fargo, 20 to IS.
L. w. Smith. a Stutsman county
farmer, lost $50 tons of hay last Friday
by prairie fire. The blaze was started
by a railroad engine.
The North Dakota delegation to the
q, A. Il. encampment at Louisville viii.
occupy two cars. An extra quarter of
car of wheat will be taken along.
Tits calculated that about three months
will be required to close up the receiver.
ship of the Milling association and hand
the property owe to the creditors.
Samples of sweet potatoes were
brought into Lisbon last week which
the Free Press says demonstrates thai
they can be successfully raised in North
Dakota.
Dealers in Wahpeton say that the de
mand for root beer has quadruplec
since the w. @. 7. U. advertised it az
containing 21s per cent of alcohol. Peo
pie did not know it was so good before
Grand Commander C. A. Hale of the
Knights Templar in this state, is thu
youngest grand commander of the ordel
in the United States. The oldest is thu
grand commander of California, aged u
years.
The Dunseith Herald, the pioneer
journal Of the Turtle mountain country
will change hands September l, as thu
plant and property has been sold tt
Cal M. Wagner, brother of the pro
prietor.
The Dunseith Herald says 80 bushels
to the acre is the actual measurement
from the barley field of VIM. Gottbreht
The grain had an elegant stand, but the
yield of eighty bushels to the acre sur
prised everybody. It is equal to oats a,
100 bushels to the acre.
". Kiley, recently released from the
Saltwater penitentiary, broke into the
shop of the Wahpeton Boiler and En-
CINE works at night, damaged the ma,
chinery $1,000, and carried off many
small tools. His motive was revenge, at
he had been recently discharged fol-
drunkenness.
1t is said that the Grand Forks syndi
cate of mine owners in the new TERRITORY
in British Columbia. have a neat thine
in the.way of a paying silver vein, but
lately developed. The first returns from