Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-03-11
STATE NEWS.


gone to Skaguay for a visit.
The commissioners of Grand Forks
county will take up $4,000 worth OF
Jail bonds.
Business men Of Jamestown have re-
quested Alfred Steele to become a can
,didate for mayor.
WI. Carey, late Of the Bismarck
Review, will establish a democratic
paper at Wahpeton.
That must be a bold township in Cass
county that endorses the candidacy of
Major Edwards for governor-without
hesitation.
Tracy Bangs refuses to be a candidate
for mayor of Grand Forks and SO the
field is open for any aspirant for that
high honor.
DR.. Wears team broke through the
ice in the Red river while he was driv-
ing across from Fargo and he had q mar
row escape from drowning.
Augustus Baker of Fargo has been
found guilty of rape on the person ofhis
9.year.old daughter. The minimum pen
atty is ten years in the pen.
Petitions for Alfred Steel and Bailey
Fuller for candidates for mayor are cir
culating at jamestown with Judge
Rose mentioned as a possible compro-
mise.
An explosion of ~acetylene gas occurred
in the store owned by Harris Gardner,
at Lisbon, burning Thomas Lowe, a
clerk quite severely and wrecking the
apparatus.
A Dickey county veteran who did val
liant service for Uncle Sam in the late
"unpleasantness," says he has twelve
sons in case the United States should
fight with Spain.
Druggist Coulter of Dawson gets pos.
session of his drug store by paying the
costs to January IL and giving $500
bond. The case will be tried at the
June term of court.
Cavalier has subscribed $1,000 to pay
the expenses Of the county seat fight,
and an effort was made on Tuesday at
some town meetings to get a vote from
the people favoring the moving of the
court house.
The holder of s2,50O wo: tn of Suits.
man county warrants, on presenting
them to the county treasurer for pay
ment, neglected to compute his interest
for a couple of years, and the treasurer
figured it out $500 more than the holder.
Margit Knudson sues E. X. Burtlness
in the district court of Grand Forks
county for damages amounting to s1O,-
600. She claims that the. defendant in
the case struck, beat and otherwise
maltreated herr to the extent of the
sum claimed.
Hon. A. H. Laughlin, ex-state com
missioner of agriculture and labor, has
a fine herd of pure bred Galloway cattle
or his farm two miles south of Lisbon.
Mr.. Laughlin has sold so far this winter
fifteen pure bred bulls, all to farmers
living in tie county.
The Winona Times says the petition
being circulated through Emmons coun-
ty for the closing of the saloons at
Winona is being literally signed. The
number of cases in court from Winona
are held to indicate that the places
would be better closed.
Attorney Feetham of Grand Forks
has begun a suit against Editor Duffy
of the East Grand Forks Courier for
libel. The suit rises out of some state.
ment made by the Courier rejecting
on the character Of the attorney, and
published while the latter was south.
Grafton Record: Go. G. N. D. N. G.,
received last week their annual allow
ance Of 1000 rounds of ammunition.
The incident created quite a war scare
in town, as the report got out that the
company had received 250,OOO rounds
and might be called to use it any
minute.
Fire at Fargo originated in the rear
of the North Dakota Harness company
building, formerly the pen institution
and owned by the Smith brothers, and
did considerable damage to the rear Of
the building and destroyed some leather.
but was %extinguished before much gen.
eral damage was done.
M. Il. Parker of jamestown has q let.
ter from w. h. Bullock who left James,
town for Klondike last summer. He has
just returned from a trip to Lake Ben
nett over the pass and his account Of
the hardships of the trip is vivid enough
to deter many from making the attempt
unless hardy and we'll QUILTED.
Sheriff Axtell of Dickey county haf
turned over to the commissioners of the
oo,,n%x, a oorf;Hcofo ~ tho sale NJ ran