Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25

STATE NEWS.

Reuben Fowler, a Fargo brakeman
fell under a moving train and lost both
feet.
Mayor johnson has finally decided to
accept the presidency of the Fargo tax
league.
Frank Irons adds his opinion to that
of other wheat experts that there is
short supply in the state and that prices
will go higher.
LaMoure county is paying all war
rants on presentation and doing BUSH
ness on y cash basis, another indication
Of che better times that have come to the
state
Wahpeton has too many school chill
dren for it's present facilities and will
let a contract for the erection of a new
$4,000 school building with all the lat
est improvements.
The case of Richards vs.. Stark u
ty, involving the legality of the county
boundary bill is now set to be heard on
February %, and will come up either at
Dickinson or Bismarck.
Henry Warnock, a former jamestown
musician, is at Skasuay, and finds
plenty to do in the musical line, being
engaged to play every night and getting
IS a night for his services.
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The jamestown Alert says the
prisoner Villers is reported growing
weaker but it is possible that he is
Ashamming to gain sympathy. He has
constant services of a physician.
The Great Northern has settled a
number Of prairie fire cases in Williams
county where the supreme court decided
that the men could recover damages.
The total amount paid in settlement
was about $500.
There is a lively trade movement OF
live stock in the western part of the
state and the Reynolds cattle company,
one of the largest of the bonanza cattle
outfits has sold it's holdings to the Con:
verse company of Boston.
Doctors at Devils Lake performed an
operation upon a little child who had
been accidentally shot, in such a manner
that parts of the brain protruded from
the head. The operation was skillfully
performed and it is believed the chile
will ecover.
John McTavish of Emmons county
who was badly burned in a prairie fire
in the northern part of the state hal
been awarded a verdict of $1,000 dam
ages against the railroad company which
set the fire, and the case will be ap
pealed TO the supreme court.
Judge Amidon wires from Deadwoct
that the dismissal of the railroad case
would be an extreme measure, and tina
they had better go on with the taking
of testimony. The points raised by AT
torney General Cowan to be decided
later.
An entire load of wheat was stole
on Main street in Lisbon a few days age
A farmer brought it into town, an
while he was making purchases in
store, sneak thieves drove the load ava
transferred it to a wagon of their owr
and turned the farmers horses loos
with the empty wagon.
The divorce case of Hooley VS.. Hoole.
is holding the boards. at Grand Forks
The complaint in the case alleges tina
the wife was accustomed to pray ever
night that her husband would die b.
fore morning and in the morning sh
would pray that he would. not surviv
the day. The husband thought thi
was a little too much prayer for on
family.
A lawn party at Napoleon, Loga
county had to be given up last weel
because there was no ice to be had I
freeze the ice cream. Last week tw
sparrows were busy building their nes'
under an Cakes, N. D. awning. Robir
made their appearance in Ransol
county, and a fulfedged butterfly W;
seen summing itself on a window sill
Lisbon.
B. S. Brynjolfson, one of the be
known collectors in the state, has pu
chased the assets of the defunct Nor
gage Bank and Investment compan
whose destinies we're looked after up
the time of the collapse by Mears,
familiar name in banking circles
North Dakota. The assets were SO
by A. B. Guptil, the receiver, and II
amount aggregates about a half a m
lion of dollars, consisting Of notes, mo-
cages, equities, etc.
Dickinson and vicinity has had aso
of chapter of accidents in the past WEI
or so. DR.. Davis suffered from blo'
poisoning, G. F. Langdon fell in a hor
corral and broke his leg in two place