Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01
STATE NEWS.

STATE ! NEWS.
City Editor Griffith of the Argus goes
on the road for the Pioneer Press.
Work has beer commenced at Grand
Forks on the new hotel Dacotah.
Darlington met the trainload Of
Dunkald settlers with q brass band.
The New Rockford Transcript heads
its local column Rubber Necklets."
A number OF Russian families direct
from the old country have arrived at
Kuhn.
A larger acreageof wheat will be sown
in the Red River valley this spring by
% per cent.
The Wells County Free Press is a'gin
the North Dakota tax league and roasts
Governor Merry-chief promoter.
The editor of the Eureka Blade
run up against O. @. Young, the Rus
sian agent, and says he is an active fell
low, but his high opinion Of himself is
too utter.
There is an active movement in farm
lands in Logan and Mcintosh counties.
Senator j. H. Wishek has sold several
desirable quarter sections to Russian
immigrsntsin the past week or 80.
Chas. johnson Of New Rockford has
started for Klondike, fell in with miners
who were just coming out of the inter-
Tor of the region, and after hearing their
stories, decided to come back to North
Dakota.
G. O. Romanson, the Willow City
druggist is in all kinds of trouble. He
is already under bonds to answer at the
district court on the charge of abduc-
ton, and now he has been arrested for
illegally selling liquor.
Cattle are selling at abnormally high
prices all wei the state. A Ransom
county farmer disposed of forty head
of yearlings. and two year-olds for $1,000
and at Cakes a mixed herd of stock
brought $40 a head at open sale.
A report from Alaska conveys infor-
nation of the drowning of ONE of the
crew of the steamer j.. @. Barr, com
manded 10y the old Missouri river cap.
tain Of that name. The men were cross.
ing a stream in a small skiff which
capsized.
Four fires started at Mayville al
about 10 o'clock at night and the Stand
ard Oil company warehouse was de-
stroyed in one of them, at a loss of g.,
600. The fires are believed to have
been incendiary and three men have
been arrested.
The most active militia company in
the state appears to be that commanded
by Captain Auld of Dickinson. The
boys are now anticipating the future by
INDUCING in regular battle drills, &c
that in case of war they may be able tt
take the field at once.
Judge Amidon has returned from
Deadwood, s. D., where he has beer
for several weeks holding court fol
Judge Garland. The decision of tn,
court in the Norman Markuson habeal
corpus case has been made q special or
der for Thursday Of this week.
Editor Harrison returns from Wash
ington with some startling reports
among them mi to the effect that hi
was permitted to handle millions of dol
lars worth of gold bonds and securitiel
in the treasury department. Harrison
must have carefully concealed his avo
cation as a North Dakota newspaper
man from the officials.
The jamestown Alert charges the re
publican press Of the state with CRITICS
ing the pop banquet which was to hav
been held at Fargo on the thirtieth-
but as a matter Of fact the principa
criticism came from the pop organ a
Mandan. But now it is all off, and ther
is no ground for criticism-anywhere.
The North Dakota Globe vouches 70
the good character of the Red River val
ley insurance company which was cas-
for a time under a cloud by the connec
ton of some Minnesota insurance sharp
ers. They have all been ousted, ant
the president of the company is now on
of the %wealthiest men in Richlan'
county. Almost the required $4,000
of insurance has been subscribed an
the company will soon apply for a char