Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-04

~ agreed that the interests Of all con.
cerned would be best subserved by clos
ing the doors of the bank and notifying
the controller of the currency Of the
condition Of the affairs.
More than 100 years ago Joseph Ball
leased a plat of ground in Philadelphia
for ninety-nine years. The lessees
built upon and improved the grounl
andsit is today situated in the heart of
the city Of Philadelphia and is esti-
mated to be worth $50, 1000, 600. Mrs.
NJ. G. Gushing Of Valley City is a grand
daughter Of Joseph Ball who lived and
owned property in Philadelphia at that
time. and at present relatives are at
work en%deavoring to establish the fact
that Mrs. Cushing's grandfather was
the Joseph Ball who executed the lease
of the land in question. Should the re-
lationship be established, Mrs. Gushing
and the other heirs will come into pos.
session of q neat fortune.
The taxpayers of Dickey county are
greatly interested in the tax sale con-
Quoted by Sheriff NJ. P. Axtell. The
last legislature made provisions for the
sheriff to offer for sale all lands which
had become the property of the state.
This he is now doing, and charging costs
Of $3.50 for each description. AS there
are about 1850 different tracts, the
sheriff's bill to be presented to the
county will reach $1,000. Great num-
bers of those lands are town lots and
valued at 81. This taxing of $500
above the costs makes it safe to say
that the county will never recover the
amount. This is the first sale held in
the state under this special sale act, and
no doubt the board of county commits
sioners will place an entirely different
construction upon the law pertaining to
fees. Efforts were made by the citizens
to break up the sale, but it is slowly
progressing.
A Chicago dispatch says: Detective
Sergeant Dodd arrested two highway.
men after a fight with the footpads and
their intended victim, last night. j. F.
Mueller, a stock raiser and prominent
citizen of Fargo, N. D., was being rob.
bed by the men when Dodd hurried to
the rescue. Thinking his assailants
we're being reinforced, Mueller, who is a
powerful man, struck the detective in
the face and tried to choke him. Dodd
was unable to avoid the attack, az he
was engaged in a lively struggle with
the, robbers. He succeeded, however,
in making the Dakota man understand
the situation after a few minutes hard
fighting, and the would-be robbers we're
soon subdued. The assault on Mueller
was a daring one, the attempted hold-up
taking place near the Quincy street
entrance to the Great Northern holel.
There is an acetylene gas plant in the
Mandan Pioneer Office, and the follow
ing from the Lisbon Gazette will GER
tainly lead Editor Tuttle to be cautious
when writing those heated editorials in
the vicinity of the generator: During
the progress of putting in the piping for
the acetylene gas plant at the Hotel
Horton last Monday, and before things
we're in readiness for lighting, MI. Hor.
ton, sup posing navigation was open on
the Yukon. and wishing to see how the
old thing worked, touched a match to
one Of the open burners with the result
that the gas in the generating tank was
ignited and an explosion occurred which
wrecked things considerably, though
fortunately the quantity Of surplus gas
which the machine generates is small,
only sufficient to run all the burners OF
the plant when lighted. Mr.. Horizons
curiosity, however, was fully satisfied.