Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-09-30
STATE NEWS

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The 500. road extension reached; Ma
poleon. Tuesday.
Tom Murphy, a Casselton blind pig
ger; has been landed.ir Jail.
The assessed. valuation,of the town OF
Langdon is s19Ois19 for 1898.
A daughter has arrived in the home
Of Hon. 3. T. Helgesen, at Milton.
Ed. McIvor, a Langdon timer, fell
from q sacaffold and. broke his collar
bone.S
A hobo named Murphy was seriously
stabbed by another hoboa at Lakota Mon
day night.
Nels Hogan, a Barnes county farmer,
threshed 800 bushels Of fax from eight
acres Of ground.
The p~ostofice at Berlin, Morton coun-
ty, has been discontinued and mail will
be sent to Leipzig.
The. Call wants us to mark its predic-
tion-that Spalding will lead the ticket.
He will head it anyhow.
Attorney Conklin of jamestown is re-
ported to be long on onions this season
something like 1000 bushels.
A nephew of Hon. John D. Wallace Of
Pembina, was member of the list New
Yorkregiment and in the fight at Santi-
ago.
A report is current that Judge Lauder
and George Freerks engaged in a fistic
encounter the other day-and no knock
outs.
Buffalo. is a pretty loud town. A joint
was raided Saturday night by the deputy
sheriff and a stiff poker game was inter-
fered with.
The first petition for bankruptcy un-
der the new law has been filed at Fargo
in the United States court by John A.
Bcnoit of Rolla.
Fargo young folks have arranged for a
genuine, old fashioned husking bee
with sweet cider, apples and pumpkin
pie OF the side. 5
The Buffalo Express takes a fall out
Of the register of the land office in Far
go-iand notices are not coming fast
enough probably. ,...
The Lakota Herald declares that Sec
rotary Lindelie is looking pretty well
considering the terrible fracAs he went
through at Aneta.
Bert Seaton, working with a threshing
crew north of jamestown, fell into the
cylinder of the separator and was Utterly
ground to pieces.
The street fair in Moorhead was not
SO numerously attended as anticipated.
It ought to have been held during con-
vention time at Fargo.
Conventions are being held late iii
many districts. Nominations must be
certified to the secretary of state not
later than October 9Th.
A report says John Probst of Pembina,
now in the Klondike region, has struck
"good diggings" and Trenholme is busy
putting in an electric light plant.
A. 7. Shotwell, Fargo's defaulting
treasurer, has returned from the east
and declines to be interviewed on the
matter of the little shortage of $4,000.
Col. Little hadn't figured it at all but
here came the Plaindealer and says he
will have about fifteen favorable to him
when the legislative nominations are
all made.
Within a radius of 100 miles, says
County Treasurer Whitcher Of Valley
City, during the past month eight barns
with lis head Of horses, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
The attention of Major Edwards is
called to the fact that President Hill of
the Great Northern has presented the
Methodist church of Grand Forks with
a check for $500.
Another boiler explosion has occurred
near Enderlin: Engineer Eugene Shields
was killed and Fireman Charles Everson
was badly scalded. Bert Dingman was
also severely scalded.
Senator Wishek has a TOWNSHIP on the
500 named in his honor and the demand
for lots is SO great-he's going to give
everybody a chance for his money-by
an auction on October 4th next.
Nearly 200 divorces granted in Fargo
during the last year. There was no
plank in the platform of Fargo repub-
licans pledging the Legislative nominees
to vote for q longer residence period.
Superintendent Moore Of the James
town. asylum, in his biennial report,
makes it clear that more room for pa
TENTS must be provided. More patients
are coming into the institution than are
going out.
It is believed that Harry scaif, found
dead q Larimore, was foully dealt
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