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


dimes in one tay und I don't fall und
preak me some rips-naver." The case
was called off.
The Bathgate Klondike party has ar
rived at Port Wrangle. They have with
them thirty tons of. goods and chattels
including an electric light plant, forty
dogs, two boats thirty feet long and nine
feet beam, a fifteen horse engine boiler
for the new boat and q carload Of mules.
M. ". Williams ct Bathgate shipped
q carload of cattle to a St. Paul firm,
drew for $500 on account and received
itiand afterward the firm sent him q
check for the full amount by mistake,
and Williams cashed that also, although
the firm te~legraphed him OF the error.
He is now under $1,000 bonds for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
The Fessenden correspondent Of the
Minneapolis Tribune is certainly an i'm
aginative genius. He has, within the
past eighteen months, discovered the
petri6ed bones of an antediluvian mon.
ster, seen the air ship, bonded for a
$4,000 water works plant, and now
electrifies North Dakota by striking a
marketable quality of pure oil at a depth
Of 500 feet.
Seven hundred new settlers arrived at
Darlington last week and 500 more are
expected in the course of the next few
days. All of the new arrivals have
money, having sold their eastern farms
for from $50 to S75 an acre, and are buy
ing new lands at 81 an acre up. One of
the S%tudebaker brothers, wagonmakers,
a Dunkard, bought an improved farm
last fall for s12 an acre and paid for it
from the proceeds of last years crop.
Darlington is booming = and Hank
Palmer ought to prosper.
August Peterson of Devils Lake has
returned to that city after IN absence
of over two years. Peterson was cashier
Of the Merchants National bank and
when he left a number of his creditors
mourned. No trace was secured Of him
until his return. Peterson states that
!, he has been in Germany and Sweden,
for treatment for a stomach trouble, and
= has returned for the purpose of paying
all his debts, many of which he has
Strengthened up, and arrangements have
been made for the payment of the rest.
! DR.. Della Jameson, the young and
!. handsome lady physician and druggist
. of Osnabrock, Cavalier county, was ar
!. rested on a bench warrant charging hel
with violating an i%njunctional order
issued by Judge Sauter last month. Al
that time her drug store was closed anc
. che was enjoined from selling any
: liquor on the place. Three parties now
make affidavit that she furnished them
liquor and the arrest followed. Sht
0 gave bonds and the matter will come VI
: court. Considerable interest is aroused
in the case on account of the sex of the
n accused and the outcome will Interest
the entire state.
, It is noted from the Standing Rocl
i reservation that crossings Of the Cannon
g ball and Missouri rivers have beer
It abandoned. Repairs are being made Of
the government telegraph line between
n Yates and Bismarck. Charles Nc
Laughlin has resigned as sub.agent
n Charges have also been preferred t
Agent Blngenheimer against variou
sub-agents and other subordinate Of
r. ficials. Major Bingenheimer gets alon
o we'll, orders no liquor brought to tn
q reservation under penalty of immediat
4 arrest and punishment, and the Indian
appear to be we'll satisfied with hi
management. j. H. Mclaughlin wi
dissolve his partnership with w. {
Y, Parkin and may buy an interest in th
J. Douglass and Mead store.
A correspondent of the Dickey Count
l. Leader writing of the customs of til
70 Russian settlers in that section of th
state, says of the custom regardin
d courtship and marriage: Accompanie
K. by a friend who acts as spokesman, tn
t, groom to be interviews his intende
[e father -in-law, and it he makes a favol
able impression the bargain is conclude
amid the smoking Of innumerable cigal
etts. It is useless to consult the CIR
It as she never thinks of Directing. It
}, customary for each of the contractin
parties to deposit IS, to be forfeited b
the one who fails to carry out the agree
ment, and. as a typical Russian woul,
marry the veriest shrew rather tina
lose half that sum, no case is on recor
when the money has been forfeited.