Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-08
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Logan county has put a bounty of 81.
on wolves.
v. R. Lowell was elected mayor Of
Casselton.
The new state bank ut Steele is doing
a good business.
Fifteen entries were fled atthe Fargo
land Office in'one day.
The Fargo city campaign is warming
up in the local papers.
Arthur G. Sorlie has been. appointed
postmaster at Buxton.
B. F. Spalding Of Fargo announces
his candidacy for congress.
The Washburn Touring mill had to
shut down for lack of wheat.
jamestown Oddtellows are talking Of
erecting a two story lodge hall.
Mayor Dinnie was elected mayor of
Grand Forks without opposition.
Mayor Johnson's majority in Fargo
was double that OF two years ago.
Nearly a hundred homesteads have
been filed in Stutsman county the past
year.
Judge Amidon has called a special
term Of the United States court for
May 5.
Michael Feist Of Mcintosh county
lost six of eight children with diph-
iberia.
The election at Valley City was a VIC
tory for the 'sdrys'' including Editor
Dunlap.
1t is stated there is a prospect of the
foreclosure Of 500, 1000 of bonds Of the
city of Steele.
The Dickinson Press says the Man
dan machine shops will be closed on the
first day of May.
The Walter A. Wood machinery ware
house was destroyed at Fargo, entailing
a loss of about $4,000.
The contract for the ferry at Winona
will be let by the commissioners of
Emmons county next week.
The treasurer of Griggs county has
paid off $4,000 of seed grain bonds a
year before they were due.
The city OF Fargo has offered a new
Worthington water works pump with q
capacity of 100000 gallons.
The report of the enforcement league
y that Editor Motfet was :s.introduced
and enthusiastically received"
Fort Yates regrets the approaching
departure of Captain Hickey, who has
been detailed for service at Peru.
A. A. Berg, formerly a prominent
young business man at Grand Forkt
died at the insane hospital at James
town.
Editor Gushing of the Langdon Re
publican will organize q company o.
young boys and instruct them in mill
tary
The secretary of the interior has ap
proved for patent to the Northern Pa
,cifc $50 acres of land in the Fargo ant
J Bismarck land districts.
1t is reported several Russian citizens
of Logan county have taken homestead
there and then gone to Wells count.
and taken up others under assumed
amss
Augustus Baker, the rapist at Farg'
who was convicted of assault upon hi
1O.year-old daughter was sentenced b,
Judge Pollock to fifteen years in tn
state ~penitentiary.
Captain Frank Allen of the Lisbol
battery has received orders from tn
adjutant general to be ready to move
as in case of wal that would probabl,
be the first military organization in tn
state to be called on,
Valley City is having a hot municipa
campaign, and former Mayor Dobbi1
comes to the front with an offer of $40
if he cannot prove that Editor DUNLAP
got 800 from the blind pig element a
one time for keeping mum
Representative johnson has filed
batch of recommendations for the ap
pointment of fourth-class postmaster
in North Dakota, as follows: M. I
Keepner at New Rockford, Eddy county
S. M. O'Neil at Stanton, Mercer county
John Michigan at Woods, Cass county
and Charley w. King at Crystal
Pembina county.
The officers elected by the enforce
ment league are: President, Franz
Lynch, Casselton; secretary, A. Lindelie
Grand Forks; treasurer, j. NJ. Rowe
Lisbon; executive committee, F. Lynch
A. Lindelie, j. NJ. Rowe, A. Haugen, j
NJ. Wylie, R. B. Griffith, Grand Forks
r.. M. Potter, Casselton; A. 9. Rankin