Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
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lost four children by the prevailing dis
ease.
Albert f.. Hill has been appointed
postmaster at Cando.
The Fargo Argus still appears to nave
it in for the divorce colony at Mandan.
Devils Lake expects to have electric
lights in running order in a couple If
weeks.
Editor Walker Of the Stanton pilot
has left Stanton with his family for
Virginia. 81
g. A. Lytle has entered q plea of guilty
of forgery at Hillsboro. Sentence is de-
ferred till March 10.
O.P. Gaustad has resigned his posi-
ton as city auditor of Hillsboro and
deputy sheriff in order to go to Alaska.
Among the prominent people now on
the east coast of Florida from North
Dakota are State Treasurer and Mrs. G.
E. Nichols and MI. and Mrs. j. w.
Smith of Fargo.
Land Commissioner Watts loss in the
fire at Bathgate is placed at s25, 900 with
about half that amount in insurance.
The blaze started in some waste papers
in Watts store.
Druggist Coulter has reopened his
drug store at Dawson, and it is stated
the prohibs have dropped the case
against him, and it appears hat it was
the result of personal prejudice rather
than justice.
Peterson, the man who murdered DR..
Young at Buffalo a couple of years ago
has been discharged from the asylum as
cured. Young was murdered with an
Indian club, his head being crushed out
of all recognition.
The Alert says Margaret Mather, the
actress, is a property owner in Burton
in Stutsman county, and has delinquent
taxes for the years 1892, '93 and '94 to
the amount of 81 49,, almost the price of
!, four parquette seats.
Henry DeMars a Steele county
prisoner, who has been in the county
: jail at Hillsboro for some time, has
lately made several attempts to commit
! suicide. His first effort to shuttle of
/ this mortal coil was by drinking a
quantity of kerosene and eating the
business end of some matches.
Gus A. Sylte, who up to a short time
ago resided at Hillsboro, and who re
Gently forged the name of two brothers
y of that town to notes aggregating nearly
5000 and then sold them to Carmody
8 Leslie and the First National bank, wal
arrested at Eau Clair, Wis, and will b.
b brought back to Hillsboro to stand trial
J 1t is reported from Darlington, that
syndicate allied with the Great North
ern railway has purchased the franchis,
of the Valley City and Turtle Mountain
It railroad surveyed in 1871, but the build
ing of which was abandoned by tn
t. failure of j. Cook g. Co., in 1873.
d few miles of this system was graded
from Valley City and IS partly ironed.
~ There will be large additions to tn
. Dunkard settlements in the Red Rive
valley and the Turtle Mountain regio
a of this state in the early spring. Th
" Great Northern has already arranged t
!, run three special trains from st. Par
"a to accommodate th.m. The present ii
dications are that the new settlers wi
number over 1900 people. This is large
than the movement last year, whe
5. about 1,50O settled in northern Dakot,
Pembina Pioneer Express: A littl
: while ago Alex Mckenzie was badly il
. jured by an elevator in New York and
- still compelled to go on crutches. No
- news. comes from California that ca
/" Robinson of Mayville was injured
getting on Il street car, by wrenchin
the muscles of his knee so that he ma
always be crippled. Both of thes
K, gentlemen are prominent in North D;
to kota politics, though we do not thin
70 that had anything to do with their r.
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