Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-09-02
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS.
The contract for building the Cath
olic cathedral at Fargo has been let to
Duluth parties for $25 GOO.
Editor Tuttle has finished his tour
of Europe and is back at London
will be home before long.
The street fair in Grand Forks is q
go. and Fargo wants one too. And the.
Morton county state fair will be bigger
and better than ever.
lightning struck Alex Mon agu's
residence at Dickinson, tearing the
house up badly, but iniuring none of
the inmates. A rock pile in the rear
of Frank Kihm's residence was also
struck.
At the democratic and populist legis-
latiye conventions in the Seventh dis.
trict held at Thompson. Hon. Tracy r.
Bangs was nominated for the state
senate, and M. S. Blair of Ojata, and
James McManney of Thompson, for
the house.
The Northern Pacific Beneicent as
sociation, which guards the employees
in sickness and accident, has made
some new announcements that please
the men. 1t now provides artificial
limbs and eyes, supplies crutches and
in case an employe who has been with
the company six years years needs
glasses, these are supplied. Burial
expenses, to the amount of $75, are
also provided.
Theodore Roosevelt, honored in
affairs political and military and with
an excellent chance to become the
| next governor of New York, recently
disposed of the last of his North Da-
kota interests, consisting of fat steers
on the ranges in the western part of
the state, to his range foreman, S. NJ.
Ferris of Medora. But Roosevelt has
an abiding affection for the cattle
ranges, and would have recruited a
company from among the cowboys
had not the demands for place been SO
numerous and insistent in the east and
| south.
LaMoure Chronicle: The best shot
that has been reported since the chick.
en- season opened was made by one OF
a party of LaMoure sports, who went
a-gunning Tuesday. When near a
cook shanty that is attached to Ole
Elison's threshing rig, covey of
chickens few up. One of the Nimrods
singled out a bird that headed direct
ly towards the cook shanty. In front
of the shanty three men were standing
Bang! went the gun and down came
one chicken and three men. The
chicken was dead, and each of the
three men had his hide punctured with
No. & shot.
| At q special meeting of the city
council in Fargo to consider the Shot
we'll shortage, Chairman Stern of the
finance committee said he was tolG
that Mr.. Shotwell had loaned $1,8Ol
to his brother John at the time of th.
bailding of the Columbia hotel, prob
ably 'S7 or 'S8. This was never re
paid. He had also loaned So, 500 o.
So, 600 to other relatives which had no
been returned. In connection will
this latter loan, it is said, that tn,
money was lost in speculation but th'
loser has now agreed to pay it bacl
in sums of $75 each month. Mr.. Sterl
continued his statement that 81 ,20'
was tied up in Eddy's bank and $40
was loaned to Mr.. Hayden. now 0
Minneapolis. While a worthless
check of $500, accepted from Bill.
O'Neill while he was alderman, was
another item. These totaled up 81,
80. The report of the expert showed
Sl4 900, but Shotwell thought the
books would show that the last ST, ,70t
was all right and the books woult
show IL. s4
| There is another furry of excitenen
over the condition of the >Ls.Mour'
county treasury. The Chronicle says
AS appears in the commissioners
proceedings published elsewhere il
this issue, o number Of Edgeley gentle
men who are bondsmen Of Count,
Treasurer A. NJ. Davis, petitioned tft
board at its meeting last Monday tc
release them from the bond.s MIR
Davis asked for a week in which tt
perfect a new bond, and it was decided
to hold up the petition until Sept. lst
when Q new bond would be forthcom
ing. When; the petitioners learned o
the action of the board, they demand
! ed an immediate checking up of tn
accounts and books of the treasurer
!, CONS. French and Jordan were tele
& 3Igraphed for; they arrived Wednesda.
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