Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-01-28
NEWS.

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at Mandan.
Mte. Alsop, wife Of bookkeeper Alsop
Of the Argus, died'at Fargo.
There is a returned Klondiker in
Fargo. He is in the county Jail.
Fessenden is to have a creamery
operated on the cooperative plan.
The trial Of the Miller swindiing case
is attracting a good deal Of attention at
Fargo.
Three brothers Greebe were arrested.
and Jailed at Rugby for operating a
blind pig.
George "A. Bangs and Ledru Guthrie
have formed a legal partnership at
Grand Forks.
A number of farmers of Morton
county propose to build a custom grist
mill at Mandan.
One blind pigger has been convicted
in Ramsey county and there are fifteen
more to be tried.
Another Klondike company is beng
organized at Pembina with J. d. Tren-
holme in charge.
Several buildings are being erected at
Lakota, carpenters working barehanded,
just like summer
Dickinson women are moving toward
the establishment of a free reading room
and public library.
Col. A. P. Peake of Valley City has
purchased a part interest in the Lehigh
coal mines at Dickinson.
United States court clerk Montgom-
cry is in Washington settling up his ac-
counts with the government.
Harvey Randall, a Cavalier county
farmer, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with a rife.
Charles Elquist fell from a bridge at
Grand FORKS, broke his leg and then
died at the hospital of delirium tremens.
Two Of the little children of Mrs Au-
gust Tromer have been adopted by kind
hearted residents of Barnes county and
will find good homes.
The auditor of Stutsman county esti-
mates that the expense of the Villers
trial will be $1,000. Murder trials are
an expensive luxury.
The Yankton papers report the death
of Mart Coulson, a brother of Com
modore Coulson, and we'll known up and
down the Missouri river.
All persons having claims against
Stuisman county and owing tax judy
ments will have the amount of the
claims applied on the judgments.
Major Edwards has joined the colony
in Washington again, and says he is
there to resume old friendships, but
wouldn't mind a little job of some kind.
B. H. Engelund, auditor of Day
county, s. D., committed suicide at the
Columbia hotel at Moorhead by shoot
ing himself through the head with a re-
volver.
Junk dealers are Offering to exchange
groceries for old iron, copper and other
articles of the kind, and have five solicit
tors at work in the central part of the
state.
Captain Ingraham offers to build a
$4,000 hotel at Grafton if the city will
give him a site and free light and
water for five years. The city is badly
in need of a hotel.
Many eastern farmers are coming to
the state to take advantage of free land
and good farms. Stutsman county ex-
poets to get forty families from Ne
braka in the spring.
Attorney General Cowan conducted
the prosecution of a blind pigger at
Devils Lake, and the man, Peter
Reader, was convicted. There are sew
eral other cases to be tried.
The Fargo city council has decidedt to
sue the Northern Pacific road for sc, OO0
damages, caused by the high water OF
last spring, which backed up from some
of the property Of the company.
The members of the Grand Forks
mining company have left in a special
car bound for Edmonton, whence they
will make an overland trip to a point
1000 miles south of Dawson City.
A Stutsman county man has just
been dismissed by Judge Glaspell from
a charge of stealing his own horse,
Some one stole the horse from him and
he found out where it was, watched his
chance andran it off again.
One of the soldiers who went west in
the big strike 0 f1S94i is suing the North
ern Pacific for $500 at st. Paul. He wat
guarding a bridge, when a train came
along, and to save himself he lay down
on the ties, the train running over ont
hand.