Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-15
STATE NEWS.

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Editor futile starts on his European
trip next week.
A cheese factory has opened for bust
ness at Cakes.
Hugh Thompson was elected mayor of
East Grand Forks.
A live stock show and county fair is
being agitated at Dickinson.
May V. Duncansonh has been appointed
postmaster at Fort Berthold.
Joseph Deschenes defeated William
Smith for the mayoralty at Grafton.
Mrs. P. s. Brubaker, one of the we'll
known ladies of Fargo, died yesterday.
Father Craft, an eccentric priest has
been ordered off the reservation at
Yates.
J.. P. Reeder was elected mayor at
Wahpeton and H. A. Libby at Park
River.
Down at Fargo they are figuring ont
how the election happened to happen as
it did.
The Mandan Fair association has
formulated it's race program for next
falls fair.
The Washburn Leader appears to be
for Major Edwards for war governor of
the state.
Prairie fire destroyed the entire farm
property of Albert Ellis near jamestown
No insurance.
w. R.. Fitzpatrick of Richmond, Ill,
has been engaged as principal of the
Mandan schools.
H. H. Raymond has been mentioned"
down at Dawson as a candidate for the
next legislature.
Grand Forks county will tax parson-
ages that are rented and made a source
of profit tc the church.
H. F. Beckett writes from Klondike to
his wife at Dickinson that he has been
offered $4,000 for his claim.
The Stark county boundary case has
been appealed to the supreme court by
the opponents of the measure.
The new ward buildings will not be
built at the jamestown asylum this
years. The sale of the bonds is off.
1t is stated there will be no base ball
league in the Red river valley this year.
The fans will have to be satisfied with
amateur ball.
It is reported 10Y that Landlord Viles
of Casselton, who has mysteriously dis
appeared, left several hundred dollars
worth of bad bills.
G. G. Thomas received a fractured
arm and a confusion of the head in an
encounter with S. Carson over a tree
claim in Stutsman county.
Norman Markuson is at Valley City,
his bail bond having been given by par
ties there. He will remain there until
his case has been decided by the .su-
preme court of the United States.
1t is reported that De Wolf Hopper,
the we'll known stage artist, has taken
up a legal residence at Fargo in order to
apply for a divorce and forestall his
wife, who will apply at San Francisco
for a separation.
The hearing of the railroad rate case
has been resumed at st. Paul and At
torney General Cowan's cross examina-
ton of Comptroller Gray of the North
ern Pacific is on. The reports say the
attorney general has on Unsuitable desire
for statistics, and is keeping Gray busy
furnishing figures for the business of
the road being done in North Dakota.
The cross examination is very thorough.
Harvey Advertiser: Miss Rilla Johns
who claims the destination of being the
proud possessor of 100 acres of the finest
Wells county soil in this imperial COM
monwealth made our editorial sanctum
a pleasant call Wednesday and informed
us that she had just completed ar
rangements whereby she would erect
new large and commodious buildings on
her farm at once. Miss Johns is one
Of the typical North Dakota ladies who
by her energy and pluck have acquired
title to her share of Uncle Sans do
main.
A Valley City telegram says: Col. A.
P. Peake of the North Dakota militia
returned today from a hasty trip east.
1t is expected that Col. Peake comes
charged with instructions to recruit the
militia to it's full quota. In case Of
being called Maj. Frank P. White and
Col. John D. Black, formerly on Gen.
Miles staff, expect to raise regiments.
Officers here scout the idea of the
militia not being liable for duty by the
order of the president outside the United
States. Every man signifies his willing
ness to go to Cuba if ordered. Com
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