Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-02
Lorin and Campbell has a major.

Rev. E. E. Wiley is preehing at Lis
bon, after his campaign duties.
The long distance telephone line has
been completed to jamestown.
DR.. A. +. Elliott of Milton is already
out as candidate for district veterinarian.
The jamestown Alert has good words
for Hon. Tom Marshall as a senatorial
candidate.
The Northern Pacific is building a
$4,000 reservoir west of Dickinson for
good water.
Official returns from Wells county
show republican majorities ranging
from $50 to 500.
Fessenden is a lively town. Fifty
four travelling statesmen registered at one
hotel there in one week.
Will "msport, the former county seat
of Emu. " County, will be practically a
deserted vii. ext year.
Editor Nye has uporary possession
of the Devils Lake Inter- Ocean and
seems to be for johnson for senator.
The Griggs Courier wants the divorce
law and the Mandan fair appropriation
repealed as soon as the legislature meets.
Fargo will adopt an ordinance for tho
protection and relief of volunteer fire.
hen, if injured in the service OF the
city.
Dan Maxom Of Devils Lake was
thrown off a water wagon and run over
and died the following day from his in
juries.
The official returns from the Thirtieth
district give McDougall an apparent
majority of IS over Green for state
senator.
Representatives ELECT Dwire of Ran
som county knows who did it, and sends
a Thanksgiving turkey and goose to the
editor Of the Gazette.
Guy j. DeFrance contests the election
of Jno. Riessbeck as county auditor of
Stark county on tbs grounds that one of
the judges of election was a candidate
for office.
Candidate McCumber says Congress
man Johnson will have an unpleasant
awakening when he gets the sheep and
the goats separated from his list Of
pledged members.
James Collins, the republican candi-
date-for sheriff of Grand Forks county
received the largest majority of any
county officer in the state, having 1903
over his fusion opponent.
The Stutsman county delegation to
the legislature is getting acquainted
with the senatorial candidates, with Nc
Cumber, johnson and Marshall all in
jamestown at the same time.
The body OF Editor Fairchild of the
Drayton Echo was recovered from the
Red river by means of a horse rake that
was dragged back and forth across the
river. 1t was found125 feet below where
he fell into the river and indicated he
had made a big struggle for life, tearing
open his overcoat and partly removing
one skate.
Justice in Wells county seems a little
mixed. One Hale had a trio of gambler.
arrested for fleeing him. The gamblers
bribed Hale with $40 not to appear
against them. When the case came up
the trio were discharged, but the states
attorney wanted to prosecute some one,
SO had Hale arrested and bound over to
the district court on the charge of re.
ceiving a bride.
w. s. O'Brien of Minot has been &C
quilted of the charge of murder at Minot
after a three days trial. O'Brien was
the agent of the Great Northern road,
and was calling at the residence Of one
Hoffman when the latter came home in
toxicated and assaulted O'Brien with a
knife. The latter shot him in the leg,
severing the femoral artery, and Hotf-
man bled to death. Sympathy was gen.
orally with O'Brien.
Fargo Forum: It has been unof;ci.
ally stated that Judge Carland's opinion
in the South Dakota rate case was not
published in the Federal Reporter-the
reason given being-"the judge was
ashamed of it." A letter from Judge
Garland in reference thereto says-"it
any person says that I ever, in or out Of
court, either directly or indirectly con
fessed that my opinion in the rate case
was erroneous in any particular, I here
and now say-that he lies. If the same
case was before me now-on the same
showing-my decision would be the
same" Put that in your pipe and smoke
it.
The Sioux Indians on the Fl. Totter
reservation had a meeting in the hall Al
Fl. Totten on the 18th for the purpose