Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-10-14

and. that it will yield 10 bushels to the
acre is quite within conservative lines.
The losses Of the Alliance Hail Insur-
ancer company arc about $4,000 for the
current year. The company has done a
large business the past summer, how
ever, and is in good financial condition.
EARLY Wednesday morning at Caring
ton the livery barn Of z. w. Becker was
destroyed by fire with all contents, in
Guiding nine horses, vehicles, harness,
etc. Total loss, about $1,000; Insurance.
900.
James McQuary who for many years
has run q Northern Pacific passenger
engine from Mandan to Dickinson, has
been appointed travelling engineer for
the first district being from st. Paul to
Mandan.
The cnterprising Stutsman county
town Of Courtenay expects to market
nearly 10000 bushels Of wheat and flax
this year. Up to last week the receipts
had reached 1854 600 bushels while in all
of last year the receipts were only 2OO,-
600.
A young farmer living in Barnes
county left home recently accompanied
by his mortgaged property, and on being
brought back and Investigated, was
found to have given eighteen first mort
cages on his horses and sixteen on the
crop.
The hearing Of the Eddy county case
which involves the right of the boiling
republican ticket to a place on the bal
lot has been postponed until October II,
when Judge Glaspell has other court
business to attend to at Darlington.
It is said that the Indians on the Fl,
Totteu reservation are facing the ap-
preaching winter in a practically desti-
tute condition. Their crop was little
better than a failure, being small in
yield and part of that went to the
gophers.
jamestown Alert: The result of
Roadmaster Daily's 400 acre wheat crop
this fall was a yield Of $500 bushels.
This spring he bought for 5000, three
quarters Of land of H. Anderson. This
included the improvements, 400 acres in
wheat, stock and farm outfit, the owner
disposing of the same on account of his
wife's health. Nj. Daily has secured
the services of Mr.. James Butts and
family as residents and to look after
farm work. The wheat will not be sold
at present prices.
jamestown Capital; Recently one OF
the largest and heaviest trains ever
pulled into this city arrived from New
Rockford where it originated. It con
sisted of fifty-eight loads, all but one
of which was wheat. The net tonnage
of the train was 1,O11 and there were
very nearly $1,000 bushels of wheat in
the train. The grain was worth nearly
$4,000 and the freight charges to the
head of the lakes were close to $4,000.
This is a sample of the wealth product
of the James River valley.
The Chicago Record chronicles the
heroic work of E. E. Kelley of Caring
ton at Manila, in verse, and says: Five
hundred or more operators in the main
office of the Western Union Telegraph
company are talking between clicks Of
big Kelley's' exploit at the storming Of
Manila. "Big Kelley" was formerly a
member Of the force and resigned his
position with the company to enlist in q
North Dakota regiment. At San Fran.
cisco he was transferred to the signal
corps and sent with Gen. Merritt's army
to Manila. He is a man Of stalwart pro-
portions, standing nearly seven feet
high in his boots.