Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-09
STATE NEWS
The Mandan Pioneer is eighteen years

Devils Lake will organize a fire de-
partment.
Mayville is talking of putting in a city
electric light plant.
Congressman johnson left for Wash.
ington Thursday night.
A number of Russian settlers are filing
on land in Emmons county.
Pembina will have a new state bank
with HI. Crandall president.
The seven year old son,of Editor Wei
land of Harvey died of Group.
District courtconvenes at Grand Forks
next week with a heavy calendar.
The state university has opened its
new department, the school of mines.
Sheriff Claus Jackson of Griggs coun-
ty was painfully injured in a runaway.
Tom Rush of Emmons county was
thrown from a wagon and had two ribs
broken.
Several cases of cerebro spinal menin-
gifts are reported from Langdon and
vicinity.
A. L. Lindstrom has purchased the
Cavalier County Republican from D. H.
Mcmillan.
William Donahue has been found
guilty of assault upon a tw~elvc-year-old
girl at Fargo.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, a sister of Sol.
Robinson of Lisbon, was burned to death
at Glare, N. Y.
Hon. Tom Elliott of Ransom county
has received word of the fatal illness of
his mother in Canada.
The Northwestern elevator burned at
Grafton with 1900 to 14,OOO bushels of
wheat and a little flax.
The Morton county %canvassing board
has issued a certificate of election to J..
a. McDougall as senator.
An effort will be made to get the meet
ing Of the National Farmers congress in
North Dakota next year.
County Commissioner Foust OF Nor
ton county has gone to the Brainerd
hospital for medical treatment.
Revenue Collector Mcmillan has dis
posed OF his newspaper and now makes
his headquarters in jamestown.
II. G. Chatfcc Of Cuss county lost iOo
sheep by the breaking Of the lee On
which they were standing to drink.
Henry Stuart, a prominent Cavalier
county farmer was instantly killed by
being run over by run-a way horse.
The action for a receiver for the
Devils Lake Intcr-Occan plant has been
taken under advisemcnt by Judge Nor
gan.
Mary GerauZ, Il girl not yet thirteen
years of age, was abducted from Drny-
ton Nov. Is and has not yet been heard
from.
A collecting agent Of the National Gle
vator was s%andbagged and robbed at
Devils Lake while on the way to his
hotel.
There is a base ball league in the Phil.
ippines and the North Dakota boys have
games scheduled with the other rcgi-
ments.
Charles d. Sterling succeeds Agent
Sheriff as representative Of the Northern
Pacific at Mandan. Hecomes from Nor
ris, MINI.
There is talk of a reception for Captain
Keye at Fargo. where he may NEE
everybody and tell 'cm all about Manil,
and the soldier boys.
The Germania Insurance company ha!
paid $4,000 to the widow of Sheriff cleo
Reid of Billings county, who died of ap
pendicitis a few weeks ago.
Col. John Day Of Oliver county dice
last week after a brief illness. He wa.
one OF the best known residents of the
county and well known along the slope
The Fargo Agricultural college %facuIt,
passed suitable resolutions Of regret up
on the death Of Mrs. w. G.. Langdon
wife Of one of the members Of the college
faculty.
Frank Carruth Of Devils Lake, who's,
little son was drowned in a city watering
trough, and who sued the city for SlO,OOl
offers to settle for 5000 but the council
refuses.
Ole Laatvet of Griggs county dice
suddenly of heart disease. He went GU
after a load of hay and dropped dead a
the stack where he was found by hi
relatives.
Commodore w. X. Mayo of Washing
ton, on the retired list of the United
States navy, was granted a decree of di
vorce by Judge Pollock at Fargo on the
grounds of desertion.
The senatorial situation over in Morton
county is growing critical and now Edi.