Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-09-08

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for Sept. 4.
The new jamestown artesian we'll is
down over 1,4OO feet.
No one ever heard of the kissing bug
until Hobson's tour of the country.
Over sixty men have entered the vol
unteer service in Fargo since Aug. l.
The body of Corporal Davis has been
shipped from San Francisco to Dickin-
son.
The Forum can eliminate the last two
words, "pay, too"-they are not on the
Company A badge.
A couple of elevators-the Johns and
Andrew & Gage--burned in Darlington
Saturday evening.
The Mercer County Mercantile Co. is
the name of a new store at Mannhaven
John B~loodgood, general manager.
The first new wheat marketed
from Leeds was raised by William Pet
erson-sown, grown, harvested, threshed
and sold in ITO days.
Grand Forks has added a lodge of
Knights of Malta to it's long list of fra
ternal societies. The instituting officers
came up from st. Paul.
The Recorder, published by Ralph w.
Simpkins and edited by Mrs. Clyde
Brown, at Knox, up in Benson county,
is a newsy and we'll printed weekly.
An exchange says: H. V. Smith, of
Williston, ferried 1900 sheep across the
Missouri, taking them one at a time in a
small skif. Pretty good sheep story.
Prof. Warren,a new instructor at the
Agricultural college, has arrived from
Michigan. He will have charge of the
steam engineering department and will
assist in the mathematics class.
Celia Anderson, a Fargo domestic,
made an unsuccessful attempt on her
life Saturday. Two shots were fired.
She was betrayed a couple of years ago
by a school teacher out west"
The Kuhn Messenger notes the arri-
val of Judge Young, of the supreme
bench, and Mr.. George Lancy. They
will form a company for the purpose OF
stocking the Railson ranch with cattle.
Tho work of threshing at the Agricul.
tural college is finished. The different
grades and kinds of wheat we're threshed
separately and some interesting figures
will be given to the public in a short
time.
Hon. Judson LaMoure heads the list
of contributors to the fund to erect
a monument to the memory of William
G.. Lamb, First Regiment, North Dakota
volunteers, killed in battle April Is
1899, at Manila.
Judge Winchester has sent to ever,
part of the district for the status of the
badge sales so he can communicate with
the other districts, that it may be deter.
mined how much of the money neces.
sary to bring the boys home has already
been raised.
Col. Lounsberry: I came from Turtle
mountains. The wheat crop-of the In
dams especially--is exceptionally fine
In going through their harvest fields, we
had to select places where we could pass
between shocks-the wheat shocks were
SO numerous.
The Devils Lake Inter Ocean remark
ed that "there was some talk of Twitch
ell for governor in Cass county" and The
Ransom County Gazette is mean enough
to add that "Cass county is abou,
Twitchell's size-for governor" Twitch
ell made a record in the legislature jus,
the same.
Fred bennett, proprietor of the Milton
Globe and private secretary to Senator
Hansbrough, has returned from a tri.
abroad and is now spending a few week!
in the state. Mr.. bennett is one of thu
most popular attaches of the United
States senate, and through his energy
about the departments much has beer
accomplished for North Dakota.
Pembina has just lost an old land
mark: It was a log house, built in 1872
by H. R. Vaughan, who gave s25(
for the two lots on which it stood
Vaughan sold it for $3.50 in 1876 to Emf
Wendt, now of Walhalla. Wendt sold il
to w. j. K%neeshaw, who began house
keeping in it in 1878, when it was ION
of the most desirable residences in the
city,"
jamestown Alert: Judge Glaspel
decided a tax case Of Importance tc
LaMOure county and of great interest,"
to the holders of certain tax certiti.
Gates in the state. 1t was the case
Of Payne VS.. LaMoure county. Tho
court sustains the demurrer of the
county's attorney and orders the com
plant dismissed with judgment fol-
costs of the suit. The east will bt
appealed to the supreme court. 1t is
understood that the amount involved
which the plaintiff is endeavoring tt
have the county refund is about $225,.