Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-07
State NEwS

Leeds is raising a bonus for a flour
mill.
Did you start to date your letter June
today?
Darlington is talking about incorpor-
ating, SO as to get fire protection.
Private Gray gets his discharge from
the hospital corps at Fort Yates.
The first grand jury ever drawn in
Pierce county wa convened at Rugby
on June 25.
A juvenile military company is to be
organized by the Herald at Grand Forks,
and to be known as the Herald Guards,
Some damage to buildings by Friday
mornings wind storm is reported from
Churchs Ferry, Bathgate and st. Vim
cent.
The acting Indian commissioner has
authorized the construction of a new
warehouse at Fort Totten at a cost of
800.
Peter Friskop was suddenly stricken
with apoplexy at Minor while reading
a book. The title Of the book is not
stated. /,
Miss Angie Gibson, who was appointed
by Governor Fancher to represent North
Dakota at Oreade Institute at Worcester,
Mass, graduated Wednesday.
w. a. Knerr of Fargo, engaged Attor-
ney Pierce to conduct a case for him in
justices court, and then wanted the
justice to have Pierce sworn to conduct
the case properly.
The date of the annual ~conclave OF the
Grand Commandery has been set for
Friday, July Z, at Devils Lake, at high
twelve, in the asylum of Cyrene Com
The employees of the the Grand Forks
Herald rendered Editor Winship a com
plimentary banquet Tuesday night at
the Hotel Dacotah-in honor of the
Herald's twentieth anniversary.
Judge Glaspell has adjourned court at
Cooperstown. Edward Kelly, the N. p.
depot till Taper was sentenced to two
years: George Hart got two years fol
grand larceny. Horace Scott, the man
convicted of forging a letter of credit on
a Mayville bank for 81, $50 was sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary.
At Devils Lake John Nimmo's two
little boys were sitting in the buggy and
the little girl was trying to climb in
when the horses started to run. Fol
several blocks the girl chung to the seat
on the outside between the two wheels
and was found to be only slightly bruised
when the team was finally stopped.
DR.. L. E. Benson, who left Valley Cit,
about a year and a half ago, on account
of domestic infelicity it is said, and went
away to the Klondike, last week sent
back to his friends $50 packages of gold
from Dawson City. This is the first
heard Of MIN for six months. He and
his party are reported doing fairly we'll
j. F. Carver aud H. S. Elwell of North.
ern Ohio, who have been looking ovel
the country since March last, are greatly
pleased with the outlook, and may take
up land or buy a farm. Mr.. Carver has
friends o. relatives in jamestown and
and New Rockford, and Mr.. Elwell in
Kidder county, where they have beer
looking over land.
Bugler Louie Clark of Co. G, First
North Dakota, son of Editor Clark Of
the Valley City Advocate, writes his
father from Balinag, May IL, giving .
good description of the march OF The
Dakotans northward, and interesting
personal references to the members 81
his company. Louie is the shortest maj
il, the ~regiment-but is always on deck
The fakirs with Sands & Astley's circus
cleaned up over 5000 at Tower City Tues
day. Many foxy old timers were caught
One old gentleman who lost on a shell
game a few years ago, decided to try his
luck once more and subscribed $50.
Bismarck seems to have been about
the only place in the state, so far as re-
ported, where the authorities protected
the people against these sure thing
games.
In a divorce case at Cooperstown there
was quite a laugh created in court by an
answer of the plaintiff to a question Of
her attorney. The fair witness told g
narrowing tale of how her husband had
assaulted her, striking her and finally
putting her out doors telling her ito 60
to the devil" Her attorney anxious tc
bring out all the facts asked, land where
did you 60 then?' The plaintiff quickly
answered, II came straight to Coopers