Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
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few hours.
Cass county levies $4,000 tax for
the ensuing year.
The crops of wheat in Trail county
Will be less than the average.
Hobos are beginning to thicken up
in the eastern part Of the state.
Buxton is endeavoring to raise
funds to build a farmers elevator.
Hans Malen of Portland, Trail
county, was drowned in the Yukon.
A Masonic lodge was instituted at
Mayville by Past Grand Master Selby.
The Mandan Fair people expect to
have a purse Of $500 for Il free-for-all
trot.
Harry Oliver is engaging in the
sheep business down in Ransom
county.
The addition to the deaf school at
Devils Lake is well along toward conf
pletion.
\. special train with ten carloads of
stock left Braddock the latter part of
last week for Chicago.
The gamblers arrested by the en-
fOrcement league at Grand Forks have
been fined $50 and costs.
About a quarter of the farm crop Of
the state deaf school was DESTROYED
by hail-but it was insured.
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Senator and Mrs. Hansbrough are
visiting at Grand Forks. and n recep-
ton will be rendered them while there.
The Minot Optic thinks an army of
modern grasshoppers are more of a
menace to farmers than all of the
trusts in New Jersey.
The wife and family Of the man
Sturdevant, brought to the pen the
other day for rape, are left destitute
down in Trail county.
Mayville will hold another election
for bonds for water works and cleo
trio light systems. the last one having
been technically illegal.
MAJOR Buttz lost $4,000 by the burn
ing of his barn in Ransom county, but
congratulates himself that he has
1,400 acres of the best grain he ever
raised in the state.
Ringling's circus is said to have lost
lao men, who preferred farm work at
500 a month and harvest wages to
roustabout work with the circus. 4
good many left the show in the Red
River valley.
At Frank Englin's in Mclean
county, during a recent storm, the
house was blown away, and the fam
lily, having taken refuge in the cellar,
were nearly drowned by a swollen
coulee pouring in upon them.
William II. White of Fargo has or
ganiZed a lumber company with a
capital of 100000. and will purchase
the yards Of the Gull River Lumber
Company along the Red river in Min
nesota and North Dakota.
A Casselton grOceryman is suing the
Walter Main circus for the contract
price of some goods ordered by the
show-which did not stop at Casscl-
tOn-changing it's date to Fargo. The
groceryman wants his money just the
same.
The Free Press observes that "thc
Devils Lake pest house has a beau.
tiful location. 1t is situated on a
picturesque hill. studded with weeds
and prairie grass. While below lies oul
beautiful cemetery upon which the
patient can gaze and contemplate"
During the storm of last Friday
night Thomas Black. formerly a keeper
Of a blind swinery at Fessenden. was
blown out of Jail and out of Wells
county. Black assisted the storm III
the work by prying the iron bars of his
cell window and crawling out through
the opening.
The Rev. w. B. Costley, Of Stock
bridge. Ga, while attending to his pas
toral duties at Fleetwood. that state
was attacked by cholera morbus. He
says: "By chance 1 happened to gel
hold of a bottle Of Chamberlain's
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
and l think it vas the NEAR of saving
my life. 1t relieved me at once.'
For sale. by r. S. Beardsley.
The creditors Of the North Dakota
Milling company will very shortly re
ceive a 10 per cent dividend. which
will amount approximately to $11. 800
the amount Of the claims approved
and allowed being about $4,000. H
L. Withheld, the assignee. has about
$4,000 still in his hands which is tiei
up by litigation started by. eastern
parties who think they have preferred
claims. These SHIFTS will ho carriaf