Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-11-24

worked the people up to a state of in
tense Indignation.
Dickinson village trustees have
ut $25 Il month.
Congressman Spalding and family
have reached Washington and are at
home thee on North Carolina avenue.
G. H. Garnett /, of st. Thomas
searched for Il leak in an acetylene
gas plant with a lighted match. He
found it. He is recovering.
Manager Hughes tells the Forum
that the machinery of his electric light
plant was stopped but six minutes dur
ing the past year-a good record.
L. H. Bratton has purchased the plant
of the York Ledger and has moved
the same to Knox, Benson county. He
has begun the publication of the Knox
Advocate.
Dickinson Recorder: Nearly all the
stock has been taken up for the electric
light plant. and in Il week or so work
will be commenced and by the OPEN
ing of the new year Dickinson will be
lighted by electricity.
4 section of Cass county land re-
Gently sold for $17,92O. all cash, or $2S
an acre. Inc owner. tWenty-fOur
years ago, settled on the land. and
bought several other pieces with \. p.
bonds after Jay Cookies failure. There
is no reason why Iowa land should
sell for pot to $75 an acre and not such
soil as that of the Red River valley.
A six-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Josephson, living about
nine miles northwest Of Lakota, died
Il horrible death from burning. 1t
seems the deceased and an older sister
set fire to some prairie grass and the
little girls clothing caught fire and
before she could be rescued the cloth
ing was all burned and her body hor-
ribly charred.
Wahpeton Globe: Cautain Purdon
has receied news of the death of Pri-
vate Waterman, a member Of Com
pany l, First North Dakota volunteers,
which occurred at. Nagasaki. Japan
Waterman was i'll when the regiment
left Manila, and he was left in the
hospital at Nagasaki, where It was
hoped that he might recover. Water.
man was a stranger in Wahpeton, only
arriving here a day'Or two before Com.
pany I left for the rendezvous al
Fargo.
Last December, St. George Kemp
son, a leading business man of Peril
Amboy, N. J. separated from his wife
over trouble growing out of Kempson's
fondness for his typewriter and aman'
uensis. Annie Daniels. He went Il,
once to Fargo, and after staying the
statutory time applied for and secured
a divorce. Returning home he welded
Miss Daniels about a month ago. New
Jersey courts do not recognize Nortl
Dakota divorces and KempsOn has
had to take his new wife and live il
New York for fear of arrest. The
business in Perth Amboy is managed
by third parties, Kempson directing
at long range.
Langdon Republican: Last weel
Walter Sadelmeyer threshed thirt.
acres of flax west of Storlie postotticl
which yielded $50 bushels, or % bush
els to the acre, which is worth ST. 0!
per bushel. That would give hin
1923. so per acre and by allowing $:
per acre for discing. SO cents for seed
ing, Is cents for cutting and Is cent
per bushel for threshing it will leav'
him a net profit of S1S.43. \ neigh
Dor Of his also threshed 615 bushel!
from the same amount Of ground. Thi
flax was all put in after all the othe
crops were sown last summer. Prob
ably some Of the so-called more fav
Ored sections of the earth can make
better showing, if so, let us hear iron
you.
Abercrombie Herald: Charlie
Schenck of Mansion was over Wednes
day and relates a strange but interest
ing story of an eagle and a house cal
They We're both found dead in a plowe'
field about a foot apart, evldentl,
where they had fallen after the deadl,
encounter. The eagles throat wa
cut and the cat. was badly l~acerates
by the eagle talons and showed tn
effects of a terrible struggle. The ca
was a small one, but the eagle was on
of the largest Of it's kind. 1t meas
ured seven feet and six inches from ii
to tip Of wings. The superstition !
that the eagle had swooped to tn