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

Courtenay people are after the blind
piggers and two OF three have been
arrested this week and placed under
bonds.
AT 4 special election at Hillsboro
$z4,OOO worth of bonds were voted Tor
the putting in OIL water works and an
electric light system.
Dan MaXon shot Lou Eaton in a
quarrel at Devils Lake. MaXon is old
and crippled and claims he did the
shooting in self defense. Eaton's in
juries are not serious.
Tho November Germ Of the United
States cour at Grand Forks has been
adjourned until March next. there
being few cases to be tried and none
OIL them of great Importance.
A. Crazy, Ramsey county, Miller &
Giles safe was burglarized ut an early
hour Sunday morning. The thieves
secured nearly $500. and a couple of
suspects are being followed now.
Congressman and Mrs. Spalding
have left Fargo for Washington, where
the congressman will prepare for his
first term of congress-. Private Sec
rotary Il. NJ. Warren of LaMoure will
follow in Il few days.
Mrs. Krouse of Oliver county has
been taken to Tie asylum at James
town. She is ,ne first patient taken
from that county to the asylum. She
has five children all under fifteen years
of age and the case is a sad one
The next session of the grain grow
.ers of the northwest will he held at
Fargo January % to -. Many prom
inent speakers are expected to address
the meeting. The annual meeting Of
the national flax and hemp association
will also be held in Fargo in December.
The jury in the rape case against
Eugene Andrews of Casselton tried at
Fargo found /" verdict of guilty Of rape
in the second degree, the minimum
penalty for which is five years impris-
onment. The case was an interesting
one, the plaintiff being a white girl,
and the defendant a burly negro. who
claimed the girl admitted him to her
room.
Fargo Call: ~ leaks out, now. that
deception was practiced by the eleven
stubborn jurymen who stood out
against Captain Scott of the Salvation
Army in the Andrews rape case. After
all other methods had failed and the
eleven had about determined that con-
victiOn was impossible, an idea struck
, one Of the jurymen, and he sent for a
big bass drum. On it's arrival the
eleven STUBBORN fellows fell in line be-
hind the big drum and began to sing
"You Must Be a Lover of the Lord"
is they marched around the room. That
was too much for Cap-and he fell in
line. And Andrews was found guilty.
The new towns on the extension of
the railroad to McHenry are beginning
to do business. Lord, the first sta
ton north from Cooperstown foul
miles, has IN elevator and loading
platform and is a great convenience
to the farmers. Jesse, eight miles
nort4., has three elevators, hotel. lum-
Der yard and general store. Binford
nine miles from Jesse, has two ele.
vators, general store, hardware store
two lumber yards, restaurant. etc.
while the terminal town of McHenry
Slows up with two elevators, two
general stores, two hotels, two lumber
yards, two livery barns, a newspaper
and several other business lines ii
prospect.
1t will be remembered that Linas A
Cults, a N old man SO years of age
committed suicide Mt Larimore, by
cutting the large artery in his thigh
and slowly bleeding to death. Thi.
was on Nov.S. The report of the cor.
oner's jury was not made public unit
a day or SO ago. and the findings wert
of such a character as to cause mucl
Indignation and surprise, and inter
esting developments are looked for
The report Of the jury shows that tn.
old man brooded over the fact that h,
had loaned all the money he had. thus
being left penniless and destitute. T.
add to his troubles the promissor!
note given for such a loan, which ii,
kept in his trunk, suddenly disap
peared. 1t is said that he has Deel
abused and maltreated since July
1898. The report of the Jury ha'