Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-23
warmly congratulates the college and its

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On June 9th there will be races at ST
Thomas with "a minute trot or pace: a
2:35 trot or pace; free-for-all trot or pace
for $3.50 and. 5000 purses.
Next week will be Masonic week at
Fargo. The Grand Lodge meets Tues
day, the Grand Chapter Thursday, and
the Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star
on Friday.
At the request of the school board
the Masonic Lodge have consented to
otfciate at tho laying of the corner stone
of the new high school at Lakota on the
Goth of June.
The annual convention of the Sargent
county w. G. I. U. will be held at
Havana commencing June % and con-
tinuing three days. State President
Preston is expected to be present.
James Ryan was convicted at Valley
City for grand larceny, and Robert
Fluke, former member of the Salvation
Army, was convicted of burglary. Nuke
broke jail last March and will get an
extra year for his trouble.
A committee of business men has been
appointed to take the necessary steps to
incorporate Dickinson as a village. The
town has a population of 1900 and has
v had any organization of any kind
other than that afforded by the county.
Sheriff J. D.. Carroll brought four In
dams to New Rockford, having caught
them robbing ducks nests out in the
neighborhood of his ranch on Lake
Washington. They had in their posses
sion at the time about three bushels of
eggs and young ducks. They got ten
days.
At Devils Lake William Walden,
charged with burglary, changed his plea
of not guilty to guilty and was sentenced
to spend six months in the Ramsey
county jail. Owing to the confession of
Walden, two other defendants, Cassidy
and Mccoy, were exonerated and dis
charged.
During a hail storm north of Cassel-
ton Frank Jones was holding the bits of
a team attached to a harrow. A horse
reared and struck him with his fore feet
knocking him down, the drag went ovcr
him. Although rolled over three or four
times none of the teeth struck him and
he escaped unhurt.
Cogswell is to have a gopher tail celc-
bration juno %. The county bounty of
2 cents a tail makes the fickers a cur
rent medium of exchange and all purses
and entries are to be paid in gopher tails.
The purse for the trotting race is 4,OOC
tails: for the ball game 1000 tails, and
tickets for the ball in the evening are
worth 36 tails.
The class of 80 of the state university
graduating this week includes twenty.
three students, the largest number o.
any class in the history Of the institu
ton. The commencement orations were
delivered by three graduates from the
normal department, the Misses Fergu
son, Campbell and Ferring, and by
Messrs. Mcdonald, Duggan and McLair
from the department of arts.
At the open meeting of the superior
lodge, Degree of Honor, Of the A. o. U
W., at indianapolis, Mrs. Kate Blewet
of jamestown, presented the banner
offered by the superior lodge to the state
showing the largest number of new
lodges instituted since January 1. The
banner went to the jurisdiction of Min
n~esota, where seventeen new lodges o
the Degree of Honor have been organ
lied.
Oliver Dalrymple, the veteran Cassel
ton wheat grower, says the present out
look is for quite as big a crop of spring
wheat in the northwest as last year, but
that the government reports, indication
of condition Of winter wheat about two
thirds of the normal, fails to take into
account a considerable quantity Of win
ter wheat acreage that was winter killed
hence the northwest will have to bt
looked to for the surplus.
The management of the Valley Cit,
state normal school at the session JUS
closed selected the following faculty fol
the ensuing year: George Mcfarland
principal; Laura L. Perriene, natura
sciences; Seth Harvey, mathematics
Jessie G. Harris, Latin; Frank P. Back
man, history and %civics; Mary Huguin
critic teacher; James J. Snoddy, litera
ture and English; Fanny G. Amidon
singing and elecution; Katie Burke
piano. Miss Amidon is the sister o
| Judge Amidon of the United State,