Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-04-28
STATE NEwS

Fargo has organized a golf club and
will have links.
Thousands of head of young cattle
are being shipped into the state.
1t is reported that H. G. Delaney, the
big stockman, will build a $4,000 res
idence in Fargo.
The railroads have granted special
rates for the Fargo fire festival from
points as far west as jamestown.
An Iowa stockman was in search of
5000 acres of land in one tract in La
Moure county but vas unable to find
it.
The foundation for the state indus
trial school at Glendale has been COM
pleted. and the school will be opened
this fall.
The good people of Williston are
nervous owe the proximity of smallpox
and two doctors are busy vaccinating
: the residents.
Bishop Edsall's family will arrive
soon from Chicago and the bishop has
taken quarters at the new hotel, the
NoAuOAA3 III AdASO 1VA AC pACSCAts
Theodore II. johnson Of North Da-
kOta has been made statistical expert
in the Office of the geological survey.
His salary has been increased from
5000 to $1,000 per year.
1t is stated that Judge Glaspell of
jamestown has bought the old Dead
wood-Black Hills s%tagecoach that has
been an object Of much curiosity at the
jamestown park In the door OF the
coach is a bullet hole said to have been
placed there in an exciting holdup.
Joe Osowski Of Mimic was fishing on
the bank of the river when he con-
cluded to shuttle off this mortal coil.
He jumped into the river, swan about
in the cold water for a while, crawled
out and died from cold and exposure.
He leaves a wife and nine children.
a. number if immigrants will o
arrive at jamestown to settle in the
Jim river valley. They came from
Bon Homme county, South Dakota,
where they leave land worth 500 an
acre, which is too expensive for the
business of ~stockraising in which they
wish to engage.
JuuSO Ol1OCh III IdlSO lcluSCu W
grant a decree of divorce to Hiram
Bigelow, q wealthy resident of Grand
Rapids, Mich, who alleged drunken
held that the plaintiff knew his wife's
failing before he married her, and
could not ask a decree.
Henry Craft, a Judge of election in
Stutsman county, has sued A. NJ. Hal
stead for $4,000. Kraft was one of
the judges alluded to in the suit Of
Halstead against Flint for the Office
Of county treasurer, and it was alleged
that he had taken money and acted
wrongfully, for which he thinks about
$1,000 damages is right.
Glendale Leader: Boyd Bliss and
Miss Laura Bentz came near meeting
death by drowning last Sunday, While
attempting to cross the Maple river
ear the Jones farm. 1t was sup
sable, but whether Mr.. Bliss got the
right place or not we do not know.
At any rate the horses were COM
pletely submerged. the buggy turned
over and incredulOus as it seems the
occupants Of the carriage and the
horses made their escape from the tor
rent unframed.
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The real estate market is notably
active this spring at Valley City, mor
farm lands having been sold by local
dealers since the first Of the year than
they would customarily sell in twelve
months. Most Of the sales are made
to resident farmers thoroughly ac-
quainted with the character and in
trinsic value of the land. Well located
farm land has increased in value about
so per cen in the past two years.
One sale made lately was 1920 acres,
ten miles from Valley City, for $1S an
acre.
About the first of next June, three
Catholic priests and four Christian
brothers from Devils Lake will locate
on 800 acres of land Immediately adj
joining R%ichardton townsite. "A Ben
edictine monastery and a Catholic col
lege are to he commenced this sum-
mer. The priests and professors will
be American, English, German, Bolle-
mian, Hungarian and Russian; and will
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