Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
STATE NEwS

Wibaux will celebrate the Fourth
with some good races.
Glen Ullin celebrates the Fourth this
year, with Hon. James z. Campbell as
spellbinder.
The marriage of Rev. G. A. Henry
petOn, daughter of the late DR.. D. s.
King of Mandan, is announced.
The irrepressible Barrett, state COM
missioner Of forestry, etc., is making a
collection Of clays of the state to be
exhibited at the Paris exposition.
Congressman Spalding has recently
secured an allowance for two extra
clerks in the jamestown postofice, and
Il in the Fargo postofice.
The real estate firm Of Irwin & Irwin
Of Glendale is made up Of Matte and
Nellie Irwin, who are making the big
gest kind Of a record in selling lands.
Judge Sauter Of Grafton has been
called east by the serious illness of his
father-in-law and the term of court
called for June p has been necessarily
postponed.
The first "a Of baled wool from
Dickinson was consigned to Nichols,
Dupee 4 Co., Boston. at II cents. 1t
was part of the billiard & Merry clip
Of 100000 pounds.
An entirely new feature ut carnivals
or street fairs will he the chariot and
Roman hippodrome races to be given
at the Midsummer Carnival at Grand
Forks, July IS and 10.
\ number Of quarter sections of
school lands in Cass county leased for
only $3.50 per quarter section. Not Il
good showing for the rich county Of
Cass.
The commissioners have accepted
the plans of Architect Beebe Of Fargo
for the new Eddy county court house.
The cost Of the new building will be
about $4,000.
The jamestown artesian well is now
down $50 feet and the work progress
ing satisfactorily. They are still
working in Shale in which the drill has
been for 600 feet or more.
Alderman Cockburn's new barn at
Devils Lake was totally destroyed by
fire. 1t was valued at $1,000, with no
insurance. The origin of the fire is
supposed to have been a smudge which
was built near the barn.
Henry Mimnaugh, living thirteen
miles northeast of Valley City, lost his
barn and ten head of horses by fire
Sunday afternoon. He had no insur-
ance and the loss is about $4,000. Chill
dren playing with matches caused it.
]. w. Foley of Billings county is in
censed at the action Of the Billings
county board, in Relating Il part of the
personal taxes due from Hon. \. G..
McGillivray and advises others having
political pulls to go and do likewise.
Just about the time small pox broke
out in Fessenden, the editorials disap-
peared from the Free Press. Now
the scare is owe they reappear, and
Editor Hunts Jealous rivals think even
a small poX epidemic has a silver lin
ing.
4 story is told Of the Dagoes, who
are at work Oh the n. =. r. r.. to the
effect that a reduction of 25 per cent
in their wages had been made. and in
order to get even with their employers
each man cut % per cent off the side
of his shovel. The company then
charged the broken spades to the
Dagos.
At Dunseith old Smallpox and his
squaw, who have lived together for
over thirty years, were united in the
holy bonds of matrimony by Bishop
Edsall. Recently PoXy's youngest
squaw died and the old couple wanted
to become christians and consequently
We're married and will hereafter live
different lives.
AS a result of an advertisement in
a matrimonial paper, Nina Smith came
from Georgetown. Mass, to marry l..
C. Finch Of Minnewaukan, n. D. She
alleges that he secured possession of
$500 she had and all her clothes, after
which he purchased n ticket for her to
Fargo. The disappointment over the
failure of the marriage and a recent
attack Of fever have driven the woman
insane.
Professor Waldron OF the Agricul-
tural college received a telegram from
eX-Representative Peoples Of New
Rockford stating that the annual
grasshopper scare was on again. Last
year there was quite u scare there and
the professor went up and coached the
farmers on how to kill the pests.
Everybody promised to plow last fall
and kill the eggs, but it seems that
some forget it.
The Cakes Republican published a
late interesting letter from J. J. Cham
berlain, a member of Co. II, n. D. ",
last week. dated May 6. Speaking of
fruit in the interior Of the island, neal
Angat, he says: ''There seems to be
no end to bananas, p%ineapples, oranges.
mangoes, cocoanuts, ETC., we have it
in such abundance that we get sick
and tired of it. l would give a whole
bunch of bananas or a half bushel of
oranges for one good New York or
Pennsylvania APPLE"
In the Belyea case at Devils Lake
defendant E. II. Belyea testified to TAX
ing Miss Solberg to his residence and OF
performing an operation. He said she
had frequent commissions, in one of
which she struggled so violently that
she pulled away from him and turned