Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-02
|STATE NEWS

golf club.
Eddy county has voted at a specia
election to bond for the erection of a new
court house.
Ward Bill has left jamestown for Van
couver, where he takes the first steamer
for Melbourne.
The new asylum buildings at James.
town will require the enlargement of the
electric light plant.
Grand Forks is talking again about
rejuvenating the armory and establish
ing a militia company there.
J.. H. Bowers gets the contract for
erecting the new Masonic temple at
Fargo for a little over $4,000.
Former Secretary of State John
Flittie is associate editor of the Standard.
published at Grangeville, Idaho.
William ]. Bryan will be in Fargo
June 29-and if there are any democrats
left in the state they will be gathered
together for a banquet.
Gus Bell of Medora, while ropine an
unruly broncho, got his hand caught in
the rope and had two Of his fingers
twisted off. He is a resident of James
town.
The nineteenth annual meeting of the
North Dakota Baptist association will be
held at LisboL from May 81 to June
inclusive. 1t promises to be an interest,"
ing session.
Fred Hanche, a Fargo boy and a mem
Der of Company B at Manila, was shot;
drought the right lung, but Miss Pen
ney, the Red Cross nurse, writes that be
is doing we'll.
Some $500 settlers from Iowa, who
have decided to migrate, are expected
in the central part of the state this sum-
mer. All of them are good farmers and
will make good settlers.
The relatives and friends of Company
K at Dickinson held a mass meeting the
other evening and adopted resolutions
asking the muster out of the North Da-
kota regiment at San Francisco.
Lieutenant Sunderland, with twenty
four rough riders, will be at Fargo for
the fire festival. They were not coming,
but Contractor Kennedy of Fargo gave
EN- his check for $50 to pay expenses.
The city council at Wahpeton threw
out all the bids for sewer construction.
as they exceeded the estimate. The work
amounts to about $4,000. Contractor
Kennedy of Fargo was the lowest bidder.
Foreman b. N. Dilworth of the Forum
and Miss Fannie A. Barlow of Fargo
were married at that place 10y Rev. H. NJ.
Cook, and among the presents was a
check for $500 from the brides father.
The city council of Devils Lake ac-
cepted the resignation of Mayor Serum
gard, who quit because the council
would not confirm his appointee as chief
of police, and elected E. E. Hermann as
mayor.
Mrs. Maurer of Grand Forks, a m
with six children and a sick husband
went insane because of the persistent
clamoring for money of the person from
whom they rented their house, and has
been taken to the asylum.
G. L. Judd the Fargo photographer.
invested in some 10000 shares of min
ing stock at from four to ten cents a
share and the stock is now valued at q
dollar a share and likely to 20 up to
$3.50, so that he has realized a neat
fortune.
Mrs. Senator Hansbrough presented
the XlAth Century Club, Devils Lake,
with eleven handsome volumes recently,
the highest priced, perhaps, being an
autograph copy of Lyrics of Love and
Nature" by Mary Berri-C Chapman, later
Mrs. Hansbrough.
The decision of the supreme court in
the Stark county boundary case may
lead to some entanglements with rela-
ton to county Offices. Several of the
defeated candidates at the last election
claim to have been beaten by votes cast
in the u%norganized territory, not proper
ly portions of the county, and may bring
contests.
Geo.. D. Winfree, just out of Saltwater.
Mimi, for raising a check, was arrested
by Sheriff Axtell of Glendale and
brought back to the state for theft, He
is a young attorney and came from Rich
mond, Va, less than two years ago. He
was unable to get work except in a livery
stable at Cakes. There he stole a rig.
sold it and with the money went to Min
neapolis, where he got into trouble. Win
free says he will plead guilty in the hope
of getting a light sentence.
The Milton Globe last week gave a
comprehensive write-up of the Merriield-
Babcock cement mines on Tongue river
nine miles northeast of Milton. Con-