Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-17
State MI, WIS

Hon. Billy Allen has been nominated
to succeed himself as alderman at Fargo.
Secretary Lindelie of the enforcement
says he was not drunk at Bis
Ihs Sheldon Progress designates
Andy Laughlin the legislative poet
laureate.
The Langdon Times plant has been
sold to w. @. Lyons, and will be moved
out to Glen Ullin.
Ellendale has organized a Woman's
Relief Corps and will entertain the g. A.
Il. encampment next June.
Alfred Dickey made a trip to Havana
recently and writes his impressions of
the city for the Jamestown Alert.
Dan Reed, wanted in Illinois for rape,
has been captured in jamestown and
will be extradited and taken back.
Editor Smith Of the Cakes Republican
offers ex-Editor Baker Of the Argus a
job if he is looking for a wider field.
An analysis of the water used for city
and domestic purposes in Wahpeton
proves it impure and unfit for drinking
purposes.
Ex-Sherif Barton Of Ramsey county,
while on his way home to LaSalle, Ill,
on a visit, dropped dead in st. Joseph.
Mo-, from hemorrhage of the lungs.
Engineer Reed Of jamestown got his
foot caught in the valve guide of his en-
CINE and will lose two toes by amputa-
ton, they having been badly crushed.
Walter Crawford of Wahpeton suffer
ed probably fatal injuries in ~endeavoring
to stop a runaway team. His skull was
fractured and he suffered other injuries.
The building of the Masonic temple at
Fargo will soon begin. About $4,000
has already been subscribed and the
amount will soon be increased to $4,000.
Sergeant Sam T. Olson of Company G
has returned to Grafton from Manila,
having been discharged because of ILL
ness. His return was entirely unex-
pected.
Adam Grovrath has been arrested at
Harvey, being caught in an attempt to
blow open the safe of the German state
bank. 1t is alleged that this is his third
attempt.
w. p. Spellman, a Bay state singer,
has been granted a divorce at Fargo, and
will at once re-marry-his second bride
being Miss Harriet Alden, another
Massachusetts belle.
Private Ewing who died recently at
Manila. a member of the North Dakota
regiment, is said to be the son of a
Brooklyn millionaire and to leave a wife
and two children there.
Cass county will have an assistant
states attorney under the law passed at
the last session of the legislature and A.
b. Lee may be appointed, there being a
petition out for his appointment.
Mike Harrington has been held at
Darlington in bonds of $500 for man
slaughter. Harrington stabbed a ma
chine man named Garvey in the knee
with a knife and death resulted from
bloodpoisoning.
In the election contest case at James
town the legal question of whether a
witness could state on the witness stand
how he voted anne up and Judge Glas-
pell ruled that the witnesses could so
testify if they wished.
judge Sauter sentenced M. Rosum of
Pisek, Walsh county, to one year and six
months in the state penitentiary for sell
ing intoxicating liquor, and the defend
ant has given $1,000 bonds to carry the
case to the supreme court.
Lawrence George, a Valley City farmer,
started to walk from Oriska to Valley
City last election day, was slugged by
some hobos and when he woke up was
in a hospital at Duluth after having
been two months unconscious. He has
reappeared at Valley City.
The editors who made the trip south
with the editorial excursion are writing
up their observations of that sectional
least those of them that have thawed
out are doing SO. All agree that the
south is no place for a person used to the
mild climate of North Dakota to spend
the winter.
George Bates, former deputy collector
of customs, has been found dead at his
home at Pembina. His wife came down
stairs in the morning and found him
dead, with several bad cuts and bruises
on his head. Bates was brought home
late at night from st. Vincent, Just across
the river, by two young men, and evil
dence points to his having been injured
in the saloon kept by John Smith who
has been arrested to await the action of
the coroner's jury.
Harrington who wa bound over to
court for manslaughter at Darlington
defended, ably by Attorney Coch.
rane of Grand Forks. The quarrel
which resulted in the stabbing Of Gar
.vey, was W the payment Of a note.
The friends of Harrington claim that he
was in a state Of intoxication at the
time and scarcely realized what he was
about. It seems to be the general
opinion around Darlington that Harring-
ton is getting off very light in having
the crime designated as manslaughter in
the second degree.
Oberon Reporter: Wild animals must
be getting desperate for something to
eat. Last week when w. HI. Vande-
water came into the barn, he noticed
one Of his pigs acting very queer. He
looked close and saw a mink tightly fas-
tened with its teeth to the jaw of the
pig. There were evidences that the pig
had made desperate efforts to shake of
the mink, and about the time Van came
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