Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-04-14
STATE NEWS

In the Grafton city ELECTION, II. G.
Deschenes.
The meeting Of the state veterinar-
ians will take place at Grand Forks
Wednesday,.
Over 900 persons have been vaccin-
ated at Devils Lake, because Of the
recent small pox scare.
The city of. Steele will endeavor to
raise $4,000 with which to pay off the
bonded debt of the city.
Senator Cronan, who has been suffer-
ing from congestion of the brain at
Fargo, has so far recovered as to be
out.
The Trail County Times dominates
Hon. Thos. Harrison for su%perintend.
ent Of the next censu for North Da-
kOta.
Shoplifting seems to be a fad in Far
go and a we'll known young lady was
detected in the act Of purloining some
small articles.
The jamestown Alert says lawyers
uniformly pronounce the Twichell bill
for the taxation of grain in elevators
unconstitutional.
DR.. w. N. Wilkin of Detroit, Mimi,
was arrested ut Casselton for practic-
ing medicine without a license and
held in $500 bail.
Three hundred and twenty personal
taxes, amounting to yer $4,000, were
collected in Griggs county during the
month Of February. This makes an
average of $50 a person.
The city Of Grand Forks makes a
claim on the county for some $4,000,
claimed as the city's share Of the PEN
atty and interested collected on delin-
quent taxes since 1881.
L. e. Booker testified before Judge
Fisk Friday, at Grand Forks, in the
ase Of Tourtelot VS.. Withheld, a case
which some claims Of the Grand Forks
National bank against the old North
Dakota Milling Co. are involved.
Jamestown Alert: S. Bennett, r. NJ.
Allen and D. M. Claybaugh of Mar
shalltown, Iowa, are in jamestown to-
day. They r on their way to Sykes
ton, where they have purchased 1000
acres of land. They will begin the
erection of houses and barns on the
lands. All Of the land will be broken
up this season. The new settlers will
receive 25 horses from Iowa in two
weeks, and will begin the work of
breaking up the land.
@. w. Preston, a bonanza farmer of
Blanchard, has returned to the state
after q trip half way around the world.
He has been to Egypt, and reports an
excellent brand of Milwaukee beer on
sale there. In Europe he noticed par
ticularly the advanced respect in
which Americans are held since the
Spanish-American war, which he
thinks has been highly beneficial to the
United States from this standpoint
alone.
J. D. Trenholme of Bathgate, who
has been in Dawson City for the past
year or SO running an electric light
plant, has returned to the states and is
in Minneapolis looking for new ma
chinery for his plant. The facilities
at present enjoyed by the plant in
Dawson are insufficient. The COM
pany of which he is a member receives
81 a night for incandescent lights in
many cases, and the investment prom
Uses to BE a highly profitable one.
Neche Chronotype: The trial of
John Smith, the st. Vincent saloon.
keeper, who is charged with having
caused the death of George Bates at
that place q short time since, and
which was to have taken place this
week, has been postponed owing to the
serious illness Of the defendant. 1t
will be remembered that at the time
of Smiths arrest one Of his hands was
found to be badly lacerated, as a result
of the row in which poor Bates re-
ceived the injuries which cost him his
life, so it is claimed, and blood poison
having resulted his recovery is thought
to be extremely doubtful.
Wahpeton Globe: A peculiar sur
gical operation was performed on J..
II. Roche Of Breckenridge, Sunday, by
Doctors Rowland, Truax and Devine.
Mr.. Roche had q foot mashed by an
engine at Kent a few weeks ago and
after amputation gangrene set in, and
all the skin covering the wound
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