Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-11-17
STATE NEWS

State NEWS|
County Commissioner Barnes was re-
elected in Cass county.
There is talk of the establishment of
a flax fibre mill in Richland county.
Benson county people voted to erect a
$4,000 court house at Minnewaukan.
Williams, a prisoner in the Mandan
Jail on a charge of burglary, has escaped
from custody.
Mandan has reorganized it's band and
Prof. L. w. Everson of Minneapolis will
be the leader.
Attorney General Cowan tells the st.
Paul papers about the good times in
North Dakota.
At East Grand Forks, Capt. Brandt
defeated Mayor Thompson, who was a
candidate for reelection.
Geese are reported scarce through the
state. The weather has been too warm.
The Fargo city council has laid Mayor
Johnson's appointment of S. G. Roberts
as city attorney on the table.
Commissioner Lander was defeated
for commissioner in Grand Forks by
Frank Schlaberg, a democrat.
Grand Forks people are preparing
anti polygamy petitions, addressed to
Senator McCumber and Congressman
Spalding.
The Alliance Hail Association of
Jamestown have sent out checks for SO
per cent of its losses distributing S44,0O
to losers from hail.
Contractor Swan has been employed
by the city of jamestown to clean out
the artesian we'll. The work will cost
$50 a day and a bonus of $3.50 for the
contractor.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge Glaspell in the case of
w. W. Fegan against the Great Northern
railroad company. Fegan sued for 5000
and Judge Glaspell decided the case in
favor of the railroad company.
Hon. G. Fl. Shells, the Edgeley news
paper editor, banker and all round
rustler and his nephew, Prof. M. E. Cox,
Lakota have decided to open a magnetic
institute in Fargo, and have leased the
Mahnken residence for the institute.
The election returns are all in at Ma
poleon and the result shows that Napol-
con will retain the county seat for Logan
county, which vas moved. The vote
stood "a against removal and 1877 for.
John Wentz was elected county com
missioner over Michael Buck. The vote
was the heaviest ever cast in the county.
A Grand Forks special says: News
reached here tonight from Larimore of
q queer suicide which occurred on the
farm of G. G. Wagner. near there, during
the afternoon. The victim of self de-
struction was Lunas CUTS, "a years Of
age, and in order to shuttle off this mortal
coil he cut the large artery in his right
thigh. He then sat down by the side of
a table and slowly bled to death, being
found shortly afterwards. Strange as it
may seem, the cause of the rash act is
attributed to an old love affair, over
which he has brooded for years.
Thomas Paulson, a prominent farmer
living ten miles north of Grand Forks
was seriously injured Tuesday. He was
unloading a load Of grain at the elevator
east of town when the team became
frightened at an approaching train and
started to run. They pulled into the
fair grounds, where Paulson was thrown
into or under the front wheels. When
he wa picked up and brought to town
it was found that his left leg was broken
in three places, once between the knee
and ankle and twice between che knee
and hip. His left arm is also broken be.