Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-12-01
STATE NEWS

The ~,reat Northern road will erect
a new depot at Lakota.
German Lutherans at jamestown
will build a new church to cost $4,000.
A. McCully, formerly collector of U.
5. customs, died at his home near
Hannah.
Subscriptions for a new Catholic
church at Grafton have reached
$9,UuO.
Robert Osborne of Neche died from
the effects o. q kick in the abdomen
Oy a horse.
G. Il. Cheney of Chicago has been
appointed engineer ut the Fort Totten
Indian school.
w. e. Witness Of Olga, Mimi. blew
out the gas at the ingalls, house at
Grand Forks and was rescued just in
time.
Richard Sykes is promoting the cul-
ture OF bronze grass in the state and
proposes to offer prizes for the best
results.
The automobile being manufactured
by Brown at Fargo is expected to be
turned out and ready for the road in
a few days.
Judge Pollock tells the Fargo Call
that he is not and has not been a can-
uldate for governor and the use of his
name is unauthorized.
John Factor of Lidgerwood was
kicked between the eyes by a vicious
horse, -ad his nose broken and a mar
row escape from death.
J. u. Trenholme Of Bathgate, who
owns the electric light plant in Daw-
TO- City, has returned to Bathgate
for Il couple Of months.
City Treasurer Mitchell of Fargo
is being TAXED Of for mayor Of that
city. This comes pretty close to lese
majestic on Mayor Johnson.
Philip Logue of Mayville went to
Fargo and Moorhead to see the tiger
and is shy his summers wages-$135.
But he had an elegant time.
A. j. Craig Of Fargo gets the con-
tract for heating and plumbing at the
new Masonic temple ut Fargo. The
bid vas a little less than $4,000.
After Editor Mahaney bit off the
nose of another man in a friendly 1.-THE
discussion, the two went to MinneapO-
lis for medical treatment. No prose-
cutiOns.
Postoftices Mt Milton and LaMoure
will be advanced from the fourth class
to presidential offices, an. 1, with post
masters salaries at $1,000 and SLIGO
per annum respectively.
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county, raised 100000 bushels of wheat
this year and cleared $4,000. He re-
tires from farming next year and goes
to the Paris Exposition. Such is the
fate Of farmers in North Dakota.
The jamestown Capital publishes a
wedding announcement which the
Alert a Y it had two years ago, and
that a son was born to the Capitals
@'newly married couple" a year ago,
and thus there is friction between the
Jim River valley press.
A. FL. Laughlin, census supervisor, is
preparing for the work Of censu TAX
ing next year. He has sent in maps
of all the counties to the department
and the state will at once be districted.
and supervisors appointed the first of
the year. Some Of the counties will
be divided into a dozen or more dis
tricts. The work has to be done in
thirty days from the time Of COM
mencement.
A real estate ealer of Devils Lake
recently received a letter from an ac-
quaintance in Nashua, N. H., asking If
his business ever called him to Morton
county, N. D. The Nashua man said
he owned a piece of property in Nor
ton county, and wanted some one to
look after it. He understood that the
land was somewhere in the neighbOr-
hood Of a town caller Fargo, but he
was unable to find Fargo on the map.
Here's another chance for Mayor
johnson.
Fargo Forum: Major Foster has g
letter from Lieutenant Foster telling
of q night attack made on the Ameri-
cans at Angeles. The lieutenant and
some other officers were sleeping in
some second story rooms, and were
rudely aroused by whistling Mausel
bullets coming through the walls. They
firing line. General Joe Wheeler, in
whose command they were, was down
on the line, all gingered up. He had
" 6A(lDpCu q sun A"u "hS -
the Filipinos for all he was worth.
There is a very sore pickpocket in
fargo. He is Bert Brown, who
claims to be a Chicago boy. Last fal.
he was following street fairs through
the northwest, and separating the PEG,
pie from their purses. At the Cassel'
ton street fair early in October he was
caught in the act, sent to Fargo, anG
at the present term OF court he pleaded
guilty. In order to avoid a peniten'
tiary sentence and to make the punish
ment as light as possible, he told thu
court q long tale of woe about his ex'
IRENE youth, claiming to be only 16
In sentencing him to the reform schoO
Judge Pollock made the term to cove1
the period till Brown was 81, or fivl
years, according to the defenaant'i
own claim. Brown now wishes h