Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-11
1890; sermons and addresses deliv.

1900; sermons and addresses deliv-
cred, 125.
The agricultural college football
team has arisen to the dignity of a
professional coach.
Hon. Fngal Enger of Steele county
has purchased five sections of land in
Richland county and his son will farm
it. rs
The urand Forks Herald's subscrip-
ton for Mrs. O'Leary of Mandan has
reached the sum of 500 and the
amount has been forwarded to her.
Doc Falk, who has been engaged in
editorial work in the state for fifteen
years, retires from the Trail County
Times and ". w. Tousley takes con-
troll.
Hon. N. G. Larimore has returned
from Houston, Texas, where he took
in the Trans-Mississippi convention.
He vas the only North Dakotan in at
tendance.
The Fargo city council refused to
confirm the appointment of H. f. Mil
Ter as city attorney and then turned
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Phelps for the same position.
DR.. Quarry of the state board of
health has received advices from Win
nipeg that the epidemic of smallpox
there was in hand. The doctor was
urged to shut off communication be-
tween this state and Winnipeg but
found it unnecessary.
Kimball, the blind-pigger whose place
was raided at Enderlin, paraded the
streets at night with a gun threaten
ing to blow the everlasting daylights
out of somebody just because he felt
wicked. The Sheldon Progress says
he thinks he owns the town just be-
cause he paid $40 a month license.
Miss Florence Perrine left Valley
City ten years ago for India, where
she went as a missionary. She was
married after reaching there and is
en- route home to visit with her Valley
City relatives. Missionaries are al
lowed to return once in ten years. The
couple expect to take about a year to
make the round trip.
Lea Wright in jamestown Capital:
Down in LaMoure county the other
day I ran on to Eric Larson who has a
national reputation for an incident
connected with Major Mckinley's first
election. Larson came from 'Tustin,
Mich, where on the day that Mckinley
was elected his rabid democratic
neighbours cat gave birth to a litter of
kittens, one of which had the letter
IN" plainly marked on it's forehead.
Larson purchased the kitten and dec
Grating it with a handsome collar and
a Mckinley badge, housed it in a pretty
cage and sent it to the president-elect,
timing it's arrival so it reached Mr.. Nc
hlnley Christmas day. Tue cat ar
rived safely and MI. Larson has a
pleasant acknowledgement of his gift.
Mr.. Larson lives near Kuhn.
Among the important cases sched-
uled for trial at the May term of the
federal court which v next
Tuesday was that of A.. G. Brown
against the Milwaukee railroad com
pany. Mr.. Brown, while a passenger
on a Milwaukee train at Batavia, Min
nesota, was injured so severely that
he has been confined to his bed con
stantly since. It was rumored in
court circles that the railroad com.
pany would make a motion at the
opening of court for a continuance on
the ground that two material witnesses
were absent. The prosecution is ready
for trial and it is believed that it will
be possible to bring Mr.. Brown into
court should the case be called. Ow.
ing to the fact that damages in the
sum Of $4,000 are asked much at.
taches to the case.
Drayton ncho: We have hearG
about men talking through theil
hats but it remained for Mayor Nc.
Donald, who owns the Drayton Tele.
phone Exchange, to demonstrate a few
days ago that a m can talk
through a man even if he is not very
thin in stature. While making some
repairs to the telephone system re.
Gently, the mayor cut one of the wires
and held the two ends of the severed
line M in either hand. While thus
holding the same the lady above re.
ferred to rang up the meat shop and
sent in her order for the dinner roast
Both the going and coming current on
the wire passed through the mayor,
and the conversation was carried on
and understood by both the lady and
the meat man just the same as if there
had been no break in the wire. Won.
derful is the telephone.
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