Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-23
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democratic member of the state SEN
ate of 1878, was married last week
to Miss Agnes McGinnis of St. Paul.
They will go to the old world on a
wedding tour.
The Minot Reporter thinks that as
there were 1S9 votes cast in the re-
publican caucuses in Minot and only
11S republican votes cast at the polls
there's good argument for an improved
primary election law,
Billy Bulge, Steve Collins, 10. G..
Cooper, Geo. B. Winship, Game War;
den Bowers and two or three other
sports constitute a hunting party now
patrolling the Missouri river bottoms
for deer, forty miles from Buford.
Fargo Forum: How much ice did
Knute Nelson's little exhibition of
venom-cut-anyway. Another knock
or two from him-and Tie majority
would have been so blamed big it
couldn't have been counted.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer calls
attention to the fact that Gilbreath (fu-
sion) was elected to the legislature in
the Sixth district, instead Of McGilliv-
ray, republican, as has been the gen.
eral impression from published lists.
The Ward county central committee
following the republican state COM
mittee and the Grand Forks county
committee-fxed the apportionment
of the next county convention on the
lowest vote cast for any candidate on
the republican county ticket.
Up in Ward county County Super
intendent Johnson, the regular repub-
lican nominee without opposition,
was defeated, notwithstanding the 500
majority for Mckinley, which indicates
that those Ward county fellows have
got the sticker route down fine.
Editor Streeter. after casting up the
election returns in Emmons county.
advertises for the nice warm mittens
he lost on the road some weeks ago.
Streeter says there are numerous ex-
plantations of his defeat but the prin-
cipal one is-failure to get votes
enough.
Fargo Forum: 1t is claimed that
the lawyers are organizing to re-
enact the former divorce law. They
have appointed a committee to make
the court stenographers more econo-
mical-but really the object is to make
divorce easy-if the fees are big
enough.
The Lisbon searchlight, the rankest
pop paper in the state. accounts for the
accurate predictions Of the republic
cans by declaring that they had the
money to get the best information
1t is to the credit of the republicans
that they know how to get the most
with what they have to do with.
Chairman Warren of the LaMoure
county republican committee thinks it
was a little irregular, to say the least,
for the election board in a certain
precinct to close the polls for a couple
of hours at o time-for dinner.
That decidedly better than closing
them in the morning and not opening
them again at all.
At the recent election in Ransom
county the rival candidates for county
commissioners in the Third district
Elliott and Englevale-had the same
number of votes. The question of
which was elected has been decided by
the contestants casting lots, which re-
suited in favor of WILDER Hanson of
E%nglevale, the fusion nominee.
Mrs. Campbell of Stutsman county
gets a divorce from her husband, Arch
ibald Campbell, on the ground of ex-
IRENE cruelty. Her husband is be-
lieved to be insane and was recently
held for examination. On a recent
trip to Darlington he brutally assaulted
his wife S sister and a mob would have
made short work of him had it not been
for the sheriff.
Secretary of S%tate-elect Porter and
several friends are deer hunting in the
vicinity of Medora.
B. G. Eddy of Eddy county carried
a lighted lantern into the hay loft and
lost a $500 barn and contents.
Night Policeman Mcintyre of the
N. P. depot at Fargo died after a three
weeks illness of typhoid fever.
A grand jury has been summoned at
Grand Forks and the residents are
wondering why. It is said the state
enforcement league are not responsible.
The c~anvassing board in Stutsman
county found ten votes for John Nc
ElrOy which had not been counted
and the find increases his majority to