Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-04
STATE NEWS
Harvey voted not to incorporate.

Harvey voted not to incorporate.
Ex-Land Commissioner Watt will
remove his family from Bathgate to
Fargo.
Adjutant Barr and wife of the Sal
walton Army at Fargo will go to Daw-
son City, Alaska.
Cass county farmers who are put
ting in flax are contracting for Octo-
Der delivery at 81. 10.
Governor Devine says grain is
nearly e and prospects good
down in LaMoure county.
Nearly 1000 delegates have been
appointed to the big drainage meeting
to be held at Grand Forks next month.
Communications from Mandan re-
garding the liquor matters are begin
ming to find their way into the valley
papers again.
The deserters from the U. S. army
who worked forged checks at Bis
marck, jamestown and Fargo, have
been taken back to Fort Keogh.,
District court is in session at Minot.
AAS NoSS VI 4oA IT,, Luc Wllo
murderer, is first on the docket for
trial. William Curtis is also to be
tried for murder.
Hans Johnson, the Stutsman county
farm hand VINO was run over by a
harrow n thought to be fatally in
jured, is improving and it is believed
he will recover.
Four prominent East Grand Forks
saloonkeepers have been refused Ii
censes because they are residents of
North Dakota, Dan Sullivan and w.
7. Franklin among the number.
The twentieth anniversary of the
opening of the Grand Forks landofice
was celebrated by a banquet given by
the present officials at which the for
mer officials Of the Office were guests.
Gertrude Schultz of Lisbon, a young
woman not quite eighteen, grieyed to
death because her parents would not
allow her to marry the young man of
her choice. She had prepared her
wedding clothes to be married when
II reached the age of eighteen and
was buried in them.
Representative Spalding has recon-
mended Charles Shafer for postmaster
at Brush Lake, McHenry county; w.
P. Post at P~ostville, Ward county;
Bernhard HILBERT at Boo, Cavalier
county; Miss Carrie Duetzat at Morris,
Eddy county; A. B. Fox at Brazil,
Pierce county, N. D.
Argus: The United States jury will
at the federal building in this
city O. May S, and a large lot of work
awaits them. 1t is estimated now
that a hundred cases will be brought
before the jury. Ihe majority of the
cases are not of the greatest interest.
Half OF the number are against per-
sons who have sold liquor without the
formality of paying for a government
license. Then comes the usual num-
Der Of Indian cases from the bailiwick
of Deputy Fred SCHNEIDER. There are
several p%ostoffice cases to come up,
and the term promises to be a lengthy
one. There are still some Booker
cases on the calendar but it is not ex-
pected that any of the number will
ever be called for trial.
Judge Fisk at Grand Forks rendered
a decision in favor of the county in
the case of DR.. Engstad VS.. the county,
which was brought to have taxes on
st. Luke's hospital RENTED on the
grounds that it was a charitable in
stitution. Judge Fisk held that the
hospital had not been conducted as a
charitable institution and was there
fore subject to taxation the same rs
other property. The decision will he
received with interest as there are
many similar cases in the state, or
rather there are many instances where
the conditions are identical. It is not
as yet decided whether or not an ap.