Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31
STATE NEwS

There are 100 Indian voters in Mer-
Ger county and they all expect to vote
this fall.
Floyd Hosmer, the boy killed at
Pingree by the accidental discharge of
a shot gun, vas a nephew of Road
master Fletcher of this division of the
N. P.
Mrs. Bruce Scott of Harvey, who
committed suicide by shooting, wa
the wife of a we'll known 500 conduc-
tor and nc cause a be assigned for
the rash action. She is believed to
have been temporarily insane.
Adolph Graf has opened a general
store at Medina, the third in Medina,
and is reported doing well. All the
stores have done a big business this
season, catering to a trade that comes
from thirty miles north and south.
c. A. Hunt of Darlington is enroute
home from Cape Nome where he spent
the summer. He left there the 18th
inst. and say he is glad to get back
here. He estimated there are 10000
people there and thousands getting out.
Lightning struck the granary Of
Theodore Weise, set the building afire
and destroyed it. The building was
1920 and with contents and a new
binder was worth $3.50. Mr.. Weise
lives twelve miles south of jamestown.
The Forum says: Around Wild
Rice considerable threshing has been
done and the yield is better than was
anticipated. Threshings reported run
from 10 to 80 bushels per acre. Tom
McKenzie's farm will average over 20
bushels.
Louis Dudrey of Cass county will sue
the Plano company for damages for
false imprisonment. They arrested
him for moving mortgaged property
from the state and when the case came
it was dismissed. Dudrey wants
some balm.
A call has been issued for the Tenth
legislative district republican conven-
ton, which will be held at Mapleton,
Sept. 10. The convention is called for
the nomination of a candidate to take
the place of T. Twichell, who has re-
signed his seat in the upper house.
A gentleman reports to the Steele
Ozone that the other day he noticed a
flock of snipe near his buildings lying
on their backs during a hail storm.
The birds had their heads tucked I'M
der their wings and were thought to be
dead. After the storm they "got up
and busted"
Beaver school district in Stutsman
county will levy nc tax this year. Sew
eral years ago they levied a larger tax
than usual because a large portion Of
the taxes remained unpaid by o
residents. Since then they have paid
up so well that the board has paid 3d.
600 of indebtedness and is on easy
street.
A hail storm that was a hail storm is
reported from Sheyenne, following the
path of the former storm. Reliable
witnesses state hailstones were as large
as base balls, bushels the size of hens
eggs and they lay on the ground in
Sheyenne until the streets were white.
The storm covered fifteen miles along
the track.
The jamestown city council has a
problem on hand Is to how to provide
a water supply for the city. Bonds
of 100000 have been voted and the
council is to determine whether to
deepen the old artesian well, dig an
other or put in a city pumping plant.
The artesian we'll dug recently was a
failure as far as water pressure is con-
cerned.
Grain men say that the periodical
heavy showers Of rain we are having
are causing no end of trouble in the
harvest fields, especially in fields where
the grain is extraordinarily short, The
situation is such that farmers have
made up their minds to do the thresh-
ing now whenever the opportunity af-
fords-day or night, or Sundays. One
farmer is heard of, with large fields
who has had his grain almost ready
for the machine four times, but along