Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-02
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difficulty in working his way out to the
s%eacoast.
Grand Forks is after a fax fibre mill
and a soap factory.
Fargo architects report prospects
good for a big spring trade.
James Whitley is to be tried for muir
der at Williston this week.
The Knights of Pythias ball was the
social event of the season at Steele.
Albert A. Ellsworth, a former mem
Der of Go. B, is sick in the hospital at
Presidio, Cal. He did not come home
with the boys, but remained in Manila.
Benson County News: The Bismarck
blind pigs-that is, so-called blind pigs
were raided last week, but not a drop
of discriminating evidence was found.
just think of the abuse that has been
heaped upon Bismarck on account of
the. false stories that have been circu-
about the alleged open saloons
there.
A dispatch from Cleveland, O., says
that a former Mrs. App, who procured a
divorce in North Dakota, was held up
and $500 secured by a North Dakota
attorney before she got the decree. Her
f0v,ror h,,cho~l o1e1 11pool IN h0xo
lost heavily in North Dakota by invest
ment in mining stock through his law
yer's advice.
The proceedings of the second Tri-
State Grain Growers convention held at
Fargo last month have been published
at the expense, it may be mentioned,
of railroad and elevator companies of the
northwest. They are gotten up in the
form of a t~wo-hundred page book, nicely
bound, illustrated and 'indexed. The
volume is a most interesting and valu-
able one, not only for its technical infor-
nation, but also on account of the en-
PERTAINING "reminiscences it contains of
early days in the Red River valley.
Towner Stockmen: just what effect
the wolf bounty law has had on the
Kidding of the state from the sneaking
vermin, we are unable to say, but judy
ing from the present conditions of this
county, it must be for the peter. Even
cold weather of late has not, so far as
we a learn, caused them to pack as
they did three years ago and make the
usual raids on sheep and cattle. We
hear of but few being seen along the
roads of this county this winter, while
during the winter of 1869 it was not
uncommon to see a dozen at a time.
Lisbon Free Press: Il. I. Morse, the
upholsterer, has received authentic in
formation from the war department,
through the adiutant generals office
in Minnesota, confirming the sad news of
the death of his son Arthur, of Co. d.
18th U. S. infantry. His death occurred
July Both, as a result of meningitis. On
his arrival at Manila he was taken to
the hospital sick and never recovered.
The father of the deceased noticed the
death in the reports from Manila, but
was not sure that it was his son until he
received the official information this
week.
A Kokomo., Ind, dispatch says;
Thirty-one Howard county families will
leave early next month for North Da.
kota, to. take government claims and
purchase railroad lands. They will be
joined by fifty Or more families from
Carroll, Miami, and Clinton counties
making a colony of nearly 400 persons
They will settle in the locality Of Crane
Forks, N. D. The emigrants are made
up largely of Amish and Dunkards. A
year ago a large colony of these sects
went to Dakota, and this year nearly al
of them will go, leaving but few in this
part of the state.
The National Flax Fiber Co., which
has. established mills at Sheldon, Moor
head, Mayville, Armenia and Other
points, has just closed a deal for the
purchase of one of the largest cottor
mills in New England. The property
included in the transfer comprises tho
entire village Of Statewide, Rhode
Island, and consists of six mills, sixty
dwelling houses, $50 looms. and 25.OO(
spindles. Seven hundred hands have
been employed there. The origina
cost of the property was not less thar
S5OO,0OO. The company will convert
the mills from their former use to the
manufacture of fine fabrics from North
Dakota flax fiber.
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