Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-09
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The other witnesses had bought moth
ing intoxicating.
Nixon. the pig spotter, put in his
time ut WillistOn last week.
Professor Bangs Of the state deaf
school has bought a block of land in
Devils Lake for $4,000 and sold his
farm for $4,000, one of the largest
read estate transactions in the history
OF the county.
The report comes from Bathgate that
there are two cases of smallpox in
that village, Charley Mckenzie anu
VIM. Melville, it being said that the
latter contracted the disease in Sc
attic, WASH, from where he has just
returned.
Col. Ellsworth, Of the New Rockford
Volunteer, refuses to be paciied. He
still speaks of 'skunk" and rattle
snake" in the same connection with
Fancher and Glaspell. At this rate
the whole menagerie will be brought
in before the campaign ends.
The funeral services of Geo. Schnel-
Ter, who was killed in the wal in Lu-
zon, were held at Wahpeton on Mon
day. He was bugler of Company l
of the. North Dakota regiment, and
when the company, near Santa Cruz,
was driving the Filipinos before them,
he was shot down.
= number Of Wells county farmers
signed what they thought was an
agreement for the purchase of Il stall
lion, hut which was in reality Il note
for $1,000, and. on which they are now
being sued by a Michigan bank, to
which the note passed from a Mime
sofia horse dealing firm.
\ light engine on the Northern Pa
citic sailed at Il forty mile gait through
a Great Northern train MT the junction
at Casselton. The engine plowed it's
way through a freight car that was
loaded with pigs of raw copper, and
while it cut the freight car in two.
did not harm the engine in the least.
An article by Cy Warman, in the
March number of McClure's Magazine,
will describe a journey he lately took,
riding part of the way on a loco
motive, over the new railroad across
White Pass into the klondike, and
will tell the story "a very romantic
story, by the way,) of the building of
the road.
The Great Northern road is expected
to bring 1000 settlers to Minot during
the month of March and the Reporter
urges that their coming be. DELAYED
about a month. 1t says the 500 tried
to bring in settlers too early and had
to erect buildings for them to remain
III until it was possible for them %
construct temporary buildings.
The Puerto Rican tariff bill, as passed
by the house is not liked by the rank
and file of the republican party. espe-
cially to the western states. The mat
ter has been taken up vigorously in
North Dakota, and a number of tele-
grams have been sent to Senator Hans
brough and to Senator McCumber, urg-
ing them to oppose the house measure
III the senate.
Fred Freeman of Dickinson has a
letter from Manila which announces
the death of Raymond Groll who died
OF dvsentery in the hospital a little
over a month ago. Deceased was a
resident of Dickinson. who enlisted in
Company X at the age Of % years and
6 months; was discharged at Manila
July IL, 1899, and re-emlisted in the
3Gth infantry, U. S. Y. He was 4;
German by birth.
Walsh County Record: Geo. Clark.
formerly of Forest River, returned
from his new western farm last Friday
night. He came by the, way of the c..
i. r. going to Edmonton as Il: side
trip. He has purchased $40 acres of
grazing land right on the coast about
100 miles southwest OF Seattle. for
$4,000. Hc, will go into the stock
business. He has come back to dis
pose Oh his personal property and will
return to Washington in March with
his family.
The bill for giving the Fort Pembina
reservation to the state of North Da-
kota for the school fund. has been fav-
orably reported by the senate commit
tee, says the Pembina Pioneer Ex-
press. 1t means, if it passes both
houses OF congress, 4 giftof three sec
lions Of fine land one mile from Penn
bina, worth $4,000 or more to the
general school fund of North Dakota;
ana to Penlnlnl. III particular and to
Pembina county in general, the addi-
ton of eight to twelve good farms,
with farmers and their belongings,
trade, taxes, etc.
o. A. Webster of Grand Forks Wis
tied the western counties last week,
and met, among others, a sheep raiser
who said: During the last year Of
The Cleveland. administration vol was
nominally quoted at Z cents, and you
couldn't sell it for that. The rail
roads wouldn't accept it for shipment
unless the charges We're prepaid. The
first year Of McKinleyism wool adj
vanced to IL cents, last year we got
% cents for it, and this year it will
be worth 25 cents. Go out into a
flock Of sheep today and holler "Mc-
Kinley' and every ram, lamb, eve,
and wether will bleat for JOY"
The superintendent Of the Foster
county board Of health reports to DR..
Quarry Of the state board, that by the
use of %antitoxin the diphtheria cases
in Wells and Stutsman counties have
been successfully treated, together