Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-06-22
AROU ND THE STATE.

Conductor Chas. Perry of Bottineau
Branch, met with a painful accident
one day last week. He attempted to
make a coupling and got his fingers
caught between the drawbars, the re-
suit of which was two badly smashed
fingers.
Dr.. Belyea, recently granted a new
trial by the supreme court, has re-
turned to his old nome, Minot.
The rains around Minot did some
good but they destroyed $4,000 brick
for VanWagner just the same.
John Baker, the man who had his
hand smashed in Il wreck near Minot
some time ago, settled with the Great
Northern for $500. Alfred Legher,
who was injured in an ice house acct
dent at the same place, took 500 in
full settlement. The former policy of
the Great Northern was to contest all
personal injury claims but now COM
promises are effected where possible.
1t is said that just after DR.. Treacy
had made arrangements for the hay on
a big slough near Steele it rained-but
not until a prairie fire had taken all
the grass.
The teachers institute in Kidder
county was a great success. Nineteen
teachers attended and unusual interest
was taken in the proceedings.
Lightning last week destroyed the
house Of J. o. Strand, near Wild Rice.
Jens Johnson, twelve years old, was
thrown from a morse hear Minor, had
his foot caught in n of the stirrups
and was dragged to death.
An effort will be made this year to
raise $1S,OOO to make needed improve
ments in the Red River Valley Univer-
sity at Wahpeton.
Will Patton of Wahpeton has Sc
cured a position in the census Office at
Washington.
Contractor Kennedy of Fargo has Sc
cured the contract for the new sewer
in Wahpeton.
Minnewaukan claims that the new
court house to be erected in that city
will be the finest in the state.
A republican club is to be organized
in Devils Lake on the 22d inst. These
organizations ought to be revived all
over the state. They are valuable adj
.juncts to the campaign.
The 500 found it necessary to en-
large their depot at Cakes.
Gold has been discovered-again-
on the Sisseton reservation in South
Dakota.
Will Wentzell, charged with setting
prairie fires down in Dickey county,
was discharged by the justice.
Up at Cando last week during a
thunder storm David Johnson thought
some one had hit him on the head with
an open hand. He afterwards dis
covered that he had been stunned by
lightning. Mrs. Johnson, who was in
the house in front of the stove, had
a narrow escape. The bolt tore up
the floor a foot from her and broke the
stove in many pieces.
The eleventh annual convention of
the North Dakota Christian Endeavor
Union opened in jamestown today
l19th) and continues three days.
On account of low water the "Pem-
bina Navigation Company" have laid
up their gasoline launch. The Red
river is lower at Pembina than it has
ever been known before.
Down in Ransom county stone
boulders from the prairie-bring 81
a ton.
The oberon Observer Believes this
year will go. down in history as the
windiest year in the history of the
state. Much grain in that section has
been injured by heavy winds.
The Fort Totten Indians are arrang-
ing to celebrate the Fourth more elab-
orately this year than ever before.
Jud LaMoure is on a two weeks fish
ing trip at Bemidji, MINI.
The Pembina county fair occurs July
18th to Goth.
The Sheldon people couldn't get a
band for the Fourth so they very prop
erly called the celebration off.
The Anamoose Progress, like the
Wilton News, r~ejoices that it is of legal
age and qualified to become an official
paper.
The Walsh County Industrial Expo
sition Association holds it's second an
nual fair at Mimic beginning July 3
and continuing three days. The pre-
MUM list covers a wide range Of ex-
its.
The Fargo Forum says those Iowa
people who came in one day and went
out of Bismarck the next-because it
was so dry-ought to have been in
Fargo Shriners' day.
Someone struck water on a ridge