Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-02-16
STATE NE3WS

Casselton lis preparing to rebuild the
burned district.
Griggs county collected $4,000 in
taxes in January.
Wahpeton would like one of the repub-
.lican state conventions.
Fire destroyed Reeds restaurant at
Devils Lake. Loss $1,000.
Dealers through the state report a
scarcity of flax for seed.
Scottish Rite bodies at Fargo will
have a reunion Feb. 2O-22.
r. M. Kepner has been confirmed as
postmaster at New Rockford.
Flax fibre mills seem to be the pop
ular thing through the state.
Editor Kunt of the Fessenden Free
Press wants Major White for lieutenant
governor.
Farmers at Fargo are getting 81. SO
a load from flax straw from the flax
fibre mill.
: Wool growers..in.:the western part of the
state have prepared protests against re-
duction of duties.
Members of Company II. at jamestown
celebrated the anniversary of the insur-
gent outbreak fittingly.
One drug store in Mandan reported
600 liquor sales between Dec. 10 and
Jan. 27-so report says.
Clifford Mumby of Fargo is critically
ill at Spokane, WASH, as a result of an
operation for appendicitis.
Tax collections for the month of jan
uary in Stutsman county were $685. 600,
the largest in the history of the county.
Marshal Haggart is waiting for or
ders to take the fifty Cinnamon who
have been ordered deported out west.
The Wahpeton Globe treasures the
residents of that town and says there
is no danger of an epidemic of small
poX.
J. 2. Birden has control of the Park
River News. Chas. Wilson, the for
mer proprietor, has a position with the
Forum.
The James River bank enjoins the
county commissioners OF Stutsman
county from making the other bank a
county depository.
Editor Hoskins of the Rolla Star has
been appointed a member Of the board
North Dakota is to be held in posses
vice l.. d. Dana, deceased.
Editor Packard of the Mandan Times
comes back at the Fargo Forum with a
%rib-roaster, because some anonymous
correspondent roasted his fire fighting.
Packard ia a O0O6 rOacter tOO
w. S. Daggett has retired from the
Castoria Company, Chicago, having dis
posed of his interest to Messrs, Helms
furter g. Hazen. Mr.. Daggett will re.
turn to North Dakota and enter the law
business of Tracy Bangs of Grand Forks.
The northwestern boys who were in
the Philippines will be interested in a
bill which has been introduced in the
house by Representative briggs. 1t pro-
vides that 1.-The distinctive badges adopt
ed by the Military Order of Foreign
Wars of the United States, the Society
OF the Army OF Santiago, and of military
societies composed exclusively of men
who served in the Puerto Rico and Ma
Mia campaigns of the Spanish-American
wa may be worn upon all occasions OF
ceremony by officers and enlisted men of
the army and navy of the United States
who are members in their W right
The remains of Private Frank Up.
ham arrived in Grafton Thursday from
Manila and were born to the al1nory
by members Of Company G, where the
funeral occurred with military honors,
Company G attending i'll a body to pay
respects to their dead comrade, who
was a brave soldier and a fine vornp
man. His death occurred in the
Philippines March 1, 1899, at % years
All flags were ut half mast out of re-