Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-20

that ready cash at that season will
cause brisk bidding.
Attorney Afford, known in James,
town, committed suicide at Waterloo,
Iowa.
The action to annul the city electric
light contract at Fargo has been begun
again.
Superintendent Halland has made
arrangements for fourteen teachers
training schools.
The scarcity of coal in Germany is
seriously interfering with the iron and
steel industries.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Schmid of Oberon
have left for Switzerland and will take
in the Paris exposition.
The Minot land office has three
clerks to do extra business caused by
the rush of immigrants.
Editor Harrison of the Lisbon Free
Press is dishing up some warm pO-
litical stuff down his way.
Mayor Mcpherson of valley City re-
quests business men to close their
place of business on Sundays.
Sargent county votes another gopher
bounty, Notwithstanding it's recent
prosecutions for gopher tail frauds.
Lakota will have a national bank
with $25,O0O capital. A.. z. Whipple
and H. f. Baird of Devils Lake are the
ircorporators.
immigration is so extensive in the
Mouse river country that Editor Nc
Clure of the Minot Optic bursts into
song.
A jamestown man found a taran-
lula in a bunch of bananas. Most all
kinds Of animals are loose there since
the political fight recently.
Senator H~ansbrough has had an
other attack Of the grippe that has kept
him away from sessions of the senate
for several days.
Another train load OF settlers will
arrive for the James river valley in
August. Those recently located there
are pleased with the country.
j. G. Cushman Of the Fargo bottling
works drank muriatic acid by mistake.
He will have to have a new lining but
it it is believed he will recover.
jim Wardel, night clerk of the War
del house at Minot is missing with 50
in small change. 1t is hoped Jim
and his Doodle will be apprehended.
A. Larson Of Aneta dropped uncon-
scious on a sidewalk at Fargo while
visiting there. and died ten minutes
later. Heart disease was the cause
of his death.
The jamestown correspondent of the
Minneapolis Journal thinks the result
of the republican primaries there puts
Secretary Poole in the two minute
class as a politician.
Farmers are short Of help and have
difficulty in getting men at any price
up to 4 dollar a day for seeding. Those
who contract for the season are Offer
ing SO a month and few takers.
Foley Brothers of St. Paul have been
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of a line between Casselton and
Dickey, N. d. The line will be sixty
six miles long and work upon it will
be begun at nee
Mayor Johnson of Fargo doesn't for.
get to issue a card of thanks to tho
newspaper men OF the state who fought
with him in the last hot battle. AND
he will entertain the Fargo printers
this week.
Over 200 people have settled arount
McHenry in Eddy county this spring
and yer 5000 acres of land will BIZ
broken. The town is growing. On
machinery firm sold % drills and hat
sales aggregating $1,000 a day.
J.. NJ. Watson of Kensal. who was
nominated for the lower house, wa
a member of the house in 1850 from
Cass county. He will therefore. il
elected, have had experience. Col
Sanford of Courtenay, who was a mem
Der last session, vent up against the
M. N. Johnson business by refusing
to vote for that statesman for senator
and like a good many other republi'
cans of an independent turn, he fell
the after consequences in the conven.
ton.
jamestown Alert: Geo. Wyard
oldest son Of J. G.. Wyard had a close
call today. He in some ann fel
into a pen containing a big SOY will
q litter of small pigs. She at once
attacked the boy and had him down
biting him several times but no.
severely. A shepherd dog hearing
the noise jumped into the pen anc
seized the SOW by the lose attracting
her attention from the lad who made
his escape: just in the nick Of time tc
prevent being badly torn or possibl!
killed. The dog is nine months ole
and belongs to the family.
The little town of LaSota. in Nelson
county, is greatly excited over the dis.
covery that two persons who live
near the city have died of what is pro.
nounced smallpox. The first death
in the family occurred several days
ago and the second on Thursday, ant
it was then that the discovery was
made by a local physician that it was
smallpox. The head of the family
was in Lakota several days ago ant
circulating quite freely among the
} business men in the several stores
and it is feared that the disease viii
spread. DR.. Quarry. the state super.
intendent of health, was called and is