Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-16
school this week preparatory to their

Frank Hawkins of Grand Forks lost
two fingers in a saw mill.
Senator Twichell is a candidate for
sheriff of Cass county.
Mrs. Flora P. Gates Of Fargo died
in the insane asylum At Fargo.
w. B. Sidmore, arrested at Dickin-
son for rape, has been held in $1,000
bail for trial.
Joseph Burns, living in the Turtle
Mountain country, died suddenly from
bleeding at the nose.
The Northern Pacific have just COM
pleted the largest pumping station on
the division at Dawson.
Six births in ot. Thomas last week
would indicate that the people there
are preparing for the coming of the
census enumerator.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Vosburgh of
Grand Forks will leave there to locate
in Oklahoma. Vosburgh is court
stenographer of that district.
Mrs. Finlay Grants brother, Frank
York, has been made deputy collector
of customs at Cebu, Cebu island, and
his gold mine there is developing good
property.
Notwithstanding the question raised
with regard to the judicial convention
in the fifth district, the majority of the
committee publishes a call for the con-
vention May Is.
Senator Hansbrough, among others,
received a vote of thanks from the ma
tional pure food congress just adj
jOurned at Washington, for-efforts in
behalf of legislation-in that direction.
An immigrant who arrived at Bow
bells last week with a carload of be-
longings and had covered 900 miles
was discovered to have smuggled his
wife and child through under a wagon
box the entire distance.
Fargo will have drainage conven-
ton March q, when delegates from
different parts of the Red river valley
will enter a wedge to secure $SOO,OO
from the government for drainage and
canal building in Tie Red river valley,
Foster County Independent: During
the week ending March L H. A. Hogue,
the real estate man, sold five quarter
sections of land for $7,34O cash. And
he has some more big deals in sight
which he expects to close in a few
days.
The man Livingston, arrested
at jamestown, has been identified as
the man who escaped from Walla
Walla, Wash, where he was out on
parole from an eighteen year sentence
for manslaughter. He will have to
return and serve his full time in the
pen.
Major j. H. Frame of the North Da-
kota national guard has rendered Lieu
tenant A. J. Osborn of Company K, a
resident OF Dickinson, the appointment
of adjutant of the second battalion.
Lieutenant Osborn held the same po-
sition while serving with the North
Dakota volunteers in the Philippines.
Court has convened in Sargent
county and the gopher tail" swindlers
are on trial. These are cases in which
certificates for gopher bounty were
raised and the county defrauded out
OF a considerable sum. The defend
ants demurred to the indictments but
the demurrer was overruled and they
will have to stand trial.
Five alleged timber thieves have
been arrested in Cavalier county,
charged by Land Commissioner Laxdal
with trespass on state school lands.
The commissioner says he is COM
PEELED by the number Of such tres
passes to take action of this kind and
Will also bring prosecutions against
trespassers on hay lands.
Congressman Spalding has O
mended the establishment of a post
office at Dalger, Wells county, North
Dakota, with G. A. B. Delger postmas-
ter. He has also recommended B. S.
Sarvis for postmaster at Lamona,
Barnes county, Fred Strobel at Kassel,
Mcintosh county, and Mrs. Dora Col
lis at Conklin, Mclean county.
Mrs. Thos. R. Morris of Fargo has
filed a contest of the will of her late
husband who died in the asylum at
Jamestown. He left $4,000 worth of
property to be divided between her
and her children but specified that she
should lose the property should she
remarry. She claims he was mentally
incompetent at the time he made the
will.
Joe Venue, who was a bugler in Co.
G of Grafton and with the North Da-
kota regiment in the Philippines, and
afterwards travelled about the state
with his partner, Mr.. Olson, exhibiting
Philippine curios, is reported to have
been married to Miss Rosie v. Green
at Portal, N. D. Miss Green is a
daughter of Inspector Green of the
United States customs office. The
wedding occurred in st. Mary's church.
In the interests of harmony-the
observation-disclosures faction Of the re-
publicans of Morton county met and
resolved that the Morton county dele
cation indorse BiAgenheimer and
Wickham for retention in ofice-and
passed the matter up to the other fac
tion of the republicans-who turned
the resolutions down and passed an
ot.ler resolution-indorsing nothing
but republicanism. The harmony ele-
ment seems to be still lacking.
The jury in the Curtis murder case.
charged with shooting Whitley at
Williston in December, was out forty
two hours and came into court with
the announcement that thew cOnId not