Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-12-07
STATE NEWS

Major White is back in Valley City
after his trip to the coast.
Several s of diphtheria are re-
ported at Marvel, Grand Forks county.
Prof. Kaufman of the agricultural
college has scheduled a number of
farmers institutes.
Mayor johnson of Fargo has gotten
to lecturing in the churches on taxa
ton and similar topics.
:. The Alliance Hail company of
jamestown is making a first payment
OF 60 per cent on losses.
The Forum, which publishes all the
news, says Pat Lyons went down from
Steele to take a Turkish bath.
At McHenry G,237 bushels of flax
were marketed in a single day-at
from SLIGO to $1.7O a bushel.
Attorney Winterer and a party of
Valley City people got twenty-five deer
on a recent hunt at Fort Buford.
Barnes county is proud of it's distinc-
tion as the sixth county in the state in
point of population.
G.. A. Soule roadmaster on the 500
at Harvey, is missing and a number
of creditors mourn.
The New Rockford Transcript arises
to remark that Judge Glaspell is in
better health than for many months.
B. H. Broke of Vale. Grand
Forks county, was sent to the asylum.
He claimed to be the second Christ.
Stephen Collins bought a section
and a half of land from Joseph Pou-
pore at Grand Forks for $21, 900 cash.
E. F. Porter, secretary of state-elect,
and a party of friends have returned
from a hunting trip at Medora with
eleven deer.
The state press will sympathize
with Editor Win Mitchell of the Mimic
Journal whose wife died last week of
consumption.
Col. Creel of the state militia hopes
to see an e%ncampment another yea
He says it is difficult to keep up in
terest in the state guard without it.
Threshers in the vicinity of Bowdon
charge 81 an hour for threshing-
nothing said about bushels. Laborers
get So a day and hard to get at that
figure.
The Lisbon Gazette says there is a
report that William Clemens, who re-
Gently suicided at Leonard, was short
$1,000 in his accounts with two Ella
vator companies.
DR.. Knox Of Wahpeton will supply
the pulpit at jamestown temporarily
vacant because of the resignation of
Rev. Miller and a minister will be ap-
pointed in February.
Patrick ii. Callahan is on trial at
Lisbon for the murder of his cousin.
W. w. Irwin, the celebrated criminal
lawyer of st. Paul, is defending the &C.
cused and P. H. Rourke is assisting
the prosecuting attorney.
There will be. a legislative contest
in Sargent county. John Powers,
the fusion candidate, will contest the
election of j. F. Devlin, republican.
Devlin has ten votes to the good, which
Powers claims are fraudulent.
The Valley City Advocate is so sore
on the anti-tramp law it charges that
some of the sheriffs have contracts
with freight conductors to pay them
- for every hobo delivered to them
for stealing rides on trains. It sounds
sort O. fishy.
At the present rate of increase the
Milton Globe says the vote OF Cavalier
county in 1904 will exceed 1000. The
population has increased largely in the
past four years and will increase NOR
rapidly when the school lands are sole
and settled upon.
J. E. Phelan of Fargo bought two
carloads of cattle at South St. Paul
They were shipped some time age
from the farm of Commissioner Brown
of Cass county and Phelan bough'
them for Sc a head less than he coult
have done on the farm.
The Valley City Alliance figures thu
cost of the election in Barnes count,
at $1,000. Taking this as a basis tn.
same paper thinks the total expens,
of the election in the state would b,
100000. But this is cheap, consid
ering the beneficial resurls obtained
and the tremendous republican major
ity.
A child named Benjamin, i'll will
d%iphtheria, was taken from an N. P
train at Fargo. There was a clasl
as to who was responsible for the car
of the child, the railroad and the cit.
holding opposite views. The cit!
finally took charge of the case and will