Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-11
STATE NEWS

W. w. Tousley has purchased the
.Hillsboro Times.
Census enumerators are being ap-
pointed in a number of counties.
Mrs. Hamilton has left Grand Forks
for Washington to rejoin the major.
The First National Bank of Fargo is
now a depository for government
funds.
The Minneapolis and Northern ele-
vator at Larimore burned with $4,000
bushels of wheat.
Charles H. klinefelter, a railroad
conductor at Mandan, has filed a pc
tition in bankruptcy.
Charles Showers is a candidate for
states attorney in Cass county, before
the republican convention.
Henry Cook, the Great Northern ex-
press messenger, tried for embezzle-
ment at Fargo, was acquitted.
Fargo is badly in need of more
dwelling houses. 1t is said 100 resi-
dences could be rented at once if they
were to be had.
Hon. e. F. Porter of Melville, who
has represented his district in the leg
islature and state senate, is being
urged to be a candidate for secretary
of state.
A special train consisting Of seven
teen cars of immigrants arrived in
Harvey, Wells county, last Saturday
morning. The entire train load were
from Eureka, S. D., and will locate
around Harvey.
Henry Thompson, ~1G-year-old son of
Albert Thompson, a farmer living
three miles from Hannah, was killed
by the accidental ~discharging of his
gun while hunting geese at McDon-
AIDS lake, Cavalier county.
1t is reported that when Manager At
kinson Of the French-Hickman fiber
mill returns from New York that he
will have the plans for two new mills
to be erected in this state, one at Val
ley City and one at Darlington.
Ramsey county politics are warm
ing up a little. Hon. John F. Cowan
is conceded the nomination for district
Judge, and the nomination for state
senator on the republican ticket is said
to lie between Henry Hale and Mayor
Brown, with Col. Creel to run anyway.
Mr.. Spalding has recommended the
establishment Of a postofice at Ber-
thold, Ward county, with Frank C.
Walther, postmaster; at Wirch, Dickey
county, with John Wirch postmaster
and at Derrick, Ramsey county, with
J. E. Moscripp, postmaster. He has
also recommended c. S. Rude for post
master at Mona, Cavalier county.
Charles Campbell, a teamster en-
ployed by Foley Brothers, who have a
contract for building the Casselton and
Dickey extension of the Northern Pa
cifc, was killed at Valley City in a
runaway. A heavy wagon loaded with
railroad material passed over him and
his neck was broken. His home is
supposed to be at Chippewa Falls, Wis.
The Grand Forks Sunday Herald de-
votes a full page to the Tri-State
Drainage convention and gives some
interesting facts concerning the his
tory of floods in the past, the benefits
that the construction of the system OF
canals and dams would be to the Red
river valley, a synopsis of the plan and
an excellent may of the whole region
to be affected.
Prairie fires did considerable dam
age around Kuhn. Col. Brady had
his range burned off and had a small
house destroyed; Philip Ensminger
lost his hay, stables and harness; Ber-
nard Dewitt lost his spring range and
it is believed some of his stock sheds;
Gottfried Klandt had two horses Sc
verely burned; the barn of the Nate
Schultz farm was destroyed and num-
erOus other small losses are reported.
DR.. Quarry of Grand Forks, D
intendent of public health of N orth
Dakota, is at Winnipeg for the pur-
pose of learning the true condition OF
the smallpox epidemic there. Strong
pressure is being brought to bear by
DR.. Quarry to prevent passengers from
leaving Winnipeg for the south owe
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern for the next few days. While in
Winnipeg DR.. Quarry interviewed the
health officers and will take some &C.
ton in the premises upon his arrival
home.
An unknown man, beating his way
on a freight, came to grief at Cathay
Wells county. For a number of sta
lions every time the train stopped he
had been jumping off and hiding
When the train stopped at midnight
for water, the car he was on was stand
ing on the bridge. He awoke sudden
ly and realized that the time for him
to vacate had come. Without waiting
to see where he would strike, he
jumped from the car and struck the
water in the lake about twenty feet
below. The water is at least fifteen
feet in depth. He received a slight