Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-27

company did not make any great profit
on that deal.
Grand Forks is talking Masonic
temple.
, Fargo sent the Edinburg fire suffer-
ers $3.50.
st. Johns academy for young ladies
has been dedicated at jamestown.
The Valley City state bank will re-
organize under the national banking
law.
Ora Forsyth was sent to the reform
school from Darlington. He set fire
to and destroyed an elevator.
Corporal Alfred Scott Of Company
D, Devils Lake, went down to Fargo
and was touched for his money.
New newspapers are springing up
rapidly along the line of the 500
where new towns are being started in
the state.
The Valley City State Bank declared
a dividend of 10 per cent on the first
years business and put $1,000 into the
surplus fund.
John Johnson of Bigland township,
Grand Forks county, fell from a
wagon and the wheels passed over him
causing his death.
Grand Forks people have started a
relief movement for the starving nil
lions OF India. They want 100000
bushels of wheat from the state.
J. L. Green is a third Ransom
county candidate for the delegation to
the republican state convention. He
wants to be railroad commissioner.
There are already three candidates
in the field for the republican nomln-
alton for Judge in the Fifth district,
with several more counties to hear
from.
T. c. Steele has just finished a life
sized three-quarters length oil portrait
of ex-President Harrison, which is to
be placed in the Commercial club of
Indianapolis.
A decision of Judge Fisk at Grand
Forks declares the city taxes levied
by. the city of Wahpeton from 1893 to
1899 illegal and void, owing to defects
in the assessments and levies.
Over 200 people have settled around
McHenry in Eddy county this spring,
and over $4,000 acres of land will be
broken. The town is growing. One
machinery firm sold 22:15 drills and had
sales aggregating $1,000 a day.
A rural telephone service is to be
established between Valley City and
Getchell-twelve farmers in that
neighborhood having agreed to pay
$50 each for the installation of the
service and a toll OF 81. so a month
for the use of the phones. The line
will extend out about twelve miles.
The residents of Rush school dis
trict, Dickey county, are agitated over
the suit brought against the district
by Gannon's bank of Glendale to force
the payment of school warrants to the
amount Of several hundred dollars
given in payment for a consignment
of school charts received a year ago.
Foley brothers, who secured the
contract of building the Northern Pa
cifc extension from Casselton to
Dickey, have sub-let forty miles of the
work to Evans Brothers and Parker
of st. Paul. The contractors have
agreed to complete the work by No.
vember l and on that account will
employ a vast number of men. It is
expected that 1000 laborers and GOO
teams will be employed from the start.
Wahpeton Globe: Mrs. Matthew
Sterritt, wife of Engineer Sterritt who
died at Aberdeen three weeks ago,
died at her home on Second street
early Monday morning of pneumonia
which she contracted by exposure at
recent visits at her husbands grave.
She has not been in good health since
her husbands death, and her demise
so soon after her husband brings out
the thought that even death could not
separate this loving couple.
The Oddfellows of the state will give
a ball in each town in which there is
a lodge on the anniversary Of the or
der, April 2G. The funds derived from
the balls will be added to the $4,000
already collected for the purpose of
building ar orphans home for this
state. II $4,000 is raised the SUI
preme lodge will assist the members in
building the home. Minnesota has
such a home in which orphans are
euucdLeu anu dSeu ana QlSaDleu men
and women cared for. The plan to
, raise money in this state is commend
able and it is hoped that it will be
successful.
The tight closing order is making
lots Of work for Chief of Police Fuller
of Moorhead. The saloon men in pur-
suance of the policy, perhaps, that
there is no better way to get rid of an
obnoxious ruling than to strictly en-
force it, kept the chief busy going into
their places of business with them.
Chief Fuller was obliging and accom-
panied themNeach time when requested
to do SO, but he was a pretty tired mar
by the time night fell. 1t was "Chief
| want to get my Wheel" or "Chief
I've left my Sunday roast in the ice
box" and chief, my porter forgot to
turn out the lights" These and
scores of other reasons were given the
handsome and accommodating head
of the police department, as excuses
for going into the saloons. He went
with them all but some one predicted