Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-16
STATE NEwS

The number of cases of diphtheria
at Mandan is increasing.
Forty-nine candidates are reported
for sheriff in Richland county with
several precints to hear from.
Frank Neva paid a fine of 500 for
slapping Julia Suchla twice at a Polish
sociable gathering at jamestown.
City politics are warming up at Man
dan and p. W.. McGillic and A. M.
Packard are candidates for mayor.
G. M. Bemis, a travelling missionary
at Jamestown, was sent to the county
Jail for twenty days for beating his
wife.
The remains of Ole T. Lakken, who
died in the Philippines, will be brought
back to his home at Kindred for inter-
ment.
Northern Pacific surveyors are sur
veying the line from Minor to Cakes
and the people Of both places have
hopes.
Sergeant Martin Hummel of Fargo
gets a job in the folding department
of the document room at Washington
at $75 a month.
States Attorney Cassels went down
to Wisconsin from Glendale and got
married, thus striking another blow at
home industry.
James Quinn, a Company I boy, got
ten days at Wahpeton for swiping a
jack knife and some other personal
property from a companion.
j. D. Williams, formerly auditor of
Wells county, was stricken with dumb
ness. while on a visit to Minneapolis
and is unable to speak a word.
In the United States court at Grand
Forks Arthur Lesuer is suing the Gaar-
Scott threshing machine company for
$4,000 for alleged infringement of
patents.
Some jamestown property holders
bring suit to have their lots excluded
from the city limits. The lots are
outlying and valuable for little but ag-
ricultural purposes.
Bob Wallace has been up to Fessen-
den examining banks and the News
declares Bob can put up more enter
tainment in a given length Of time
than any other man in the state.
Valley City gets the Fifth judicial
district convention and the date has
been set for May Is. The convention
promises warmth enough to start off
the campaign year in good shape.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Grand Forks and committees appointed
to extend inducements to the Milwau-
kee and 500 roads and see what is the
nTnCnoof NJ thar ovforl;,,- ~ %lo%
city.
The Waterous Engine company of
st. Paul has contracted with the Dick
inson authorities for the delivery of a
first-class steam fire engine and hook
and LADDER truck, with chemical COM
bination.
Martin Olson, a farmer living five
miles from Leeds, was found dead in
his bed. At first it was thought there
might have been foul play but the
c%OrOnerS jury decided that he came
to his death from natural causes.
s. Walsh County Record: d. P. Nc
Leod evidently has struck oil since he
went west a few weeks ago. We no.
tice that his nam appears first among
the directors Of the rev Mexico Oil
Development Co., of Los Angeles, CAL,
with a capital stock of $3.50, 900. Dan
is a rustler and we hope he will make
a million out Of it.
The goose wheat fakir is doing bus
mess in Sargent county. One farmer
paid $50 for ten bushels of the useless
stuff, worth So. so for chicken feed.
For the SIG. so out of which he was
cheated that farmer could have paid
for his local paper for a decade, and it
would have saved him from a number