Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-23
STATE NE WIS

Towner is just over a diphtheria
quarantine.
E. K. Myhre has been appointed as
postmaster at Valley City.
c. E. Wolfe of Wahpeton is out for
the district judgeship against Judge
Lauder.
The remains of Corporal Byron of
Company D have arrived at Devils
Lake for interment.
G. H. Davidson has filed an appli-
cation to organize the First National
Bank of Minnewaukan.
Nineteen families of Iowa immi-
grants have reached jamestown on the
way to Sykeston, Wells county.
Sir William Van Horne, chairman
of the board of directors of the Can
adian Pacific railroad, once filled the
position of a ticket agent.
The crow prince of Germany is the
only child of the emperor who is not
left-handed, a trait common for CEN
turtles in the royal family of Prussia,
Up to March II, the Northern Pacific
had brought to its eastern terminals
34,O11 cars of wheat4,45O cars less
than for the same period, of the last
crop year.
The suit against the bondsmen of
the late city treasurer, M. l.. Gordon
of Grand Forks, has just been COM
promised for $500; a shortage of 81, Zoo
was claimed.
Mrs. Isabel Dysart, an old settler
aged IS, died suddenly at Minnewau-
kan while sitting in a chair reading.
Death was due to heart failure sue
ceeding an attack of the grip.
On March % Judge Amidon will con-
vene a regular term of the United
States court at Fergus Falls for Judge
Lochren of Minneapolis, who is en-
gagged in other parts of the district.
Hon. w. G. Leistikow and family
are just now enjoying a tour through
Mexico, in company with an organized
party of tourists, 81 that up to date
he is blissfully ignorant Of the diver
sified opinions which his famous inter-
view in the Minneapolis Journal has
raised during his absence.
The application for the following
persons to convert the Towner County
Bank d Cando to the First National
Bank of that city, with a capital of
$4,000, has been approved by the con-
troller of the currency: Harry Lord,
C. ]. Lord, J. S. Conyer, j. L. Thomp-
son, Alex Currie and c. H. Olson.
A disastrous fire was narrowly
averted at Cavalier. The blaze broke
out in the kitchen of the Hotel Jen-
nings and had it not been for the fact
that the wind was favorable, and that
the fire company did valiant service,
the entire town would now be in ashes.
The damage sustained by the hotel
will reach $500.
In a letter to the editor of the Wah-
peton Globe Congressman Spaldine
says: Il note what you say as to the
Puerto Rican tariff bill. I think that
the final arrangement Of the matter
will meet the favor of all republicans.
There has been considerable misunder-
standing Of the part of the public as
to the action of the house."
Valley City Times-Record: We
learn from a reliable source that B. F.
Codding, Of this city, and his daughter,
Miss Viola, will leave for Cape Nome
in the near future. They have pur-
chased steamship tickets and will "a
on the first steamer that leaves Seattle
which will probably be in May. Mr.
Codding has been in business in this
city for a number of years and his
many friends hate to see him leave but
hope that he may strike it rich
in the gold fields. A good deal of ad.
miration is expressed for Miss Viola
who will accompany her father to the
frozen north and exchange the pleas.
ures Of a reigning belle in Valley City