Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-13

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state this week.
The residence of John Houston was
destroyed by fire at Bathgate.
The population Of Ward county has
increased 1900 in the last thirty days.
Eighty-eight homestead filings have
been made at Linton since the first of
the year.
]. w. Ewing, a mail contractor, fell
from q Great Northern train in Walsh
and was killed.
The election of Mayor Brown at
Lake means the closing of the
liquid resorts there.
A man from Indiana arrived at
Minot recently with grown children
enough to take up 1000 acres of land.
Hon. NJ. N. Johnson of Lakota has
been elected a lay delegate to repre-
sent that charge at. the coming con-
fernce.
At the request of Senator Hans
brough the appropriation for. an cleo
trio light plant at Fort Totten will be
increased to $4,000.
John Fisher of Medina, who was ar
rested for stealing snow fence from the
N. p, may bring an action for dam
ages against the company.
The Jamestown Alert says an excel
lent quality of sugar may be made
from the sap of the boXelder, and a
family there makes it regularly.
The wheat crop in Walsh county
will be lighter than usual this year
for the reason that many of the farm
ers will SOW their fields to flax.
Ramsey county farmers have paid
in 100000 cash Tor the proposed farm
ers' railroad north of Devils Lake and
expect to have the entire $4,000 paid
in before long.
Senator Marshall of Cakes and H. c..
Mccartney have formed a partnership
to be known as the Marshall cattle
company for the importation and sale
of blooded stock.
Mrs. Ole Hovens of Bottineau, a
woman with eight children, tired of
her husband and ran off with William
Gaudette. The officers of the law
are looking FOR them.
The Northern Pacific officials are
contemplating the building Of a branch
from East Grand Forks up into the
Cass Lake country. to Warroad and
Rosseau-Denny Hannafin's towns.
The fish are coming down the Mouse
river and Editor Mcclure says the peo-
pie who are catching them and feeding
them to the hogs should be muzzled.
This looks like a reflection on some-
body.
The senate committee on public
buildings has favorably reported SEN
ator Hansbrough's bill for the con-
struction of a federal building at
Grand Forks, fixing the appropriation
at S1SO,O0O.
Manager jerry Bacon of the Hotel
Dakota at Grand Forks has a new son.
James Flater, a sailor on the battle
ship Oregon, who was in the Santiago
engagement, is visiting his parents at
New Rockford. He has been absent
since 1893.
Captain Sigsbee visited in Fargo
Saturday. He was welcomed by q
delegation of prominent citizens and
shown the sights of interest about the
city. The reception was purely infor-
NAL. The captain left on the night
train for the east.
Senator Hansbrough has reported
from the committee on public lands
the bill for relief of homestead set
tiers who died in the army or navy
during the Spanish and Philippine
war. The bill allows the legal heirs
of such claimants to prove up imme-
diately on their claims.
Monday and Tuesday of this week
272 filings were made at the Minot
land office. The demand for land out
there is very brisk, and farms that
were bought a year or two ago Tor
81 and S1.1O per acre are readily sell
ing for So per acre up. The town is
crowded and business in all lines is
rushing.
The Moorhead saloons will even up
with the city for the early closing or
der by withdrawing their patronage
from the Moorhead light plant, two
thirds of which comes from them, and
will get lights from the Hughes COM
pany at Fargo. AS the city will grant
no franchise, house tops will be used
in lieu of poles.
II. H. Wilcox, L. G. Ball and other
veterans in the soldiers home at Lis
bon publish resolutions directed
against" the present commandment
whose removal they demand, giving
as their reason they were '~intimidated
and deprived of their rights of stuff
rage" by him, as they claim.
Dick Copeland of Williston will de-
fend Hans Thrope now in jail at Minot
charged with having shot and killed
his wife last December. Thrope does
not deny the killing but claims to have
been insane when he committed the
deed. 1t is understood that the de-
Tense will try to prove that the pris-
oner was not responsible for his acts
at the time.
jamestown Alert: The political
situation has become of such absorb
ing interest that some people seem
to back up their opinions with their
fists if necessary. A layman and a
clergyman of the city came near COM
ing to blows this morning-all be-
cause the statements of the clergyman
that the layman was not truthful in
some of his statements.
The boiling midroaders in the peo-