Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-02-23

The Grand Encampment I. o. O. F. is
in session at Fargo.
Frank Gage lost a finger at Fargo
it in a printing press.
Williston saloonkeepers have skipped
out-afraid of the enforcement league.
Grand Forks county is said to have a
candidate for superintendent of public
Ed Mckee secured the contract for
building the new bridge across Devils
Lake, for s6,05O,
The flax fibre mill at Sheldon has paid
out $1,000 to the farmers for straw since
its operation was begun.
Apetition is being circulated at James.
town requesting Hon. Roderick Rose to
become a candidate for mayor.
Hon. A. H. Laughlin has been ordered
to report at Des Moines, Iowa, to receive
final instructions regarding the census.
Mrs. H. E. White of jamestown, re-
Gently deceased, held a policy for $1,000
in the Degree of Honor, which has been
paid through Mrs. Andrew Blewett.
Erick Arneson who lost both his legs
in the N. P. yards at Fargo is said to
have been offered $4,000 by the company
or a life position at a moderate salary.
Jacob Baungartener, a patient, left the
asylum without care last week, carrying
two suits of clothes and a pair of felt
boots. His whereabouts have not yet
been learned. but it is supposed he has
gone to visit a sister in Walsh county.
Peter Arndt, who resides four miles
south of Wimbledon, was seriously injur-
ed while at work in the bottom of an
sO-foot we'll. A bucket weighing about
80 pounds become unfastened and fell,
striking Arndt. He sustained serious
wounds on the head and shoulders and
was unconscious for some time. His in
jurics will not result fatally, however.
A number of Jamestown's leading bust
ness men are about to organize a corpor-
alton for the purpose of engaging in
sheep raising. The plan is to buy sheep
and let the same out among farmers to
raise on shares. The number of sheep
to be bought has not been settled, but
will be at least 10000. The promoters
are confident that the raising of sheep
will prove profitable to all parties con-
cerned.
Postmaster. Smith of Griswold, La
Moure county says that the committee
to collect subscriptions for free right of
way for the 500 has received between
$1,000 and $4,000, leaving three townships
not heard from and if the 500 means
business he thinks it will be an easy
matter to collect $1,000 to $1,000 more
in his neighborhood. Nothing further
regarding the action of the road has been
made public at Griswold or vicinity since
last reports
Letters have just been received from
w. L. Straub, of the Grand Forks Herald,
who is spending the winter in Florida.
Last summer Mr.. Straub and a number
of North Dakotans invested in real estate
near st. Petersburg, on Tampa bay, and
expect to go quite extensively into pine
apple culture. MI. Straub is now there
arranging the details. He sends back
very encouraging reports, and tells of
other North Dakotans who are becoming
interested in the industry. Among these
are Messrs. Meme, of Milton, and Knee
of Pembina, both of whom have invested
in property. Mr.. Kneeshaw will plant
extensively at once, and will also erect a
handsome residence, which he expects
to occupy each winter.
The Minot Optic says of the suicide of
Charles Berg in the county Jail there:
He chose a place on the extreme east
side of the corridor of the Jail, at a point
where the steam pipes run to the second
floor by the side of the steel cages.
Reaching up he tied one end of the cord
to the pipe and the other around his
neck, making what is usually known as
a slipping moose. Thus arranged he
either bent forward or backwards until
the cord about his neck was drawn suf-
ficiently tight to stop his breathing.
After he had become insensible, his
weight broke the cord and he fell to the
floor. But the breaking of the cord did
not serve to loosen it, so deeply was it
imbedded in his neck and he died of
strangulation. Just as he was in his
last struggles, a prisoner by the name of
Sample, heard the struggling and upon
going to see what the trouble was, found
Berg on the floor, but still moving his
limbs. He gave the alarm and as soon
as possible removed the cord from his
neck. Sheriff Carol and his assistants