Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-05-08
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Casselton has granted q ten year tel
franchise to Mayor Meredlth.
The agricultural college. football
team has arisen to the d1gnltE OF 9
professional coach.
Hon. Fingal% Enger OF Steele county
has purchased five sections OF ianaS IN
Richland county and his son will farm
it. g. /
The Grand Forks Herald's subscrlp-
tion for Mrs. 0Leary OF Mandan mas
reached the sum of 500 and ne
amount has been forwarded to her.
Doc FaIk, who has been engaged in
editorial work in the state for fifteen
wears. retires from the Trail County
Times and 81. w. Tousley takes cons
troll.
Hon N. G. Larimore has returned
Houston, Texas, where he TOOK
in The Trans-Mississippi conVentaon.
He was the only North Dakotan IN AT
tendance.
The Fargo city council refused to
confirm the appointment OF H. r. MI;
ler as city attorney and then turned
down the nomination OF George q:
Phelps for the same position.
DR.. Quarry of the state oar OF
health has received advices from VIM
nipeg that the epidemic OF smallpox
there was in hand. The doctor was
urged to shut off communication be-
tween this state and Winnipeg Dnt
found it unnecessary.
Kimball, the blind-pigger whose place
was raided at Enderlin, paraded the
streets at night with a gun threaten
ing to blow the everlasting daylaghts
out of somebody just because ne feit
wicked. The Sheldon Progress says
he thinks he owns the town just De
cause he paid $40 a month license. ,
The old settlers of the Devils Lake
region are soon to have their frst PIC
mic and the News says there Will be
many interesting features, among them
the first OK that hauled a Rer river
cart into the country, which has been
secured and will be barbecued for the
guests. No over-eating is looked Tor.
Miss Florence Perrine left Valley
City ten years ago for India, Where
she went as a missionary. She was
married after reaching there n IS
en- route home to visit with her Valley
City relatives. Missionaries are al
lowed to return once in ten years. The
couple expect to take about a year to
make the round trip.
Lea Wright in Jamestown Capital:
Down in LaMoure county the other
day l ran on to Eric Larson who has a
national reputation for an incident
connected with Major McKinley's first
| election. Larson came from Tustln,
Mich, where on the day that Mckinley
was elected his rabid democratic
neighbours cat gave birth to a litter OF
kittens, one of which had the letter
IN" plainly marked on its forehead.
Larson purchased the kitten and dec
Grating it with a handsome collar and
a Mckinley badge, housed it in a pretty
cage and sent it to the president-elect,
timing its arrival so it reached Mr.. Nc
kInley Christmas day. The cat ar
rived safely and Mr., Larson has a
pleasant acknowledgement Of his gift.
Mr.. Larson lives near Kuhn.
Among the important cases sched-
uled for trial at the May term of the
federal court which convenes next
Tuesday was that of "A. G. Brown
against the Milwaukee railroad com
pany. Mr.. Brown, while a passenger
on a Milwaukee train at Batavia, Min
nesota, was injured so severely that
he has been confined to his bed con-
| stantly since. 1t was rimored in
court circles that the railroad COM
pany would make a motion at the
opening of court for a continuance on
the ground that two material witnesses
were absent. The prosecution is ready
for trial and it is believed that it will
be possible to bring Mr.. Brown into
court should the case be called. Ow-
ing to the fact that damages in the
sum of $4,000 are asked much at
taches to the case.
Drayton hcho: We have heard
about men talking through their
hats" but it remained for Mayor Nc
Donald, who owns the Drayton Tele-
phone Exchange, to demonstrate a few
days ago that a woman can talk
through a man even If he is not very
thin in stature. While making some
repairs to the telephone system re-
Gently, the mayor cut one of the wires
and held the two ends of the severed
line one in either hand. While thus
holding the same the lady above re
ferred to rang UP the meat shop and
sent#in her order for the dinner roast,
Both the going and coming current on
the wire passed through the mayor,
and the conversation was carried on
and understood by both the lady and
the meat man just the same as if there
had been no break in the wire. Won
derful is the telephone.
THE APPETITE OF A GOAT
Is envied by all poor d~yspeptics
| whose and liver arc 0ut III