Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-09-07

after a hard fight escaped. 1t is quite
probable that these are the remains of
an officer who was killed in the Skin
mish.
A Chicago dispatch says Charles
Smith, a North Dakota farmer, came
to Chicago Friday morning, having in
his possession $500 with which to pur-
chase stock for the farm. In the
evening he visited a saloon and res
taurant. A woman induced him to
buy her a drink. She had sat close
to him, but the wallet was extracted
SO dexterously he did not know he was
robbed until after she had disappeared.
Helmer, the son Of A. M. Ladnell Of
Meckinock, Grand Forks county, was
accidently XII led by Tommy Tadber
while out hunting. The lads had
been out some time and were on their
way home and while walking along
the road, Helmer in advance, the gun
which Tommy was carrying in some
way was discharged, the contents lodg-
ing just above the heart. Helmer fell
to the ground at once and survived
just a short time.
The enforcement league has begun
suits against the hondsmen of Robert
Stewart of Bottineau, for violation of
the prohibition law. Stewart is en-
gagged in the drug business, and not
being a pharmacist himself, he en-
tered into partnership with his clerk
and secured a liquor permit, furnishing
the customary $1,000 bonds. A few
months ago the partnership was dis
solved and a new partner was taken
in, a second bond being furnished. The
league claims that liquor was illegally
sold during each partnership. and sep
arate suits are brought against each
set of bondsmen.
Mrs. Jos. Birch of Bathgate has just
received a welcome letter from her
son Sidney. 1t was welcome because
it brought the news that he was we'll
and also that he had enclosed a re-
hinder OF his love for the old folks at
home in the form OF a draft for 81, 100.
Sid is working in Dawson City for the
same firm with whom he was engaged
when he first went to that place. For
a long time he received $40 a day, but
with the railway and steamboat line
reducing the cost Of living through re-
duced freight, wages in every line have
declined. Bob Birch sold his hotel at
Dawson a short time ago for $4,000
and will, with his family, visit his par
ents in the near future.
Sheriff Collins of Grand Forks has
gone to Montana to bring back Secre-
tary Katzemeyer Of the local order OF
Foresters, who is short several hun
dred dollars Of lodge money. The
Herald says: "The story of the defal-
cation is but a REPETITION of the one
that has been told so often before in
similar cases. The secretary was in
the habit of playing a game of poker
now and again with the stakes just
enough to make the game interesting
Having quite a sum of money in his
hands he began using it and getting in.
to bigger games. - had been known fol
some time that he had lost quite heav.
lily at the card table and some of those
with whom he had been playing had
wondered how it came that he was al.
ways flush. He has a large circle 0
friends in the city who regret the oc.
c%urrence, and it is understood that an
effort is being made to square him with
the lodge. This will probably be done
as no n is Of the opinion that it was
his intention to beat the lodge out of
dollar. 1t will be a difficult matter tt
fix the deal up with the bond company
one of the representatives of which
swore out the warrant for his arrest
The affair is a most unfortunate one