Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-06

good class and is making a good pen
record.
The new bank at Napoleon has
opened up for business.
Harvey, on the 500, has put in a
new chemical hre eXtinguisher.
Valley City WIN vote on the propo-
sition to establish a public library.
Several Wahpeton people are repar
ing to attend the Paris exposition.
The ~postofice at Sheldon was en-
tered in the night and some $500 taken.
The advance guard of a number Of
M~innesotans have arrived to settle in
Oliver county.
The officers of the Valley City state
bank have applied for a charter for a
national bank.
Train No. l was run in two sections
today to accommodate the heavy pas
senger traffic.
The jamestown Alert says Bailey
Fuller has again SHE'D his castor into
the senatorial ring.
Game Warden Gokey and another
Dawson man shot fOIty-eight geese
one day this week.
A dispatch from Wells county says
Wells county will be for Judge Glas-
pell in the judicial convention.
The city o. Grand Forks will sue the
county for delinquent tax interest and
penalties, aggregating some $4,000.
The Valley City militia company
has sold its armory for 81, 700 but will
erect a new one more centrally located.
The flax fibre mill at Fargo made
a shipment of twenty-seven cars of
product to it's eastern establishment
last week.
About $50 farms have been proved
up on in Cavalier county and will be-
come subject to taxation for the first
time this year.
Two members of Company G at Graf
ton have died since their return from
the Philippines from disease or illness
contracted there.
Captain James Ulio of the End infan-
try has been detailed by the govern
ment as military instructor at the ag-
ricultural college.
M. Just, a Norwegian who had just
arrived at Cooperstown from Norway,
went insane and was taken to the asy-
lum at Jamestown.
North Dakota has another grain
0rnUarc ocC0aiofi0n 0rooni0nd OF n
meeting held at Grand Forks. Thomas
Dodd of Hope is president.
DR.. Falk, in passing the sixteen mile
post, calls attention to the fact that
the last year has been the best in the
history of his Trail County Times.
Attorney and Mrs. J. M. Cochrane of
Grand Forks have returned from Flor
ida, where they report a number of
North Dakotans spending the winter,
among them Geo. P. Flannery, for
merly of Bismarck.
Sheriff Severn of Stutsman county
has returned from Walla Walla where
he took Livingston, the murderer from
the Washington pen who escaped from
parole. AS usual, there was a woman
at the bottom of the case, and after
Livingston fled she informed on him.
Joseph Mckenzie, a Northern Paci-
fc brakeman, was killed at Great
Falls, Mont. He has a brother a con-
ductor on the Duluth branch, and an
other brother, John Mckenzie, was
killed on the Dakota division a num-
Der of years ago and is buried at
Jamestown.
The report of James Hamilton, a for
mer member of Company H, was SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary
for DESERVING his company seems to
have been false. One of the members
of Company H received a letter from
Hamilton in which he stated that he
was serving with the 36th as usual.
In the suit brought at Fargo to test
the legality of the city contract for
lighting, Judge Pollock has issued an
order to the city to show cause why it
should not be restrained from making
further payments to the Fargo Gas &
Electric company. The suit is brought
by J.. B. Lockhart and Ball, Watson &,
Maclay are the attorneys. The con-
tract was entered into by the city in
1895 and calls for fifty arc lights at
$40 a Month each.
At a depth Of GA feet the quartz In
the John Tilton" mine at San Diego,
CAL, assays $G,212.72 per ton. Quartz
running So per ton can be worked with
profit. A stock company has been
formed, with John Tilton Butler, for
merly Of LaMoure, as president and
general manager. The capital stock
of the company is placed at $1O,OOO,-
600, divided into 100000 shares of
a par value of $40 each. Gold miners
agree that the Butler Bros. have a
mine that will make them millionaires
several times over.
The Walhalla Mountaineer says: It
is reported that the inhabitants in one
of the Mennonite villages adjacent to
the boundary line hearing of the sue
cess of British arms in the T~ransvaal,
decided to burn the queen in efagy.
Canadians living on the outskirts of
the village, hearing of their Intentions,
assembled in a body and marched into
the village s%houldering their rifles and
informed the Mennonites that any
mark of disrespect shown towards