Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-15

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the Casselton- DicKey extension Of the
road. ssgs
There is a movement on foot in Val
ley City to form a monster Mckinley
Roosevelt club. Col Geo. M. Young
lis at the head Of the movement, which
has over three hundred 81 ignatures al
ready.
As company has been organized to
operate stock ranch II Stutsman
county. They have purchased 2S,00O.
acres of range land IN the northwest
/ ern portion of the county. M. W !. Sanger,
\ Douglas Lefingwell, ]! Bob Clendening
OF Fargo, Tom Fowler of Mapleton and
Jack Walker of Carring ton. compose.
\ the company and the ranch will be;
stocked in the spring, 4
a #
Argus Bishop Edsall Of the Geth-
semane church have received the docu-
.ments from Secretary Of State Falley,
whereby the organization Of Gethsem-5
ane church is changed to that of Geth-s
semane cathedral. The formal organ
ization can now be proceeded with and
all transfers made. The nomination
of a dean will be made after the mat
ter has been thoroughly gone over IN
the conferences. 3s5 #5
"a curio Gus feature is to be noticed III
many of the wheat II fields this year.
This is a second growth of wheat
4 springing from the crown of the old
plant after the original crop has been.
cut. On many fields this new growth
is g tosS inches high. In many cases.
there is "a new growth from seed which
failed to germinate in the spring, but
which has been started BY the later.
rains. 5l5
Oakes Repub1i ican: A sample Of the
B limestone found at Fred Babcock's
place has been sent to the agricultural
college at Fargo for analysis. There;
is a large BODY OF this stone only sa
few miles from Oakes, and as the
sugar factory will use about ten tons
a+a year it will be a great convenience.
to find it so near home. Itt was ex-
5pected that it would all have to be
Shipped in from Minnesota
l
Grand Forks Herald a party who
spent Sunday up the month line says
4 that there are some great crops around
st. Thomas and Glasston. Some fields
there, he says, will easily yield is or
20 bushels per acre. The farmers
there are feeling strictly first class
and have good reason to as that sec
ton has been part icul larly favored by
the weather clerk. The quality Of the
grain is excellent the kernels being
plump and OF fine color.
$8s s$s sss5
For some months the sports Of Ar
Sgusyille, a village twelve miles north
of Fargo, have enjoyed the novelty of
having their faces shaved by5a young
lady barber, who went under the name
Sof Rosa Johnson She was reticent
about her past and attended strictly to-
business. Saturday at is reported that
a Chinaman arrived at Argusville,E
{ claimed the woman as his wife, broke
7 her barber outfit and compelled her to-
accompany him on the next train.
Fargo Forum r . Van Hoesen,
wholesale wall paper dealer of Roch-
ester, q. /, is in the city today On a
visit to his broth her, Edwin Van Hoe
sen, the telegraph operator who made
an unsuccessful attennpt two weeks ago
to shoot himself and who is still sat st.
Johns hospit tai oung Van Hoesen
is improving slowly but his mind has
cleared up somsWh hat and his condition
{ is. very much better than was antici-
P0tSNu tASs SSOtAS a&5
III able to travel his brother will take
him east where he viii probably be:
placed5in q sanitarium for treatment
The cost of the Valley City water
works IS said to have been about 81. $$4
900 more than they could have been
put In for, vet a short time since pri-
/ vate offer was made to take the works
on the city's hands, and pay the city
all chat has been expended in the con-
sstruction Of the works, The steam
pumping station supplies the town
with water works satisfactorily and
IS always to be depended npon. The
city operates the station, and II Is said
the system IS now practically self sns-
tanning The electric light plant and
pumping station are ii the same
building, both operated BY the city.