Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-04-04
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Chambers in horses is reported from
the neighb borhood of LaMoure.
Sheriff Wilson of Cass county is able
to be out after spending a couple of
months in the hospital. i51
There is talk of organizing a stock
company to prospect for oil in the
Mouse river valley. *s:
]. B. Lockhart has withdrawn from
the suit brought at Fargo to cancel
the city electric light contract.
Officer Barnes was arrested on cleo
ton day at Fargo. He made too free
use of adjectives to a sovereign voter.
Fifty-two foreign born residents took
out their second papers at a special
term of the district court before Judge
Pollock * l34: g;
Charley Mitchell was elected city
treasurer at Fargo and the public Ii
brary proposition carried by a large
majority.
A jamestown dealer is going into
the automobile business and has the
agency for an eastern firm. He ex-
poets to do a large business.
A carload of full blooded short horn
cattle will be imported to jamestown
from Iowa. The grades Of live stock
in the state are being continually i'm
proved, ,5 "a
Intending settlers are already look
ing over the lands on the Fort Totten
reservation and picking out nice places
to locate when the reservation is
opened.
Oliver boucher of Ontario has
bought ,2S0 acres of wild land in Cav
alier county and will bring number
of French families from Canada to
Iarm it. #
Martin Peterson of Jamestown gets
the contract for plastering the new.
Masonic temple at Fargo. The con-
tract calls for the expenditure Of
about $4,000. ..5 gl $ss
1t is stated that the oIner night
when Judge Pollock was returning
from Grafton, he offered his seat to a
young lady on the train, and she mis4
took him for confidence man.
Now it is stated ali business men in
Moorhead will nave to close their %es-
Establishments on Sunday -regar rdless
Of the nature of the business since
the saloon men have been closed.
! s5 S Mayvil1e is justly proud of that new
library which will be built and put in
operation this year through the gen
serosity Of j.. L. Grandin and Mayville
citizens. Capacity for 1000 books will
! be provided. E5 N
Gavin Ross of Drayton was run over
while at work on his farm and instant
ly killed. The wheels by some means
ran over his head breaking the lower
jaw and mutilating the head and face
horribly. His wife was the first to
discover him. 81. 53ss ! Il
Albert Beers of New Rockford tried
4 to load revolver cartridges by packing
the Wad over the powder with a ham
5mer. The cartridge was placed against
7 the. wall and while pounding it ex-
pIoded and he lost an eye, the shell
tearing through the optic.
Hans Sorenson, an experienced stock
raiser of Stutsman county, thinks no
man should engage exclusively in the
stock business in the western part Of
the state without at least four sec
tions OF land. He says it takes that
much land to fodder enough cattle to
pay. to care for. 5ss
"A number of friends assembled at
the residence of Mayor Johnson in
Fargo after the election and heard a
speech made by the mayor, and were
provided with refreshments by Mrs.
j. And the Fargo Call, discouraged
with its efforts to defeat him for
mayor, proposes that he be the next
nominee for sheriff.
Washburn Leader: Mr.. Lathrop
met with a narrow escape from drown
ing while crossing over the Missouri
into Oliver county Sunday. Notwith-
standing the rottenness of the Ice he
made the venture from above Cassel-
mans landing on horseback but went
], through" before reaching the opposite
shore. Tue c1imb-out was difficult,
and help coming from shore in the
nick Of time saved the horse from per
ishing.
8E58 j. ]. Carson, Proth Monetary Wash
ington, Pa. says \ have found Kodol