Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-04
AROUND THE STATE.

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u Jamestown Alert: The 500 rail-
way company with its usual enterprise
expects to develop the coal deposits
of North Dakota and promises great
things in this line soon. It will be a
blessing of incalculable value to thu
state when the home deposits Of coal
are properly utilized.
Wilmart Kirby Of Medina was adj
Judged insane at a meeting of the
Jamestown board and was committed
ito the state hospi tai. He is about II
years of age. Last July, his father
says, the lad was baptised in a lake.
near Crystal Springs and his head was
uncovered for some time, resulting iii
sunstroke. This is believed to have.
caused his insanity. 55
Grand Forks Herald Political
discussions reached a very warm stage
in the Offices of the Red River Valley
Brick company yesterday, and Secre-
tary u. sA. Hunter proceeded to take
several straw. votes during the day. On
4 an average he says the ballots resulted
u to I in favor of President Mckinley,
though B. f. Brockhoff several times
( attempted to vote twice. Mr.. Hunter
says that the vote taken illustrates
j how Grand Forks will go at the cleo
tions.
The grand secretary's office of the
Masonic bodies; at Fargo received yes,
terday morning from E. H. Mix Of
4 Galveston his fez as a. Noble Of the
Mystic Shrine. It went, through the
flood and his house was only a half
block from the zone of total destruc-.
tion, but all his family were saved,
though 4 nearly all his property was de-
astroyed. There was over five feet of
I I water in his home. The fez is muddy
and faded by immersion in the waters
of the Gulf of Mexico It is quite a
relic. Mr.. Mix was formerly a citizen
of Grand Forks, and was a member Of
the Masonic bodies there, and was also
a member Of El Zagel Shrine of Fargo.
The republican county convention
for Griggs county was the most en-
thusiastic and best attended held in
the county for a number of years. Out
of 100 delegates elected JOG were in
their seats. Several populistsS of two
years ago were republican delegates
this year. The Following county
ticket was nominated: Auditor, Hans
o. LieW; treasurer, Iver Udgard regis
ter of deeds, S. o. Hagen; sheriff, IN.
K. Markuson; superin'be u OF
schools, Clara. Fiering;; clerk OF court,
%. 2. Purington; county judg w. II.
Carlton This is an exceptionally
strong ticket. The resolutions adopted
strongly upheld the president, and de-
clarsd for the retention of the. Philip
pines 5.i d 8 /, III II
The following paragraph occurs in
the jamestown Capitals account Of
y Hon. John Knanf's speech at Ping1ree:
Coming down to local affairs he re-
ferred to the statement made by the
candidate for the senate on the fusion
ticket that there is no prosperity in the
state. Five, six and seven years ago
the Russians 335 miles southwest. of
jamestown, sold cattle In town for SIS
4 to SIS a head and now the same char
4 acter Of fat animals are worth $55 a
head. Two fat animals sold for $1u8.
Am I not right 2" turning to Mr.. sWes-
4 com, who corrected him with ...$1 IL"
And under the administration Of
Cleveland not more than $36 could
have been secured for these two
steers. &
STORY OF Al SLAVE.
To ne bound hand and foot for years
by the chains Of disease is the worst
form OF slavery. George D. Williams,
of Manchester, Mich. tells how such
4 a slave was made free He says: my
wife has been SO helpless for five years
that she could not turn over in bed
i alone. After using two bottles of. EIec-
trio Bitters, she is wonderfully inn
proved and able to do her own work, 4
This clJnraYne a. ram, odv fn1 fx,,,, q a, ~.