Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-11

cut on his lip and a good ducking be-
sides, otherwise he was not injured.
Two blind piggers have been ar
rested at Harvey.
India relief meetings are popular
through the state.
Sargent county is receiving a num-
Der of new settlers.
Over $4,000 have been raised at Far
go for the fire festival.
Switchman Hopkins broke his knee
cap while scuffling at Fargo.
The Dickey County Leader thinks J.
NJ. Devine the logical candidate for
superintendent of public instruction.
Mcclure of the Minot Optic thinks
there is a shortage in the promised
crop of harmony in Ransom county.
Two schools have been closed at o.
ga, Cavalier county, and fifteen fam
lilies placed under quarantine because
of smallpox.
Louis Johnson, a horse thief, wa
captured in Cavalier county with an
armament consisting of two %revolvers,
two bowie knives and a razor.
There was a heavy frost in the
northern part of the state a few days
ago and ice a quarter of an inch thick
formed at Devils Lake. No damage
vas done to grain.
Minot district court no sooner ended
one murder trial than work was begun
in the drawing of another jury for a
second murder case, the Curtis-Whitely
shooting at Williston.
Republican delegates were elected
oring the nomination of Judge Morgan
to the supreme bench; John F. Cowan
for district Judge; Harry Hale, state
senator.
During the month of Apr.l SG,724
LaMoure county gophers were slaugh-
tered, detailed, and their tails turned
over to the county at two cents each,
involving a cash outlay on the part of
the county of 81, 734 81.
Geo. Kohr. living four miles north
of New Rockford, was burned out. Mrs.
Kohr set fire to some rakings and the
wind set the fire whirling, catching in
and burning the house and contents,
and the barn and its contents.
For several days surveyors have
been at work in the vicinity of Lakota
and the claim is made that an extern
sion is to ne made from Leeds to par
allel the proposed new line of the Great
Northern from Lakota to the Canadian
border.
Col. w. c. Treumann has received a
letter from r. E. Manley, who is now
practicing law in Manila, P. T.. Man
ley belonged to the lrst N. D. regi-
ment and is from Darlington. He
writes that he is enjoying a good law
business.
April has been a very busy month
at the State Enforcement league head
quarters, evidence having been received
and papers issued for forty prosecu-
tions, though not all of these had yet
been served. Nineteen of these cases
are in one county.
At last reports from Ward county
the convention vas claimed by both
Major j. S. Murphy and Editor Wilson,
who is a candidate for secretary of
state. The Murphy ticket carried in
Minot. Returns are incomplete at
last advices to the Minot Optic.
DR.. Musgrove of Grafton, who was
planning to return home some days
ago, is quarantined at the %sanitarium
in Hudson, Wis.,, where he has been
for treatment. One of n nurses was
FRUSTRATED with smallpox, but it is not
learned to what extent the disease has
spread in the sanitarium. DR.. Mus
grove is secretary of the state board
of health, and now knows how it is
himself.
The Aberdeen, s. D., Democrat says:
Richard .Halpin of Oscola accompanied
Sheriff Thompson to Aberdeen Tues
day evening in order to answer to a
complaint made by the notorious Maria
Kicks. The hearing of the case was
postponed upon the request Of Halpin
until Thursday, May 10, and he was re-
leased upon mis- own recognizance.
Marie has alleged that some time last
summer she kept house for him, and
that during such time, their relations
became more intimate than Is usual
between master and servant. The re-
suit is claimed to be the little child she
now has with her. Dick, however,