Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-23

society for the hardships of a miners
camp.
Mandan expects to have electric
lights in about a week.
Old r%esidenters through the state
predict a late spring.
Charles Hurst Of Valley City died at
the state insane asylum.
Williston's grand jury roasts the
officers of the law for neglect of duty.
Fargo has a bonded indebtedness of
$s234,OOO and over $25O,OOO in warrants
out.
The remains of Alfred Almen, killed
in the Philippines, have reached Graf
ton.
Senator Twichell announces his can
didacy for the %shrievalty in Cass
county.
The Great Northern brought several
hundred immigrants to the state this
week.
Ex-Land Commissioner Hugh Watt
is preparing to leave Bathgate and To-
cate in Fargo.
1t is said Editor Wlnship would like
to go to Philadelphia to help renom-
mate Mckinley.
Eighteen candidates took the phar-
macy examination before the state
board of examiners.
Mr.. Grandin has added $1,000 more
to his contribution for the public
library at Mayville.
The Milton Globe dominates
"Prunes" Davis of Grand Forks for
governor on the democratic ticket.
The Hughes Electric Light company
at Fargo will apply to the city council
for permission to put down gas mains.
Flax fibre mills are the objects of
most interest in the state just now.
Grand Forks and Valley City are both
after one.
Attorney Simpson of Dickinson has
received word that his father is SER
iously ill in Portland, Maine, and has
gone east.
Glen Ullen people will market 3OO,-
600 pounds Of wool this season and
will ask the railroad company to build
a warehouse.
The Masonic Temple at Fargo has
been completed and accepted by the
board of trustees. The building cost
about $4,000.
The Woman's club in Fargo want
the question Of establishing a city
library submitted to the people at the
forthcoming election.
Mayor Johnson's Forthcoming an
nual report will show that 100000 per-
sons have registered at the various
hotels there during the year.
George H. Phelps of Fargo went
down to St. Paul to book attractions
for the fire festival. The Terrible
Turk" will be passed up this time.
Out on the stock ranges it is reported
that a few cattle have died from black
leg, and the wolves killed a few, but
the aggregate losses have been very
light.
Dad Clinch of Dickinson, who has
been editor of the Recorder, goes to
Fessenden to take charge of the Wells
County News, Secretary Stickley's
paper.
w. B. Sidmore, arrested for rape at
Dickinson, and pound ove in $4,000
bail, has married the young girl in the
case, and the matter will probably be
dropped.
Captain Aud of Dickinson suggests
that on Memorial day this year an
especial effort be made for the honor
ing Of the heroes Of both wars whose
bodies rest in the various state Gem
eteries.
Attorney Larabee of Minneapolis
will prosecute the case of "Stude-
baker" Brown against the Milwaukee
road for $4,000 damages for injuries
sustained while riding on one of the
Milwaukee's freight trains.
Albert Wismar left Neenah, Wis.
twenty years ago, came to North Da.
kota, got rich, went back, met an old
school girl who had grown up, fell in
love with her, married her, and is or
the way back to North Dakota.
GrduQ fOrkS f1eTalU. 16SC6rQay
afternoon as Mathew Hammond and
Miss Burnett were driving across. the
Great Northern tracks on Third street
the rear wheel of the buggy was
struck by a switch engine, throwing
the occupants violently to the ground
and smashing the vehicle to splinters
The escape of. the parties from serious
if not fatal injuries was nothing Less
than a miracle. They were driving
south when the accident occurred. The
gates were not drawn and Mr.. Ham
mond gave no alarm by either bell o,
whistle. Realizing their peril, Mr.
Hammond whipped up the horses IL
an endeavor to get across the tracks
ahead Of the engine, but did not sue.
coed in doing SO. When the locomo'
tive struck the buggy Miss Burnett
was thrown to the paving some dis.
lance from the track. Hammond
however, struck the ground so close tx
the rails that had he rolled over once
toward the track. his bodv would have