Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-24
lions Of litigation which may arise
from this action are hard to determine.

IAOAo VI i1IA6dtlOu WHICH mdS d1AoS
from this action are hard to determine.
The financial secretary of a frater-
nal order at Grand Forks is short $500.
A warrant has been issued for his ar
rest. Poker is the cause.
Twelve cases have been instituted
against the 500 railroad for damages
resulting from prairie fires. The COM
pany has offered to settle the cases.
Justice, Bateman & Co. have shipped
out 100000 pounds of wool from Dick
inson and have advanced $4,000 on
consignment.
Ed Smith of the Cakes Republican
came to the defense of Major Edwards,
as if he needed defense-and concludes
that "if the rest of lis get through
with as few scars on our moral es-
cutcheon as he has, we will be darn
lucky"
The LaMoure Chronicle understands
that the Northern Pacific management
has decided to locate the division of
the Leeds-Wadena line, soon to be
completed, at Cakes. LaMoure mer-
chants and business men generally
are up in arms and will make a vigor-
Ii protest against such action.
Chris Anders, a Fargo boy, is on the
battleship Oregon, and vas aboard
when she struck on the rocks in Chin
csc waters. He writes friends at Far
go an interesting letter descriptive of
the experiences Of the pride of the
navy during the several days she vas
aground, and when she finally got off
the rocks.
The two women, Ida Arndt and Mar
tina Arndt, of Cooperstown, who were
arrested for attempting to use postage
stamps a second time by washing off
before U. S. Commissioner Murphy
and bound over to the grand jury in
bonds for $1,000.
The Grand Forks P%laindealer, which
throws campaign mud in a reckless
manner and liberal style, accused Tom
Marshall of being a money shark, and
Editor Smith of the Cakes Republican
promptly promises to pay the ex-
penses of a representative of the Plain
dealer to Dickey county to investigate
Toms record-provided he finds any
thing ~discreditable to Marshall.
Mayor johnson of Fargo and Pres
ident Worst have gone to Colorado
| Springs to make an effort to secure the
next meeting of the National congress
for Fargo. There is an average year.
ly attendance of n thousand of the
progressive farmers of the United
States at the congress and North Da-
kota wants them next year.. The ses-
sion will last until the 31st. of the pres
ent month.
Valley City Alliance: Col. Young
and DR.. w. R. l.. Best, V. S., were out
Monday getting signers for the McKin-
ley-Roosevelt club which will be fully
organized Saturday night next at the
court house. AS a result of their lab
ors 800 names were obtained. It is
intended to have the club fully drilled
and ready to give Teddy" Roosevelt
a send OH when he passes through Val.
ley City on his way to the coast.
In an attempt to arrest one Joseph
Toffell at Pisek, N. D., on Aug. II
Deputy Marshall Bell was shot at by
Toffell, the ball passing through his
hat and grazing the skull, the prisoner
escaping, since which time no trace
could be found of the fellow until Sat.
urday afternoon, when he was dis.
covered in an East Grand Forks sa.
loon, where he was arrested and taken
to Grand Forks and placed in the
county Jail.
Minot Optic: Attorney LeSueur is
now engaged in drafting a complaint
against the board of county commits
sioners charging them with incompe,
tency and with the crime of misappro.
priating the funds of the county. The
same complaint contains allegations
against States Attorney johnson
charging him with unlawfully accept.
ing from the county a warrant fol
$3.50, which amount is alleged to be in
excess Of his legal salary as prescribed
by law.
A gang of swindlers are travelling
around the country claiming authority
to examine wells. They examine thu
water through a microscope and fine
all kinds of bacteria, cholera and ty.
phoid germs, and permit the farmer
and his wife to look through the mi