Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-07-20

there is a large acreage this will cut
an important figure in affairs this fall.
Napoleon Homestead: Wool day"
was a lively one here last Friday.
About 10000 pounds was marketed. H.
G. Delaney, E. H. Wilson, Dugald
Campbell, and a Mr.. B%eardsley OF St.
Louis, were among the buyers present.
Fifteen cents was the top price paid.
Eric Arneson, formerly a member
of the section gang of the Northern
Pacific railroad at Fargo, who lost both
feet by being run down by a switch
engine at the Eighth street crossing,
November IL, 1898, has brought suit by
NJ. A. Hildreth. attorney, for damages
in the sum of $4,000.
Aneta Panorama: Peter G. Thomp-
son, living n and a half miles north
Of Lee, dropped dead Tuesday after
noon while helping one of his neigh
bors unhitch a team of horses. We
have not learned the cause of his
death, but it was probably heart fail
ure. He leaves a wife and large fam
lily.
Ward County Reporter: A sum-
ming up of the total number of acres
of land in this land district has just
been completed by Jul local land Office
and the figures are as follows: Land
in this district SOL $50; number of
acres taken, 1,431 500; the enormous
number of acres yet to be taken is
6,639,77 Still there is room for set
tiers in Ward county.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean: All the
republican papers of the state will fail
in line and give the ticket their hearty
support, which will mean a republican
majority of $1,000 in the state this
fall. This is a republican year-a year
when all true blue republicans will GO
to the polls and vote the ticket
straight. Great issues are involved
in this campaign, and the success OF
the republican party means the con
tinued prosperity of the people.
Pembina county is the first in the
state to dedicate a monument to a hero
OF the Spanish-American war. Or
Thursday next a handsome monument
will be dedicated at Hamilton to thu
memory of Private Lamb, who wa
killed in action at Paeta. The address:
will be made by Lieutenant NJ. A. Hill
dreth of the First North Dakota regi
, ment of which Private Lamb was
member, and appropriate and interest
ing exercises will be held during tn
, afternoon.
| E. J. Ridgeway in Lakota Herald
| You talk about killing gophers. Well
! I have discovered a way that will xii
them off at a great rate this dry, no
weather. They have a hard time get
5 ting waiter and l think this is all the;
) chew the wheat stalks for. The othe
day l took some strychnine and put i
! in a pan Of water and sweetened tn
water a little, set it out in the fel
and the gophers came from half a mil
, to drink of this and, you bet. it fixe
= them; some of them never got ten fee
away from the pan. Try it.
LaMoure Chronicle: Many a fiel
q of wheat which would yield perhap
three or four bushels per acre will nc
be cut owing to the rapid growth c
t Russian cacti which will be highe
than the wheat by the time the whea
e is ripe. Such fields had better i
e plowed at once and the cacti turne
O under while green as it will be an e!
cellent fertilizer. If left until tt
. cacti is dead it will be an almost in
possibility to turn it under and son
claim it would be an injury to the crc
next year to do so as it would hold tt
o earth up and keep it loose so it won,
a. dry out quicker. Some farmers are
, the opinion that wheat blowing is
be done this year had better be dol