Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-17
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w. NJ. Dwyer ate strawberries out of
his garden at Medina this season from
plants secured from New York last
spring. The garden is irrigated from a
reservoir back of the store.
The county commissioners of Bot
tineau county are mixed up on the
election of commissioners. They have
five commissioners and the terms of
three of them expire the same year.
They started wrong.
James Saunders a farmer living
southeast of Cooperstown, was found
dead on the Myers farm Tuesday
morning with a bullet hole in his fore
head, 1t is thought he committed
suicide. He was 26 years old and un-
married.
John Prunty, aged % years, went
suddenly blind while at work on a farm
near GAINESVILLE, presumably from sun
stroke. Prunty was brought to Far
go and is under treatment. There is
a chance of the young man regainine
his sight, but it will require consider.
able time 20 bring about such a result,
Lea Wright of jamestown, as an old
stockman, says it will always be no
ticed that when nature provides a sec
ond crop in the fall, as now, it means
a hard winter to follow. There was
little growth in the early part of the
season, but it is rapid now after the
heavy rains. Some good hay has been
spoiled by too early cutting and some
who thought it wasn't going to rain
cut down all the hay they could and
the showers caught it.
Jamestown Alert: The Alliance
Hail Association is receiving applica'
tons for policies each day, four com
ing in yesterday from Benson county
The acreage insured is small and re
cent hail storms have stirred the farm
ers up to get. insured where they have
any uncut grain. If 80 per cent of thu
hail notes for the 1900 season are paid
the losses of the season will be paid il
full. So far the losses have beer
light as many did not insure.
Forum: Among the recent arrival!
at the women's home was a little babe
the mother being a young girl living
in one of the smaller towns of thu
county. The case is rather a strang'
one, and mention was made of tn
mixed up parentage several weeks ago
The parents Of the young girl claim
that the father of the child is he
grandfather. The grandfather denie
the charge of paternity, and lays tn
blame to the girls own brother. TIL
babe is a week old now.
Walsh County Record: In the lat
ter part OF July there were nineteel
warrants issued lor Wash county blin'
piggers, quite a number of them beini
from Grafton. Two of the Grafton
offenders are ONE A few ESCAPED
before papers were served but most o
them have been bound over to the mex
term of the district court. Mr.. Case,
tells us that seven of the cases cam
before him as justice and he fOun'
sufficient evidence in each case to bin
them over, which he did IN the uni
form bail of $500.
Dickey County Leader: Sher... AK
tell has received word from Reva, s
D., in the Black Hins country, that E
Dittman was shot and severely woun
ded at that place. while trying to es
cape officers who were about to arres
him. Dittman is the young man VIII
stole a horse and other property a
Cakes, and was traced to Eureka b
the authorities where he vas found t
have left the Cakes horse, and too
a fresh start with a team belonging t
one Of Eureka's liyerymen. Veril!
the way of The transgressor is hard.
Professor Bolley has discovered tn
cause Of so much spotted fields of fla
\ parasitic fungus belonging to tn
genus Fusarum attacks the roots {
the plant and kills it. The spores {
the fungus remain in the ground frol
year to year, and it may be starte
from the seed sown on new groun,
Each succeeding year the disease grow
worse and after six years it will be i'm
possible 10 grow any lax at all. M
Bolley has not discovered anythin