Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-07-06
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ever; That way.
Jerusalem-in Ramsey county
seems to be making about the greatest
Preparations for the Fourth.
The saloon of Barker & Bartee at
Enderlin was raided and twenty-five
gallons of brandy confiscated.
T. J.. Mcmahon of Hope was ac-
quilted on a charge OF embezzling
$1,000 from the Plano company.
The Glaspell-Purchase case, the
cause celebre of the Fifth district, is
slated to come up before Judge Fisk
at Jamestown this week.
A jamestown mar warns Sunday
ball players that they must quit or the
matter will be brought to the atten-
tion CT the authorities.
The Cathay Bee says the heaviest
rain of the season fell last week.,
which isn't saying much-Dut they are
thankful for small favors.
a Crary paper speaks of a nurse girl
who with the assistance of a small
boy tied a rope to a cows tail and the
baby wagon. The baby was not in
jured but the wagon went to the shop
for repairs,
The Meckinock Vidette says that it
seldom .happens-like it did at the jul
dicial convention in Grand Forks
county-that the majority of the dele
gates in a republican convention turn
out to be democrats.
Conditions through the state are not
so bad as reported. The grain crops
have improved since the recent rains
and there are many farmers who will
harvest a better crop than they ex-
pected. Flax is looking we'll in many
localities.
A farmer neal Bowdon met the
daughter of a Mclean county tiller of
the soil and was so smitten with her
charms that he began a correspond
ence. finally proposing marriage. He
was accepted. the wedding day set, and
all arrangements completed. When
he went for his bride she didn't know
anything about the deal. Her brother
had carried on the correspondence.
III. p. Still, division freight agent of
the Northern Pacific, has been making
a trip through the state looking over
crops and says the situation is not half
as bad as reported. There are few
localities but will furnish the Northern
Pacific 30 per cent OF the usual freight
tonnage of grain and in many places
40 to 60 per cent of the usual tonnage
will be furnished.
. Mistakes have been discovered in
the survey OF township 1851, Turtle
mountains. and it win not be opened
for settlement on the Bird of July. This
township adjoins the township in
which Rolla is located and the lane
will naturally be in big demand. The
DullI1SC " lIC lCSCl NdllOl COllpllSluS
three townships and four fractional
parts will be thrown open on the 3r(
| as advertised.
jamestown Capital: Henry Bondt
Of Courtenay reports a hail storm
Tuesday which did considerable dam
: age. Bemis had an entire section O
: grain pounded into the ground. Peter
o lost some grain. Some of tn,
: stones were SO large they would not e
: into a tumbler. A heavy rain, wet
4 ting down four inches, accompanie,
the storm though in one place no rail
+ fell with the hail stones which lay OF
;, the ground until evening.
: The supply Of water at Glasston
) Pembina county, is Sc short that resi-
{ dents are limited to a pailful a day
Water is being hauled to Glasstol
u from the Red river, a distance O
{ twelve miles in tanks mounted O.
wagons. The crops there are pool
many fields being entirely bare, an
e that section is particularly %unfortun
ate, az it was visited with hail las
year. The cool, cloudy weather c
the past two days has been beneficial
however, and the people there, as ev
IS erywhere else, are hoping for rain.
- The storm Of the first of the week i
:; Bohnsack township, Trail county, a,
e most assumed, the proportions of a cy
70 clone. It picked up a machine she
10 of Fred Rediske's, carried it about fl
u ty rods into the field and shattered
= to kindling, tipped a wagon and brol
out the spokes; took Otto Schwable
\ granary, threw it over the house an
damaged the roof, also moving 9TH
buildings. Gust Krueger's cow stab
was thrown against the house viii