Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-30
NEWS

Chief Of Police Hurst of Devils Lake
has resigned.
Roderick Johnson has sold his farm
In Trail county for $4,000. ~
National Bank Examiner Gordon
has started home from Washington.
Sheep on the ranges are reported
looking sleek and fat as in summer.
l.. S. Foot of Minot was offered $15,-
900 for his 1900 acre ranch but de-
clined to sell.
Sixty-fve immigrants arrived at
Bowbells, the new town in Ward
county, one day last week.
, Cando people are after Joseph Doug
lass, on a charge of bastardy. He was
clerk in the general store there and
has skipped.
Charles H. Pierce of Mortified,
Mimi, brother of Hits and Mrs. Pierce
of Grafton, has been appointed post
master at Mortified.
The Bowbells Tribune claims Rich
land county will send $50 to 400 set
tiers to Ward county this season. Now
wait till we heal, from the Wahpeton
Globe.
A Northern Pacific conductor is
quoted as stating that he believes the
extension from Minor to Cakes will
be built this year. This ought to
settle it.
Fire destroyed the residence Of e.
L. Mccormack, a Northern Pacific en-
gineer at Grand Forks, and his wife
and child, who were sleeping in the
house, barely escaped with their lives.
Medina will boom this spring. Two
new stores, a bank building and a new
livery barn will be built besides num-
'erous residences. The bank will be
started by eastern parties. All the
buildings will be of frame.
AL Halstead of Jamestown, who was
thrown from a horse and seriously in
jured while hunting out in the Bad
Lands, has returned to Jamestown
from st. Paul, where he has been I'M
dergoing medical treatment. He still
suffers from the effect of his injuries
but is somewhat improved.
c. D. Williams of jamestown will re-
main for another year at Buenos
Ayres, S. A.. He has engaged for a
year with a South American hardware
and machinery firm and expects to
have special territory TO make sales.
He writes home mat a hot wave, the
hottest in twenty years, vas being
felt.
Oliver Bennett of Medina says there
has been quite a slaughter of wolves
in his vicinity this winter. Pat Burke
started the winter with a good bunch
and now has a score of nearly so while
Joe Crandall killed 20, Chas. Smith
"a and H. F. Chadduck II. AS the
county pays bounty of 50 and the state
So more it makes each wolf worth
nearly So, for the pelt sells for so certs
or more.
While trying to put on a belt at the
Harvey mill last Saturday morning;
E. J. McGlenn had a very narrow es-
cape from death. He had reached up
to place the Delt on a pillow on a set
screw on the counter shaft, which runs
the feed mill and he was drawn I'M
and whirled around the shaft several
times before the material in his coat
gave way and allowed him to drop to
the floor. He was BABY bruised but
not seriously injured.
The reform candidate for mayor Of
Moorhead, H. H. Aaker, professor in
Concordia college. was elected by an
overwhelming majority yesterday. The
saloon element have been conducting
their places OF business in such a man
! ner as to cause indignation among
voters, and Aaker's election was the
result. One of the incidents of the
election. was the challenging of the
vote of John Haas, his vote being
sworn in, and his subsequent arrest for