Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-01-12
is said, they want to sell to the govern

is said, they want to sell to the govern
ment.
Chief Murphy Of Moorhead is re-
ported out of danger.
The Mayville normal school reopens
with the largest attendance in it's his
tory.
Editor Mcclure of the Minot Optic
has been on the sick list for several
weeks.
The number of school children in
Mclean county has increased 800 in
the past year.
Petitions for the removal of the slot
machines in Fargo have been presented
to Mayor johnson by church attend
ants.
Bishop Dorsey, who killed 4 man in
%Sullivan's saloon at East Grand Forks.
was found guilty of murder in the third
degree.
\ Fargo man talks of i%nstituting an
automobile street car service in Fargo,
BY organizing a company with a cap
ital of $4,000.
Indictments We're found against G..
A. Edwards and l.. Brown of Court
enay by the Stutsman county grand
jury, for violating the prohibition law.
In district court ut Jamestown, Agent
Hunter of Kensal plead guilty to forg-
cry in the fourth degree. He was in
dicted also for embezzlement but that
charge was dropped.
Hannah Anderson of Grand Forks
has been taken to the insane asylum.
She imagines she is being pursued by
Indians and that her only safety lies
in drinking water, which she does by
the quart.
Deputy marshals have sold the
sheep taken into custody by the u. s.
officials last year. having been SNUG
Slcd into the state. There were 1863
sheep taken originally and the number
had increased to 2O5. The sheep
brought S1.31 a head.
The case against C. 4. Edwards of
Courtenay for selling liquor fell
through at jamestown on trial, 1t
was shown that men had drunk at Ed
wards livery barn but no evidence
was presented to show that lie had
taken money for the liquor.
The Fargo Forum has an Interesting
story of a young business man who
was engaged to Il divorce. switched
to another, got drunk several times
in the course of Il nalf column descrip-
ton, created a scene in his hotel. hattcd
his employer in the eye, lost his job
and is now supposed to he Soldering IN.
Commissioner Wilson of the inter-
nal revenue bureau has decided that a
physician VINO prescribes or sells to his
patients whiskey. brandy, wine or any
other alcoholic liquor that is not com
pounded into Il medicine by the adj
mixture Of any drug or medical ingrcd-
lent Herewith is required to pay spe-
cial tax us Il retail liquor dealer even
though the alcoholic liquor thus fur
nislel he prescribed us Il medicine
only and so used.
i. Col. Peake of Valley City has had n
specimen Of the Dickinson fire clay
burned in an eastern furnace. The
specimen returned is a cuspidOr which
shows the value Of the clay for pottery
purposes. 1t takes colOrs we'll and is
adapted to all bnt the very finest grade
of pottery, and may be V G used for
that il the clay is carefully selected.
1t is said that eastern parties are figur-
ing on putting in a large pottery works
if labor and other conditions will war
rant it.
Concerning the state militia Col. \.
p. Peake of Valley City thinks that
Lieutenant Thomson of Co. Il will he
~re-appointed color sergeant of the reg
iment and Chief %Trumpeter Berry, who
served in the recent war will be con
tinued as such. 1t is also likely that
Sergeant Mattison of Co. II, who served
the last few months of the war as ser
, geant major Of the regiment will re-
ceive the appointment to that place
!, Ihe colonel states that the best Of har-
Z mony exists among the men and com
panies and that in a month after the
guns are received the militia will be
in the best shape in which it has evel
, been.