Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-13


the work Of a soldier without being
enlisted.
John S. Gordon of Hannah had a
brother killed in the battle of Spion
Kop.
Fifty families OF Germans will ar
rive at Dickinson this month and next
to locate.
Rev. Law of the Episcopal church
at Dickinson has resigned because of
i'll health.
The divorce case of Mahnken VS..
Mahnken at Fargo has been argued
and submitted to the supreme court.
Hon. Jim Blackjack was b%anqueted
at Bathgate before his removal to Wal
halla to take a position in the customs
Office.
Editor Wilson OF the Bathgate Pink
Paper publishes a large picture of
Bryan and says he is the logical can
didate.
The jamestown Alert denies that it
is supporting either faction of the re-
publican party in the fight in Suits
man county.
A petition is being circulated in
Griggs county asking the commission
ers to appropriate ST 900 for the county
agricultural association.
1t is reported that if the early clos
ing movement is carried out for six
months in Moorhead, half the saloons
will be compelled to go out Of the
business.
Dickinson will hold an election May
I to vote On a proposition to incorpo-
rate as a city under the general laws.
AT present the city is working under
a village organization.
The land Office at Devils Lake made
G77 filings in the month of March, the
largest ever made in a single month in
any U. S. land Office in the United
States. The Minot Office lacked Il of
tieing them.
Il. S. Underhill offers for sale his
Antelope ranch consisting of $4,000
acres Of land, $50 head of blooded cat
tie and 225 head Of horses. This will
be one of the largest sales to take place
in the state.
Engineer William Sterrit of Wah-
peton, one of the oldest engineers on
the run, died shortly after reaching
Aberdeen on his regular run. His
remains were brought back and in
tered at Wahpeton.
Mrs. VIM. McAdams of Drayton was
overcome with coal gas and lay I'M
conscious from Saturday night until
found Sunday evening. Physicians
were unable to restore her to con-
seriousness until Monday noon. The
stove door had been left slightly open.
jamestown Capital: Word has been
received that William NJ. Lloyd is
prospecting in the New York Life In
a company, OF which he is the
local manager at Buffalo, N. Y. He
is said to own { quarter or more of
the stock of the company and is on the
high road to prosperity.
Fargo Forum: Wasem & Cards bid
for undertaking when opened by the
county commissioners today read as
follows: For digging grave, furnish
ing coffin and conveyance to cemetery
for children under & years old cent.
The same for adults-S1. And George
says the firm is getting rich.
Wahpeton Globe: Senator Nc
Cumber is at the bedside of his
mother, who is very i'll at Rochester,
Mimi. The senator has been at
Rochester for several days, and it is
not known whether he will visit Wah-
onfpr. Idfo1,o ,,ot,,,,s, ~ - k1,o ,,,@:o,o1
capital.
John Wyllie was elected mayor of
Park River to succeed II. A. Libby,
who has held the Office two terms.
Wyllie is a Canadian, a staid Presby-
terrain of the old school and is very
conservative in public matters. He is
a blacksmith, works at his trade, was
one of the retiring aldermen and his
election is a promotion by the people.
Park River will be dry as a finder box
under the new administration.
Chester and Weldon Montgomery of
Grand Forks are attending a medical
college in St. Louis. Not long ago a
body was assigned to them for dissec-
ton, and after it was on the dissecting
table it was claimed by a daughter,
who was not ware of the death of
her mother until she read a notice in
the newspapers, and upon inquiry she
found her mothers body had been
turned over to the college aforesaid.
The students wrote home to Grand
Forks that the scene when the body
was claimed was one of the most pain
full and heartrending ever witnessed.
George McGregor, who has resigned
as chief clerk at Fort Totten, was ap-
pointed under Cleveland and has
served for about six years at the Fort.
He says there are about LOO persons
there now and with the Chippewas
north of the lake there are about 5000
connected with the agency. The res
ervation cannot be opened for two
years yet, if it is at all. There are
not 100 acres of good land that could
be filed on in the entire reservation, he
says, as the Indian allotments have alb
,sorbed about all that is Of any farm
value. He thinks the opening Of the
reservation would be a bad thing for
the Indians as the settlement of the
whites among the Indian farmers would