Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-09
AROUND THE SKATE.

". NJ. DIVER 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 commits issioners of Bot
tineau county are mixed up on the
election Of commissio 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 yers farm Tuesday
morning with a bullet hole in his fore
head, is thought he commi ittted
suicide. He was 2e years old and un-
married. 5ss's
John Prunty, aged % years, went
suddenly blind while at work on a farm
near GAINESVILLE, presumabl from sun
stroke. Prunty. was brought to Far
so and is under treatme ent. There is
a chance OF the young man regaining
his sight, but it will require consider
able time 20 bring about such a. result.
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Lea Wright Of Jamestown. as an old
stockman, says it will always be no.
tieed 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 appica-
& Stions 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. It so per cent Of the
hail notes FOR the 1900 season are paid,
the losses OF the season will be paid in
FULL So far the losses have been
light as, many did not insure. .s.
Forum Among the recent arrivals
at the women s home was a little babe,
the mother heip ga young girl living
in one Of the smal1e towns of the
county he case is rather strange
one, and mention was made Of the
mixed up parentage several weeks ago.
s The parents of the young girl claim
that the father Of the child is her
grandf father. The grand dfather denies
the charge Of paternity, and lays the
blame to the girls own brother. The
babe is q week old now.
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/ s8 af3 Walsh County Record In the lat
ter part of July there were nineteen
warrants issued 3rol, wash county blind
piggers, quite a number of them being
from GRAFTON. Wo Of the Grafton
offenders are women A few escaped
before papers were served but most of
them have been bound over to- the next
term of the district court Mr. Casey
tells us that seven Of the cases came
before him as Justice and he found
sufficient evidence IN each case to bind
them over, which he did id the uni
form bail OF s4O0.
Dickey County Leader sheri. AK
tell has received word from Reva, S.
\ D., in the Black Hills country, that Ed
Dittman was shot and severely Woun-
sded at that place, while trying to es-
cape officers who were about to arrest
him. Dittman is the young man who
stole q horse and other property at
Cakes, and was traced to Eureka by
} the authorities where he was found to
1 have left the Cakes horse, and took
y a fresh start with 9 team belonging to
one Of Eureka's livery en-. erily,
the way OF the trans nsgressor is hard.
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Professor Bolley has discovered the
cause Of SO much spotted fields Of FAX.
a parasitic fungus belonging to the
genus Faisarum attacks the roots of
the plant and kills i. The spores of
the fungus remain III the ground from
year to year, and II may be started
from the seed soWn on new ground
Each succeeding year HE disease grows
worse and after Six years 1t will be I'M
possible % grow any max at al Mr.
Bolley has not discovered anything
that will remove the fungus but e.
poets to be able to do SO by watching