Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-02-02

Congressman Spalding has arrived
in Fargo.
President Hill of the GIN gives $1,000
to the bridge project at Devils Lake.
A number Of cases of CHAMBERS are
reported in towns in the James river
valley.
Machine men of the Red River valley
have formed an association for common
There will be twenty. two census
enumerators to do the work of census
taking in Cass county.
Congressman Spalding, who is in Far
go, says his health is not good. He ex-
Col. and Mrs. Morton of Fargo offer a
lot for an orphans home if $1,000 is
raised to erect a building in thirty days.
Peter Konia, living near jamestown,
died from appendicitis. An operation
was performed but failed to relieve him.
The Gay Paris company showed
at Ellendale, and the married men
We're kept busy the following day
telling how they had been to lodge.
Now the Valley City Alliance cxplodes
those Va ley City Indian mound stories
by stating they were opened twenty
years ago by Walt Gushing and Dr.. De
Vaux.
The six year old son of Rev. Bittner of
Harvey was attacked by a vicious bull
dog and his face and scalp terribly torn.
About siXty-tive stitches were taken to
sew up the wounds.
Thos. Lee, near Bottineau, found Il
stone in the mountains recently which
has all the hardness Of Il diamond and
cuts glass. He will send it east to
be examined by experts.
Robert Staley was arrested by u. S.
officials at Courtenay for selling liquors
without a government license. He has
been held to the grand jury. Staley is
an enforcement league detective.
billiard & Merry of Dickinson have
closed out the last of the mutton sheep
they have been feeding at the twin
cities. They fattened about 1000 sheep
and the net average price per head for
which they sold in Chicago was around
81.
A meeting of the citizens of Glendale
and vicinity is called to meet Saturday
evening, January 9th, for the purpose
of giving public expression to the disap-
prevail of the illegal selling of intoxicat-
ing liquors and placing on record all who
favor the strict enforcement Of our pro-
hibitory laws.
Forty cases of diphtheria are reported
IN the Russian settlement north of
jamestown and eleven deaths have &C.
Cured. The postmaster at the infected
town broke the quarantine and went to
Sykeston. and the residents of that town
Immediately telegraphed the county
health officer for protection.
Cashier E. Anderson of the Cando
Farmers bank applied the proceeds of a
non negotiable certificate of deposit on a
judgment held by the bank against the
payee of the certificate and gave a re-
ceipt for the amount which the payee ac-
cepted at the time and now the cashier
is bound over to the district court on
the charge of grand larceny.
In January, 1898, Ed Pierce of Ransom
county sold A. Kaber a quarter of land
for SO an acre. Kaber broke up fifty or
sixty acres that summer and raised $500
worth of flax. Last season he broke as
much more and the proceeds of the crop
paid for the land. This week Mr.. Kaber
sold his quarter section to a neighbor,
Ole Christensen, for SIT an acre.
H. r. Bieseker was acquitted in Judge
Glaspelps court at Fessenden on a
charge of forgery. William Nelson, ac-
cused of wheat stealing, was also acouit-
ted. The Bieseker case excited a great
deal of interest as it was claimed that
the defendant, who is connected with
the bank, had inserted certain chattels
in a mortgage subsequent to it's execu-
ton.
jamestown Capital: There is a. law
for the prevention of cruelty to persons.
ETC., and in this chilly weather the Cav
Paris Co. should be protected-better
The Darlington Independent saws the
costumes worn there were 'four pounds
lighter than a summer straw hat" and
the temperature Is below zero, The
'AA PASUuASo / CSAOCAt1y WdCIu-lOr
the Independent says so.
This is the way Editor Basset of the
Valley City Alliance announces the we'd
ding of a brother newspaper man: Cut
loose your cat-gut and sound the timbrel
long and loud. Ho-ye! Hi-ye! Mark
Hunt the antiquary editor of the Fessen-
den Free Press was-last night-united
in marriage with Miss Rosebud Brinton.
a most estimable young lady who at one
time attended Normal school in this
city.
The James River National Bank will
appeal the suit brought against J. r.
Purchase, George Bronson and Peter
Pearson as directors Of Homer school
district in stutsman county, for the
recovery Of $3.50. The suit was dis
missed by Judge Glaspell at the Janu-
airy term of the district court. The
case is n arising over the sale of
some charts to the directors of Homer
school district by an agent who after