Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-12-07
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Cass county levies $42S 900 taxes for
all purposes this year.
The Fargo Gas and Electric COM
pany will rebuild its plant and put in
new machinery.
Some cases of diphtheria are re-
ported in Fargo.
Kidder county shows a gain of 543
people in ten years.
The Williston Herald has a depart
ment Of "Smearville Smearings."
Bishop Stanley is defending Cath
olocism in a number of lectures being
delivered at Fargo.
Editor Carver of the Benson County
News can't resist taking an occasional
shy at Attorney General Comstock.
The state enforcement league has
closed three blind pigs in Ramsey
county and two in Barnes county and
is STILL on the warpath.
Tracy Bangs boy fell into the Red
river while skating, but managed to
pull himself out and scampered home,
wet to the skin but u%ninjured.
The Dickinson people believing in
patronizing the telephone system and
twenty new phones have been added
since the directory was issued a month
ago..
Somebody recently mistook Editor
de la Bere for Grant Hager of the St.
Thomas Times, and the two men are
endeavoring to settle from which one
the apology is due.
Editor Wood of the Steele Ozone
says he had no crop this year-the
election went wrong-and he's on
short fodder with a prospect Of worse
If delinquents don't pay up.
The only fusion candidate elected in
kidder county was Mamie Portner for
county superintendent. 1t took the
official count to decide she was elected
by five votes over Miss George.
City Attorney Miller holds that
Fargo cannot make "a contract with
the Fargo-Edison company for add
tional street arcs, under the present
contract with the other company.
William Morrow was exposed to
small pox on the Fleming farm-went
home to Erie to his wife and five chill
dren and came down with the disease.
A quarantine has been established.
The Finley Beacon nominated Hon.
NJ. B. Cassel of Steele county for
speaker o. the house. The Beacon
thinks Steele county ought to have
something good-for it's excellent
record.
Editor Streeter seems to be all
right in a business way-the first page
of the Emmons County Record is of
solid advertising, the last page all
legals-and the local stuff on a sup
plement.
Old Bill Mumby of the Buford Trib-
Inc is doing some breezy local work
and Col. Lounsberry furnishes up-to-
date and intelligent editorial observa-
tions, so the Tribune is we'll equipped
for the newspaper field.
The press meeting during the legis-
lative session seems to take we'll with
the state press boys. All of 'em want
to come to Bismarck anyway, and to
combine business with pleasure will
be a profitable occupation.
The Richland County Gazette draws
a lesson from the wedding of B. L
Bogart to Mrs. Ink at Wahpeton-
which is probably of local interest
Bogart and Ink are cousins, and were
formerly the closest friends.
The editor of the Hannah Moon
doesn't take much stock in the story
about starving Indians sent out from
Fort Yates. He says he has been al
the agency and he knows what he is
talking about. He wants the In.
dams to be given a chance to-work
The Fargo Argus is beginning
series of those thrilling matrimonial.
mix ups-in which there is usually al
errant wife, a wronged husband-late
hours, hacks, champagne bottles and
finally tears and reconciliations. W.
thought the Call had the copyright.
There was an interesting contro'
versy in Steele over the right to quar-
tiers in the county building of Sheriff
Noonan and Janitor Smith. Judge
Winchester was called there to settle
the matter up and the county board
finally made provision for sheriff:
quarters and left the janitor remain
where he a
The trial of Patrick Callahan for thu
murder of his cousin is on at Lisbon
The shooting grew out of a famil!
feud, the dead man having been per
sistent in his attentions to Callahan'
wife. The defense will be that at tn,
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