Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-06
CITY AND COUNTY.
Thursday.

ANNISSIuys
Attorney Il. A. Lamb is in the city
from Washburn.
r. L. Wallace came in from the east
last night and is in the city today.
Lineman Moody Of the Northern Pa
cific came in from the east today to
do some line repairing.
Editor George B. Winship of the
Grand Forks Herald arrived from the
east on the noon train.
Henry Radke, a member of COM
pany A in the Philippines, passed
through OF the moo train en- route
west.
Hon. Andrew Sandager Of Lisbon
was in the city yesterday on his return
to Lisbon from Hunters Hot Springs,
Mont.
L. NJ. Bidwell of the land office
clerical force was called to Red Wing,
Mimi. last night by the death of his
mother.
A report from Elbowoods states that
Major Richards is doing well although
it will be Il long time before he is able
to use his broken limb.
-Four more cars of immigrants move
ables have arrived in the city, the
goods being the property of Iowa i'm
migrants who will settle on the Wash
burn lands.
II. Stoddard, a piano tuner from
Minneapolis, locates here and will
open up a piano and organ repair shop
in the near future. Mr.. SLoddard is also
a musician and being we'll known in
Minneapolis he comes we'll recon-
mended as a piano tuner.
L. L. Kelley of Darlington, a men,
Der of the North Dakota regiment that
went to the Philippines, and who dis
tinguished himself and earned a COM
mission as a member of the signal
corps, was one Of the successful appli-
cants for admission to the bar before
the supreme court at Fargo.
The Larimore correspondent of the
Plaindealer says: Mrs. L. C. D. Short
ridge and daughter Lila have finished
their course in Osteopathy in Mime
apolis, and will shortly return to Dev-
ills Lake where Mr.. Shortridge is now
located in the land Office, and where
they will open up Offices and establish
a practice"
An action is begun down at Fargo
to have the city contract with the Far
&C electric light company, a ten year
contract for street lighting, declared
void because the making or the con-
tract exceeded the debt limit of the
city. The move is said to be in the
interest Of the other light company,
which wants a chance to bid for the
job.
The first case tried before the SUI
preme court at Fargo was that of
Barney Murphy, sent to the peniten-
tiary for twenty-five years from
Barnes county. His attorneys want
to get him a new trial. Murphy tor
tured a farmer near Sanborn by burn
ing the soles of his feet to induce him
to confess where his money was hid
den.
Before the supreme court at Fargo
Attorney Newton made a motion for
an order to show cause why Patrick
Mckinley. Frank kim and Sheriff
Kono of Dickinson should not be held
in contempt for refusing to answer
questions asked before Referee Ed
wards in the Simpson disbarment
case. The witnesses were present but
refused to testify on the advice of
their attorneys.
Commissioner Thomas replies to
critics in regard to statistics collected
by the state agricultural department.
He stands by the farmers and shows
that they furnish statistics to the best
nf thnifs -r,DHyytoIro or %1--o -: H.
crepancy of less than three per cent
between the acreage contemplated
sown in the spring and the returns
made OF acres harvested the following
gear. No one has yet suggested a
better means of securing this informa-
ton.
Cole & Johnson. attorneys. made APP
plication to the supreme court
for a writ of habeas corpus for Joseph
King, who was sent to the p%enitentiary
from Cass county a year ago last Feb
ruary for five years for attempted
sodomy. King vas a sort of horse
Jockey, who made his winter home in
Fargo. He had a number of young
boys among his friends and one Of
these was the victim of the assault
for which he was arrested and later
convicted and sentenced. No action
has yet been taken by the court.
Fargo Argus: In addition to put
ting in a modern electric plant at Bis
marck, the Hughes company, it is said,
will ask the capital city for a fran
chise to install a heating plant, sim
liar to the one in operation in Fargo.
There is little doubt but the franchise
will be secured and by the time the
wintry blasts Of next winter begin
business the new plant will be ready