Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-04

Sanborn will build a $1,000 school
house.
Bottineau had a narrow escape from
destruction by fire.
The Stark county convention has
been set for May IL.
Grand Forks business men have
been victims of a clever forger.
The Dickinson Recorder is for
Charley Gregory for states attorney.
Benson county sold it's $780, 900 issue
of . per cent bonds upon a 4 per cent
basis.
Kansas settlers locating in the
James River valley are going into the
sheep business.
Some $4,000 has been subscribed
for the erection of a Masonic temple
at Grand Forks.
The senate has passed the bill APP
propriating $loO,OOO for the public
building at Grand Forks.
A child nine months old was de-
serted by its mother on a Great North
ern train near Devils Lake.
There is not a prisoner in the third
judicial district awaiting trial-an un-
~precedented condition there.
A case Of small pox is reported at
Cando, in a student who has been
attending the agricultural college.
1t is reported from LaMoure county
that Judge Davis will not be a candi-
date for the judiciary in the fifth dis
trict.
Communications from Dickinson in
the Forum indicate that there is vet
much feeling in the Simpson case out
that way.
Madame Massey, a prominent public
character at Fargo, has been arrested
on a charge of running a baWdy house
lack in 1899.
Seven thousand costumes are said
to have been ordered for the fire fcs-
tival in Fargo this year. The fcs-
tlval has a fine press agent, whoever
be is.
Superintendent Hicks of the state
industrial school says he is not a can
didate for superintendent of public in
struction and does not want the county
delegation.
George Phelps is one of the commit
tee In charge OF the coming fire fes-
tlval at Fargo and is boolling many
attractions.
The ladies of the rtelief Corps at
jamestown sent $50 to the soldiers
home at Lisbon to be used in fitting
up a room.
The Devils Lake News publishes an
excellent likeness of Attorney General
CoWan, candidate for Judge in the
second district.
Editor Nye Of the Valley City Times
Record takes occasion to say a good
word for Judge Morgan as a candidate
for the supreme bench.
M. H. Brennan has announced him
self as a candidate for the judgeship
in the second district, opposed to
Attorney General Cowan.
Mayor Browns inaugural ball at
Devils Lake was a big success and
nearly 5000 was turned over to the
fire department as proceeds.
A cyclonic storm passed neal Chris
tine in Richland county. The path of
the storm was four miles wide and one
ma was severely injured.
Just in the interest of correct his
tory the Grand Forks Herald says that
city was the first to respond to the
needs of the Edinburg fire sufferers,
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The suit of A. G. Brown, the travel
ing man, against the Milwaukee road,
may be settled at Fargo. Brown sues
for $4,000 damages for injuries re-
ceived on one Of the roads trains.
The government has ordered mail
carried on the new limited trains of
the Northern Pacific. The postmas-
ter general selects the trains upon
which mail is carried and he wants it
on the limlled.
Aprairie fire destroyed much prop
erty in the western part of Dickey
county. One man lost three head of
horses that were burned to death in a
pasture and another fifty head of
sheep, destroyed in a barn.
! The Morris will contest case is at
tracing interest at Fargo. Morris
died in the asylum and his wife is con-
testing his will. DR.. D. S. Moore,
superintendent of the asylum, was
down at Fargo giving testimony.
The United States land Office at
Minot continues to do a good business.
From the first day of April to the
oath, 731 filings were made. This
beats the record of any other land
Office in the United States for the same
days.
Another dividend for the depositors
of the Citizens National bank Of Far
go will be declared between now and
the first of July. and the money will
be obtainable shortly after that date.
Receiver Anheier has already paid the
creditors of the institution IS per cent
Of their claims. The July dividend
will be 10 per cent and another will be
; paid it is expected before the affairs
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