The Bowbells tribune., 1900-02-16

The report that the Anamoose town
site was to be contested is denied.
! The Scandinavian Lutheran society
of Lakota will erect new church.
| A jealous woman near Shevlin took
revenge on her lover by shooting him.
Wyndmere has six lumber yard4
Pretty good for a town less than sl1'l
| months oil.
! A movement is on foot in Michigan.
City to lay out 4 forty-acre park ad4
/ Joining the town. -
Dickey county has received $5.6lo iP
taxes from the 500 and $3,736 from
| the Great Northern.
! A bank is one of the prospects fol
Dickey, and other improvements VIII
be made there in the summer.
The farmers in the vicinity Of Car
rington are about to organize for ing
purpose Of protection from horse and
/ cattle thieves.
! A new postoffice will be estab.
lished in Bottineau county, called
Richburg. Mr.. Beaudoin has been des-
ignated as p. m.
The students Of the Valley City Nor
! NAL have decided the old college yell
has become stale and a committee has
been ordered to create new one.
1t is said that if North Dakota's
taxes were lower, immigration would
be much larger and there would be
, considerable more railroad building.
Ransom and neighboring counties
are trying to raise $73S.5O to pay of
the Indebtedness of st. Vincent de
Paul hospital located at Devils Lake.
! Frank Andre of jamestown hired his
horse and buggy three months ago
and did not hear from them till an
officer found the outfit at Kensel re-
Gently.
! The checker players at Cooperstown
have made arrangements to play
series of games with the jamestown
players by means Of the postal caro-
system.
C.. c. Peterson of Valley City has
purchased a half interest In the Min.
neapolis Department store at Park
River with G. E. Nelson, formerly the
sole owner.
Local capitalists are contemplating
the construction of telephone lnS
from Towner to Willow City, which
will also give the ranchers the oppor-
tunity Of connections.
Capt. Auld at Dickinson has received
word from Washington that his ap-
plication has been granted and head
stone will be sent to be placed over
the grave of Corporal Harold Davis.
The government Indian school at Ell.
bowoods is completed and one Of the
handsomest and most complete of the
kind at any agency. No teacher has
as yet been appointed to take charge.
Griegs county commissioners have 9
few thousand dollars they would spare
to liquidate some of the outstanding
bonds, but the parties holding the
same are said to not be anxious to
cash in.
The rigid quarantine placed over all
cases Of diphtheria in Wells and Suits
man counties has served to check the
disease and the anxiety Of the people
has abated.
Hon. Chas. H. Ebbinghausen of
Grafton has been up in Ward county
viewing the land with the idea OF
starting a stock ranch, but found the
country too thickly settled.
V. 0. Sargent Of Harvey failed to
appear in answer to the charge of forg-
ing wheat checks when district court
convened at Fessenden last week. HiA
bond of $500 was forfeited. N
The little daughter of Mr.. Stumpi.
living near Willow City, Bottineau
county, was attacked by four dogs in
the road and before help could reach
her one of the child's sides was badly
torn.
w. II. Brown of Devils Lake sold
nine quarter sections Of land one night
good demand for land, or the beneficial
effect Of hearty supper, or both.
Probably the Oldest horse in the
state. mare 80 years old, died at Lis
bon the other day. The mare was the
property Of Fred Kelly, and he has
valuable colt raised by her last year.
Comptroller Of the Currency Dawes
has declared third dividend Of 20 per
cent in favor of the creditors Of the
First National Bank Of Pembina, and
the state will receive 81, 1851 as its
portion.
The largest amount Of money ever
receipted for at the Dickey county
trerasurer's Office in one day was $1O-
OO8.77. Besides this amount there was
about $1,000 that could not be receipt
ed for the same day.
Under section 1 Of the Session Laws
Of 1899 1t is provided that anyone fail
ing to give notice Of birth or death
in the family is subject to fine Of $50
and gives all the particulars regarding
such report.
At mass meeting in Ellendale last
week resolution against the violation
of the prohibition law and the running
Of slot machines, ETC., was adopted,
and names and subscriptions were
taken for law and order league.
A. NJ. Halstad Of Jamestown had an
arm broken while deer hunting out on
the Missouri The bones didn't knit
properly and the fracture is being re-
set in st. Paul and the bones wired
together.
There is considerable kicking over
the insufficient mail service between
Cooperstown and McHenry. Jessie
ard Buford get mail only twice a