Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-18
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS
The big drainage meeting is in ses-
sion at Grand Forks today.
The drainage convention at Grand
Forks is a great success. Over 1,2OO
delegates were present.
Hancock Bros. Of Fargo are advertis-
ing for bids for a steam plant for the
new public school building at Mandan.
Veterinarian Moore Of jamestown
vaccinated $50 head of cattle in one
band at Medina. The cattle belonged
to a Minnesota man. M
A Cass county farmer bought in five
steers from his farm and sold them
for 500 each. He thinks prosperity
has come from somewhere.
Amasa Davis, the son of MI. and
Mrs. r. M. Davis, died suddenly at Lis
bon. He was thirty-two years old
and only recently married.
On the Elk Valley farm at Larimore
a man and four mules were struck by
lightning. The man was badly
burned and one of the mules killed.
Fire in a residence at Leeds threat
ened great damage because of the lack
of fire protection. The flames were
finally e~xtinguished without spreading.
Passenger brakeman Conlin was
overcome by the heat at Fargo while
waiting to go out with his train yes
terday and was forced to lay off for the
trip.
Grand Forks county has raised 5000
for the famine sufferers in India.
Six hoboes were nailed on a passen-
ger train entering Fargo, and sentenced
to ten days in the basLlle.
There was a bolt in the convention
in Ward county and there will be two
delegations to the state convention,
one headed by Major ]. S. Murphy and
the other by Editor Wilson Of the
Minot Reporter.
Max Bass, of the Great Northern,
who located a colony Of Quakers in
Towner county, has been up in Cando
arranging special rates and accommo-
dations for all who wish to attend the
annual meeting of the Brethren of
North Manchester, Ind, May 31st to
June Sth.
The Sargent county convention sends
instructed delegates for Albert N. Carl
blom for state auditor. The delegates
are A. N. Carlblom, Nels Dyste, John
Devlin, H. l.. Greene, F. w. Vail, Peter
Mattson, John F. Carlblom, Knute
Lyken, John Christian, D. K. McKen-
zie, E. j. Leech. Geo. Fhifer, Walter
Boomer, D. w. Mckenzie, John B.
Johnson, Geo. Post.
Judge Amidon is engaged with the
case of j. A. Atkinson, and others,
against R. Sykes. In April, 1899, Mr..
Atkinson and his sons entered into
contract with MI. Sykes for the selling
of some lands near Sykeston and west
of there and it is for violation of the
contract that they u Mr.. Sykes, who
is a resident of Manchester, England.
Judge Rose of jamestown appears for
the Atkinsons, and Mr.. Watson of Ball,
Watson & McClay, appear for Mr..
Sykes.
A Valley City dispatch says: Judge
Glaspell claims to have ffty-four Of
the 1OS delegates to the judicial con-
vention with this county yet to be
heard from. The convention will be
held here Saturday and the indications
r that the delegation, consisting Of
twenty-five, while u~ninstructed, will
vote for Glaspell. In LaMoure county
Lieutenant Governor Devine, who
wanted a trading delegation, was
turned down by Judge Glaspell's
friends. S. E. Ellsworth, who is the
Fancher candidate for Judge, has prac-
tically Withdrawn in favor of David
Bartlett of Griggs county.
A good way to stop the c%arelessness
which results in the setting of prairie
fires is shown in the following from the
Dickey County Leader: Jacob Schmidt,
the Russian whom it was alleged set
the fire in the hills several weeks ago,
was arrested last Wednesday and
brought to town to answer to the GRIM
inal charge of unlawfully setting fires.
He was arraigned before Justice Geer
On Thursday, plead guilty to the
charge, and was fined $50. Had not
his neighbors i%nterceded in his behalf
the penalty would have been much
heavier. The same man has been
charged with carelessness in setting
out fires before.
jamestown Alert: A hobo was run
in by Conductor Dunn1ng this after
noon charged with stealing a ride. He
was exceedingly wroth over the pro-
%ceedings. The railroad men are look
ing after the tourists closely this year
and believe that it is a good thing to
rid the roads and the state of this un-
desirable class of citizens. Before
the anti-brakebeam law was passed
giving the conductors power to arrest
those found stealing rides the chances
were that after being put off a train the
tramps would cut the air-brake hose
or commit some other act for revenge
Now the train men have the drop on