The Bowbells tribune., 1900-08-03
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. the political conventions.
MANY Of the Jim River valley people
are talking Russian thistle.
sixty-two teachers are attending the
state summer school at Cakes. y
The Masonic offices in Fargo are be-
mo moved into the Masonic temple.
Several thousand bass and croppies
are to be placed in Maple lake tar
once.
Polk county has Just sold $4O,5OO
ditch bonds at 4 1-2 per cent ana sou
premium. H.,
Came wardens are publishing the
,,suoI call-down notices to- prevent pre-
mature hunting.
Agricultural machinery is still being
shipped into the state, NOTWITHSTANDING
the short crop.
During a storm at Wilton lightning
struck the hotel, and number OF the
guests were stunned.
nair of bootleggers, who tried 10
onarote at the LaMoure races, were
chased out Of the county.
Farmers are so busy around LaMoure
have time to come to town.
It is said that more improvements
are noticeable around Buxton Than al
most any town in the valley.
Owing to the repairs at the Bismarck
pumping station there IS a temporary
Shortage of water at that place.
The three Icelandic congregations at
Akra, Pembina county, will commune
this wear for a Sunday school plcnac.
John Davidson of Stutsman county
rpnorts a hustling hen. All her chick
ems died, and she cared for two kittens.
The barn of Walter Rogers, five miles
from Walcott, Richland county, was 4
burned and eight horses were cremat-f.
ed.
The feeling of the farmers for Presl'
dent Hill of the Great Northern, seems
to be changing from hatred to admira-
ton.
From various sections come COM
plants of typhoid fever, due to bao
drinking water and drouth. Boil the
water.
Prospective hunters are being urgeu
| by the state papers to secure pernlts'
before the prairie chicken season De-
comes ripe.
The increase in the personal valua'
ton Of Burleigh county property was
$4OO4. The real estate valuation was
reduced $4,000.
Warren reports considerable damage
by the Hessian fly, and the prospective
average of five bushels per acre is con-
siderably cut down by It,
The youngest daughter Of Mr.: ana
Mrs. Charles Miller Of Mandan drank
a cup Of fly-poison and died. The little
one was fifteen months old.
Peter G. Thompson, living mile and
dropped dead while helping one Of his
Many fields of wheat in LaMoure
cvounty, which would otherwise pay
for cutting will be plowed under be-
cause of the presence Of Russian cacti.
A Bowbells attorney and a divorce
who didn't want to pay for his legal
services had lively scrap in the street
that furnished amusement for every
body.
An attempt was made to burn the
barn Of Erick Skauge, in RichlanG
county, but the blaze was discovered
and extinguished before it had made
any headway.
Harvey imagined it had an Indian
outbreak last week, at least one family
did, and sat up all night, to find the
hired man the cause Of all the trouble,
and asleep in the barn.
Valley City has firm of gardeners
| yuhn xr,hn
not. They have irrigated their truclA
farm and, are said to have the finestl
vegetables in the state.
Hay sells for SIS per ton at Bagley,
and the people go out on the country
roads carrying bouquets and other
things to get on the soft side of the
farmers coming in on their loads.
Aneta people are about convinced
that p. L. Wilberg, who left there to
commit suicide, was more inclined to
create sensation than to present a
new face in the celestial realms.
Miss Helen Schmidt of New Rock
ford was horseback riding, when the
animal ran into wire fence in the
dark and threw her to the ground with
such force that her collar bone was
broken. \
In the list Of those who have been,
granted pensions recently appears the
name of Lieut.. Dorman Baldwin Of
Grand Forks. Mr.. Dorman is granted
a pension of SIS per month for wounds
received in the Philippines.
Cattle shipments from the West are
beginning a month earlier than last
year, but the early output will not be
as heavy, as July shipments are al
ways soft and do not bring as good
prices as the firmer cattle.
Hans Oldsted Of Lidgerwood broke
his leg and it was improperly set. AZ
ter being about half-knit he had the
bone chiselled away and the pieces at
tached with a silver wire, and is wait
ing for it to grow together. 81 J.
The Northern Pacfdc has secured q
contract for moving an immense guam
tity of oats to Puget Sound points for
the United States army. The oats are
going to Manila, and it is understood