Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

tary streams are full to overlooking,
the ground is SO saturated that it can
hold no more moisture, and there is
every appearance of a big snowfall.
Now get ready for a big flood in the
spring.
Postmaster Bjorkquist of Moorhead
received a letter from Barring Sanders
of Hunters Bay, Alaska, announcing
the death of Peter Early, a former
resident of Moorhead. Early and
two companions were in a skiff and
were attempting to board a larger
boat when the skiff was capsized and
all three men were drowned. EARLY
we'll known in Fargo and Moor
head and left the latter city in 1889.
His relatives live at Northport, Wash,
and the letter has been forwarded to
them.
The real estate market is reported
brisk at Grand Forks. A sale of a
half section near Northwood the other
day was made for $4,000 cash. Spec
ulators are looking for opportunities
to purchase and are paying $500 to
5000 more per quarter for land than
farmers-waiting for the rise that is
sure to come. This in the face of the
unfavoraDle year just past.
The trustees of the School for Man
ual Training at Glendale, have gone
over the matter and will ask the leg
lslature for $4,000 this winter, and
the Ellendale Record seems to think
that the defeating Of the republican
state senator in that district will have
no bad effect and that Geer will get
what he wants.
Among the school superintendent
in the state O. ]. Hagen was reelected
in Richland; ". E. Hicks in Dickey;
A. NJ. Simpson in Sargent; Lewis
Lyon in Stutsman; M. w. Barnes in
barnes; Matte NJ. Davis in Cass; l.. B.
Fancher in Ramsey; w. G. Croker in
Ransom; Joseph Blatchford in La
Moure.
Col. Creel has finished the inspec-
ton of Company M ait Glendale and I
at Wahpeton and reports both COM
panies in fine shape. The colonel goes
to jamestown, Bismarck and Dickin-
son and inspects the three companies
and then goes to Devils Lake for
Thanksgiving.
Wahpeton Globe: Major Fleming
is doing we'll on his small pox estate.
He had n cas- before election and
nine since. For the first time in fifty
years the major lost his vote, and it
looks like now he'd eat %vaccinated
Thanksgiving turkey at his own qua
antine station.
T. j. Dwire, member-elect from Ran
som county, says he will introduce a
thirty day resolution at the opening
of the next session, and Fred Falley
of the Wahpeton Globe says the legis-
lature can't get clerks enough in thirty
days-to say nothing of legislation.
The Jamestown Alert tells the bud
ding young society men of that city
that az the Prince Of Wales does not
crease his trousers any more, it is out
of fashion. keg keeps in close touch
with the Prince.
President Mellen of the N. P. says
the reports sent out from New York
that Jim Hill had secured control of
the road has cost the N. P. half a mill
lion in reduction of stock prices.
Miss Cora Plant has yeen brought
to the asylum from the northern part
Of the state. This is her second term
there, she having been cared for by
mother in the east until recently.
Pink Paper seems to think that
Governor Devine SCARED too high for
North Dakotans in his Thanksgiving
proclamation. Editor Wilson's ear is
close to the ground since election.
The marriage Of Miss Ruth Roberts
to Gil w. Haggart Wednesday evening,
is the first marriage in the city's his
tory where both of the contracting
parties were born in Fargo.
There are twenty-five cases on the
criminal calendar for the term of dis
trict court at Lisbon, the most import
ant being the Callahan murder case.
The Grand Forks Herald says it is
cold blooded to speculate on the sue
cessor of Senator Davis il he should
die-and then proceeds to speculate.
The test showed more satisfactory
results than expected and hereafter lig-
mite coal will be used exclusively at
the linseed oil mill, Grand Forks.
Editor Bassett says if Ed Smith OF
the Cakes Republican goes to Wash
ington, he'll run a close ace for the
homeliest man there.
An Cakes man put rough on rats in
his feed bin and afterward fed it to
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