Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-07-16
AROUND I HE STATE.

The anti ramp law has cost Barnes
county to date $500, and the Alliance,
registers a strong kick.
Ia The home Of Gus Glance, near VIM
bledon, was struck by lightning and
badly shattered, but no one hurt.
Senator Hansbrollgh and State Rep
resentative j. d. Bacon have been sue
cessful in securing from Hon,sJ. p.
Dolliver promise to spend some time
in North Dakota during the campaign.
At meeting of the Ransom county
equalization board last week the total
levy for county expenses was lowered
s to $4,000. The levy in 1898 was $20,-
600 in 1899 1000 and for 1900 $$5, 600.
Napoleon Homestead: wool day
was "a lively one here last Friday.
About 1000 pounds was marketed. H.
G. Delaney, 3. d n. Wilson, Dugald
Campbell, and a Mr.. Beardsley of St
Louis, were among the buyers present,
Fifteen cents was the top price paid.
Eric Arneson, formerly a member
Of the section gang Of the Northern
Pacific railroad at Fargo, who lost both
feet by being run down by a switch
engine at the Eighth street crossing,
November Is, 1898, has brought suit by
NJ. a. Hidreth, attorney, for damages
in the sum of $4,000 .s.. M
Aneta Panorama: Peter G. Thomp-
son, living one and half miles north
of Lee, dropped dead Tuesday after
/ noon while helping one Of his neigh.
1 bors unhitch team Of horses. We
have not learned the cause Of his
death, but it was probably heart fail
ure. He leaves wife and large fam
lily. n s45 8 3. a
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Ward County Reporter: A sum:
ming up Of the total number Of acres
OF land in this land district has just
been completed by our local land Office
and the figures are as follows Land
in this district 8,O71 ,2s0; number Of
acres taken, 1,431, 500; the enormous
number Of acres yet to be taken is
$685., III. Still there is room for set.
tiers in Ward county. !. ~.
Devils Lake Inter- Ocean: All the
republi lean papers of the state will fail
in line and give the ticket their hearty
support, which will mean republican
majority Of 5000 in the state this
fall. This is a republican year "a year
when all true blue repub bhcans will go
TO- the polls and vote the ticket
straight. Great issues are involved
IN this campaign, and the success OF
the republican party means the con-
tinued prosperity OF the people.
Pembina county is the first In the
B state to2dedicate monument to a hero
( Of the Spanish merican war On
Thursday next a handsome monument
will be- dedicated ait Hamilton to the
memory of Private Lannb who was
killed in action at Paeta. The address
will be made by Lieutenant M. "a. Hill:
dreth Of the First North Dakota regi-
ment Of which Private Lamb was a
member, and appropriate and interest
ing exercises will be held during the
afternoon. 5s
S q. ]. Ridgeway Id Lakota Herald: u
You talk about killing gophers. Well
III have discovered a way that vii kill
them off at q great rate this dry, hot
weather They have a. hard time get
ting waiter and 4 think this Is all they
chew the wheat stalks for. The other.
day took some strychnine and put ii.
I'm a pan Of water and sweetened the
water a little, set 1t out in the field
and the gophers came from half mile
& TO drink Of this and. you bet, 1t fixed
them some Of them never got ten feet
away from the pan. Try IT VI
LaMoure Chronicle Many a field
of wheat which would yield perhaps
three or four bushels per acre will not
be cut owing to the rapid growth of.
Russian cacti which win be higher
than the wheat BY the time the wheat
! Is ripe Such fields had better bel
plpWed at once and tina cacti turned
under while green az II ssSiill be an exr.
cellent fertilizer. n LETT until the
cacti Is dead " Will be an almost Inn
I possibility to turn " under and some.
claim It would Be an Injury to the crop
next year to do So as Il would hold the1
earth up and keep II loose 50 IT would