Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-05
THE STATE

A local telephone system is being con-
structed III Ellendalc.
Smallpox is reported at Fullerton and
Ellendale, Dickey county.
The Grand Forks Herald has another
good scold over the fate of the primary
election bill.
John E. Halaas of Darlington is re-
turning from the Philippines with the
Both regiment.
Frank Hoffman of Manfred is Slightly
demented and claims he was attacked
1by two robbers.
Darlington now has three fire com
panies, a hook and ladder company
being the latest.
John and Will Thompson have re-
turned to SanEorn from Oregon, satisfied
with North Dakota.
The early settlers postponed their
meeting in New Rockford on account of
the prevalence of scarlet fever.
In a fight between a bull dog and a 2
year-old steer near Bowdon the steer was
badly worsted and nearly killed.
The Lisbon Free Press is out with the
county commissioners and charges them
with not practicing what they preach.
The Mcintosh Republican-recently
burned QUITS out in a first-class new
dress again--German and English-both
good.
The agricultural college at Fargo is
sending out samples of sugar beet seed
r., f,r,,or, f>r thn n,olEinr nf nvnnyi-
ments.
The Darlington Independent pays
Representative +. N. Chaffee a deserved
compliment for good work in the legis
lature.
LaMoure county will furnish seed
wheat to needy farmers. Not more
than 100 bushels will be given to n
farmer.
The Wells County News runs an "At
the Bedside" column, devoted to notes
concerning the many persons ill in
Fessenden.
A farmer near Devils Lake has made
S27O this winter by running his flax chat
through the tanning mill and marketing
the clean up.
Vice President Hannaford of the N. P.
writes that there is no truth in the
reports that the road would be extended
to Glendale.
Daniel L. Shields, a we'll known citizen
dale, died suddenly of heart failure at
his home on Sunday.
Darlington dogs will be taxed this
year and required to wear tags. Some
of the owners announce their intention
to evade payment of the tax.
The killing of Charles Brucker of
Kuhn by his wife may be investigated
and she may be made to stand trial
although not yet under arrest.
Judge Bessie of Wahpeton went to
New York to be treated for rheumatism
got worse and returned to North Da-
kota again-which is the stuff after all.
The Wells County News reports a
haunted ~house-the upstairs of Gus.
Gravelle's barber shop. Gus heard
the ghosts holding high carnival in the
rooms.
The Hankinson News is quite sure
that if the Cashel primary election bill
had passed Marshall and Spalding would
be chosen for representatives two years
hence.
The machine business at Langdon,
formerly managed by State Treasurer
Mcmillan, has passed into the hands of
a stock company with j. W. Mahon as
president. The company has a capital
of $4,000.
Pembina Pioneer Express: Charles
Cavileer, our oldest, will complete his
SD year on Wednesday of next week. Ii
he lives to July 10th this year he will
have completed fifty years of residence
in Dakota.
At the close of the term of the district
court at Langdon, J. G. Monnet, repre-.
senting the local bar, presented Judge
Kneeshaw with a box of Havanas, and
bouquets were tossed back and forth be.
tween the judge and the bar association
A snow pillow on the 500 road broke
while going through a long cut and the
engine and several cars were derailed
and badly disfgured. The train was
going at full speed when the wreck
occurred and it took two days to clear
the track.
George Stabler, formerly of Dickinson
is a soldier in the British army in South
Africa and wishes he was home. He
says the weather at Christmas and New
Years was unbearably hot, and that's a
condition he wasn't used to in North
Dakota.
N. e. McGruer applied for a~druggist's
permit at Langdon, and the issuance Of
tho rorprit uac yiroro1,c1v oppoScl nv
the enforcement league. AS a result OF
this stirring up of the old trouble, the
drug store of E. J. Donovan was raided
but nothing was found.
The American Field, the leading sports
mans journal Of the country, has a front
page article entitled "Goose Shooting al
Minnewaukan," written by Douglass
Lefingwell, the linseed oil manufacturer
al. Fargo. The story tells of the killing