Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-04-12
AROUND TIE STATE.

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Haggart's home at Fargo proved to be
without foundation. n
The Balfour Statesman says: "Early
settlers enjoy cur spring weather. Its
cold in their old homes" 4
The Northern Pacific has declared
it's regular quarterly dividend of one
per cent on preferred stock.
Deer are, getting tame in Pembina
county. Three of them approached
within a few feet of a farmer blowing
in his field.
The Fargo Forum urges residents of
that city to get together and, devise
some means of furnishing everyone
pure drinking water.
Ora Stinson, a grain buyer at Arthur,
got mixed up with an exploding gaso-
line engine and had his leg broken and
suffered a bad scalp wound.
Station Agent Da:is and Mrs. Car
yer of Davenport have been arrested,
charged with adultery. The COM
p~lainant is the husband Of Mrs. Carver.
P. C. Crenshaw, who has been man
ger of the Standard Oil company at
Fargo, has been promoted and goes to
Kansas City to take a similar position
there.
The county commissioners of Penn
bina county appropriated $500 for the
county fair but declined to make an
appropriation to assist the Pan-Amer-
lean commission
The contested will case Of T. w.
Morris has been settled at Fargo and
litigation avoided. Morris died in the
asylum and it was claimed the will was
made while he was mentally incompe-
tent.
The preliminary hearing in the Rob-
ertson case has begun. at Fargo. Rob-
ertson. is charged with having killed
the infant child of a Mrs. Jasmer and
burned the body. The woman in the
case testified that he child died a nat
ural death.
Albert Jones, one of the young fell
lows arrested for placing a wire across
the sidewalk at jamestown and caus-
ing the injury of a lady there, will have
to serve out his fine in Jail. His
father refused to pay his fine, as the
lad has caused him considerable
trouble and he thought this lesson
would be a good one. 60
The little son of Foreman Winkler Of
the section at Montpelier got in front
of the car and had his leg injured. The
crew loaded him on a handcar and
made the run into Jamestown, nineteen
miles, in an hour and ten minutes, one
of the swiftest handcar runs on record.
The injuries sustained by the little fell
low were found to be not serious.
Minneapolis Tribune: Rev. w. S
Brooks, pastor of st, Peters African
M. e. church, and author of several
books, notably What a Black Man
Saw in a White Mans Country" is the
prime mover in a we'll defined plan tc
establish a negro settlement on govern
ment lands available under the home.
stead law, either in northern Mime
sofa or North Dakota. ~
A new law authorizes the county
treasurer to deduct from any monies
due an individual any sum which he
may owe the county on personal taxes
Under this law several of the county
officials had their salaries turned into
the county treasury, and Editor Fog
.arty, of the Capdo Herald, who had {
warrant for $37, and a court order TO!
81 40, found that his money went thu
same way It was tough, but Fogart.
seems to like it, after all. E.
1t is said that fully 100000 acres 0
virgin land will make the acquaintanc'
of the pillow in the Red River valley thi
spring. Much of this land was pur
chased years ago by. spectators, ant
has but lately been placed on the maj
, ket. 1t has been purchased by small
farmers, and will this year be include'
in the ranks Of producing areas. Tn
immigration into the Red River vale,
has not been affected by the drouth o
: last season, the memory of which viii
be practically forgotten with the ad
vent Of new crop.
{ Abolition of the Ducking Stool.
! |Tha&mnst noteworthy of all the In