Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-04-08
AROUND THE STATE.

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The Wahpeton Globe wants more
paving in that town.
The Larimore Pioneer ome out in.
a gaudy Easter dress.
Lieut.. William Mickle will be the
new chief Of police at Grafton.
President Hicks Of the state manual
training school has been reelected
for another year. ~.
Company D of Devils Lake will soon
begin the construction of an armory
at a cost of $1,000. 49,, .~
The Gull River Lumber company is
suing eighty members of the James
town boat club for a bill of $500 for
lumber.
A correspondent Of the Wahpeton
Globe says all kinds of beer are on
sale at Lidgorwood and there are eight
open saloons. y,
Major Edwards writes up from St.
Paul that DR.. Archibald and his wife
expect to make a trip through old Mex
leo, beginning this week.
The fourth annual race meet at
Hope this year will be held June -25th
and 26th and the business men have
guaranteed a purse of $1,50o.
The Walsh county commissioners
refused to make an appropriation to
help out the Pan-American display, on
the advice of the states attorney.
Down in Richland county disastrous
thunder storms ragged last week.
Farmer John HerTick near Wynmere
lost a barn and some live stock.
Base ball is so important a topic at
Devils Lake the mayor has called a
mass meeting to decide On the ques-
ton or organizing a base ball team.
The Valley City Patriot credits ex-
Railroad Commissioner Rasmussen
with securing a reduction of rates on
seed corr from 81 to IA cents a bushel.
1t is said that A. M. Halstead, ex-
treasurer of Stutsman county, will
put in electrical mining machinery in
coal mines at Kenmare he's interested
in. > =
Willie Root of Valley City had a
narrow escape from death from a
bursting rifle one day last week. One
piece cut a nasty cash in young Roots
head. 49,. -...
Ex-Auditor. Hannum and j.. l..
Greene saved a Buttzville man, named
Elef Nordhagen. from being killed by
a moving train he was attempting to
board. ~
The Ransom county commission
ers declined to issue seed wheat bonds.
There are about $1,000 defaulted obi
vations from a former issue in that
county.
Editor Fyles Of the Sargent County
Teller is hot because a tourist took
his Office for a blind pig-especially
when there. was a preacher in the Office
at the time. -
Cornelius Buckley, father of Con
and several other railroad men well
known on this division of the N. P,
died at Jamestown last week at the
age of SO years.
Nobody ever suspected Jud LaMoure
Of any genius for music, but his son
Judson LaMoure, jr., has composed a
band selection that has been dedicated
to the Pembina Pioneer Express.
Charles Darling, a crippled mer-
chant at jamestown, dropped a coal
into q, can Of kerosene and nearly per-
ished in the resulting blaze. He was
finally rescued by men who heard his
cries. r ~,5. -.
VIM. Wandel, arrested for stealing
flax from the gTanaIy on the farm of
Col. McIlyain, near Sheldon, the latter
part Of the winter, was given a SEN
- | SIT. ~ - - -.' in
tence of thirty days in Jail and 500
! fine and costs. - =
Hon. W. w. Barrett has been&re-
auested by the chairman of the Ram
sey county committee appointed by
the state ,Pan-American exposition
commission to furnish a seed display
from that county, and Barrett will
comply.
The channel of the Missouri river
at Williston promises to change to the
opposite, shore this spring and the
people of WiIliston hope it will remain
there-as last season the"cutting" on
the north shore was dangerously near
the town.
Prot. Ten Eyck OF the agricultural
college warns the farmers against too
much wetness this season. He says
the soil March Is shows 5 per cent
more moisture than there Is any rec
ord of at the college. This is due tic