Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-09-14

STATE News
A crusade is being carried on against
hOOtleggers in the Red river valley.

ering from the effects of an operation
for appendicitis,
The Devils Lake ball team, champion
of the valley league, is said to be
81 900 in the hole.
Mike Eagan of Mayville got his foot
badly mangled in the gearing of a
threshing engine.
About thirty delegates are attend
ing the. meeting Of the Federation of
Woman's clubs at Mayville.
A hunter named Smith at Monango
shot off n OF his hands and bored a
hole in his side near the lung.
Russian Jews at Grand Forks held
a special prayer meeting for the re-
covery Of President Mckinley.
Barley Pulse committed suicide at
Rartlett. His wife left him several
days ago and he was respondent.
A syndicate is being organized in
Fargo to fight the Woods bill-the old
tax law designed to wipe all old taxes
off and clear up the records.
H. l.. Gaige of Moscow, Pa, sold a
Stutsman county nan a farm last year
for $12 an acre, and the flax crop raised
this year will pay for the land.
George Comerford, brother-in-law of
EN~ol Don-1++ Co-o&o- oDoH~1y,~I
secretary-has returned from Nome
and has some interesting experiences
to recite.
A Sanders is in the Cass county Jail,
awaiting prosecution for forgery. He
owed a Casselman man $40 and got
him to cash a draft for $500 and give
him the balance. The draft was n. G.
Architect Hancock of Fargo is back
from the Bugalo exposition and says
the agricultural exhibit in the North
Dakota booth consisted of only three
cabbages-which is not enough, he
think s..
The annual meeting Of the W. c. T.
U. of the state begins at Lisbon this
afternoon. Mrs. Hansbrough will en-
terrain in the convention Saturday
night with a reading of original
poems.
James Delmore has served papers in
a suit for $500 damages against John
Puth, a LaMoure county farmer. The
two men had a row over threshing and
Delmore had a finger chewed and was
otherwise m%altreabed.
Chief of Police Dickinson of Car
rington was kicked in the face by a
horse on Monday. The animals hoof
cut through the lip to the bone, and
besides the cut, loosened all the front
teeth in the lower jaw.
A. J.. Ritcher of New Rockford
stopped his binder to take a shot at a
covey Of chickens. He got five chick
ems and the team made kindling wood
and scrap iron of the new'binder. The
family had fried chicken for dinner
and the machine agent got an order
for a new binder.
Chas. Keeland, proprietor of the
Darcy house at Darcy, Barnes county,
was arrested on a charge of running a
blind pig but the case was dismissed.
The witnesses ~subpoenaed testified
that they bought no liquor and the
several bottles of beer found on the
premises were said to have been kept
for home consumption.
There is trouble between Rev. Steele
and Editor FAIRIES at Courtenay.
Steele is the Scotch preacher who de-
clared he was "as good as any lousy
American" He roasted the news
paper man from the pulpit and FAIRIES
came back at him by calling him an
ulcer on society and other pet
names. Now the preacher threatens
to sue the Courtenay Gazette for S1O,-
90 damages.
Devils Lake has been officially
awarded the pennant for the baseball
championship of North Dakota. There
some misunderstanding as a re-
suit of a failure of Devils Lake and
Milton to complete the series arranged
to decide the tie, and Milton entered
a protest. President Kent found that
Milton had not met Devils Lake at
Fargo as agreed and awarded the flag
to the Satan City fellows. /
Jamestown Alert: B. S. Russell.
has had gathered samples OF corn, mill
LEI and Austrian bronze grass and sent
the same to the North Dakota man
ager of The state exhibit at the Pan
American There were three varie-
ties OF corn. The stalks were twelve
feet high and the ears OF the yellow
flint variety measured some 8 inches
in length. The Dakota dent is spe-