Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-08-10
STATE News

Wahpeton will have a street fair.
The first barley threshed in Stutsman
county went 20 bushels to the acre.
People at Darlington filed a request
for a Y with the railroad commission.
The druggists association went from
Grand Forks to Bemiji on an excur-
sion.
Lawrence Johnson Of Fargo, son of
Mayor Johnson, is an applicant for a
pension.
The first of this years crop of wheat
was loaded at Buffalo and Casselton
this week.
j.. Smith of Bowdon is under $500
bonds to district court for keeping a
blind pig.
The Dickey county commissioners
levied a tax of 4 mills on real estate
for gopher bounty.
President Worst of the agricultural
college is enjoying himself among the
mountains in Montana.
Prof. w. A. Godward Of Pembina
succeeds E. L. Whitney as superintend-
ent of the Hillsboro schools.
Prairie chickens are reported plenti-
full all through the state. The season
opens on Sunday, September /.
Heads of oats 80 1-2 inches long are
reported from Dave Bartlett's county
with affidavits of two witnesses.
J. Moody was arrested at Hankinson
for stealing a grip, and is suspected of
being a horse thief wanted at Huron.
Barrett & Zimmerman, the St. Paul
horse men, have been in Dickinson the
past week looking up 200 work horses.
Harvest hands are coming to the
state in prairie schooners. An outfit
Of twenty-five teams passed through
Fargo.
The chief of police at jamestown
makes the rounds Of the city horse
back every day and drives begging
tramps out of town.
Around Sanborn wheat is shriveled
and will not run over 8 or 8 bushels to
the acre. Oats is the bumper crop,
promising GO to 70 bushels.
The clothing of little Helen Trichler
of Fessenden caught fire and portions
of her body were burned to a crisp.
She was taken to St. Paul for treat
ment.
Surveys are being made to figure on
building a spur track from Jamestown
to the state asylum. 1t would result
in a great saving in transportation of
supplies.
Billy Wood of the Hotel Dacotah,
Grand Forks, ventures the prediction
based IN observation from the car
window only-that prairie chickens
are plentiful.
Train No. 1 had a narrow escape
from accident a few days ago at Miles
City. The tender left the track while
| going at 40 miles AN hour. Postal
Clerk R. M. Donnelly was Jared up
some.
The Minot Optic things that with
gold in the streets, thousands of acres
of ripening grain in the field, thous-
ands of head of fat cattle on the ranges
and millions of tons of coal in the hills,
Ward county ought to be able to hold
it's own-and she will.
c. L. King of the Harvey telephone
exchange refused to turn it oven to G.
E. Leslie of Darlington, who claims
to have bought it at receivers sale.
King claims he built the Harvey ex-
change himself and did not turn it
over to the company. A lawsuit is in
prospect
1t is said the city of Mayville may
be enjoined from dumping it's sewage
into the Goose river, as the farmers
object to having the stream polluted.
There is very little water in the river
at certain seasons of the year and the
farmers say the proposed plan would
be a menace to the public health.
Sleeplessness. You can't sleep in
the stillest night if your digestion is
bad. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla-it
strengthens the stomach and estab-
fishes that condition in which sleep
regularly comes and is sweet and re-
freshing.
NEW TOWNS ON THE 500. ,