Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-01
AROUND I'll STATE

AROUND THE STATE
Mandan is complaining of false fire
alarms.
Major Black of Valley City will go
with the Shriners to Honolulu.
O. T. Lowen has been appointed post
master at Sogn, Logan county.
jamestown had a poverty social which
was pronounced q great success.
The Forum now has Tom Poole locat,
ed on a ranch with 800 head of cattle.
According to the Statesman the spring
rush has already set in in McHenry
county.
Oscar Hidden, attending the Grand
Forks college, has been taken down with
small pox.
The Bowbells Tribune makes fun of
Kenmare's beet sugar factory. Green
eyed jealousy.
Ward county commissioners will pro-
vide farmers with strychnine for destruc-
ton of gophers.
The $40 acre farm in Grand Forks
county formerly owned by Senator Roach
was sold recently for $4,000.
A call has been extended by st. Paul's
Episcopal church at Grand Forks to
Rev. John Burlison, rector at Tecumseh,
Mich.
Bowdon is to have a young lady physi
clan who speaks five different languages
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| William.
Col. Doran wants to know how much
of Octopus to believe and the Forum
thinks it will depend on the amount the
colonel reads.
The Forum seems to think that Mayor
Johnson's observations about running
hotels-in Sweden-are intended for
Jerry Bacon's benefit.
There is so much snow in the north
western part of Stutsman county John
Venmuns was obliged to drive his cattle
into another section for feed.
A couple of pugs-Rhodes of May
Vile, and Nelson The Terrible Swede"
undertook to run a lundry in Grand
Forks and we're run in by the police.
jamestown has to elect an alderman in
each ward and also four members of the
school board this spring. Under Muir
phys bill elections would be held only in
even numbered years and present Off
Gals would hold over.
The McHenry County Gazette gives
this advice: The timber on school lands
belongs to the state and the habit of
helping ones self is liable to cause
trouble. Coal is too cheap to take the
chances. Let the timber on these lands
alone. and be on the safe side.
A large number of members of the
Ancient and Accepted Order of the
Mystic Shrine have left Chicago for
Honolulu, H. l., to institute a lodge.
They will institute the lodge in the
crater of an extinct volcano if possible,
and it will be christened Aloha in
honor of some saint of the Mystic
Shrine. Returning the party will stop
at Tacoma, Helena, Fargo, St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
McHenry County Journal: Under the
new apportionment McHenry and Pierce
counties belong to one district and are
entitled to one senator and three repre-
sentatives. Heretofore McHenry has
been attached to Bottineau, which is a
a democratic stronghold. While this
county has always lined up with a re-
publican majority the election has been
in doubt on the legislative ticket. The
new order of things precludes the posi-.
bility of a doubt as Pierce is a strong
republican county. Bottineau is now
by herself and no other county will be
obliged to suffer as a result of her 20.
litical folly.
J Judge Pollock has rendered a decision
in the case of Grosvenor VS.. Signor, in
volving questions of law of interest tc
many, as follows: Does the payment
by one joint contractor prevent the run.
, ming of statute of limitations IS to the
other. Does the recovery of a Judgment
against one joint contractor operate as. E
; bar to a suit against the other joint con
: tractor. Judge Pollock decided both
these questions in the affirmative al
though there were no recorded decisions
on matters of this kind from the supreme
: courts which were applicable TO the case
! mentioned. Attorneys Pollock q Scot
will appeal from the decision of the cour
in this matter, and their decision will b.
y, awaited with interest.