Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-08-05
STATE News


The Oakes post Office can now issue
foreign money orders. 49,
Bowbells boasts of cottonwood
sprouts growing half an inch daily.
Frank Crepps paid $4,000 for half
section of land near New Rockford.
stutsman county farmers are down
on the cigarette fends-for farm lab
orers. '@-.
Conductor Curran of the N: P. pas
senger run, has a new son at home
weight pounds
An S0-acre field of wheat standing
five feet high is reported from Velva,
McHenry county.
The stealing of a bike in, Fargo re-
suited in the sending of Alphonse Tes-
sier to the asylum.
A lady passenger fell between. the
train and platform at jamestown and
had a narrow escape from death.
The quarantine for small pox has
been lifted at Grand Forks, and DR..
Duggan reports all cases disposed of.
Secretary and Mrs. c. c. Hammond
celebrated the completion of their new
home in Ashley by giving a dancing
party.
The people of Ashley want the town.
site company to set aside block in
the center of the townsite for public
square.
Major J. E. Cronan of Fargo has gone
to Alaska to look after those marble
quarries. Mrs. Cronan accompanies
her husband
Judge Pollock rusticated in the Yel-
lowstone Park for while and then
came back and found grasshoppers
along the sheyenne river.
Mike De la Bere of the Sheldon Pro-
gress visited Pembina county recently
and found Col. and Mrs. Grant Hager
of st. Thomas charming entertainers.
Congressman and Mrs. Marshall are
now comfortably located in their cot
tage at Detroit Lake and North Dakota
friends are invited to ride in that new
gasoline launch.
The Forum tried to tell about Judge
Kono of Stark county accompanying
an insane patient to the asylum-and
the item-got the judge--in the asylum
by leaving out line of copy.
| A carload of negroes was brought UP
from the south to work on the Bowdon
extension. White laborers can't be
obtained for railroad work because of
the high wages being paid in the har-
vest field.
| Judge Glaspell has 400 acre farm
in Stutsman county, on the river. He
makes success at truck farming-has
5000 celery plants growing-expects
/ to dig 1000 bushels of potatoes-be-
sides other crops.
Crops along the Milwaukee road in
the state are reported looking fine. The
| Milwaukee does not operate through
the entire state, but that portion of
the road in the state is fortunate in
tapping the cream of a rich country,
from which good crop reports come.
It is rumored that Col. Lounsberry
| is engineering scheme for the gov
ernment to establish a $500 acre town
site at the mouth of the Yellowstone,
north of the Missouri river, which will
take in old Forts Union and Buford,
also the ferry landing, the land at the
new tank, the present station, Mercer's
homestead claim, Fred Figley's hotel
and the old canteen and store. +; =;
| The hail storm in Wells county last
week was, from four to six miles in
width and was the worst in the history
OF that county. Chickens, sheep,
hogs and small animals were killed by
:, the hail stones and horses and cattle
skinned alive and left in dying con-
dition, according to the Fessenden
News. 1t is estimated that a quartea,
of million dollars will not cover the
loss. sE.l ::s@$ I. 4. 2.g s25s. Is
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