Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-08
Missouri Slope Items.

There are deposits Of nearly half a
million dollars in the Dickinson banks.
Taylor, in Stark county, has voted
to issue bonds for $1,000 school
house.
Landseekers in Dickinson this
week made $4,000 worth of land pur-
chases.
Mrs. J. a.. Johnson of Braddock, has
received patent on new fastener for
clothes lines. Is,
Peter Pearson was found dead near
Sims, supposed to have been frozen
to death last week.
Mrs. Joe Miller of Mandan, is in St.
Paul seriously i'll, and reports say her
recovery is doubtful.
Dr.. Leonard of Mandah, has been
appointed member of the state board
Of dental examiners.
The Mandan school board will fence
the school grounds, which is a move
IN the right direction.
A mass meeting will be held in
Dickinson next Tuesday for the pur-
pose of choosing city officers.
Stockhouse brothers of Deepriver,
Iowa, have arrived at Mandan with
250 head of cattle. to put upon land
recently purchased there, b
A. H. sArnett, A. N. Jefferies & Co.,
of Dickinson, have closed out their in
terest in the Standing Rock rese1wa-
tion to Lake, Lamb & Co.
Editor 2 Streeter of the Record is
wise and in announcing social event
at his home, says it was on the an
niversary of the birth of Mrs. Streeter.
Tom Adams of Mandan, has invent
ed a new corn planter that can be at
tached to a mower and will do work
at quarter the cost of the planters
at present in use.s 3
Dave Glover has been arrested and
brought to Mandan charged with be-
ing the father of the unborn babe of
Miss Case. The case will be heard
before the justice of the thirteenth.
Shorey & Barclay of Billings county.
says the Little Missourian, have
brought suit against M. J. Morris for
trespass and malicious injury to their
sheep, claiming damages in the sum
of 5000.
The attorney general holds that the
reform school board can accept the
site that has been offered them Just
west Of Mandan, and work on the new
buildings will be begun as soon as the
contract is let.
Emmons County Record: A new
prohibition drink, said to, be equal in
strength to nonLtox, is being intro
duced into North Dakota. It is known
by the name of "Tapo,'' and is prob
ably manufactured from tapeworms.
The service on the Braddock and
Pollock lines OF the 500 are now daily,
except Sunday, instead of tri-weekly,
as formerly. The new service is fur
nished by extending the ryln of the
train which previously left Minneapo-
lis at night and stopped at Glenwood.
Braddock Republican, It is report
ed that Geo. Wescott, who has ranch
near Linton, recently sold it, to-
gether with some cattle and horses.
for $4,000. A few years ago it
wouldn't have taken many figures to
express Georges wealth, but North
Dakota ]a-k has been good to him and it's
different now.
4 Carl Schwenborg, young man
about % years of age who resided nine
miles south of New Salem, commit
ted suicide Monday forenoon by shoot
ing himself through the heart. An
Inquest was held and verdict Of
suicide was rendered The young
man was in fairly good circumstances
and the only motive that could be
assigned for committing the crime
was that the day before he had called
upon young lady and asked her
hand in marriage and being refused
became despondent and killed himself.
a deal was closed Wednesday where
by the Missouri Slope Land and IN,
yestment company of Dickinson sold
to a Mr.. Achorn of Boston, Mass. g..
664 acres OF land in Billings county for
$40, 600. The lands are in townships
la37 and 13s, range 106, and are about
twelve miles south and west Of Senti-
mel Butte and border on the Montana
state line. Mr.. Achorn sent his rep
resentative to look over the lands
with g view TO purchasing one or two
sections but was so pleased with his.
agents report on the land that he de-
cided to increase the purchase to the
number of acres mentioned above.