Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-04-01
Missouri Slope Items.

water along the James river.
jamestown will probably vote a
public library appropriation.
The ladies of the Eastern Star are
planning a minstrel show for May /.
Stock losses are reported to have
been heavy in the vicinity of Devils
Lake.
Ernie Kent was admitted to practice
law at the term of supreme court at
Fargo.
All streams through the state have
been high this spring but are reported
falling now.
Cash deposits in Pembina banks
have increased from $636,642 in 1901
to $1,1OO,S67 in 1902.
President Roosevelt announces his
intention of getting a place for Major
Edwards as DON as one can be found.
1t is reported that the Great North
ern will have it's new Lakota branch
in running order to Larimore by the
first of June. .
More water in this section than ever
before says the Pierce County Trib-
une, which will be thoroughly appreci-
ated later on.
Max Bass expects to bring 5000
more Dunkards into the northwest this
year to settle along the line of the
Great Northern railway.
One e%nterprising gentleman was so
anxious to file on a claim, that he
walked from Bowden to Cathay, ff-
teen miles on snowdrifts. .
Governors White and Herried. are
expected soon to visit the site of the
fair at st. Louis and make reserva-
tions of space for their states.
Judge Pollock sentenced Hill. the
Leonard hotel man to four months in
Jail, a fine of $500 and costs of $500
for violating the prohibition law.
Richard Mansfield, the great actor
will make a tour across the continent
this summer, stopping at a few cities
en- route, on the Northern Pacific.
If he decides to accept a position
on the Forum, all old North Dakota
friends of Col. Plummer will rejoice
to see the old veteran pack in the
state.
Tho n1onc of Arohi&oo4 IJo-ooo1 l..a
been accepted for the institute for the
. feeble minded at Grafton. The build
t will be 6Ox1S5 feet, two stories high,
and cost $4,000.
The Great Northern will put on new
! 15-foot coaches, the longest ever built,
on its coast trains. They will have
a seating capacity of third larger than
i, the ordinary car, seating Y persons.
The agricultural college has. re-
duced a piece of pure parafne from
/ a barrel OF water obtained in western
Ransom county and the first thing WE
know Ed. Pierce will be booming oil
stocks.
Albert Begamiel of Casselton sued
J. O. Smith, former secretary of the
state senate for $3.50, for finding a our
!, chaser for Smiths farm for 500, 600.
A Jury returned a verdict for the
amount claimed.
1t is said that Pierre Laverdure,
who has just died in Montana, was iii
years old, having been born on North
Dakota soil in the year 1900. His
} father lived to be lip and his mother
: 100. so the remarkable. story goes.
Judge Wallin pointed out at Fargo
, the inconvenience of having the SUI
preme court on wheels-and hoped the
attorneys would some time become
magnanimous and fix a permanent
home for the court at the state CAPT.
tai. .
Mrs. H. G. Upham will receive a de-
pendent mothers pension through the
efforts of Senator Hansbrough. The
amount is $12 a month from May Is,
1900. Her son Frank, of Co. C, First
North Dakota, died in the Philippines
3 in March, 1899.
Kuhn Messenger: F. A. Sherwood,
0 the cattleman, and Lot Lachenmeier
of Lehr, made a bet of $50 on a walk
e by the latter from Lehr to Wishek
during the storm of the 10th inst. Mr..
: Sherwood lost the bet but the other
fellow lost the tips of his ears.
Francis j. Henry, who was attorney
for Judge Arthur H. Noyes of Nome,
has sent to Attorney General Knox an
application for pardon for c.. A. S
Frost, private secretary of Judge
Noyes, who was sentenced to Jail fol-
one year for contempt by the San
Francisco court.
There is a little high water else