Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-01-15

oeeu 9UU transfers or property re-
corded.
The Valley City Alliance points with
pride Ito the fact that it has been an
official paper Of Barnes county for
fourteen years.
Director Kaufman schedules a dozen
farmers institutes for the months of
January and February at different
places in the state.
Louis Thompson, twenty years of
age, was accidentally shot through the
lower part of the abdomen at souris.
The injury may prove fatal.
That elusive Northern Pacific sur
veying crew is o reported in the vi
entity of Ashley, supposed to be work
ing in the direction of Edgeley.
DIR. Healy, superintendent of the
state board of health, is attending a
meeting of the health officers of all the
northwestern states at St. Paul.
George Olson, who was taken from
a Great Northern train and confined 10
the county Jail at Grand Forks, at
tempted to cut his throat while in
Jail. t,4: .-l 49, .~
Reappointment of the old commits
sioners seems to have been the gen
eral rule through the state in filling
the places made vacant by expiration
of term. g. > i
Now it appears that Judge Ross dis
sented from the opinion of the other
California judges in the Noyes case be-
cause he wanted to give the judge a
more severe sentence than the others.
A Grand Forks county farmer re-
turned from the grain growers conven-
tion-so added over the merger and
Jim Hills speech that he is in Jail
awaiting the action of the county board
of insanity. 49,
The nineteen months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. deJardine of Wild Rice
pulled out the stopper of a washing
machine and covered himself with
scalding water, inflicting burns from
which he died. ..:. ...-
The family of John Janzen of Cav
alier county went on a trip in a wagon
and placed the 11-months-old baby in
q how in frork 0f kL~-10-A l-N1----
it warm. When they reached their
destination it was discovered the baby
was dead, having turned over and
smothered. g" %.
Some of the cases of small pox re-
ported through the state this year are
of a severer type than that which
was treated in the state last winter.
The logging and lumber camps of Min
nesota are said to be responsible for
the disease, which is brought to the
state by men coming across the Dor
der. .-
DR.. Baldwin of jamestown saws
there are numerous cases of smallpox
in the vicinity of Courtenay along the
edges of Barnes, Griggs and Foster
counties. The people are becoming
alarmed at the spread of the disease
and are taking greater precautions
than ever before against it. Many
have expressed little fear of it but now,
some of the cases being somewhat Sc
we're, are becoming afraid and are
avoiding all contact with suspected or
actual cases.
Kuhn Messenger: Profound sor-
row reigns at Wishek and Ashley over
the absorption of nine blind pigs at
those places by the states attorney and
an army of deputy sheriffs. We are
told by an influential citizen of that
county that the movement means the
permanent closing of the pigs there,
and that the violators will be given a
show to leave the country Or engage in
legitimate pursuits. Otherwise they
will be rigidly prosecuted at the com
ing term OF court.
c. D. Meredith, father of Mayor Mer-
edith of Casselton, has a valuable lit
erary souvenir copy OF the New
England Journal" printed Monday,
April 5, 172S-almost Ia years ago.
This relic has come down to Mayor
Meredith through half a dozen genera
lions on his fathers side. 1t contains
a column Of history, a declaration OF a
captain general to the council and the
councils reply, 6burials in the town of
Boston and list of those baptized.
Of two slave girls. one aged %, and
one aged Is or IA. and for particulars
to inquire of the printer hereof"