Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-05
STATE News

jamestown public schools have been
closed because Of diphtheria.
The recent fall of snow has put a
crimp in the ''green grass" stories.
Grafton's N. P. agent has at last been
transferred to another branch at Ia
coma.
"Dad' Clinch of the Esmond Bee
thinks his face will protect him from
Sheriff Pinkerton prevented an at
tempted Jail delivery by two blind pig
gers at Langdon.
H. N. Wells has bought the Great
Northern hotel property at Grand
Forks for $4,000.
Miss Katie Hellan won in the James
town Alert's contest for the most pop
ular lady in jamestown.
1t usually repays one to read the
Wahpeton Globe but not when Falley
is absent or lazy-like last week.
The condition of the streets of the
new town of Souris caused a mass
meeting to take some action on street
crossings.
William Seger, one of the oldest con-
ductors on the 500, died suddenly at
the depot in Portal. He owned a
farm near Cathay.
Frank Carr. for twenty years an en-
ploye of the Alert at jamestown, and
for a number of years foreman of the
job Office, died at his home in James
town this week.
Stutsman county sold $4,000 of
refunding bonds to Thompson, Tenny
& Co., at a premium of LOG. The
bonds run twenty years and draw four
per cent interest.
Twenty-Five cars of farm implements
have been unloaded this spring at
Souris, terminus of the Rugby extern
sion of the Great Northern, and many
more are 10 TOllOW. +.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer
seems bent on getting the Herald to
admit that its editor may" go to
Washington and that he may" take a
land office position.
Judge Cowan thinks that a man who
has been in this country five and a half
years. and cannot speaker understand
the language had better wait a while
longer for citizens papers; and so ruled
on an application at Devils Lake re-
Gently.
The Manitoba division of the North
ern Pacific has been abolished and the
entire line from St. Paul to Manitoba
will be known hereafter as the Minn
sofa division. RED River branch is
the name by which the line running
through Grand Forks will be known
hereafter.
Frank M. Andre presented a bill to
the Jamestown city council for $50 for
the loss of a thumb in the Pearson fire
in September. Andre lost his thumb
by getting it tangled up with some Of
the fire apparatus. Some surprise
was expressed that he placed the valu-
alton SO low.
Messrs. Hare & French invite att
tention to their superior stock Of paints
in today's Tribune advertising coll
umns. The season for painting is
near at hand and those in search of
either paints or builders hardware will
find this firm prompt and reliable in
all their transactions.
In the district court at Devils Lake
Saturday Judge Cowan sentenced AL
bert Welsh to two and one-half years
in the pen at Bismarck for grand lar
ceny. His accomplish, E. R. Hunt,
received twenty months. The crime
of which they were convicted was
stealing flax from farmers north of
Devils Lake some twenty miles. A. F.
1SiCHOt ~ DIS HOutE yCdla&ll
the pen for grand larceny and Vim. G.
Bennett to ten days in the county Jail
and 500 fine for assault.
W. H. Schoonmaker. c. a. Kaye and
Others. who constitute a company for
the improvement Of N. d. lands at
st. Paul, have brought suit against one
Van Rolfe in which they ask for an ac-
counting and the dissolution of the
company. The company, which was
organized by the defendant a year ago,
invested $4,000 as partial payment on
1854 acres Of land in North Dakota.
The plaintiffs now say that Van Rolfe
was the paid agent OF the Northwestern
Land Company from which the tract
was purchased, that he was to receive
ST. 000 for engineering the deal, and
that he has failed to account for $4,000
received from several sales which he
has made since the incorporation Of
the company.