Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-04-09
MISSOURI SLOPE ITEMS.

People OF Billings county gave q
farewell dance at Medora to the
Eaton brothers. ,E'.I'
Experiments have been made in
I western Morton county with the grow.
/ ing Of winter wheat. y. &3s22s, - .s5.
4 Az Mcintosh county will give two cents
for each gopher tail brought into the
county auditor before May 18th.
Sixteen cars of immigrants move
ables have been received at Beach and
Sentinel Butte up to April LIST of this
year. -.,2 >r. .~|'&5
The train crew is again busy repair
ing the N. P. Linton branch and re-
storing traffic to the people Of that
section.
Morton county will erect six dipping
tanks for cattle in different parts of
the county. L. E. Peterson has the
contract for building them at 1856
each.
Jacob Hummel, who lives IA miles
northwest of Ashley, had the bad luck
during the recent storm that the roof
of his barn was blown off and a COW.
three steers and all his chickens froze
to death.
Medina will have a creamery. The
Hackney Boynton land company will
import 300 dairy cows and put them
into the hands of farmers who will
care for them and furnish cream for
the creamery.
The Ray Civilians county, Public
Opinion speaks of couple of men at
Buford, on the ice in the Missouri at
the time of the breakup, having mar
row escape from MISUNDERSTANDING
from one piece to another, like Eliza
in Uncle Toms Cabin.
Emmons County Republican: Dan
McGattigan, who has homestead
west of Hazelton, and who is employed
in the 500 round house in Bismarck,
came down from the capital city yes
terday. His family will arrive this
week and take up their residence on
the claim.
Dickinson Press: F. L. Ash, post
master at Beaver in Bowman county,
came to the city via Sentinel Butte
yesterday to attend to some land fl
IN st. AoI t.~- "a
sheep on shares from J. e. Cobb and
had good success with them up to the
last blizzard in which he lost q hun
dred or more by land and snow slide
burying them on the bed ground.
Dickinson Press: Conductor s. ].
Dunlap was returning Tuesday from
Glendive where he is interested in a
company owning nine townships of
land in the Yellowstone country twelve
miles north of the track The com
pany sell in ten thousand acre tracts
Mr.. Dunlap has a township Of land
that he owns individually near Fallon.
Dickinson Press: On Tuesday May
or Manning, Messrs. A. Hilliard, w. L.
Richards and John Van der Las met
President Elliott at the depot on his
return trip from the west and inter
viewed him regarding the needs Of
new depot here. President Elliott
granted the need Of new station, but
told the committee that he could not
make any definite promise as to the
time work would commence on the
new structure-plans and specifica-
tions for which had already been pre-
pared. .+-5"..g> 70. -. .%>,a't
Mcintosh Republican: It is report
ed to- us that Mrs. Varnony, wife of
Charles Varnony, living one and one
half miles east of town. attempted
suicide Tuesday by jumping into a
we'll 80 feet deep. Luckily she was
not injured much. It is claimed the
woman becomes deranged at times,
and was in this condition when she
made the attempt on her life.@ We
hope Mrs. Varnony will wholly re-
cover, just for the sake Of her little
babe. Domestic trouble has some
thing to do with this sad occurrence.
Mandan Pioneer: Mr. Chas. Krauth
Of Hebron says that some Of the farm
ers in his licality have. sown winter
wheat, and up to date it is looking
first rate. II it is a success west OF
the Missouri, it will largely enhance
the value Of farm lands in this part
of the state. At Fargo where 1t has
been tried, the land is too wet and
cold in the spring, and Is not a sue
cess. An experiment station such as
was contemplated by the last session
of the legislature, at Dickinson, would
be Of great value to the west Missouri
country, for at such a place the best
conditions for. growing winter wheat
could be ascertained, and II success,
the experience there gained would be
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