Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-30

Cogswell has 1,065 foot artesian
well that is reported to be bonanza
spouter.
Hannaford will spend $500 to open
up q new road leading out Of town to
the north. q \. &. # s
Ross G. Lance, aged years, was
instantly killed at Valley City. The
lad was riding on the switch engine
used for helping trains up the hill
and fell OF the front Of the engine
and was instantly killed.
A Great Northern freight train ran
into train as it stood at the station
at Williston, and report has it that
several men were injured. The mai
car had been attached to the rear Of
the train, owing to a defective coupl
ing, and was badly damaged. e
The Grand Forks Herald reports
that the rain Of Wednesday turned
into snow in the northern and west
ern portions of the state resulting in
a decided drop in temperature. This
part of the western part, however
escaped both the snow and drop in
temperature. ....
There are over 100000 people in
this grand United States and there
are acres enough in this grand
North Dakota to supply each individ
ual Of these eighty odd million with
over half acre each-gee what an
elegant back yard the rest OF the
country would be for us to play in.
The state school lands were sold at
Towner Tuesday at prices which ran
as high as $31 per acre. The bidding
was spirited and the attendance large.
Many buyers were here from the
| country and large number from
outside points, from as far as Kansas
City. All the hotels were filled to
overflowing. !
Kenmare News: E. C. Tolley,
right-of-way man for the 500 from
Kenmare to the Mouse River, informs
us that the right-of-way for the new
500 extension from here to Thief
River Falls, has been secured to
within a few miles lof Kenmare and
he expects to have it all secured by
the first of next week. ., -
A rather severe storm of sleet and
snow ragged from point near Wind
sor, just west OF jamestown to q
! point near Bismarck yesterday and
caused a serious disruption to the
N. P. telegraph wires and all but one
were down" the greater part Of the
day. The reports state that the
weather cleared before. the east
bound trains reached that section Of
the road and no delays were caused
on that account.
Mrs. J. A. Warner received a letter
from her husband yesterday. Under
ordinary conditions the above infor-
nation would not convey any intelli-
gence of startling nature, but there
seems to be some peculiar circ1m-
stances in connection with this par.
ticular letter. While Mr.. and Mrs.
Warner were residents of Vienna,
South Dakota, four years ago last
winter, Mrs. Warner came to Hope,
this state, to spend the holidays with
her parents. Mr.. Warner spent New
Years day with his brother at Hazel,
South Dakota, that winter-January
1, 1900. That day he wrote and mail
ed letter to Mrs. Warner, properly
addressed to Hope, North Dakota
We do not know whether or not Mr..
Warner got "raked over the Goals"
by his wife when she returned home,
for not writing to her. However that
may be, the letter arrived in Dickey
yesterday, being forwarded from
Hope to this place. There were no
postmarks or other means of identi.
fication by which to ascertain where
the letter had been all these years.
It was postmarked at Minneapolis,
March Is, 1905, and at Hope March
20, 1905 arriving here yesterday,
March %, 1905. Where the letter has
been during the past four years and
three months is a mystery and will
probably always remain such. It has
probably been lying In some remote
corner Of mail box somewhere, or
behind letter cabinet in some dis
tributing Office or mail car. The CON
dition Of the letter indicated that 1t
had not been handled much. This Is
one Of the comparatively few errors
which take place in the transaction OF
a business Of such vast proportions
and magnitude as that Of the United
States postal system. The only won.
der is that more errors OF this nature
do not occur when one thinks Of the
hundreds upon hundreds OF thousands
Of letters which pass through the
hands of. the postal authorities every