Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-09-30
STATE NEWS

Editor Stickley's important out
side interests which prompted him to
offer the Fessenden News for sale
seems to be the editing of the Ken
mare Journal, which he has bought.
Webster Merrifield, president of the
University of North Dakota, arrived
home last night from New York, ac-
oompanied by Dan Bull. Mrs. Merri-
field and other members of the family
will arrive from Newburg next week.
President Merrifeld spent the summer
abroad, and had the misfortune to
break a limb just as the boat landed
on the other side, which laid him up
in London for some time.
If anybody gets victimized on worth
less old state bank notes issued be-
fore the war, they must take their
medicine pleasantly, as the U. s au-
thorities opine their passage is not
against CnS law. g. ,.'.-
A Donnybrook man not only refused
to show his ticket to the 500 con-
ductor, but when that individual stop
ped the train and endeavored to put
the D. M. of the latter "put it all over
"the con. and rode to Minot as victor
returning from the war.
Minot is to have another national
bank to take the place Of the Minot
National, deceased. |r 3
And the question arises: What the
dickens is Walter Taylor going to do
with all the money he will get from
the tremendous run Of advertising in
his LaMoure Chronicle. It is the best
patronized county paper in the state.
The grain elevators of the state
seem to be in the privileged class.
They are nearly always full, but never
get arrested.
The piggers of Ward county are
said TO have formed political comr
bination for the purpose of controlling
the county Offices Whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad"
- - .ri, VA.
Life was too strenuous ait camp
Miller for the regular army sergeant
detailed to give instruction in the
comnissary department He was un-
able to brace up upon returning to
Fort Shedding and is now a high
private. Too bad; he was a BRIGHT
fellow whom many of the boys will re-
member kindly. s'-.
After a year or two of patient wait
ing, and after the purchase of fire
engines, new water works pumps and
AID kinds of fire destroying invest
ments, Fargo merchants are promised
a reduction of insurance rates. Looks
like rather expensive investment for
something that will probably last until
the next big fire boosts the rates
again.
An ice palace is suggested as an
amusement feature for Fargo this
winter. Bad advertisement.
A very sad thing occurred last Sat
urday night about nine miles northeast
OF Courtenay. A barn, belonging to
Mr.. Posey was burned, and sixteen
horses and two men were burned I'D
in the barn. 1t will perhaps never be
known just how the barn caught fire,
or! why the men did not escape. A
hired man drove out from Courtenay
Saturday night, reaching the barn
about 10 o'clock. He saw the two men
who were burned, going from the
boarding house with lantern in hand
to the barn where they slept. After
ne put his team in the barn, he went
direct to the boarding house and go.
his supper, but before he had finished
supper, some one reported that the
horses in the barn were making a
frightfuf noise, SO he rushed to the
barn, but found it all afiame. He open
co the doors but the fire was falling
down from the loft and he could do
nothing. Why the men in the barn
did not escape will never be known.
Nothing but the bones Of the men were
ieft The barn and horses belonged to
Ed Posey.
Are You Engaged
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