Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-08-29

Ex-State Auditor A. N Carbon
has been laid up couple of weeks
with sickness.
Petersburg, up in Nelson county,
has "originated' newspaper, six
column quarto, neatly printed and
pretty well patronized. This does not
necessarily mean that M. N. Johnson
will be candidate for senator
The fire apparatus for Williston has
arrived, and has been duly paraded
through the streets. Though the
young men of the city have already or
ganized hook and ladder company,
which will make the new apparatus
effective.
Sister Doherty has gotten out tho
first issue of the Sarles Budget and
the people of that town should be we'll
pleased with 1t. 1t is hoped a stock
ade around the print shop won't be
necessary to keep the wolf from the
door, as was the case at Michigan
City.
The first hail stonm of the season
with accompaniment of wind, rain
and lightning, visited Forman and
vicinity Tuesday night. A barn and
windmill on the Christensen farm
| south Of town were demolished by the
wind. In Forman city the Jail was
struck by lightning, but no serious
damage ensued.
Goodrich Flicker: Six camps of
railroad builders are at work along
the last half of the extension which
terminates at Turtle Lake, while the
rails are being placed now on the first
fifteen miles. The rails are not laid
very fast owing to the primative
method used, less than a mile having
been covered since Monday morning.
The new Methodist church is now
completed and will be thrown open to
the public next Sunday. The new
church is modern in every way and is
one of the incest church buildings in
this part of the state. The dedicatorial
services will lbe held on Sunday, Sep
TENDER Sd. Cowboys are requested to
leave their irons at the door where
they can be checked by the Sheriff.
l-Williston Graphic.
Oscar Johnson of Binford, the
! eighteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles o. Johnson of Pilot Mound,
was kicked N the stomach by horse
Monday forenoon, and was subjected
to great pain and suffering before aid
could be rendered. He was driving
four horses hitched to a binder, and
had stepped between the horses to
fasten the fly blanket on one of the
middle horses. In this way he re-.
ceived the injury.
Tom Hurley is getting along pretty
we'll in age, but is still one of the
cheerful as the following from his
paper will show: G. E. Smith
threshed out load Of oats last Mon
day, Of which one measured bushel
weighed SO pounds. This is certainly
an extraordinary weight to the bushel
measure, and we doubt if the same can
be duplicated anywhere in the north
west outside of the famous Bowbells
county.
While working in a wheat field a
few miles south of Grass Lake in
Rolette county, John Walstorm, on
whose farm the work was being done,
found sealed can, rusty and partially
decayed by age. Upon opening it he
found twenty pounds in English gold
pieces. The can was of odd shape and
was evidently made for the purpose
Of carrying gold. The money was of
a very ancient mintage and from the
appearance of the box it had been in
the ground for many years. No per,
son seems able to advance an ex.
PLANTATION.
Reports from threshers in the Red
River Valley are disappointing. In,
vestigation in many fields show that
considerable of the wheat was dam.
aged to greater or less extent by
hot weather and that there is ex.
pected to be considerable No. north.
ern wheat. The kernels are not filed
out SO plump, and round, as the crop
indicated earlier. The Missouri Slope
may yet have to furnish the Valley
seed for next years crop. II those
lbenighted valley farmers were wise
they would migrate to the Missouri
Slope at once.
/ A horse near Bowbells had a set-to
with porcupine In which the latter
| got the decision in two rounds. The
BoWbells Truthteller describes the
trouble in this graphic manner:
While cutting oats on the Ritchie
farm. south of town, last Friday after.
noon, Sam Knutson's team came in
II contact with q Dorcupine who fred