Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-17
STATE NEWS
Cant cross the Missouri at Wash

Minors are forbidden to enter pool
and billiard halls at Lanwdon.
Washburn is up against the same
situation that this city is-no ice.
A number of bad prairie fires are
reported from different sections of
the state. h
Nina is a new postoffice just estab.
lished in the neighborhood of Sher-
wood.
A Sherwood drug store claims to
have just received seven tons of
formaldehyde.
The Mohall Independent is offering
a pound Of formaldehyde with each
subscription to the paper.
The Washburn Leader predicts that
Bismarck will soon be the wholesale
center for this part of the etate.
Sherwood proposes to incorporate
and the petition will be presented to
the county commissioners at their
next meeting.
L. w. Patmore has taken the post
mastership at Drayton vice A. H.
Johnson, who is said to have juggled
two cent stamps.
w. Kinsall, a fireman on the Great
Northern was badly scalded by the
bursting Of the arch flues. The ac-
cident happened at Riga.
A farmers elevator association has
been organized at Underwood with a
capitalization of $4,000, and work
will soon be commenced on the new
elevator. B.
The Linton folks are going to put
on farce comedy, Winning North
Dakota Bride" boys need to be
encouraged or educated which ever
word sounds best.
Fred McDaniels, a brakeman on the
st. Johns and Churchs Ferry branch
was caught by the loading chute Of
the stock yards while climbing down
from a car and quite badly injured.
Mayor Duis Of Grand Forks has ap-
pointed committee to investigate
charges made against the Grand
Forks Gas and Electric company.
They have been charged with exact
ing exhorbitant rates and furnishing
an inferior quality of gas and
electricity. i. .:%l.r
F 1t happened down by the beach. A
little boy on a fence, swaying his
feet. Beside him sat girl playmate.
"1'll tell you my name if you tell me.
yours" he said. well, what is it?"
said the girl. "Lemmy Kishew.
What's yours?' collie Wright"
And then she dug her fairy toes into
the sand, and waited.
William Loop. fireman on the
Great Northern, was crushed to
death. The train had stopped at a
coal dock. Loop got onto the tank to
let down the coal chute when the
sag in the train jerked the engine
back just enough to catch him be-
tween the cab and the chute. Death
was almost instantaneous
Louis Gardner was an east bound
passenger on Monday afternoon, on
his way to report at the recruiting
station at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
for the Chinese Army. Mr.. Gardner
some time ago put in an application
for position in the Chinese army
and was accepted. A soldier who has
served one year with Uncle Sam in,
the Philippines is accepted by the
Chinese and made an oficer.-Man-
dan Independent.
The Washburn Leader hits Bis
marck a slap right on the wrist with
the following: The Bismarck Tri-
bune has already commenced to fig
ure on that $4,000 appropriation for
the upper Missouri as being spent eat
or near Bismarck" Washburn is the
headquarters at the present time for
the up river steamboats, and occas-
ionally, perchance, during the season
a stray boat touches at the port of
Bismarck. only this and nothing
more. We do not think that the Tri-
bune will be able to come the Mandan
act on Washburn, we are too far to
the north.
An ingenious fraud was revealed
to the postoffce authorities recently.
The swindlers have their headquar-
tiers in the twin cities. The plan is
to secure the names Of old persons as
soon as they die and then send a letter
and q pair OF spectacles by mail to
the address OF the dead person. The
letter says that the spectacles have
been forwaded as per order and the
bill is 81. The sentiment OF the stu
alton Immediately appeals to the dead
ones relatives. They look upon the
spectacIes as a momento Of the dead.