Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-06-02
STATE News

Towner proved the stronger attrac
ton. 49,. D..
VIM. H. Young was arrested at
Neche Monday on an Indictment
charging him with smuggling cow.
hides over the boundary. He was
fined $50. ...,.
They catch wild ducks with a hook
and line baited with corn over in
Morton county.
Tom Lawson is doing some great
stunts in the country papers through
his personal letters.
Minot is to have a big racing meet
June IA, Is and Is, when some good
purses will be offered.
McHenry has insured against fire by
the purchase of gasoline fire en-
CINE with which the town is much
pleased after exhaustive trials.
A Wells county man has secured a
patent on a new idea in a. threshing
machine. The invention consists Of
an appliance for rubbing out the grain
instead of beating it out with the
ordinary spiked cylinder. 1t is claim
ed the new machine will do better
work than the old style and can be
run with half the power.
| Several Wells county farmers have
sold out and taken claims and land in
Alberta. They will be wiser bime-by.
The Page Sons of Veterans unveiled
monument to the soldier dead at that
place Memorial Day, Senator L. B..
Hanna being the orator for the &C.
casion.
The last piece of government land
in Cass county was proved up on the
other day. It was an eighty upon
which lived the widow of an old
soldier.
Mrs. Belle Collins of Page, N. D.,
wants to know the Whereabouts of
her husband, J. w. Collins, who was
last heard of at Fargo, April Goth.
Minot is to have city water works.
Minot's high school band serenaded
Supt. of Instruction Stockwell during
his recent visit to that town. This
band is made up of school children
and is receiving many compliments
from that part of the state.
Minot is preparing to make the
meeting of the Odd Fellows grand
lodge at that place pleasant. The
county teachers and preachers meet
at the same time so the city will have
quite bunch Of people to entertain.
Bowdon is experiencing much
needed religious revival and many old
timers are said to have shaken off
their cussedness and donned the raj
1nent of the righteous.
Down at cleveland, Stutsman coun-
ty, the people rotten egged man who
contested claim, and he Is promised
a warmer reception should he return.
The following from the Cleveland
Leader indicates things were interest
ing for the confession: Jennings
thinks, that because he throwed an
egg into a. fellows mouth, that he
ought to be installed as pitcher of our
baseball club.
The wife of Barnes county's treasur-
er says meat may be kept for any
length of time in the summer If hung
up in the open air 30 or 40 feet from
the ground. The idea being that re-
moval from the work of flies is all that
is necessary, the dry air quickly max
ing an outside crust which keeps the
meat fresh and juicy.
In mentioning 80 to IA score ball
game there the Fessenden News calls
| it "swatfest."
Charles Peery was killed by light
ming at the home of his uncle, J. w.
Snow, twelve miles southwest of viii.
l1ston during the storm last week.
Williston is organizing a troop of
calvary with a view to becoming a
part of the state guard.
A. s. Thompson, living north of Ray.
| took acconite in mistake for pepper.
mint and put away the things earthly.
McHenry county voted against bonds
for new court house. The old house
was recently burned.
The people of McHenry county want
the county records checked up from
the organization of the county.
A billy goat butted into ball game
at Darlington and several OF the play.
ers made home runs in a hurry.
| If the decision of justice Ryan of
Fargo is held by the district court, in
the case of the jag wagon driver,
Jensen, who was arrested on the
charge of violating the prohibition
law. there will be quite slump in the
Jag wagon business in the future. The