Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-24
'srATE NEWS.


A murder mystery in Grand Forks
county seems to have been cleared up
after two years. A prisoner who is
now doing time in the state penitenti-
airy at Saltwater has confessed to
Warden Wolfer that two years ago he
murdered man in a double deck
stock car between Grand Forks and
Larimore. The information has been
communicated to the states attorney
who says that the body of man was
found in such a car at that time and
the mystery of it has never been
cleared up but as the car had come
from the head of the lakes it was
thought that the crime had been com.
mitted there.
Charged with smuggling a barrel OF
bottled beer and a key of whiskey
across the international boundary line
John Byrnes and Gaspard Jeannotte
were arrested at Rolla by Deputy U.
S. Marshal Stout. The men were tax.
en- before U. S. Commissioner Graham
at Rolla. They waived examination
and were held in $500 bonds pending
the investigation Of the case by the
federal grand jury.
w. T. WATSON and Otto Werth have
taken hold of the Flckertail Flicker
at Goodrich and Otto Grethen has step.
ped down and out. The paper will
continue half German and half English
The board of education of Grand
Forks has received from the state
bonds to the amount of $4,000 to be
signed and returned as the board may
require cash for the new school build.
ing. The bonds are in the denomina.
ton of $1,000 each. The bonds will
be held by the board until cash is de
sired for payments on the school build.
ing. Then the amount needed will be
secured and interest will begin from
that date.
The Odd Fellows of Dickinson sold
their property to Frank kim for three
thousand dollars, bought lot for
eighteen hundred and have twelve
hundred to go on.
E. L. Schofeld, resident of Stark
county for twenty-three years and a
merchant of Dickinson for sixteen
years has sold out and will leave that
city on account of i'll health.
w. c. Mckenzie of New England
which is little country town out from
Dickinson has solved the problem.
Having been burned but last winter he
Is now erecting a stone building in
which to operate his store.
A new Catholic church will be
dedicated at Dickinson on the seventh
of June.
1t Is reported that there will be thir-
ty million pounds of wool in Montana
this year as against thirty-three mil.
lion pounds last year, the falling of
accounted for in the large sales of
sheep. About twenty-four million
pounds Of the clip have already been
contracted for.
The Emmons County Record notes
that the Bismarck authorities are hav
ing trouble keeping the cattle off the
streets and suggests that the authori
ties cut the grass on the streets and
then the COWS will have to be fed al
home or starve. There is an admis
sion in that inasmuch as it is ar
acknowledgment that there arr
streets on the ground in this city az
indicated on the O. P.
! This weeks Emmons County Record
gives an account of girl which rar
away from Mandan and came to Lin
ton and comments on it saying that
they don't s'blame her for departine
from Mandan and taking up her abode
where she could see something of life
animal and vegetable.
The Emmons County Advocate
states: Linton has an organization
that the town should be proud of an
that is the band. We are willing tc
back this band for money, chalk O,
marbles against any band in any towr
three times the size of Linton and We
don't know but what we would put /,
against any band in the state" THAI
is throwing down the gauntlet some
An Emmons county paper hands 1,
out to the local physician thusly:
VIM. Pagel about a week ago, while
loading some lumber, run silver into
one of his fingers on his right hand
At the time he thought nothing of II
and continued to work the rest of the
day. That night 1t began to pain him
and the next day he consulted DR.
Hogue who put a poultice on the injur
ed member. However, it did not i'm
prove and has continued to swell until
now his entire hand is swollen. He