Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-07-27
STATE NEWS.

HI A plan Is on foot to donate the pro.
ceeds Of one of the Grand Forks-Fargo
base ball games to the children's
home. ~..& -
H Medina is to have a -four mill which
Ills to be in operation by October list.
\ Trustee James Grady of the asylum,
| whose home is in Valley City, has
sold what is known as the Green farm
in Green township, Barnes county, to
Carl A. A. Peterson for $32, 800 which
lis at the rate Of SAL an acre. There
are 900 acres in the tract.
II The new ward building at the state
Einsane asylum at jamestown is now
Iroofed over and is said to be fine
Ibuilding. r>~
II Three men tried to burglarize the
Il depot at Marion but were foiled by
IAugust Olson and wife who were
awakened.
Il Burglars entered the N. P. depot at
Edgeley and stole suit of clothes.
/ They were scared and made a get-a-
tway.
+ Two men entered a car at Towner
which was occupied by railroadmen.
One man did the gun job and the other
took up collection.
| Ernest Hirmann, witness in a rob-
berry case at Minot admitted so many
Fittings when being questioned by the
Estates attorney that upon leaving the
stand he was placed under arrest on
Ethe charges of unlawful Capitalization,
running a gambling joint and blind
Epig.
I Richard Nightingale of Minot was
lconvicted of robbery in the second
Fdegree..
A 500 line east bound freight was
wrecked at the little station of Cuba
"a few miles east of Valley City.
A man has been convicted on a
charge of sodomy at Minot.
J. H. Whiting, a Great Northern
brakeman, was held up in the yards
Eat Minot and relieved of his watch.
He walked up town, borrowed gun
and went back looking for the men.
He found them and they relieved him
of some, money they overlooked the
first time.
The Mohall Independent gives the
population of Ward county and of the
capital city of the. county and then
says that, as, even with their already
large population, they still have room
for ten home builders to where there
is one now. It then asks If It would
not be good business policy as we'll
as good wholesome Christian work
to organize bureaus in all the villages
and with the aid Of capital, settle up
the unoccupied lands with worthy poor
from the crowded cities. Yes it would
be. But the barrier remains that you
could not drag one of thousand Of
those city poor onto a farm with
log chain. ~s-,-.- ...* g..
Lakota has been visited by another
tremenduous rain fall-eight or nine
inches and the Herald says: <<"Alto-
gether, there never was another rain
just like it, barring one-on< which
memorable, occasion Noah built the
ark. :. " -
Mohall Independent: M. H. Haugan
left a sample Of fax t,this Office Mon /
day, which was pulled as he was pass
ing through his field which measures
81 inches in height, and averages from
80 to 80 bolls to the stalk. The stalks
are fully twice as large as In ordinary
years, and promise an abundant yield.
Bottineau Co. News: E. A. Juneau
reports third to a half loss on 80 Il
acres OF grain from the haii storm
last week. He also says Jos. Croseter
will sustain two-thirds loss on $50.
acres. Jos. seymer a three-fourths
loss on 300 acres, Adam Jacques the
same on 80 acres and las. jackson
about the same etshis large helds.
+ Some boys att Hannah climbed Ito
the top of the Peavy eleva&or and one
started to slide down a ro1s that was
suspended from ceiling to- bottom. Its
blistered his hands SO that he let, go
and dropped to the bottom. Besides
sustaining a broken arm he has many
wounds on his body and head. ~
Breckenridge Gazette: Word comes,
from White Rock Of very peculiar
state of affairs in the Milwaukee depot
at that place. 1t seems that some
time Tuesday night of last week the
building was entered by safe blowers.
The safe was tapped, the cracks
around the door all filled up with put
ty, the nftroglycerine poured In and
everything made ready to blow open
the safe. At this point It appears that
the robbers were scared away, as the
safe was found in the condition mem
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