Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-01-24
STATE News


takes charge of The News and Times
with renewed energy after her two
years vacation says the Forum.
jamestown is to have new $4,000
high school building. Bismarck also
needs another school building. Z
application has been made to have a
postoffice established at the state asy-
lum at jamestown which is said to be
the outcome, in part, of factional
fight.
The editor OF the Flckertail Flicker
prevailed upon his older brother, who
is socialist orator of some promi-
nence, to write for publication an ar
ticle on his beliefs and then heads the
same article with a statement that he
(tke editor) is mot in" on the argu-
ment. Il.
Over a dozen final proofs were taken
at Goodrich in three days. That does
not look as if the filings were being
made in that section with speculative
intent Il 81 n 81
The Grand Forks Courier publishes
some statistics that show chat there
has been since 1881, 129,464 murders
1856 suicides and 2,611 hangings
in these United States. This out
side of the approximate estimate of
$4,000 killings on the railroads of
these same United States in 1901
that's getting rid of them. sst= 5.s
Number I, vol. %, Cooperstown Cour-
Ter arrived this week stating dts inten-
tion to continue as the newsiest and
best paper in Griggs county. "A
j. Billings county has reported some
cases of smallpox and Master Me-
chanic Allen has decreed that all rail-
road men shall be vaccinated.
Deputy Game Warden Curry, OF
Dickinson is rounding up violators OF
the game laws and has recently
brought two such persons before the
court. .s,;$ vs.. 53 s5s :stst. s5
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Mrs. c. e Gregory of this city Is
about to make final proof of 100 acres
of land at Davis Butte, taken under the
act Of congress Of 1892. No residence
upon the land Is required, but cash
payment Of @1.25 per acre must be
made at the time OF making proof, and
1t must be shown that the land is
more valuable for stone quarrying than
for agricultural purposes. This is the
first and only claim taken under the
act in either the Dickinson or Bis
marc land Offices and may be the only
one in the state. When offered at Bis
marck the entry was rejected, but Cap
tain Gregory took the matter to Wash
ington and won out. The law has late
ly been changed SO that parties can
not now make similar filings on land.
This land takes in what is known as
the Davis Butte quarry.-Dic Dickinson
Press.
Several Mayville gentlemen have
gone to Texas where they have rice
farm which is said to have produced
the largest .crop of rice in the state
during the season Of 1904
The trial of Bascom and Hartzell
for the murder of one Stoddard near
Langdon is still on at Pembina. One
of the jurors was taken i'll and ex-
cused and another sworn. Mrs. Stod-
dard was on the stand Friday and Sat
urday relating incidents as they hap
pened when she accompanied her hus-
band on his last trip when he went
through the fence constructed. by the
defendants. II IS
Elmer Heller, of Cavalier, was cut
ting card wood with a circular saw
when the saw split in two and one
half buried itself part way into his
left side. It cut through the collar
bone and nearly reached the heart.
The injured man lived but wenty min
utes.
Mrs. l.. M. Larson, of Grand Forks
has commenced suit against her faith
er. Henry Joplin. Her mother died
before she became OF age and her faith
er induced her to sign release OF
claims against property holdings, she
being given to understand that she
could not get anything from them any
way unless by the fathers consent.
She has since found that she signed
away $1,000 right and has brought
suit against her father for the recov-
cry Of the land signed away. she
has since become OF age.
Nettie Guy, OF Fargo, after q long
trial for the alleged killing of her in
FAINT was adjudged insane and sent
TO the asylum at jamestown branded
moral pervert.
A Grand Forks boy aged fifteen was
arrested for frequenting pool room
and hanging around the streets at
very late hours OF the night. ii would
be a blessed good thing II that sort OF