Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-20
STATE NEWS

opened April 18th. The main build
ing will be three stories high, with
high basement, 40 by 81 feet in size.
Two wings, set in Cross shape, will
be 40 by so feet, with high basement
and two stories high, giving the entire
building frontage of $50 feet, and a.
depth of 81 feet in the main portion.
The legislature appropriated $4,000
for the new building, which will be
erected this year. The legislature at
it's next session will be called upon to
provide for the maintenance of the
institution.
The school population of Glasston is
II. < They need and have voted to
build four room school building at a
cost of about $4,000, but now they
have run up against law that says
they can't bond for that much unless
they have as many as 200 people in
the district and they are afraid to
take a census for fear they haven't
that many. All of which goes 10 show
| that our law makers hadn't really
taken the prolific tendencies If North
Dakota into consideration when they
passed that law.
Pembina Pioneer Express We
hear some criticism on the verdict of
the Letter jury, on the ground that
they were too lenient. Perhaps they
were, but how many men in this coun-
ty can say with truth that their halls
are entirely clean of this homicide
Whiskey was the cause of the hon.
eide. What was the cause of the
whiskey? If every other man in the
county except the principals in this
unfortunate case had done his whole
duty legally and morally, there would
have been left no widow and children,
and Letter would not be left with an
awful memory to remain with him to
his own grave. "Am I my brothers
keeper"
The county commissioners of Barnes
county and States Attorney Zuger are
of the opinion that the 500 railway
should pay taxes on it's telephone lines
and have commenced an action to
compel the company to pay the taxes
supposed to be due. Alta chment
papers were placed in Sheriff Oppe.
CARDS hands last week and lot of
bridge timbers have been seized. The
Ecompany claims that it's telegraph line
is part of the railroad proper and as
such is covered by the assessment
made by the state. The commission.
ers hold that the company is doing a
commercial business and is as much
entitled to pay taxes as the Western
: Union. The case will probably wind
up in the supreme court. ~. ~
Grand Forks Herald: The Great
Northern Railway company yesterday
paid to Guy c. H. CorIiss, attorney
4 for Mrs. Flora Lucas, the sum Of
Il s10,0S7, representing the judgment
) and costs in the recent condemnation
suit, when a district court jury award
: ed Mrs. Lucas: $4,000 for four lots
and three houses at the corner Of
Eighth street and Alpha avenue I'm
! mediately after the filing of the judg
l ment, the railway company advised
the tenants of the property that the
property belonged to it and that al
rents were payable to the company
The houses are all occupied, but it II
/ expected that instructions will bt
given at any time now to vacate thu
property in order that the houses ma.
4 be moved from the site, which vii
i be used for warehouse purposes.
4 A man who is charged with stealing
J, flour horses from Charles Rasmussen
at odlands, Manitoba, is under ar
rest at Bottineau. The horses were
d found in the possession of the man ar
q rested, and he will fight extradition
Il The man will be charged with some
I thing more serious than theft, as II Il
4 claimed that after picking out the fou
Il best horses from The stable he mad,
I. several piles Of hay, set them ol
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