Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-05-11
STATE NEWS

| The Neche Chronotype is amused
at the vaudeville stunt being done by
Devine and Bartlett-who have fed
in the old gang trough for many years.
| Fargo will pave considerable areas
this year with creosote blocks on a
concrete base. This style of paving
seems to have impressed the people
there WELL
W. B. Walker was arrested Tues
day at Towner by Deputy U. S. Mar.
shall Mckay on the charge of sending
obscene literature through the mails.
He is said to have written a letter
to Balfour man, containing the OBJ
jectionable matter. Walker was given
hearing before U. S. Court Commits
sioner Pendroy at Minot and was
bound over to the federal grand jury
and committed to the Ward county
| jail IN defauIt OF bail.
D. H. Houston, who died Sunday at
| Hunter after an illness of some time
with Bright's disease, was laid to
rest at that place yesterday afternoon.
He was II years of age and leaves a
widow and son. The deceased owned
several large farms in the valley and
was one of the pioneer settlers of the
state. He made a speciality of raising
seed wheat and his product was in
great demand. Mr.. Houston also in
vented the kodak camera and re-
ctived annually thousands of royal
! ties from manufa cturers. He was
also patent attorney.
A family of Fargo people have been
found living in a stable with a lot of
cattle. The head of the family is a
teamster who is said to have spent so
much of his earnings for whiskey that
| ho AAau Aot SAouSA lSlL W pFOPiuG
shelter for his family. An ordinary
jail sentence would simply give the
fellow good board and lodging at the
expense of the community and the
family would have to be cared for by
others. What is needed for such
cases is a sentence at some sort of
labor that will be productive enough
to pay the cost of the care of the
family. That would be effective.
/ Frank Martin, bailiff of the county
court, and Deputy Sheriff George
Rudberg of Kenmare, had touch OF
high life' while they we're taking a
prisoner named Roy Cook from the
county courtroom to the jail Cook
had been arraigned before Judge
Davis and, after being examined as to
his sanity, the above mentioned Off.
GERS proceeded to take the prisoner
back to the bat-cave. They had pro
I ceeded, however, but a short distance
when Cook started to show fight and
the two officers were given a tussle
for their lives for O. few moments
Cook used his head, hands and feet
! and the officers received several
+ severe punches on the various por
lions of their. anatomy before they
succeeded in subduing their unruly
/ prisoner. He was finally. placed be
hind the jail doors and is now safe
under one of Sheriff Lees new locks
A man by the name of Israel has in
vented a simple method of planting
seeds which will probably make him
a millionaire. They have been tested
in various parts of the country ant
are proving feasible. The inventor
simply wraps seeds in thin tissue
paper, from one-half inch to one incl
or more apart ami winds the whole
on a spool - for convenience. The
gardener digs his trench, ties the
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it and covers tiff the ground is DRY
a little sprinkling will moisten the
! ground, the tissue paper attracts thu
moisture, rots at once and the seeds
1 spring UP. at even intervals. The pfaI
has solved the problem of planting
the troublesome little beet seeds il
! the sugar beet districts and will nj
doubt prove popular with large onio1
planters in this section Small
gardeners will find it a great savins
! of time and seeds 4 by using thi!
!, method. It saves all thinning GU
after the plants appear above ground
Spoois Of any size may be purchased
d for large tracts or small tracts.
This Is The Time.
Ask Oscar H viii q Co. to go dowi
Ito their nursery and dig up 10.
I asparagus roots for you, they vii
only cost one dollar. You want fey