Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-23
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES

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The daily train service seems Is be
appreciated at Page.
% A scarlet fever scare temporarily
closed the Grand Forks college.
/ Bottineau il getting It's bali team
lined up for the spring season.
a narrow escape from being state SEN
ator He only missed the election BY
-four votes.
1 At Minot Ole Helm was sentenced
4 to jail for blindpigging and his wife
was taken to the hospital dying with
consumption.
A McClusky woman is asking the
i Minneapolis Salvation army to help
locate her son, who went to the cities
about two years ago.
The Minor Teller uses considerable
space in telling merchants why they
should advertise. There are always
/ plenty of reasons.
! The Park River Gazette News will
be enlarged to an eight page paper
4 now that a ton of print paper has
1 finally reached that office.
Pierce and Rolette county farmers
have established an independent. tele-
phone system through those counties
and the proposition will be q big sue.
cess.
The congestion Of freight traffic in
the eastern part Of the state is being
greatly relieved Grain is being moved
east and merchandise is arriving from
the cities
J. w. Pomeroy Of Milton, it is stat
ed, is headed for Bismarck with the
international Harvester company, as
assistant general manager Of the new
1 branch house. 5355a3
Two different editions Of the Man
dan Republican found their way to ex-
change tables this week. Subscribers
/ to that ind eterminate dispenser Of
events from the Morton county cap
j ital are surely getting their moneys
worth.
It is reported that Capt. Alex Scar
lett, the Minot representative of the
Grand Forks Herald, will become heir
to. Lord Abinger's estate in Scotland,
and if the report proves true he will
probably go back to become Lord Of.
Inverlochy.
Two comrades who became separat-
ed after the civil war, have just dis
covered each other at Grand Forks.
Both men are now over 80 years Of
age, and among other things they have
found they are broth s-in-law The
meeting was a most interesting one
The Great Northern has ordered for.
/ this years delivery $50 locomotives,
! 900 large capacity cars and 1000 of
400, 900 pounds capacity, coal and ore
cars. The Northern Pacific has orr
dered for this years delivery 165 loco.
motives and $500 freight cars.
Trail county farmers are urging the
Fargo Street Railway company to ex-
tend the electric road from Fargo fifty
4 miles up the Red river into that coun-
4 ty. The proposition has been long con-
sidered and no doubt would be a imam
cial success.
Judge T. B. Goss in the district
court administered telling blow to
thirteen violators Of the liquor law In
4 Ward county when he dealt out SEN
fences to those who had been convict
Led Of blind plugging, ranging from 90
days and s25 fine up to six months
and fine Of $500 including costs.
David Lindsay. a former resident Of
4 Lakota, was killed accidentally near
| his claim in Alberta, Canada, by the
discharge OF gun which he was using
4 in hunting Tor rabbits. Lindsay was
4 out alone. and It was several days be-
i fore he was missed. An investigation
Il followed, and resulted In the finding Of
4 his dead body.
Engineers on freight engines Of the
/ Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railways have been granted an In
crease Of pay. The engineers on ali
i freight trains will hereafter get 40
d cents per hundred miles or per ten
hours more than under the former
scale. Engineers on all switch engines