Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-26
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES

The town without basket ball team
this winter is back number.
The Dunkards of this state have fin
ally decided on Surrey as the location
for their college.
A Twin City attorney was secluded
in Minot hotel for several hours to
avoid having papers served on him.
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The LaMoure Chronicle thinks one
of the late fads is to be personally &C.
quainted with one of the Thaw jurors.
The trial at Lisbon of the two men
held responsible for the 500 wreck at
Enderlin is bringing out some inter-
esting developments.
The La Moure Chronicle uses con-
siderable preeation in roasting the
railroad commissioners. Taylor is
member of the family-by marriage.
The Wahpeton Globe thinks the mi
tiative and referendum and referen-
dunn will give the printers more work,
but doesn't want Jud LaMoure re-
minded of that fact.
Richland county people are urging
Doc Moody to become candidate for
sheriff next time. Moody was sherin
of Richland county for four years and
made good. =s
Judge Allen has denied the motion
for a new trial in the Hazlett murder
case from Genesso, Sargent county. It
! is likely that an appeal will be taken
to supreme court. 81. (. .ssi.
q It is stated that over seventy cars
of freight are awaiting shipment at
Garrison and the elevators have. over
100000 bushels Of grainabout 40 per
cent still being in the hands of the
farmers ..s e.. i
| It is thought by many that when the
breakup occurs in the spring the old
dry lake bed a few miles northwest of
Ashley will be so full of water that
trains will be unable to cross until the
! roadbed is graded up higher.
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J Crosby Review: Crosby will have
another bank in the spring. We are
not at this time able to give the names
of the promoters, but that a bank will
be established is certain. The First
State Bank of Crosby, which moved to
Imperial from old Crosby, we are told,
is still using the old name, and some
have limited that the bank would move
over-but we do not believe it will,
& now that another bank will be estab.
lished
Sheriff Lee has returned to Minot
from Bismarck, where he took
j eighteen prisoners recently convicted
in the Ward county district court. The
J trip was an uneVentful one, the pris.
|. oners all behaved themselves and
Il gave the sheriff and deputies no trou
bic at all. It Is stated at Bismarck
t that this the largest number of pris
( oners ever received into the peniten
: tiary at one time. It took about tWe
e days to make the trip. Minot Optic
: The university Of North Dakota ha,
e just added to its Scandinavian librar.
= an almost priceless collection OF an
3 Gent Icelandic literature. The book
n are written in good red blood and
though over 300 years old, the letter
: are still clear and plain. They are no
81 written in human blood, but In O
d blood, which was the only Ink In th
% early times in Iceland. The books ar
bound in rough strips of beech woot
reinforced with brass and cope
:. clasps. The paper is faded and brown
| but the course old Morse letters, care
fully penned with good gray COOS
L quill, are still clear and distinct, a
though the bright crimson Of the bloc
Is somewhat dimmed. These volume
are on religious subjects, and consis
Of psalms, Bible verses and spiritus
/ teachings.
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