Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-06
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES

NORTH I | DAKOTA ! | ! | 1 NOTES
An operation on the head Of Muck
raker Packard would be like sticking
a knife into a balloon.
i w. j. Price, the baseball magnate Of
Fargo, wants Bismarck included in the
North Dakota league this season. q
1t is said that Grand Forks has a
man who is such strong prohibition
list that he he will not even read an
East Grand Forks paper.
The man Sanders, arrested in Fargo
and wanted in Valley City for alleged
shady business transactions, had his
hearing in the latter place.
The last final proof to be made on
homestead entry in Cass county was
made at Fargo a few days ago. All
of the land in the county is now
proved up. s55.ss,
Senator Ed Pierce of Enderlin want
ed 500 copies of the bulletin issued by
Superintendent Waldron of the Dick
inson sub-experiment station. It treats
of crop rotation and kindred subjects.
3 The Red River Valley Whist tourna-
ment will meet, in Fargo the 18th and
18th of this month. Teams from
Brainerd, Fergus Falls, Ellendale,
Mayville and Grand Forks will contest
for l1onors.
The Fargo Forum insists that it is
up to some Of the Bismarckers to
make good and erect those buildings
that would never go up if Patterson
was selected as mayor. Watch the an
nouncements in the Tribune.
President Worst of the Agricultural
college, will address the farmers of
Langdon and vicinity at Langdon to-
morrow and confer with them regard
ing the ablishment of the new sub
experiment station to be located at
that point.
The members of the retiring board
of trustees of the agricultural college
at Fargo where banqueted by the heads
of the departments of the college fac
ulty and some Of the older professors
Saturday evening at the Commercial
club parlors.
The county commissioners Of Grand
Forks county refused to abate the as
sessment Of the gas company there
from SIS, 900 to $4,000 and the COM
pany will appeal. It claims that the
commissioners have attempted to as
sess its franchises. # ss I
The Grand Forks Times has discov-
cred that Packard never filed an
itemized account of THE labor for
which he was paid $240 by the state.
Packard is real reformer whose i'm
maculate political purity is above sus.
picionby himself.
The coroner's jury in the case of j.
Il. Cooney, who was killed on the
500 tracks at Minot a week ago,
blame the railroad company for allow.
ing the engineer to run faster than
the six miles allowed in the ordi.
nances. The body has been shipped
to Ruthven, Iowa, and relatives will
probably bring suit.
Filing Peterson. who lived near Fort
Ransom. was found dead, and his In.
juries were at first supposed to have
been due to a fall from a wagon, but
an investigation disclosed the fact
that acute alcoholism was responsible
He had secured a large quantity 81
alcohol and became badly intoxicated
While in this condition he fell from
the rig in which he was riding. His
brother, Ole Peterson of Seattle, was
notified.
Mistaking the home Of Mrs. Pines
wife Of a Great Northern engineer
for a blind pig, William O'Leary, 2(
years old, Of Minot, was shot through
the ear, the bullet lodging in the bach
OF his neck. The boy with his com
rades went to the house, formerly oc
cupid by q well known blind pigger
and demanded entrance. They were
refused but persisted. Mrs. Pines
fred and the boy is now in the hospi
tai. No arrests will follow. SIS