Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-04-06

NORTH DAKOTA NOTES
There was some red hot alderman
ic scraps in some Of the towns this
spring.
A son was born recently to Editor
and Mrs. Sullivan of the New Salem
| Journal .
There have been number OF
changes In newspaper ownership ov-
er the state this spring.
The Cooperstown Sentinel Is the
next weekly paper to install a type
setting machine.
A large number of North Dakota
People will attend the Yukon exposi-
ton at Seattle during the summer
| months.
The Drake News Is greatly improv-
ed in appearance since Editor Sperry
assumed control.
The creamery at Medina has been
repaired and a new buttermaker has
been secured for this season.
Some of the towns started market
days rather early this spring, but
nearly all of them have proved sue
cessful.
The Loco Weed, freak newspaper
recently established at Schafer, is at
tempting to stir up matters in Nc
Kenzie county affairs.
Valley City is engaged In the dis
cussion of the commission form Of
municipal government, the same as
Bismarck and Mandan has voted to
adopt.
The merchants of the country
towns over the state seem more dis
posed than ever this spring to ad-
vertise in their local paper.
The Fargo Daily News may be
making an attempt to reduce the ex-
pense of that paper, but it is also
curtailing a lot of good news matter.
Editor Brinton of the Beach Chron-
icle has been recommended for re-
appointment as postmaster in his
town.
A controversy of blind pigs and
gambling houses seems to have en-
gendered a warm scrap between the
two papers at Crosby.
Live stock thieves in Billings coun-
ty will probably hereafter get theirs.
Harve Robinson, rancher at Med
ora, offers 5000 for the conviction of
any one caught at the game.
All the weekly papers start out this
spring with no small amount of en-
thusiasm, which they are using to
encourage the expansion of taefr
towns.
The sheriff or Morton county has
has the county Jail repaired, but has
had no prisoners confined for some
time.
The Ray Recorder is another week.
ly paper that passed into the control
Of a woman. Mrs. Nella Young as
sumed the management Of that pa
per the first of the month.
The people of Sheridan county do
not appear to be unanimously salts
fed with McClusky as the county
seat, and the matter may be decided
by special election before long.
A review of the weekly papers ov-
er the state does not reveal the fact
that the insurgent investigating COM
mittee which probed the various
state departments recently discover
ed anything startling.
The Starkweather Times says there
is no scrap on over the distribution
Of insurance statements for Ramsey
county this year, and seems satisfied
with Commissioner Cooper's system
in tat respect.
Mountraille county will issue $15,-
900 worth of bonds to purchase seed
grain. Tle bonds will be sold in
denominations of $500 and will bear
interest at 6 per cent.
The Progressive West at Plaza is
finally published after the publisher,
F. C. Young, claims to have first en-
countered all manner of trouble,
such as having the name of the paper
stolen, and was prevented from get
ting his freight out of the depot.
The Sun says that l.. w. Pierson is
to start a second newspaper at Stan
ley, and does not object to the en-
tarnrise If PiersOn will do his share