The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-07

were in favor Of Mr.. Hansbrough for
congress.
The artesian well commission for
Cass county was appointed by Judge
Roberts, consisting of Major Fleming,
j. M. Watson and j. r. Smith.
The Trail delegation to the repub-
lican state convention consisted OF Col.
Robinson, N. ID. Nelson, /. Larson, t.
g. Anderson, A. S. Wallen, A. G.
Nelson, R. T. Kingman, A. l.. Went
worth, H H. Strom, Peter Herbrand-
son, w. A. Kelly, Louis Thompson and
A. l.. Hanson.
The Dakota Pharmaceutical associa-
tion met in Fargo with Pres. G. N.
Valentine of La Moure in the chair. A
banquet was held at the Columbia ho-
tel and the toasts were responded to
by the president, DIR. Capehart, Gem
eral Allen and Mr.. Plumley.
Aug. Captain Brubaker ANNOUNCE
ed that his banana plantation In Hon
duras was bearing and he had thirty
acres that would furnish three hun
dred bunches Of bananas every two
weeks as long as he lived, but the next
time he went down to that country
there was a revolution on and he was
glad to get back with his life and leave
sthe bananas for someone else.
It was reported that the new Da-
cotah hotel at Grand Forks was to be
operated by Col. C. H. French OF New
York.
A Bismarck dispatch showed how
shrewd M. N johnson was to profit
by newspaper criticism.
Aug. 2.-The stand Of grain was so
low. that Eli Green was cutting 500
acres with header instead of binding
1t.
The Jamestown Alert advocated the
nomination OF Jacob Lowell Of Fargo
as the democratic candidate for gov
ernor.
| Architect Hancock completed the de-
tails for the new Fargo college build
| ing.
Barnes county advocated the nornina-
! tion of Hon. G. A. Van Wormer for
! congress.
Rev.T. Dewitt Talrnage spent day
in the city, coming here to lecture,
land was given a ride by General Al
len and Colonel Magill 1t was the first
time he had ever seen q self-binder
at work
At Lakota Messrs. Kent and Winter
were candidates for postmaster and
EDITOR Mapes expected to slip in be-
tween the two but M. NJ. johnson hied
himself away TO Washington and se-
cured the appointment of Ernie Kent,
and there was trouble galore.
1t was reported that one OF the dele
gates to the constitutional convention
| desired to ascertain who his associates
were going to be and he wrote to part
les in each town concerning the home
candidate, asking as to his honesty,
sobriety, integrity, morality, whether
he was married or single, II he had
/ ever committed suicide, and IL so. had
he recovered and how much OF a loan
shark had he been. 1t was reported
i that some of the answers were very
interesting
\ Moorhead was having a series Of
races, but the interest was not as great
as expected.
The jamestown republicans elected
! Messrs. Frye, Hewitt, Lacey, Baldwin.
Mcintyre Holmes, M. Wright and
George Wright as delegates to the first
republican state convention to be held
in Fargo. The delegation was for
Dickey for governor
i The New York World published an
expose of General Ward who had been
masquerading in New York city under
the name of A. Bentley Worthington.
He had been taken in by Mr. Plunkett
and the consequence was that Mrs.
4 Plunkett secured divorce from her
former husband and married him. but
when the history of the new husband
was investigated he was compelled to
skip and Mrs. Plunkett, or the new
Mrs. Worthington. defended him and
later joined the general In Tasmania.
where they lived for many years. The
last heard Of the general was that he
was an inmate of an Australian prison.