Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-12
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insurance Commissioner Taylor
has not yet returned from his trip
to LaMoure. It is suspected that he
is mixed up with q dog and gun.
Deputy Commissioner Austin accom-
panied Burt Thurston, of the land de-
partment, and Dick COwan down to
Hazelton Saturday. and these gentle
men expect to arrive with their game
some time this afternoon. A cold
storage has been provided in the base
ment of the capitol and it is thought
birds may be kept a couple Of months.
c.. C. Watta1a, an attache of the
supreme court, headed a party consist
ing of Dr. A. M. Brandt, John Gam
mon and E. A. Williams, and Eta
Lake, at Steele, was relieved of 55
ducks last Saturday. The gentlemen
report shooting good. They did not
try for prairie chicken. Mickey
O'Connor, the capitol motorman, is
home from a weeks hunt and he re-
ports fine time and good success.
Miss Myrtle Settle has returned
from a months leave of absence and
Is again at work in the state library.
She visited Chicago, Salt Lake and
number of other cities On her pleas
ure trip.
r. w. Chamberlain. of the janitOr's
force. has patented a combination tool
which he will have manufactured
and placed on the market He has
just received a sample. The tool
combines about everything farmer,
machinist or electrician needs. Mr.
Chamberlain may interest local CAPT
tai in his enterprise.
Automobile licenses are not NOV.
ing very fast now in the office of the
secretary of state. The number is.
sued up to noon today was 7,035.
It was decided at the meeting of
the state normal board in Valley City
that the use of Sheyenne river water
in the normal school should be re-
stricted to the boiler in the heating
plant. Water for all other purposes
will be taken from the Valley City
water mains The controversy be-
and the state health officer is now
settled by the decision of the state
normal board.
A charter has been granted by the
secretary of state to the First State
Bank, of Woodward, N. D. The pur-
pose of the corporation is to conduct
a general banking business and the
capital stock is $4,000. The incorpor-
ators are H. H. Wells, Morris, Mimi;
A. Wells, Litchfield, Mimi; o. J.
Rued, P. B. Peterson, c. F. Rued and
Ward A. Rued, Of Woodwork.
Early in October Attorney General
Miller will begin taking testimony in
the coal freight rate cases which is
to come up for hearing later. The
contest promises to be a long one.
The coal rate cases are considered of
vital Importance to one of North Da-
kota's most valuable natural products.
The habeas corpus hearing brought
by M. E. Floyd, of Darlington, came
up for hearing in the supreme court
today. The action grows out of the
case of the State VS.. Floyd, the de-
PENDANT being charged being charged
with robbery. Floyd was tried be.
fore Judge Coffey, Of the Darlington
district and the jury disagreed. The
jury reported and was discharged in
the absence of the prisoner and the
contention is that the court erred
and the prisoner has once been placed
in jeopardy and cannot be again tried
for the same affair. The counsel for
the defense is ex-Attorney General
McCue and Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Zuger appeared for the state.
Nine hundred newspapers and other
make up the total mail
roll of the State Historical society.
All these publications have to be
read for historical data and the state
papers filed. The task is no small |
one. There are in North Dakota 325 |
newspaper publications and OF this |
number - are dailies.
The second water works we'll is
down near the 1O0-foot mark and Con-
tractor Beers says he may get GOOD
flow of water anywhere between 100
and 200 feet. The we'll just finished
was sunk to a depth of 307 feet.
The capitol water works standpipe
is being constructed up
On the hill and when erected the big
tank will be about 100 feet higher than
The first floor of the capitol building.
The water mains are being placed
IN the ground.
On September Is, next Friday, the
of all the penal and
benevolent institutions of the state
will meet at the department of public
control at the capitol. The object of
the meeting is to discuss methods
'or the management of the institutions
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