Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-07-02

, bat. That was late in the evening
! and neither of the actors was sum
! GENTLY sober TO carefully note his Op'
ponent'.s injuries. But after the com
bat H. 3. CHEESE tongue was still &C
tive and uEbridled and down III
Wikee's store he run into another
nstic incounter with the honorable A,
c. Sanford. Believing man a tool us
ing animal, Mr.. Sanford at once per-
| ceived to seize upon the scale Welghta
of the store, and rapidly put himself
to work knocking holes in the honor
oble judges head. The Judges brains
seem deeply buried or all together
| absent and hence were not wasted,
spilled or injured, altho his head was
woefully uneven and decorat / with
several buffalo wallows.
Sanford Never Went to Heaven.
The neXt morning the judge appear
ed in his office to meet John A. Will
! liams. the honorable clerk Of court
| with whom he had the fistic combat.
He begged to apologize. You go TO
| heaven" said Cheese, lit takes a bet
ter man than you to break the sod on
ny head =
In 1892 the 500 line was built across
Wells county and Fessenden became
the center station and the asplrent
for the new county seat. By a vote
| of ninety-four it carried and the same
night when the votes were counted
at five o'clocn there was a general
! rejoicing until ten o'clock. when. the
moving of the court house was begun.
! A large number of Fessenden knights,
about fifty in number, with wagons,
! croWOars, and other engines OF power,
began the transportation. This Is
known in the Skyetion legends as the
Court House Theft" IN 1895 the
present brick court house at Fessen-
den was erected. In 1896 Fessenden
was supposed to be a county seat,
with a court house and the other re-
Quirements Of a first class city with
one exception and that was a ceme'
terry. What they We're to do about
this requirement the citizens debated
on all corners. Nobody was willing
to die for the city, no deathly diseases
would enter its healthful gates. ana
FAN real bad men gave it d wide circle.
But at last to fill this vacancy q blind
bigger named Dutch Frisz was unlaw-
| fully murdered and d cemetery was
started and this thriving city Of real
live men was proclaimed complete.
As O~verianders Saw It.
Wells county as we found it, and
! it's possibilities as the Overlanders
saw them would fill a large size book,
but we. will let the prospective buyer
of Wells county land travel to THIS
country of opportunities and see those
bargains for himself. Those few facts
| taken from the county auditors re
Fort to the state agricultural depart
ment will satisfy the rest of the peo'
| pie. There are 1852 farms in the
six townships that composes Wells
| county, which contain 5S1,S17 acres.
During the season just past this acre
age produced 1,5S4,720 bushels Of
wheat, 1877 1898 bushels Of flax, 306,9l4
bushels OF barley, and l,16S,016 bush
els of oats. The other varied small
grain that the county grows amounts
to over half a million bushels.
Corn a Successful crop.
Corn is a successful crop in Wells
county when subjected to the same
system Of cultivation as employed
in the regular corn growing states.
During the season of 1912. '6S14 acres
| of corn was grown, and from all re-
ports a much larger crop has been
planted this year. A number Of 4silos
has ben erected and the farmers are
rapidly adding dairying as a side line
Ito their agricultural work. This sec