Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-04-24
news ITEMS
Events Throughout the State
III Tsrss|y Told.

bile show held In Grand Forks was an
unprecedented success, both In point
of attendance and quality OF exhiol-
ton. An unusually large number or
cars we're on exhibition and altogether
they made a %glittering snowy display.
from large and roomy seven.passenger
touring cars to the neat and compact
little roadsters and r%unabouts. Most
of the best and latest 1913 modsls
were to be seen and dealers report Il
splendid business, indicating general
prosperity in the state. Owing to
the fact that this is the only automo-
bile show OF the year in the state,
there was an unusually large attend
snce from all over the state.
It Is expected regular passenger and
mail trains will be put in operation on
the new DrakeDevils Lake-Ford line
of the 500 line about April l. Thus
far freight trains only have been run
ming, but stations are being built and
the line is otherwise being put into
shape for the passenger trains. All
Of the new towns have asked for post
Offices and some have been advised
that regular daily mail will be fur.
nished in April. Good progress Is be-
ing made in each Of the new towns.
Fillmore has Just completed a new
"twenty.room hotel and q similar hotel
10 in the course OF erection at Silva.
Baker Ia putting in electric lights.
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A. L. Meige, who represents the
Automobile Trail Blazing association
Of Now York, proposes to blaze the
New York city to Seattle trail through
Grand Forks and Northern North Da.
kota and presented the matter before
the good roads committee OF the Grand
Forks Commercial club. Already the
road has been painted through to Be
midi, MIMI, with its red poles and
white lettering, and is to be known as
tho Glacier Park highway. Grand
Forks is also interested in the steps
the association has taken to paint the
Meridian road from Winnipeg to the
Gulf of Mexico.
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Compelling two alleged horse thieves
to mount the steed, and riding on an
other himself, Sheriff Barnes OF Bur.
leigh county rode twenty-five miles,
crossed the Missouri river ten miles
from Bismarck and landed the prison.
ers in the county Jail. John Summer.
side and George Wilsey are the &C
cused men. They were arrested at
! Center, Oliver county, charged with
horse thefts in the northern part Of
Burleigh county. The horses used on
the trip we're those with which the
men were charged with stealing.
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No more inaugural balls in the
! North Dakota state capitol building at
Bismarck II Representative Hedalen
| Of Walsh county has his way. He has
introduced a bill in the state legisla-
ture prohibiting the use Of any part Of
! the state building for balls or dances
during the progress of the legislature.
There is some strong support for the
measure, while Bismarck people are
fighting the proposal, not being very
DESTROYS Of losing this big event.
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Four fractures in n arm is the rec
ord of injuries received by Oscar
Moen, aged twenty-five, in an acct
dent on a saving machine at
Hillsboro. The engine had been
stopped and the saw was whirling OF
It's own momentum when Moen at
tempted to stop Thy placing a gloved
hand on a revolving shaft. The glove
caught and his arm was wound about
the shaft. - a., ,44.3n .
The h~omesteaders on the Fort Der.
thold reservation are more enterpris'
INK than many others who have taken
claims in the state. They have formed
an association and have just issued a
| directory. This gives an alphabetical
list Of the nc,mes of each homesteader,
the government description of the
claim and also the township divisions
and residence of each. ..
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William Keye, who; will graduate
from Fargo college this summer, has
signed a contract to teach three years
in a Protestant college at Beirut,
Syria. Two former students Of Fargo
are now teaching in the same terri
tory. Mr.. Keye will have charge Of
| the department Of mathematics in that
college, which has an enrolment Of
about 1000.
Seven young men Of Fargo are to
become missionaries in the foreign
| field as a result of meetings held at
Fargo the past two weeks. They will
20 to China, India and Syria. The
missionary meetings we're addressed
by former workers in the foreign
fields and 1875 sessions we're held.
| Many out Of town visitors attended.
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With blood flowing from self-in'
| ficted knife wounds in his throat
Gunder Tweeten was found in Z room
1t the s. Nelson home near North.