Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-09-10
News Of ths State

Threshing operations are we'll III,
der way in Ward county and the de
mand for men IS consequently yer!
great.
W. A. Young, former, member o.
the Fordville Chronicle, has accepted
a position with the Park River Furni
ture Co.
Unless something occurs to canse
a delay In threshing operations, a
car shortage is feared by the officials
Of the railroads.
The president sent to the senate
the following nomination to be regis
ter of the land Office at Min0t, N. d.,
r. +. Fritz Of Towner, N. d.
Theodore Anderson, Chester Strand
and George Strand Of Edm0re were
arraigned before Judge c. w. BUTTE,
charged with a statutory offense.
The scarcity OF labor is delaying
the completion Of the Niobe extern
ttOn of the Great Northern, over
which Grand Trunk trains will enter
| North Dakota.
Thomas j. Towner, the new grain
buyer at Tyler station south of Wah-
| peton, was found dead in his bed, his
death having been due TO heart fail
nre.
Over 900 indians from the Stand
ing Rock reservation of the Sioux
have made plans to make a visit to
Bismarck during the third annual
Industrial exposition. ~.
Mrs. Mccarthy, living at Grand
Forks, was knocked senseless when
she was struck by a motorcycle rid
den by liner Hagasetth of Devils
Lake, at DeMers venue and Third
street.
J. ]. P%ettijohn, the newly appoint
ed head Of the extension work at the
state university, will speak on Uni
versity Extension Lyceum at the
meeting of the International Lyceum
association to be held at Chicago,
Sept. II.
In this months issue Of the Amer
lean Economic Review is an article
on Farm Credits in North Dakota,
by DR.. Meyer %,Jacobstein, formerly
instructor of economics at the Uni.
versity of North Daokta.
John Proctor, the bird dog of H.
Curtis of Texas, won the champion
ship of the all-American field trials
which ended Ut Towner after nearly
a week OF exciting contests be-
tween some of the best bred dogs
in North America. (
DR.. G.. F.. Ruediger, director of the
public health laboratory at the state
university, has left for Colorado
Springs, where he will address the
annual meeting of the American
rublic Health association on Labor
atory Tests for Typhoid.
Pres. H. F,EE;nery OF Fargo will
probably be one of the principal
speakers at a big banquet which is
being planned by Bismarck Y. M. C..
A. boosters and which will be held
on Friday evening, Sept. 10, if plans
now under consideration are carried
ont.
T.. s. Sperry, q farmer living north.
of Bismarck. vas hurrying 10 shelter
when a storm overlook him and he
sought shelter from the rain by lying
behind a shock Of corn in a field. A
binding fash Of lightning lit up the
field and Sperry saw the third shock
from him had been struck and com.
pletely burned. /
While driving q colt hitched to a
road cart Eurr Tande OF Aneta was.
injured. The colt started to kick and
Mr.. Tande in trying to jump out was
caught and dragged by n leg for
some distance before he could extri-
cate himself, the horse then proceed.
ing to make kindling wood out Of the
cart, and he did.
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The Minot Commercial clubs free
! employment bureau has been respon-
sible for placing 375 men in jobs, and
the demand for men has become so
great that farmers are now meeting
incoming trains and hiring the men
before they reach the platforms, many
men, IN route to points farther west,
being induced to disembark and 90
to work. =.
Material has arrived for the con.
struction of a new farmers telephone
line to be constructed out of Mimic.
The new line is known as the Harris
ton Telephone Co., and the officers are
John Popowski, president, and Galen
McDivitt, secretary fand treasurer.
The line is to start from Mimic and
run north to George Plezporfs, then
east to John Popowski's, a distance of
about ten miles.