Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-05-29
News oftho State

The Webb law seems to be doing
the business.
State papers are all busy publishing
insurance statements.
Finley has arranged an elaborate
Memorial day program.
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A well modelled Indian earthen pot
was found in a cave near Medora.
Landseekers are still flOcking to
the state, according to state papers.
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Walsh county farmers are meeting
with marked success in raising alfalfa.
Two children of J. G.. Anderson, liv.
ing near Ryder, died from scarlet fe-
yer.
Edward Colvert, a drayman, was ar.
rested at Minot, charged with blind.
pigging.
1t is reported that a rich vein of
iron ore was found on the farm OF
Ed. Matthias, near Leith.
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Right o the prohibition law is be-.
ing forced stricter than ever before
in the history Of the state.
There will be a good race program
at the Griggs country fair at Coopers'
town, June 2G and q.
William Messner the deaf mute who
was killed near Ortonville, Mimi, was
a graduate from the North Dakota
school for the deaf.
While pulling stumps with a stump
puller, Andrew Gettner, near Mimic,
had his leg badly cut when the whiffle-
tree broke and flew back, striking him
below the knee.
Andrew Tomjack, a chronic breaker
of the prohibition law, IS once more
in the tolls at jamestown and may
take a trip to the pen this time.
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1t Is said that weny horses, stolen
in South Dakota, have been located in
Hettinger county. They were sold to
farmers who were innocent purchas.
ers.
J. l.. Schmidt was arrested near Nc.
Clusky for alleged violation Of the
compulsory education law. This was
the llrst arrest in Sheridan county on
that charge. =.
The twenty-five Year Ago column
of The Towner News Tribune, In
charge Of Mrs. Jean" McNaughton
Stevens, makes a hit with the old tim.
ers in that vicinity.
From the progress being made on
the Midland extension from James.
town to Wimbledon, people in the lat.
ter city expect to see trains on the
midland before snow. lilies.
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Oscar Olson had part of his shin.
bone Clipped off when a piece of old
boiler flue in which he and others had
placed a small charge OF dynamite,
near Wimbledon. struck him.
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A Makoti man who went to Plaza
and got drunk, just missed a fearful
death when he staggered up against
a coach of a moving train and fell be.
tween the platform and the rails. He
escaped with the drunkard's prOverb.
ial luck.
June Is has been selected as the
date for the market day at Denbish.
Governor Hanna and other speakers
are expected. A band has been en-.
gagged II there will be a ball game,
races and athletic sports.
John Fox, cashier of the Merchants
National bank of Wimbledon, was
elected secretary of the commercial
club of that place to take the place
of H. NJ. Stroud, who has been secre.
tary for three years. The other old
officers were all reelected.
The Carpio Free fress says: Friends
of Ex-Governor Burne are urging him
to make the race for U. S. senator
next year under the provision of elect
ing these men By the direct vote Of
the people. The Free Prss Is almost
sure he would be elected.
The artesian we'll at Wimbledon
which has been raising hob for some
time has finally been placed under
control. Two farms were nearly ruin.
ed while the water was on the ramp
age and the town as ithout adequate
fire protection.
The 200 students at the Catholic col.
lege at Richardton have organized a
Catholic Cadet corps. This is the sec
ond in the state. having been or
ganized at Mandan some months ago.
1t is expected several others will be
formed in the state during the next
few months.
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Some of the old G.. A. r. veterans
are up in arms over the popular sub.
scriptiOn" deal to send them to Get
tysburg. One Fargo veteran express>
ed himself in no gentle terms regard
ing hat he called the effort to make It
aDDear that tho North Dakota ycter.