Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-29
News Of the State

John Neva Of Courtenay will sut
the township alleging that his car re
Gently ran into q rock on the main
road, damaging 1t to such on extent
that 1t became unmanagable, struck
other large rocks. toppled over, and
was completely ruined.
Williston. Land owners under the
Williston irrigation project. who may
be delinquent in their payments of as
sessments will be protected against
the loss Of their claims pending the
issuance of new orders concerning
payments, which will be out soon.
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Woodworth.-Good results were OBJ
tanned from the first threshing here,
which has Just started. Thorsen bro.
theirs threshed a field Of $50 acres OF
blue stem that went % bushels to
the acre, graded No. l, and went SO
pounds to the bushel. All yields are
good In this vicinity.
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Hillsboro. Two years each in
states prison was the sentence meted
In district court to John G.. O'Connell
and Anton Oak, who pleaded guilty.
Ofak was accused of burglarizing the
residence of /. s. Schriver of Rey-
nolds. O'Connell was accused Of a
statutory crime.
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Bowbells.5 sJohn Williams, Fred
Murphy and Charles Martin, are I'M
der arrest here charged with burglar
izing two Portal stores. from which
they obtained from $500 to 100 worth
ing in a box car. Beside them was
the loot, which included about $500
worth Of pistols and knives.
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]. Christianson, q Grano farmer,
nearly lost his life while cutting
wheat, His horses became unman-
ageable and Christianson tried to
quiet them. He was thrown to the
ground and caught in the sickle. be-
ing dragged quite a distance before
the binder finally passed over him.
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Kenmare. The combined store and
postoffice at Aurelia, twenty miles
ristant. was entered and robbed.
About SIS in some money bags, was
taken by the thieves. The postoffice
was entered by thieves about one
month ago. Deputy Sheriff Dan
DOugherty of MinOt Is investigating
the case.
Grafton. George H. McCabe re-
Gently purchased two carloads Of
young steers in Manitoba and will
feed them on his farm in Pembina
county. Last season MI. McCabe
tried out the matter of feeding cattle
and found it extremely profitable, and
this year Is going into it stronger.
He finds his silo an excellent help In
this kind of farming.
Minot. Ward county, which al
ready maintains one county farm
agent, will increase the aid for such
work so that two men cal be used in
the movement, it being proposed to
place the second agent at Kenmare.
Minot is the base of operations for
". A. Peck, the agent now employed
Dy the county. The work is main
tanned by q direct levy. made by the
county commissioners.
Cottonwood Lake. The European
war, with the attendant tightening of
the money market, will prevent the
completion Of the electric line from
Williston to Crosby until next year.
The line has been surveyed and is
backed by farmers in q country about
seventy miles square. This section
has a magnificent crop and some Of
the farmers will be compelled to haul
their grain thirty miles.
Hankinson. Abram Mcdonald died
at the home Of his son, John McDon-
aid. Deceased suffered a paralytic
stroke two weeks ago and was unable
to speak from that time until the
end came. He was a native Of New
York state and had reached the allot.
ted span 0klthree score years and ten.
For two years he was in the union
army during the civil war, being in
General Sherman's command.
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Schafer. Fire destroyed a separa-
tor belonging to George Stevens of
neal Ellsworth. The separator had
been running barely an hour when it
burst into flames. It was pulled
away from the setting and wan soon
q heap of junk. Spontaneous com.
bustion is supposed to have been the
cause Of the fire. MI. Stevens pur.
chased another separator and now
has his outfit again in operation.
Westby. Louie Hnson lost a valu-
able team. While driving to town
and about a half mile from home,
both of his horses were struck by
lightning and instantly killed Mr.
Hanson was stunned and lay on the
ground for awhile before coming to,
and, judging from the distance he
drove and the time he got home, he
could not have been long out Of com.
mission.
Darlington. Physicians say that
three bullet wounds, four knife
wounds and several bruises about the
head, where he appears to have been
beate by q revolver. will not cause
the death Of Lon Alcon, Mexican vag'
rant, supposedly a victim Of a Span
lard companion who is missing. The
men fought over the alleged theft