Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-15
News of the State

NEWS Oh the 0IdIe
The shareholders of the Farmers
elevator Of NORWOOD met recently
and declared the very substantial div,
idend of 50 per cent.
Frank Cavanaugh, one OF the pio.
neers Of North Dakota, and for many
years 9 resident OF Eddy county, was
killed recently when he fell out Of hts
buggy and struck his head on the
wheel.
Lightning struck the Presbyterian
manse at Crosby in a severe %electri.
cal storm, several other places being
hit, also. No one was injured, the
pastor and his wife being In another
part Of the building.
The Bethel Ladies' Aid held q
unique affair In the form of q reunion,
to which all those who had ever been
members were inv. ted. Nearly sew
enty people were present, 3 number
coming from long distances.
l.. X. Sivertson OF Darlington has
invented a steam wheel, which be ID
hopeful will solve the problem Of q
rotary steam engine, something which
scientists and inventors have been
working on for many years.
IL|s-.H Ea%N%E&Nt d. -|..s.r. HF..FU nEE#h
The "Booster Trip" put out by Car.
rington last week proved Z huge sue
cess. Twelve towns we're visited by
30 autos and 1876 people, and at every
place they stopped, they spread the
gospel of Darlington, and were roy
ally entertained.
Two cars, Of the Chautauqua train
at Devils Lake left the track when
an auto livery vehicle got too close to
the train. The step of the auto was
torn OF and fell under the wheels,
derailing the cars. No n was hurt,
though the train was packed.
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Crosby is up and coming. They
have constructed a lot of new side
walks and will soon have their white
Way" in operation. They are look
ing forward to the Crosby Corn show,
when several thousand people will see
the improvements.
Haying Is In full blast in the vicin-
ley of Fordyille, and the crop is e
as immense, there having been.
much wet weather. The alfalfa is
showing up unusually well. Crops In
general look hne, and the wheat is
filling out rapidly, with big, long
af
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Report from Jamestown has It that
q race horse being worked out on the
track stumbledtand fell, sliding on his
ear for a ways, with the result that
the ear was broken and had to be put
in splints. "In! the meantime" COM
ments the Daily Capital, "'such a
head will probably be the animals
complaint. esss
Willisto7. N. II. Figures complied
at the local 40 ONCE q to
the amount Of government land yet
available for filing n this district
show that we have f67.220.36 acres of
land not filed upon. This would be
over 1000 farms Of 100 acres each.
OF course this land Is not all good
farm land as 1t includes the lands
along the Missouri and the Little Mis-
souri, rivers but there is . lot of good
land vet vacant
A bolt OF lightning which struck
Geo. Fiegh, of Miner, destroyed his
hearing, but left him without injury,
except for burns along his right side.
A Girls Civic club has been organ
lied In .Bottineau. the first meeting
being held June 80. They will inter
est themselves IN civic Improvement.
Alfred Fairwe. ther, q Souris young
man, was drowned In Strawberry
Lake, north Of Carbury, when the boat
in which he and two friends were rid
ing, was tipped over.
sea SeTE# H."-.| E .sei4 t-H- n 81
A.broken shoulder, q fractured jaw,
several d%islocated teeth and scratches
and bruises too numerous to list, is a
part Of what happened to Geo. Bobb
of Amidon on Tuesday when a horse
he was riding bolted through a wire
fence near the Amidon school-housa.
The accident was witnessed by sew.
eral people who were on hand a min
ute later to pick UP the unconscious
victim apd carry him to his home on
the farm of the Farm Land & Coal
Co, q half mile distant. A physician
was summoned from New England
and a few hours later the patti mt was
resting comfortably, the fractures hav.
ing been reduced and the bruises
dressed.
BAD AUToAcclDENT.
jamestown, N. d., July I.-North'
ern Pacific train No. s bore to James
town Saturday morning four injured
automobile tourists, Victor Wilmart