Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-15
News of the State

Lean county.
Prairie chickens are reported very
thick around. Nome.
The LaMoure chronicle has installed
q new power plant.
The contractors have begun turn.
ing dirt on the new N. p. branch line
south Of Beach.
Plans are maturing for another au.
tomobile booster tour by the CONNER
cial club Of Grafton.
A new bank Ii to be in operation in
Burkey very shortly. The institution
will be known Is the Security State
bank.
Alleged piEgers at Devils Lake
bumped up against the law recently,
and the district court will pass on
their cases later.
Two transients in LaM0ure decided
to leave town, and in the dead Of
night quietly appropriated q couple Of
bicycles for the purpose.
Valley City u organizing E'oys' Civ
ic Improvement leagues, to help In
keeping the streets and alleys Of the
city clean and free from refuse.
Plans are on foot to put In a CO.
operative creamery at Taylor mass
meeting with. prominent speakers was
held recently to consider the project.
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Sneak thievesHare busy in Wahpe.
ton, several houses having been en-
tered, but the police are using extra
vigilance, and hope to %apprehend the
guilty persons.
a. motorcycle policeman at Grand
Forks crawled under a rear porch af-
ter q night prowler who took refuge
there when he saw the cop coming.
The cop got his man.
100
Clarence Thorenson, aged IL, was
killed at Lansford, under the wheels
Of a water wagon, driven by his own
father. The boy fell from the wagon
directly under the wheels.
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A young man cleaning an auto with
gasoline in an Cakes garage had the
m3stortune to have the gasoline catch
fire. The young man and the auto
both md narrow escapes.
The Bettar Farmers club at Willis
ton was ent1staf1ed recently by Mrs.
Leo Hollar. The program consisted
Of music, speaking and 2 social good
time. SN
The reorganization III the Office Of
u. 8. Marshal 81. Doyle ut Fargo has
been completed. G. J. Stout, chief
deputy, has reStgped, and Is succeed
ed by John Gammons.
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A recent 1bulletln from the Agricul-
tural college deals with tuberculosis
in poultry, anduis said to shed consid-
cradle light on ~ trouble which hat
bothered poultry raisers for some
time.
Harry smith, aged 81, violated the
North Dakota prohibition law in order
That he might find + haven in Jail,
he told the omcers ct Larimore. NH0
Is Ill, and will probably be sent to the
poor farm instead 6 q jail.
Two little boys playing with match
es near Berlin set IRE to a couple OF
new timothy hay stacks. Strenuous
work on the part Of the fire depart
ment was necessary TO save the house
and barn, which we're threatened.
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u. C. Snyder Of Wahpeton was IN
stantly killed by lightning. He had
gone into the basement of his home,
and took hold 0 the switch to turn
on the electric light Just as lightning
struck the wire somewhere outside.
The transformer on the nearest pole
was burned out, and, as he was stand
ing on the damp hoor, he got the full
force Of the current.
80
Devils Lake.-Friends presented
Fred Christopherson of Bartlett with
q purse, as a neighb0rly offering to
make part compensation for the loss
he suffered when his stock and grain
were burned with the barn On the
farm he rents, N . recent electric
storm. Five horses We're killed and
all the hay, grainaand harness in the
barn were destroyed. ,
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The towns down along the 500
line are circulating . petition pray.
ing that the 500 will put q passen-
ger train on the Naxton branch as
was ordered by the r. r. Commits.
sioners some years ago. At Colon
bus the movement has acquired con.
siderable strength and the people are
very active and mean business. Cross.
by should get In the swim and do
likewise.-Crosby Review.
49,
The Glenburn Advance objects to
the resolution adopted at the meeting
OF the Commercial club In Minot, to
the effect that North Dakota newspa.
pers should publish only the good and
not the bad items about any commun.
ity In the state, except their own local
items. The Advance holds that there
isn't 80 much bad In the state that II
needs to be suppressed, and main,
tains that the people r entitled to
all the news, and that they are more
intelligent than the resolution Eives