Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-11
News of the State

Beach SpOrtsmen want the Incense
raised, for hunters, to $3.50.
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Commencement exercies occupy
much space in the state press.
Wesley College, Grand Forks, grad
uated a class of nine this year.
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Cando boy scouts have recently
been provided with new uniforms.
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Professor Hoover of Fargo gives the
address to the graduating class at FL
lendale.
r. B. Griffiths has been elected
president of the Grand Forks CONNER
cial club.
The western counties report that a
worm is eating the roots of the grow
ing grain.
HattOn firemen are striving for
some Of the trophies at Lisbon in the
firemen's tournament.
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Devils Lake reported a very severe
wind and rainstorm the first of the
week. A little hail fell.
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DR.. l.. T. Guild of Fargo delivers the
graduating address for the Enderlin
high school on Friday evening.
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Work has commenced on the ex-
tension of the railroad from Beach
and 100 men have been set to work.
Friday has been named as trail day
at Hettinger and scores of the bust
ness men and farmers will put in the
day working on the roads.
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Tower City old settlers will hold
their annual picnic in a grove near
that place. This is the twelfth event
of the kind by the pioneers.
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PrOhibitionists feel much elated
over the vast territory that has
been closed to saloons in Minnesota
by the U. S. Supreme court.
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Mrs. Albert Rockstad of Walcott
was struck by lightning a few days
ago. Her condition is critical yet
physicians state she has q chance to
recover.
Tuesday a prominent speaker on
cooperation addressed the Beachites
in the opera house, at that place. He
gave some good advice for farmers
and toWnsmen.
"The Land of Dolls" will be present
ed by the members of the Mothers
club at Dickinson. This little drama
has been given elsewhere and has met
with great favor.
w. l.. VanHOrn, commander of the
Fargo camp of the Sons of Veterans,
has been elected a delegate to the d.
vision ensampment, to be held next
Thursday at Minneapolis
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The Canoe club OF Fargo is building
q club house east Of St. Johns hos
pital, with accommodations for IS ca
noes, lockers and other cOnveniences,
dear to the heart of the canoist.
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Today the Velva Methodist camp
meeting will commence. Evangelists
from several distant points have been
hired to do the exhorting and much
good work is expected from this meet
ing.
A Great Northern brakeman was ar
rested and held under bonds for
sticking up" a DO. The defendant
states it is a put up job between the
special agent and the DO to get his
goat.
The pastors of the Catholic church
es in the Pembina and .avilier dis
trict held a retreat at Walhalla last
week and those who participated re-
port a most profitable and pleasant
meeting.
A feature of the Northwood farmers
day was the auction sale at which
farmers offered and auctioned their
own horses. Some lively bidding and
considerable mirth was occasioned at
this sale.
John McElroy of Grandin is suing
the Great Northern Railway Co.,
claiming damages for injuries sus-
tanned while. stepping from a train.
The case is being heard in the federal
court before Judge Amidon.
George Young and James Shea were
sentenced to serve a year and a half
In the penitentiary, and Bert Eutler
was given two years in the same in
s%titution by Judge Cooley at Grand
Forks on Monday. They were taken
at once to Bismarck.
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Edward Taylor, Sc, one of the pio-
neers of Langdon, died a few days
ago. He has seen, during his resi-
dence in Langdon, the state grow
frop a few thousand in population to
one of the richest per. capita, in the
whole United States.
Leonard Mcconnell, a four year old
boy of Bowesmont, while playing with
a knife, cut him. in the eye. For
some time it was feared the sight
would be lost, but late reports state
the boy will entirely recover and the
eyesight not impaired in the least.
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Peter Nelson of st. Thomas had an