Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-17
News of the State
The Fargo auditorium is b.
rapidly rushed to completion.

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Goodrich has a new five hundred
pound bell as a fire alarm and cur
few.
Melvin Halseth, OF Denhoff, vas
badly bitten by a vicious dog. The
animal was shot shortly a~fterward.
Jack Pecheck of White Earth was
drowned when the machine in which
ne was riding near Detroit, Mimi,
overturned in the water, pinning him
under it.
The Great Northern depot at Re-
lette was entered by sneak thieves.
and some express packages and So
or So in cash taken. There is no
trace of the thieves.
A giant magnet was used to eX-
tract a small piece CT steel from the
eye Of knut Sagen, young %threshing
+ engineer of Northwood, at a Grand
Forks hospital. The method was
successful.
The Barnes County Poultry Asso-
Walton will hold its annual show at
the same time as the county. corn
and alfalfa show, November is to
20. %. q. Roberts of Atkinson, Wis,
has been secured as judge.
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Three business men of WibauX
came to the front when the county
was in need of a court house, and
donated their shares in an old school
house, amounting to $1,000. The
county paid the balance, and has an
adequate court house.
The general committee, W. j. MOI
ley chairman, having in charge the
arrangements for the second Stark
county industrial exhibit to be held
at the Dickinson armory September
% to %, is working hard to make
the fair the best ever held in the
county.
A man at Charbonneau threw away
a lighted. match recently and when
it landed in a box Of dynamite and
smoke began to rise, there was a
lively scramble On the part of those
who happened to be in the neighbor-
hood. The stuff burned without e.
ploding and no damage was done.
Sheriff H. A. Kasper of Manning
had the misfortune to lose his car
by fire recently. He had filled the
tank with gasoline, and had stepped
into a store when he noticed the
flames, which probably started from
an oyerheated engine. The car was
not insured, and was almost a total
loss.
States Attorney Crimson of Lang.
don had a lively time trying to ar
rest three bootleggers. They had
booze on hand, but they wouldn't sell
him any Of it, and he couldn't get
them on the bootlegging charge. Two
of them skipped while he was busy
with the third, who was finally haleG
into court on a vagrancy charge anG
given thirty days.
Superintendent T. H. Lantry came
from Glendive to Dickinson and b.
appointment attended a meeting oil
the city council to explain the atti
tude of the Northern Pacific railway
with reference to the building Of the
proposed subway, under railway
tracks, between north and south
Dickinson, which is estimated would
cost something like $4,000.
Lars Peterson, a boy of thirteen
years old, was accidentally shot
through the leg which hunting neal
Sanborn recently. Postmaster G. O
LANCER was just taking his gun from
the rig when it was discharged
the shot striking Peterson in the leg
The charge also struck James
Knable, though the most severe in
jury was to3iPeterson, who may lose
his leg. .GBtliM
Three men in the vicinity of Mont
pelier attempted to buck the prohibi
} ton law, and to get a threshing crew
drunk on liquor which they brought
with them. They succeeded in The
case of one of the crew, with the
result that a complaint was sworr
out against them, and they we're ar.
raigned in court. Being unable tc
furnish bonds they are reposing il
Jail, waiting trial.
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Northrup. The Northern Pacific
probably will make this point its
present terminal in Dunn county ant
the base of operations for the exten
sion from here to Sidney, Mont, mex
year. Recently it was reported thar
the new town of Killdeer would be
|: the end of the line, but on account
Of the fine water here and the ex
cellent location for a reservoir anC
dam it was decided TO extend to this
point. Northup lis fourteen milet
west Of Dunn Center, originally
picked to be the terminal. 1t is sew
IN miles west of Killdeer.