Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-23

A petition is being circulated in En-
mons county asking the county commits
,%sioners to purchase poison in wholesale
quantities to be used for gopher exter-
mination in that county.
In Mckenzie county the farm girls
outstrip the boys in raising corn.
Girls carried away the first second
and a good share of the other prem
iums at the school industrial exhibit.
At Aas.lA4 Mrs. G. 4, Cabbage
brought a"1afge number of exceedingly
large tomatoes TO town and gave some
good ones to the editor. 1t is probable
the first time that he ever get tomatoes
som a cabbage.
George Barbee Of near Mott
brought corn to that town that was
part Of a patch that yielded him 40
and a half acres planted and it was
given good care.
Ed Brenilson was injured near Mar
marth while operating a we'll drill.
ing machine. In some manner one
Of his E'oeves became entangled in
the cogs of the machine and his arm
was badly injured.
While ina runaway Mitchell Wagar,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Wagar of
Bantry, was dragged into a barbed wire
fence and a great cash some five inches
long was torn in his throat, exposing
the windpipe and veins.
Jrc Wegley of Williston raised 2700
bushels Of fine potatoes on ten acres.
He used in, digging them a four horse
Hoover digger. three wagons, eight
pickers and two checkers, harvesting
1880 bushels in one day.
The Mckenzie county scribes are
planning to organize a county press
association. A meeting was held
but only three of tie seven editors
could get away from their desks and
another meeting will be called. .
Guy Cox, the 13-year old son of j.
W. Cox southwest Of Beach, raised
Northwestern Dent corn this year
that the state corn contest expert de.
clared will yield 70 bushels to the
acre.-Sentinel Butte Republican.
Lightning struck a strawstack in the
barnyard Of the William Foeltz place in
the Hankinson vicinity and set fire to
it. The fire smoldered until morning
when a high wind famed it to a furious
blaze and many adjacent buildings were
endangered.
Clair Cornell of Leith was some
what injurad while herding cattle
with an .,antomobile. In watching
where a bunch Of cattle were going
he a%ccidently, ran at a rapid gate into
a bunch Of sand and the machine
turned turtle. " .. a..
On the Hewitt farm in the vicinity
of Bowman, an acre Of alfalfa was al
half bushels were threshed from the
patch besides considerable hay being
secured. Alfalfa seed is quoted at
$45 per bushel at present.
jamestown appropriated s44,7sO to
run the city for the fiscal year begin
ming Sept. 1. Ten thousand dollars ap-
propriated for the grading and repair
ing the streets and putting in concrete
crossings was vetoed by the mayor, but
the ordinance was passed over his veto
by a vote of 7 to /.
Mrs. George Bullock of Hannah. a
pioneer resident Of that city, died
suddenly at her home. the result of a
stroke of paralysis, which caused her
demise within ten minutes. Mrs.
Bullock had resided there since the
pioneer days-being one Of the first
residents Of Hannah.
John Robertson of Langdon was pain
fully injured while operating a circular
saw in cutting stove wood. A piece of
wood he was holding against the saw
was jerked out Of his hand and thrown
in his face with the result that several
teeth were knocked out, his jaw bone
broken and his face lacerated.
Steel laying on the extension of the
500 line from Ryder to the Missouri
river has been completed, and only the
ballasting operations remain to be fin
ished before the line will be in con-
ditior for train service. Van Hook is
the terminal for operations this year,
the steel work being continued no fur
Their than that point, although grading
has been completed to a point about
ten miles beyond. Inability to obtain
steel on time, it is understood caused
officials to abandon the completion Of
the line to the point where grading had
been done,