Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-04
State News and Comment

A teachers institute will be held
from Aug. 5 to IL at Valley City.
A farmer in Bottineau county has
discovered a profitable industry. He
poisoned over a thousand ground
squirrels at a cost of $3.50 for ma
terial and secured $40 for bounty.
The jamestown %postoflice has out
grown it's present quarters, where it
has been for IS years, and postal
authorities are advertising for new
quarters. They want nearly twice
the present area, with plenty of day.
light.
s.
Professor Vincent Hollis Todd, Phi.
D., now a member of the faculty of
the University of Illinois, has &C
copied the chair OF modern languages
at jamestown college and will be-
gin his work there with the opening
of the school year. He was gradual
ed from Harvard university in 1907.
s.
Eddie Hansel and Louis Olson OF
Ray have been tentenced to serve one
year in the pen at Bismarck by
Judge Fisk. The young mar plead
ed guilty to a charge of burglary
committed last Friday night. Some
time durinag the night Of last Fri
day the Arnold bowling alley was
broken into and robbed of a consid-
cradle amount Of cigars, candy, gum
and a canlera besides pipes and to-
baccO.
The Courtenay authorities think
they broke up a gang OF aut0moDlle
tile es that have been working IN
this state and South Dakota, when
they arrested Frank Lyman on d
charge of stealing an automobile from
Bristol, S. d. Lyman is said to have
confessed to the officer making the
arrest that he had stolen eight CT
more cars in North and South Da'
kota in the present year, accounting
for at least one machine that vas
missing.
About 1925 men have been stationed
at Russo for some time past at WORK
on the 500 tracks. Two gravel trains
and a steam shovel are hard at. work
between Drake and Max and the two
train loads of ties, telegraph poles
and rails are being carried to the west
~eXtesion of the road each day. The
500 is poshing work on the road
through the reservation. The trick
from Drake to Max is being raised
about five feet and graveled and al
of the cuts are being widened to about
100 feet. The wooden bridges are be
ing taken out and thing put in.
81. C. r." for years a man or
mystery at the Rochester, Mimi,
state hospital for the insane, is in
Dickinson again, this time with Mrs
May Caldwell Lllf Moran OF that
city, whom he claims as his sister,
and who says she recognizes in
this crippled paralytic her long-lost
brother. On April % last, -. c. R."
was placed in a Chicago infirmary::
Four days later he disappeared, and
no trace of him was found until ne
got off the train in Dickinson a few
days ago. One Of his feet is. sWol
len, as if he had walked far, and II
is certain he has put in three months
reaching the woman who says he is
her brother.
e. r. w. Peterson of Winnipeg,
United States immigration inspector
killed himself in a Grafton hotel
probably early yesterday afternoon,
his body being found at noon today
A letter addressed to Walter f.
Carr of Winnipeg, chief Inspector
was found in Peterson's room, but
county officials have not opened II
to determine whether or not it sheds
any light on the affair. Peterson
arrived in Grafton early yesterday
Afternoon, going at once to his room
He removed his coat. vest and shoes
then Law down on his bed. Using a
pillow to deaden the explosion, nc
shot himself through the temple
the bullet passing entirely through
his head, hitting the wall and bound
ing back on the bed. Peterson had
been in the government service abou,
two years. An inquest is being hello
this afternoon.
Hail storms are reported TO nave
caused considerable damage in re
stricted areas in Pembina and Cava'
lier counties Thursday afternoon. In
Mount Carmel township located just
north of Langdon in Cavalier county
an area of several square miles is
reported to have suffered. In the
area in which the hail fell approx
mately 60 per cent of the crop la
said to have been wiped out. Hail
damage is also reported on a mum
Der of farms located west Of Crystal
inPembina county. In several cases
the entire crop is believed to be
practically ruined. In both districts
the area affected was comparatively
small, md the surrounding territory
did not suffer to any extent. Show
ers are also reported at Larimore
Marvel, Ardoch, Langdon, and Cav
alier. There are no reports Of dam
age along the main line OF the Grea'
Northern. E.
Lewis F. Crawford, Emil Scow and
J. A. Powers of the State Board OF
Regents, accompanied by Chas
Brewer, the secretary of the board
have made an informal visit to the
agricultural college. The members
of the board went over the grounds