Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-24
State News and Comment

u N'hA "AAs tHS oS"oSh VAAASA WV
unusually successful for q league O.
this nature, Upham won every game
played with but a single exception, los
Ing once to Russell. The league viii
be reorganized next spring.
" So:
The Bottineau baseball team, which
has just closed the season. made ;
most remarkable record this year
winning seventeen out Of twenty-five
games played. tying one, and losing
four. This is the best season a loca,
club has ever staged, and as a result
Bottineau probably will be represent
ed by a strong club next season.
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Mrs. Clarence Johnson, aged %
was instantly killed by lightning, or
the banks of Firestcel creek, Were
she had gone for the purpose Of fish
ing. When a thunder shower appear
ed she started for home with an I'M
brelIa over her head. The lightning
struck tie umbrella and passed into
her body. Two children who were
with her raj to the house and gave
the alarm.
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Harvesting of oats and barley is
we'll advanced and wheat cutting is
starting in all parts Of the Red River
valley. II the present fine weather
continues for the next 10 days. a bum
per crop appears to be assured. Re.
ports from sections west of the valley
indicate that while the crops are not
so far advanced. an ever better stand
Of grain than in this vicinity is prob
able. On many farms the wheat yield
should run 40 bushels TO the acre or
more.
Probably the first attempt made
in this state by an electric
light company to supply farmers
with electricity for lighting and pow
er purposes is being made by the
%Fessenden Light and Power company.
It has started the construction Of a
line from Fessenden to within four
miles of Hamburg and will supply
ten farms with current. If the project
proves what is expected Of it the
company will make further extern
siOns into the country.
s.
With a view Of amicably settling
the school question a petition signed
by a large number of prominent bust
ness men and residents Of Grand
Forks will be presented to the board
of education at their next meeting
The signers declare that they recog.
niZc the need of a new school. Thf
petition says that the building ought
TO be erected between Fifth and Ninth
streets and within a block of Univer-
sity avenue; that it ought to contain
a gymnasium and auditorium and
that the whole structure ought to cost
no more than 100000 or $225.O00.
The state Of North Dakota has 1900
BARRIERS. Thirty more were re-
Gently licensed to practice by the
state board OF examiners in Minot.
All applying for licenses must have
had at least three years practice with
a licensed barber before a license can
be granted. The examination consists
in the applicant cutting the hair OF a
subject and shaving him in the pres
ence OF the board, followed by a SER
les of twenty questions submitted in
writing. Then about two score of
questions are asked the applicant.
In addition to Ignite and the
reports OF gold in the Mcdora Vi
entity. North Dakota Is coming into
the limelight as a producer Of pre-
cious gems. Mrs. Michael Kelley of
HaZen recently found cmeralds, to-
paZ and stones of Other kinds near
here, which are nov being cut and
mounted at Mandan. While the Ordi
nary person could not tell the gems
in the rough from any ordinary
stone, Mrs. Kelley recognized what
they were. They were probably de-
posted during the glacial period
They are found in what is believed to
be a glacial drift.
A new method of bringing liquor in
to the state was revealed by the ar
rest of James Boyle, colored, OF Far
go. who, while pleading guilty to the
charge of Bookkeeping, claimed that a
considerable amount Of liquor and
even drugs are brought in on sleeping
cErs by the colored porters. Boyle
was arrested charged with having
sold a quart Of whisky for 81. The evil
dence against him was so strong that
he decided to plead guilty and in his
statement to the court said that he
had secured the liquor from a colored
porter on the Northern Pacific rail
road. Boyle says that considerable
liquor and drugs are brought from
wet territory to the state and es.
pecially to Fargo and the officers are
Of the opinion that they have broken
into what was beginning to be quite
q profitable business. especially for
Pullman porters.
Mayor VI. B. Halldorson OF Sonris
recently arrested at Nechc by immi
grafton officials because of a mlstn
~derstanding' with an immigration CT
iiccr. explains as follows; II was
crossing the line without my citizen
ship papers, not %supposing them nee
essary, but the immigration officer In
sisted on my exhibiting them. and
when | was unable to do So compel
led myself and family to leave the
train. AT the immigration Office they
attempted to place us in q filthy dc
tention cell back of the inspectors
Office, and it was then | demonstrates
and when one Of the officials lait
hands on one of the women OF the
party, and would not let go | hit hin
In the face. | don't anticipate any
further Developments" Mayor Hall
dorson obtained his release by Il wri