Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-16
State News and Comment

OIQIC 1N6WS
Dickinson has put a new peddle1
ordinance on it's first reading in the
city council.
The health officer at New England
Is right after the residents of that
city about cleaning up their premises,
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The Norred hotel at killoeer, which
was opened on March !, has been
found to be too small and an addition
is to be built to it.
Mrs. MARGARET Hunter, mother of A.
|. Hunter; vice president of the First
National banksof Fargo, died Tuesday
at her home in Indianapolis, Ind.
The University of North Dakota
Girls Glee club is making arrange
ments for a trip to the southern part
of the state during the week of April
10.
Beach, Sentinel Butte and Beltield
are all considering entering the Mon
tana-North Dakota tennis league. The
two latter towns have already started
the organization Of tennis clubs.
Dunn Center expects to be quite a
church center as we'll. The Norwegian
Lutherans are we'll organized, the
German Lutherans, Latter Day
Saints and Methodists are planning
on building and are circulating sub
scription lists.
People at Dunn Center, putting
Easements in their houses, are quite
pleased to learn that within eight feet
of the surface of the ground is a bed
of coal twenty-eight feet thick. Thy re
are not many places where n can
have a cellar full of coal by the simple
process of making a cellar.
Edward D. Kelly, formerly affiliated
with the International Harvester com.
pany at Minot, died last evening at
Aberdeen, S. D., following an opera.
ton for appendicitis, according to a
telegram received from the secretary
of the Elks lodge at that place.
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LOLSluS " tlSlJ lllS ldeuCl, "AlOLA1
he had not seen for many months,
Russell Booker, a 1~2-year-old lad Of
Lakota, drew from the bank $50, his
entire savings, and started to join his
parent who is now residing at Macki-
nav, Ill. He got as far as Fargo,
when the police who had been noti-
fed to be on the lookout, boarded
No. 4 of the Great Northern and found
him.
A stranger named Joe Foss is under
a physicians care at Hettinger, suffer
ing from a bullet wound inflicted by
Special Agent Leach ofsthe Milwaukee
railroad. Leach caught, Foss in the
act of breaking into merchandise
car in the Milwaukee, yards and at
tempted to arrest him. FOss ran, and
refused to heed Leach'su orders to stop
and Leach fired. Foss was not ser
iously injured. +
Wednesday morning as the yard
cop was looking over a train that had
lust pulled into Marmarth, a young
lad jumped out of a box car and land
ed right in the cops arms. Police
man fairfield Immediately began a
search of the lad, with the result that
he found a quantity Of razors, watch.
es and rings on his person. Sharp
questioning brought out the informa.
ton that the lad had b%urglarized a
Miles City second hand store, where
he secured the property. The oicials
of Miles City were notified.
While trying to cross Cedar canyon
near Medora, with a rig, w. H. John
son narrowly escaped death. Accom-
panied by John Britt, who was leading
the way with a saddle horse, the two
were on their way to Britt's home
stead. The road led into a deep wash
and it being very dark, Britt was un
able to follow it. In trying to cross
the wash, Johnson was forced to drive
up a steep incline. Just az the as
cent was about made and the road
gained, the pitch became too great
and the horses stumbled backward on
from the wagon into deep gully about
I two feet wide at the bottom of the
wash. The narrowness of the gully
saved him from a terrible trampling
The horses, after righting themselves
ran away with the remainder of the
wagon, passing directly over Johnson
who vas lying in the little gully. Aside
from several bruises, he is zone the
worse Tor his experience. The rig
was demolished.