Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-01
State News and Comment

Mckenzie county's second annual
fair will be held in Alexander, Sep
TENDER % to %. The annual county
teachers institute will convene the
three days before the fair and a meet
ing of, the various school boards OF
the county will take place at the
same time. The officers for the coun-
ty fair are c. T. Tellefson, presi-
dent J. N. Settle, VICE president;
Edwin r. Johnson, secretary, M. C.;
Adams, treasurer.
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A card in his pocket acknowledging
receipt of dues in the Chicago Shovel
Engineers union, bearing the name
Of Robert Wiehrs, is the only clew
Maddox, N. D., authorities have to
the identity of a man who fell dead
while walking down a street in that
city. That the dead man is Wiehrs;
that he has a son residing in Kansas
City, and that his wife is in Oklaho-
ma, is the belief of authorities from
correspondence they have found.
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Some scoundrels near Glenburn
made a raid on several binders and
got away with all the Irvine found on
and near the machines, as we'll as all
tools OF any value. Among the losers
of Irvine were N. Roles, G. Stroup,
Glenn Lockman and H. H. Marean.
Mr.. Roles states that he will give $50
for information leading to the identi-
fication Of the person or persons who
took the Irvine, and he will make that
reward good any time during the com
ing year.
The new school building being
erected by the Hillsboro township
school district, just east OF the Hills
boro city limits, is fast nearing COM
|pletion. 1t is one of the finest coun-
try school buildings in Trail county,
if not in the state. The main floor
contains two good sized rooms for
pupils, equipped with cloak closets,
besides a class room. The basement
also has two splendid rooms that can
be used for domestic science or man
ual training, besides 2 room for the
heating plant.
A position on the village school
board of Drake, paying no salary, is
the stake for which T. E. Sleight is
fighting in the district court Of Nc
Henry county, and to defend his cleo
ton to that position, he is opposing
contest proceedings launched by three
voters OF the district. At q hearing
conducted here before Judge Baeley,
acting as referee, forty witnesses tes'
titled. 1t is charged against Mr.
| Sleight that he obtained votes for the
school position Ny violating the cor
rupt practices oct of tie state ana
sleight vigorously opposes that cor
t%ention.
When Theodore Roosevelt ranched
in the bad lands he owned two ranch
es, one eight miles south of Medors
known as the sGhimney Butte" nam
ed from a nearby butte which had 6
formation on the top like a chimney
The brand ofettis ranch was a Nal
tese cross. The other ranch was 10
Gated forty miles north and was
known as the Elk Horn, the brand be
ing an elk horn. An old brand Of the
Maltese cross was found this spring
in the streets of Medora when grad
! ing was being done. County Commits
sioner Nenens had secured the ole
elk horn brand some 20 years ago
and when he learned that Mr.. Roose
welt was anxious to get the Maltese
cross he turned over the elk horr
and both brands we're sent to Oyster
Bay. Mr.. Roosevelt has written
thanking the people for their thought
fulness in sending him the brands ant
saying that Mrs. Roosevelt is as mucl
interested in the brands as himself.
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News that $4,000 in North Dakota
property had been %bequeathed then
by a father whom they had not seer
for % years and have doubtless lon:
believed dead, is travelling by lette'
from Watford to a family of five chill
dren in the war-stricken zone of Lem
berg, Galicia. Austria. For thre'
years John Miller has lived in thi!
vicinity. working first as mecnanit
with the railroad construction com
pany and later at the trade OF harness
maker. He has lived alone in a room
back of his shop, cooking his owl
meals and mingling rarely With pee
pie. No one has known ANYTHING Q
his past life or was aware he ha'
a family. Recently it was found h
had been silently suffering for a lon'
time with nee of the stomach
Just before his death he drew a vii
leaving his property here and ID
acres CT land ear Stanley to fly
sons and daughters in Lemberg. II
stated that he left Lemberg % year
ago and had not heard from his chi
dren for - years. He was afraid nj
sens had been killed in the war an
that his daughters and their famllle
were among those who had been mad
destitute. lie gave his age as 80. IN
remains we're buried in the local CEN
etery. 0. l.. Casa-. cashier OF tn
State bank, has been appointed ad
ministrator, and news OF the deat
and the will have been sent to tn,
Lemberg address given by Mr. Nj.
Ter.