Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-13
The village marshal of Mott re.
ceives a Salary of 800 per annums
and is required to furnish a bond Of
IS, 900. 4

CelVeS a salary u 9lUU per duuuW
and is required to furnish a bond OF
$4,000.
E. A. Summers, who resided in
Grand Forks during the early days Of
the city, is now living at Summerdale,
Ala, according to word received by
City Auditor w. III. Alexander.
If the milk given by the cows in
Ward county in 1914 were to be sent
to Europe, it would be sufficient for
the German army commanded by Gen.
Won Hindenberg, each soldier receiv-
ing M pint.
Four boys, of Rugby, last Monday,
while shooting gophers near the track,
took a shot at the train as it was pass.
ing, the bullet going through the win
dow and passing underneath the chin
of one of the passengers.
A class in bird study has been or
ganized by Prof. Freeman of Fargo
college and indications are that it will
be the most popular! course in school,
1t has a. good enrolment and mems
bers are working overtime in waching
the spring migrants. y
Frank Garland, near Darlington, set
out S004trees last year and this spring
is planting, 800 more. Frank filed on
land in Foster county in 1884 and is
now having his first enthusiasm on
trees-"The boy got me started" he
c,,,c All tho frnno hovo rroyun IN
fine shape. 4
Ever since the destruction of the
LaMoure, ~. P. depot by fire, local
citizens and the public generally have
been indulging in lively speculation
as to what kind of a structure would
replace the destroyed one. The fol.
lowing letter received Iby the local N.
P. agent, F. L. Bowman, Is self-explan-
atory: e,l
Rev. w. P. Bradley of Granville,
pastor of the M. IL: church, will, grow
80 acres of corn during his leisure
time. Last year he produced a yield
OF SIS bushels of corn to the acre at
his South Dakota home. He says that
two or three borrowings while the
corn is small will do much good in
killing the weeds and %loosening the
soil.
The prayers of his mother that re-
lief will find him if he still lives, are
being offered daily by Mrs. J.. StefarV'-
son, mother of Vihljalmur a~Stefansson,
the Arctic explorer, at her home in
Western Manitoba, according to let
tiers received by friends of the family
at Mountain, formerly the home of
the Stefanssons.
The CcoperstoWn and Mohall high
schools remain to compete for the
North Dakota debating championship.
Cooperstown defeated Hatton, the
champion of last year. The debate
was staged at Cooperstown. The Mo-
hall high school obtained a unanim-
Gus decision ove the Reynolds high
school. III final debate will be held
in Grand Forks the latter part of May.
When Representative Ole Axvig of
Milton withdrew his compulsory side
track bill. providing for sidings near
the international boundary he receiv-
ed a promise from the Great Northern
railway authorities that a siding will
begin in the early spring, so as to
give ample time fol the erection of
grain elevator facilities at this new
Cavalier county marketing point be-
fore the next crop is ready for mar
ket.
J. M. Hannaford, president OF the
Northern Pacific railroad, has discour.
aged Mandar's proposal to change its
time from mountain to central, in a
letter addressed to a local business
man. Ham afford declares the change
would be impractical, because it would
result in disruption CT the railroads
manner cof ohandling it's business in
this territory. Mandan sought the
change because if its desire for an
added hour of daylinght after the
close of the days business.
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Fractional quarter homesteads on
the Berthold reservation lands along
the coal land sections are likely now
to be in demand. There are many
quarters, a part of which has been
set aside as a coal eserve. Many
prospective hcmesteaders declined tc
make entries, as they wanted full,
quarters. The department of the in
terror has just issued an order thai
homesteaders, who have filed or {
part of a quarter will have first
chance at the coal lands when the lat
ter are thrown open. They will have
80 days for filing on these before out
siders can file. This insures an ad
vantage that will prove beneficial ant
make those quarters in greater de
! mand, I5s8