Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-28
State News and Comment

Dickinson, with a population OF
5,616, shows deposits of $4O3 per cap
tia. This condition holds good
throughout the district.
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The police have found no trace of
the robbers who held up Engineer
Billy Williams at Mandan. 1t is be-
.lieved they beat it on a freight.
While the agent Of the Great North.
ern railroad at Hannaford was at sup
per, a burglar broke into the depot
and secured the sum of $.15.05. There
are no clues.
At a bond election at Fordville it
was decided by the people to build a
new city hall, fire station and Jail
combined this coming summer. The
proposition carried by a vote Of 50 to
II.
The North Dakota Christian Endea-
.vor Union convention will be held in
Minot May Z, s and 8. Delegates from
all over the state will be in attend
dIISc dlIu luSA II iii pOl ldII OuSllOS0
will be transacted.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Keye Of Fargo
have received word that their son.
Will Keye, who has been a member of
the staff of the Beirut Syrian Protest
ant college, has rendered his resig.
nation with that institution and ex.
poets to be home by Aug. l.
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Announcements Of building activity
in Devils Lake and the lake region,
in general are being made with persis-'
tent regularity with the advent OF
spring making possibility activity
along this line. Prospects of the big
gest season., from a general business
standpoint, ever enjoyed in the his.
tory of the state of North Dakota
doubtless has q great deal to do with
the present optimism.
A meteor is reported to have passed
over Devils Lake Tuesday night about
half past nine. The observation was
made by several persons, Independent
ly, who happened to be out making a
study of the celestial bodies at that
hour. Those who saw it report that it
was a brilliant sight. 1t came from
the south and travelled north and
slightly west, leaving a scarlet path
across the night sky. It. seemed to
fall in the direction of Grand Harbor.
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Final arrangements are being made
for the debate with Manchester which
will be held next Tuesday evening.
The Fargo college team will be led
w. C. Pixler and Wilk is sure of a
place. Hall and Pitcher are compel
ing for a place on the team. The
hime team will defend the negative
in the question Of government owner
ship and operation for interstate rail-
The affirmative team will go
to Huron, S. D., onsMonday.
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State Shriners are interested in the
announcement that the semi-annual
ceremonial session of KEN Temple,
Shrine, and the reunion of the
Scottish Rite Masons to be held in
Grand Forks in June will be the great.
est Masonic festival of the year in the
according, to George Duis,
.potentate Of the temple. There will
probably be 1000 Masons of various
degrees from all parts of the north.
west there for the big festival, which
will be held in the new temple, just
1t is expected, according
to Mr.. Duis, that $50 new members
will be taken into KEN temple at that
time. ,a,.
Aaron, the t%en.year-old son of A. .O.I
of Grand Forks, who Mon.
day evening suffered a fall into the
basement of the family home, in
he struck his head upon a spike,
the blunt point penetrating the brain,
passed away at a local hospital at
noon yesterday. The immediate cause
Of death was septic meningitis, or
brain fever, su%perinduced by the pois.
on which had entered the brain It's
sues before the seriousness Of the
would was discovered, when a physi.
clan, hours after the injury had been
discovered made a diagnosis. The
will be held Sunday afternoon
at the Zion Lutheran church. The
hour and other details will be made
known today. There survive the par
ents, a little sister Irene, and a broth
or Oscar, aged II years.