Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-01
State News and Comment

The Grand Forks Commercial club
will make a tour of Northern Mime.
sofa cities in June. Crookston, War.
rem, Red Lake Falls, Thief River
Falls and intermediate points are tC
be visited, and two days probably viii
be given over to the excursion.
Henry Whalen, who is employed by
Lloyd RAIDER north Of Dickinson, went
to st. Paul, where his left eye was re-
moved, after having been hit by a fly
ing staple in tearing down RAIDERS
fence to let his cattle out of the
prairie fire.
Reuben Marshall of Missoula, Mont,
formerly of Devils Lake, vas pinned
under his automobile, when it Vas
wrecked yesterday and kilograms re.
ceived by his parents indicate he may
not recover. Othr members of the
party were not hurt.
The Valley City Normalodeons. G
musical organization of the local state
normal school made up entirely OF
girls, is making its second concert
tour Of the state, and visits Fargo,
Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Aneta and
CasseltOn, with a final concert al Vol.
ley City.
r. S. Lewis of Fargo, former lieuten.
ant governor Of North Dakota, who
has been seriously i'll with pneumonia
at the home Of his daughter in Frank
lin, Va, is recovering rapidly. A tela.
gram heceived yesterday from DR.. II.
H. Cobb, attending physician, read:
"Mr. Lewis is. improving all the time.
viii be out in a few days"
Bishop Quayle of st. Paul will be
the principal speaker at the dedica-
ton Of the new Methodist church in
jamestown, the event being fixed for
May 23. Several other prominent
church men also will participate. The
church was erected at a cost Of about
$25, 200; it has a seating capacity Of
about 800, and is one of the city's
hes: edifices.
The site for the new club house of
the Devils Lake boat and yacht club
was selected Wednesday evening
when a large delegation went to the
lake shore, accompanied by Chautau
qua officials. A couple of acres OF
most desirable ground is dedicated to
the boat club where a home will be
erected and other features provided
including tennis courts, a bath house
and gun club grounds.
g." 49,
Chris Olson of Rolla who made the
mistake of selling his neighbours fax
and retaining the proceeds, was to-
day landed in the state penitenitiary,
where he will serve a years sentence
imposed by Judge Buttz, when he
pleaded guilty to the charge of grand
larceny. Olson was accused of raid
ing a neighbours granary. Arrested,
he pleaded that he had made a mis-
take. The excuse, however, wasn't
accepted. :
A fatal accident occurred at the
Peter Tschaekofske farm near HALL
day, when Ada Tschaekofske, a a.
year old child, was burned to death.
The child's clothing became. ignited
from a pile of Russian thistles, which
the family was burning, and before
they could be ~extinguished she was
burned beyond all hope of recovery.
A messenger was dispatched for a
doctor who arrived a few minutes
later, but owingp&to the large amount
of body surface destroyed, all that
could be done was to make the last
hours of the little sufferer as com
Portable as possible until death which
occurred thirteen hours afterWard,
mercifully came to her relief
At a meeting of stockholders at
Williston this week the organization
of the Williston Horse and Cattle
company, one ofthe largest ranch
companies in the northwest, was COM
pleted. The company owns or COLI
trolls more than 5000 acres of the fin.
est grazing land left on the upper
Missouri river slope and has several
hundred acres of natural alfalfa land
on the Missouri river bottoms, where
alfalfa hay will be raised. The COM
pany will work as rapidly as possible
into thoroughbred stock. Usher l..
Burdick, former lieutenant governor;
Thomas P. Cooper, director o fthe
North Dakota experiment station, H.
G. Critchfeld, secretary of the North
Dakota Horse Breeders association,
and L. C. Wingate, cashier of the VIII.
liams County State bank, are interest.
ed in the new company, which is cap.
italized at $4,000.