Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-04
NORTHWEST BRIEFS

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There are seven candidates allel
the office Of sheriff in Morton county.
A reunion of the Scottish Kite bod-
les will be held in Fargo March
to- 10.
Plans are being drawn TOR lodge
hall to be erected at killdeer py Oou
Fellows.
The farmers of West Britain town
ship, near Mott, have just organized
new telephone company
The schools of Manning, in Dunn
county, are planning on holding big
play day" in the near future.
With the first signs of spring, car
penters are busy on the erection or
three new residences at Golden val
ley.
DR.. e. n. Layton, formerly of Sarles,
was bound over to the district court
at Glasgow, Mont, on charge OF
malpractice.
A baseball team has just been or
ganized at BOWden and they expect 10
have a pennant winning team IN the
! field this year.
John Dulvick's confectionary store
and residence at New England burn
ed at loss of $1,000, about half COW
cred by insurance.
Hans A. Moe of the firm of Engel-
horn & Moe of Churchs Ferry is be-
ing urged by friends to enter the con-
test for Ramse, county treasurer.
The United States postoftice de-
partment is. advertising for bids for
new federal building at Valley City.
The bids are to be opened April b.
The officers of the Mandan lodge
of Moose will be invited to conduct
| institution ceremonies attendant upon
the launching of new lodge of the
order at Shields.
Indications point to building boom |
in Berthold the coming season.
flour mill, hotel, meat market, i'm
plement house and number of 9th
er buildings are in prospect
Chas. Wagner, aged about % years,
who was employed with the Great !
Northern crew at SWeetWater. drop |
ped dead in the cook car. The cor
oner has been unable to locate his
relatives.
Connections are being made today
between the Northern and Berthold
Farmers telephone companies, in
Ward county. This settlement is the
result of several years litigation in
the courts.
The first annual meeting of the Ma
ton Parks Highway association
Tuesday, March Ia, beginning at 10
a. M in the rooms of the CONNER
cial club.
One of the largest farm land deals
of the winter in Grand Forks county
was shown when the transfer Of l,423
acres in Levant township from Feri-
nand Rudolf and wife to George NJ.
Fitzgerald was filed at the office OF
the register of deeds in Grand Forks.
IT, O. Roble, a member of the last
legislature. lis a candidate for the
state senatorship from Wells county.
having made formal announcement of
his entrance in the race. Mr.. Roble
would succeed Alloys Wartner Of Har-
vey, present state senator from that
district.
Antoine de Rockbrain. Sioux In
dian farmer from the Bullhead dis.
trict, has returned from Washington
convinced that congress will pass an
act allowing the Sioux nation to bring |
suit for $7,000,00O. The Indians claim
this sum under the Black Hills treaty
of 1870
Walter Harmon, employed at the Dew
lis Lake Great Northern storehouse, |
has gone to Havre, where he takes
ClldISe Ol tlc CONlpdlly SUITE. zig |
change is in the nature Of a well de-
served promotion. Mrs. Harmon and
the family expect to follow after Mr..
Harmon has made arrangements for
home.
Funeral services for Frank Free
man Grant, president of the Northern
Savings bank, retired business man
and prominent Mason, were conduct.
ed from the home Saturday afternoon
under the auspices of the Christian
Science church. 1nterment was made
in Riverside cemetery.
The annual tournament of the
Grand Forks Bowling association will
be held at Grand Forks March 20 to-
%, with indications pointing to an at
tendance of between 200 and 300
bowlers. Most of these will come
from Red River valley cities in Min
nesota and North Dakota.
Plans for the organization of an in
dependent stock shipping association
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