Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-31
STATE BRIEFS

of the pioneer. residents of Stutsman
county, died Saturday evening at 1890
O'clock. Death followed a paralytic
strike received five weeks ago.
BelAeld.-St. Wendelins Catholic
church at Belfield is about to be fin
ished. The church will be dedicated
in October and dinner will be given
on that occasion by the ladies of this
new congregation.
Fort Totten.-W. @. Ferris, member
Of the faculty at the Fort Totten gov
eminent school. and director of the
famous Indian band, has returned
from the south. where he and Mrs.
Ferris spentsa vacation.
Fargo.-The North Broadway Red
river bridge, about three miles from
the city limits, has been repaired and
is again open to traffic. The bridge
has been out of commission for some
time because of high water.
Observation-Disclosures injuries re-
ceived from the saddle-horn while
riding broncho about ten days ago,
resulted in the death Of Edward Har-
ron, 81 years old, farmer living near
Robinson, at the Parkview hospital
late Saturday afternoon. 3
Williston.-John Bruegger was
chosen president Of the Farmers
Creamery & Produce company at the
annual meeting. Other officers chosen
are: A. J. Lougheed, secretary; B.
J.. Schoregge, treasurer; directors, J..
]. Larson, B. c. Keihl F.. G. Smith,
Gene Howard.
Beach.-At a meeting of the Demo
cratic County Committee held last
Wednesday afternoon, A. ]. O'Keefe,
a prominent democrat of this county,
was recommended to Washington, D.
G. for appointment for the unexpired
term of John M. Baer, resigned, as
postmaster for Beach:
Jamestown.-Word has been receiv-
ed by Special officer Mcdowell of the
N. P. Ry. to be on the lookout for
three men who have escaped from
train No. 2 near Sanborn. They were
being taken from Tacoma to New
York and were wanted by the U. s.
immigration Department.
Fargo.-U. s. Marshal S. J. Doyle
has returned from Chicago, where he
and National Committeeman H, H.
Perry Of Glendale held a conference
with Vance Mccormick, chairman of
the national Democratic committee
with representatives from nearly ev-
cry state in the union present. "a
Ellendale.-Plans are being discuss
ed at Glendale for the installation
of a heating main from the plant of
the Glendale Electric Co., up Main
street to the east end Of the opera
house block, for the purpose of sup
plying steam heat from the plant to
the business houses along the line.
Jamestown.-The work of $50 men
is compressed into one machine here
which is digging the $4,000 trunk
sewer here, = The machine digs a
ditch 56 inches wide and 1917 feet
deep at the rate of six inches a min
ute, or thirty feet an hour. It is gaso-
line propelled and something unusual
in a ditch digger.
Douglas.-The Held is ten years old,
and with this issue starts on the elev-
enth year. The paper was founded
In August, 1906, by c. H. Crockard,
coincidend with the starting of the
town, and the history of the paper
has been the history of the town, both
having experienced the ups and downs
common to pioneer life.
Watford.-The business men of
Watford City and Shafer have sub.
scribed $3.50 towards fund for a
highway through the badlands in the
Little Missouri country south Of Wat.
ford City. This money is being used
principally for the construction Of a
ferry to be operated at the river
crossing near the Dave Warren ranch.
Devils Lake.-Sheriff Olsen arrest
ed Andrew Overback, alias Andrew
Johnson, alias Overback, yesterday at
the Kline farm near Penn. The man
is wanted in Kossuth county, Iowa;
for crime and was traced to the Kline
farm where he was working in the
harvest fields, by description and
information received from the Penn
postofice.
Beach.-R. M. Lewis of Appleton,
Wis, graduate of Lawrence College,