Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-09
STATE BRIEFS

iLisbon.-Joseph Sloan, % years OLD,
was drowned in a slough when he
suffered cramps willis swimming.
!Minnewaukan,-F. M. KnowltOn, OF
Luverne, MINI, has purchased the A.
E. Hutchinson farm near this city for
$4,000. ~ tsu4
! Lisbon. - After handling $4,000
bushels Of grain here last year, stock
holders of the Venlo Farmers Eleva-
tor company declared 20 per cent
dividend. ... .....
Bathgate.-William Ryan, when &C.
costed by armed robbers while driv'
ing near the outskirts of this place,
applied his whip vigorously on the
highwaymen and escaped.
Grand Forks.-"Pay payday" is the
slogan adopted by the Grand Forks
Merchants association, which urges
the paying of all bills between the
first and fifth of the month.
Valley City.-John Bridges, who
was killed in trench on the western
battlefield of Europe, according to
word received here, was a Valley
City young man. He enlisted in Can
ada at the outbreak of hostilities in
1914,
Fargo.-S. H. McCrory, chief of the
drainage investigation Office of the
roads and rural engineering depart
ment of the U. S. department of agri.
culture, is in Fargo for a conference
with commercial club officials relative
to the food situation here. >"
Hastings.-Pierced by the handle of
a pitchfork when he fell off load of
hay, w erKjellby climbed back on his
wagon, drove a mile and then walked
another half mile before getting
medical aid. In a Fargo hospital it
is said the boy will recover. Il
Grand Forks.-George Eastman,
president Of the Eastman Kokad Co.,
with party of friends passed thru
the city yesterday in a private car
over the Great Northern for a weeks
chicken shooting at Riga, a small sta.
ton IA miles west Of Towner
Kenmare.-Mrs. Hubbell, proprietor
Of the Martin hotel, who had a hear
ing in lMinot oon the charge of con-
Quoting a blind pig, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to term of six
months in the county Jail, with sus-
ior.
Minot.-Arthur Hubbard, eighteen
years old, was lodged in the county
Jail last night by Sheriff Nedreloe to
await the action Of the district court
on a charge. of issuing worthless
checks. He was committed by Just
ice A. B. Loman Of Rider, the crime
having been committed at that place.
Minot. - Thomas Wynn, man
about forty.ae years of age. and a
sort Of character about the city, was
caught last night in the act of out
raging a three-year.old girl, and was
arrested shortly after the crime and
locked in jail. The crime was COM
mitted in shed in the rear of Peter
Anderson's property. "> .
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Devils Lake.-Discharged harvest
hands, l. w. WIS have caused sew
eral farmers trouble. When two were
discharged for refusing to go to work
with the rest of the crew, soap was
found in the pond from which water
was taken for the engine. Another
farmer, after discharging man,
found his automobile broken.
!Minot.-A pair of deer has been
procured for the city parks, and will
be placed on exhibition within
short time. hey were procured from
the state board of regents of the edu-
cational institutions and come direct
ly fro mthe park of the agricultural
college at Fargo. They will be placed
in an enclosure in Riverside park
near. where the elk enclosure is To-
Gated. g.,v.,4.N T..