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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1900
Page
2
A varied column recounts a mix of anecdotes including a Swedish king praised for languages, a Richmond Indiana chicken owner losing a $500 diamond to a sneaky bird, a Berlin to Paris trip of 715 miles, and notes on Japan’s meat consumption. It also covers Rome’s Pope and Pekin cathedral politics, Paul Jones medals, German military auto trials near Berlin, French maneuvers with autos, and Gladstone’s wife choosing silence in marriage.
The gunboat Bancroft sails for active service from Boston. Post Office expands rural free delivery to Delavan Minnesota and Tornaby Wisconsin with Aug 15 start dates. Argyle steamer chartered to carry grain from Puget Sound to China and Manila. Interior denies review in Hastings & Dakota land case. MacArthur reports improved army health in the Philippines. Secretary Root notes good showing of sickness rate. Argyle to change registry to American. Additional rural delivery at Wakanda South Dakota and Wilton Wisconsin with more at West Salem and Alma Center Wisconsin. Navy board probes dry dock location at the Columbia river. Treasury rules out extra muster pay for most volunteers. A Cape Nome letter questions disease reports in the states. Interior objects to Dawes commissioner Tams Bixby campaign. Died: Cyrus Hamilton, Bergman Ross, E. Consegney, Zebulon York, William Clark, Margaret Oliver, Luke Prior, Thomas Roberts. Fires, accidents, and legal notices recur across states. New cannery and harbor developments. global events include Peru amnesty, anarchist sentences, and a Genoa astronomical congress.
A Twin City firm compiles wide regional reports on North Dakota wheat prospects for 1900 versus 1899. Estimates show wide variance, with some towns reporting 10 to 60 percent of last year’s yield, many cited as poor, drought affected, or entirely failed. Local notes include Hebron likely seed shortages, Fargo and Jamestown seed concerns, and several districts expected to underperform or partially recover depending on conditions.
In Fargo a habeas corpus case brought by Mrs C J Mahnken for custody of her three children was decided against her by Judge Pollock. The three children were awarded to their father with visiting rights and custody on part of Saturdays. Mrs Mahnken, daughter of Mayor Johnson, had also sought a divorce which Judge Lauder denied, an appeal to the supreme court affirming. Separately, Judge Pollock granted Northern Pacific Railway’s removal of the dam case of Erick Arneson from state to federal court. Arneson, a former employee, was injured in the yards and seeks $5,000 damages.
The Populist and Democratic state central committees selected Fargo North Dakota as campaign headquarters. Tom Klemnogle was named chairman and E C Carruth secretary. Staynhelm of Fargo tried to withdraw as railroad commissioner candidate but party leaders refused.
The fifth annual meeting of the North Dakota Pharmaceutical association convened in Fargo with a large turnout. Officers elected include President J. M. S. Wilson of Fargo, First Vice President A. Grant of St. Thomas, Second Vice President Walter Master of Willoway, Secretary and Treasurer W. Parker of Lisbon, and Executive Committee members P. C. Remington of Bismarck, C. R. Merrideth of Casselton, and D. F. Siegfried of Bambar n. Grand Forks chosen for next year’s location, to be held August 15.
The weather bureau notes a very warm start with temperatures over 100 across the state on the 1st, then sustained warmth until the 4th and 5th when thunderstorms paused activity. Wheat harvests progress from central to southern regions, with northern just begun. barley and oats nearly finished. corn, potatoes, and late fodder crops refreshed by rain but yields expected to be light. flax still suffering with substantial replanting in the prior week.
Fragments report hunting in Lakota and Dunseith, a local Indies baseball team, and various small-town happenings. Elevators closing, a Dunseith alligator exhibit, prairie fires, burglaries, injuries, drownings, law partnerships, and minor town news across Wahpeton, Enderlin, Devils Lake, and other North Dakota locales.
Articles of incorporation filed for the Manitoba and Superior Railway company aim to build maintain and operate a line from a Duluth area point on Lake Superior northwest toward the Minnesota Manitoba border near the Lake of the Woods. The plan includes power to build own vessels to run with the railway.
A blaze at Potske Industrial Co. lumber yard in Crivits yesterday afternoon caused about 150000 dollars in damage. Fire departments from Marinette Green Bay and Menominee saved the business district and confined the flames to the yard and nearby sheds. Five million feet of lumber six million shingles a large stock of lath and ten houses were burned leaving around 100 Polish residents homeless. The sawmill survived and insurance covered the loss. officials say the burned district will be rebuilt.
William De Graft of La Crosse, age 45, was arrested for abducting Kitty McGuire, 16, alleged to have been taken July 4. He allegedly restrained her father at gunpoint, hid with her in a Trempealeau County house boat, and drifted toward downstream points before arrest. The girl may be sent to a reformatory.
A German patient at the Minnesota state asylum for the insane in Anoka deliberately walked into Rum River and drowned. He left with other patients to work in the woods and stated he intended to remain in the water all day. Attendants only learned of the death after the man’s funeral pyre had been extinguished.
A heavy rainstorm in Rice Lake Wisconsin yesterday washed out a section of the Omaha near Haugen delaying the Chicago Duluth fast mail for hours. The washout was found by section men in time to avert a wreck. The track has been repaired and trains are running on time.
Aug. 11. Joseph Schmidt was waylaid on the Riverside cemetery bridge by two men who knocked him senseless robbed him and threw him over the bridge into the Favine fall of twenty five feet He may recover.
Lima Center Wisconsin August 1 Mrs William Garlock missing since last Saturday was found dead in a corn field near her home She had killed herself The tragedy follows earlier local news of a chicken shooter in Yankton South Dakota where A L Towgood was found guilty of violating the game law and fined 10 dollars plus costs totaling 38 75 dollars.
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