Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1881-02-11

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could reasonably ask. On the evening Of
of what was termed "moral'' company.
Their programme is somewhat novel for
| Il moral show, and reproduce it in part:
RAYMOND's HALL.
Mr.. Whitney has procured the above named hall :,
by request of the citizens of Bismarck, to
| give the ladies and admirers Of Of
MORAL AND LEGITIMATE DRAMA :
an opportunity of witnessing the Greatest Sue
cess of the Season, the beautiful
Sensational Drama, entitled,
MOLLY MAGUIREs,
OR THE
BLACK DIAMOND.
Produced for the first time in the Northwest by
the eminent young Actor
MIR. Tom MARTIN, :.-
Supported by the Bismarck Opera House
Company
In conjunction with the above drama, the FOL-
lowing specially artists will appear, max
ing the programme par excellence,
The beautiful serio-comic Vocalist,
Miss JENNIE LESLIE,
Who is pronounced by press and PUBLIC as one
the finest VOcalists on the Vaudeville
Stage, ETC., etc.
Like Fargo, Bismarck has good news
papers and tirstrate newspaper men.
Everybody has heard of
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, ~.
which is a live weekly journal, liable at
any period in the spring to blossom into
a good sized daily. Col. G. A. Lounsber-
ry is the editor and publisher of The TR1-
BUNE, and he has an energetic and talent
ed associate in Mr. NJ. H. Jewell, former
ly connected with Chicago papers. Mr..
Charles Wixom, the editor of the Sun, is
Il lively young man, and Mr.. John Rea,
correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press
and land register at Bismarck, is enter
prlsing and we'll liked. III.
The contract for the iron high bridge
of the Northern Pacific company, over
the Missouri liver, at Bismarck, had just
been awarded on my arrival, and The
TRIBUNE of the current week appeared
with an engraving and full description OF
the structure. The opening OF the article
contained the following: "Whcre is there
man SD blind as not to see that the
crossing of one of the largest and most i'm
portant rivers in the world by the greatest
trans.continental railroad in the country,
will make
A POINT OF UNIVERSAL IMPORTANCE.
Is it possible that bismarck will not be-
come II great city, surrounded as it is on
all sides by a rich and inexhaustable
country, and situated at the end Of one OF
the longest and most gigantic iron bridges
in the world, spanning river navigable
distance Of l 200 miles northwest, and
south 5000 miles to the Gulf Of Mexico?
There can be no doubt of the city s future.
1t now has the advantage of Il river CON-
petition, and other railroads are active in
their preparations 10 reach the Missouri
river at Bismarck, at an early day" AS
the bridge will be nearly mile in length.
and cost over 81, ,000, 900 when completed,
The TRIBUNE had perfect right to go
into ccstacies over it,
DESERVED PRAISE.
The same article contains considerable
praise Of Mr.. II. +. Sargent, the general
manager Of the Northern Pacific railroad,
on account Of his enterprise in forward
ing projects to open the cOntry, and from
what have learned from other sources,
have no doubt the incense for Mr.. Sar..
gent should be burned, for 1t would be- diff.
ticuit to find anywhere Il better manager,
than he. Mr.. Chas. s. Fee, who is Mr.;
Sargcnt's assistant, is also 4 good man.,
and makes many friends by his courteous
dcmcanOr. ...a e
There are numerous plans on foot for
the building Of branches Of the Northern
Pacific and other railway lines, and 1t will
not he long before the entire country will
be intcrlaced with network Of steel
ways The influx of settlers the coming
season into Dakota can SCARCELY be esti-
mated. - a
IN RANSOM COUNTY,
where rairond is soon to bc construct
ell, Mr.. w. X. Smith and u number Of
other Cleveland gentlemen have taken or
expect soon to locate claims. Many peo-:
pie will come here from Ohio i'll the
spring and summer, and fifteen or twenty,
am iolu, will arrive from Cleveland aud.
Ravcnna, in Portage county. can as,
sure these prospective settlers that it is
difficult to speak too highly of Dakota, as
they will learn for themselves IT they.
think best tO remove here. SWIFT.