Bismarck tribune., 1884-02-15
THE CAPITAL CITY

Express Messenger Wilson has resigned.
There are only three prisoners in the county
jail.
Mr.. Bsrrows. Of Hancock, will be down to-
day.
F.J. Call is said to be an expert base ball
catcher.
Deputy Marshal Con. Malloy returned from
Fargo Monday.
The terms of office of all the members of the
city council expire in April.
The canvass for the Bismarck Mandan city
directory is practically completed.
W.B. Shaw, Indian trader at Poplar River
will arrive from the north this afternoon.
At midnight Monday three trains and five
locomotives we're in the Bismarck yards.
Local item in Glendive Times: John Trumbull
has purchased a load of wood. &c whiz!
Col. Bausenwein has gone west, and it is re-
ported will resign his position on the Northern
Pacific. ~ r
COL Lounsberry has been elected one of tn
yioe-presidents of the Mississippi river COM
mission.
William Mann, a prominent farmer of Han
cock, will reach the capital from the north this
evening.
TelsRrams can now be sent by wire to Wash
hurn and mailed there to any point north Or
northeast.
A petition to Congress has been received from
Oslifornia for signatures. It protests against
Chinese cheap labor.
The Bismarck and Washburn telegraph line
Is open for business. The Office is located in
the TRIBUNE editorial rooms.
The train from the west due this morning is
seventeen hours late. Last evenings train from
the east arrived seven hours late.
ia. Cloud, special agent of the Phoenix in
surance company of Hartford, Connecticut, ls
in the city making fire map of Bismarck.
Lieutenant Corwin Sage has been summoned
10 Fargo as q witness in the Sibley Island wood
cutting case. The lieutenant left on yesterday 3
eastbound train.
Mr.. B. Etches, of Hartford, Conn, was for q
long time troubled with rheumatism. He tried
St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain cure, and was
completely cured.
Frank B. Allen reports that B. B. Mellon will
return home hext month and that during his alb
senoe he has negotiated for the mains for the
Rismarck water works.
= A Scotch syndicate has written to resident
Of Bismarck inquiring relative to the chances to
loan money. They express . desire to loan
9IO0, 900 on North Dakota securities.
A distinguished arrival registered at Weber's
European hotel early Wednesday morning last,
1nder the name of J. E. Weber, jr. Hence the
cigars that every one got yesterday.
Comic valentines are displayed in store win
rush the season by sending one by last nights
mail to member of the TRIBUNE staff.
Telegraphic advices received at the rsilroad
sffce report one of the heaviest snow storms
ever known east of Portland. Western trains
1il probably continue to be late for several days.
nandan Pioneer: Mr.. G. w. Thompson is
Aenceforth resident of Morton county. He
passed, through on last nights west bound train
With his family, who will hereafter live at Sims.
IA. Mallanney has been summoned to Wah-
peton to write $4,000 life insurance policy
for resident of that city. He is territorial
agent for the Northwestern Mutual, of Mil
yankee.
The public entertainment giveE by the Bis
narck Literary society on Friday evening was
IN unqualified success. The officers and a num-
her of the Bryant club were present by special
invitation.
George Il. Fairchild is suffering from num-
Der of carbuncles on the back of his neck and
refuses to obey the summons to appear as q wit
ness before the grand jury at Fargo until he re-
sovers.
The register at the Sheridan house was en-
distributing valentines, yesterday, and the reg
lister at the Merchants hotel with scene a. the
roller rink during polo game.
II IS said that J. A. Mclean has given bonds
In the sum of $500 to guarantee his appearance
before the court to answer to the charge of cut
ting more timber from sibley Island than was
necessary to fulfill his government contract.
The names of Drs. Corson, of Bismarck, and
Rice, of Mandan, were inadvertently omitted
from the list of physicians who were reported
by the committee on credentials in the pub
]ished report of the organization of the Missouri
Valley Medical association.
The school taught by Mr.. Walter F. Jones on
Meigs street. between Second and Third, is we'll
attended and is gaining an enviable reputation
- one Of the leading educational institutions of
Dakota. MI. Jones is master of Yale college
and teaches everything except the languages.
Argus: The Marquis de Mores left st. Paul
Friday night for Washington, to obtain a con-
tract for carrying the mail from the Little
Missouri to Deadwood. The marquis proposes
to open up stage route and put on regular
line of coaches. The distance is said to be IA
miles.
3. P. Brown, of this city, the popular Sleep
ing car conductor who has been running through
from st. Paul to Portland, made his last trip
on the train that arrived from the east Wednes-
day. He sewers his connection with the North
arm Pacific to accept position on the Kansas