Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-09-17
VOL. !: IA. NO.l5
NORTHWESTERN NOTES.

Work on the Rapid City street railway
has begun.
Water was struck in the Huron artesian
we'll at $50 feet
At Sioux Falls, Monday, IS cents was
paid for wheat.
Beadle county democrats instructed for
Miller for delegate.
There are 253 students at the Dakota
Agricultural college.
The Milwaukee, has put in two steam
hre pumps at Milbank.
a colony Of southern negroes is to be
established in Dakota.
Grand Forks is making great prepara-
tions for its exposition.
Sioux Falls proposes to have an ice pal
ace and carnival next winter. =.
The Catholics have built an Indian
school at Stephen costing $4,000.
Guy Weed, the Sioux Falls alleged de-
faulter, has not yet been arrested.
Track on the Manitoba extension has
been laid l07 miles west Of Devils Lake.
The National Gas company accepts the
proposition to lay mains in Grand Forks. 4
Track on the Manitoba extension has
been laid 1O7 miles west Of Devils Lake.
Tom LoWery says Ames will not carry
Hennepin county against the republicans.
An S-year-old child Of "A. Schas, of Grand
Forks, was fatally kicked by horse Sat
urday. -
Eighty thousand acres of railway lands
in Barnes county have not paid survey
fees. g. -. ~. =. : ..T. n
Milwaukee journal, to Dakota: There's
nobody left IN Washington. Make a
Sheriff Satterlund heads the Mclean
county delegation to the legislative con-
yentiOn. s,
Twenty-six half breed girls from the
Turtle Mountain reservation will be edu-
Gated in Denver.
Colonel Plummer heads the Trail county
delegation to Yankton--all for General
Allen first, Major Edwards second.
Judge Church decided that county COM
mlssiOners have no authority to employ adj
dlJlonal counsel in the prosecution of Grim
inal cases. i
Maj. Burke has assumed the receivership
OF the Aberdeen land office. The retiring
receiver, B. E. Hutchison, will locate in
Aberdeen.
DR.. Lilley. president of the agricultural
college located at Brookings, has resigned:
Prof. M. Louth, of Michigan, has been ap-
pointed as his successor.
Morton county sends the following dele.
gates to Yanktan: T. j. Mitchell, G. W.
Harmon, j. H. Wheeler. T. K. Long, G. B.
Woodward, E. Boley, j. j. Luck:
Dickey county sends uninstructed dele
gates to the republican territorial conven-
ton at YanktOn; those to the legislative
convention will vote for a representative
farmer.
Colonel Peck, commissary general on
Governor Pierce's staff, has been promoted
to the rank of brigadier general, to which
his position entities him. He was original
ly commissioned colonel by mistake.
The Aurora county republican conven-
tlon ended in a bolt by the minority who
were Clifford men. A Clifford delegation
and one favoring B. 81. Sullivan for the
legislature was elected by the minority.
Moody county republicans chose as dele
gates to the territorial convention at Yank-
ton George Rice, II. NJ. Williamson, J. III.
Emo, George X. Lanning, William Rams
dell, w. 9. Lampson. They are not in.
structed. ,.i.
Mr.. W. a. Tinker is regarded as phe-
nomenon because he walked from his home
in the Turtle mountains to Devils Lake,
seventy-fve miles, in order to pay note
when it became due, but it is explained
that he has only been in the territory few
months.
The joint congressional and legislative
convention at Cooperstown, Saturday, del
egateS to Yankton were instructed for a
North Dakota man. Delegates to the
structed for Fred Adams, of the Courier.
Burlington (Ward county, Reporter:
The new townsite is now being surveyed.
The land formerly belonged to Rric Fam
sted, and the town is located about eight
miles below Burlington, ION the west bank
OF the river, near the crossing. The town
site men, Messrs. Comstock and White, are
expected in few days, when lots will be
offered for sale, and the new town will be
expected to boom.
Mandan Pioneer: Elroy Wethey has
been appointed special administrator for
Frank Farnsworth's estate, and he has
taken charge of the store this morning and
will continue to run it. Definite arrange
ments have not yet been made as to the
business, as to whether or not it will be
run permanently for the benefit of Mr..
FarnsWorth's heirs, but for the present it
will be run as usual.
Interview with L. G.. johnson, in Mime
apolis Journal: II am devoting all my
energies to the building of a railroad from
be graded this fall, thirty miles being al
ready practically completed. 1t is an alb
solute certainty that will have railroad
into Bismarck before snow fall of next
year. 1t has been claimed that l am
backed by the Northwestern, Rock Island
and Chicago, Milwaukee q St. Paul roads
They may guess all they like, but the road
will be built, and have the money in my
pocket to accomplish the work" ~
Congressman Hill at Huron fair: II am
glad that came here and have seen your
excellent country, and am sorry | cannot
go over the whole territory, for am told
the rest is like it. suppose it is expected
that ] should say word with regard to
the prospects of admission. l certainly
think you ought to be admitted, because
you come from the old states. I find
among you an ex-governor, congressman
and other officials, who were accustomed
to conduct the affairs of the states Of which
they formed part, I have not yet met
man who did not declare that he lived in
the best country in the territory. don't
care whether you cO2e in as whole or
are divided. l thought 1t my duty as q
citizen to learn what you did want. have
vote.