Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-18
IN BRIEF.
Great corn weather this.

uSsASS AWAY ~ NV VSAy
bad eye.
The river is now at an excellent stage
for navigatOrs.
New ties have been put in on the main
line in the Bismarck yards.
Colonel Thompson says he feels lonely
without his little grandchildren.
Upper Third street is undergoing needed
improvement in the way of grading.
Joe Dietrich has bought Captain
Talbot's herd of cattle-thirty.fiv head.
George Gussner has tapped the water
mains and will hereafter patronize city
water.
Warden Williams lost no time in paying
the 500 reward to the captors of the es-
capped convict Franks.
The Northern Pacific is making extern
Sive Improvements on their line in both
directions from this point.
A large number of Bismarckers attended
the camp meeting at Mandan Sunday and
report a successful meeting.
Choke cherry season is near at hand.
The cherries seem to be getting richer,
larger and more prolific each year.
James Mayouck, son of Michael May
Duck, well known as a Bism arck old-timer,
died in Seattle July 8 of diphtheria.
The steamer Rosebud came up from
Pierre Tuesday morning. She made the
return trip i'll three days-good time.
The band stand is completed with the
exception Of painting and ceiling the up
per story. 1t looms up in great shape.
Green peas and new potatoes are found
on most every table nowadays. By the
way, the potato crop is going to be i'm
mense.
w. F. Dunlap, a TRIBUNE compositor,
has been engaged by Editor Packard of
the Mandan Times to help out until after
election.
A. Lenihen, who is in the employ of the
Bismarck Coal and Wood company. was
injured Saturday by a cake of ice falling
on his breast.
The accommodation brought in one of
the men at work on the bridge who was
taken ill while at work-probably pros
trated by heat.
The Methodist campmeeting tents, near
Dawson, were blown down during the
recent storm and the occupants treated to
a severe wetting.
A colony of immigrants from Iron City,
Tenn, passed through the city On No. l
Saturday en- route to points in North Da-
kota and Montana.
AS will be seen elsewhere a harvest
dance will be given at Mckenzie ON July
"a. Everybody who can get away should
go and have a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Flanagan of Mandan
are the proud parents of a bouncing boy.
Mrs. Flanagan, nee Miss Mary Barclay, is
we'll known in Bismarck.
Eleven cars of horses from Idaho passed
through the city Monday bound for Wat
ertown, S. D., to be used in harvesting the
large crop in that vicinity.
The sewer on Broadway is being lowered
and the street raised. This will keep the
water out of cellars along the street, here
tofore flooded by heavy rains.
Jerry Cahall, August Fisher, M. johnson
and Will Rattz have started on thei. jour
ney to the Black Hills. They expect to
make the trip in fourteen days.
j. c. Boren Of Menoken Wednesday
brought to town three 4-year-old steers
which he soldnfor $124.5O to a MI. Garcelon
of Minnesota. Pretty good sale.
Shed Lambert is out of doors for the
first time in many weeks. He has had
a hard siege of sickness and his many
friends are gratified to see him around
once more.
Ernie Sanford of the Jamestown Alert
made a speech at a large picnic near that
city the other day-his first effort. and it is
said he has since been the recipient OF
congratulations on all sides.
Cigarmaker Sanders has leased the old
Williams place, Third street, and intends to
run a tirst-class saloon. 1t will be opened
the latter part of this week. A piano will
be placed in the second story.
The water was turned on the city water
ing trough on Third streetWednesday after
noon. This will be a boon to farmers, who
have had no place to water their teams in
town since the water was shut off.
Charles E. Murrell is at Washturn again
for the purpose OF resurrecting the defunct
News. Washburn will then have three
lively weekly newspapers n if they be
any criterion the town is on the boom.
Hon. j.. B. Clayton, we'll known as a
member of the late constitutional cOnven-
ton, has been up from Emmons county
a week or more receiving medical treat.
ment for his eyes, which have been in bad
shape.
Railroad man in Fargo Argus: Ask Dave
Oman, who is now running on the North.
ern Pacific, how he likes the Bismarck
lung tester. | understand it took him
eight hours to scrape the lamp black of
his face.
Thomas Williams and Sol Shonfeld
came up from jamestown Sunday, the
former to visit his sister, Mrs. r. j. Elem
ing, and the latter to take back his pony
He left in the afternoon to make the re.
turn trip on horseback.
The steamer Chaske arrived about moor
Saturday with Il light cargo. She has
been employed most Of the time of late ii
running excursions between lower river
points. She will leave on another triI
down stream Thursday.
Willard Talbot. a l3-year-old boy, o.
Mandan. was drowned Thursday while
attempting to swim across the Heart river
Two companions were with him, but a:
neither Of them could swim, they coulc
render him no assistance.
The Chaske was delayed Wednesday
by the loading of South Dakotat
library. Clerk GirtOn. who has been super
intending the work at this end, says thu
library viii be taken to Pierre, where i
will remain until the capital question il
settled.
Fond expectations were blighted Tues
day as people watched the bill poster exc
cutting the usual p%reliminaries before dec
Grating the boards with gaily coloret
literature that fOretells the coming of