Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-05
L H E CITY
BISMARCK IN BRIEF.

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BISMARCK IN BRIEF.
The tax levy in Burleiqh county has been
fixed at seventeen and five-tenths mills.
Agent Davidson is directing needed i'm
provements on the warehouse sidewalk.
W. H. Mckinney is suffering with a
severe stroke of inflammatory rheumatism.
The ladies of the town are going into
ecstacies over Mrs. Sloan's gorgeous crazy
quilt.
There was a little furry sof snow Mon
day and the weather has turned somewhat
frigid.
Miss Wright was able to appear at her
desk in the Capital National bank again
Friday.
Conn MallOy, who drove Buffalo Bill'S
party to Standing Rock, drove 81 miles in
% hours.
jamestown is a great place for weddings
somebody getting married there nearly
every day.
The average of deaths is the lowest of any
city in the union.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mertz are rejoicing
wv WIZ - q AllC-pOAllu DULL, uO1u
Thanksgiving day.
Editor Copeland of the Washburn Leader
was shorn of a luxuriant growth of hair by
a Bismarck barber Sunday.
Farmers are not bringing in wheat fast
enough for the mill to grind. They are
hold ng off for better prices.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church are max
ing preparations to give an oyster supper
about the middle of December.
Senator Worst and family have removed
to the capital for the winter and taken up
their abode on upper Third street.
It has been about determined TO open the
legislative session with a grand inaugur-
alton ball at the capital this winter.
Wild geese are still lingering hereabouts
n as long as they stay we can expect
this present fine weather to continue.
O. r. Barnes is busy receiving congratu-
lations over the arrival at the Barnes
household OF a fine girl baby, born We'd
nesday.
Only one train a day hereafter, The
trains arriving at 11:SO p. m. from the east
and 2:O5 p. m. from the west have been
taken off.
This chilly weather will continue for
about three weeks from its commence
ment, last Friday, according to tn. infalli-
BILE Prof. RObidOu.
The date of Palmer's concert and dance
has been changed back to the original
Dec. 10, as church people expressed dissat-
isfaction at a dance on Christmas night.
Hon. G.. G. Beardsley, member-elect from
Grand Forks county, came up from Lari-
more Sunday. Mr.. Beardsley proposes to
make a run for the speakership of the
house.
Nos. 8 and 4 will soon be taken off. West
ern passenger traffic has taken a tumble
for the winter. In all probability these
trains will be placed on again in the
spring.
Jailor Wilcox reports things rather quiet
at the county bastile. He has but two
~boardeTs, who are White Arm, the Indian,
and a confirmed bum who got too fresh the
other day.
Poor Sitting Bull; deIuded newspapers.
Once he is here, again he is there, all On
the same day, and the last heard from Bull
he was spreading the seeds of dissension
in Indian Territory.
The Mandan Pioneer, jamestown Alert
and the Grand Forks Herald and the
Plaindealer were among the North Dakota
dailies that observed Thanksgiving day by
getting out no paper.
Chas. F. Pam, an old time Bismarck
merchant tailor, now of Riverside, Califor-
mia. writes that he can't do without the
TRIBUNE and he still has faith in the flu
ture of the capital city.
Minneapolis Journal: Prof. Homer B.
Sprague, of the university of North Dakota,
is again on deck as a candidate for The SEN
atorship. He publicly declares that fact
in the Bismarck TRIBUNE.
The New York World prints a cartoon,
suggesting the sending OF eastern camera
fiends by a special train to the Sioux
country as the best means of settling the
Indian troubles. Good idea.
Four cases of scarlet fever in town. The
board of health are doing their utmost to
prevent a spread OF this malignant disease.
Obliged to chronicle any additional cases.
At a regular communication of Bis
marck lodge, No. 5, A. +. & A. NJ, held last
evening, the following were selected for
the coming year: W. NJ, w. H. Winches-
ter; s. w., A.. E. Beal; Treasurer, U. P. NJ.
JamisOn.
Charlie Campbell: the well known cu!in-
AIRY artist who formerly graced Kihm's
restaurant, is in the city again. He will
take McKinney's place as chief cook.
During the past year he has been ranching
near Mduudn.
Monday the TRIBUNE received the fol-
lowing note from Washington, which will
be of interest to many Bismarck readers.
MAHR'ED-At San FRANCISCO, Oct. 18th ~ the
and josie A. Mayberry of San Francisco, former
ly of Bismarck. N. L.
The sheriff of Pembina county brought
down another boarder for Warden Will
liams Friday. The prisoners name is
Robert Walker, sentenced to two and a
half years in the North Dakota penitenti-
ary for attempted murder.
Sitting Bull has gained so much notorie-
ty recently through the papers that it
would be profitable for him to make an
other triumphant tour of the East when
this "unpleasantness" is over. Bulls auto
graphs sell readily at 81 each.
G~overnor-elect Burke arrived in the city
Wednesday, and, after visiting the capitol,
received hearty congratulations from his
numerous Bismarck friends. Mr.. Burke,
while in the city, will endeavor to secure a
suitable house for executive manson,