Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-28
T H E CIT Y
BISMARCK I'M BRIEF.

BISMARCK IN BRIEF.
Or; DePuy, is quite ill with an aggra-
waited case of quinsy.
The creamery will soon be placed in
readiness for the spring and summer work.
Word from Butte is to the effect that C..
r. Williams is doing a rousing business in
that city.
Senator Little will leave for Chicago in
q few days, and on his return will 60 to
the coast.
Lieut. Gov. Dickey will leave for a trip
to the coast in a few weeks, to be gone sew
eral months.
1t is rumored that Alderman Fetzer will
again enter the city campaign as candidate
for alderman.
The ice in the Missouri is becoming
1t must move out.
George Joy gets the poor farm for this
year at AZ cents per head per day. He was
the lowest bidder.
Still the wild geese are flying %northward,
indicating, it is said, an early spring and
plenty OF moisture.
The silence on the upper floors of the
capital is appalling.
Proprietor Bly, is having a little tilt with
rheumatism, but is still able to be about
with an eye to business.
The starch factory discussion should
take the form of action. Wind will not
erect a starch factory nor make starch.
The Northern Pacific new time table
card will soon 60 into effect and Bismarck
will have four passenger trains each day.
It is said that Mrs. Douglass, wife of
Deputy treasurer Douglass, will succeed
Mrs. Geo. Macnider in the Office of secre-
tary of state.
Senator and Mrs. Mccormack and VIM.
Bulge, of Grand Forks, will go to Hot
Springs. Ark, for a brief season OF rest
and recreation.
1t begins to look as though Representa-
tive Coles political harmony scheme might
find a good field for operation in Bismarck
during the next few weeks.
With the Bismarck, Kearney s. Gulf rail
road, the Spencer sheep ranch and the
Pierce stock farm, Bismarck'S tributary
country ought to move forward.
Chas. Wachter, the young man who was
so seriously injured last Wednesday by
AUlAALS VII q pltClllO1 IL II lApIOt1uR S1OWlJ
and 1t is thought he will recover.
Correspondence in the land Office indi-
Gates that the business of the Office is about
to enjoy a boom. The month of April will
make a good showing for the slope.
Captain Flick, it is claimed, said some
thing derogatory to the character CT Ser
geart-at-Arms Woods. Captain Flick is
now wearing a p~oultice on his face.
Will mugwump Moffet, who never
voted a straight republican ticket in his
life, swallow the ticket nominated last
night and vote it straight, or will he do
a little scratching?
1t is suggested that, as a token of appre-
citation of the gallant work done by the
tremen Monday night, a grand benefit ball
be given. Plenty of tickets for such a
cause could be sold.
The trees in the public school yard are
said to be in good condition, having suffered
very little during the winter months. In a
few years they will be strong enough to be
considered out of danger.
Justice Tibbells says that he will make
it interesting for Sergeant Wood if he gets
him into his court. The justice may be in
the right, but he should be a little more
discreet in his conversation.
Talks with the farmers in the city indi-
cate a happy state Of feeling oyer the re-
cent warm, melting SHOWS, which they say
will rapidly bring forth the grass, and it Is
also indicative Of a bOunteous crop.
Senator Bailey Fuller, who passed the
winter in Bismarck with a toga, will 20 to
Alaska for rest. and speculation. It is said
ne has an interest in one of the largest
gold mines on the northwestern peninsula.
Those who are laboring under the i'm
preston that the G. R. Williams saloon OF
much mistaken. The place is running
'full blast" with VIM. Barge as proprietor
and manager.
The report that E. 81. Bly, would close
the Sheridan house after the adjournment
OF the legislature was evidently not we'll
founded. MI. BLY, is keeping the Sheridan
up to the standard and will so continue
during the summer.
Spring work on the capital grounds
should be commenced at as early a day as
possible. There is no reason why the pris-
oners should not be exercised to the advan-
tage of the state and for the improvement
OF the state property.
At the recent meeting of the Millers' as
ISOLATION, reports from the London agent,
Mr.. Hillyer, were read. He is meeting with
SuCCcoS LII SolIluk NOTGu DHKOCH hour III
Europe. 1t is learned, however, that Mr..
Hillyer's health is not good.
Julius Stevens says that the reason
he did not get the nomination for mayor
cr city justice at Thursdays meeting,
was because Of the intense jealousy
against him on the part of some of the
other prominent candidates.
It may not be generally known, but it is
a fact nevertheless, that there is consider
able sporting interest manifested in prize
cock fighting in this city. Several owners
of a~ntagonistic ROSTERS are pitting their
fowls, and two or three contests have al
ready come off.
Sergeant-at-arms Wood, who pommeled
Captain Flick Thursday morning, passed
through the city Friday night, en- route
home from the west. There was much
surprise expressed by the Bismarckers
on the platform over the failure to arrest
him, as it was known a warrant had been
issued.
Now that Prince Bismarck has ended
his official career, Farmer Wallace sug-
gests that in his honor the people Of Bis
marck should have a life-siZed portrait of
him placed in some conspicuous place In
the city. The chancellor is one of the
greatest of the great and the suggestion is
not a bad one.
In his speech at the citizens convention