Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12
T HE CITY.
IN BRIEF.

NJ
The penitentiary board held its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday.
Holiday dealers are reported laying in a
good STOCK OF Christmas novelties.
The ice near the bridge is said to be firm
enough to permit the travelling OF teams.
Tom Fortune is taking care of a large
government freighting contract this win
ter.
c. M. Hazleton of Mandan is the fastest
acquisition to the force at the Bismarck
bank.
The ice on the river is not thick enough
to permit of safe crossing except near the
bridge.
The Sheridan house again has steam
heat, and Landlord Bly, is fixin' things all
around for the legislature.
Professor Thompson is taking proper
let fever in the city schools.
Sportsmen say the wild geese abound in
great numbers-a never failing sign of q
continuance of mild weather.
1t is said that Thos. Bottomley is about
to open an original package house at the
point-opposite Fort Lincoln.
The electric lights are giving general
satisfaction, ana Mr.. Mack proposes to
make still additional improvement.
Sunday would have been a model winter
day in every particular had there been
enough snow for the merry jingle of
sleigh bells.
Mrs. r. R. Marsh and daughter, Miss
Mabel, will leave shortly for the west to
rejoin MI. Marsh, who is in the holel bust
ness at Centralia.
The election contest cases before Justice
Ilbolls are still progressing day and night,
and another mill has been started with
Judge Gage as referee.
DR.. Harcourt has secured for his office,
the rooms formerly occupied by Judge
Winchester in the Odd Fellows block. He
has already begun practice.
]. Davis, who can buy wood, hides or
anything else,and talk a mali into spasms
at the same time, is up from jamestown
again vigorously plying his vocation.
On account of the two night trains being
AIKEN OIL, the conductors, mail clerks, bag
gage men and other attaches have been
transferred to other runs on the road.
With two '.sweat boxes"-referees Tib-
bills and Gage-and district court, all
grinding, there ought to be no complaint
from those who desire novelty, variety and
spice.
Jorgen Howard of Hillsboro, who was
one of the efficient legislative clerks last
winter, was in town Tuesday. He has
come to accept a clerical position at the
state capital.
J.R. Moorhead, who for some time has
been we'll and favorably known as one of
the efficient guards at the p~enitentlary,
has resigned his position and gone back to
his home in Pembina county.
E. T. Herrick of Williamsport, who would
be q solid Blaine maj even if Queen Victoria
waved ~hefSSGepter DER this land, was in
the, city Monday. renewing acquaintance
and sampling. the latest thing in dry
goods.
Messrs. o. Gelsey of Watertown. c. E.
Mckinney of Sioux Falls, members of
South Dakota's portion Of the joint COM
mission, L. G. Taylor auditor elect, and
W. w. Girton, clerk, arrived in the city
Tuesday.
The office s in the First National Bank
block cannot be kept warm enough with
stoves. The tenants are praying for steam
heat. which, however. seems to be out of the
question, as the management ran about
$4OO behind on last years deal.
The Presbyterian church spire is near
ing completion. Its cost is something like
$500. The next move will be the raising
VI ou4llClGlG luuuS u pECO pCWS Ut CuhlES
In the church. When this is one the
Presbyterian church will be the handsOm-
est church structure in North Dakota.
jamestown Alert: Thursday, says Car
Accountant Charley Pierce, a train load of
thirteen cars of North Dakota stock was
shipped to Chicago. There were five cars
of cattle and eight of sheep. The cattle
were from Uncle John Van Dusen; the
sheep were loaded at Steele and Medina.
> Tom Fortunes government freighting
contract ia the largest awarded in this part
of the northwest for many years, and is
giving employment to a great many men
and leans, who would otherwise be in
ldleness around town. He sent off a large
number of men and teams to BufOrd yes
day.
Will Fl. Whitaker, we'll known in Bis
marck, where he was formerly connected
with the Northern Pacific office, dropped
in to see his old friends for a few minutes
Monday and hied himself off again. He
is now n Of the travelling passenger
agents Of the Northern Pacific and is
rrpidly climbing the ladder of promotion
and popularity.
A. s. Capehart in Fargo Republican:
While in Minneapolis yesterday l was sew
others-and learned that they have ar
ranged for an excursion to Bismarck on
the occasion of Gov. Burke's Inauguration.
They will travel in a special Pullman
coach, and will bring with them a large
party-enough to fill the car.
Mrs. M. E. Benjamin has vacated the
Herbert house and will start up the Ban
ner house and run it as a hotel during the
winter. She expects to have things in
running order by next week. Mrs. Benja-
MINIS experience In the hotel business fits
her for a most popular landlady. The
Banner house has not been tenanted since
MI. Russell vacated it last spring.
j. Smith Bean: The other day L sent a
small order to one Of the publishing houses
for which I am agent, enclosing !$1.26 in
stamps for payment thereof. To-day I re-
ceived a reply stating the order was duly
received, but no Enclosure of stamps or
money. That knocks the profit sky high
you see. Some kind person saw fit to alb
stract the stamps from the envelope.
The wife of Hon. E. S. Taylor, who has
many acquaintance in Bismarck, and who
was one of the orators in the first repub-
lican rally held in this city last October,
died very suddenly in New York city last
month, where she and Mr.. Taylor had
gone to spend THANKSGIVING. MI. Taylor
is a resident of Evanston, a suburb of Chi
cago, and was formerly a banker at Steele.
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