Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-08
FROM SLAUGHTER.
Interesting Correspondence From That

Community.
SLAUGHTER, N. D., Aug. 5.-[Spccial]-
Last Wednesday Mr.. Martin Windmiller's
children were playing with some matches
and set fire to the haystacks which had
just been put up. Quite a big loss, about
twenty-five tons of fresh, good hay which
Mr.. Windmiller by hard labor had gath
cred in the sloughs and ravines. Last sum
mer the same children set fire to the prairie
and that time the loss was ever greater
than now. 1t destroyed four or five set,
tings of wheat for Joe Knittle and the
Richards boys.
John Boat went to the capital city last
Friday to purchase Irvine and other arti-
cles for the harvest.
Messrs. Erick johnson and Louis Lar.
son of Grass Lake, passed here last Fri
day night on their way to Bismarck, where
they intended to buy Irvine and provisions
for the coming harvest. Mr.. johnson also
bought a new Mccormick binder from John
Yegen. They say the crops look fine in
Grass Lake township.
Erick Ghylin drove to Bismarck last
week to get some lumber for a granary.
L SdyS In d UllC 1llCSU ClOu w. Rldll lC
has seen anywhere. The warm weather
has not hurt it yet, but if it keeps on it
will prob ably do some damage. The crops
look better in our township han they
have for the last five years.
Miss Minnie Hanson and Mrs. John
Hanson of Bismarck are visitors at Slaugh
ter. They will probable stay for a couple
of days before they return to the capital.
Mr.. John Yegen was at Slaughter yes
terday setting up some machinery.
Mr.. Charles DanilsOn was a Painted
Woods caller Sunday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin of Bismarck are
out haying on their fine hay claim in Grass
Lake township.
Miss Carolina Peterson is visiting her
sister Mrs. Christina Engstrom. She will
probably remain here a couple of weeks
before returning to Bismarck.
Ole Olson took a flying trip to the capital
Saturday morning.
Our school teacher Miss Menerva E. Dut.
ton in company with several other young
ladies', took a pleasant pony ride to Lake
Campfield last Saturday morning.
Mr.. Peter Anderson drove to the capital
last Friday evening to get some lumber
Business is quite lively at Slaughter. AL
most everybody is building some this
year.
Messrs. CO. Hanson and A. Thor are
fixing up their threshing machine SO they
Will nave III Icduy W oItII Ill DIS SOOD us the
people are ready for it.
Rev. M. Spangberg will move in his new
house this week.
The farmers are happy and hopeful.
Although it has been dry for a couple of
weeks they expect to get at least twenty
or twenty-five bushels OF No. l hard wheat
to the acre. Every inch of broken land is
sown or planted, too, so there is no vacant
land here for wild geese to hatch on.
Last Saturday there was a good shower
of rain in the southern part of the settle
ment. Y. Y. ZEFFS.
Mr.. L. Martin, superintendent of the st.
Louis, Des Moines Il Northern railroad.
says: son my return from a recent trip
south, where the water was very. impure, l
was attacked with a violent case of cholera
morbus. Having heard a great deal of
Chamberlain's collie, cholera and diarrhoea
remedy, l concluded to try It, and with the
most beneficial results" No household
should ever be without a bottle of this
remedy. For sale by F.. Frisby.