Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-23
I H E CIT Y,

Inc government building at Camp
Han cock is being painted.
Erard Woorster will ship ten cars OF
sheep to the eastern market this week.
John Conway has accepted a position
in John Kendall's drug store at Ludden,
Dickey county.
Mrs. Wentworth, mother of Ed, re-
turned from a two months visit in James
vile, Mimi. Tuesday.
The streets are crowded with loads of
wheat and hay coming in and lumber
and supplies going ont.
Wm. Braithwaite's youngest daughter,
who has been i'll with scarlet fever, is
now almost recovered.
The Abner O'Neal will make three
trips up river this week and deliver 5000
bushels of wheat here.
Austin Logan and Mr.. Bragdon
shipped eighteen cars of cattle from this
point to Chicago Friday.
Cars loaded with baled hay are
shipped from Bismarck every day.
Another of North Dakota's great re-
sources.
Born-in Bismarck on Oct. 90, 1891,
to Mr.. and Mrs. D. r. Streeter of Will
Transport, N. D., a son; weight ten
pounds.
Ralph Chase, son of Judge Chase, and
superintendent of the ranch, was in the
city Saturday. He has completed
threshing.
Henry Richholt came to the front with
'the biggest goose. 1t weighed sixteen
pounds and measured six feet from tip
to tip of wings.
Clements Clooten of Apple Creek has
on exhibition at the Sheridan house two
mammoth potatoes, n weighing two
pounds and nine ounces.
Attorney Armstrong did not accom-
pany the remains of E. 7. Herrick. Mrs.
Herrick and children alone accompanied
the departed husband and father.
Rev. Ryan left Monday for the
Methodist conference at Grand Forks.
The elder goes to fight for Bismarck for
the next place of holding the conference.
H.. Kemmer, who gave the big pota-
toes to Professor Hancock, has discov-
cred a still larger potatoe. weighing one
pound and six ounces. 1t will be sent
east.
Among the recent shipments Of cattle
from Bismarck to Chicago are: VIM. S.
Badger, five cars; W. S.. Parkins, one car;
T. w. Griffin, two cars and Austin Lo-
gan, seven cars.
The mill company is buying an aver
age of 5000 bushels of wheat a day.
Two thousand are bought on the local
market and 1000 by boat and sold Oh
the market here.
A large number of friends gathered
at the depot Saturday morning to bid
farewell to Mrs. G. r. Williams and her
daughter, Anna, who left for Butte to
join MI. Williams.
Warden Haggart returned from the
convention of prison managers at Pitts
burg on the early Sunday morning train.
He reports a pleasant and instructive
convention and fine trip.
In about one month the ground will
freeze up, but that will not necessarily
stop threshing as some state papers are
claiming. There will be no wheat in
Burleigh county to thresh in the spring.
Mandan is considerably excited over
the finding of a human skull wrapped in
newspaper and buried beneath the old
concert hall near Sullivan's store. It is
probably the result Of a raid of early
days.
Theo. J. Haugeberg, county treasurer
of Mclean and a leading merchant of
Washburn, was down to the capital city
Monday. He was en- route to Steele to
spend a few days with his old friend DR..
Smyth.
Major Murphy cana down from Berth
oAO 4AOuody. LILO lSpOlGS everything III
good shape at the fort. The Indians
have threshed their grain and their
crops were good. They marketed it at
Minot.
Rev. Geo. Brownell was down from
Washburn Monday en- route to the
Methodist conference. He said he was
for Bismarck for the next place to hold
the conference and he believed Bismarck
would capture the plum.
A fire in a straw pile down near the
race track called out the fire department,
about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Only
the engine and hook and ladder truck
went down, as the fire was beyond the
hose limits. 1t was soon extinguished.
S.. D. Rohrer of Hancock, Mclean
county, presented Henry Richholt with
two white cranes, that are beauties
They measured seven feet four inches