Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-27
H E CITY
IN BRIEF.
Dr.. Bentley is slowly improving.

DR.. Bentley is slowly improving.
W. S. Casselman is out after two weeks
siege of the lagrippe.
Saturday the heaviest snow of the sea-
son fell-heavy, wet snow.
The late harvested ice shows disfgure-
ment by the warm weather.
Capt. Brundage threw Al and won the
Tlblils lots for A. N. Leslie.
Editor Streeter is confined to his home
at W~illiamsport with lagrippe.
DR.. Bentley is slowly improving and is
now believed to be out of danger.
Father Martin has purchased a nudge
OF a pony and a blackboard wagon.
The snow fall OF Saturday night and
Sunday was the heaviest of the season.
E. H. BLY, has recovered sufficiently from
his late illness to be around once more.
Bill posters decorated the dead walls
with Boston comic opera literature yester-
day.
Postmaster Bogue will improve the SER
vice by putting in some new drawers and
boxes soon.
Warden Haggart has a force of men at
work hauling the annual ice supply for the
penitentiary.
Room 4 of the public schools was closed
yesterday on account of the teacher taking
suddenly sick.
Rumor has it that Alex. Mckenzie in
tends to stock Sheridan county with 10000
head of sheep.
This time a year ago the ice at this point
was honeycOmbed by warm weather and
the river unsafe to cross.
Almost a foot of snow to soak into the
rich soil of the slope. The farmers veal a
broad grin OF satisfaction.
A detachment of soldiers from some
eastern point were on Tuerday's morning
train bound for Fort keogh, Mont.
1t is said that a good portion of the coal
fields in Mclean county have been sold to
a syndicate Of st. Paul capitalists.
The friends OF Alexander Hughes hardly
know him. His mOuStache has been shorn
first time in a quarter of a century.
DR.: Harcourt was dispatched to Sterling
Sunday night by the serious illness of Mrs.
h. II. Thistlewaite of Emmons county.
W. r. Perkins has been appointed aide
ne camp on The governors staff with rank
of colonel. How are you, Colonel Perk-
ms?
Severa! interesting games of billiards
have been witnessed at the Sheridan par
lors the past week. John Yegen is now
in the lead.
Both Mr.. ard Mrs. Gerald Pierce are
sick and Mrs. Senator Pierce has gone to
Minneapolis to visit Paul, who IS also re-
ported quite ill.
In the absence of a matron at the peni-
Tertiary Miss Lucy Hollembaek. daughter
of Deputy Warden H~Ollembaek, is acting
in that capacity for the present.
Tim Griffin yesterday wagered $40 with
Pat Kelly that Cal Wilson's stallion would
MT weigh more than 1900 pounds. and
Griffin lost the bet by about fifty pounds.
Thursday night some malicious person
cut the rope that holds the suspended
electric arc light on Third and Broadway
and it fell to the ground. Damage Slight.
Miss Horton OF Glendale arrived III the
city yesterday. She was formerly con-
nected with the Glendale postoffice and
has accepted a similar position in Bis
marck.
George Gray says he is getting all ready
to make a dash at the boiler inspection
business in this district, and by the first
OF the month expects to be ready to test
any and all that may require his at
tention.
the Bismarck public schools, received a
telegram, from her home at Hillsboro,
conveying the sad intelligence of the
death of her brother.
Chief Van Horn has decided to post
pone the fire department review and drill
until the streets are in better shape, some
of the boys being averse to having their
lavender pants opIashed with mud.
Captain Moorhouse: l returned to-day
from Brownsville. Pa, where l have been
spending a couple of weeks attending our
family reunion and my mothers SD
birthday anniversary. She is still well and
hearty.
Spring is here. Old Sol rose bright and
warm above the eastern horizon Thursday
morning, and the little snow that lay scat.
tered about the streets soon melted to
water, running down the streets in little
rivulets.
Scott McLain and Shed Lambert
left Saturday for a point on the Great
Northern railway about 200 miles north
west of Great Falls, Mont. They have
several teams at that point where they
had a grading contract last year.
Gustaf Anderson and w. E. Huffman are
d couple OIL sturdy -NOrSkmen VINO arrived
Monday from far-away Sweden. They
are stopping at the Pacific hotel for the
present, and intend to engage in agricul-
tural pursuits in Burleigh county.
As soon as the frost gets out of the ground
the Northern Pacific railroad will start
four work trains and two steam shovels at
work. One steam shovel and two crews
will PROBABLY operate at Sunnyside. This
will give employment to a great many men.
Captain Belk, while hauling wood We'd
nesday on the other side of the river, ran
amuck seven of the finest specimens of
deer he had ever seen, and AYERS that if he
had had a gun at the time it would have
been his luck to have seen no deer at
all.
A change in the Bismarck postofice
takes place on April LIST, Thomas FIavin
retiring. Two young ladies will succeed
him, one of whom arrived yesterday.
Flavin has not yet decided on his future,
but it is probable he will 60 west in search
of something.
Bert Gray has not yet started his new
democratic paper at Fargo. In a recent
private letter he says his office is so over
whelmed with job work hat he has been
unable to 90 on with the preparations for