Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-11-06

from Minneapolis, and is highly spoken
of by those who enjoy his acquaintance.
The Mandan Pioneer in connection
with the Tubbs- Wilson wedding says:
"There we're several friends of the fam
lily of the bride and groom over from
Mandan, and these visitors from across
the Missouri received every attention
that they could ask for at the hands of
the Bismarck people, and they will re-
member for many years the pleasant
evening they spent"
John r. Hayes and Miss Nellie Clarke
we're married at the Catholic church at 9
o'clock Wednesday morning, according
to the holy rites of the Catholic church.
Mr. Hayes is a brakeman on the Northern
Pacific and was in charge of one Of the
work trains at the bridge last summer
Miss Clarke is a resident of this city.
Mr.. Hayes and his sister came up Tues
day from Jamestown.
There is a stove famine. Local deal
ers say it extends all over the United
States. During the past few years there
has been an over-production. Manufac-
turers last year cut down their business
and this year the general prosperity all
over the country has created such a de-
mand that all the old stock has been sold
and manufacturers and jobbers are from
two to four months behind in their or
ders.
Jas. B. Glascock was before Judge
Winchester for contempt no Friday.
Three horses belonging to Glascock we're
taken on replevin recently and left with
VIM. Britton for keeping. Somehow
they got back in the possession of Glas-
cock, who refused to give them up. The
sheriff went out and arrested him yes
terday and the Judge let him off with
costs-about $40. He will also deliver
the horses back to Britton.
The receipts of wheat marketed daily
at this point, exclusive of that brought
by boats and sold on the Bismarck mar
ket, will not exceed 1000 bushels daily.
This is explained by the farmers thusly:
There is a great scarcity of laborers and
in order to secure help the farmers have
to change about and help each other.
One farmer said on Friday that he mad
completed threshing some time ago, but
has not been able to market his crop,
There will be close to 100000 bushels of
wheat raised in Burleigh county this
year.
W. H. Fallon, who has charge of the
central station of the North Dakota
weather bureru located in Bismarck.
says the mode of procedure in establish
ing voluntary stations and in ~loaning
government instruments has been rad1-
cally altered within the past month. The
essential feature of the change from old
methods is in granting weather bureau
observers in charge of state centres au-
thority to establish new stations or to
renew the equipment of old stations
whenever in their Judgment the interests
of the service will be subserved by such
action. The observer at the state centre
is on the ground and is better able keep
in touch with the various sections of his
state than the central office at Washing
ton. Observer Fallon reports a new sta
ton established yesterday at Minot.
A report from Mandan says persons
from Oliver county tell of the severe ex-
perience farmers and ranchmen had
with the recent prairie fire. More dam
age was done than at first supposed.
Several thousand t%ons.of hay we're lost
and large ranges burned, and it is esti-
mated that at least twenty settlers had
their houses and stables burned. Mrs.
John Day cam near losing her life in
attempting to save 400 sheep. Her hus-
band and farm hands we're away and the
sheep in the corral. The corral took fire,
and not until her hat was burned from
her head, her hands badly burned and
clothing almost all burned, did she give
up the attempt to a v the sheep, and
the entire flock we're cremated. Settlers
named Nelson, Herter and Smith lost
horses and cattle, as we'll as buildings
All the buildings of Postmaster Sanger
at Sanger, we're burned except the post.
office. It is said the fire caught from
parties in the west end of the county
who were burning fire guards.
Fridays Personals, 3Oth. inst.
Auditor Bray left last evening fol-
Grand Forks.