Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-11-27
i H E CITY.
Scott Mclean is occupying the Thomp
o mansion this winter.

Ben Burnham of Wheatland is a new
employe at the ~penitentiary.
Jerre Munroe has a cigar for his
friends. It's a boy and arrived at his
house Thursday night.
DR.. Kendrick removed a tumor Of two
or three weeks growth from the eyelid
of Rev. Sheckler Wednesday.
The upper stories of three brick blocks
in Bismarck have been furnished and
occupied within the past month.
According to the Williamsport Record
several head of cattle were lost in the
recent storm in Emmons county.
Stanton Pilot: A young man direct
from England, arrived in Stanton this
week to take charge of the Plenty mines.
Clark Haggart has purchased 100 head
of cattle from John Yegen, which will
be added to the Ward & Haggart ranch.
Henry F. Wogan, postmaster at Wo-
g%ansport, N. D., has resigned and re-
eommends Francis R. Seymour as his
successor.
Ed. Hughes has gone to Mortified,
MIMI, where he will take a special
ourse in chemical and electrical engi-
n~eering in the Carlton college.
Mr.. ". B. Livermore left Friday
for another batch of horses. He will re-
turn in about three weeks with 100 of
the best mares ever brought to Bismarck.
In the Glascock-Head case before
Judge Chase, wherein Glascock sued
Head for $3.50. the judge gave the plain
tiff 1890. The total cost to Head was
$685..
Farmer Bishop was in the city Thurs
day. He says a great many farmers in
his neighborhood haven't threshed yet,
and some of 'em will not attempt it till
spring.
A band of the noble red men from
Fort Berthold we're in the city Satur-
day. They brought six wagon loads of
hides to maket and loaded with lumber
or the return.
Stanton Pilot: Oliver county ranch
men are desperate over their losses by
the fire and it is reported that they will
institute legal proceedings against the
parties who started the fire.
Farmer D. r. Holbrook sat down
to a Thanksgiving dinner fit for a king.
He had v~enison and turkey and a
lucious water melon-one that he put
away in the cellar for the occasion.
A company having been organized in
Fairhaven, Wash, to raise black cats for
their fur, friends of Messrs. Griffin and
Ward and other x-Bismarckers are
anxious for the names of the leaders in
the enterprise.
Judge Winchester dissolved
the injunction in the Ander-
son VS.. Nelson case Of Man
dan Saturday. The injunction was grant
ed to hold some jewelry until the case
COu1u 10 UIl6u.
The1 Napolean Homestead notes the
sale of land in that vicinity for $40 per
acre. That is a remarkable price for a
farm so far from railroad facilities and
with the coming of the 500 road land
will nearly double in value.
Marshal Price went to Mandan Thurs
day to subpoena witnesses in the two
Fort Yates liquor cases and the Helms
worth p%ostofice case. These cases will
come before the United States district
court, which meets at Grand Forks De-
cember LIST.
It is probable that the surveyor gener-
ais office will be moved into the old Ray
mond block, over the Western Union
telegraph Office. The present offices are
too small and besides are wanted to
make the full complement for the use of
the United States C -urt.'
The Northern Pacific will keep two
snow crews on the Dakota division this
winter-one on the west end and one on
the east end. A freight train got off the
track near Tappan Tuesday and all
freight trains were late IN consequence.
At the term of district court in Nor
ton county the jury in the case of Smith
& Perkins VS.. Parkin, a replevying cattle
case, gave a verdict of some $500 for the
plaintiff. Parkin's attorney, B. W. Shaw,
appeared before Judge Winchester in
chambers Saturday, and a trial was
granted.
Since the river was rendered unnavi-
gable the warehouse at Washburn has
been filled with wheat and no more can
be purchased at that point on account of
lack of room for storage. This leaves
the farmers of Mclean county to tran
sport their wheat to this point by wagon
or hold till spring.
The johnson elevator company of
Minneapolis is erecting a warehouse at
Cko,1,,- TLoro hos hooo oon,;dorob1o