Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-09-18
L H E CT 7 Y.

.. M. Eye has moved his insurance
agency into the Capital National bank.
The thermometer ranged around 80
Tuesday and everybody said "How hot"
There are fifty cattle cars at the Man
dan shops being fitted up to haul wheat
in.
Sheriff Fitzgerald, of Mclean county,
has been granted a pension of $12 a
month.
j. B. Taylor has returned from Iowa
with a carload of fine mares and a fine
stallion.
Lieutenant Sharp late of Fort Lincoln
has beeen detailed as military instructor
at Vermillion, S. D.
Ira W. Bellows has been appointed
overseer of the wheat buyers for the
Mandan Mill company.
Captain Dan Marratta was in the city
yesterday shaking hands with friends
and looking after business.
The chicken hunting season is about
past and the boys are now preparing to
pursue the goose and brant.
DIR. Bentley is now able to go about on
crutches. He will probably spend the
winter at some health resort.
Under the direction of Con Molloy, the
new chief Of police, the city sidewalks
are getting some needed repairs.
The state militia throughout the state
have been paid off this week for their
service at the recent encampment.
The Northern Pacific is erecting new
telegraph poles along their line. The
new one are much larger than the old
ones.
B. L.. Baardson, of Mclean county,
who has been acting as a guard at the
~penitentiary, has gone up to harvest his
crop.
The Northern Pacific burned their
r~ight-of-way between the city and the
river Monday-a precaution against
prairie fires.
The salary of Con Molloy as chief of
police and street commissioner is fixed
at $50 per month, to be allowed on the
road fund.
K. S. Ramsett returned from the east
Tuesday, where he has been pur-
chasing a stock of merchandise for his
Washburn store.
M. T. O'Connor and Gottleib Huber
had a case before Judge Chase Saturday
in which O'Connor sues Huber for attor
ney fees in some old case.
A mammoth pulley from Miskawak,
Ind, consigned to the Union Power
company, Portland, Ore, passed through
the city Monday. It was 246 inches in
diameter and 46 in width.
Crop reports are beginning to come in.
John SWEETS wheat averaged twenty
eight bushels to the acre, and Warner
Brothers twenty-one. Burleigh will give
her big yields last.
Little Mollie Gunderson who was run
over by the Mandan switch engine, has
been removed to the Brainard hospital,
and it is feared another amputation will
have to be performed.
Mandan is all torn up over a rebel
book that has been introduced into her
schools. The people properly sat down
on the scheme and the Pioneer roasts
the book to the queens taste.
DR.. Porter and son Halle accompanied
by Judge Bowen left Friday for a three
days hunt in the country. They were
not decided just where they would go
but took along a liberal supply of eata-
bles and tents.
It is understood that both the Batch
elor and Abner O'Neal will shortly begin
to haul wheat on the river. Both the
Mill company and the Elevator company
have established buyers at the towns
along the river.
There seems to to be a certain amuse-
ment down at Winona that everybody
cannot enjoy. The Times says: Mr..
Ronse had the pleasure of taking the
angelic form of Miss Jenny Hill out rid.
ing last Sunday.
The ticket agents excursion passed
through the city early Friday morn.
ing. It consisted of thirteen sPullmans
and was a fine train filled with a jolly
crowd of pleasure seekers. They were
bound for Yellowstone park.
The delegates elect of the Main street
w. G. T.. U. of Bismarck, to Grand
Forks this week, are as follows: Mrs
Slaughter, president; Mrs. Ullum, dele
gate at large; Mrs. Barclay, delegate
Alternates, Mrs. Nichols and Mrs. Smith
A Sims man in Mandan Pioneer: All
the coal miners are as busy as they car
be-busier than they aver were before al
this time of year The demand is from