Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-05-08
T HE CITY Y.
BISMARCK IN BRIEF.

ltlng Engineer Clark, her brother, of this
city.
Mr.. Fallen arrived Wednesday from Du-
luth to relieve Mr.. Newman at the signal
service.
A. Harrington, who has been suffering
with an attack of measles is steadily i'm
proving.
A carload of Dawson flour was taken to
the landing Friday and will be shipped
by river transportation.
The steamer Bachelor is receiving a
coat of paint and other improvements be-
fore commencing operations.
The firm of Tenney & Remington, drug
gists, have been granted permission to sell
lntOXicantS for medical purposes.
0. q. Beal's hardware store has under
gone a complete renovation and now pre-
SCENTS q clean and attractive appearance.
The scarlet fever patients in the city are
cOnvaleScent, and the doctors have sue
ceeded in keeping the disease from spread
ing.
John Brady IS home from a tour through
portions of South Dakota and Nebraska
and reports times good in the Black Hills
region.
Real estate dealers report nearly every
house in the city occupied. Houses that
have been idle since the boom are now in
demand.
DR.. F. r. Smyth, formerly of Washburn,
has been appointed county physician of
and open a drug store.
John Warne, who has been firing on the
switch engine, has been transferred to a
work train at Sunnyside. Earnest Green
fills the vacant position.
"Miss Jessie Slaughter's school closed
the first of the month with an entaining
literary programmed" should have read
1.-THE first month closed. &c"
A deal is about completed wherein all
regular freight trains will :carry passengers
between Mandan and Bismarck. A cabooSe
will be attached to carry baggage.
The fishing season has opened at Detroit
Lake, Mimi, and it is dollars to marbles
that official business" will call Surveyor
General Williams east before long.
Two car loads of Rochester, n. Y, ex-
%cursionists passed through the city Thurs
day attached to No. l. The party We're
bound for Kettle Falls, Washington.
John Will and J.. w. See have accepted
positions as carpenters on the Missouri di-
vision of the Northern Pacific railroad and
ANAS w "oAAs
John j. Robinson and Laurence Cassel.
man left for their Mclean county ranch
Wednesday with their imported Clydes-
dale stallion, purchased in Wisconsin.
A militia man: How would it do for
Generals Bentley and Dewey to get a
couple of Lieutenant Patton's Gattling
guns and settle their matter !, la code du-
clio.
Miss Maggie Richie opened her ice cream
parlOr and confectionery store to the pub
lie Monday. Miss Richie is an enter
prising young lady and deserving of sue
cess.
81. F. Wogan, Addie Wogan and Darias
secretary of state to Incorporate the North
Dakota university at Wogansport, Bur-
leigh county.
James Campbell: How's Mandan =? Ele-
giant. Away ahead of Bismarck, of course.
No vacant houses with US and new build
ing going up. Good day; haven't time to
linger longer.
John White has disposed of his capitol
bus to John Robidou and is no longer a
messenger. Mr.. Robidou will continue to
convey the state dignltaries to and from
the structure on the hill.
The Bismarck Elevator company
shipped six cars Of wheat to Mandan Thurs
terday. AS soon as the Abner O'Neal ar
rives they expect to go to Washburn and
get the wheat in store there.
The other steam eXcavator accompanied
by W trains and a good gang OF work.
men began operation at Sunnyside Satur.
day. The trestle work is being filled at
the rate of 240 car loads of earth a day.
The heavy winds Wednesday famed the
smOldering fire in the timber and high
grass on the bottom south of the city to a
fierce heat. The timber is about all burned
over and much damage has been done.
Captain and Mrs. George II. Wentz re-
ceived a reminder Of their former brief
residence on the Pacific coastWednesday in
the shape OF a S5-pOund fresh salmon. 1t
was sent by friends who live on the Column
bia river.
Farmer Wainrights team with a wagon
load Of household furniture became fright
ened IN First street about noon Wednesday
and ran into a barbed wire fence, tearing
down the posts cutting the horses
severely.
The flood in the east end of town and
the flushed sewers running down Broadway
was coused by the bursting of a water
main on Eighth street. The mains of tb at
section of the city were finally Shut OFF and
the leak repaired.
The question of an excursion and picnic,
the excursion on some river boat and the
picnic at some desirable point in the tim
Der, is agitating the minds of our citizens.
About the middle of the month seems to be
the most favorable.
Ed. Brunsman: So you were at Charles
town and old Fort Sumpter and around
that country? Well, that was my old
home. beautiful and interesting place.
The thought of it brings to mind many
memories of the past.
One of the laborers at the bridge was
struck in the eye by a flying splinter
from the steam shovel and seriously in
jured last Thursday. He will lose the
sight OF his eye and possibly an operation
will have to be performed.
E. Fl. Wilson: There is nothing particu-
larly new in regard to the sheep industry.
g found a fair sale for our stock in Chi
cago and left the matter in good hands.
We will get in a good many sheep this
spring and some more this fall.
Secretary Noble has rendered a decision
in the committed homestead entry of D. B.
Hatch of this county, in which ne reverses
the decision of the register of receiver of
the m office and rulas that thu