Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-09-11

Mclean county to-day.
Under the present school law children
are admitted into schools when six years
old.
The ladies of the Steele NV. G. T. U.
are making arrangements to have Rev.
S. E. Ryan of this city to deliver a
lecture in Steele Friday evening, Sep
TENDER 18th.
Commissioner Harmon: I was in Min
neapolis during the recent Sons of Veter-
ans encampment. On exposition day
there were 1900 Sons of Veterans finely
uniformed and fully armed i in the parade.
A grand sight that army Of young men.
The matter of filling and keeping full
the city watering troughs, which was
brought before and acted upon at the
last meeting of the city council, termi-
mated Thursday in the water being
turned on. Farmers can now water their
stock.
Through a change in divisions as to
the locomotive runs, Mandan will receive
nineteen more families. These families
come from Glendive where the shops
are practically abandoned. Mandan
complains that she has not empty houses
enough to accommodate them.
Judge Winchester: I was out in the
country the other day and I took par
ticular pains to examine all corn fields I
saw. Only in the low spots has frost
tuched the corn and it is only the tops
that were nlpped there. The ears are
ripening nicely, and we will get a good
crop.
Robert Clarke and Jennie Steed, the
latter the defendant in the recent trial
in which VIM. Clarke, a brother of the
groom, charges the bride with attempt
ng to take his life with a Winchester
rifle, were married Monday. The
ceremony was performed by Judge
Chase.
There has been considerable talk
throughout the state press that lumber
was about to advance from ST. to So per
1000 feet. Isaac Hooper, representing
the Gull River Lumber company, was
seen by the TRIBUNE Monday but he
knew nothing of the proposed raise in
price.
Judge Winchester has granted the
papers in the adoption of Nellie May
Gilbert, daughter of Geo. L. Gilbert,
by Mr.. and Mrs. John M. White-under
the new law of 1891. This is the first
case under the new law. The Judge has
since granted similar papers for two
cases in Mandan.
Owing to the small number of pupils
in attendance at the Fourth ward pri-
mary school the board of education de-
cided that it would be good economy on
the part of the city to close the school
and transport the pupils daily to and
from the high school building. It will
make a saving of nearly $75 per month.
A. R. Avery received a telegram about
noon Sunday which stated that his
brother, s. s. Avery, the we'll known
superintendent of the Standard Oil CON-
pany at Fargo, had been fonnd dead on
the streets of st. Paul. MI. Avery left
Sunday night for st. Paul but the TR1B-
uNE has learned no further particulars.
Pierre Free Press: Thos. Stewart of
Standing Rock, who has been master
mechanic at that agency, is stopping in
the city. Mr.. Stewart has lived along
the Missouri river from Yankton to Bis
marck for the last seventeen years, and
knew Ben Ash, Gene Cutting, George
Smith and other old-timers away back
in the seventies.
While out riding Monday Express
Messenger Wagner suddenly reined up
his horse in front of White & Wachter's
stable. The sudden jerk on the bride
made the horse rear up, and losing it's
balance it fell backward, throwing the
rider heavily and rendering him uncon-
scious for a time. He was badly shaken
up, but not seriously hurt.
Further particulars have been learned
of the suiciding of Frank Dresser at st.
Paul. He had been on a protracted
spree, was out of work and disguised
with life. The day before his death he
was over in Minneapolis, and presented
John Whalen with a necktie. He evi.
IDENTIFY didn't know what he was about
at that time as be seemed dazed anc
could hardly walk. His parents live
near st. Paul, and are comfortably vel
off.
Mandan Times: We simply note for the
benefit of our democratic friends, who
are wont to charge the prohibition Law
entirely to the republican party, that thu
vice-president of the state enforcement
league is Judge A. D. Gray, of Bismarck
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