Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-30
THE CIY 7.
IN BRIEF.

b1SMARCh IN BRIEF.
The street sprinkler is still kept busy
subduing the dust.
The willows IN the river bottom lave
commenced to bud.
Mr.. and Mrs. Con Peoples have taken up
their abode in Mandan.
The railroad bows netted a neat sum
from their ball Friday night.
It is said that a panther is creating
quite a scare in the vicinity of Burnt
creek.
A considerable amount of money
changed hands in Bismarck on the senate.
rial result. .
Messrs. Gust Larson and Joseph Knittle
Of Ecklund township are residing at the
Franklin house.
Mr.. Charles J. Johnson of this city was
married to Miss Emma Peterson of
Slaughter Tuesday night.
Hon. Oscar Ward has received the in
telligence Of the death Thursday of his
brother at Glendive, Mont.
Barber McKinney's leg. which has be-
come mortified with inflammatory rheu-
matism, will have to be amputated.
Axel johnson was a Painted Woods
caller Tuesday. He reports that the
Painted Woods boys are all having a good
time now a days.
John Pollock was defeated for a janitor-
ship in the legislature. George G. VAIN
wright is among the Burleigh county men
who "caught on"
The hack.drivers are praying for biz
yards or squallv weather of some kind, as
they claim too many Legislators are fond of
walking to the capitol.
Miss Mary Madison who was disap-
pointed in obtaining a clerkship at Bis
marck has, it is said, secured an excellent
position in a Fargo bank.
Pat Kelly has started a daily stage line
between Bismarck and Fort Lincoln. The
coach leaves this city every day at s
and II a. m, and is a great convenience.
Fred. Bower, who for many years had
u~nbounded faith in the prosperity of Bis
marck, has pulled up stakes and gone to
Centralla to join the colony of Bis
marckers.
Mrs. j. r. Cook of Fort Berthold is in
town to have a surgical operation per-
formed on her feet, which were frozen in
January, 1888. She has been engaged in
teaching an Indian school on the Berthold
reservation.
The militia boys in initiating a new
member the other night perpetrated what
civilians might call an outrage, but it will
have to be passed off as a joke-the victim
fortunately recovering after a severe sur
gical operation.
l.. D. McGahan, editor of the Minot
journal, the good looking and
dating young man who is acting as a jour
nal clerk in the legislature, is a cousin OF
Ed Patterson, the fire: eating tonsorialist of
this city, and both hail from the Buckeye
state.
T: ". Griffin was Friday, informed
that Miss Vina Griffin, who is with her
parents at Fairhaven, WASH, narrowly
escaped ~asphyXiation by gas, she having
eXtinguished the gas in her room by blow
ing it out. Were it not for the prompt
application of restoratives, death would
have resulted.
Some recent orders of Superintendent
McCate require all conductors to forbid
boys riding on switch engines in the yard;
while on duty in all cases, and, owing to
frequent complaints of pilfering of bag
gage, trainnen fOund sleeping on duty are
to be reported for same.
The Daily Commonwealth has gone I'D
the f1ume without the customary blaze of
glory trailing behind. Nobody is particu-
larly sorry except three or four industri-
GUS little newsboys who are raining male
dlctlons on the head of the editor as only
irate neWsbOys al There is a weeks
wages due 'em-and of course they're
mad.
The omnibus run by the popular pro-
prietor of a Jamestown hostelry, which is
now making daily trips to the capital, has
incurred the undying enmity of the hack
men of the city. The bus charges bu. 81
for eight tickets, and the hacks demand
70 cents for each trip. There is a delicious
prospect for some lively rate Hslashing in
the near futre.
Mrs. J. R. Cook of Mercer county has
secured an enrolling clerkship at the capt.
tol. Mr.. Cook left Monday for Berthold
to resume his labors as boss farmer at the
agency. He said he was one of the first on
the senatorial battle ground, worked hard
for Hansbrough and is now going home
with the firm conviction that John R. Cook
has been indicated.
There is a movement on foot to build a
pleasure garden at the lower end of town.
A platform will be erected, and dancing,
with good music. will be held twice a week.
The proprietors OF the scheme are consider
ing the proposition of a st. Paul man
who wants TO engineer a grand pyrotech-
meal display, every Saturday night, involy-
ing only a small outlay ofImoney. The
grounds will be enclosed by a high
OOoIu IClCC, oIlu d SludIl huullSSlOu lee VIII
be charged.
Manager F%alcOner of the Bismarck base
ball club has received word from the Man
dan nine that they are ready at any time
to cross bats with the Bismarckers. The
nine have been ~diSOrganiZed since last
summer, but he thinks he can get them in
fighting trim in a few days and show the
Mandanites how little they know about
ball The grounds are also in bad condi-
ton. The grass has grown to an alarming
height, bnt men will be set to work NOW
ing it down and filling up the mud holes.
Friday 8 Personals, 23dIinst.
DE. j. Steele of Mandan is here.
James Ryan of st. Paul is in town.
Conductor Sloan tarried in the city yes
terday.
j. w. Walker came up from Steele yes
terday.
e. E. Gabband of Darlington is at the
porrn~