Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-11
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CITY AND

Con Peoples has started a stage line
between Mandan and Bismarck.
DR.. Bentley will leave soon to spend
the winter in Southern California.
Geo. WEIGH of Stewartsdale, and Phil.
Harvey of Bismarck, were callers on the
TRIBUNE Wednesday.
The reason County Commissioner
johnson don't attend the meeting of the
board is-a boy at his home.
Ole johnson, the day engineer at the
Bismarck roller mill, will we'd a Mandan
lady lext Sunday in chat city.
A system of electric clocks is to be
put IN in this city. The Sheridan house
and Western Union office will each have
one.
The city council got together Friday
night and allowed the bills for the
month. No other business was trans
acted.
Thos. Kelly returned from the west
Wednesday with his grading outfit. He
has a contract to deliver ninety tons
of lumber at Fort Yates.
John H. Will and w. See retu rned
from Dickinson Wednesday, hav-
ing completed their carpenter contract
on the Northern Pacific.
The stage from Fort Yates due Thurs
day night did not arrive until Saturday
The driver reports a stormy time.
The snow is badly drifted.
G. A. King: Will be in to see you
when I thresh. Was late all around and
haven't threshed yet. My grain is we'll
stacked, however. I have done some
blowing.
Gerald Pierce to Minneapolis Tribune
correspondent: Did you send those dis
patches? We don't want any such dis
patches sent to the Tribune. The Trib-
I'M wants Healy dispatches.
Auditor F. B. Wells of Mclean county
was in the city Wednesday trying to So
cure control of the old Mclean county
Mail plant yesterday. If successful he
will start a paper at Washburn.
Judge Chase issued a license Tuesday
to J. B. Lamb, the popular baggageman,
to marry Miss Mabel l. Frood, a highly
esteemed young lady of this city. Pre-
siding Elder Sheckler performed the GER
emory.
Amos Robidou: A COW came into my
enclosure during the storm of the Sd.
1t is a red COW, with two white spots on
head. The calf was frozen. Who is the
owner? They probably came off the
bottoms.
Gen. Hughes: Mrs. Hughes has i'm
proved since leaving Bismarck but I
think she will submit to another sur
gical operation before she leaves the hos
pital. She will not return to Bismarck
before the first of January.
Arrangements we're perfected Tues
day whereby VIM. Smith Commonly
known as Clarence Marcy the boy from
MandaD, was sent to the reform school
at Plankinton, s. D. He was an adopted
child and is about IL years of age.
Washburn Mail: Ole Grandin, who
recently returned from western Montana,
has assumed management of the Bis
marck & Washburn stage line, having
succeeded Dave johnson, who has gone
out to the Flathead country to look af-
ter his business interests there.
D.. w. Blake, the stock man south of
Sterling, was a TRIBUNE caller Wednes-
day. He says few farmers in his section
have threshed. The snow in his neigh
borhood is deeper than he has ever seer
it in this country. AS Bismarck is ap-
preached the snow becomes lighter.
Nearly every boy in Bismarck having
a dog-or can borrow one-has him
hitched up to a sled and go spinning
around the city. The boys are having
lots of fun, but the dogs are getting SO
poor they won't even fight owe a bone.
Sheriff Bingenheimer was over from
Mandan Monday to consult with the
state officials regarding the disposal of a
youth of that city sentenced to the re-
form school. It seems North Dakota
has no school nor no appropriation to
send them elsewhere.
DR.. Slaughter returned Monday from
a hunting trip in the nort,ern part of
the county, bringing down, with other
game, a huge porcupine which he had
shot during the blizzard last Friday. The
p%orcupine is a curious specimen, with
spines or quilts six inches long and hair
about twelve inches in length. The doc
tor says it resemb'ed a moving bundle of
hay as it ambled over the prairie.
The fact has been demonstrated, time
and again, that the Bismarck postofice