Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-09-25

Poooe' L toIl you.
The third story Of the Dakota block is
being fitted for the Masons who will
hold their lodge meetings there here
after.
The many friends of Miss Sadie Ian
terman-for three years a teacher in our
city schools and the last year assistant
principal-will be pleased to learn that
she has been offered and has accepted
the position of assistant principal in the
city schools of Aberdeen, S. D., a just
and merited promotion.
States Attorney Register holds that
under the new Australian election law
there is no need of registration. The
law does not provide for it, and the law
also repeats previous laws, consequently
there will be no registration. The only
benefits which could arise from registra
ton would be to compare the names
with the number of ballots issued.
Margaret Manton Merrell, sister of
Mrs. John P. Dunn, left Monday for
the east. This lady is a regular CORE
spondent of the New York Herald, as
we'll as a noted contributor to several
magazines. Together with Mrs. Dunn,
she has just returned from a visit to the
Pacific coast, and an interesting article
on the trip may be looked for in the
Herald.
Ed. Brunsman says a man by the name
OF Peterson, who lives heal Washburn,
sowed two bushels of fax last spring and
from it reaped POI bushels this fall. This
seems almost incredible, but he proposes
to make affidavit of the amount sown
and to get the fiadavit of the thresher
duly sworn to, and publish the same in
the Washburn papers. It is wonderful
if it can be proven.
Judge Winchester has set various
terms of court in the sixth judicial dis
trict as follows: Oliver county October
18th at 2 p. m; Mercer county October
18th Up. m; Emmons county October 10Th
at 2 p. m; Mclean county October
23d at 2 p. m. The next term will be
held in Stark county on October 9Th;
Morton county November 4th; Burleigh
county November Oath.
The Mandan Times had in it's last is
sue an uncalled for attack on Rev. S. E.
Ryan of this city. The article was
brought forth by Mr.. Ryan's statement
in his lecture at Steele, that saloons we're
run openly in Mandan. A TRIBUNE re-
porter showed the article to Mr.. Ryan
but he declined to go into print. He
said however that if a date was arranged
by responsible parties he would deliver
the same lecture in Mandan that he gave
the Steele people.
A negro who has been confined
in the penitentiary here was discharged
Friday. He was sentenced about ten
years ago for m%anslaughter and taken
to the prison at Detroit, Mich, from
there he was removed to Sioux Falls, S.
D., and then to the Bismarck peniten-
tary. He was credited with good time
and his sentence expired yesterday. He
expects to go down the river and work
at his ELECTROMAGNETIC he has
learned since being in prison.
Miss Oracle Braithwaite, accompa
MED by her mother, attended one of the
largest social gatherings of the season
at the home of William Britton, near
Sterling, Wednesday evening. The &C.
casion was a Methodist social for the
benefit of the church. Besides having
the finest and most beautifully located
residence in the county, Mr.. and Mrs.
Britton have a rare faculty of entertain
ing which always captivates their guests,
and about seventy-ive we're there We'd
nesday evening to be entertained. Some
$26.60 was realized from the social.
Commissioner Garter has written Sur
veyor General Williams, authorizing him
to award to a competent and reliable
surveyor a contract for the survey of the
out-boundaries of the Fort Berthold In
dian reservation, as included by agree.
ment with the Indians of that reserva-
ton in 1886, and at not to exceed pre-
paration of the plats and field notes Gin
triplicate) and examination of the work
in the field not to exceed an amount esti-
mated at $2,813 for the surveys and
$500 for plats and field notes and exami-
nation.
The Northwestern Live Stock compa.
ny of this city refused to accept the
prices of Minneapolis firms for their
wool-shipping direct to Harding & Ca
verify, Boston. The consignment con-
sisted of 10000 pounds and brought a
net price of nineteen cents and two mills
per pound. This in connection with
the fact that Minneapolis firms
would offer only fourteen cents per
pound and the further fact that the
check for the entire consignment was re-
ceived in ffty-nine days from shipment