Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-20
T HE T Y.
BISMARCK IN BRIEF.

AAiAAo i"NO XVI SbllSCu lIOuI
Is cents per hundred.
Mrs. D. r. Streeter is detained in the city
by sickness i'll the family.
The story of the shooting in Mandan
was u hoax of the first water.
The Roberts examination was again
postponed Monday, this time to Friday.
Landlord Bly, is still confined to his
r0om, but is reported as somewhat i'm
proved.
The commission for Mrs. Allshouse, post
mistress at Steele, has been forwarded from
Washington.
DR.. Bentley is still very ill with lagrippe.
He is getting the best of care, however,
and his friends are assured that he will
pull through.
The snow is quickly fading away under
the rays Of the warm sun, and the streets
are getting sloppy.
NJ. Eppinger, the clothier. has his stock
OF clothing moved to the new stand and
proceeding with business the same as
ever.
Bismarck misses a rich treat by the
failure of Lolita, the actress, to appear
az advertised, but it wasn't Bismarck's
fault.
Prot. John Ogden was able to be at his
desk in the capitol Wednesday for the first
time since his confinement to the house
with pneumonia.
II. W. Mckinney was able to appear on
the streets with crutches Saturday-the
first time he has been out during his siege
of several months.
Joe Katz, who has been officiating as
chef de cuisine at the Hotel Locke at
Pierre, returned to Bismarck Tuesday,
and will stay a while.
Nels Hanson has ratified off his shot gun
and clock. High dice won the gun and
low the clock, and the winners are Duncan
Mc(iillis and John Anderson.
While other communities are having a
plague OF lagrippe and peneumonia, Bis
marck continues IN its healthful state and
not one fatality has been recorded.
Senator Worst's daughter was taken
suddenly i'll, and the senator, who was i'll
st. Paul, returned at once. The little one
IS now believed to be out of danger.
Rev. G. A. Chambers, the new Episco-
pal rector, is located in the Ross residence
with his eStimable wife and family. Mr..
Chambers is late of Dickinson, N. D.
1t is runore that Dl. Kcndrick has
bought Rev. j. IL. Thompson's portion of
the Dakota block, the Call house and ten
acres of land within the city limits-at a
bargain.
Captain Talbot is at Sioux City waiting
for the annual breakup, when he will
start for Bismarck with the steamer
Abner O'Neal. An unusually early break
up is predicted below.
Frank LAVAL left the city Tuesday
ing for the west, having determined to try
the chances for prosperity in that country.
Frank has many friends in Bismarck who
regretted to see him go.
A trio OF Steele ties were taking in the
sights OF the metropolis Tuesday. The
delegation was composed of f. d. Jones,
George 5. Herbert of the Ozone and Elmo
Grimshaw, the night operator.
The TRIBUNE's recent Item regarding
the Philadelphia young ladies seeking hus-
bands in North Dakota has zone the rounds
Of the Associated press, and nearly every
newspaper in the land has printed it.
Adam Michaelson is fitting up the store
room opposite the TRIBUNE office, next
door to Henry Grambs' plumbing estab-
lishment and will be prepared shortly to
cary on the business OF a cigar manu-
factory.
Harry Wybrant, who has been running
the Hotel Locke at Pierre, is SAID to have
cleared something in the neighborhood
of $4,000 this winter. His Bismarck
friends will be pleased to learn OF his
prosperity.
Mrs. Benjamin has disc )ntlnued running
the Banner house and that popular hostel
ry has closed its doors. Her intention
when opening the house three months ago
was to run it only during the session Of the
Legislature.
Railroad Commissioner Slotten, who has
1IvCf snf II rrNnI funr fln M Nrl -k., r,e,t
ing OF railroad commissioners paid the
TRIBUNE a visit Tuesday, accompanied
by Miss Nelson, the bright and charming
daughter of Senator Magnus Nelson.
1t is said that the ladies of the w. G. T.
U. have at last come out victorious in their
sensational suit against Mrs. Slaughter.
The latter will be obliged to pay SIS, the
accumulation of rents since she first moved
into the Union building, besides the costs
OF the suit.
Farmer Fields returned from Jamestown
Saturday. He is connected with the land
department of the Northern Pacific and
about when he declares that at least loo, 900
people will be added to North Dakota's
population this season.
Fargo, who was in Bismarck with his
orchestra, was forced to admit, when he
called at City Clerk Bsrett's office, that
the latter's system OF looking after city
affairs was an improvement on his own
and Rupert is no novice.
Charles Kupitz: To-day l made a bet with
Ed. Allen chat the 500 road would not
reach Bismarck this year, though at the
same time | have a faint suspicion that it
will and l hope l will lose the bet. | could
not pay over money more freely. Every
body l have talked with seems to have
great confidence in Bismarck's future.
A Bismarck dispatch to the Minneapolis
journal, Friday, says that several of the
bachelor young farmers of Burleigh
county will at once open correspondence
and exchange references and photographs
with the Philadelphia young lady who
knows of a half dozen Quaker City girls
who would like to marry good, honest
farmers and no dudes, thank you.
There was quite a curiosity on one of
the Nat cars that passed through Tuesday
morning, in the shape OF al indian god, or
IDOL, a monster piece of carved timber al
most forty feet in length. 1t is probably
being shipped from Alaska to the Worlds
Fair in Chicago. The idol is well preserved
and neatly carved and is perhaps centuries