Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-11-27

was argued before Judge Chase Tues
day. Attorney Stoyell appeared for the
plaintiff, and Attorney Register for the
defendant.
A rumor was in circulation last week
that Bill Low, the Sheridan county
ranchman, had been lost on the prairie
in the recent storm. The rumor proves
unfounded. 1t seems, however, that
Mr.. Low had a very unpleasant expert
ence in looking up his stray cattle in the
storm and was out with them several
days. This gave his friends much un-
e%asiness, thus the rumor.
Forty-fve families of farmers from
the German border of Russia arrived
per steamer Saardam in New York Sat-
urday, says the telegraph. Each FAM
lily averaged ten members, all bound for
North Dakota to form a settlement.
They we're strong, healthy looking peo-
pie, we'll supplied with money and ap-
parently a desirable class of citizens.
These Germans are destined for the
west Missouri country.
The recent storm in the northern part
of the state must have been more severe
than at first reported. A large number
of estray cattle are coming into the
Northern Pacific territory daily. They
evidently we're driven before the storm
and are now over a hundred miles from
their range. Scovill at Mckenzie has
picked up over eighty stragglers and at
Dawson it is said there are about 400
head bearing strange brands.
Mrs. Gerald Pierce entertained the
following ladies last Thursday afternoon
in honor If Mrs. James A. Haight:
Mrs. James M. Anderson, Mrs. G. B.
Little, Mrs. Harvey Harris, Mrs. F. V.
Barnes, Mrs. E. H. Wilson, Mrs. L. P.
Baker, Mrs. Asa Fisher, Mrs. w. T.
Perkins, Mrs. J. R. Gage, Mrs. E. S. Al
len, Mrs. o. R. Barnes, Mrs. w. B. Wat
son and Miss Elizabeth Lewis of st.
Paul, Miss Odessa Murphy and Miss
Elizabeth Anderson.
Captain Talbot: We unloaded two
cars of lumber for the Plenty barge line
at the river Tuesday. Four more cars
are expected to-day. We will not COM
mence work until next Monday. There
will only be ten men to start with, six
OF them are carpenters aud are coming
from the east. Work on six of the
barges will be pushed as fast as possible
and completed before spring. It is not
unlikely that eighteen barges in all will
be built and two boats used to haul them
next summer
Letter from Geo. F. Webster. Sioux
City: 1 see from our Sioux City Journal
that the Bismarck TRIBUNE has DIR.
Fraser practicing medicine in Sioux City.
I wish to correct you. DR.. Fraser and
wife are in Orlando. Florida, and will
remain there until next spring when
they will return to Bismarck, which is
and always will be their premanent home.
Kindly note these facts in your paper.
Also state that all parties wishing to
write him should address their mail to
Orlando, Florida.
Col. W. F. Steele greeted his numer-
ous old-time Bismarck friends Saturday
after an absence of two or three years
in Chicago. The contest of Mr.. Steele's
fine tree claim is the principal cause of
the present visit. The law provides that
final proof shall be made on a tree
claim within thirteen years from time of
filing. Mr.. Steele overlooked this pro.
vision and Pat Lyons didn't. Mr.. Steele
say he believes the government will sus-
tain him in equity. He complied with
the law in every other respect faithfully
and has had over eighty acres under Gull
tivation. He set out the trees carefully
year after year until now his claim is &C
knowledged to be the best in the state.
G. R. Williams writes from Butte to
''keep the TRIBUNE coming right along"
and adds: 81 I'm having an elegant
trade since I moved into my new loca-
ton in the business center. I hope your
self and all the old timers are doing we'll
and will hold the old town down until
times get better there again. I don't
think you will have to wait long. I feel
confident good old Bismarck will go to
the front in good shape once more and
when she does take a turn for the better
I believe old Bismarck will be the best
town in the country. I expect to return
to the good old town when my lease ex-
pires a year from next June. In the
meantime I will be found rustling in
the greatest mining camp on earth. My
best wishes to all old timers. Lots of
democrats out here"
Farmer Roop: I cleaned my wheat
thoroughly and took it to Steele. I
wasn't satisfied with the elevators offer
because I didn't believe I should be
charged with dockage of four pounds. I
asked for a car but was told blythe agent