Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-10

hundred dollars worth of paint would
make Pembina look $1,000 worth better
There are about a half dozen old build
ings which it would pay the town t.
purchase and make fuel of. How is il
in Grand Forks?] [? Bismarck.
Advices from Yokohama state that thu
first Of the Northern Pacific trans-Paci.
fc steamers has left that port en- route
for Tacoma. This steamer is Phranang
and she has $50 passengers on board
IS of whom are destined for Victoria
1875 for Tacoma, and so for San Fran.
cisco. The Phranang is expected tc
arrive at Tacoma the latter part of. nex'
week, and great preparations are being
made in that city to celebrate the event
Other steamers will follow a fortnight
apart.
Let NJ one who is interested in the
city, fail to attend the meeting at the
city hall tonight. There should Ger.
tainly be a celebration on the glorious
Fourth, and the only way to make it q
success is to take hold with both hands
and push. A good ball game will be ar.
ranged, and with a little support from
the citizens, there can be horse racing,
and other sports of an amusing and in.
teresting description. Let everyone
come.
Fl. A. Lyon and Mrs. Mech, both of
Mandan, were married at st. Paul, We'd
nesday by Bishop Walker. The bishop,
as was each invited guest, was presented
with a card, on one side of which was
the menu of the wedding feast, and on
the other the name of the recipient, be-
meath which was fastened a sprig of
natural rose. The cards we're very dainty
and beautiful. The bishop has returned
from St. Paul and has gone to Fort
Yates.
Mandan Pioneer: Bishop Walker,
assisted by Rev. G. A. Chambers, the
pastor and MI. Ogden, of Fairbault uni
versity, conducted services at the Epis-
copal church on Sunday evening. The
building was crowded to excess. The
bishops sermon was unusually interest
ing, and was delivered in his usual able
and enthusiastic name He took for
his text the last verse of the sixth chap.
ter of st. Matthew. During the service,
the infant daughter of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Thos. Wilkinson was baptized by the
bishop.
jamestown Alert, June 7: A special
cur bearing the Wisconsin delegation on
their return from the national editorial
convention, at San Francisco, was at.
tached to train No. 4 last night. Among
the party were Joe NJ. Chapple and wife,
formerly of Grand Rapids, in this state.
joe is now connected with a paper at
Ashland, and is said to be doing we'll.
Mrs. Chapple stopped off here and went
south on the valley train this morning
to visit relatives and old.time Dakota
friends.
The Grand Rapids Eagle of the 9th
ult., gives an account of the death of
Mrs. Sarah M. Maze of that place. It
says that the deceased leaves four
children to mourn her loss: Mr.. w. R.
Maze, of the Eagles editorial staff; Mrs.
M. D. Folger, Miss Lulu E. Maze and
Harry j. Maze, all of this city. w. R.
Maze will be remembered as formerly
register of deeds of MCLEAN county, and,
also editor and proprietor at one time of
the Washburn Times, and is well-known
throughout this section of North Da-
kota.
The mean temperature for the month
of May, 1892, is lower by 2.9 degrees
than for the same month in any year
since 1875. The next lowest meat was
in 1888, 1872 degrees. The total de-
fciency in temperature during the month
was 249 degrees. From the first to the
Goth of the month there we're but four
days upon which there was no precipita.
ton. The precipitation each day, how
ever, was light, for the average precipi-
tation for the month of May, in eighteen
years, is 2.61 inches, while for the month
of May, 1892, it was but 1.79 inches, a
deficiency of 80 inches.
Sioux City Journal: The river fell
one point at Sioux City, Monday, but a
rise of six inches at Buford, and one of
one-nineth feet at Bismarck were re-
ported yesterday morning. Since May
2Ist the river has risen four feet at Blu
ford, and over two at Bismarck.
Observer Purssell says that this may be
the June rise, but if it is it will last for
a number of weeks, and probably well
into July. 1t will take ten days or more
fol, the rise to reach this point. 1t will
be a week coming from Pierre, where
the stream is still slowly falling.
just an example Of the way business
is done in the capital city. Just after
dinner, yesterday, as a couple of the
city dads were wandering along toward