Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-26

that section, says that he has finished
the harvesting of a 60-acre piece which
will run Is bushels to the acre.
Engineer Towar arrived in the city
Monday, from Sioux City. He comes
up to continue the work of surveying the
river and will organize a force to start in
at the mouth of the Cannon Ball river
and proceed down stream making mean.
behring's and soundings.
The Yates ball game, which has been
hanging fire for so long, has come to a
focus, and is an assured thing. Manager
Falconer received a telegram Mond ay
saying that the Yates team will be here
on Friday and the game will be
played at the ball park Saturday.
E. H. Milhsm. past colonel Minnesota
division Sons of Veterans, U. S. A. of
st. Paul, Mimi, who is returning from
the national encampment of the Sons OF
Veterans at Helena, is stopping in the
city for a few days visiting exist.
Paulites, now residing in Bismarck. The
genial colonel says he has seen some
pretty good country during his travel,
his preference rather ~inclines toward the
Missouri slope.
jamestown Alert: Dennis Hannafn
is informed that Hon. E. T. Kearney, a
farmer, politician, and a democrat, of
Stutsman county, is ready to join the
suicide club. Mr.. Kearney was a men,
Der Of the last legislature, and was
known as the Holman of the house. In
the democratic county convention held
Thursday, Mr.. Kearney claims he was
jobbed, but has been as yet unable to
fully locate exactly the why and the
wherefore thereof.
Fargo Forum: Our old friend Major
Britton of the Edgeley Sentinel, seems to
be in clover these days. Recently he re-
ported a bran new outfit in the Office and
again report comes that E. J. has bought
the building now occupied by the
Edgeley bank and best of all, has paid
for it cash down. The Major will be in
his new quarters by September, hand
somer and wittier than aver. We will
shake with you old man-even if your
press is not "duly mortgaged."
President Stockbridge in Fargo Forum:
The Worlds Fair board has made ar
engagements with the state agricultural
college and United States experimental
station to furnish the display of grasses
for the Worlds Fair. We have been at
work on this for two years, and have a
very fine exhibit. We will also furnish
specimens of the varieties of grain, of
which we have over a hundred on our
own farm, while the commission will
collect the general display Of grain.
One of the most absolutely heartless
cases of cruelty to animals wds wit
messed last evening. A tin oil can was
led to the tail of a horse, some distance,
out of town, and the animal was started.
Becoming maddened with fright the
poor beast tore over the prairies and
into the city, the can rafting on behind.
Surely the perpetrator of the deed, who
ever he may be, must be possessed Of a
heart-like one of those which is dried up
and rattles within him like the shriveled
! meat Of a walnut.
Alderman Patterson and Reid, the
sprinter, had a narrow escape from alb
solute humiliation, Friday. They
we're sitting in a buggy together, when
Flynn's team came laundering down the
street, and before they realized it, the
team was close upon them. A sharp cut
of the whip was given the horse they
were driving, and she leaped to one side,
the runaways passing within q foot of
them. Ed says there wouldn't have been
q grease spot left to tell the tale, had
they been struck.
Captain Braithwaite has received q
letter from Dan Maratta, asking him to
make all possible endeavors to organize
a democratic club in this city. The cap
tain has sent off for the rules of organi.
~zation, and as soon as they arrive, the
work of organization will be begun. The
captain says he Thinks fifty members
can be enrolled without much trouble
j. G.. Rapel3e says, in this same connec'
ton, that the democratic citizens OF
Mandan want a copy of the rules, as they
intend to organize also.
Il. L. Reade has received from n Of
the large fire apparatus furnishing com'
panies in Chicago, a cut of the new style
hose wagon, with description and price
The wagon as represented, weighs from
1900 to 1900 pounds, will carry from
1000 to 1900 feet of hose, and can b.
arranged for one or two horses, as re
quired. Ten men could ride easily or
such a wagon to a fire, without the leas
trouble, and the advantage over the old
style hose carts is at onc apparent. I
is not probable that Bismarck will &c
one of them Just at present, but some