Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-26
Monday was a splendid bird dog and

70 tne nosplGal wednesday Win q relapse
Of the grip.
Frank Bly,, who drives Oscar Wards
milk wagon, is in the hospital suffering
with lagrippe.
The tree culture contest case of Ship
ley vs.. Cheney from Dickinson has been
decided by the local land office in favor
of the claimant Cheney.
Thos. Kelly of Emmons county and
Mrs. E. N. Corey of Bismarck we're
married Wednesday at high mass in the
Catholic church by Father Martin.
J. H. Worst: We have all the snow in
Emmons county that any one could
wish for. You have no snow here COM
pared to what there is down u way.
In the land office Wednesday the follow
ing homestead entries were made: Ham
let E. Murray, Steele; Gottlieb Hard
meyer and Romanus Eachem, Richard
ton, and G. Eli Gullickson, Hebron.
Homestead entries have recently been
made in the land Office here by Mary
Butler of Mandan and Elizabeth G. Kress
of Tappan. The energetic women of the
west are going to have their share of the
public domain.
On Monday last Alex. Mckenzie,
whose ghost has bothered some people
so much during the past six months,
was in Rockford, ILL.,, attending to some
important private business. His Ger
man physicians have brought him out
ell right.
At Winona on the 18th inst little
Jimmy Walden, aged 3 years, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Walden, died. He was
buried in the yard back of the house,
but the remains will be brought to Bis
marck in May and laid by the side of the
two little brothers who have gone be-.
fore.
Fifteen recruits in charge of Sergeant
Lenning arrived on Saturdays train
from st. Louis, en- route to Fort Yates.
One of the country's brave defenders
WIS possessed of a large sized "jag," and
was about as helpless a piece of hui
manity as n ever sees. He looked as
if he had run against a buzz saw. His
face was off color.
A stated conclave was held Thursday
by Tancred Commandery No. l Knights
Templar, and A. J. Curr1e and T. G.
Ransom of Bismarck, and w. L. Rich
ards and G. E. Sharp of Dickinson, were
inflated into the mysteries of the order
of the Red Cross. After the ceremonies,
a grand banquet was given at the Sheri-
dan, and Judging from the menu card,
the tastes of the most epicurean Templar
must have been gratifed.
In the local land office the celebrated
tree-claim contest of Pat. Lyons We. w.
F. Steele, at Steele, has been decided in
favor of Lyons. Steele failed to prove
up on it at the expiration of thirteen
years, and therefore Lyons claim is held
TO be good. In the early years Steele
spent a great deal Of money and time in
attempting to cultivate trees and make
them grow, but during the past four or
five years Mr.. Steele has been living in
Chicago.
The following item appears in the
Missoula, (Mont.) Gazette: 1.-The new
bank which is shortly to be started here
will be called the National Bank OF
Missoula.' It will have a capital OF
$4,000 and be an enterprise by Dakota
men who have visited Missoula and are
pleased with the outlook. The gentle
man who is most directly concerned in
the new venture is w. Westly Allen,
formerly cashier of the st. Johns bank
of st. Johns, N. D. 1t is supposed that
Judge Francis of Bismarck is also inter.
ested."
Frank Moorhouse has purchased the
stationery stock of the Frisby estate and
yesterday commenced business at the
old stand in the First National bank
building. He will handle a full line OF
magazines, newspapers, periodicals..
books, stationery, musical instruments,
music, ETC., etc. He has also added a
line Of the best cigars, and intends to
keep everything usually sold in a first.
class stationery store. 1t is Franks first
venture, and the TRIBUNE is pleased to
see another of Bismarck's young men
go into business in the capital city.
He.e is the way the jamestown Alert
looks at it: "The Bismarck TRIBUNE OBJ
jects to the imputation that Bismarck is
quiet commercially, because there are
warning factions in Burleigh county
Other towns in the state have equally as
stubborn contentious, and their quarrels
are just as frequently aired. If tbes
municipal and personal difficulties de-
stroy good feeling, and work to the dis
advantage of n community, they do in
all, and Bismarck caunot be made the
exception. The TRIBUNE truthfully says
that no more Dublic sniriked c~itizens live