Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-15

from this station.
The bids for cutting hay on the bot
tom lands, which were advertised for by
the board of commissioners we're opened
at Don Saturday. There were five bid
ders, and Michael T. O'Connor being the
highest bidder, was given the privilege
for the sum of $50.
Mrs. E. H. Wilcox has a flower garden
at her residence, on the corner of Front
and Third streets, that is a credit to the
city. 1t is filled with the choicest plants
in full bloom, and as all the work has
been done by Mrs. Wilcox herself, it is
something to boast of.
DR.. Dunn: I haven't much doubt but
that Harrison will be successful. He is
sound on the money question, the old
soldiers are for him, and he has made a
good president. There is no reason why
the people of North Dakota should vote
for Cleveland as against Harrison.
The street crossing at Rosser and
Second streets is in a decidedly bad con-
dition. The planks are loose, and if one
steps on one end the other flies up into
the air, giving the unlucky pedestrian a
somersault. Persons walking this cross
ing after dark should be careful indeed.
Two of the new engines, a trial of
which was made recently in a run from
st. Paul to Staples Mills, passed through
last evening. They were numbered l
and 2, and belong to E. and NJ. G..
railway. They we're monsters, an ordi-
nary engine appearing small beside one
of them.
There was a lite runaway on the street
Saturday. It was engineered by two nerv-
GUS bronchos but didn't amount to much.
There we're two pigs in. the wagon, and
the owner of the animals is congratulate
ing himself that they weren't of the
blind order, or they might have broken
and spilled out.
How much difference in the senti-
ment of the farmers since Thursdays
rain! The winds of the past two days
dried up the soil at a rate which fore
told great damage to crops, and the
time was a crucial one. Then came the
ram, and now, it is said, the crop is
assured.
A Washington special under date Of
the 9Th inst. says that in the days ses-
sion, John Harold was awarded a con-
tract at $4,000 for surveys in Hettinger
county, N. D. Frank w. Alvord got a
contract at $3.50 in the same county.
Both of these persons are we'll known in
Bismarck.
Fargo Forum: That headstone found
at Bathgate turns out to have been the
baggage brought from the east by Ed
itor Hoskins when he started the Bath
gate Sentinel. Now look at him-clerk
of the supreme court. It's thought if
he'd brought two "Hosk" might now be.
at least, an c. j.
Jupiter Pluvius is exceeding kind.
After the scorching wind of the past
two days he opened the hood-gates and
gladdened the hearts of dusty mortals
and anxious farmers with a rain, re-
freshing, cooling and soaking in it's
fall. Jupiter has a warm side for the
Missouri slope.
Chief of Police Mckenzie: I want
better order in the city, after night, and
I'm going to have it. If the laws are
not obeyed, those who break them must
abide by the results. I may get laid out
in an endeavor to preserve order, but I
am willing, and ready. 1 mean this,
right from the shoulder.
jamestown Alert, Friday: Hon. Harry
Oliver of Lisbon, representative from
Ransom county in the legislature, was in
the city to day on his way to Bismarck.
Crops are a little more forward in Ran
som county than here, says MI. Oliver,
and the prospects are good if the frost
is not a premature visitor this year.
Agent Davidson has a passion vine, in
full blossom in his conservatory at
Braeside. One of the blossoms was seen
at his Office, and is truly beautiful. One
of the pecullarities of this flower is that
it lasts but one day, closing the night
after it first blossoms, and never Open
ing again.
The city team is still at work upon the
improvements on Mandan avenue. The
arrangements for a better system of
drainage are nearly completed, and when
finished, there will be no more trouble
from the periodical foundations, to
which that portion of the city has of late
been subjected.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week will occur the races of the
Grand Forks driving association. Races
have taken place at Alexandria, Detroit,
Casselton and Fargo, and Grand Forks
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