Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-08
dressed to County Superintendent

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Judge Edgerley in Fridays Forum:
The railroad commissioners came in
from Minneapolis, over the Milwaukee
road, concluding the inspection Of all
the lines in the state, except the North
western and Great Northern. The men,
bers 60 home from here tonight, Chair
man Walsh to Grand Forks; George
Harmon to Mandan; Mr.. Slotten to
Wahpeton and I go to Bismarck. The
commissioners start out again from
Fargo, for a tour over the Great North
ern on July 18th. Crops are looking
good over the state, and the people seem
contented and happy.
A good story is told by Alderman
Frank Reade, on himself. He received
a letter, Friday, addressed to Frank
Reed, at Bismarck, and opening it, began
to read. The letter began: my dear
brother: I am sorry to hear that you
are in prison." This was as far as Mr..
Reade got. He was fairly certain of the
fact that he was not very extensively in
any prison, and turning over the envel-
| ope, he looked at the postmark. Upon
investigation, he found that the letter
was meant for Frank Reed, who is in
Jail for burglary. Mr.. Reade says there
are many unpleasant features about hav-
ing namesakes in prison.
It is understood that Fetzer's orches@
ira will entertain the crowd on the
Fourth, with %enlivening music. In the
morning they will march up the street,
and scatter to the crowds music galore,
and of a sweetness beyond comparison.
Again at noon, when the dusty mortals
are resting from the sports of the morn
ing and preparing for the afternoons
program, will they soothe the listeners
with liquidly harmonious strains of
melody. Fetzer's orchestra is we'll
known, and music, with them, is a sort
of second nature, SO that the crowds
may rest assured of a musical program
of an excellent description.
G. NJ. Dahl received a letter from
Washburn Thursday last, in which was
enclosed a letter from New York, saying
that an e~ight-year-old boy, who had Just
crossed the ocean, was stranded in
Brooklyn, having lost his ticket through
to this place, where he was bound, and
that he was without a cent of money.
MIR. Dahl telegraphed Immediately to
the agent in Brooklyn, to furnish the
youngster with a ticket. AS the boy is
so young, and cannot speak a word of
English, his position in Brooklyn, with
out a cent OF money, or an acquaintance,
and without means of transportation to
the only place where he has friends, is
decidedly tough.
It will be remembered that mention
was made in the TRIBUNE of a recent date
of the danger of the presence of dogs on
the race course. Even while practice pre-
paratory to the racing was going on,
dogs were ever present on the track, and
accidents were narrowly averted. On
Monday, in the finish of one of the races,
Russ Bottoms horse, in ~endeavoring to
slow up, tripped across one of the dogs
that ran between his heels, and fell,
throwing Russ to the ground and break
ing his shoulder. The little fellow did
not realize the serious character of the
accident at first, and did not seem to
think himself badly hurt. It seems
strange that anyone should allow a dog
to follow him, after the warning of a day
or so ago.
The Mandan Pioneer takes the Fargo
Republican to task for some of it's COM
ments on the tournament. It says:
The Pioneer can tell more about the
tournament. It can tell the Republican
that the Fargo department had three
eastern professionals engaged for the
"hub aud hub" race. Second the "good
looking" fellows in the parade, were not
in the running team. AS parade orna
ments they we're par-excellence, but in
the very essential qualities of muscle,
bone and sinew they were in a deplor-
able condition and in order to keep up
their end the Yerxas and Rescues had to
import mon in order to Honestly (O win
the contests they entered" With all
their sharp practices they we're beaten at
their own game by "kids" from Bismarck
and Mandan.
The watchfulness OF a special police.
man is proverbial. When one of the
performers donned a countryman'e
attire, and made his way from the
crowdI into the ring Friday, he was
Immediately grabbed by Policeman
Dresser, who started to escort him with
out the tent. After some persuasion
however, he left him go back, and wher
the seemingly drunken countryman re
peated the performance, that policeman
thought he had done wrong in allowing
him to 60 back. And then when the
countryman dropped his tattered gar