Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-29
The 8ismarek Tribume.
CITY AND COUNTY.

The city water fountains were turned
on Saturday.
Frank Moorhouse has sold his prop
erty on Fifth street to VIM. Laist.
Even in Morton county they have gone
back to the committee of five" custom.
Surveyor General Williams will prob
ably head the delegation to Grand
Forks.
Colonel Little is having the ruins of
his house torn down preparatory to
rebuilding.
The wind blew with a velocity of over
fifty miles an hour at 5 O'Clock Wedns-
day evening.
Eighty.two one hundreths of an inch
of rainfall Tuesday evening according to
Observer Hobbs.
Charley Wachter is furnishing a beau
tiful little cottage on the south side of
the track in elegant style. Why?
It is learned that Captain and Mrs.
Flick of Emmons county miraculously
escaped injury in a runaway recently.
One ind one-ffth fare is given by the
Northern Pacific to the Stockmen's as
soclation meeting in Dickinson to-day.
And there is a we'll grounded rumor
that the Northern Pacific will erect an
imposing depot in Bismarck this sum-
mer.
Sid Smith: 1 got through seeding on
my place before the rain. About 100
acres in. I have Meals place yet to
seed.
John Hoagland, the veteran lumber
dealer and contractor, is having his office
enlarged, repapered and renovated gen.
orally.
The steamer Bachelor is being re-
paired on the ways and it will be about
two weeks before she will slide into the
stream.
Spring. cen though deprived of the
gentle Annie" adjunct, would be hailed
with Joy by the thoroughly rain. soaked
populace.
T. P. Healy, a brother of Anderson
Healy of this city, is now one of the
Minneapolis.
The new Office of the Gull River Lum-
Der company at the new location, corner
OF Main and Eight streets, is nearing
completion.
George Sheppardson, the young man
who has been confined IN the Lamborn
hospital for some time, died Sunday of
consumption.
The new city council is getting right
down to business. The meeting Monday
night shows that it's q new broom and
sweeps clean.
1t was the Pioneer Hose company, not
Hook and Ladder company, that recently
received the large picture from the
Fargo rescues
The republican state league meets
May Sd. A meeting of the Bismarck
league ought to be held this week to
elect delegates.
The motion on the part of the Brandt
interest to appoint a receiver for the
steamer Abner O'Neal, was denied by
Judge Winchester.
Dennis Hannifin: They're playing
cards to suit me. The old COMMITTEES
OF tive" cannot be improved upon except
they reduce it to one.
The case Of James B. Glasscock, who
was before Justice Fort, on charge o.
horse stealing, was dismissed, and the
defendant discharged.
Pat Kelly has rented the Hayes farm
and If good farming counts for anything
Pat will get twenty-five bushels to the
acre off of that land this season.
At a special meeting of the jamestown
city council, the salary of the city clerk
was raised to 5000 per annum, and the
salary of the city treasurer to $500.
Gerald Pierce heads the Burleigh
county delegation to Grand Forks.
There was no opposition-why should
there be? This is a year for harmony.
Mr.. Frank Moorhouse bought his
Fifth street property a year ago, and
made the sale to VIM. Laist at an ad-
vance of 40 per cent. The inference is
evident.
A. Currie, who has just returned from
the eastern part of the state, reports the
weather there as the ''alter ego" of that
with which Bismarck is at present
afflicted.
There never wa a more harmonious
convention than that which assembled
Saturday, Notwithstanding the fact that
only fifteen out of thirty.ope, precincts
were represented.
Alex. Capebart sold $1,5O5 worth of
trotting stock in Fargo last Friday.
Quite and advertisement for Burleieh
county's enterprising stockmen, and for
stock raising in general.
J.P. Kenyon, city treasurer, who was
employed in the Bismarck National bank
eight years ago, has returned to the
Old place, having accepted a position
with the Bismarck bank.
Hereafter, any one wishing a draw or
hack will know where to find it. Ac.
cordlng to the order of Mayor Allen.
their headquarters will be in the depot
square, and nowhere else.
Oscar Will sold his residence on Fifth
street to F. FL. Register for $3.50. NJ
Will does not intend to leave the city bv
any means. bat is looking for another
location. He is open for a trade.
Mr.. Alex. 'Capehart has disposed y,
News Boy" his stand stallion. and
Two others, to Mr.. Leach. a bonanza
farmer, living sixteen miles from Fargo
Mr.. Leach was in the city Monday.