Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-04
white metal there. and they all seem to
be as silvery as Standish.

\ game Of ball between the lean and
stout men of the city is the latest thing
suggested. DR.. F. d. kendrick and
Mayor Allen are mentioned for the
captaincy Of the opposing teams.
The pay Office of the postal clerks on
the run from Bismarck to Miles City
has been established at Bismarck, in.
stead of jamestown, as heretofore.
About $3.50 is disbursed monthly.
Vice-President Stevenson is out at
Spokane, and will probably pass through
the city in a few days on his return east.
The local faithful may catch a glimpse
of him as he rides by. if they are watch
full.
The force of men at the brickyards
was increased by ten Tuesday, and
there are now sixteen convicts employed
there. Another brickmaker has been
employed, also, and will begin work to-
day.
There has been an increase Of $3.50
in the total valuation Of city lots since
last year, the hospital and adjacent lots
appearing upon the tax list this year.
Total personal valuation of the city this
year is $780,, 1868.
And now Bismarck is going to be in it
still more. The steam merry.go.round
proprietor has been looking over the
ground and thinks there is a grand
opening for his machine soon. Save
your nickles. kids.
Missouri slope farmers might put up
all available hay this fall to excellent
advantage. With a price of $50 a ton
in Europe, and in other places CORE
%spondingly high, hay is rather a desir-
able commodity just at present.
State Examiner Peabody was before
Judge Winchester Monday for an
order to the officials of the Darlington
bank to permit an examination. Mr..
Peabody says he sent his deputy to the
institution and he was refused adj
m~ittance.
Fast riding on the streets is being dis
c%ouraged. Two of the attaches of the
Sheridan house. who we're tearing, up
and down the streets were arrested last
Monday by Chief McGillis and taken be-
fore Justice Chase; Who fined them 50
+, and costs,
Clarence Price writes from Cincinnati
and sends regards to all of the boys, and
says he is homesick for the sights and
ozone of the Missouri slope. He is nov
concerned in the firm Of Price, Gather
t. Price, doing business as manufacture.
er's agents.
Some of the train brakemen on trains
Nos. l and 2 have been dispensed with
on the Missouri division and the trains
run but one brakeman. AS the trains
pass over the division at night, this can
be done and the expenses cut down to
that extent.
The Stanton Pilot chronicles a visit to
the Josephus Plenty mines in Mercer
county. The Pilot says a force of men
is at work getting the schultz in order,
and a barge is moored and will be loaded
in about ten days and towed down river
by the Castalia.
The Western Union Telegraph com.
pany is another institution to cut down
it's forces, and several employees have
been discharged along it's line Of Offices.
No change has been made in the local
Office and probably none will be made
for the present.
Another Of the fast riders vas brought
before Justice Chase Tuesday, and a
fine of S. and costs assessed against
him, eggregating 50 in all. 1t is calcu-
lated that an evenings race on Main
street hereafter will cost the participants
about $40 each.
The business of the lan6 office has
been large, as usual, during the month
of July. In all, there were sixty-three
entries made, and IN average Of 10000
acres thus filed upon. One hundred
and two proofs were made, aggregating
1890 acres proved upon.
Austin Logan says that if the news
papers don't stop raising the stakes for
that horse race at Steele on Aug. 12,some
one will go broke. The jamestown
Alert has the purse up to $400, and it
will probably reach the $1,000 notch be-
fore the race comes off.
The number Of convict: in the peni.
Tertiary wa decreased by four Sunday,
the times of four men, two from James
town and two from Grand Forks, each
serving q year for larceny, having OK
pired. The men were sent back whence
they came in the evening.
An order has been handed down by
the supreme court denying the petition
for a rehearing in the Yorke divorce
case. The matter will now be remanded
In the diatrick cOnrt of Caaa county. and