Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-11
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CITY AND COUNTY,


Stock shipments from the west are
beginning to pass through.
Wolves are reported thick up in the
northern part of the county.
A match is on between Tommy Glea-
son and Ike Hayes, for September 22d.
Everything IN police circles is quiet,
and the hobos are becoming less numer-
Gus.
Harvesting is going on busily over in
Morton county, with prospects of q good
yield.
Mrs. G. r. Williams and daughter
Anna, now of Butte, Mont, are expected
IN the city on a visit some time this
month.
Tom Fortune has finished hauling
stone for the foundation of the capitol
extension.
The crossing at Main and Fourth
streets is in need of attention from city
carpenters.
There was no business at the land
Office Saturday ,tfor the first time in a
considerable period.
Frank Falkenstine, who recently re-
turned from Vermillion, is reading law
in the office of Geo. W. Newton.
The steamer Rosebud left with a load
of -four for Fort Stevenson Tuesday,
and will return with a cargo of wheat.
Tom Riley of the depot is on the sick
list for a day or so, but it is hoped he
will come around all right in a day or so.
There is probably no truth in the re-
port that Messrs. Bly, and Day we're
held up by road agents on Springdale
creek.
Ed. Sloan has been busy for a day or
60 repairing leaks in the water mains,
but now has everything in irst.class
shape again.
Michael T. O'Connor's grading outfit
is back from the Minot country, where
the men have been engaged upon the
500 extension.
No challenge will be issued by the
lean men, until the present warmth
shall have passed away, and then some
thing will drop.
The board of university and school
lands held another meeting Thursday to
allow bills and discuss a plan for the Sc
lection of state lands.
Sheriff Donnelly has a tame robin,
which flies about the city during the
day, returning to the court house at in
tervals for food and water.
The mail clerks on the run from St.
Paul to Bismarck now stop over twenty
four hours at this point, instead of
doubling back as heretofore.
The little son of Matt Clooten died OF
cholera morbus Friday night, and
funeral services we're held Saturday:
The force of convicts at the capitol
was doubled Saturday and five more
were put on the brickyard force on
Monday.
Warden Boucher: Yes, We are to
have q crematory, and a good one. 1t
will be the first of the kind in the state,
and I think in the northwest anywhere.
Governor .Shortridge has come back
from Fargo as far as jamestown and
joined the campers-and nothing has
dropped in Agricultural college matters
yet.
Game Warden Scott says he is getting
some good evidence against those who
are slaughtering chickens contrary to
law, and that something will drop pretty
soon.
Orr Sanders, private secretary to Gov.
ernor Shortridge, who has been sick
during the past week, is gaining slowly
and expects to he at his post of duty in a
few days.
Switchman Crenshaw of Glendive,
who had his hip knocked out of place
while coupling cars, passed through on
No. 4 last Saturday, en- route to Brainerd
for treatment.
Jakob Roll of Jewell, made timber
culture proof, and John Caspryk OF
Washburn, and w. L. Morgan Of Ashley,
made homestead proofs at the land
Office Thursday.
Some one is a~bstracting ice from the
back door of the TRIBUNE office, each
evening, and if the practice ceases,
things will be more satisfactory-to the
TRIBUNE at least.
Hugh Campbell was up from En-.
mons county Saturday, and says har.
vesting has begun in various parts of the
county. Some crops are very fair, while
others will be equally poor.
Harvesting goes merrily on. The
heat has ripened everything, and wheat
in the milk has gone with the rest. The
corn crop promises we'll, and many ex-
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