Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-07-21
TWENTY YEARS ago.
..o.her Interesting Batch CT Items
Regarding Early Days In
North Dakota.
CANA Predictions Regarding the
Future Which Sound Funny"
At This Time.
TWENTY YEARS 400.

TWENTY a AUO.
Inflammation Gathered From the Bis
marck Tribune Of July IS, 1873.
Gen. Geo. B. Dandy, in charge of the
construction Of the new calvary post at
Fort Lincoln, arrives. From $50 to 200
men employed.
John p. Dunn, James A. Emmons aud
Wm.M Mercer we're appointed Burleigh
oounty's first commissioners, instead of
Emmons, Mercer and Daily reported
last week.
Amount of wheat that will be exported
from along the line of the Northern
Pacific this year (1873) after a careful
estimate, in Minnesota and Dakota, $50
900 bushels.
Residence and ice house of Charley
Roberts, about half a mile from Fargo,
struck by Tightening, July 10, 1873.
Board of county commissioners meet
July 1G, '73, and organized by electing
James A. Emmons, chairman, j. s. Car
vplle was elected clerk and the following
appointmen,s were made, Dan Williams,
register of deeds; H. N.Ross, sheriff; j.
S. Caryelle, Judge of probate; B. +.
Slaughter, coroner; John Bowen, sur
yeyor; John A. Stoyell, county attorney.
Tie county was divided into three pre-
eiucts-Painted Woods, Bismarck and
Apple Creek. Justices of the peace
were chosen as follows: Jas. H. Taylor
Painted Woods; Jas. B. Bailey and Fred
Holle mbaek, Bismarck and M. A. Hut
Crimson, Apple Creek. Constables-
VIM. Howard, j. @. Adams, Edward
Hackett and Adam Mann.
Steamer Durfee arrives from up river
on 18th. The Miner from Yankton, on
same date. The Ida Stockdale is trans.
terred to the Coulson line by the Nor
thern Pacific.
Splendid hotel service along the line
Of the Northern Pacific, spoken of espec.
tally at the Headquarters, Fargo. The
dining place. at jamestown is also good
aud Bismarck has three or four good
houses.
First Presbyterian church trustees
elected on the 18th inst, as follows: j.
B. Ford, w. S. Brown, G. A. Lonnsberry,
]. W. Fisher, w. h. White, w. B. Shaw,
]. 0. Adams, c. f. Hobert and j. R.
Jackson.
D. C. Smith announces the opening of
a photograph gallery.
Oscar Ward has five acres OF fine
potatoes-now as big as walnuts.
Issue of July l6, 1873, says: Bismarck
will be something more than a village.
Within the past twenty years many
cities have sprung up on the Missouri
and Mississippi rivers, and just as sure
as the sun rises and sets Bismarck will
not be an exception, but from it's sur-
roundings is sure to lead them ALL"
Under date of June 20, 1873, George
Alfred Townsend writes to the Cincin-
natl Commercial as follows: II presume
there is no other spot IN the globe, at
this moment, where you al SEQ such
hostillties and the steam locomotive
confronting each other. The river at
Bismarck is half a mile wide. On one
side is the war whoop-on the other the
steam whoop; on one side Bismarck, the
last memorial of the Premier of Europe,
with 600 civilized people living under
shelter, on the other the most numerous
Add hostile band of Indians on the
American continent. The claim-squatter
and the railroad gambler and sutler live
as close to the mounted Dakotas as do
You of Cincinnati to Covington. y =
10 go from st. Paul to Bismarck and
return, stopping one night at Bismarck,
now takes four days and five nights.
Inc hotels are comfortable"
Father Keller of Duluth, preached his
alst sermon at Bismarck, July 18th, and
It's expected a Catholic chapel will be
erected at once.
lied River Star comedies that Bismarck
~ as large as Moorhead and Fargo com-
bined.
fifty or sixty buildings in Bismarck
on Nam street.
twenty-five Indiana editors visit Bis
marck.
Camp Hancock was established Aug.
. lo72, by 70. D. Seventeenth Infantry,
"nlch arrived from below on the steamer
1aa Stockdale. Mrs. Linda Slaughter
afrlSed with the troops and DR.. Slaugh-
sr was post surgeon. She established
'ue arst Sunday school August Oath.
m Board of Equalization.
me board met again Wednesday and
un'shed up the work of e%qualizing by
"wnships. Quite a number of persons
Interested in city property appeared and
maoe requests for reduction Afidavits
VI credits and Indebtedness were received
from Joseph Hare, John Yegen aud M.
nnpp'nger' The property Of the North
Dakota Harness company was listed for
. sn at 5000. To-day is the last day
allowed hv 1n- -. T.. ~-1