Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-22
The Bismarck Tribune.
CITY AND COUNTY.

John Hoaglard is out again after a
siege Of the grip.
E. F. Higbee has been laid up with
grip for several days.
The 1898 taxes are coming into the
county treasury-slowly.
District court has adjourned until Feb.
5, when some court cases are to be heard
4. Healy is still quite i'll, and is I'm.
able to be up or attend to business mat.
:ers.
Rufus Ullum is taking the school cen.
eus at present, and will finish his work in
several days.
Lieut.. Wood OF Fort Yates, has gone to
F ort Leavenworth, HAS,. to pass Christ.
mas with his father.
Auditor Porter's statement as to state
finances is exciting considerable com.
ment about the city.
Straw rides are becoming popular
with the young people and n OF them
vas enjoyed last evening.
Superintendent Wilson will pay of the
railroad boys next Saturday. giving them
their cash before Christmas.
Clerk James Murphy of the land de-
partment has had q pretty serious strug-
gle with the grip for the past week.
Mandan is considering the organiza-
ton Of a choral union under the leader
ship of Professor Conover Of this city.
Emmons county boomers are en-
~deavoring to get a colony of twenty
dunkards from Indiana to locate there.
Geo. Kropp Of Dawson, has been ap-
pointed receiver of the Dawson bank, on
the recommendation of State Examiner
Peabody.
Rovey, who was injured in the mill a
week OF so ago, is getting along nicely,
and may be able to 60 to work again in
a month.
There has been no deal made yet for
tn e Hollembaek store, but one is On foot
wherein it will probably be secured by
town parties.
A competent school teacher can learn
Of a situation that will pay from s75 to
sl0O a month by addressing the state
superintendent.
The merchant who sprinkles q little
sawdust or ashes in front Of his business
place to-day, is nothing less than a pub
lie benefactor.
The county commissioners met Satur-
day with Commissioners Ecklund and
Cahall present. Some bills we're al
lowed, and the board adjourned till De.
cember 29th.
Jack Smith, who was confined in Jail
recently by Judge Chase, to await an
examination by the county commission
ers, has been ordered removed to the
hospital for treatment.
DR.. Kendrick is out his grip" con-
tanning his medicines and other n%ecessi-
ties in the art of healing-some one
borrowed it the other day when the doc
tor wasn't looking, and he's failed to re-
turn it thus far.
1t is reported that L. n. Griffin ran
for sheriff out in Fairhaven, Wash, and
was successful by an overwhelming maj
GRITTY. Jesse Frye is city attorney, and
all the ex.North Dakotans seem to be de-
cidedly in it out there.
Rev. G. A. ChambersGeceived q tele-
gram to-day. announcing the death of
his brother Jno. R. Chambers, New York
city, at the age of IS. The deceased had
been an invalid for some time, and his
death was not unexpected.
Pete Cullon, q soldier at Fort Yates,
walked into an air hole and was drowned
last Tuesday, while crossing the ice from
Winona. Cullon was SO years Of age,
and was partly under the influence of
liquor when the accident occurred.
Burleigh county had a warrant against
its neighbor, Mclean, for a sum of about
$500. for the last three or four years, and
it wal cashed the other day-with an &C.
cumulated interest thereon of nearly
s1OO-a third of the original amount.
A telegram received from Baron AL.
fred o Steiger, in New York, by his
father-in-law, Samuel Falconer, an.
nounces that Won Steiger is to arrive
here tomorrow, on a visit. Won Stiegel
was formerly sheriff of Mclean county
and q familiar figure in Bismarck from
"a to '86.
Two new plate glass windows were
. placed in the Gussrer store to-day, to re-
place the ones through which holes were
shot laet Fourth Of July. Plate glass
windows of the size of these are expen.
sive, and the little diversion afforded the
person who shot through them was cost.
ly to Mr.. Gussner.
d. J. Bailey Of Sterling, was a TRIB,
N caller to-day. MI. Bailey is can
wasting for the History of the World'i