Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-27
LOCAL NEWS T
Brief and Intere sting Bits Of Gossip
About the City's Streets.

OeQce on ruin street WNel com pleteQ.
Wm. Owen has been seriously i'll at
his home for some time, with "a compile
cation of heart and other troubles.
The suspension Of Father Perrault by
Bishop Stanley is exciting considerable
comment pro and con among state
papers.
The next entertainment at the .Athen
enm will be Schilling's Minstrels and
Chas. Dixon, in ''In Cog."both billed for
the first part of November.
Section men are putting in new ties,
and repairing the tracks in the yards to-
day-a wise move, as some OF the tracks
were getting rather shaky.
City Clerk Barrett is busy with the
preparation of his semi-annual report,
which will be presented at the next
regular meeting of the council.
Dr.. F. w. Whittier has rented his
house and farm to MIR. and Mis-. James
Armstrong for Que year. Mrs. Whittier
will remain with them all winter.
Alderman Healy has his residence,
which wa damaged by fire some time
ago, nicely repaired both inside and out,
and the house IS as good if not better
than ever.
Sheriff Donnelly has sold the Cramer
property to satisfy the GIasscock judg-
ment, and the land was bid in by Glass
cock for the Missouri Valley land and
mortgage company.
The answer Of the county in the Grit
fin tax suit has been filed. and the case
will come up at the term of court Nov.
2Sth. The answer is a specific denial of
the allegations of the irregularity of the
tax.
The local -four mills are getting out
-four now fer export to London and
European markets. The -four is no
longer shipped in the smaller sacks, but
in 2SO ID. sacks, a departure adopted
lately.
The state board of railroad commits.
sioners are holding a meeting in Fargo,
looking after matters in the eastern part
of the state. BY the way, seven Mime.
appolis and Duluth grain commission
houses have fled bonds of $4,000 with
Secretary Grant.
With five barber shops, one in each of
the hotels Sheridan, Western and Pacific,
and two on the side, Bismarckers ought
to be able to suit themselves in n line
tonsorial. Some one has suggested that
it would be sad indeed, did all the
patrons of the shops decide to raise
winter boards.
Captain Brundage is back again from
Eureka, where he has been for some
time, and he says the South Dakota
wheat center is q town in a million.
Nothing but elevators, warehouses, and
other wheat storing and shipping appli-
ances. He says railroad freight re-
ceipts there average $4,000 per month
in the busy season.
Attorney General Standish takes con-
siderable interest in the Brass-North
Dakota elevator case. which came up
and tiEe for which was fixed before the
Unite7 States supreme court the other
day. The attorney general says the
state has new proof that there was q
contract by which the elevator company
could not discriminate in the receiving
of wheat.
DR.. Archibald, the efficient and genial
superintendent of that model institution,
the State Insane asylum at Jamestown,
who was in the city Thursday, says the
asylum is as usual, crowded to it's fullest
capacity. The number of insane per.
sons who have been sent to tue asylum
of late is large, and one of the first acts
of another legislature should be to pro-
vide for an addition to the asylum.
The brick wall of the capitol addition
is beginning to peep above the ground,
and looks material at last. It is prob
able the wall will be builded up to the
height of the first floor, and then work
suspended for the season, as the board
Of control will probably not have any
carpentering done this season. At the
present rate of work, it vii! be ten days
yet before the men will be laid off.
Things at the %penitentiary are lively
now. With the exception of four or
five %convicts at work on the capitol, and
the usual number employed in the build
ing, all Of the birds are busy with work
on the barn and crematory. The barn,
when completed, will be one of the best
in the country. The crematory chimney,
sixty.fve feet in height, will be COM
pleted to-day, and the crematory proper
l will be completed in three or four weeks.