Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-10
The Bismarek Tribnne.
CITY AND COUNTY.

The state board Of equalization meets
at the capitol on the 21st.
Thirty or forty teams are at work on
the government ice harbor.
Main street sidewalks are being i'm.
proved by the street commissioner.
Railroad carpenters have been doing
some repairing at the depot the past day
or so.
Warden Boucher's pen patients are
busy making hay on the bottoms south
of town.
w. D. Boyce of theAC Chicago Blade, is
to be here about the Goth, to enjoy a
chicken hunt.
The capitol employees have a gun club,
and vie for honors at their grounds north
of the capitol building.
An excursion of railway conductors
will pass through the city, Saturday, en-
route to Yellowstone park.
Crops in Ecklund will average s to 10
bushels to the acre, it is said, and the
grain will be of good quality.
The four cottages which have stood
near the race track, have been moved
into town to be utilized as dwellings,.
The Bismarck Ball club has been in
vited to compete in the tournament at
the jamestown fair, but will probably
not 60.
Manager Dudley of the Western
Union is quite i'll with a sort Of bilious
fever, and has been confined to his bed
for several days.
Joseph Dietrich is having the old
Kihm restaurant renovated aud repaired,
and intends to open it up as a tirst-class
restaurant ere long.
Charley Howell was disappointed in
his park trip-couldn't get a leave of alb
sence owing to a shortage of men with
the express company.
It is understood w. F. Cochrane of
Steele, has rented the Wallace house,
and intends to move his family to the
city in the near future.
Seventy-six men on the Dakota divi-
sion of the Northern Pacific are said to
have lost their positions on account of
the strike. A large proportion we're
firemen and engineers.
The addition to the state capitol is
going up rapidly, and has already as
sumed substantial proportions. The
outer walls are up to the height of the
second floor, and the flooring has been
already LAID, SO that the first story is
nearly completed.
The State Firemen's association will
issue a ciruular letter in a few days to
the different fire companies throughout
the state, requesting them to select one
man from each company to act in con
junction with the recently appointed
legislative committee of the association.
Prof. H. H. Shupe, the Montana snake
charmer, of whose abilities the TRIBUNE
wrote at some length some weeks ago, is
at the river with his aggregation of SER
pents, having come down from Billings,
Mont, by boat. The professor is GER
tainly a wonder in the snake handling
line, and it is worth the while of any
n to witness his performances.
Cashier Pye If the Capital National
bank, received word Friday of the death
of Mrs. Mary A. Millett, at Dedham,
Mass, at the age Of 70 years. Mrs. Mil
lett will be remembered by Bismarckers
and having lived with Mr.. and Mrs.
Vim. NJ. Pye in this city for twelve
years. She has a number of friends in
the city, who will receive the news of
her decease with sincere regret.
Emmons County Record: Billy Beard
is rapidly improving, and expects to be
home in a couple of weeks. Senator
Worst and others have suggested that a
'haymaking bee" for Billy's benefit be
gotten up, and that q number of his
friends and neighbors get together and
do a day or two's work for him in the
bayfield,. These willing to assist will
please leave word at the postofice.
Thos. Bottomley is up from Williams.
port to-day, looking after the securing
of some supplies for his hotel. He says
they have as yet no clue to the destruc-
ton of the county buildings at Williams
port, although there is. no doubt the
work was incendiary. The principal
loss falls on Bottomley, as he was the
owner of the buildings. The county
records have been moved into the jail,
and this is being utilized at present as a
county building.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Boutillier of Will
Transport, were in the city Friday,
the latter to consult a physician as to an
injury received in q fall through a kitchen
trap door, some three weeks ago. Mrs.
Boutillier has suffered considerable pain
in the shoulder since the fall, but was
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