Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-09
| T AND COUNTY.

Peter Wilcox is out again, after several
weeks Of illness.
Express Messenger DeCamp has taken
a lay off for a time.
Work is progressing busily on the rip
rap on the west side of the river.
Sleighing is again the fashion, and
the weather could not be excelled.
DR.. Kendrick went down to st. Paul
this afternoon and will be absent several
weeks.
The Northern Pacific will soon let a
contract for a large amount ct rock at
Steele.
A baby boy has arrived in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Wick. Mother and
child are doing we'll.
w. A. Fridley writes up from Steele
for the Bismarck orchestra to play for a
dance there in the near future.
Ash Wednesday services at St.
Georges rectory tonight at 7:30. A
cordial invitation is extended to all.
Owing to a hitch in the work of getting
his bond satisfactory y,'arranged, Murray
has not been released from Jail yet, and
the matter is in allegiance.
Judge Winchester holds an adjourned
term of court in the city, beginning next
Monday, to finish up some cases put
over from the last regular term.
The time of Charley White, the we'll
known local crook, will be out in two
or three weeks, and he will soon be dis
charged from custody of the pen.
The young folks are discussing the ar
ranging of a party to 60 to Fort Lincoln
some time next week, and enjoying a
dance in one of the old company build
ings.
1t is said Senator McGillivray has
made satisfactory freight agreements
with Northern Pacific officials at St.
Paul, and the Lehigh mines will be re-
opened.
A number of the young people have
constructed a toboggan slide On the
Fox hill west of Camp Hancock, and
are afforded considerable amusement
thereby.
Some neat calendars have been re-
ceived in the city-setting forth the mer-
its of the First National bank of Irwin,
Pa, and with compliments of Thomas P.
Heron, cashier.
On account of sickness the Reverend
n Mrs. Chambers are obliged to post
pone the anniversary reception that was
intended to be given Monday night. It
will be given later in the spring.
The county commissioners met again
yesterday and adjourned until March
9Th. The contract to furnish coal was
let to the Gull River Lumber company,
and that for wood to Henry Houghtaling.
Sheriff Donnelly has taken possession
of the property in A. G. Reid's place on
Fourth street, on attachment proceed
ings instituted by DR.. F. D. Kendrick.
The case will come up in district court.
Mclean county parties have a project
on foot to establish beaver farms at
several points along the numerous
streams that traverse that county.
There are several of these ranches in
South Dakota.
Freeman's new drug store is under
going a thorough renovation and clean
ing. New paper is being hung, and the
woodwork freshly painted, and when
completed the interior will be highly
artistic in appearance.
Repairs are being made in the Brady
store which was damaged by fire, and the
building Is being put IN shape for bust
ness. The stock, however, cannot be re-
moved or replaced until the loss upon it
is settled by the adjusters.
The Lehigh coal mining company up
at Dickinson-the largest in the state
has been shut down, because of inability
to make satisfactory terms with the
railroad company. Forty men have
been thrown out of employment.
The penitentiary board to-day took
action in the matter of reducing the
amount of insurance on the institution.
The insurance on the main building now
is about $4,000, and the board will
probably reduce it about one-third.
The convicts who have been putting up
ice for the past week, finished their work
yesterday, and five carloads, or about
$50 tons, of CONCEALED Missouri we're
hauled from the river to the penitentiary,
where it will be stored for next summer.
It is not probable there will be n
pastor appointed for the Bismarck
Methodist church at present. Presid-
ing Elder Sheckler will occupy the
pulpit himself for the present, and look
after his district work during the week.
@. .. Greeley, who was with the TR1B-
UNE last winter, and is pretty we'll known
about the city, writes from Plainvlew,