Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-05
DOYLE TOOK A DROP.
J. J.. Doyle Falls Of the Missouri
River Bridge, a Distance of
Fifty Feet.
An Old Soldier Doesn't Believe Wal.
ter Muir Put Down the Civil
War Alone
A Neat Compliment to Bartlett
Tripp-Various Items of News
About the City.
Down Went Mr.. DovIe.

Down Went Mr.. Doyle,
J.J. Doyle, one of Pat Kelly's grad;
ing crew, took a tumble early Sunday
morning, from the Missouri river sus-
pension bridge to the earth beneath the
first pier. Doyle seems to have beer
out for a little time with one or two con.
genial companions, and was partially
under the influence of liquor. At about
midnight, he started to cross the bridge
from Mandan, and got as far as the first
pier on this side, when a train approach.
ed, and in stepping to one side, Doyle
lost his balance, aud fell off the pier tc
the ground below, a distance of fifty
feet. Help was summoned by a com
panion, and he was picked up and
brought to the Lamborn hospital, where
IN Investigation of his condition reveal
ed several broken ribs, and any number
Of bruises. 1t is a miracle the man was
not fatally injured, but as it is he is in
no particular danger, although suffering
considerably from his injuries. A pecu-
liar, or otherwise, circumstance, is that
Doyle had a bottle of whiskey in his
pocket when he fell, and this was res
cued, unlnjured.
Concerning Walter Muir.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: In 1861, after the
battle of Bull Run, which gave Beaure-
gard much notoristy, there was much
talk in the north, that he had planned
SCOTS battle in Mexico. When Lee be-
came the hero, it was said he did SCOTS
planning. That captains in the army
ever planned battles for generals is
doubtful. At this late day, we are in
formed that no less a pereon then our
own Walter NJ. planned the campaign of
Donnelson and Pittsburg landing. That
there may be no doubt OF this matter,
my friend Robert Macnider makes an
affidavit that he was present when the
plan was formulated. 1t was for many
years believed that Moses wrote a part of
the Bible-but one of the weak points
in this belief is that Moses describes his
own death and burial.
We don't for a moment doubt but that
in that debating class of military ex-
perts, to whom Robert listened, the same
campaign was advocated, and why should
it not have been, when such men as
Scott and Mcclellan had prepared it
months before.
On page 139 of the May, 1885 Century,
Mcclure says that the plan he adopt
ed for the spring of 1862 was to push
forward the of Halleck and Buell.
to occupy Nashville, Memphis and Knox
Vile. But he does not say that this
plan had been conceived by some SERGE
ant out in a western post.
; I am sorry to rob a resident Of this
great state, of the honor, but I feel it
won't stand the light of history.
If. W. NJ. did plan the campaign in
question, he certainly can to-day get a
| place in China far better than M. G.
from N. D.
I once heard this man say that when
the late war commenced, there was
no necessity for the government to have
issued one single bond, that all it ought
to have done was to stamp a piece Of
paper, and call it money. But just how
the government was to purchase certain
absolutely necessary, he did not say.
OLD SOLDIER.
A Compliment to Trip.
J. e. Rapelje hands the TRIBUNE a
clipping from the Paris edition of the
New York Herald, which is a pleasing
compliment to Bartlett Trip, United
States Minister to Austria, who has
many friends in both North and South
Dakota. The Herald says: "The excite
ment which has prevailed in Austria
among American citizens owing to the
frequent arrest and detention by the
local authorities of persons born in
Austria but who had e%migrated and be-
come naturalized citizens of the United
States, is now rapidly disappearing
IulOuSu Uuo COuCAAldOOly A4oAAOA ~
which all such cases have been settled
by the Austrian government. The line
of conduct followed is in accordance
with the views taken by the United
States government as forwarded to their
representative to this country. A case
which created unusual excitement here
was the arrest and detention Of a
Mr.. Benisch by the local authorities at
Fiume, in Croatia, which was fully re-
ported to the Herald, and now, after
several months, has been most satiefac-
torily settled by Austria, thus in every
way affirming the views taken by the
United States government of this special
case. This friendly settlement, as in
many similar cases, is mostly due to the
fine legal ability displayed by MI. Bart.
lett Trip, the United States minister to
Austria"
At Fort Berthold.
I have recently returned from 9 trip
through the Fort Berthold Indian reser-
walton, and was agreeably surprised to