Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-07-27
TWENTY EAR AGO.

Information Gathered from the Files
of the Bismarck Tribune of
July 90, 1874.
Uniter States land office in Fargo to
be opened in August. sd. P. Kidder of
Vermillion nominated at Elk Point as
delegate. $50. Headquarters hotel in Fargo
struck by lightning, roof torn off, and
three men across the street knocked
down by the shock....Dr. Porter sells
his office to Col. Wilson,. ..N Northern
Pacific expects to in August
to build snow fences on the Dakota
division -. Green corn in the market
from Bismarck gardens. 80. Twenty dol.
lars worth of postage stamps Cancelled
at the Bismarck p~oetofice in one day
-. Major Sperry, Indian agent at Fort
Berthold, says grasshoppers have de-
stroyed all vegetation at the agency.
"Last nights train was behind time,
owing to grasshoppers on the eastern
end of the division, which were so thick
as to grease the rails, and compel the
engineer to double the road for fifteen
miles, taking half the train each time.
The pests have destroyed all vegetation
in Fargo. Garden produce being
raised abundantly, much to the general
satisfaction ...Dr. Slaughter succeeds
IN having the p~ostmaster's salary raised
and is on his way home. The founda-
ton of the Catholic church being laid
by Father Genin. 49,. River business live
ly and all steamboats, busy.
Fat Hogs Wanted.
George Gussner, the always enter
prising merchant, is doing a good bust
ness in the pork packing line these days,
and is determined to stop the shipping
in of meats of this kind, by making them
at home cheaper than they can be ship
ped in. He wants fat hogs for the pur-
pose, and will pay the highest market
price for good, fat hogs. Farmers should
bring in their hogs, and dispose Of them
to this home industry. Gussner is also
making pure lard, which he will sell for
10 cents a pound, spot casino cotton.
seed oil or tallow, but pure pork lard.
Give him q call.
Born,
On the 2lst inst, a son, to Mrs. and
Mr.. Fred Dobler, at the home Of Mrs.
Dobler's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Tully Of
this city. Mother and child doing nice
ly. Mrs. Dobler is one of Bismarck's
daughters, who came here with her par
ents when only four years old, and was
educated at st. Mary's school at this
place, and later at st. Joseph, MINI.
Her parents moved to Montana for a
few years, and while there Miss Tully
became acquainted with First Sergeant
Fred Dobler of Co. E. Twentieth infan-
try, and they were married June 8, 1893.
This birth makes Mr.. and Mrs. Tully
grand parents several times over
A Better System.
Cash is what makes business, and q
cash business can be operated cheaper
than a credit. Gussner is making the
change from credit to cash wherever
possible, and is cutting profits and prices
in two, doing away with the expense of
book-keepers, and giving the benefit to
the cash He is buying for
cash, n can sell cheaper for cash
than other merchants. Call on him.
when in need Of groceries or meat.
The Brady Trouble.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: Very muchagainst
my wishes, and at the request of many
friends, I desire to give briefly my side
of the unpleasant affair, leading up to
the arrest of Mrs. John Brady, and Of
which the TRIBUNE contained a lengthy
account in it's Wednesdays issue. Some
weeks ago,I was summoned by tele-
gram to my dying sons bedside, IN Salt
Lake City. This son had been for years
acting as agent for myself and daughters
and in that capacity purchased real es-
tate for me and them, drawing upon us
regularly for taxes, ETC., and it was of
these matters particularly that my son
talked during his last hours. Before
he passed away, he told his wife to trust
me implicitly with the business, and that
l understanding it would do what was
right for all concerned. This, Mrs. John
Brady has acknowledged to different
ones since coming here. After his death,
| was handed q package Of papers by
his book-keeper, who said they belonged
to me. These I placed in my satohel aud
never gave Them q thought until after L
was home for several days. Then I said