Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-11
The $ismatek Tritmne.
I T AND COUNTY.

merous. ..
Ducks are numerous in the sloughs
about the city.
The local militia will take part in the
Decoration day exercises.
The councils move toward street
sprinkling will be appreciated.
Grain has grown finely the past week,
and is looking we'll, everywhere.
Teams are doing some street improv-
ing on the west end of Main.
The genial Captain Gregg is engaged
in the secretary of states Office, in the
absence of w. o. DePuy.
Assessors are busy with the work of
assessing property in the several districts
Manager Wakeman expects to have
the Black Crook at the Atheneum next
Monday night.
Senator Worst, the eloquent Emmons
county orator, will speak at Lisbon on
Decoration day.
Pat Harvey was in from up north Fri
day, and reports crops all in, and
prospects good.
Joseph Hare says the appointment of
Blewett is a good one, and not altogether
a surprise to him.
Invitations have been received in the
city to a ball to be given by the Knights
of Pythias, in Mandan, Friday.
Health Superintendent DeVaux re-
ports the epidemic of diphtheria in
Mercer county, effectually checked.
Auditor Porter will pay over to the
State Firemen's association, $1,000, ap-
propriated for the tournament, in a few
days.
Dick Copeland, formerly of the Wash
burn Leader, is now States Attorney of
McHenry county, having been recently
appointed.
The work on the new Masonic hall is
nearing completion, and the hall when
completed will be one of the finest lodge
rooms in the state.
A card from DR.. Bigelow, formerly of
this city,now of st. Paul, announces that
he has moved his office to the Germania
bank building, opposite the postofice.
The April number of the Normal Item
published at Valley City contains a we'll
written article on Indian school life at
Fort Stevenson, seventy-fve miles north
west of Bismarck.
A couple of trees we're planted, one on
each side of the hose house, Friday,
and these will be sources Of perceptible
improvement when their growth begins.
V. r. Lowell of Casselton, has been
appointed a member of the state medical
examining board, in place of G. E. Joslin
Of Fargo, who has removed from the
state.
Agent Morris has word that the num-
Der of men on the Bismarck-Helena ex-
press run is to be increased to six, which
will be welcome news to the express
boys.
The row of young trees on each side
Of the driveway to the penitentiary,
planted last Arbor Day, are beginning
to give token of the coming beauty of
the drive, when the trees shall attain
their growth.
The girl who was taken away from her
guardians, the McCrorys, by Judge lib
~olls the other day, Is still in charge of
Sheriff Donnelly. Arrangements are
now being made for her adoption into
some kind family.
Charles Kupitz has his Glencoe store
erected, and has started to ship down
his goods. MIR. Kupitz expects to put
his stage line to Fort Yates in operation
about June LIST, and expects his coaches
to arrive this week.
Ryan, the convict, upon whom an
operation was performed recently, and
who endeavored to escape just after
ward, 'is improving rapidly at the peni-
tentlary and there are no ill effects of his
brief trip down the road.
Pat Byrne and Chauncy Day rode out
to Sterling on their wheels Sunday
morning the ride in about three hours,
and returned on a convenient freight
train, the head wind being a little too
strong for them to make the return.
Word from Rev. I. O. Sloan, who has
been in Philadelphia, the past winter, is
to the effect that he intends to return to
Glencoe in the near future. This will
be welcome new to his friends, and they
include every resident of the slope.
Rev. Spoor, the Methodist minister,
appointed to the local church by the
conference at Wahpeton, preached his
first sermon Sunday. Rev. Spoor is a
pleasant gentleman, and made a favor
able impression upon his congregation.
superintendent Perkins reports that
the Burleigh County Teachers Institute
will be held the week beginning Monday,