Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-23
The 8ismarek Tribnne.
CITY AND COUNTY.

Governor Shortridge is expected home
in a day or SO.
A. L.. Carey is spoken Of for mayor
down in Fargo. @
The next Masonic social will occur on
Tuesday, February 9th.
Miss Strauss Delearte class has been
given UP for the present.
The last week has been rather a spicy
one down in Emmons county.
Marshal Price will o~fficiate during the
term of United States court in this city
next month. .
Thos. O'Shaughnessy is moving from
his Main street store over into the Mer-
chants block. .
Mrs. w. G. Tubbs is taking in the Mid
winter Fair, and writes Of a pleasant
time to friends in the city.
A dust storm on February 2lst seems
slightly out of it's element of weather,
and yet one prevails o .day.
Superintendent Wilson passed through
to-day with his pay car, making happy
the railroad boys along the line.
A local humane society has been or
ganized over in Mandan, as a result of
the efforts of Mrs. Bartholomew.
The Baptist young folks will give a
doughnut social on Friday evening,
February 23d. Admission 10 cents.
Workmen are busy repapering and re-
pairing the interior Of the Brady milli-
merry store. The work will be completed
to-day.
Adjuster Walter H. Cobban, who has
been busy in the city for several days,
has gone to Fort Yates, to fix up the
ParkiDs' fire loss there.
Jack McConville, who has been down
with paralysis for some months, has i'm
proved considerably and is able to be out
on the street occasionally.
The Fargo Forum says it is. on dit that
Miss Alice Carey. we'll known in Bis
marck, is soon to be married to Manager
Smith of the Singer company.
Beckett, the Devils Lake forger, has
returned to the state, and will be brought
to the city in a day or so, to begin upon
the year in the pen, to which he was
sentenced.
According to the Washburn Leader,
Dan Williams, now in Chicago, writes to
a friend that he will come out and oc.
cupy his Strawberry lake residence in
the spring.
A petition by Mrs. Slaughter, in her
case against the w. C. Il. u, was denied
by Judge Winchester yesterday. It is
said the case will be taken to the SUI
preme court.
There will be two clerks in the land
Office hereafter, Joseph Dietrich having
been selected to assist in the work. Mr..
Dietrich is competent and will make an
efficient clerk.
A baby boy has arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kuntz-mother
and child are doing well-and the genial
Kuntz has a broader smile then usual
all owing to the event.
The Agricultural college of Fargo, has
organized a militia company and has
made a requisition on the governor for
fifty rifles. The required weapons will
no foru,r1o1 in dow m on
Fargo Argus: Messrs. Capehart &
Jewell are making a splendid paper of
the Inventive Age. It presents a much
better appearance than before, and bears
evidence Of good patronage.
Auditor Edick received a telegram to-
. day, conveying the sad news of the death
of his..mother at Paris, N. Y. Mrs. Edick
was p years of age, and death resulted
from an attack af pneumonia.
The Emmons County Record says Miss
Cunningham, who is teaching school at
Danbury, and who is we'll liked by
pupils and patrons, will return home
to Bismarck-in a couple of weeks.
Mrs. F. B. Wells of Washburn, whose
husband, formerly auditor of Mclean
county. died at the hospital here, has
been appointed matron Of the Fort
Stevenson Indian school by Superinten-
dent Gates.
Clerk of Court Hoskins vent down
to Fargo this afternoon, to adjourn the
term of supreme court, which was set
for tomorrow. The term will be ad-
journed to March 9th, at which time it
will be held and the tax cases heard.
In an examination of the records of
the weather bureau here, it is discovered
that there have been, in the past twenty
years, but two storms more severe than
the n from which Chicago and other
eastern cities suffered several days ago
Fred Cotton of Williamsport, has been
arrested and bound over in $500 bonds
for the seduction Of Mary Dunbar, q
16-year old girl. The girl says Cotton