Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-11

possibly a p%recarious point.
State Supt. of Forestry Barrett writes
the TRIBUNE of a pleasant observance Of
Arbor day at Churches Ferry. Mr..
Barrett says the state is being rapidly
changed from a t~reeless prairie, to q
country covered with trees, and he looks
for the cultivation of trees to increase in
extent.
The government steamer Mandan has
been in the vicinity of Chamberlain for
the past two days removing snags from
the Missouri river between crow Creek
agency and old Fort Hale. The steamer
is on it's way up the river to Bismarck,
where it and the snag boat Josephine
will remove snags from the stream.
Bismarck firemen will be interested to
know that r. G. Fritz, the famous hose
coupler, who used to be with the Yerxas
and was later at Sioux Falls, Is back
with his first love, the Reliance Hose
Go. of Wahpeton, and report has it he
will make things "kinder" lively for other
couplers when he shows up at the tour
| nament next month.
Major Gooding of Fort Lincoln, has
received a letter from Mrs. Custer,
widow of General Custer, asking him to
forward to her certain door knobs, from
n room especially in the Custer house,
being n that was used more frequently
by the general than any other. Mrs.
Custer will add them to her collection of
Northwestern relics.
James B. Mcpherson No. 2, G.. A. R.,
this city, has received some Of the hand
soonest badges yet seen. They are of tri-
colored silk, red, white and blue, with
golden tassel. On the top is a neat
celluloid plate, with clasped hands
thereon, and on the silk is printed the
name of the post. On the reverse side
is a Grape memorial badge, for use at
funerals. Altogether the badge is as
handsome as often seen.
There are two female prisoners at the
%penitentiary now, where for long there
has been but one. The second was
Martha Collins, who was brought in
from Jamestown this morning, in com
pany with Jerome Vaughan, each of them
having been sentenced to the pen for a
year by Judge Rose for adultery. The
husband of the Collins woman was the
complainant in the case which resulted
IN the sentence of the two.
Edgeley Sentinel: The wife of Sur
veyor General E. A. Williams died at
her home in Bismarck Thursday night
Of last week and the funeral was held in
the Catholic church Sunday afternoon,
an immense crowd of people assembling
on that occasion to pay a tribute of re-
spect to her. As a personal friend and
acquaintance the Sentinel household
sympathises deeply with the afflicted in
their hour of bereavement.
It looks as though there would have
to be another search for Kent. The Min
neapolis Tribune says that Sheriff Bing-
enheimer received a message from Tren-
ton, saying that Kent had escaped from
the deputy sheriff who had him in
charge. No particulars were given,
further than that Kent had stated that
he would not 60 back without requisition
papers, but Bingenheimer was armed for
such an emergency, having secured the
necessary documents before he left.
j. G. Perrault of Larimore, was ex-
amined for admission to practice before
the supreme court by Messrs. Hughes,
Newman and Kneeshaw, the examining
committee, last Friday, and Saturday the
committee reported favorably on his ad-
mission, and he was admitted to practice.
Mr.. Perrau(t was formerly a Catholic
priest, and is the one, over trouble be-
tween whom and Bishop Stanley there
was quite a stir in Catholic circles re-
Gently. Mr.. Perrault is now practicing
law III Larimore.