Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12
The Bismarek Tribnt4e.
CITY AND COUNTY.

The fire department came out abou'
$50 ahead in the New Years dance.
Arend Hasper has been appointed
commissioner down in Emmons county
Miss Freddie Bartholomew has beer
quite ill for several days, but is improv
ing.
Peter Wilcox is a little under the
weather these days, with an abscess II
the ear.
John Waldron has been appointed
postmaster at Winona, vice J.. G. Pitts
removed.
Thedancing club is discussing the ar
rangement OF a masquerade ball in the
GEAR future.
A large cinnamon bear is reported tc
have been seen by trainmen near Ster'
ling this week.
A. Corbin of Daken, has been ap.
pointed game and fish warden for En-
MON county.
Fire over in Mandan Sunday night
destroyed Dodge & Morris store, and On.
tailed a loss of about 500. .
P~ostofice petitions are pretty numerous
nowadays, and applicants are missing
o n in their search for signers.
Washburn wants a barber and a laun-
dry, and promises fame and fortune to
the man who will embark in these enter
prises.
John Hoover of Winona was shot in
the hip by a drunken cowboy, the other
day. The wound is painful but not
serious.
The county commissioners cancelled
about SIS worth of old warrants the
other day, they having been issued over
six years.
Great care has been exercised in the
selection OF costumes for. the operatta
to be given by the Baptist young people
Friday evening.
A letter from Fallon at Duluth saye
he is getting along we'll now. Mrs.
Fallon has been ill for a week or two
but is improving.
A carload of young buffalo from Gas.
selton passed through over the Northern
Pacific recently, en- route to the Md
winter Fair at San Francisco.
Henry Yost to day sold Lou Val Jean,
the last Ct the Holley kennel of Llewellyn
settlers, to DIR. r. G. DePuy of James.
town, for 1925. The animal is registered,
and a good hunter,
E. a.. Wilson says so far his sheep
have wintered we'll. He has about 5000
out with different farmers, and they are
coming through in good shape.
Hans johnson. from Valley City, who
gets a year and four months for bur-
glary, was broughtin and turned over to
the penitentiary authorities yesterday.
The governor is in receipt Of an in
vitation to attend the quarter centennial
celebration of the establishment of the
Nebraska State university to be held at
Lincoln Neb., Feb. Is.
Harvey Harris is improving steadily,
and his health since his return to the
slope is far better. He has been able to
drive out several times of late, and his
friends are pleased with his condition.
The young people Of the Baptist
church are getting out their programs
for the Operatta on Friday night. The
performance will no doubt be a credit
able one, and should be we'll patronized.
A correspondent of the Grand Forks
News, in looking up a list of North Da-
kotans to secure fair awards, finds that
John Mcpherson Of this city gets an
award on wheat, and Oscar 81. Will for
peas,
Railroad Commissioners Rasmussen,
Cameron and Stevens returned east this
afternoon, having finished up their
monthly meeting. Not much was done
aside from the transaction of routine
business.
The body of G. F. Payne, who died
Sunday night of pneumonia, will be
taken east tomorrow afternoon for in
torment. There will be prayer at the
Western hotel just before the departure
Of the east bound train.
General Hughes is reported to be en-
joying himself meath the sunny skies
and mid the orange groves of southern
California. The general is getting some
much needed rest and recreation and
will remain for some time yet.
The young ladies who gives the enter
tainment next Tuesday evening in the
Atheneum, for the reading room, have
all recovered from the grip, and are
again %rehearsing diligently for the beau
tiful tableau movements and statue pos
ings.
The Northern Pacific Express COM
pany has decided to reduce the number