Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-13

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corn and potatoes, and says the condi
tions at present point to a good fall crop
DR.. DePuy of jamestown, a brother
of DR.. DePuy Of this city, passed through
the city Saturday, 81 route west for
months hunt. The doctor goes to Red
Lodge, Montana, where on the 10th inst.
he will take the stage to Corbett, Wyo.
and then proceed 30 or 40 miles south
into a wilderness Of crags and cliffs, said
to be alive with bear, deer, elk, lynx and
other wild beasts.
Attorney Newton returned from Dick
inson last night, and reports a busy
term of court in progress. The court is
occupied at present with the Rosenbaum
sheep case, involving some 1000 head of
sheep, and which is rather complicated,
Dickinson and vicinity, Mr.. Newton
says, has undergone some heavy rains
and SHOWS, and the country is pretty
we'll flooded with water.
There was a large attendance at the
Reading room Friday upon the occa-
sion of the temperance meeting. There
was no regular debate, but the question
was discussed informally, Messrs. Pea
body, Gray, Mesdames Wilson and Wat
son, and others participating. Mrs.
Eisenhuth, who was expected to take
part, was prevented from so doing by
illness. There will be another meeting
at the reading room next Saturday,
when the monetary question will be dis
cussed.
Someone broke the government Their
mometer in front of Phelps store Sunday
night, broke the glass case in which it
rests, and ruined the instrument SO as to
renderit useless. The weather bureau
authorities will put in a new instrument
as soon as n can be :ed-and for
the benefit Of anyone who is tempted to
break it, it may be we'll to state that the
government provides a fine of $500 and
imprisonment for anyone who shall will
fully break one of these thermometers
or any part of it.
IT'S whispered just whispered "a
party of officials went down to Fargo on
the train the other evening-with four
bottles of mineral water to quench the
thirst arising from the dust and heat
of the train, and to wash out dust and
cinders from the throat-and at about
8 o'clock, three of the bottles we're
cracked and found to contain - not
mineral water as supposed simple
rain water-and there wal some laughter
and some crashing of teeth-and con-
siderable dismay at the whole affair
from the thirsty ones. a
Lieut.. McAnaney of Fort Yates, who
died last Monday from an overdose OF
sulphonal, was buried at the post burial
ground last week, decomposition of the
body having set in too rapidly to per-
NIT of any delay. Lieut.. McAnaney en-
listed in the department of Dakota, June
II, 1879, as a private soldier. August
6, 1884, he passed the competitive ex-
animation and was promoted to a second
l%ieutenarcy and July l., 1891, he was
promoted to first lieutenancy of the
Eighth cavalry, Fort Yates. He was
we'll liked as a man and respected as a
soldier and officer Of the regular army.
The Missouri is falling rapidly, and
the rush of water from the breaking of
the ice gorge at Fort Stevenson has
passed on down the river. The water
began to recede from the bottoms yes
terday noon, and last evening the greater
portion Of it had passed off, except where
it had filed up the holes and low places.
The damage done is not great, except as
the high water. was a source of neon
venience to those who were at work on
the bottoms, and to those who had hay,
or portable belongings on the land which
was overfowed. The railroad company
escaped much trouble, the flooding of
their track causing but a three hours de-
lay Of n passenger train.
Hoods pills are purely vegetable, care
fully prepared from best ingredients. Csc.
Serious Injury.
Little Freddie Peterson met with a
rather serious accident last night. While
riding horseback, guiding his horse with
a strap fastened about his neck, and
bareback, he looked back to see some
one VINO was approaching him from be-
hind, and just then his horse jumped a
ditch, and the boy was thrown to the
ground, alighting on his head. The
shock rendered him UNCONSCIOUS, and he
was carried home, where he remained in
that condition for two hours. At the
end Of that time, however, under the at
tendance of DR.. Harcourt, he recovered
consciousness, and was enabled to tell
how the accident occurred. The little
fellows head and scalp are badly cut and
bruised, and he is suffering considerable
pain, although he will probably pull
through all right, provided no conclusion