Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-19
HE SKIPPED.
Mr.. Harry Hungerford Does a Cute
Trick and Escapes From the
Penitentiary.
An Interesting Wedding Announced
to Occur On Tuesday of Next
Week.
Various Items of Local News Picked
Up In and Round the Capt.
tai City.
Rather Smooth. Himself.

... ..
Harry Hungerford, foot-racer, horse.
thief, smooth talker, and all around
sharper, who was arrested at Winona q
couple of months ago for stealing q
horse from George Proctor, and who
was sent up for a term of years, has
added another brilliant stroke to his list
of masterpieces. Hungerford has been
employed in the dining room at the pen
since his incarceration, and incidentally
he takes care of Clerk Edgerley's room
The other day he took a suit of clothes
from Edgerley's room, and secreted them
in the chapel. Wednesday, at shortly
before 6 o'clock, Hungerford went up to
the chapel, arrayed himself in Edger.
ley's clothes, pulled his hat down yer
his eyes, came down to the gate, which
was opened for him by Denny Hannafn,
who suspected nothing out of the way
and passed out into the open air. The
fraud was discovered not more than five
minutes after, but Hungerford had dis
appeared.
A reward of $50 Is offered for him, and
he is described as II years old; Irish
parentage; fair compilations; hair, light
auburn, slightly red; brown eyes; fore
head, medium, high and narrow; nose
long and large; small mouth, broad chin;
small and compressed lips; weight, 1913
pounds; height, 5 feet AZ inches; hat,
81; No. 7 shoe.
Hungerford is a pretty smooth GUS
toner, as will be evidenced by those who
heard him conduct his own case at the
trial. This last move is another evidence
of his ability in his own especial line.
An Interesting Wedding.
A wedding of unusual interest to the
old pioneers Of this country is announced
to take place at the Methodist church at
high noon Tuesday next.
The bride elect is Miss Jessamine
Southern Slaughter, daughter of DR.. B.
T.. Slaughter, who was post surgeon at
Camp Hancock in 1s72-'73, when it con-
sisted of only tents, and before there was
a single house in Edwinton. Miss
Slaughter was born on Christmas eve,
1873, and was the seventh child born in
the new city. OF the six preceding her,
all have died or removed from the city
so that she is the first child born in Bis
marck who is now living in the city.
In her brief life she has achieved hon.
orable distinction in two professions,
having been for several years past sue
cessfully engaged in teaching school in
Burleigh, Emmons and Mclean coun-
ties. As a writer for the eastern press
she has gained fame and financial re-
waro, and is now vice-president for
North Dakota of the Woman's National
Press association whose headquarters
are at Wizards hotel, Washington, D. c.
The bridegroom elect is Mr.. J. Arthur
Burgum, an English gentleman and son
of MIR. A. 7. Burgum of Arthur, N. D.,
who is one of the bonanza farmers of the
Red River valley. He is a civil engineer
by profession, but now owns and mana
ges an extensive farm and ranch near
Conkling, N. D.
1t is the desire of DR.. and Mrs.
Slaughter that the wedding of their
daughter shall also be a reunion of the
old pioneers of the country and cards of
invitation have been sent to all the old
settlers of "twenty years ago." If any
have been overlooked it is an oversight
that will be corrected if attention is
called to the omission.
A Deer Hunt at Painted Woods.
Painted Woods, as every Bismarcker
knows, takes it's name from the fact that
the Indians of earlier days made it a
hating place on their warlike raids, to
put on the wal paint and make them
selves otherwise as imposing as possible.
Those days are now gone by, and where
once the redman roamed at sweet will,
is now the hourishing ranch and home
of w. H. 81. Mercer and family. Mr..
Mercer is one of the Oldest pioneers of
Burleigh county, having Gene up the
river in the early zoe, and located near
his present site. Ferguson, who was a
companion with me on this hunt, had
also the pleasure of being the first to
sail around Painted Woods lake, and af.
ter taking careful reckonings for lati-
tude and longitude, found that they had
sailed around the lake and again enter.
ed the river; and naturally came to the
conclusion they had discovered the
source of the mighty Missouri.
In those days, game was numerous
Buffalo, elk, deer and. every description
of creeping things were legion. They
are now somewhat diminished; yet they
abound in sufficient quantities to afford
ample sport for the p%ersevering hunter
Morning dawned on the 18th Of October,
to find Ferguson and myself snugly in
ambush, waiting patiently for the first
bound Of the antlered monarch of the
waste-by the way, Ferguson is q splen.
did shot, but has q great ~tenacity for the