Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-12-14

decorators have also nearly finished, and
the latter are now working in the lower
hall, improving the general appearance
of the interior of the building.
Z. j. johnson, the man against whom
a charge of arson was made and who
was discharged from the district court,
has been given 500 fine and thirty days
in jail by Justice Tibbils for assault and
battery.
The rolls of the state penitentiary now
show nine life convicts confined there. 1t
is a curious fact, too, that since the open
ing Of the institution, up to the present
time, no life convict has served five years
of his time.
DR.. W. E. Fraser and Geo. Needham
have effected a trade in properties,
whereby the latter takes possession Of
the doctors residence on upper Sixth
street. and DR.. Fraser has moved into
the residence formerly owned by Need
ham.
The Swedish Baptists have begun upon
the erection of a church at the corner of
Seventh and Rosser streets, and the work
will be pushed to completion as rapidly
as possible. The structure will be a neat,
frame one, and the work is being done
by the firm of Glineburg & johnson.
AS the capitol addition is nearing COM
pletlon, visitors thereto are quite numer-
GUS, and all Of them are pleased at the
handsome appearance of the interior.
The carpenters will probably complete
their work next week and the decorating
will be finished about Christmas.
Mrs. F. Brown has received the sad
news of the death of her brother, Edgar
Isbell, of Chicago. He was or an excur
sion trip with $50 members of the
Traders Exchange to the drainage canal
when he was struck by a boulder thrown
from the gravel pit and instantly killed.
T. W. Griffin has resumed control of
the Third street meat market, which has
been operated for some time by s. j.
Swenson, and will run it in frst-class
style, as usual. Mr.. Griffin will be pleased
to meet all old customers again, and will
continue ~toeeffurnish frst-olass meats and
produce.
Fargo Forum: Mrs. Myra Fields has
come down from Bismarck to join her
husband, Merton Fields, who is a mem
Der of the senior class at the Agricul-
tural college. Mrs. Fields was former
ly a resident of Fargo-a compositor on
the Republican-and has a large circle of
friends who will welcome her back to the
city.
Sheriff Donnelly has lost all of his
boarders, but one, now. The dozen or SO
of Coxeyites have all been taken to
Grand Forks, and the other prisoners
we're cleaned out at the last term of
court. The only prisoner now on hand
is G. j. johnson, and unless something
transpires between now and January LIST
10 re-stock the Jail, Sheriff Taylor will
have nearly a clean score card to begin
with.
Kidder county people are greatly in
terested in the present session of the
United States court at Grand Forks,
from the fact that two residents of Daw-
son-Joseph A. Coulter, druggist, and j.
J. Gokey, justice of the peace-were
under bonds to appear at Grand Forks
to answer to charges made against them
for certain offenses said to have been
committed by them during the trouble
with the Coxeyites at Dawson last sum-
mer. .
jamestown Alert: Joe Moody, the
Northern Pacific llneman, returned last
night from Bismarck, where he has been
to put in a loup for the, Western Union
company, at the capitol building, and
get things in shape for the handling of
legislative telegraph business. Joe had
a narrow escape from fatal injury while
working on the roof, the newly painted
incline being slippery and nearly precip-
itating him to the ground. He should
have been more cautious, but was lucky,
and is still on earth.
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Try Our Lard @
And convince yourself that one pound is
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No cottonseed oil or cottolene here, but
pure, home, kettle-rendered lard, rem
dered twice a week, strictly fresh, and
retailing at 10 cents per pound. Special