Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-02
The $ismartk Trihnme.
CITY AND COUNTY.

Captain Moorhouse is out again, after
spell of illness.
1t looks as though spring had come
for a time at least.
Joseph Dietrich has entered upon bis
duties as clerk in the land Office.
The Parkin Bros loss at Cannonball
has been settled by Adjuster Cobban.
Mrs. Barney Burbage has been quite
III at the hospital here for some time.
Miss Lottie Robinson, who was seri.
ously i'll down at Grand Forks, is re.
covering.
Manager Wakemen has aunt Jerus-
sha," a musical comedy, booked for
March 10th.
r. D. Hoskins is moving from the
Sheridan back to his residence on upper
Ninth street.
Judge Chase to-day appointed Mrs. I.
P. Hunt as administrator of the estate of
!. P. Hunt, deceased.
A baby girl has arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John SWEET. Mother
and child both doing we'll.
The genial Matt Walsh is running his
passenger train again, after his trip to
Honolulu and other Pacific points.
Attorney Newton says the codifcation
commission had a profitable session in
Fargo, and will meet again March 26th.
Steele farmers are considering the rails
ing of celery another season to supply
Mandan, Bismarck and other western
towns.
Manager Barnes of the Gull River
Lumber company, was down at Fort
Yates this week, looking after company
interests.
City politics have not become much of
a source of discussion yet-but a few
weeks more and there will probably be
more enthusiasm.
Somebody was asking to-day when
the next term of the district court opens
in Bismarck. The correct answer is
May 18th at 10 a. m !.
Express Messenger Laub has rented
one of the Strauss houses on Second
street, and will move his family up from
st. Paul in a few days.
According TO the Mandan Pioneer,
Miss Edith Winchester of the city, will
assist in a corcert to be given in Mandan,
the first week in March.
Prof. Wheaton and his corps of teach
ers visited the Mandan public schools
yesterday. The Mandan teachers will
return the visit in the near future.
Mrs. Minnie P. Jones, Governor Short
ridges stenographer, who has been
quite i'll for the past week or so, has i'm
proved sufficiently to be out again.
City Clerk Barret's office, which was
damaged by fire recently has abeen re-
paired, neatly repapered, and will be re-
painted and ready for occupancy in a
day Or so,
Major Clapp, Indian agent at Fort
Berthold, has selected Brad NATION, for
several years connected with the agency, !
as his clerk-according to a letter from
Major Murphy. !
Mary Dunbar, the young girl who is
complaining witness in the seduction
case against Fred Cotton, in Emmons
county, is seriously i'll as a result of the
nervous strain at the hearing.
The musical committee of the Presby-
terrain church are taking steps toward
the securing of a permanent choir, and
it is expected that arrangements will be
perfected for to-morrow's services.
Judge Chase had two pretty seedy
looking Migrants before him yesterday
who said they we're on their way to Great
Falls-and the jud ge told them to hurry |
past Bismarck, which they promised to
do-and did.
Beckett, who was brought to.the pen
the other day, was formerly an in
mate of the institution back in 1886,
when he was sent up from Grand Forks
for stealing a silk dress pattern to pre-
sent to the girl he was counting.
Carloads of rock and brush are being
hauled by the railroad company to the
opposite side of the river these days, and
sent up to the bend above the bridge,
where 1t is used in the work of rip-rap-
ping to protect the bridge.
Gen. Hughes left to-day for Brainerd,
where he will enter the hospital for a
time. The general suffered a fall on the
ice some weeks ago, and has not entirely
recovered from its effects. He will re-
main at the hospital until improved.
First Lieut.. Percy E. Trippe, 10th
cavalry, who has been on duty at the
Jefferson barracks recruiting depot near
st. Louis, for the past two years, will be
relieved from that station on the 4th