Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-23
YEARS G
Information Gathered from the Files
of the Bismarck Tribune of
Feb. 21, 1874.

Col. Brownson receives a letter from
General Manager Mead of the North
ern Pacific, that trains will be run
ming to Bismarck by March 18th, and a
weekly line of steamers, consisting of six
boats, will be running between Bismarck
and the Musse]shell, as 5000 as spring
opens -. TRIBUNE comments on the
winter as having been exceptio nally
clear and warm. Only five inches of
snow during the entire time, and the
thermometer, with one or two exceptions,
has not been down to thirty degrees be-
low zero, while in Minnesota and Iowa,
there had been three feet of snow, with
temperature down to thirty and thirty
five below -. Interesting letter from a
Jamestown correspondent, who states
that the town is the county seat Of Suits
man, organized a year before. Present
county commissioners were A. w. Kel-
ley, chairman; J. Fray and D. M. Kel-
cher. County out of debt, and had $500
in the treasury. Correspondent states
that the division of territory was the all
absorbing topic there, and Jamestown's
people thought themselves geograph-
lcally located to have the capital. IF
capital is at Bismarck, it would be too
far from Fargo; and if at Fargo, too far
from Bismarck, so jamestown is the
place for IT'S. The Sioux raided the
Berthold agency, capturing about twenty
ponies belonging to the Rees -. Officers
Of the garrison at Fort Lincoln prepare
to give an anniversary hop. Bismarck
Dramatic association organized. The
firm of Mercer & Gray, located at
Pa nted Woods, dissolved, Dan Williams
purchasing the latter's interest.
Robert Gillespie, a soldier of Go. H,
Seventeenth infantry, found frozen to
death between the point and Fort
Lincoln. He had been drinking, and
while attempting to get home, had fallen
on the ice and a not able to get up
again. On the same morning, Duane, a
soldier belonging to the same regiment
was found dead on the side of the hill
between the fort and the suffers store,
presumably dying from the effects Of
too much llquor....A man named
Snider from Fort Stevenson caught out
in a storm and frozen to death near lake
Mandan ~. Bismarck has considerable
townsite excitement. On the previous
Saturday q petition was circulated, the
design Of which was to secure two-thirds
of the citizens as signers and thereby to
TOWNSHIP section 4, on which Bismarck
was located, in behalf of Geo. W. Sweet.
The petition was drawn up in such q
manner that it received number of sig
natures, before5its object was disco vered.
Those who had signed, when they found
out the real intent of the petition, re-
quested that their names be stricken
of, but were told it was impossi-
BILE, as the petition had already been
filed. At this juncture came another
petition, signed by 14O citizens'to town.
site the property in behalf Of the citi-
zens of Bismarck, and there was more
excitement. Lot jumping and fencing
were IN order, and commenced at about
u o'clock, Tuesday night. Some per-
son fenced in Camp Hancock, another
the graveyard, another the Presbyterian
church, and another the Northern Paci-
fc depot grounds. The excitement was
thus kept up all day Tuesday, and in
the evening, a mass meeting vas held at
Morton's hall. Resolutions were adopted
protesting against the Sweet petition,
and denouncing the methods Of procur-
ing Of signers by fraud. A committee
Of five, consisting Of @. Hobert, r. Scott,
W. w. Bell, w. NJ. Pye and T. P. Davis
was appointed to communicate with the
general land office, and oppose the
J Sweet petition.