Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-20

| was Ot SOdl6 u dRo3 OuO VI uA0 plOuOOl6
of Ohio, and the oldest Mason in the
state. He was one of the wealthy and
| influential citizens of the locality and
universally honored.
A pardon was granted by the governor
Monday to Charles Smith, who was
sent up from Grand Forks five years ago
for grand larceny. Smith has been a
trusty for some time, having acted as
driver, and his time would have been out
in a few days. The pardon was granted
to save him right of citizenship.
County Commissioner Eek lund says
no seeding of any consequence has been
done in the northern part of the county,
owing to the continued wet weather, it
being impossible to haul a drag ove the
fields. The ground is IN excellent con-
dition, and in another week seeding will
be we'll under way, if the rain ceases.
The suit Of Mark j. Shelby, printer,
against Superintendent and MIR. w. H.
B. Eisenhuth, for wages alleged to be
due in running the Citizen (the Eisen-
huth's paper), was tried in the district
court at Darlington before Judge Rose.
The jury were out about ten minutes
and found a verdict for the defendants.
Fargo Forum: Reports from Bis
marck bring the news that several men
laid off early in the winter have gone to
work again on the Northern Paciic-an
indication that business is picking up.
We hope to see full trains and plenty of
'em every day run on the Old Pioneer
line. that always treats it's employees like
they we're human beings.
Jerry Barnes: The statement that
one of the bids for the lcapitol extension
would be $500 less than Sheckler's, if it
did not include lime, is rather steep, as
this would make the lime cost $4,000, as
the Sheckler bid is $1,000 less than the
one in question, and the lime would not
cost owe S1,10O, at most. It may be
we'll to state, too, that the Sheckler bid
does include lime, and is figured on that
basis.
Senator McGillivray says the Stock
mems association will have a largely
attended meeting at Dickinson on the
Goth. Representatives from all parts of
the country included in the association
limits will be present, and the meeting
will be an important one. Preparations
are beng made for a grand ball at the
opera house in the evening, to close the
meeting in the customary blaze of glory.
General Superintendent Bryan of the
Great Northern road, was an east bound
passenger on Monday afternoons train.
Mr.. Bryan was in Helena with his private
car when the strike began, and it was
impossible for him to get his car out on
the Great Northern. 1t being necessary
for him to get to st. Paul to confer with
the officials, he left his car in Helena,
and came down via the Northern Pacific.
1t is said that Laird, the brother of
Mrs. Kent, who was shot over in Mandan
some time ago, has had one or two de-
t~ectives from st. Paul and Minneapolis,
employed m the case, and that one of
them is Hay, the same man who went
after the Floyds, and further, that Hay
went east from Mandan this afternoon,
stating that he was going after Kent,
who, he thinks, knows something about
the shooting, and whom he thinks, also,
he will get.
Miss Jessamine Slaughter spent Sun
day in the city, having closed her six
months term of school at Emmonsburg,
Friday evening with a fine entertain
ment at which she was presented by her
scholars with a handsome photograph
album. She purchased two fine saddle
horses at Fort Yates and is making the
trip on horseback, having coming the
distance of ffty-1ive miles in eight
hours. She proceeded on way this
morning to Weller, Mclean county.
where she begins a six-months term of
school Tuesday morning.
The Quinlan farm, which has been
leased by the penitentlary trustees fol
the use of the institution, is being seeded
as fast as the weather will permit. The
land is in fine shape 80 far, and once
seeded, the crop will be a large one
with fair conditions of weather. Oats
corn, potatoes, fax and garden vegetables
will be grown for the use of the 1nstitu
ton, aside from the land which is to bt
devoted to the raising of garden seedt
for 0. H. Will. The cultivation of {
crop on the land will be quite an item
toward the maintenance of the peniten
tiary.
An application for the pardon of o. P
Hines of Wahpeton, now confined in thu
penitentiary here for life for highway
robbery, will shortly be presented to The
governor by the wife of the man. Hines
held up a man to the tune Of a few dol
lars, and his crime coming under the ole
statute, he got life Imprisonment. Hi
wife says that Hines was always good te