Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-06

a peculiar and touching meeting, and
one which was a source of surprise and
pleasure to both persons.
A Sioux Falls dispatch to the Mime
apolis Journal says that exc Congressman
Dunham's suit for a divorce, brought in
Chicago while his wife, Mrs. Dunham's,
suit for a divorce from him was pending
in Sioux Falls, will DO tried in the court
of Cook county. Mrs. Durham still
lives in Sioux Falls, but goes under the
name of Wallace, her maiden name. Maj.
Allyn, the Chicago banker, who has been
sued for $4,000 by the ex-congressman
for alternating his wife's affections, fire..
quently pays a visit to Miss Wallace, and
rumor has it that they are soon to be
married.
OF A. Croghan, whose death at the
hospital was mentioned in the TRIBUNE
of some days ago, the Emmons county
Record says: Deceased was n OF the
first settlers in the Williamsport country
having come here in the spring of 1883.
He was a pensioner, having served in a
cavalry regiment during the wal. He
has two sons, supposed to be living in
Kansas or Missouri. Mr.. Crogham was
honest and upright in his dealings with
every one, and was highly regarded by
all who knew him. He came here from
Ohio, and was something over sixty
years of age"
The Devils Lake Inter Ocean says
that Hon. A. P. Swineford, ex-governor
Of Alaska, who is now a land Office in
spector, and who is nov in Bismarck,
spent several days in Devils Lake last
week and was shown in the specimens of
"foat" on exhibition in Sullivan's
jewelry store. He pronounced them at
once specimens of ruby-silver bearing
quartz, very rich in the latter metal. If
they had been discovered in Alaska, he
stated, it would have created a great
deal of excitement. During his stay
there, nearly four years, he saw few
specimens of mineral as rich as those
found here.
Two miners from Montana, who
worked in the mines in that state up to
the time of the great reduction in forces,
were in the city to-day, looking for work
with a surveying crew. They report the
mining industry in Montana at a stand
still. Silver mines are closed down in
many instances, and in other cases are
being operated with greatly reduced
forces. Butte, once the l~iveliest city in
the west, they say is quiet, money scarce,
and many of it's Industries closed up.
Where once we're saloons and gambling
houses, and the other establishments
which mark the abundance of money,
now all is quiet, but one or two games
running, and these on a small scale. The
whole state is quiet in a business way,
and work is undeniably scarce.
The ~penitentiary trustees this morn
ing had another discussion of the mat.
ter of convict labor and it was decided
to comply with the request OF the CAPT
toll commissioners, to furnish twelve con-
victs for work on the capitol to work ten
hours a day. The objection which the
board has had to the making of this ar
rangement was that the number of hours
interfered with the routine and discipline
of the ~penitentiary, being too great to
permit of the performance of the neces-
sary work by the convicts, about their
cells, etc., aside from the work at the
capitol. The trustees have concluded
however, to arrange it so that the ten
hours a day at the capitol a be put
in by the convicts. The trustees also
agreed to furnish not more than twenty
three men for work at the b~rickyards.