Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-03
The $ismarek Tribnne.
CITY AND COUNTY.

CllY AND CUON Il
The county building at Williamsport
is reported destroyed by fire.
The hot weather continues undated,
and the rain seems exhausted.
DR.. Harcourt is fitting up his residence
on Second street for occupancy.
The brick yards are working steadily,
and have about 100000 on hand.
Gen. E. A. Williams has gone east to
visit his children at Freeport, Ill.
Miss Freddie Bartholomew has been
quite ill in st. Paul for several days.
George Peoples is suffering over in
Mandan with a broken wrist-the result
of q fall.
Mollie Gunderson of Mandan, has
passed the million mark in her collection
of stamps.
It is said the Northern Pacific pay car
will not make It's appearance until Sep
TENDER LIST.
Marshal Cronan is settling with depu-
ties along the line, for services in the
Coxey troubles.
Auditor Edick is busy preparing as
sessment abstracts for the state board
of equalization.
". G. Rowland has gone to James
town to accept a sit in the train dis
patcher's Office.
According to the Mandan Pioneer, the
Indians attribute the drouth to the re-
venge of Sitting Bull.
Hickey, who escaped from Jail, is still
at large, and his escape will probably re-
suit in permanent freedom.
Farmers report prairie chickens more
numerous than ever, and the hunting
3. this fall promises to be excellent.
VIM. Beard, the Emmons county pa
tient, has about recovered from his in
iuries and is about on the streets.
Joe Katz is down from up river, and
says the heat has played havoc with
grain. Hay too, is short, and hard to
get.
The school board is considering the
question of %renovating and reftting the
Fourth ward school house for use the
coming term.
Wool shipments from Bismarck have
been quite extensive this year, and the
city is becoming quite a shipping center
for that article.
A. A. Brundage has severed his con
nectlon with the Dawson Standard,
which has been leased to the STANDARD.
Publishing company.
Her friends in Bismarck will regret to
learn that Mrs. John P. Bray is not ex-
pected to survive a surgical operation
performed at Minneapolis.
Harvesting has begun about the
ty, and crop yields will be light. Some
pieces will not be cut because of the alb
sence of grain from the fields.
Sheriff Donnelly still has eleven
prisoners in jail, after the cleaning out
by the recent term of court-ten Coxey-
ties and n county prisoner.
The resignation of First Lieutenant
Walter F. Gushing, of Go. G, of Valley
City, has been received and approved by
the executive Office to take effect Sept.
!, 1894.
Sheriff Bingenheimer of Mandan, has
been in correspondence with Scotland
Yard inspectors concerning the missing
Kent, and has learned some interesting
facts of his past.
J. M. Edgerley of this city, A. NJ.
Packard of Mandan, and w.. J. Summer
field of Lisbon, have been appointed a
committee on legislation for the State
Firemen's association.
G. M. Copeland, Winnipeg, Man., pro-
v~isional secretary Young Mems Christian
association of the Canadian west is pro-
noting Y. M. G. A. work at Bismarck
and other towns along the line.
Stock shipments from the west are be-
ginning to pass through, several train
loads having already passed. Stock
cars are being shipped west each day
and several large shipments are billed
from Dickinson and other shipping
centers.
Ed. Sloan has been doing some clean
ing up about the school house the past
few days, trimming and watering the
trees, raking up the debris about the
yard, and will 60 at the inside of the
building to-day, and give it a thorough
~overhauling.
One of the militia boys received his
check a day or SO ago, amounting to $40,
for encampment services, and absent
mindedly tore it into small bits as he
walked down the strickland the rest of
the company are enjoying a joke at his
expense.
The EmmOns County Racord sava thu