Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-05-17

ing life a burden to the cyclers by
sprinkling tacks in the road, resulting
in punctured tires and giving the riders
a feeling that generally finds expression
in language that leads to profanity.
Civil Service Examiner George w.
Leadley, assisted by Richard Penwarden
of the p%ostofice, conducted an examina-
ton at the Sheridan Monday. Eight
candidates took the examination.
Lieutenant, Governor Worst will adj
dress the teachers institute Of Benson
county, at Minnewaukan, May 23d Cor
24th); of Nelson county, at Lakota,
June Sd, and Ramsey county, at Devils
Lake, June 4th.
At one end of the trestle. the steam
shovel outfit has filled in the embank-
ment to within a few feet Of the top,
but there is still much work ahead Of
them. They will probably be busy the
greater part of the summer.
The executive committee of the
Young Mems Republican league of
North Dakota meets at jamestown, May
Odd, to select delegates to the national
convention of league clubs to be held at
Cleveland, June 10Th to 21st.
George Gussner returned Sunday
morning from Hot Springs, much i'm
proved in health and spirits. He reports
a pleasant trip, and feels like a new man
after his s%ojourn among the healing and
~rejuvenating waters of the Hot Springs.
Clerk Shelton is preparing the calen-
dar for the term of court which convenes
here next Tuesday. There are 40 cases
continued from last term, IL new civil
casef, 2 appeals from justices and 81
criminal cases, making an extensive cal
endar.
Alma Blakely, a school teacher near
New Salem, shot herself through the
heart Sunday. She came from Fair
point, Mimi, and has friends at Red
wing. She was alone when she did it.
The inquest developed no reason for the
suicide.
Three more Bismarck boys have left
for Fort Yates, allured by pleasing visions
of military life, to join the army. They
are Jay Fosdyck, John Moran and Earn
est Townsend, making SIX in all who
have enlisted from the city in the past
few months. -. m-
The genial passenger conductor, Matt
Walsh, has left for an extended visit
south and east. He goes direct to New
Orleans, and then to Washington, D. c.,
for a visit with friends, after which he
expects to spend a couple of weeks tour
ing in Green Mountains.
At the March leasing Of cultivated
school lands in the various counties,
many tracts which we're not then bid in
are now being leased. Owing to the
early season, farmers find they can put
in more grain than they anticipated,
hence the demand for increased acreage.
Fargo Argus: The governors procla-
nation for Decoration day is gay with
gold and color. It is a handsome speci-
men of art and reflects credit upon it's
author. The governor is to be congrat-
ulated upon the beauty, the poetry and
the sentiment of his announcement of
the old soldiers sacred day.
It will be of interest to the veterans of
the G. A. R. in this place, and elsewhere
in the state, to know that the city coun-
Gil of Valley City has appropriated 5000
for the state encampment to be held
there June 10 to 81, and that nothing
will otherwise be left undone to make
the occasion a pleasant one for the old
boys in blue.
The preliminaries for the Missouri
river improvements are we'll under way.
Engineer Gould and his assistant, Mr..
Parker, have been working hard getting
ready tc begin operations. On Wednes.
day force of carpenters began the work
of erecting a large warehouse down near
the bridge, the dimensions of which are
18x48 feet, 10 feet posts.
At Jamestown, the election of A. O.
U. W. officers began Immediately upon
the .opening of lodge yesterday after
moor DR.. F. M. Crane of Doland,
South Dakota, was elected Grand Mas
tern Workman by reclamation, while
Andrew Blewett was elected Grand
Foreman. Each was advanced one step
higher over the position which they
have occupied in the grand lodge during
the past year.
It is said Fargo's "ninety-day colony
was never so large. In that city at pres
ent there are all grades, kinds and quail
ties of mismated people seeking release
from unfortunate matrimonial alliances.
The latest addition is a prominent Gin
cinnati newspaper man, whose hair is
whitened by the SHOWS OF many winters,
but. il ia said. will AGAIN lead IN the altar