Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-07-26


Fromme's bargains are attracting trade
from all parts of the county-farmers
coming in especially to take advantage
Of the sale. This shows what bargains
will do, when judiclously advertised.
Major Mclaughlin was a west. bound
passenger on Saturday morning's train en-
route to Fort Yates. The majors duty
as Indian inspector takes him all over
the country, and he has just been
settling some difficulties upon Indian
reservations in Nebraska.
Howard Eaton, the cattle king of tn Q
Little Missouri river, was a west-bound
passenger this morning, en- route to his
home ranch. He is returning from a
visit to his old home at Pittsburg, and
goes to look after some cattle shipments
which he will make in the near future.
A Bismarck base ball team tackled
the Burnt Creek nine Sunday and
we're defeated-11 to Z. The farmers"
played in their stocking feet, but knew a
little about the game themselves. "Dad"
Newcomer pitched for Bismarck and was
batted out of the box in the fifth inning
The Morton County Fair association,
with head office at Mandan, organized
last night with, Hon. George Harmon
president; A. E. Thorberg, vice presi-
dent; W. S. Barrows, second vice presi-
dent; Charles Wilson, secretary; D. R.
Taylor, treasurer. The fair will be held
early in October.
The Fred divorce case has been opened
in district court. A degree was granted
Abraham Fred in this case by default,
some time ago,and now the wife has come
in with affidavits, to show she was not
rightly in default, and the Judgment has
been opened, and she will be permitted
to make answer in the case.
Another lifer will soon be brought to
the state penitentiary, in the person of
Joseph Till whose trial for the murder
of a miller at Pembina February 10,
was closed Thursday night. The jury
brought in a verdict of guilty Friday
morning and fixed the penalty at life
imprisonment at hard labor.
Ross, who was arrested for malicious
mischief Tuesday, was discharged by
Judge Chase Thursday. The evidence
against Ross was that some one had been
seen to throw Stops against the back
door of a neighbor of Ross, but the
Identification Of Ross as the man was
not positive, and he was discharged.
It is said the Mandan fair trustees
have secured subscriptions aggregating
$4,000 already, and are figuring on a sue
cessful fair this fall. 1t will be The first
attempt of the West Missouri country to
make a display of it's resources, and will
doubtless be enthusiastically entered
into by those whose interests lie across
the Missouri.
Captain Braithwalte reports a fine
piece of wheat at John Meyers place,
north of the city-the finest he ever saw.
It will run, at a careful estimate, twenty
to twenty-five bushels to the acre, and
has not been injured in the least by heat.
In fact, all the wheat in the northern
part of the county, with very few excep-
tions, looks fine.
A gang of about thirty italian labor
ers are at work at the river, leveling off
and inclining the top of the bluff, where
the work train has been e%zcavating for
the filling in of the trestle, so that there
may be no danger of q slide of earth
down into the cut. The men have a
boarding car and cook for themselves
while at work there.
The work of blasting rock for the wall
about the capital is now being done with
dynamite instead of giant powder, and
the new explosive is far more effective
than the old. From one boulder on the
hill north of the capital yesterday, eight
wagon loads of stone were taken, after
the blasting, and one dynamite blast
tore out three wagon loads of stone.
In the st. Paul Pioneer Press of yes
terday, D. F. Barry, the old-time Bis.
marck photographer, has ar interesting
interview, relative to the taking OF
Indian photographs, and the various
methods of securing sittings from the
different Indian chieftains-Gall, Sitting
Bull and others who have since passed
into the happy hunting grounds.
Commissioner Winters and Deputy
Gushing of the land department are busy
these days, indexing the lists of state
school and institution lands in such
shape that ready and convenient refer
ence may be made to them. The lists Of
lands have never been SO arranged, and
the work now being done will expedite
to a great degree the business OF the
Office.
AS will be seen elsewhere, Dr.. Bentle,
has perfected arrangements for the es,
tablishment of a sanitarium at st
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