Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-11
WEDNESDAY,.

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Clerk Hutchinson Of the land Office
had business in Mandan today.
}. +. Fort returned on this mornings
train from a trip east.
Mrs. N. F. Boucher ana daughter are
visiting in LaMoure county this week.
Larry Casselman came down from
Washburn yesterday. and went down to
Jamestown last night.
Judge Bartholomew returned today
from Grand Forks, the term of supreme
court having been finished.
The steam plant in the First National
bank block is now in operation, and the
occupants of the building report it a
big improvement.
Director Bronson Of the weather
bureau has been granted leave of
absence for a month, and will leave in
a day or go for the east, visiting in
Chicago and other eastern cities.
The Gage-Fisher case was not argued
before the supreme court at Grand Forks
but will be heard here on the 18th inst,
when court will convene TO dispose
of the several matters which have been
put over, and prepare opinions in the
cases already heard.
Several wagon loads of home grown
water and musk melons have been in
the city today, and are being sold to the
local consumers. The home grown
melons are OF a dwarf variety, but are.
fairly we'll favored, considering that the
climate is not specially we'll adapted to
their successful growth.
Wild geese are beginning to show up
from the northward on their migratory
tour southwark, and several of the fields
about town are being carefully watched
by nimrods, who are out after the wary
fowl. Goose hunting is one of the most,
popular pastim es of the sportsmen, and
the season is always hailed with rejoic-
ing.
A good share of the onions in the pen
garden we're badly frosted night before
last. They had been pulled, and we're
laid along in rows to dry out, and had
been covered with straw as a ]precaution,
but the freeze was too much for them.
There will be no shortage in the supply
OF this account, as the surplus was
pretty large.
About 1,5O0 to 1000 raspberry plants
have been set out by E. 81. BLY,, on the
land he has prepared on the bottoms
south of town. The soil about them is
rich, and has been carefully prepared,
and the plants are expected to thrive.
There are several thousand more yet to,
be set out.
There has been no scare Of any conse-
quence at the public schools on account
of the few cases of scarlet fever. ALL
precautions are being taken by the school
authorities to prevent contagion among
the pupils, and the danger is practically
nil. Pupils who have been exposed are
not allowed to enter school without a
physicians certificate that there is no
further danger from the exposure.
Miss. Lora Dexheimer, who was
formely teacher of the down town prim-
airy school, and who was called to South
Dakota by the ILLNESS of her mother.
has resigned her position here and will
not return to the city. Her place has
been filled by the appointment of Miss.
Nellie Rafferty,, Of the Winona, MINI,
Normal school, an experienced primary
instructress. She will arrive in the CITY
Friday morning.
The capitol commissioners are adver-
Using this week for bids for 600 tons of
Ignite coal, bids to be opened October
70. The coal is to be delivered, one
chird in December, one third in January
and one-third in February, and will be-
weighed without charge on the state
scales at the capitol. It is estimated it
will take about 1000 tons to supply the
demand, and the other 400 tons will be
bought in open market from the farmers
Of the county.
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