Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-07-19
time before she will be able to make the

Mrs.W. S. Casselman has taken advan.
tage OF the summer school vacation to
make q visit to her old home near Mon.
treal, Canada, where she will remain
until the fall term commences, visiting
with relations.
Miss Bessie Waggoner left Wednesday
mornings train for jamestown, where
she will visit for a time. She has &C.
cepted the invitation of Miss Nellie Wal
lace for a weeks outing with a party OF
young people at Spiritwood Lake.
jamestown Alert: Hon. Jno. Satter-
lund of Washburn, Mclean county, was
bound east to Devils Lake today to ad.
dress the editorial association. He says
that prospects we're never as good along
the Missouri river for a crop since 1882.
In Mandan Thursday Thomas Swi.
densky plead guilty in the district court
to the information charging him with
numbering Mrs. Kent last year, and the
passing of sentence was deferred. He
will appear as a witness against Kent at
Fargo next week.
The local boys have heard nothing
from the Grand Forks club, who have as
yet made no response to the proposition
of the home team to play at Grand Forks
for a guarantee of 5000. 1t is probable
that the proposed games with Valley
teams will have to be given up.
The TRIBUNE has been advised that
possibly the plucking of unripe prairie
chickens will not lead the violators of
the law into as much trouble as fast
driving and misuse Of tired horses on the
home journey from the fields of I'M
natural, unequal and unlawful conquest.
The TRIBUNE is pleased to note the
presence of silk worms on the trees
about the school house, and trusts that
a profitable industry may arise out of
this discovery. There is no reason the
silk business should not prosper here if
we have the worms-which We appear to
have.
NJ. P. Skeels is making a neat resi-
dence of the house he moved to Sixth
street and Avenue A recently. A good
stone foundation has been placed there
under, and the house will be completely
repaired and reprinted inside and out.
Mr.. Skeels will move into it as soon as
! tho work 10 oopop1oko1 .f..
Hon. L. A. Simpson of Dickinson, was
in the city Thursday night, returning::trom
st. Paul to his home in Dickinson. MI.
Simpson vas called to st. Paul by the
illness Of his wife, who is under treat
ment at n of the hospitals there, and
whom he says is somewhat improved.
Mr.. Simpson returned west on Friday
mornings train.
A gang of thlrty-three Italian labor
ers, under the management of a foreman,
have begun work on the Northern Pa
cifc grade between here and jamestown.
The men buy groceries and utensils for
boarding themselves, which they do
cheaper and more satisfactorily than by
the section house plan. The company
furnishes boarding cars.
About the only apparent regret of the
prisoner Emile Wendlund when he was
incarcerated IN the pen today, was the
loss of his moustache. He has, or had,
a flowing black one, to which he was
much attached and didn't want to lose
1t, but it had to succumb to prison dis
cipline, and was left in the institution
barber shop.
The Mandan Pioneer has an article on
the wool clip of the Slope, and figures
the output of the Slope at 1,O35,OOO
pounds, but leaves out Bismarck from
the list of shipping points. The Pioneer
figures only the wool shipped from Man.
dan and west, but it makes a better
showing for the Slope to include all the
slope product in figuring the total clip.
G. Il. Phelps has been making a con-
siderable improvement in his Third
street residence property. The edge of
the lot facing the street which is a per-
pendicular face about three feet high,
has been enclosed by q brick wall, which
adds greatly to the appearance of the
place. Neat brick steps have been put
in, and the place has been greatly i'm
proved in appearance.
Mandan is talking Of organizing a
county fair association, and a committee
consisting Of E. Boley, A. E. Throberg,
G. A. Heegaard,. George Harmon and'J.
A. McDougal were appointed to investi-
gate and look into matters necessary for
permanent organization, and to report
next Wednesday. The co operation of
all farmers and stockmen in Morton
county has been requested.
Capt. H. F. Hodges reports to the
chief of engineers upon the improvements
Of the upper Missouri. He says about
$108,4G7 have been expended during the
year, chiefly in moving distinctions,
dredging and work on the banks of the
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