Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-06
TUESDAY.

L. A. Simpson came down from Dick
inson on this mornings train.
Mrs. w. D. elliott Of Bozeman, Mont.
is in the city, ne guest Of Mrs. j. H.
| Marshall.
John A. Stevens, who travels for the
Grand Forks Herald, is doing business
in the city today.
Geo. Howe, the popular telegraph
operator at Cannonball, is greeting
friends in the city today.
Miss Lulu Dobson of Dickinson came
in from the east this morning for a visit
! with friends in the city.
Ray.Conklin of Jamestown, a brother
of Fred Conklin of the Northern Pacific
office force, is in the city today.
Miss Dexheimer, who teaches the
downtown primary school, has taken
rooms at the Marshal residence.
D. W. Clark of Valley City, who has
been at work on the codes for some
weeks, babe farewell to friends in the
city last night and returned east.
Rufus Ullum reports alyield of 1869
bushels Of wheat threshed from 100
acres, on his farm near Menoken-an
average of nearly 10 bushels to the acre.
A fine 9 twenty-footA flag was hoisted
from the capitol yesterday by Superin-
tendent Marshall, and waved proudly to
the breeze for the first time on Labor
Day.
w. T. Perkins sends on a bill of fare
of dinner at Nantasket Beach, where he,
Fisher and Kendrick had dinner and ate
clam chowder, Penobscot salmon, and
other beach specialties a few days ago.
A radish, eighteen inches long, and
nearly as large in circumference at it's
largest part, raised in the garden of
Captain Belk, is one of the samples of
what Burleigh county soil will produce.
Sheriff Eddy was up from jamestown
today with an officer of the Colorado
~penitentiary, after requisition papers for
an escaped convict from the latter insti-
tuition, who was captured near James
town.
W. F. Gushing discovered two suspi-
cious looking characters ~endeavoring to
force entrance into the back door of his
residence when he went home last night,
and when he entered the gate, they
jumped the fence and fed.
T. W. Sanders: Finished threshing
last Saturday, and threshed out 2,61O
bushels of wheat off a quarter section,
between 16 and II bushels to the acre
It is all good wheat, plump and heavy.
The wheat in the neighborhood will run
about the same, and all Of it is good.
We have moved into town and the boys
start to school today.
So far, the two birds who escaped
from Jail Saturday night have not been
recaptured. The man who was stopped
at Dawson proved to be not one of the
two wanted, and no other traces of the
fugitives have been secured. Men are
still looking for the absent ones, and a
watch has been kept at the bridge to
secure a trace of them if possible.
It is reported about $4,000 in cash has
been collected in Valley City for the
maintenance of the state normal school
and that when the state normal school
board meets this week, an amount equal
to that raised for the Mayville school
will be deposited with the state treasurer.
This will insure the opening of the
school although with perhaps a slightly
smaller faculty than was at first intended
G. L. Zimmerman, secretary Of the
Morton County Fair association, was in
the city yesterday distributing adver-
Using matter for the coming fair. Among
the special features to be had at the fair
will be a roping contest, in which a prize
will be awarded the person who makes
the quickest time in roping, throwing
and tying down Of a steer. Then there
will be a contest at broncho breaking, by
women, and a contest at speed between
bicycle and horsef1esh.
Observer Bronson sends out data Of
weather for the month of August. The
mean temperature for the month was 81
degrees, or 3 degrees below the average
for twenty years. The highest tempera-
ture was SO degrees on the 18th of the
month, and the lowest 30 degrees on the
31st. The total precipitation for the
month was 40 inches, or about 2 inches
below the average for twenty years, which
is 2.41inches. The highest Q temper
ture for the month in twenty years was
70 degrees in 1878, and the greatest pre-
cipitation 4.49 inches in 1887,
Sheriff Taylor came down from
Wogansport today with Eugene Lee, the
United States prisoner who was dis
charged from Jail here some days ago.
The sheriff suspected Lee of attempting
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