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

vestigation in La Moure and Dickeyl
counties. The present condition of the
cactus will be examined. The trip will
occupy several davs. The commission
will make personal visits to fields in the
districts where the greatest damage is
threatened.
Ten trains of stock last week, and
twelve trains this week from Dickinson
are the size Of the early shipments. The
weeks business of stock loading, at
points this far distant from Chicago, is
completed in the last three days of the
week. Shippers starting cattle and sheep
east at the end Of the week reach the
Chicago market Tuesdays, Wednesdays
or Thursdays, avoiding the Sunday lay
over and dull Saturday sales.
jamestown had a bicycle thief to deal
with the other day-one George w.
Streeter, who entered a bicycle shop,
borrowed a wheel to test it, and forgot
to come back. His wheel sprung a leak
out a few miles, and the officers over
took him. He was taken before Judge
Rose, plead guilty, and got a year in the
p~enitentiary, which time he will board
with Warden Wilson, beginning this
week.
Dave SWEET, the 6 year old son of
John G. SWEET, is suffering from the
effects of a broken arm and dislocated
elbow. The little fellow was riding
horse back with some compaions, when
he fell from the animal, breaking the
left arm and dislocating the elbow. DR..
Bentley reduced the fracture, and the lit
tie fellow is doing as we'll as could be
expected, although he will have a quite
sore arm for some time.
Railroad Commissioners Currie, Keyes
and Wamberg and Secretary Phelon were
in city Saturday, looking after the regu-
lar business of the board. Workmen at
the capital have been busy for some
time, arranging a new Office for the COM
mission, a spacious apartment to the left
OF the entrance on the ground floor of
the wing. This has not yet been quite
completed. but will be a convenient Of
flee for the. commissioners when COM
| pleted.
The cactus commission, consisting of
Gov. Allin, ex-senator Casey and Hon.
w. II. Rowe, expect to meet at Monango
next Monday, and will drive to Glendale
IN The afternoon and remain until Tues
day noon. They will hold a meeting
Monday evening at which everybody is
invited to attend, to devise the best
mode for destroying the cactus thistle.
Notwithstanding the fact that other
summer resorts especially those in the
east, are complaining of a light tourist
business, he manager of the Yellow
stone Park hotels has advised the pas.
senger department of the Northern Pa
cihc that their arrivals for the first half
OF July are Is per cent heavier than for
the year 1892, and with the exception of
the worlds fair year are heavier than for
any similar period since, 1890.
The United States patent to Northern
Pacific indemnity lands in the primary
land grant, as enacted by congress July
2, 1863, is being filed by the road in the
various counties along it's line. The
patent covers thousands of descriptions
of land in twenty counties in the state
touched by the forty-mile indemnity
limit. The document is signed by the
president, Secretary NJ. Mexican and
L. @. G. Lamar, recorder Of the general
land Office, and the document will form
the connecting link in the chain of title,
which heretofore has been lacking.
The Washburn Leader says that a
severe hail storm visited old Fort Berth
old last Friday, damaging all the Africa
rees' crops between Six Mile creek and
John Nagle's place. These Indians have
several thousand acres of crops under
cultivation, and, until the hail struck it,
looked very promising. This is discour-
aging to the red wards, who are pretty
we'll penned in and are obliged, princi-
paAly, to depend on what they grow. At
Rev. Halls mission over three hundred
panes of glass we're broken out and the
crops Of the mission destroyed.
Passenger train engines along the road
have been provided with different style
of whistle than that formerly used, or
else they have contracted severe colds
from continued exposure to the ele-
ments. The Whistles in use now have q
sort of hoarse, catarrhal sound, resem-
bling the lower notes of q calliope, and
are guaranteed to wake up anything
within range from the soundest of sleep.
It is said the system Of different whistles
is to be adopted all over the road, SINH
lar to the Pennsylvania system, where
there is a different whistle for each class
of train.
DR.. Harcourt has q group photograph