Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

from that place last night, to look after
some business before the land office.
A. r. Stricken has a position as wheat
buyer for the Mandan Mercantile com
pany, and will 20 out to Hebron next
week, which place will be bis head.
quarters.
There will be a regular meeting of X,
P. lodge tonight at 8 o'clock. Work in
ranks Page and Knight. A good attend.
ance is looked for.
Supt. William Moore would like to
meet all pupils of the high school and
any others who expect to enter, at the
high school room, on next Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock.
The old P. R. Smith residence on
First street, which was partially destroy
ed by fire some years ago, has been sold
to Ross, the HORSEPOWER, who is moving
it upon his lot on Second street, and will
repair it, for a residence.
W. H. Hoskins, representing the PAY
Train," one of the best scenic perform.
ances on the road, Is in the city today,
making arrangements for it's production
at the Atheneum next Wednesday.
Land Commissioner Winters returned
on the Rosebud last evening from his
trip to Fort Yates, which he reports a
very pleasant one, Major Wheelan was
also a passenger up from the post, and
left this morning for a trip 70 Montana
points.
Young Gottlieb Huber has run off
from home again, and his father is send
ing out postal cards to have him appre-
hended. The boy is ID years old, small
and thick set, with black eyes and hair,
and had no coat or vest. His father Is
anxious to hear of him.
Mrs. Fred Jessel of Mckenzie, who
was severely injured by a kick from a
horse and has been at the hospital for
some time,sis improving. Mrs. JesseI's
Injuries were painful and serious, the
cheek and upper jaw bones being badly
broken, and the eye badly bruised and
injured.
1hreshing is just getting fairly under
way in this county. In the southern
portion of the county some fields have
been threshed, but there is still much
work to do, while in the northern por-
ton the work is just about to begin.
About fifteen threshing crews will be at
work in various parts of the county,
many of them new ones which have been
put into the grain for the first time this
year.
Mike Rush, one of the Oldest of old
tuners along the slope, is up from EN-
mons county today. Mike drove on the
mail route between Bismarck and Fort
Buford way back in '73 and IA and has
stayed with the slope all through its
opening, and settlement until now. He
now owns a.ranch IN Emmons county,
has it we'll stocked with horses and cat
tie, and is up today buying lumber for
an addition to his place.
The colored "~missionary" who was
here some time ago, claiming to be the
only son of Ham on earth entitled to
write I'D. D" after his name, which he
gave as Chase, late of England, has been
published and branded an impostor at
several places in the state, and the ozone
got SO hot for him that he has pulled
out for greener fields and more verdant
people where he can work his missionary
racket with more profit and less expo
sure.
M. H. Weeks pointer, the one he sold
to Joseph Mann Of Mclean county a
week or so ago, came back, like the cat
sometime last'night. The old associations
appear to have been too strong for him,
and at the first favorable opportunity he
cut stick, and trotted back over the forty
miles which separated him from his old
home. This morning, Nh. Weeks found
him waiting to be received, pretty well
tired out from his journey, but ap.
parently highly pleased to get back
again.
The members of the amateur theatri.
cal organization are busy this week with