Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02

ago Will PROBABLY be rebuilt, and the
Northern Pacific will contribute it's share
toward expenses.
Mr.. J. G. Churchman, who has been
messenger for the Northern Pacific Ex-
press company for some time, leaves to-
night for Fargo, where he accepts q po-
sition as travelling salesman for the
wholesale grocers, Park, Grant & Morris.
MIR. Churchman is an old time travelling
man, and his success in his new position
is assured by all who know him.
Jack Flynn Of Winona, and A. B..
Stricken engaged in a hundred-yard
foot race Thursday morning. Jack had
q game leg and Stricken was a number
Of pounds overweight, and gave out at
the quarter post, Flynn taking the
sweepstakes. Jack says Stricken 0
out On him at Mandan on the Fourth Of
July several years ago, and this is the
first chance he has had to prove himself
a Splinter with q record.
George Wentworth has a number Of
men at work on the ice harbor at Rock
Haven, moving dirt, and filling in at the
river bank. About forty teams are busy
in all, and about a hundred men, and the
work will last probably until Novem-
Der l. Capt. I. P. Baker has a contract
for furnishing brush for the work, and
fifteen or twenty men are busy on this
side of the river, cutting brush, which is
taken across in the little steamer Imelda.
Harvest of wheat and other grains has
already commenced in some parts of the
county, and this week will see harvest
ing operations general over the county.
Near Glencoe some wheat is being cut,
and farmers are at work on the reserva-
ton. Those who have travelled over the
county, and seen crops IN various locali-
ties, say the yield will be good. With
few exceptions the grain is in good
shape, and the yield will be considerably
above the average.
The state department of agriculture
and labor is sending out blanks to the
various county auditors about the state,
calling for statistics of crops and farms
in the state. The statistics are gathered
by the various assessors, at the time the
prise figures as to the acreage of crops,
value of farm products, growth of fruits
and trees, and other interest and valuable
data, which are compiled by the depart
ment for record.
A number of pine timbers from the
coast were being shipped east by freight
this morning. These timbers are about
eighty feet in length, straight as a die,
and almost without a knot or blemish.
Much of this western timber is used in
the east, because of its great length, and
uniformity of dimension, those which
we're being shipped today being as large
at one end as at the other. The timbers
are used in various ways, some of them
for spars and masts in ship building.
Replying to a charge that he speaks
derogatcry of North Dakota in his east
ern addresses, Bishop Walker writes a
friend as follows: "In my addresses I
do not make remarks derogatory to the
state of North Dakota. On the contrary,
I speak of it's wonderful fertility, it's
large railroad system, its generous, ener
getic, courageous, warm hearted people,
it's splendid educational endowment, it's
admirable institutions of learning, and
it's exhilirating, healthful climate"
They say the storm that ragged on the
sea of Galilee, wasn't a marker to that
which swept over Spiritwood Lake last
Saturday, and that while the attorney
general was giving an official opinion to
Col. Robinson-the Surveyor General
Blew-itt clean overheard and did much
to calm the troubled waters by a petition
to the Most High, while Bob Wallace,
DR.. DePuy and Auditor Briggs gazed in
silent wonder at the skill DR.. Archibald
exhibited as pilot.
DR.. w. A. Bentley is preparing to es-
tablish in this state a branch of the
society of the Sons of the Revolution.
The doctor has sent in his credentials to
the Minnesota society, and as soon as he
receives notice of their acceptance, he
will establish a branch of the order in
this state. There are in the city several
who are eligible to the order, and doubt
less a considerable number a be dis
covered in the state. The qualifications
are lineal descent from some one of the
members of the Revolutionary army.
The largest gypsy camp that ever
crossed the Red into Dakota is now
vending it's way along west through the
state. The aggregation consists, says the
Moorehead News, Of ID wagons and 70
or 80 horses. The first wagon was fixed
up in grand style, lace curtains, ribbons
and very fine horses, and was very pic
turesque. No one except the driven was
visible in this conveyance, but it was