Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-13
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SATURDAY,.
Governor Allin returned today from a
trip to his farm in Walsh county.
The enrolment at the public schools
increases each day, and will run up to
400 before long.
Joe d. Mills, the Grand Forks insur-
ance hustler, came in on this mornings
train to look after business in the city.
Col. G. A. L%ounsberry came IN from
Fargo this morning to attend a meeting
of the penitentiary board.
President Worst OF the Agricultural
college, has purchased a residence in
Fargo, and is getting located with his
family.
The Nineteenth Century club will
meet at the Reading room next Tuesday
at 3 o'clock. Lesson, "Review of Intro.
duction and Chapter l."
Some needed repairs are being made
today on sidewalks on the south side of
main street. There are several places
about town where the walks need repair
ing, and the authorities are getting
around to them as fast possible.
Sheriff Taylor is today figuring up and
paying the expenses incurred in the
escape of the two %convicts and
recapture of one of them. The sheriff
has been to a considerable expense in
the matter, and the entire amount falls
upon him to pay, and not on the county,
as come appar to think.
Barney.lBurbage was brought in by
Deputy Marshal Livermore this morn
ing, charged with cutting timber on gov
eminent land, the ofense alleged to have
occurred on the Standing Rock reserva.
ton. Before Court Commissioner Hos
kins today he gave bonds of 5000 to ap-
pear onlSeptember 16 for a hearing.
Miss Cantwell, who will be remem-
bered as one of tbs most efficient and
popular instructors in the Bismarck
schools a few years ago, is in the city for
a few days, the guest of Mrs. Secretary
Dahl. Miss Cantwell is now at the head
of the department of literature in the
Montana Agricultural College at Boze-
man.
Bismarck is becoming we'll known as
a prospective center for the silk indus
try, through the item regarding silk
worms on the trees about the school
house, which was published some weeks
ago. The item has travelled to both
coasts, and in the San Francisco Bull
letin appears a notice regarding the dis
covery of silk worms here.
Governor Allin reports threshing on
his Walsh county farm finished. The
yield of wheat averaged thirty-four
bushels to the acre, and all No. l hard.
Oats went about seventy bushels, and
other grain pro%portionially. The gov
ernor says it is the greatest crop year
ever experienced by the farmers in that
section of che country.
The record on appeal in the case of
Gage VS.. Fisher was filed in the office of
the clerk of the supreme court, today by
Glaspell and Newton, the attorneys for
the plaintiff and appellant, and the case
will be heard before the supreme court
at Grand Forks in October. This is the
suit involving a claim of $4,000 by Gage
for some shares of bank stock sold the
d%efenant Fisher. The claim was defeat
ed IN the district court, and from this
the plaintiff appeals.
Do not forget the auction in the
Swedish Lutheran church tonight. Cot
fee and cake will also be served.
The city authorities call attention to
the fact that the stacking of hay in the
city is liable to be attended with conse.
quences which are not desirable, in the
way of higher insurance rates and dan
ger to property. It would be better for
all concerned, and of mutual benefit to
citizens, if no hay were stacked in the
city, at least in places where buildings
are close together, and the danger from
fire is greater.
Sheriff O'Connor OF Grand Forks ar
rived in the city this morning with two
candidates for the ~penitentiary, James
Mckay, convicted of robbery. who will
serve ten years for the state, and A.
Hodges, convicted Of forgery, who gets
three years. The recruits at the pen
have been quite numerous Of late, fifteen
or twenty having been received in the
past month or six weeks. With the