Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-01-25

man who is in the pen for eighteen
months for adultery, was prominent in
the strike here last summer when en-
ployed as a Pinkerton by the road. He
led the van of the strikers procession
and made frey speeches in council. But
the boys got onto him, it is said, just as
swiftly as did both of his wives.
Major Fleming has received a letter
from Frederick Webber, SD degree, Sec
rotary general of the Supreme Council,
for the Southern Masonic jurisdiction,
stating that he will be at Fargo at the
next reunion and spend a week with
the North Dakota brethren.
The local reading room association has
sent out circulars to the various news
papers in the state, asking that they be
forwarded, for the benefit of the institu-
ton. The reading room Is a worthy en-
terprise, and the responses will doubtless
be prompt and generous, as North d.
kota newspaper men always are.
Colonel j. B. Britton, who has been in
the city for several days, has gone east
and formed a partnership with Colonel
Plummer and will again enter the ranks
of n~ewspaperdom at Minot. The outfit
belonging to Mr.. Britton will be used for
the new publication and will be shipped
to Minot in a couple of weeks.
Editor Streeter, of the Record, says:
The Typographical Union ball and ban
quet at Bismarck, Wednesday, was we'll
attended, and was n of the great events
of the capital city's social season. The
members of the grand old trades-union
organization that dates back to 1852
never do things by halves.
Langdon Courier. Democrat: A prl-
vate letter received from Senator Plain
since his arrival at Bismarck, shows that
the boys from this county are comfort
ably quartered. In speaking of the new
senate chamber, our good-looking bach
elor in the state senate describes it as
being a dandy" and says that the ad-
ditions to the capitol building add greatly
to it's general appearance.
Valley City Alliance: 1t is told here
that N. P. Rasmussen, having a holy
horror of conflagratious, has supplied
his room in his hotel in Bismarck with a
rope an inch and a half in diameter and
1oy~ opo,,r1, RI ro0ol fr<>~o l,c rriclor,
to the ground. In case of fire and Nels
starts to slide down we'll bet he'd try to
go too fast, burn his hands and drop.
The funeral service over the remains
of Mrs. Hansbrough was conducted in
the parlors of the Hotel Cochran at
Washington in accordance with the
ritual Of the Episcopal church, by the
Rev. DR.. McKlm. Numerous floral offer
ings covered the casket. The honorary
pall-bearers were the Hon. M. A. Smith
of Arizona, Hon. M. N. johnson OF North
Dakota, and Senators Roach, Dubois,
Gallinger and Kyle.
It appears from the report Of Hon. W.
W. Barrett, state irrigation commissioner
that 100000 acres Of government land
was appropriated at the close of the last
session Of congress to thirteen different
western states, and North Dakota will
receive 100000 acres of this land for
irrigation purposes. This land goes to
actual settlers, the limit being 100 acres
to n person, who is obliged to irrigate
twenty acres of the same.
Jamestown Alert: Two deer hunters
brought into Bismarck the other day
nine deer in one wagon load. The ami
mails were corded up like so much wood.
They were sold to the hotels and meat
markets without difficulty. Every few
days before the season closed deer were
brought into the city by farmers, and
still are coming in, or at least offered for
sale. An average weight deer will net
| the hunter five or six dollars.