Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
TUESDAY.

TUESDAY.
Mrs. F. A. Briggs returned from the
east on this mornings train.
County Commissioners WEIGH is in the
city from Glencoe.
Register Lamb of the land Office re-
turned today from a trip east.
A. j. Herbert will enter his running
mare Grace at the Mandan races.
Mrs. G. A. Chambers arrived from
South Dakota on this mornings train.
Eight licenses have been taken out
under the new ordinance, up to October
LIST.
w. 81. Bringhurst of Logansport, Ind,
is in the city looking after some property
interests.
The "Fast Mail" company came in
from the east this morning and are at
the Sheridan.
J. A. Field was in town today and re-
ports numerous losses of hay in his
vicinity by prairie fires.
A man named Daley, pardoned from
the pen some time ago, is in Jail at Fargo
for attempting to kill an officer.
The case against Martin Kunkel of
Dawson was completed last night and
he was bound over in $500 bonds to the
Fargo term of United States court.
The Fast Mail combination have been
busy today getting their elaborate
scenery into shape for tonight. They
may be crowded a little in some of the
scenes, but will put them all on.
Threshing in the southern part of the
country ia about finished. The yield of
wheat has been from sixteen to twenty
three bushels per acre. Many of the
farmers have granaries and will store
their grain for a rise in price.
After Monday next, no pupils will be
received in the first primary grade of the
public schools. Children are applying
for entrance to this grade day by day
and as a result, the work in the prim-
aries has been hindered. The board of
education, therefore, has placed this
week as the limit Of entrance.
The board of education advertise for
200 tons of Burleigh county coal which
will be purchased in open market at
50 so per ton. The coal business among
the farmers in the county is increasing
each year, and this offer blythe board
gives those who mine coal in the county
a market for a considerable amount.
A complete freight train of fourteen
cars, illuminated caboose and practical
working engine, a magnificent scene of
Niagara Falls by moonlight, with real
mist, as seen from suspension bridge.
The flight of the "Fast MAIL" which
CROSSES the stage at. the rate of seventy
miles an hour, and a realistic steamboat
race and explosion on the Mississippi,
are among the most novel scenes and
mechanical effects shown in Lincoln J.
Carter's scenic production, the "Fast
Mail" which appears at the Atheneum
! this evening.
Peoples Pilot, Rensselaer,, Ind: r. w.
Drummond of the Independent Publish
ing company Of Fargo, has been paying a
short visit to his old friends, +. D. Craig
and Francis Acklin of The Pilot. He
will return to st. Paul, Mimi, where he
is having an offending eye treated by a
specialist. It is possible that Mr.. Drum
mond may bring his estimable wife and
interesting family of four boys to make
a permanent residence in Rensselaer,, IS
he is quite taken with the visible push
| of the place and could at once form an
| alliance with his friends in this Office,
being one of the most competent press.
men in the northwest.
J.. J. Jackman was in from his ranch
north of Steele today and brings the re-
port Of the big prairie fire which ragged
north Of his place a week ago. The fire
it is said, came clear from Minot and
cleared up about everything in it's path.
Many farmers lost all their hay, and sew
| eral lost live stock. A brother of E. II.
Sperry was one of the heavy losers Of
hay, and Field, French, Garfield, Nc.
Comb and others lost heavily, Field los
ing all but sixty tons hay. Many stacks
Of grain went up also, and some Of the
settlers are moving into new localities to
winter their stock, the range where they
are being almost totally destroyed. The
prairie is burned we east as far as
Dawson, and how far north is not known.
The fire burned down to Jackman's
place, but stopped at his tirebreaks.
WEDNESDAY.