Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-06-28
CAPITAL CITY CHIPS.

Secretary of War Lamont will take
western trip over the Northern Pacific.
before long, and, it IS said, will stop of
at Bismarck and locate the new military
post. The wife of Dr. John Harcourt
is visiting at her old home in Ontario....
Prof. Vert. principal OF the Bismarck
schools, has been chosen principal of the
Yankton Is. d. public schools. :. The
wife of Judge Winchester has returned
from visit with her sister, Mrs. Birch,
at st. Paul. Court has again been in
session this week. Judge Winchester has
to 70 on the run to keep up with the
work of the district. Evening sessions
ub-districts. There is no harder work
ing judge in the state than Judge Win
chester. There have been a large num-
Der of criminal convictions, of late....
X. N. Stevens was on the resolutions
committee at the recent national conven-
ton of republican league clubs at Cleve-
land. The convention, not being
authorized to speak for the party at
large. ignored the financial question.
And it did the right thing The financial
issue ID not the only issue. There are
large number OF republicans who believe
in the tree coinage of silver, but who are
not prepared to quit the republican
party, whatever Its financial platform
| that makes protection to American labor
and friendship to union soldiers two Of
its leading principles. Steamboat ex.
cursion to Fort Yates on the Fourth of
| July. r.. .Mcssrs Hare and Nicholson,
popular Capital City merchants, were re-.
elected members Of the city board of
| education, without opposition. -. Hail
did considerable damage over a small
area IN northern Burleigh. ....E. A.
| Hughes is putting up building for an
electric light plant. "A great many
Bismarck people will take in the Fort
Yates celebration on the Fourth. Mrs
leigh county, died recently, and was
buried IN Fairview cemetery, Bismarck
Mrs Hibbs was schoolmate, IN Penn
| sylvania, of Postmaster Yehter, of this
place. The seml-annual meeting
| of the state wool-growers' association
will take place at Bismarck next Tues,
| day :. Editor Dunlap, an old-time Tri-
bune city editor and now proprietor of
\ one of the best papers in the state, the
Valley City Times Record, has been
| visiting friends In Bismarck. Some
young men who herd cattle near the
| Pioneer shack, on the west side of the
river, thought they could play ball. A
Bismarck nine took the conceft out OF
| the bucolic cusses. -. Ex-senator Pierce
has been visiting friends in Bismarck
He Is in good health and looks well.....
Elder Palmetto, of Fargo, has gone to
! California on account of the serious
illness of his father. Geo. E. Went.
worth shipped the first carload Of wool
from the Capital City,. Little two-year-
old Helen Hoskins was lost for five
| hours, the other day. The entire neigh
borhood turned out to search for her. and
she was finally found in the basement of
the school house. How she got there is
| mystery, as none of the doors were
open. -. The two Freese boys, who were
pals of Leonard, the wolf-scalp man.
were each sentenced to ten days in Jail
and fine of s1O0. They we're inveigled
into the scheme by Leonard. Hence the
! light sentence. Some one left Mt the
Bismarck postoffiee package of pois-
oned raislns, addressed to the wells
known coored man, Anderson Baker.....
! Mills Beech is hoeing corn in the "pcn"
garden. ...Dr. Smyth attended the meet
| ing Of the state medical society at Fargo.
80. There IS considerable petty thieving
| going on in the city,. Miss Helen
| Wilson, daughter of Warden Wilson, had
a narrow escape the other day. The
horse she was driving became unman-
ageable on Main street and ran away
toward the penitentiary. Miss Wilson
kept her wits about her, however, and
managed to stop the horse out near the
"pen." The buggy kept right side up
and no harm was done.