Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-28
handsomely illustrated with cuts of the
running team, department officers, etc.

udnusOmely illustrated Wild cuts OF The
running team, department officers, etc.
A local business man, who has a garden
of which he is proud, pulled up q potato
VIM today, andfound thereon % potatoes
about the size OF a hens egg and larger,
and % little ones-50 in all on one vine.
The name Of the gardener is withheld at
his own request, but he says the story is
true to the last potato. At this rate, the
yield of spuds this year will be some
thing alarming and the country will be
crowded for storage room.
General E. S. Miller came up from
jamestown this morning to consult with
Governor Ailin relative to matters per-
tanning to the state militia. General
Miller says the railroads will make no
rates for the three-day encampment at
Grafton, it being their rule not to make
rates unless the companies are acting
under orders from headquarters. He
says, however, that several of the north
ern companies will probably meet at
Grafton for a brief encampment.
Some of the boys are talking of a
modest Fourth of July observance-to
consist Of a ball game between the regu-
lars and a picked nine in the afternoon,
and a display Of fireworks in the even
ing. It seems wrong that the only Fourth
of July we will have this year should be
allowed to pass without some kind of a
celebration, and the program above could
be carried out with a slight expense,
should every one help the thing along a
little.
This has not only been a fine growing
season for the wheat crop, but gardens
never thrived better or looked nicer.
Vegetables of every kind have grown
rapidly, and the numerous we'll kept
gardens about the city will prove valu-
able this year to their owners. No finer
vegetables can be grown anywhere than
in North Dakota in a favorable year, and
this seems to be one of that kind. Pota-
toes, rapidly becoming a leading staple
with farmers, are in. respectfully fine con-
dition.
There has been considerable petty
thieving going on in the city the past
few days. Some one entered Asa Fish
er's residence the other night, and about
stripped the kitchen of cooking utensils,
taking everything which came handy.
Several housewives in the city have also
discovered an empty refrigerator in the
morning, where some one entered and
took the contents in the night. The
work is probably that of tramps, who
are rather numerous about the city, and
take this way to get a supply of food.
Arthur Thomas, a convict who is
employed in the blasting of rock for the
wall at the capitol, was quite severely
injured this morning. He had retreated
from the rock about to be blasted, and
was standing three rods away when the
blast exploded, and was struck on the
right arm by a piece of flying rock
weighing 100 pounds. He was taken to
the %penitentiary, where an examination
revealed a bad bruise, but no broken
bones. The escape was a narrow one,
and the man will be laid up for some
time.
In about another week the Northern
Pacific railroad will have completed it's
selection of indemnity lands in this dis
trict. These lands are to indemnify the
road for the place selections lost in the
Grow reservation, and will comprise in
the neighborhood of 100000 acres.
! Messrs. Theobald and Walker, OF the
land department of the road, have been
busy in the land office here for some
time with the work, but will finish 10 a
few more days. 1t is said the road in
tends, also, to file some place selections
west of the river this fall.
There, has been held at the new resi-
dence of Commissioner Ecklund, in the
northern part of the county, a series of
revival meetings the past week, in which
the Free Mission Alliance, assisted by
the followers of the Baptist faith, have
all taken a very active part. On S atur-
day last the meeting at that place was
opened by Mr.. Ghylin of Slaughter,
whereupon the Baptist minister, Rev.
Thornquist, delivered an able sermon.
Sunday the exercises were conducted by
several lady revivalists from St. Paul,
who are laboring in the interest of Chris
tianity in the northern portion of Bur.
leigh county, and also in Mclean county.
The meetings we're largely attended, and
considerable interest shown in spiritual
work.
W. T. Perkins relates rather an odd
coincidence of his trip to the Forks,
where he met with the executive com
mittee of the State Educational a%ssocia.
ton. He dropped into a bicycle estab'