Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-11
TUESDAY.

on this mornings train.
Miss Edith Skeels left last night for a
! visit of several weeks in St. Paul and
| Minneapolis.
G. L. Bradley of the compilation COM
mission, came in from Fargo on this
mornings train.
MI. Geo. Mahaffey>of Pittsburg, Pa,
is in the city for a visit with Captain and
Mrs. VIM. Braithwaite.
The fire hydrants about the city are
be%ing:boxed up, and banked for the win
ter, TO keep them from freezing.
Some repairs are being made at the
county Jail this week. There are some
places III the cell rooms up stairs which
have needed repairs for some time, and
these are now being attended to.
A half a dozen monster potatoes have
been sent the TRIBUNE through Mrs.
Wilcox by VIM. Wiley of Livona. The
tubers are beauties, and prove that the
finest vegetables in the world can be
raised IN the Missouri slope.
The first genuine freeze up of the
season occurred last night, and the air
this morning was sharp enough for mid
winter. Water pipes which were ex.
posed we're in bad shape this morning,
and everything freezable froze up solid.
Another big white tail buck was
killed on the river bottoms last night by
Henry Richholt and Fred Fisher, and
Frank Kuntz announces that the Kennel
club will have a barbecue on Thursday
evening at Vienna Hall-the same old
place-which to the forty-four members
and IA admirers of the Kennel club are
all invited.
The postoffice building and fixtures
were being renovated and cleaned up
yesterday under the supervision of Post
master Reed. The wood work was scrub
bed until resplendent, and the whole in
terror thoroughly rejuvenated, as it
were.
Fargo Forum: Berry, the "Rhine-
lander Banker" comes back from the
Morton county fair with glowing reports
OF the success, and the open handed free
for-all way the boys on the slope have of
entertaining visitors. But Berry in
timated that the Morton county boys
know a thing or two themselves.
Geo. Trotter, the man who was wanted
for murder out in Montana, has been
captured and taken back, passing
through on the train this morning in
company with Sheriff Willis. Trotter's
case excited interest here as he was
wanted along with Charles Sepphic, who
was a former resident of this city, and is
still at large.
A tramp of quite advanced years call
ed on Dentist Rawlings today for treat
ment of an aching tooth, and investiga-
ton revealed that the man had a broken
jaw, which he received in an argument
with another hobo up the road last week,
the other n having struck him in the
face and fractured the jawbone. The
suffering hobo was promised relief by
J the doctor, who SGT the jaw this after
noon. The man is on his way east.
Lincoln J. Carter's "Tornado' COM
pany passed through on this mornings
train. en- route west. The play was
billed to stop here, but after the un.
healthy surplus of funds which was
accumulated by the "Fast MALI combi-
uation, 1T was thought that another play
might be too much of a good thing, and
lead to govt or some other trouble, in
the cast. The Tornado is one of the
finest scenic productions on the road,
and is we'll spoken Of along the line.
Rev. Archibald Durrie left this morn
ing, for Mandan to attend the meeting
of the Presbytery of Bismarck, Of which
he is chairman of foreign missions, freed.
men and finance. On Thursday will leave
for the state synodical meeting at Fargo
az chairman of committees on aid for
colleges and acadmies and OF systematic
beneficence. Unless otherwise
ed there will be no preaching in the
Presbyterian church next Sunday morn
ing and evening, but Sunday school and
Y. P. S. G. E. at the usual hours.
Andrew F. Burleigh, one of the new
receivers of the Northern Pacific, was an
east bound passenger on train No. l this
morning, on his way from the coast to
ST. Paul. Burleigh is a familiar name
to ell old time residents Of Dakota, and
the new receiver is a son Of old DR.. Bur
leigh of Yankton, formerly delegate to
congress from the territory, and we'll
known all through North and South Da-
kota. Young Burleigh came to Yank-
ton in 1861, when but 8 years. of age.
He was educated for the law in the Iowa
state university, and praoticed at Yauk-
ton and afterward at Deadwood. In
1889 he moved to Seattle, and has been
one of the attOrnava for tho Nor+barn