Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-08-26
THE CITY.

Brick laying has been begun on the
Griffin building.
The public schools open for the fall
term on Monday, Sept. S.
George Gussner opened for business
at the old Rohrer stand this morning.
W. E. Rawlings, brother Of Dr..
Rawlings, came in from the east this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Dudley and
family left for Helena on this morn
ing's train.
The Burleigh county summer school
finishes its work this week, the term
closing Friday.
There was an inch of rainfall last
night and over two-thirds of the entire
amount fell in ten minutes.
A prairie fire ragged in Emmons
county, south of Williamsport, yester-
day, doing considerable damage.
w. T. Best has gone to Chiago to
purchase new stock Of dry goods.
He has rented the corner store room
in the Dakota block.
John Satterlund came down from
Washburn Saturday evening and went
east. He says there are some excel
lent crops in Mclean county.
Paul Nicholson has gone back to
work for his brother, H. L., to assist
with Van Horns work, the latter
being busy with his plans and busi-
ness as architect.
F. G. Falkenstein, of the Willow
City Eagle, has accepted the principal
ship of the Bottineau schools, leaving
the Eagle under the management of
the junior partner.
Captain Braithwaite has returned
from a trip to West Baden, Ind. >,
where he underwent a course of
medical treatment. He returns much
improved in health.
The chicken season was opened Sat-
urday and some good bags of birds
are reported. Louis Best, Andy
Blewett and DR.. Treacy got SO, and
the Newton Wachter party brought
in So.
Governor Devine will lecture before
the teachers attending the institute to-
morrow night on "The Logic of
Events.'' Time and place will be an
nounced tomorrow. The invitation to
the public is general.
Myron Hutchinson, j. W. Foley
and r. Z. Wallace came in today
from jamestown, where q pleasant
fishing excursion was enjoyed from
the Wallace cottage. They drove II
miles into Jamestown through the
fiercest storm of the season.
Fargo Argus: Secretary of State
Falley informs the Argus that the per-
manent school fund is now practically
all invested in six per cent securities:
At a special meeting of the board of
university and school lands held on
the 10Th inst, offers of school bonds
were accepted to the amount of $40, 900,
of which 81 500 were school bonds of
the city of Grand Forks.
Washington Post; Col. George
Langdon Ordway died at Waterloo,
N. H., of consumption last Friday,
aged forty-tive years. He was the
only surviving son of the Hon. N. G.
Ordway. After several years spent
with his father in the Sergeant-at-arms
Office at Washington, he was admitted
to the bar of New Hampshire in 1878.
He is survived by q father, q mother,
one sister, Mrs. E. L. Whitford, OF
this city, and q widow and three
children.
Sheriff Shier and States Attorney
Armstrong came in from Williams
port last night with young Van Soest,
the boy who has been found to have
started q number of incendiary fires
in the southern part of the county,
causing losses of several hundred dol
lars. The boy was taken before Judge
Winchester and sentenced to term in
the reform. school. he admitted his
guilt but said that the mania for set
ting fires came upon him so strongly
at times that he was unable to con-
ltrolit.
States Attorney Armstrong Of EN-
mons County: We had a bad prairie
fire in Emmons county Saturday and
Sunday, probably covering more
ground than any previous one in the
history Of the county. It came up
from about thirty miles southeast, and
swept over 9 vast territory, destroy
ing hundreds Of thousands of acres Of
standing grass and considerable
amount of hay. Many ranches have
lost all their range. The fire was