Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-09-30
CITY AND COUNTY.
Thursday.

walk in front of his Fourth street lot.
Facing brick are being. laid in the
walls of the First National Bank build.
ing TODAY.
Proposals for building a stone or con
crete walk on Main street are wanted
advertisement in another column.
The immunes are reported to be a!
sick as anybody, still Lieutenant Burk
holder wants to be commissioned again
The new stand pipe for the N. P. was
moved about thirty feet, 80 that engine.
taking water would not blockade Fifth
street.
The plan of the front of the Gussne1
building-two stories-has been sketcheo
by Architect Van Horn. 1t. will be 9
handsome building.
Postofice Inspector Thiele will be il
the city until tonight. Anyone desiring
to make a proposition regarding the loca
ton of the post Office should do so today
The masons have begun on the, stone
work for the TRIBUNE block, and the
brick masons are climbing up on the
second story of the Kupitz building, A
feature of the latter building will be the
immense skylight and opening down
onto the first floor.
Mr.. G. E. Walker of st. Paul, repre-
senting the Diebold Safe g. Lock Co., of
Canton, o., is in the city placing orders
for vault doors and safes.
Word has been received in the city of
the burning of George Welch's barn,
grain and hay. Everything went but
his house. Full particulars are not
heard.
It is given out that the bureau of pub
lie comfort will see that ample hotel ac-
commodations are provided in Mandan
during the fair. Every home in the city
will assist.
From private sources it is learned that
w. L. Perkins may SOC return to his
Bismarck home-which offers more lux
ury-in the way of home life-than far
off Alaska.
Deputy Examiner Wallace returned
from the eastern part of the state yes
terday. His family left spiritwood Lake
last night for Bismarck overland via
Jamestown.
The old electric light-Sh.ridan house
brick chimney fell with a crash yester-
day. The brick have been purchased
by John Hoagland, and the chimney was
pulled down to get at them.
L. N. Griffin; You fellows arc kicking
about the front on my Fourth street
building. I will show you a front-the
best in the city-in my Main street
block. There will be nothing finer.
Tom Sanders, who is finishing a fine
residence on the corner of Thayer and
Third streets, has moved the old resi-
dence from the back of the lot to the lot
adjoining Matt. Canard's, on Fourth
street.
DR.. Harcourt leaves considerable prop
erty in and about Bismarck, and a large
amount of county and state securities.
1t is also reported that he carried $685.
600 life insurance, which is left to his
wife and little son.
Capt. Baker: My building on the cor
ner of Main and Fourth streets will be
far from q firetrap. Ny tenants will in
sist on as low insurance as others in the
block and they will get it. 1 am not fool
enough to put in all the money l am
spending for foundation, walls and re-
moval Of building to leave it US an eye
sore to the city and a curse to me. It
will be given the best fiat roof / a
t3nd-just the same as others are build
ing.
Friday.
al Shier came up from Emmons
county yesterday.
Mrs. r. N. Stevens left this morning
tor Chicago where she will visit relatives
for a short time.
The TRIBUNE is now located in the
Sloan building on Fourth street opposite
the Pacific hotel.
Fred Strauss having put in an entire
" new rear will now proceed to put in a
new store front and then-the finest
stock of jewelry in the city.
s. M. Pye was called to st. Paul on
last nights train by atelegram announc-
ing the sudden illness of his father, who
left Bismarck only a few days ago.
The jack screws have been placed un-
dor the Whalen building and the struct-
ure will be raised, a new foundation will
b. put in and a concrete walk in front:
Mrs. bennett, wife of Senator Hans
brough's private secretary, is spending
the summer with her husband at Milton.
She will probably visit friends in Bis
marck before returning to Washington
in December.