Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01
The $ismarek Tribnae.
CITY AND COUNTY.
Thursday, March "a.

Secretary of State Falley will probably
return to the city next Tuesday, but
Mrs Falley will remain at Wahpeton
the greater part Of the summer.
Commissioner of Insurance Fancher
states that he hopes to have the insur-
ance statements ready for publication
before April 10th. This will be about a
week earlier than last year.
Bonds of $1,000 have been secured for
Walter Boutillier and he bias been re-
leased. The bondsmen are Jack
Goffner, Robert Buchanan, H. ID. Con-
nor, Dugald Campbell, John Baker.
The increase in live stock industry in
the state is no where better illustrated
than in the applications to the secretary
of state for recording of brands. Eighty
six have been applied for SO far this
month.
Mrs. John Davidson remembers many
OF her friends at each Easter season
from her liberal store of flowers, and
among those remembered this year was
Mrs. A. N. Leslie, who was kindly pre-
sented with som handsome hyacinths.
H. Scott and Albert Marcellus are
new corporals of Company A. The COM
pany is now filed to its full complement
OF men, with applications enough for
enlistment in case the company is
called out for service to fill it to a war
footing.
The term of State Game Warden Bow
ers expires on the 9Th Of April, but no
selection of a successor has been made
yet. One more application for the posi-
ton has been filed, that of George Wat
son of this city, which has been for
warded to the governor for his sigma
ture.
The record of the tax case of the
Northern Pacific road against Stutsman
county has been filed with r. D.. Hos
kins, for the federal court of this dis
trict. This is a similar case to the Wells
county tax case, but the road has had
the case transferred from the state to
the federal court.
Some changes are being made in the
office of the clerk Of the supreme court
at the capitol. The partition between
the two offices is being removed and the
office will be enlarged and made more
commodious. In the meantime the
office force has taken up quarters in one
Of the chambers of the supreme court
judges.
A special term Of the supreme court
will be convened at Fargo next Tuesday
for the examination of candidates for
admission to the bar. There have been
a number of inquiries made of the clerk
Of the court and there will be a good
sized class for examination. No other
business will be considered by the judges
at this term.
Adjutant General Miller has appointed
Captain Poole, Captain Mofet and
Lieutenant Newcomer a committee on
examination OF militia stores and about
$4,000 worth of property has been ex-
amined by the committee, with a view
to the condemnation Of that which is no
longer se%ryiceab!e, and the repair of
that worthy of repairs.
The Northern Pacific road filed in the
local land office this morning selection
Of place lands No. 81, comprising $4,000
acres of place selectionsin Stark county.
The filing fees on the selections were
about $3.50. 1t is the intention of the
road to make and file all of. it's place
selections as rapidly as the survey OF the
lands renders it's possible.
Observer Bronson of the weather
bureau, when a member of the regular
service of the government, was set down
by the recruiting officer as Bronson, in.
stead Of Brownson, and this explains
the difference in names between the OBJ
server, and his brother, Commander
Brownson, who is now in Europe, buy
ing warships for the government.
A member of the national guard at
Grand Forks, who is evidently of a
practical turn of mind, writes the gov
n to know what salary the govern
ment will pay members of the national
guard in case they are called into SER
vice. The pay would be S13 a month,
that of the regular soldier, as the
guardsman would enlist as volunteer.
r. d. Hoskins secured some good pho
tographic views on his recent trip to the
coast, which he has developed and is
printing to add to his collection. About
n hundred negatives were secured in
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