Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-12-09
CITY AND COUNTY.
Thursday.

Thursday.
Attorney L. A. Simpson came down
from Dickinson last night.
Ed. Hughes is up from Fargo looking
after business at this end of the line.
Mrs. f. G. Hollcy has gone to Benton
Ranch on Douglass creek to visit Mr.,
and Mrs. Neal.
G. H. Phelps has rented the store room
in the north end of the First National
bank building.
Miss Laura B. Ward who was appoint
ed as teacher at the Indian school at
Fort Tottcn has declined to accept the
position.
Scmling & Hoover will occupy the
building vacated by II. l.. Best a. Co.
who are moving into their new store in
tho First National.
The work of finishing the interior OF
the Eppingcr building is progressing
rapidly and there will be some hand
some store rooms. Grambs brothers will
occupy half the building.
Bids have been opened at Washington
for the completion of the new school and
dormitory for the Indian department at
Elbowoods. Owen and Hill OF Mime
apolis are the lowest bidders.
Among Dakota cattle handled by Clay
Robinson & Co., of Chicago, were Jetf
Mays steers-gradc IIcrcford's at S4.6O
and a load of heavy dchorncd cattle
owned by VIM. Nelson, Of Mcnoken, at
$3.50.
The Northern Pacific took to Dickin-
son yesterday Il carload Of Russian set
tiers who will be placed on land near
there. There were fourteen Cinnamon
on the same train tickctcd to Hong
Kong from New York and Boston.
Adjutant General Miller will prepare
another record of the North Dakota sol
der boys to replace that II destroyed
when his Office was burned. a new rec
ord book will be prepared and the do
ings Of the soldiers accurately chron-
cled.
l.. d. Campbell, who built the First
National building, was one of the bid
dcrs on the new Indian school at Berth
old but was undcrbid by Owen and Hill
of Minneapolis. The same firm was the
lowest bidder before but the contract
was not awarded and new bids were
called for,
Among the resolutions passed by the
state normal school board at their recent
session at the capitol was one suggesting
some provision for the payment of the
members of the board during the time
engaged with the meeting. This is the
only board in the state which is allowed
no per diem.
The wedding is reported at Chicago
of c. G.. Bowsficld and Miss Incz Pier
son of Dickey county. The groom is
we'll known in the state, having served a
term as secretary of the senate, news
paperman in Dickey county and all
around political correspondent. The
bride is the daughter of a ell-known
Dickey county farmer. The couple will
reside in Chicago where Bowstield has
a position on one Of the daily papers.
There is a renewed talk about the n.
p. building a cut off from near Missoula
through a pass almost directly west,
across the northern part of Idaho, to
join the main line somewhere near Pasco
near the mouth of the Snake river. This
cut off will save over 300 miles Of haul
for coal traffic, as the road now bends
far to the northwest from Missoula, to
get over the Occur D'Alene, and the
Bitter Root mountain. The proposed
cut off is through a. feasible pass, it is
said, and its construction may be one of
the big enterprises which the company
is contemplating. 1t would take the