Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-18
The 8isuarek Tribnne.
CITY N COUNTY.
Thursday, Feb. 10.

Attorney L. A. Simpson is in the city
from Dickinson.
Henry Glitschka has gone to Fargo
for a visit of several days.
j. p. Kenyon has been drawn on the
United States grand jury at Fargo
February %.
Books and blanks for the coming
annual assessment are being prepared
by the county auditor.
The directors of the Mandan Fair AS
ISOLATION announce Il meeting March Ia
for the election of officers for the en-
suing year.
George White and wife left this morn
ing for Tacoma where the former has a
good position as engineer for Il saw
milling company.
General regret is expressed by the
many friends of Colonel Plummcr in
this city at the misfortune that is re-
ported to have befallen him in New
York.
Auditor Moorhouse is preparing the
list of personal property taxes pro-
nounced by the commissioners to be in
collcctiblc, and will file it with the state
auditor. The list is nearly completed.
Engineer w. L. Darling of the North
ern Pacific and Superintendent G. j.
Wilson of the Dakota division are in the
city today, looking over the work at the
bridge. The %excavating for the removal
of the pier is still in progress, but it is
slow work, and it will be some months
yet before the pier will be moved.
One new case of diphtheria is reported
that of a young woman who has been
working at Clooten's. The Thomas
children are reported as progressing
nicely, and the cases seem to be all
under control. A continuance of the
present quarantine will be a wise meas
ure, and should be carefully looked
after.
Says the Dickinson Press: The secre-
tary of the Alaska Mercantile and Min
ing Co. of Fargo advises the editor of
the Press that a limited number of
shares Of stock in his company will be
sold at par. No, thank you. We have
had all the experience with stock COM
panies that we care to have. They are
good things to let alone, and there are a
number of people living in Dickinson
who can testify to that fact.
The Fargo Argus publishes some
views of the coming trans Mississippi
exposition to be held at Omaha, and
states, truly, that North Dakota could
make an exhibit to good advantage.
There are thousands of acres of fertile
lands in the state to which settlers
would be attracted by the right kind of
a display. Although the state has made
no appropriation, there is room for indi-
vidual efforts, which will be productive
of much good to the state.
The Northern Pacific west bound
train will arrive on it's new time next
Monday, arriving here at 4 o'clock a.. n.
This will be due to the fact that on
Sunday next the Milwaukee will shorten
the running time Of it's fast mail train
to st. Paul one hour. It will leave
Chicago at 3 Il. M, as now, and will
arrive in st. Paul at l p M. making the
run in ten hours. The new train will
not be an experiment., as frequently,
under the present eleven-hour schedule
when the train has waited in Chicago
for delayed eastern connections, the run
OF 4O2 miles has been made in less than
nine hours. The mail train will carry
no passengers the agreed time Of pas.
senger trains being thirteen hours and
twenty minutes. Transcontinental lines
Will on the same date change tho leav.
ing time of their Pacific coast trains to
l:3O p. m, making Il material saving in
time of all mail.
Minneapolis Times: G.. NJ. Dinsdale
of the firm of Dinsdalc and Richards OF
Dickinson, who have successfully and
protitably wintercd $4,000 sheep at the
New Brighton s'ockyards, received a let.
ter from his partner yesterday contain.
ing the information that he, with J. S
Green of Mandan and George Frey Of
Elk River, MIMI, had chartered a barge
at Seattle on which they were loading
100 head of horses which had been pur
chased in Iowa by MI. Richards anc
would be unloaled at Skaguay. The
horses are to be used as pack animals
on the pass beyond Skaguay. The
barge which has a tonnage of 1000 tons
will also carry a large lot of provisions