Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-01-21
Friday, Jan. ID.

Mrs. Fl. II. DeCamp is visiting in the
city from st. Paul, with her parents Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. Taylor.
Sheriff McGauvran of Cavalier county
has brought James Boyes to the pen to
serve a year for grand larceny.
Uncle George Watson is reported
quite i'll today, suffering from severe
pains of a sort of neuralgia nature.
A baby girl arrived last night at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Cochrane,
and mother and child are doing nicely.
G. D. Edick has been elected a
director and member of the auditing
committee of the Alliance Hail %associa-
ton of jamestown.
w. A. Falconer took third prize at
the poultry show at Fargo on barred
plymouth rocks. Senator Gordon of
Grand Forks took first and second.
If the present rush of passenger
traffic continues On the Northern Pacific
the road will soon have to inaugurate
it's double west-bound train service.
The arrival of Attorney Stevens is re-
ported at Washington, and he is said to
be in line for appointment to a position
quite remunerative from the govern
ment.
Sid Smith who recently returned from
st. Paul, where he was under medical
treatment, is improving in condition
aud getting stronger, although he is
not we'll yet.
Among the cases being tried at Steele
is that Of Farmer Shoemaker against
the eastern hunters, who it is alleged
started a fire that burned up Shoe
makers house and property. He sues
for damages from them and is repre-
sented in the case by Attorney Hughes.
A bookkeeper, MI. Davis, of Ashley,
Ind, arrived from the east this morning
to take a situation with John P. Hoag-
land. The trusteeship of the yard will
expire in a few days, and inventorying
has begun, preliminary to turning the
business back to the control of Mr..
Hoaglapd.
Conductor Mclean, who was on the
Northern Pacific train which ran away
on the Mullen tunnel grade a couple of
years ago, in which accident Engineer
Flynn who was in this city the other
day, was SO badly crippled has com
menced suit against the road for $50, 900.
Mclean was crippled for life in the &C.
cident.
jamestown Capital: Mayor Fuller
has received a letter from W. 3. Liver
more, formerly deputy U. S. marshal
for North Dakota written at Skaguay
Jan. I'd. He states that White pass is
the only route now open to the Klondike
region and that the day the letter was
written two boats had arrived, one from
Seattle and the other from Portland,
with 1000 people bound for the great
gold belt. Skaguay, he says is having a
genuine old.time North Dakota boom.
Lots that a few weeks ago sold for $500
or $500 now sell for as many thousands.
Editor Pierce of the Grafton Record
is visiting out in California and in
speaking of North Dakotans there he
says: l ran across Governor Frank A..
Briggs and Mrs. Briggs at the Hollen-
beck hotel, Los Angeles last week.
They had been there four or five days,
before their arrival got into the papers.
They have not decided Just where
they will locate for the winter,
but are looking around. Mr.. Briggs is
just as jolly as ever. I expect to see
them soon again. Mrs. Briggs is de.
lighted with the climate and says that
she can't realize that it is winter.