Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-07-08

good a band as there is in the state
barring n
E. D. Barber has gone to Wahpeton
for a visit of several days.
General E. A. Williams children came
in Sunday morning from Freeport.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Cook left last
night for Wahpeton to be absent several
weeks.
The ladies of the Relief Corps served
an excellent. dinner to the multitudes
yesterday and cleared over 1853.
Lightning struck Clark Haggart's
cigar store at Fargo and Clark was quite
badly stunned but not seriously injured.
There was a good attendance of coun-
try people at the celebration yesterday
the good weather bringing 'em out in
large numbers.
Mrs. J. A. Ballard and daughter of St.
Paul, mother and sister of DR.. Ballard,
came in Sunday morning and are visit
ing with the doctor.
Hon. j. S. Green of Morton county
was in the city today, having recently
returned from Alaska where he is inter
ested in some gold mining.
General Hughes is suffering from an
attack of bilious fever and is quite ill,
although improving today. Mrs. Hughes
returned from the east today.
General E. A. Williams was the victim
Of the premature explosion of a giant
cracker yesterday, and his hands and
face were quite painfully burned.
After August LIST the mail route will
be extended from Fort Derthold to
Elbowoods, this making continuous
daily mail line from Bismarck to Elbo-
woods.
A report from st. Paul states that
Miss Belle Ward is suffering from an
attack of typhoid fever, but it is not
serious and it is hoped she will recover
quickly.
r. N. Stevens was to have been Fourth
of July orator at Glen Ullin yesterday,
but was called east On important bust
ness and the Glen Ullin people were
disappointed at his non appearance
there.
j. B. Reay of Shells, Morton county,
was a visitor in the city today. Mr..
Reay was a former resident of Menoken,
but moved across the river last fall and
engaged in the stock business. He is
prospecting.
DR.. and Mrs. Harcourt returned Sun
day. Mrs. Harcourt has been visiting
at her old home in Canada for two
months and has enjoyed ii very pleasant
visit. DR.. Harcourt met her in Chicago
on her return.
y special from Mandan yesterday
morning brought about twenty-five
people over to- attend the celebration.
Mandan was very quiet yesterday with
SO large a proportion of its population
away from home.
r. D. Hoskins returned Sunday morn.
ing from Detroit Lake and st. Paul.
Mrs. Hoskins is visiting with her par
ents in the southern part of the state.
Hosk says fishing at Detroit was never
better-and he tells some first rate fish
stories.
Fargo Argus: Mrs. Merton Field and
child leave this evening for Bismarck
where they will spend the summer
months. Mr.. Field will make the trip
on his wheel, to size up the crop condi-
tons in the state along the line of the
Northern Pacific.
Judge J. +. Fort returned Sunday
from st, Paul, where he has been in the
hospital for some months. The Judge
has passed through quite a siege but is
rapidly improving now, and although he
is still unable to walk without crutches,
will be thoroughly we'll this fall. Every
one is pleased to see him return.
Not all of the members of the North
Dakota regiment could be accom-
modated on the steamer Valencia and
SO the captains drew lots to see which
company should sail on the Indiana, the
steamer on which the additional com.
pany was assigned. The lot fell to Co.
81 and SO a detail of fifty-two men was
selected. Most of the jamestown boys
are included in the list.
Wednesday,.