Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-07-01
The Bismarek Tribnme.
CITY AND COUNTY.
Thursday, June 20.

Sheriff Taylor is visiting friends ir
Iowa.
Mrs. w. s.. Casselman's father is in
the city to visit her.
The North Dakota Firemen's associa.
ton presented Prest. Fl f. Strelow with
a beautiful gold watch
Mrs. BernthiZel left for her home in
New Jersey Tuesday night. She has
been visiting her aunt Mrs. E. II. Will
son for some weeks.
Editor Streeter and wife and two
children visited in the city on Monday
and Tuesday and attended the gradual
ing exercises on Tuesday evening.
Judge Winchester, accompanied b,
Miss Bessie Waggoner as st%enographer
attended court at Steele on Tuesday
There being no business, court ad
journed.
The county commissioners are push
ing the work of hopper destroying, and
all farmers who discover shoals of hop
pers are urged to destroy them nov.
Don't Wait-or trust to luck. Go for
'em.
Joe Fox our old friend and fellow citi-
zen has returned to Bismarck and is
moving a stock of cigars and tobacco
into the old stand lately occupied by
Oar Burkholdcr where he will open
business.
Mrs. Winchester and children, with
her sister, Mrs. Burch OF st. Paul, en-
pect to leave in a few days for an out
ing Of several weeks on Deer Island, off
the coast of Maine. The Judge will go
later and accompany them home.
Supt. Moore is finishing up the work
on Cicero's orations with next years
graduating class. The three weeks
quarantine delayed the class in this
study SO that it was necessary to take
extra time to finish it. The class will
complete the work on Monday.
Duncan McGillis, chief of the Bis
marck fire department who has been
attending the fireman's tournament at
Casselton fell from a second story win
dow OF the hall where the banquet was
held and broke his arm at the wrist.
He came on this mornings train.
Charles Crum is in from Mckenzie.
He reports plenty of rain this week.
He and other neighbors are much en-
%couraged. He says no hoppers have
appeared there yet, but gophers are
doing great damage. He looks for Il
good grain and grass crop; stock pick.
ing up fast.
The cigar store of VIM. Wen was
broken into during the night of Wednes-
day. Several hundred cigars, a few
pipes, Il number Of pounds of chewing
tobacco also what money was left in the
cash drawer was taken. The thieves
pried the drawer off and from p
ance grabbed and ran. Several persons
seen loafing around town are suspected
and officers are after them.
Farmer Wallace received an interest
ing letter from Frank McTavish Of Co.
A., 1st N. ID. volunteers. Frank has seen
much on the trip west and at Frisco since
the arrival of the regiment at that place,
parks. ships, big guns, thousand of
soldiers, good people, pretty girls, etc.
He did not like the sand lot camp.
He does not complain and looks for
the departure of the North Dakota bat.
talon soon. All are in good spirits and
want to leave as soon as possible.
r. n. Stevens says: The pessamist is
still abroad in the land. \ few days
ago Colonel Bryan, showed himself
unworthy of the uniform he wore while
delivering an anti-campaign speech at
Omaha. Now comes Grover Cleveland
and proves TO the world that Dana was
right when he nick named him the
''stuffed prophet" In the war between
the states Grover was patriotic enough to
hire a substitute but in this he is con-
tent to tie grass over the pathway Of
the administration, Indian fashion. Let
US first win the fight and then deter
mine what is best to do with the terri
tory.
We hope a good wheat crop will not
discourage the dairymen's association.
The st. Paul Globe says: "The annual
meeting of the North Dakota Dairy
mems association at Cakes, N. D., last
week was not we'll attended, although
officers were elected for the coming year.
There is no certainty that the %orgauiza-