Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-28

and. from then on parties will arriv
every few days.
State Treasurer Driscoll was among
today's arrivals from the east.
A new safe has arrived for the land
Office, weighing a couple of tons.
Secretary Poole returned today from
a trip to the eastern part of the state.
The Washburn railroad has received
several carloads Of bridge timbers this
week.
State Auditor Carlblom has returned
from a trip to the eastern, part of the
state.
Sheriff Carroll of Minot arrived in the
city on the noon train with a prisoner
for the penitentiary.
The first brick kiln at the pen yards
has been opened, and the brick are being
distributed to buyers about town.
The Northern Pacific has begun the
sale of its lands in the state under the
foreclosure decree of the U. S. court.
Mayor Patterson received a fine stand
ard bred mare from the east this morn
ing-one that he purchased in st. Paul.
Owen Farley, the old slope gardener,
had this year, as usual, the earliest and
finest potatoes in the market, and is pre-
pared to supply all demands.
E. H. Wilson left last night for De-
troit Lake, where Mrs. Wilson and the
family have been passing the summe
He expects to be absent about a month.
Superintendent Seitz of Morton coun-
ty visited the summer school today.
Rev. Anderson was also.a visitor this
morning and made the teachers a good
address. The department of public in
%struction leaves the matter of lectures
with the county superintendent, and it
is proposed to have a series of lectures.
Hon. r. N. Stevens will lecture Friday
evening at the Methodist church on the
Greatest of Lawyers" Other lecturers
will be announced later.
jamestown Alert: The tramp frater-
nifty has evidently heard of the law pas
sed by the N. d. legislature which gives
train men the authority to arrest and
Jail tourists who attempt to ride on the
trucks or empty box cars. "Tramps"
are scarce this year and laborers also.
The farmers will be paying high prices
for labor before the season is over with
out the railroads import a supply to keep
wages at the old figures. The usual
long line of men waiting on the railroads,
about farms and sidewalks is noticeable
by its absence here so far this GUNNER.
The claims of Kidder county will be
taken care of-to a certain extent-in
the sale of the Northern Pacific lands
Aug. l, Judge Jenkins of Milwaukee
ordering the sale of the property be sub
ject to the claims of the county for back
taxes. This will result in far less being
received for the lands that they are
worth and generally anticipated. Kid
der is the only county in the state that
has not settled with the road and
whether the lands are subject to taxa
ticn, a question raised by the road, will
have to be fought cut at the final hear
ing after the sale has been MADE.
The TT. Stevenson reservation which
contains over $4,000 acres OF land will be
sold by the government at public out cry
to the highest bidder at no figure less
than Sl.2o an acre. The reservation
says the Washburn Leader, is & natural
beauty spotnot surpassed by any locality
in this state. 1t is located on both
sides of the Missouri, and contains an
abundance of wood, coal, agricultural
and hay lands. 1t is watered by three
or four fine streams. aside from the.
Missouri, the largest being Douglas
river. The rights of the ''squatter" or
Sooner" will not be recognized by the
government in the opening of this
reservation.