Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-02-03

BOCLeu up ny I1drIy OIdiuuS'
John Allen, the Norton township man
who was injured by a team running
away Thursday was brought in to the
Lamborn Yesterday. He is in a very
critical condition and his recovery is
doubtful. Allen was standing up in a
wagon when the accident occurred, and
the king-bolt of the wagon dropped out
disconnecting the running gear. He
was thrown to the ground striking on
his head and was badly shaken up gen.
orally.
Sunday.
S. ID. King of Wahpeton is in the
city.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. O'Connor,
Friday Jan. p, a daughter.
Thirty-two original homestead entries
were made at the local land office this
week.
Thomas Challoner has assumed his
duties as roadmaster of the jamestown
aud Northern.
George B. Winship, the talented and
versatile editor of the Grand Forks Her
ala, is Ill the Guy.
Alfred Edlund a prosperous Wash
burn man was in the city yesterday
transacting business.
w. A. Stickley returned from his home
at Fessenden where he spent the adj
journmcnt with his family.
The furniture for the U. S. court room
in the Webb block was received and
placed in position yesterday.
Fred Withotf, the jeweler at Strauss
has resigned his position at Strauss
jicwelry store and was a passenger to st.
Paul last night.
Representative Peterson of Sargent
county came in yesterday. Mr.. Peter
son was delayed by heavy storms down
in his home county.
Mrs. r. NJ. Donnelly of jamestown has
recovered from the effects of a surgical
operation at Brainerd, as her Bismarck
friends will be pleased to learn.
General Hughes contemplates build
ing a new power house on the south side
of the track and making other improve
ments to the electric light plant in the
near future.
John Allen, the Norton township man
who was so seriously injured in a runa-
way and who was placed in the Lam
born yesterday, is progressing favorably
and will recover.
Ignite coal can be bought in Bis
marck for 81 a ton, but local merchants
pay farmers who haul it in $3.50, which
is certainly a substantial evidence of
support on their part.
Able sermons will be delivered in all
the local churches this morning and
strangers in the city who attend any of
them are sure to be impressed with the
ability of Bismarck divines.
Mrs. J. G. Smith of Wellington,
Kansas, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. W. S.
DeGraff, arrived in the city Friday
morning where she was called by the
serious illness of her mother.
Marguerite, the 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Morris died Friday
night. The little one had been ailing for
some time of a complication of diseases.
The funeral occurred from the family
home yesterday. The bereaved parents
have much sympathy in their sorrow.
Mrs, James Edwards. the wife of a
farmer living some distance from this
city had a narrow escape from what
might have been a very serious accident
while driving in yesterday. A hot fiat
iron which had been placed in the buggy
ignited the robes and set fire to her
clothing. She will sustain no serious
injury other than a few slight burns.
Mrs. Linda w. Slaughter of this city,
widow of Major B. F. Slaughter. sur
geon of the Fifty-ffth Kentucky Mount
ed infantry regiment has been elected an
honorary member of the Legion of Loyal
Women, a patriotic society composed
largely of the wives, daughters and wild
ows of officers of the civil war at a late
meeting of the order in Washington,
D. G.
/, Late repArts from the war depart
ment would tend to show that the First
North Dakota regiment now in Manila
will soon be ordered home, and already
local parties are making arrangements to
give the Company A boys a reception.
An effort will be made to have them
mustered out at Bismarck and the occa-
sion of their home coming will be q gala
one.
Complaint has lately been made by
several Main street business men that
the TRIBUNE is stolen from their doors
every morning. It is a we'll known fact
that it is impossible to keep house cor
rectly without it and those who are too
poor to'subscribe and must steal in or.
der to get it know a good thing, but
should be mindful of the scriptural in
junction.
Tuesday.
E. Ludwig and E. j. Raymond Of
Dawson were transacting business in
Bismarck.