Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-11

SAS SAsS WIZ dpp1Opl ~ du duulllUut1
amount. About $500 will be raised
altogether.
Wednesday,.
Hon. Geo. w. Harrison came in on
the noon train.
B~ricklayers are working nights on
the Little building-so great is the
building rush in the city.
Captain Baker has had his resi-
dence newly painted. and it's appear
ance much improved thereby.
a $500 purse will be offered for the
free for all race at the state fair at
Mandan, September 26 to 90.
Land Examiner Bowles, who is look
ing over, lands for the n. P, came in
from the east on the noon train.
Mrs. o. II. Hoffman. wife of Enyin-
eer Hoffman of the Washburn road.
accompanied him on his return from
Minneapolis.
A number of farmers who were
hailed out will be given work with
their teams on the new railroad grade
to Washburn.
The Fargo Forum says that if the
500 comes to Bismarck, the celebra-
ton that will follow will make Il hole
big enough to bury Mandan.
Miss Mamie McCauley and Miss
Nellie Trunnis Of st. Paul arrived l.ere
yesterday and are visiting their sister.
Sister Boniface at the hospital.
The city council at Fargo voted
| down a foonfinr, Tn Snr.1 I,1,r
son to San Francisco to greet the
troops. and to appropriate $3.50 to pay
his expenses.
General Hughes returned from st.
Paul today. He reports Helen as
resting well after the trip. and it is
expected the operation will be per-
formed Friday or Saturday.
Messrs. Fernald, Wilkinson and
Dudley, who have been in the city to
represent the railroads during the
meeting Of the state board of eQuali-
zation, returned east last night.
Auditor Olson of Cass is here to get
the change in assessment for Cass-
as soon rs the board settles on them
finally. and he will then be able to
begin work at once changing the rolls
in his county,.
Col. Greene of Kansas is in the
city, as government inspector Of land
and surveyor generals offices. He
was the guest of the local officials last
evening in Il drive through the city
and vicinity.
Several companies of cavalry will
pass through the city in a day or so
enrOute to the Pacific coast where.
they will take passage for the Philip
pines to relieve soldiers there. \ mum
Der OF shipments of horses have also
been made to the coast for transpor-
tation to the Philippines.
According to a law passed by the
last Legislature. dispensers of milk
and milk products are required TO
have licenses. 1t is stated that but
three dairymen in the state have COM
piled with the law and procured the
necessary licenses. and a move will
be made to have all dealers in the
fluid procure permits.
A Washington dispatch says: Senator
Hansbrough has forwarded an appli-
cation to the Indian office in behalf
Of Col. Robinson and Martin L. Parker
Of jamestown, n. D., for a license to
trade at Standing Rock. N. D. Rob-
lnson was recently granted Il license,
but he has taken Mr.. Parker as a
business associate, which will require
the issuance of 4 new license.
Here's more hot stuff from the Fargo
Forum: President Lowry and General
Manager Pennington of the 500 with
eX-U. S. Senator Pierce, Geo. r. Newell
and George Partridge returned east this
morning after spending yesterday at
Bismarck. Capital City residents are
much elated over the trip. It is claimed
that the 500 will run into Bismarck as
soon as the steel rails can be secured
and they will erect larger shops than
the n. P. intended.
E. L. Craw of Grand Rapids, Mich,
arrived in the city on the moor train and
left at once to view some coal and other
lands owned by him zeal Washburn-.
Mr.. Cav was one of the Brewer Betz
party, Toasted by Dennis Hannifin in his
old shack west Of the city on the land
since plated as McKenzie's addition.
Betz is the richest man in Philadelphia.
and in 1889 was looking up a location
for raising barley on a big scale. He
could not agree with the N. P. people on
price of land aud the project fe%llthrough.
Mr.. Craw has great faith in the north
west and is pleased with the general i'm
provement all along the line in the last.
few years. In 1884 MI. Craw sold the
famous Kindred farm to an eastern
brewer and not less than 10000 bushels
of barley has been raised on it every
year since.