Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-14

MS rdncn near K d sold for
II cents.
G. A. Small and H. w. Grambs have
kgone to the Pacific coast for a trip of a
week or so.
Reports from the cattle ranges state
that shipments of beef will begin a little
later than usual.
DR.. r. P. Quain returned today from
Grand Forks where he has been taking
the state medical examination.
Mrs. Jas. H. Ross and daughter of
jamestown are in the city visiting With
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Mcdonald.
Assistant Tax Commissioner Charles
Swartz and Attorney Conklin of James,
town came in on the noon train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Poole went to Fargo from
jamestown, to take in the circus, which
failed to circus owing to the storm.
There was 10000 pounds of wool
marketed at Braddock on wool sale day
and the most of it brought 16 cents.
The work on the new ward building at
the asylum at jamestown has been be-
gun and the walls will be started soon.
Sheep n profitable this year. Thos.
Evans OF Gladstone sheared 1000 sheep,
sold SLIGO worth of wool and has some
yet to market.
Ihe Hughes Electric company will trv
to arrange with the trustees of the state
university to put in the new electric
light plant there.
John and Joe Hare and Willie Coch-
ranch returned yesterday from Spirit
wood, where they visited the Wallace's.
caught lots of fish and enjoyed them,
selves immensely.
The father of Treasurer Nygaard of
Mclean county was SO badly bruised in
the recent hail storm in that county, be-
ing caught out in the storm, that his
condition is serious.
Boyd Champlain, the engineer at the
Hughes electric plant in Fargo, who had
his arm torn off in the machinery, is out
OF the hospital, and nearly recovered
from the effects of the accident.
The grade on Fourth street is being
raised several inches with earth taken
out OF the excavation for the new build
ing, The street is considerably below
grade between Broadway and Main.
Miss Fannie Dunn returned TODAY
from the east where she has been since
last fall as n of the physicians of the
Northwestern hospital at Minneapolis.
The many friends of DR.. Dunn will be
pleased to see her home again.
The Stutsman county commissioners
granted the petition of Assistant Tax
Commissioner Swartz of the Northern
Pacific for a reduction of their land
taxes for the last four years and the road
will pay into the county treasury some
thing like $4,000.
The death of Captain Wheeler of the
northwestern road, occurred suddenly at.
Dickinson. Captain Wheeler was taken
i'll on the train and removed to the hotel
at Dickinson, where his death followed,
The remains were taken to st. Paul on
the train last night.
jamestown Capital: Thos. Fortune.
su~b-contractor for Oscar Will of Bis
marck, has a large gang of men and
teams in this vicinity breaking up the
land adjoining the tight snow fences
with the view of planting trees along
these railroad cuts next spring.
Monday at 8 a. m. a requiem mass
will be celebrated for Rev. John Chry-
sostomus Fotfa, O. S. B., who died on
the I'd day of June in the abbey of St..
Gall, E%insiedeln, Switzerland. Father
Chrysostomus was pastor of st. Mary's
church, Bismarck, from 1876 to 1879.
There was a heavy hail storm in Eddy
county this week and it is reported 1000
acres of wheat were destroyed. \ wind
and hail storm twenty miles long and
SIX miles wide struck Barnes county and
a number of farmers lost their total crop
and some of them their farm buildings.
A number Of counties in the state are
purchasing road grading machines, a law
having been passed last winter looking
to the securing of these machines by
counties and townships. It is stated
that of them may be secured by this
city for the improvement of it's roads.
Mrs. Martha Farroth, formerly Of
Helena, Montana, now Of New Salem.
celebrated her Tooth birthday on Sun
day last at the residence of her daughter.
Mrs. Conrad linn of New Salem. MANY
old time friends from far and near came
tn celebrate the occasion, bringing many
presents.
Dickinson proposes to have an elabor-
ate celebration for Company K on the
return of the troops. The Press suggests
music by the band, cannon, parades,
speaking, and the best there is in the
western part of the state for the soldier
boys, and the suggestions will doubtless
be carried out.
Engineer Hoffman, of the Bismarck.
Washburn & Fort Buford road, accom-
panied by D. w. Cassiday, immigration
agent of the 500 and Photographer Bart.
lett came in on the noon train today.
They will 60 north tomorrow, to look
over the country and take some views of
ranch and farming scenes and of the
country generally for publication in an
advertising pamphlet.
Contractor Foley of the Sykeston ex-
tension of the N. p, says that grading is
practically completed, although no iron
has been laid. About the only strip of
grading remaining to be done is that on
some % acres of ground, for the right of
way which the owner demands $1,000, or
the exorbitant price of $50 per acre.
The owner is a farmer living in Wells