Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-21
CITY AND COUNTY.
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George Nichols returned to Fargo last
night.
j. G. Quinlivan returned today from a
trip to Fargo and st. Paul.
Mrs. Briggs has sold her horse and
carriage to A. G. Clark Of Steele.
Ben Corbin, the boss and only wolf
hunter, is in the city from Glencoe.
The band will play a few outdoor Sc
lections tonight, if the weather is fine.
Senator Cronan bought a carload of
cattle for the packing company from
John Yegen.
The state board of auditors has been
busy at the capitol looking over bids for
state repositories.
Miss Selma Peterson, one of the recent
graduates from the public school, is
teaching at Boyd.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson passed
through the city on the noon train today
en- route to the Park.
Good rains are reported in the eastern
part of the state, but the clouds dried
out before coming west.
State Treasurer Driscoll has issued
the semi-annual statement of receipts
and expenditures Of the state t~reasurer's
office.
The new brick barn at the pen is done
and it's a beauty-one of the most
convenient structures of the kind in the
state.
The Epworth League of the NJ. E.
church will give a lawn social Thursday,
July 20. Watch for further announce
ments.
Mrs. Humphreys, wife of Engineer
Humphreys of the fort, was taken sud
denly i'll last evening but is reported
better today.
Experiments with the clay about
Dickinson have been made by eastern
firms and it has been discovered that it
makes very good pottery.
Sheriff Follis of Billings county was a
westbound passenger today, returning
from jamestown, where he had been
with a patient for the asylum.
The laying of the sewer pipe on Fourth
street is progressing we'll. The pipe are
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sewer, which is being taken up.
The concrete walk being laid about
the Lamborn hospital is a big improve
ment and adds to the appearance and
convenience of that excellent institution.
Bishop Edsall will arrive in the city at
moor tomorrow and there will be contir-
nation services at the church tomorrow
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firmed.
A Fargo man suggests that the state
pay the expenses of the return trip of
the volunteers, leaving the several cities
their money to eXpend for the reception
of the soldiers.
Bishop Edsall will meet the committee
OF the Episcopal church at the office of
General Hughes tomorrow afternoon at
5 O'clock. All members of the commit
tee are requested to be present.
Postotfice Inspector Thiele is adver-
Using for bids for suitable quarters for
the postoftice at jamestown. The gov
eminent wants to rent building, fixtures,
vault, ETC., for a term of five years.
1t is possible some of the Dickinson
pressed brick will be used in new build
lngs to be erected in Bismarck in the
near future, and the contractors for the
military post may use some of them.
County Superintendent Edick is send
ing out circulars to teachers, advising
them OF the summer school for Burleigh
county to begin July II. Prof. Moore
and Miss Hulett will be the instructors.
j. L. Moody, the Northern Pacific line
man, has a crew of twenty-cight men at
work line repairing. The Sykeston and
Coopersto"n extensions are to be wired.
Men for the work are hard to get, al
though wages are $50 and board.
NJ. L. Parker of jamestown has re-
turned from Fort Yates, where he has
been on business connected with the
leadership. The difficulty over the pur-
chase OF goods between the old and new
arrangements has been adjusted.
The divorce case Of Cook VS.. Cook was
heard by Judge Winchester yesterday,
The parties are New York people, and
the wife opposes the divorce. Messrs.
Barrett and Stambough of Fargo were
the attorneys. The case was continued
today.
The n. P. through trains are compos-
ed OF - and IA cars, heavily loaded west
bound. 1t is almost impossible for them
to make the time in bad weather. The
increase in business is heavy. One days
sale at the city ticket office last week in
st. Paul is said to have been $4,000.
The excavations for the two buildings
at the site of the military post have been
completed. Small tool sheds have been
erected on the ground, and lumber and
building. materials are being hanled
there. A tubular well has been dug on