Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-09-01
WAITING FOR GRANT
North Dakota Delegation Eagerly
Awaiting the Arrival of the Grant
at Frisco.
Senator Hansbrough Secures a Rate
Of Sc for the Boys from Frisco
to Portland.
from Tuesdays Daily.)

A dispatch from San Francisco saws:
THE Grant has not been sighted vet,
but the North Dakota delegation is
keeping in close touch with the dock
district, as the boat should get in to-
day.
Judge w. S. Lauder and wife of
Wahpeton; Mr.. Scott Of Bismarck,
and Mrs. Maj. White are recent addi-
tons to the Dakota party.
The delegation held a meeting today
to consider the situation. They will
give the soldiers as good a reception
as possible and there is even some
talk Of a banquet.
The North Dakota delegation or
ganized by selecting Senator Hans
brough chairman, Il. s.. Allen of Bis
marck, secretary; D. G. Moore, treas
urer. 1t was decided to put up q
lunch for each soldier and committees
We're appointed to confer with Gen.
Shafter and the Idaho and Wyoming
delegations.
The North Dakota volunteers will
have to decide for themselves whether
they will go to Portland en- route home.
by rail or water. Senator Hans
brough who is acting for Minnesota,
has secured the lowest rate that has
been granted by the railroad COM
panies and also by the steamship COM
panies. 1t is probable that the Min
nesota soldiers will avail themselves
OF the same rate. as it will cost as
much per man to get the North Da-
kOta regiment home as Minnesota,
Senator Hansbrough has been labor
ing with Senator Perkins, who owns
the steamers between here and Port
land, and finally got a rate Of Sc from
San Francisco to Portland, including
meals and birth. The rate from
Portland to North Dakota points and
the Twin Cities is $2O.SO via either
the Great Northern or the Northern
Pacific. Senator Hansbrough finds
that the lowest rate by rail from here
to Portland is So. so, or Sill including
berth. This makes $50. 80 as the max
lmum rate. and it will be the same
for the Minnesota men. The rate of
S3O.3O is the lowest yet made, and is
the only one practically that the Min
neSOta committees a figure on.
1T is practicable to send the North
Dakota boys north by boat, but not
the MinnesOtas as there are but eight
companies from North Dakota, and as
there are four living along each rail-
road, four companies can go on one
boat and the other four would have
to wait five days before there would be
room enough for them. If the Min
nesota regiment went by boat it would
mean a gap of ten days between the
time the first and last companies left
here.
North Dakota is the only state that
has sent it's entire congressional dele
cation here and the party has now
been Increased to about twenty. They
are being royalty entertained. Yes
terday Senators Hansbrough and Nc.
Cumber and Congressman Spalding
n Mayor Patterson Of Bismarck
made a thorough inspection Of the hos
pitfalls at the Preside in search of sick
North Dakota men. The found about
thirty altogether, but no dangerous
cases among them. Private Fyles
attracted their attention insparticular,
as he was the only one of a party of
six that escaped alive from an ambus-
cade: He had a bad wound.