Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-04
CITY AND COUNTY.
Y'h,,rSd0y.

Superintendent Halland came in from
the east today.
Attorney General Cowan came in to-
day from the east.
Work has been resumed on the Pat
tcrson building on Main street.
State Land Commissioner Watt was
an arrival from the east today.
Deputy State Examiner Wallace came
in from the east on the noon train.
North Dakota will get ten census jobs,
in the apportionment of places by the
census bureau.
Mrs. +. E. Irish arrived from st. Paul
today for a visit with friends and rela
tives in the city.
G.. +. Edwards of Omaha, representing
T.. c.. Dewitt e. Co of Chicago, is doing
business in the city. .
Il. A. Lamb is in the city from Wash
burn, and reports everything thriving in
the metropolis of Mclean county.
The pressed brick from the Dickinson
yards for the Little building are fine
brick and will make a handsome front.
w. p. Macom.ber this morning received
a telegram that the party of land seekers
from Iowa would not arrive until tomor-
row.
John Bcal is in the city from the farm
says crops look good, although con-
tinued dry weather may affect the filling
somewhat.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Il. Bowen of James
town were west bound passengers on to-
days train, en- route to the bad lands
for a visit.
\. dispatch from Manila states that
the transport Grant is being coaled and
will leave there in about four days with
the North Dakota troops.
The Farmers & Merchants State bank
of Hankinson, capital stock, $4,000, has
applied to the secretary of state for a
charter. John r. Jones is president.
j. w. Watson writes from Camp Egg
bert, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, asking about
friends in Bismarck. Jud will be re-
membered by many friends in the city.
Senator Hansbrough has telcgraphed
to the Indian department protesting
against the presenceof Douglass a. Mead
as traders on the Standing Rock reserva-
ton. The matter of who is who down
there will not down.
The Fargo Call states that the reason
Lieutenant Hildreth resigned was not
because he wanted to accept another
position but because he wanted to return
to the United States via another route
than the one to be taken by the troops.
Mayor Patterson has one of the latest
things in buggies-a ball bearing vehicle,
with steel spoked wheels and rubber
tires-made by Fraser, the bicycle sulky
man. The rig runs like a bicycle, and is
one of the handsomest ever seen in the
northwest.
Freight traffic on the Northern Pacific
is increasing and the crews are kept
busy. Stock trains arc now being run
and the big rush of cattle from the west
will soon begin. The high prices for
cattle will be a factor in making shipping
active for some time.
Down on the road to the post there is
a field of corn-a part of the penitentiary
farm-that will not be eXcellcd in any
country. The corn stands thick and
high, is we'll developed, and will mature
some of the finest corr in the state. The
field shows what good gardening and
cultivation will do.
A special train bearing Hon. A. L.
Carey, Special Master, w. Fl. Phipps
N. P. Land Commissioner, John Fish OF
Milwaukee, J. Fl. Chapman, Jr., of the
firm of Sullivan e. Cromwell attorneys
for the reorganization committee of the
N. p: E. L. Marvin of the N. P. land
department and J. H. Hughes, official
stenographer, is now travelling to the
different county seats alongthe Northern
Pacific where lands belonging to the old
n. P. company are to be auctioned.
President Worst and Prof. Kaufman
of the state agricultural college have
returned from a trip to San Francisco
where they attended the meeting OF
agricultural college people from all over
the United States. While pleased with
the country, they return more enthusi,
astic admirersof North Dakota than ever
Out on the coast they met Ex-Governo,
Burke, DR.. and Mrs. Herrick. of Lisbon