Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-21

brought in eighty: The birds are
fairly plentiful
Miss Edna Winchester will enter
Carlton college at the beginning Of the
college year this fall. Miss Ara Wag-
goner will enter the Mrs. Emmonss
Blaine training school for teachers at
Chicago.
Mrs. j.. +. Wallace was called to
Glendive yesterday by the death # a
brother-in-law, William Shadwell. The
deceased was one Of the pioneers of
the Yellowstone country, having lived
there for TWENTY-FIVE years. He was
eighty years of age.
The N. r. surveyors returned from
the west last night and are laying out
the grounds west of the depot between
the track and the Mckenzie block
which is to be parked. The bids for
excayating contemplate the leveling of
the whole grounds and the filling in
Of the top with loan for grass seed.
August up to date has been unusu-
ally warm, and nearly every night has
seen a thunderstorm. If the rains
had come sooner this would have been
a record breaking year for crops.
North OF the city, in the vicinity Of
Wilton, the rains have been heavier
than here and the roads are heavy
with mud.
The local ball team, smarting under
the defeat administered to them by
the Washburn boys at Wilton Sunday,
will play a return game a week from
Sunday when they hope to regain their
batting eyes and bring home some
scalps themselves we'll asSto give
the Bismarck rooters who dropped sum
dry sums on the game Sunday a
chance to get even.
The new machinery, engine and
generator for the Hughes electric plant
T being unloaded today and will be
in position in a few days. Billy jaeger
is doing the unloading. The engine
is small but heavy and requires con-
siderable care in handling and plac-
ing it upon the foundation. Light
will be furnished from the new plant
before long. The car will be sent on
to Dickinson With the machinery for
there when the part for Bismarck is
unloaded.
Fargo Argus: The people Of the
eastern part Of the state are very much
interested in the question Of cheap
fuel. The short crops makes every
body feel mat they will have to curtail
expenses and since 1t was stated that
the ignite coal mined along the Wash
burn railroad north from Bismarck
could be shipped here at cheap rates
numerous inquiries are being received
as to cost etc. Word has been re-
ceived TO the effect that the mining
companies would not be able to ship
the coal to this district for several
weeks yet.
James Sanders is in Jail at Mandan
on the charge Of making a murderous
assault IN Sheriff Weekes. Sanders
claimed he had an unsatisfactory
horse deal with Weekes and after
threatening that he would kill him
shot three times at short range and
the fourth time the revolver would not
go of. The bullets grazed Weekes''
neck. Weekes then knocked Sanders
down. Sanders has recently been
employed by league oficials to make
complaints against alleged yiolators
OF the prohibition law.
a Cape Nome letter says: Alex Nc
Kenzie Of New York and North Da-
kota, only arrived on the ground a few
days ago. His arrival seemed to create
Squite a furore. All the local papers
interviewed him for a column or more
and as 500 al his Office on Stedman
avenue was open, it became the goal
of every mining man inscamp who had
a claim or lay he wished to sell. Nc
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