Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-17

dora. The latter place got a genuine
cloudburst and railroad bridges wesI
of there were washed out.
O'Neill, the convict who was cap.
tured and brought back to the pen
has two charges of escape to be
brought against him when his original
term is out.
4 daily stage service started this
morning between Wilton and Wash
burn, SO that passengers may make the
trip from Bismarck to Washburn, via
train and stage, in about three hours
The railroad commissioners in
spected to Braddock on the 500 last
week and there were no kicks re-
corded. If the commissioners could
the people here would have no kick
either.
In the heavy wind last night at Nc
kenzie, a box car was blown from the
sidetrack where it had been left over
onto the main line, and the engineer of
No. 1 discovered it in the distance far
enough to stop and avoid what might
have been a nasty collision.
Grand Forks Herald: Bismarck's
big fire was two years ago Wednesday,
o,,I fho hocl h,,ci,,occ ,,ort;or nc tho
city was at that. time wiped out. Since
that time Bismarck has played the
phoenix to perfection, and is today a
thriving city, the center of what will
in a very short time be a populous and
wealthy region.
The Northern Pacific has issued no.
tees to its agents and connections
that considerable change has been
made in the rules hitherto governing
the b%ulletining of lost, stolen or
scalped tickets, which are desired de-
stroyed by conductors. The list of
tickets has become so long that con-
ductors cannot keep track of them, and
consequently it is almost impossible
to prevent their use. Tickets lost by
passengers will be no longer be bulle-
tined. The practice will be confined
hereafter to tickets stolen directly
from the offices of the company.
Trsoipno from tho yyncf ho va 1>0rv, IN
layed the past few days, owing to
heavy rains in Montana, which have
washed out the track for several miles.
No through trains have come from the
west for several days and the west
bound trains are turned about at Glen
dive and passengers and baggage trans
ferred overland.
\ team belonging to Robert Roam
was killed by lightning four miles this
side of Washburn in the storm yester-
day. There were eight persons in the
wagon, when the bolt struck. and six
of them were knocked off, shocked but
not injured, wh.le the team was killed
outright. 1t was one of the narrow
est escapes on record.
Dickinson Press: On Wednesday
the enforcement league people were
doing business again in Dickinson.
After being assured of his fees, Mar
shall McCoul served injunctions on the
places OF Ed Berry, j. Leonberger,
Dave Brown, Frank kihm and Mike
Mckinley. Nothing was found and
consequently the places were not
closed. Steps will probably be taken
at once to get the injunction removed.
The commissioners of Emmons
county received only n bid for the
construction of a court house at Lin
ton and rejected it. They will pre-
pare a new specification and invite new
bids. A court house is needed at Lin
ton, but it is the genera sentiment
that it ought to be we'll and at the
same time economically constructed.
If the board cannot get bids that con-
template the completion of the build
ing early this fall they may wait until
spring.
Mayor Patterson and States Attor-
ney Allen were prepared to go down
the road on the delayed train yester-
day morning, and had their baggage
aboard when at the last moment they
discovered that the train was the lin
tied and passes would not go-and they
were forced, in the interests of econ
omy, to wait for the other train. A..
G. McGillivray and Mrs. McGillivray
and their niece left on the same train
for Detroit Lake, but whether Mac
paid fare--is not stated-yet.
Dickinson Press: On Thursday VIM.
Suddards, for Justice, Bateman & Co.,
Philadelphia, closed up the wool con-
signment at Dickinson, with possibly
one or two exceptions. The last con-
signed to their firm were the clips of
thAso IF r. II poorl 1IS coolyc. T o,a