Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-10-12
CITY AND COUNTY.


Inc oIccLy IIulc COMPANY y
west ON the noon train today.
Frank Burt and e.. Falkenstine ar
U. S. ju.ors at Devils Lake.
\ party of twenty landseekers cam
in with r. w. Heaton today to lool
over the Washburn lands.
Regular meeting of Yeomen tonight
A nice program and lunch have beer
prepared for the evenings entertain
ment. All members urged to b'
present.
A. w. Porter. former state auditor
under the fusion administration, came
in on the moo train to file the certi'
ficate of nomination of Marion Conk'
lin as judge O: the Fifth district by
the fusionists.
A letter received in the city yester'
day from former Governor A. H
Burke expresses regard for all ole
time Bismarck friends. Governor
Burke is engaged with land depart
ment work in California.
The Northern Pacific land sales for
the last fiscal year amounted to $13,-
O4S.S29. 80. The money was used to
pay off general first mortgage bonds.
1t marked the final and complete re-
tirement of the last interest-bearing
obligations OF the old Northern Paci-
tic RAILROAD company,
A. r. Green of Kansas, government
Inspector of land offices, is inspecting
the Bismarck office. Mr.. Green is ac-
companied by Mr.. Mcmillan who will
succeed to the work OF this district.
Mr.. Green has been ordered to Wash
ington to take a desk in the forestry
department of the government.
Citizens are being made rapidly by
courts of the state of those foreigners
entitled to take out their second pa
pers, that they may be able to vote at
the election this fall. Judge Win
chester of this district has just re-
turned from a trip through his district
holding special terms Of court for the
accommodation of those who desired
to take Out second papers. Over 300
persons applied for citizenship. The
same work is being lone in other dis
tricts.
The biennial report of Insurance
Commissioner Harrison has been filed
with the governor. This shows u
total revenue of the insurance depart
ment for the two years of $7G,4SO. 81,
an increase of SIS 5000 over the prece0-
ing biennial period. Insurance Com
missioner Harrison recommends more
stringent legislation for the govern
ment of mutual insurance companies
in the state. Two of these have been
taken in charge by the commissioner
during the two years and receivers ap-
pointed for them.
Ilcas & O'Hara will occupy the Sec
ono floor Of their present building to
accommodate their increasing bust
ness. Tie store room on the secopd
floor will be handsomely finished and
a stairway put in at the inside and
rear end of their present store. Up
stairs they will put in a we'll fitted
ladies toilet room. Their millinery
on1 o1oo1- dom, .tyn0,f on1 Nh ri CT M n &c
stock will also be upstairs. The store
as then completed will be handsomer
than ever, and a credit to the city and
10 this enterprising firm Of business
men.
The controller of the currency has
given out an abstract of the reports
of the condition Sept. ) Of the twenty
seven national banks in North Dakota
compared with the returns of June 20,
when there were twenty-four banks in
the state. 1t shows that the total re-
sources increased from $7,723.aS4 to
$S.G4G,SS4; loans and discounts in
creased from SII,::;:5O.O}2 to $5.415, 80,
and cash reserve decreased from S:37i,-
$50 to $31I.S14. of which gold holdings
fell from S1IO,4177 to $14G,2uO: indi-
vidual deposits increased from ST.
S1I,334 to $5.O15,3S1 and the average
reserve held advanced from $17.3 10
5000 per cent.
Fargo Call: Last night as the
Northern Pacific train No. i was pull.
ing out of Tower City. Rudolph Linke
a laboring man. who got on at San