Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-05-11

bonds to the amount of $4,000 were
purchased, which consumed the funds.
There will not be much more available
money until fall, when the third pay
men. on school lands which were sold
in 1890 becomes due.
1t is reported that the man Williams,
who was shot in the knee at Hebron,
will lose his leg. Dr.. Bentley, who is
looking after him at the Bismarck hos
pital, will probably perform the opera
tion.-Mandan Pioneer.
The annual election for chief and
assistant chief Of the fire department
will be held at the engine house Mon
day night. All members of the fire
department are notified and requested
to be present and participate in the
election.
A number of Morton county citizens
are negotiating for the purchase of
$4,000 acres of Northern Pacific land
in Mercer county. This block of land
takes practically all the remaining
good land of the company in that
county.
Nineteen land agents from Iowa have
been out in Stark county looking over
Northern Pacific land under the guild
ance of M of the land agents of that
road. On their return they stopped in
Mandan and took a drive in the vicin-
ity of that city.
Wool commission houses send out
notices that hereafter the manufacture
ers will discriminate against wool
where the sheep have been treated with
| q 1.-Two din ~, rro~oro%;o~ re 1;~oa
as they are unable to get satisfactory
results from woods so treated.
Representative Spalding says the APP
preparation committee did not allow
as much money in the sundry civil bill
as he expected for the Bismarck mill
tary post. There were two other
posts similarly situated, however, and
the committee gave $4,000 to each, as
it did not want to be charged with dis
elimination.
Valley City Times-Record: News
paper men who have been making
faces at the Northern Pacific because
of the rumor that editorial mileage
would not be accepted on the new train
can take it all back now. The only
ticket not good on these trains is one
of the little round concerned cards
which a member of the legislature
brings home from Bismarck.
Clerk of the Supreme Court r. D.
Hoskins has had begun the work on
the foundation for his new residence
on upper Fourth street. He has an
admirable residence lot and the house
will be thoroughly modern and con-
venient. Hosk has been nursing the
plans in his mind for about a year and
thinks he has them about where he
wants them if he doesn't change his
mind again. /
There is great activity in railroad
building throughout the northwest at
present. The Northwestern is max
ing several extensions in Iowa and
Wisconsin; the Northern Pacific is
working hard to have it's new extern
sions in North Dakota completed in
time for the next crop; the 500 is busy
with lines in North Dakota, and the
observation-disclosures road is being
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
The Milwaukee is building a road with
a large force in South Dakota along
the Missouri river from Yankton and
west of Bowdle it's new extension is
nearing completion.
Frederick, S. D., Free Press: F. M.
Joslin, Matt Jokela and Elmer Ander-
son start tomorrow for Arlington, Ore
gon, to bring through 5000 sheep pur-
chased there some time ago. One
thousand of the lot are for Webster
Bros. of the Allison ranch. The sheep
will be shipped to Bismarck and driven
from there across country to the range
west of Sutherland where Mr.. Joslin
has secured a five years lease on fifteen
quarter sections of state lands. The
stock will have to be unloaded from
the cars five times for feed and water
before reaching Bismarck. Lloyd An
derson starts for the latter point on
horseback this week to assist in the
drive home.
MO7ldUu.