Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-24
Tuesday.

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Tuesday.
Will Newton is visiting in the city
with his brother, J.. H. Newton.
Mrs. Lambert has a lot north of her
residence on Sixth street and VIII
erect a neat cottage there.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. J.. Fiield and family
left Saturday night for a two months
visit in Oregon and California.
Work will begin this week on the
improving of the Presbyterian parson-
age. The building will be raised. and
a new furnace put in for heating.
Miss Ethel R. Hulett, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. VIM. Moore,
left for Minneapolis this afternoon
and will visit Fargo en- route. Mrs.
Hulett will leave tomorrow afternoon.
Miss Edna Winchester will enter
Carlton college at the beginning of the
college year this fall. Miss Ara Wag-
goner will enter the Mrs. Emmons
Blaine training school for teachers at
Chicago.
Mrs. ]. F. Wallace was called to
Glendive yesterday by the death of 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. P. 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
excavating contemplate the leveling Of
the whole grounds and the filling in
of the top with loan for grass seed.
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-as we'll as to give
the Bismarck rooters who dropped sun
dry sums on the game Sunday a
chance to get even.
James Sanders is in Jail at Mandan
on the charge of making a murderous
assault on 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 off. The bullets grazed Weekes'
neck. Weekes then knocked Sanders
down. Sanders has recently been
employed by league officials to make
complaints against alleged violators
of the prohibition law.
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 tnat they will have to curtail
expenses and since it 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.
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
quite a furore. All the local papers
interviewed him for a column or more
and as soon as his Office on Stedman
avenue was open, it became the goal
of every mining man in camp who had
a claim or lay he wished to sell. Nc
Kenzie was evidently taken as a typ
ical tenderfoot or "cheechaco," as they
are termed here. But he did not
not prove IS easy as the crowd ex-
pected. He is not buying claims, 80