Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-09
WedneSdUu.

VO~sk1OUU0s
Several l~andseekers came in on the
noon train To-Day.
Secretary Stickley of the railroad
commission returned east last night.
Internal Revenue Collector John
Thompson came in on the moor train.
Miss Edythe skeels returned last
night from q trip to Medora and Dick
inson.
Company A will give a st. Patrick
day dance Friday, March 16, at the
Atheneum.
Fifty families Of immigrants from
Iowa are expected to arrive in the city
before April 1.
Mrs. E. H. l.. Vesperman,. who is
visiting friends in Fargo, is reported
i'll with the fever.
Roadmaster Fletcher and Frank In
gals of the Northern Pacific came in
on the noon train today.
West bound passenger trains are
being pulled with the smaller engines,
and double-headers are again in vogue.
The city council is making use Of the
new hail in the Patterson building and
the old hail over the engine room is
deserted.
Captain Green, U. s. A., was in the
city yesterday afternoon and this
morning visiting with Major Robertson
while en- route west.
One party of immigrants to North
Dakota will comprise 1900 people aud
it will require $50 freight car to re-
move their goods to the state.
Frank Titus is on the United States
jury at Grand Forks. The term will
probably be a short one. There will
be no March term of the court at Bis
marck this year.
Roy L. McGregor, who has been with
Hatch's general store at Oberon, will
go to Fort Yates to take a position in
the traders store at that place con-
Quoted by NJ. L. Parker.
Snow through the state has been
exceedingly light this. winter and
farmers everywhere hope there will he
a great fall this month to put the soil
in shape for spring work.
A meeting of the democratic state
central commlulee will be held at
Fargo to set dates for the conventions
lbr nominating delegates to the ma
tional convention, and for the nominal
ton of a state ticket.
A travelling man discussed the Boer-
British war with a Darlington mer-
chant and resolved after he received
a beautiful pair of black eyes to re-
frain from talking Of the wal again
with any of his customers.
A Dover, Del, dispatch says: Ger
titicates Of incorporation were filed
here today for the National Land COM
pany o. North Dakota, to engage in
general land colonization, emigration
and to purchase land and erect build
ings thereon. Capital, $2,OOO,OOO.
Among the feature visitors to the
city in the past day or so is a deaf and
dumb soldier, wearing a cavalry uni
form, an officers gauntlets, carrying
an OddfellOws sword, and presenting
himself as the brother Of a Michigan
volunteer who fell in the service of his
country.
Fargo Argus: At the motion of City
Attorney Peterson of Moorhead, the
case of E. A. Hughes, of this city,
charged with. having ordered the wires
of the Moorhead Lighting company
cut, has been adjourned for one week.
1t seems to be admitted that the
Hughes company was not guilty of
exceeding Its rights in the premises.
Mddenry in Foster county received
last week a delegation of seven fam
ilies-34 persons-from Holstein, Iowa,
with nine carloads of household
goods, stock and machinery. With
one exception all purchased land six
miles south of that town and as they
are prepared for farming will begin
operations at once. All are o
fenced farmers and were given q