Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-20
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Rev. Lucas is the new Methodist
preacher atMandan.
! Fulton Burnett and Miss Jessie Merry
were married at Dickinson.
Dr. Parkins is county physician for
the ensuing year in Stark county.
The Dickinson city council will move
into the new city.hall next month.
Sheep are reported to be holding their
own on the ranges, and need little feed.
Sheriff Wickes Of Mandan has received
word of the death Of his father in Ne
braska. - -, s., q tr
The office of trainmaster onthe Yellow
stone division of the N. P. has been
abolished. ~ - - ~.
There is general interest or the slope
in the Forthcoming meeting of the wool
growers = r.
Rev. Danford of Mandan breaches his
farewell sermon on gambling and the
Pioneer says it will do good.
Mandan people view with decided in
terest the efforts of Senator Hansbrough
to locate an Indian school there says the
Pioheer.
Mandan wants to buy the Emerson
institute from the board of education
for city hall purposes. An offer of $4,000.
is made.
The Dickinson Press claims $40 school
children and the Mandan Pioneer wants
to know why only 400 Of them are
enrolled.
E. P. Wells writes from New York
City that the promise of new settlers
in the spring for North Dakota is very
gratifying. %t,~. u...T T.,
The Dickinson opera house has not
proved a paying investment, but the
Press says the owners are public bene-
factors-and that is something.
Mrs. Klinefelter, whose husband was
killed near Mandan while working as
conductor on the N. p, has bought
} property at Dickinson and will reside
there.
Dickinson A. C. u. w. people presented
Oliver Whaley. the manager of the West.
/ ern Union Office, who goes to Helena
with a magnificent opal ring and stud as
; a token of esteem. -
Olaf Killand of Mandan has assumed
=, his duties as justice of the peace anc
! offers to marry the first twenty-five
couples who apply to him if he is per
mitted to kiss the bride.
Richards & Dinsdale of Dickinson are
already getting a few inquiries regarding
the price of sheep for spring delivery
, They have from 10000 to $4,000 Is, q
) and 3's, which they contracted for early
last fall.
W. S. johnson writes Mandan friends
l from White Horse on the Yukon thai
the sun had gone down at 2 o'clock il
: the afternoon-three teams had left fol
Dawson with dressed veal and poultry
and several parties had left for Dawson
on bicycles.
Two bids were received for the cree,
ton of the Emmons county courthouse
> One was from a Chicago firm, who
waited some $1,000 for the work. The
, bid that won was that of Mr.. Fort oil
Fort Yates, and MI. Ostrum'of Winona
5 They will do the work for S6,695.53.
At the Hilliard & Merry ranches neal
+ Dickinson the sheep are watered almost
wholly IN cold weather from wells by
means of big stock pumps. Mr.. Merry
says that the sheep are Tatered once E
dayin big troughs, and they thrive much
better than where they are forced to de
|, pend upon river water.
The work on the Northern Pacific
dixie west of Dickinson was completed
: this week by W. B. Powers, who hae
eight OF ten horses and several hand!
working on the same for the past month
The surveyors think they have the DYKE
in proper shape now and that it viii
4 Ihold an immense body of water. It i
TO feet thick on the bottom and from
d 16 to 1Sfeet on the top, and 3,0O0yard
2 of dirt were required in making tn
needed repairs.
This season there is a large dealt
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