Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-11-13
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Judge winchester spent the after
noon in Mandan. II ~ :
G. +. Phelps spent the afternoon in
Mandan making a piano sale.
Attorney E.. S. Allen has gone to
Devils Lake on U. S>court business.
The W. r. c. will hold their regular
meeting Thursday evening, Nov. 4, ait
8 o'clock.
Do not forget the fair on December
10th. The ladies will serve a nice
supper in connection.
The paving crew have begun laying
vitrified brick and are the center of
an Interested crowd.
The ladies of the Episcopal guild will
meet tomorrow (Thursday) at the
home of Mrs. J. O. Kruhm.
Mrs. E. N. Whitaker, Zee Elsie Back
ley, with her husband, came in last
night and left for Glencoe today.
J. W. Currie of Dickinson was a west
bound passenger on the noon train re-
turning from a trip to the twin cities.
Mrs. Flora Wickham and Mrs. Joe
Williams, Mandan, were visitors in the
city yesterday, guests of Mrs. Harry
Lee.
A. E. Boyce, the photographer, has
returned to the city and rented the old
gallery. He will make his headquar-
tiers here.
"A prisoner at the Jail made last night
hideous with his noises. 1t was a
case Of too much bad booze and this
morning the prisoner had tanned down
sufficiently to pay a fine.
Twenty-Five tickets were sold in
Mandan yesterday to parties coming
over to the Patriarchs Militant dance
on December 9Th. The special will
leave Mandan At 7:30 p. m, western
time.
Work at the term of court at Dick
inson was light. Testimony was
taken in several court cases. No jury
had been called for the term. The
term of court in Mercer county begins
next week.
Alfred Staley left Bismarck yester-
day with eight cars, 24O head of cattle.
for his ranch near Roach, N. D. They
were purchased at Kansas City. Staleys'
have sold ]. G. Hallum 1000 head of
sheep and are closing out of the sheep
business.
Cars are hard to obtain on the North
ern Pacific now owing to the heavy
traffic and the great number that are
needed to handle the grain crop of the
northwest. One Dickinson coal mine
is n hundred carloads behind in Or
ders owing to the fact that shipments
cannot be made until cars are secured.
The cal famine is one indication of
the immense business being done on
the Northern Pacific.
Commissioner R. J. Turner has re-
turned from Buffalo where he saw the
expiring throes of the Pan-American
exposition. The exhibits are on the
way from Buffalo. The commission
will hold a meeting as soon as the ex-
hibits are returned and settle up the
affairs Of the display. 1t is hoped the
balance left from the appropriation of
$4,000 will be sufficient to form a nu-
cleus for an exhibit at ST. Louis in
1903, the work of gathering an exhibit
to begin next year.
A term of district court is ITO be held
in Mercer county November 10. At
this term will come up the case, of Con-
rath VS.. the sheriff of Mercer county,
an action to restrain the sheriff from
selling certain sheep seized for taxes
levied by the county on property at
tached under the law of 1891. This
a is an important one as it brings
into direct question the constutionality
of the 1891 law, and thereby affects the
boundaries of a number of counties
whose lines were changed by that act.
Land and title sharks are said to be
working through the counties in the
eastern part of the state endeavoring
to discover flaws in titles and make