Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-05-22

Apparatus, knocked down, will be
handled free by the railroad companies.
A carpenter named Dow met with an
accident in the shops at Mandan this
morning and lost three fingers of his
hand on a. rip saw. He went through
to Brainerd this afternoon for treat
ment.
The regular meeting of the W. R. G.
will occur in their hall at 2:3O p. m.
Friday, May %. Every member is re-
quested to be present as BUSINESS of i'm
portance will come before the members
for action.
Bismarck and at once or a large por-
ton of the ten miles of stone walks
ordered built will not be laid this sea-
son. Twenty tile sidewalk layers can
have employment all summer in Bis
marck.
DR.. N. o. Ramstad left this afternoon
for the east, and before his return will
make a trip to Europe to engage in post
graduate medical work. Many friends
in the city will wish him a pleasant
trip and much of profit and success in
his work.
Recently Murdoch Mckenzie, the
Bismarck land man, sold a half section
of land to John o. Brown, of Ossian,
Iowa, and the purchaser emphasizes
his satisfaction by not only paying for
the land but by sending a beautiful sill
yer cup to Mr.. Mckenzie with his COM
p1iments. . r.
Misses Sanderson and Struble enter
tanned the teachers and others of their
friends last evening at the home of MI.
and Mrs. Devine. Each of the party
brought an article they could not sell
or give away, done up in package form.
The guests drew and secured some use
full and ornamental articles. A guess
ing game was INDUCED in and the even
ing was a very enjoyable one.
The Minneapolis journal says that
Cook & Kinds, contractors, of Helena
and Butte, have been awarded a con-
tract for building fifty miles of the Bis
marck & Edgeley branch 3of the North
ern Pacific, which will branch from the
main line at Mckenzie, east of Bis
marck, and run to Linton and thence
east. There are about a million and
a half cubic yards of earth to be re-
moved: Cook & Vinds will commence
work at once.
w. j. Dwyer tells the Jamestown
Alert: This is a wet country for a
"dry one" The sloughs and ponds
in the western part of this county are
filling up and if these rains continue
there will be as much water as twenty
years ago. We can't count on plow-
ing old lake beds or moving our mead.
ows this year for hay. In one hay
meadow where I cut 200 tons of hay
last fall there is now eight feet oil
| WAUGH LIN 'C1O topo vi WV oldSh0, We
did not use, can just be=seen sticking
out of the water.
A Justice court examination al
Braddock yesterday on a charge of as
sault with dangerous weapon, had
rather novel termination. On com
plant of n Mittlesteader, John Dick.
inson was brought before Justice Lee
charged with the offense as above
stated. The defense being unable tc
!, procure the attendance Of an import.
ant witness a recess over several days
wasttaken, during which the, contend.
ing parties were gotten together by
mutual friends, and after a rather free
indulgence in the coup that cheers
the justice was aroused from his noe.
turnal slumbers, and on motion Of the
complainant and in the absence of at
torneys for either side, the charge d
assault was Withdrawn.
A large number of landseekers ar
rived in the city yesterday and in small
contingents have scattered all over Thu
slope. Register McGillivray escorted
several to the Sentinel Butte region OF
last nights train and another GROVE
will look owe the lands of the Cannon
Ball River Land company in the Rain,
Butte region. About forty went nortl
! to Wilton and Washburn on the morn
; ing train and others went out In Bur
leigh county via teams from Bismarck
There seems to be genuine realiza
ton OF the fact that this is the last o
the public domain-the last of cheal
lands.
q ! have cabbage, tomato and canli
flower plants for sale.
]. ". MILLE1T.