Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-06-24
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THE WEATHER.

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Minimum temperature today So.
Forecast for "a hours for North Dakota
ending tomorrow night at 8 o'clock:
Partly cloudy with possibly showers
tonight and in east portion Wednesday;
warmer tonight.
James Campbell is up from Glencoe
today ~transacting business in the city.
Miss Anderson was, down from Will
ton last evening doing some shopping.
J. "a. Coulter and County Auditor P.
M. Immel are up from Dawson today.
The social announced to be given on
Thursday evening by st. Mary's sew
ing society has been postponed.
A large number of Germans came in
from the west last evening to make
homestead filings ait the land Office.
J. w. Foley went to Fargo yesterday
afternoon to attend the meeting Of the
Masonic grand lodge.
Hon. H. L. Reade is representing
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Bismarck Lodge at the Masonic Grand
Lodge meeting in Fargo this week.
Cashier r. E. Funk will go to Wash
burn tomorrow to arrange for the
opening of the new First National
Bank there.
The Tripune job press has just
turned out some very attractive bank
ing stationery for the new First Ma
tional Bank at Washburn.
Mrs. R. D. Hoskins, grand secretary
Of the o. E. S., is in attendance at the
grand lodge meeting in Fargo this
week, having gone down last evening.
M. J. Mckenzie reports concluding
the largest real estate deal he has made
this season yesterday, and consisted of
a number of tracts bought by MI. Nc
Kenzie when prices were at bedrock.
ST. Elmo lodge, K. of p, has rented
the hall in the third story of the An
derson block, formerly used by the
basket ball girls, and are fitting it up
for lodge purposes, and when CONF
pleted will add another to Bismarck's
tasteful lodge homes. W; ID. Cor
such>is doing the work.
Capt. /. P.,Baker"is having his field
of alfalfa on the bottoms in the west
ern edge of the city cut and cured for
hay. A careful estimate would place
the yield. at about two tons per- acre.
With a continuation Of present condi-
tons Of moisture the field will cut an
other crop before the coming of
autumn frosts, with the chances in
favor of an increase in yield.
Mrs. Linda w. Slaughter this morn
ing received a letter from Congressman
Marshall conveying the intelligence
that the Senate bill granting her an in
crease Of pension to $50 had passed the
house. and now only awaited the pres
dents signature. Mrs. Slaughter was
drawing a pension Of $25 as the widow
Of the late Major B. F. Slaughter, sur
geon of the 55th Kentucky mounted
infantry regiment. The many friends
Of Mrs. Slaughter VIII unite in on
CALCULATIONS at her good fortune.
Commissioner Turner has received
a letter from Miss Sadie Lee of Port
Huron, La, declining the offer to have
her marriage with Fred Partridge of
Stark county made a state function,
for the reason that she regards matri-
mony as Of too serious a nature to be
made SO lightly of. The ceremony
will take place at the home of the
groom's brother and the. couple will
Immediately go to the home of the
former, where a comfortable home has
been provided.
At the adjourned hearing before the
coroner's jury yesterday afternoon,
having in inquiry the matter of the
suicide Of August Pearson, several wit
nesses testified that deceased had fire.
quently during the past few months
stated that he would rather be dead
than alive, one witness t%estifying that
he had gone sc far as to threaten to
take his own life. While it is known
that deceased was an occasional drink
er, it is denied that he was an lhabitual
one, and it is also denied that he was
under the influence of drink at the time
of the suicide. He bore Endorsements