Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-01-28
The CITY

Otto Grethren of Washburn is among
the guests in the city today.
Attorney H. G. Voss OF Mandan was
among the guests in the city this
morning.
The Ideal Whist Club will meet with
DR.. and Mrs. G. A. Rawlings tomorrow
wednesday, evening.
The government record showed a
temperature OF % below zero this
morning, which is the record for the
season for cold weather.
The funeral services of Mrs. Carrie
Reamer, who died Sunday evening,
Jan. 26, will be held at the residence
on Eighth street tomorrow at 2 o'clock.
Tom Sloan, the well known passen-
ger conductor, has resumed his run on
the Northern Pacific, after a vacation
spent with his wife and family in
Ohio. = 81
The testimony in the land contest
case of Burlington VS.. Rhodes was
completeda yesterday afternoon and
the matter submitted to the officials
of the land office for decision.
E. H. Walker: The cold weather
is bringing in many orders for coal
and the mines are busy. Fargo or
dered four cars a day since Friday, and
today has added ito the order until that
town is now getting six cars a day
from the mines.
W. F. Strasser, E. Jibben and George
Poll of Turner county, S. D., were Wis
itors in the city today. They are
looking about for farm lands and may
move here in the spring to become res
idents of the famous Missouri slope.
They were being shown about the city
city by Peter Freiborg of Mckenzie,
and were much pleased with the ap-
pearance and prospects of the. city.
A peculiar accident happened to En-
gineer William Ridley Saturday even
ing 81, the east bound passenger train
was nearing Eldridge. Engineer Rid
ley had just shut off steam and taken
down his hand from the throttle and
grasped the reverse lever when the &C.
centric straps, of his locomotive broke
The reverse lever swung back with
great force and struck him on the wrist
smashing the member badly.
Negotiations L in@progress for the
lease of a telephone right across the
Bismarck bridge at the Missouri river,
by Edward S. Allen, manager of the
local telephone company. If the lease
is obtained, wires will be strung and
the two towns of Mandan and Bis
marck be connected by telephone
which would be a great convenience
for the business men Of the two cities,
which now have no medium of COM
munication except the telegraph.
The Slayton Jubilee Singers ave a
concert at the Atheneum last night to
one of the largest audiences that has
gathered there in some time. The Sc
ilections of the company were well re-
ceiyed. The first part of the program
consisted Of old fashioned darkey
choruses, and solo and speciality work
constituted the last part of the bill.
Altogether it was an interesting per-
Romance and the audience was pleased.
The company went east last night,
playing in Valley City tonight.
Aaron christopher. the popular day
clerk at the Northwest, was called to
Brownsville, Pa, last night by a tele-
gram stating that his brother Albert,
who was in the city for a time as por-
ter at the hotel, had been injured in a
railroad accident and both legs had
been cut off. The young man re-
turned east some time ago and took a
position as railroad fireman. The
news came as a sad shock to his
brother, who received word only a
couple of weeks ago of the death of his
father.
Attorney Mclaughlin and NIenry,
counsel for Judge A. H. Noyes, will
have a hearing before Attorney Gen
eral Knox on that cas- some day this
week. They will take up the charges
filed against Judge Noyes last winter
and the recent decision Of the circuit
court Of appeals at San Francisco and
will show how far outside of the ques.
ton Of contempt the court went, in its
admission Of evidence in the Ease O
sNoyes, Frost and others. "A petition
for a writ Of certiorari in the case will
be filed in the supreme court mex
Monday.
THE ITEM CLUB.