Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-04
The CRY

Company A gives it's annual ball to-
night. 4
Joe Katz gets the Painted Woods
mail contract.
William Mcdonald returned on the
noon train today from a trip to Chi
cage.
DR.. Strauss of Glenullin and Walter
Lee of Elbowoods were guests in the
city yesterday. \
Mrs. E. H. Wilson returned to the
city last evening from their Kidder
county home to spend a few days in
the city.
The pension bill for the relief of
Captain J.. W. Gregg of this city has
passed the senate through the efforts
of Senator McCumber, at $40 a month.
Aberdeen. people learn that the Mil
waukee road will push on to the
Missouri river lei Cannonball, and
that the main line will push on to
Helena.
Clerk of Court Marshall of Traverse
county, Mimi, is among the guests in
the city today, to look after some in
terests at Washburn. He will remain
for several days.
G. E. Wentworth and Carlos Boyn-
ton of the Hackney-Boynton Land
company, came in last night from EN-
mons county where they have been
looking after land sales.
If &C. D. Edick: I have had a letter
from Lester Bailey. He is in Cali
fornia but expects to leave soon, either
for. the mountains o. for Arizona, as
his wife's health is poor.
D. Mitchell of Andrews was a guest
in the city today, He is,a recent ar
rival from South Dakota, having
bought a farm in Andrews, and is now
enrolled with the energetic farmers of
Burleigh county. J
The special train for the masquerade
ball at Mandan Friday. Feb. {, will
leave Bismarck at 8 p. m. Round
trip tickets % cents, to be procured
on train. Tickets to dance 81 per
couple, including supper; extra lady 25
cents. %.s .s dis. +
It is reported that Jerry. McCarty,
the man arrested at Glendive charged
with the theft of diamonds from a
travelling man named Claussen, has
taken the officers to a place where q
thousand dollars worth of the stolen
jewels are concealed.
H. G.. Marshall. secretary of the
| North Dakota Cooperative Stock and
Land Co., headquarters at Washburn
is about to close a deal whereby the
company the Carter ranch on
Douglass creek. The company has
secured a large tract Of land in that
section and will stock it with sheep.
The Pollock Progress says: A party
of 500 surveyors came in on last
Wednesdays train and left Thursday
for the end of the survey line at Ash.
grove, where they spent a few days
sounding the river and examining the
stone crossing at that point, to enable
them to report on the practicability oil
building a bridge there this year.
1t is stated that twenty per cent Of
the: homestead entries made in thu
Minot land district will be or are being
contested. Some 10000 homestead
claims have been filed there in the las
year or so, and of this number some
1000 will be fought. Many Of ths
claims have been taken by travelling
men and business men resident il
other parts of the state and fraud i:
alleged in many cases.
B. P. Tilden returned on the delayed
train last night from a trip to James
town. This was the train that wa:
partially %telescoped by a light engine
near Garfield. Mr.. Tilden says al
most everything breakable in the real
end of the train was smashed by thu
force of the collision, but luckily n,
one was seriously hurt. All Of tn
bottled goods in the dining a wen
broke, and the car was sent back eas
on No. d.
After the meeting of the city coun
Gil had concluded it's business las
evening, DR.. Smyth took the floor AM
3sstated that one of the aldermen
absented himself from the last meet
ling Of the council without leave, AM
that the members of the council ha,
decided that he ought to be jagged
Accordingly in behalf of the member
Of the council he presented Alderman
Bartron, who was recently married
with a handsome cut glass vinega
cruet. DR.. Smyth also suggested tina
this action of Alderman Bartrol
should be taken as an example by tn
only remaining bachelor member Q
Il the council.
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