Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-08-09

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Sounds Like This--While one has
| the telephone to his ear waiting to be
Eanswered or Is holding the phone"
this is something like what he hears
In many voices: Eyes, will be-
down"----@496 please"'He says he
can't come up tonight registered
mail too'--''it was trimmed with
bumbazine, cut bias and"-"do come
and, see me this'-"can ship promptly
on receipt of order"---''you're mean If
you don't give me that candy" ETC.,
etc. .- l. , II:
+ Are You Going to Denver?-The
official route Of the. Department of
North Dakota. G. A.. R. to the National
Encampment at Denver has been fixed.
A special car is to leave Fargo on the
evening Of Saturday, Septembed 2,
over the N. P. At st. Paul the car
will be attached to the. special train
Carrying the Minnesota Department
over the Chicago, Great Western to
Omaha, and from there over the u
p. to Denver. The tickets for the
round trip will Re $22e1 from Fargo.
and berth IN the car will be $3.75
from Fargo to Denver.
New TOWNSHIP opportunities are
now open for the man of moderate
means like new towns, and when those
new townsites are located in the heart
OF a rich agricultural district the op-
portunities are doubly valuable and
attractive. On the new 500 extension
from Bismarck is Minot and northwest
are a couple Of promising townsites
where sales of lots are soon to take
place, and where a good chance is
offered to establish all lines Of bust
ness. At Coleharbor, to which point
the track is now laid, town Is being
built las If by magic and now the
terminal town of Garrison has sprung
into existence, the auction sale of lots
to occur on the 18th inst. These
towmsites are located in the best part
of Mclean county and promise to be
thriving communities and unexcelled
trade centers. The crops in this part
of the state are always good-never
better than this year-and an immense
trade awaits the merchant in every
line. information locally can be OBJ
tanned of John Satterlund, Bismarck,
who has the plats of the new towns.
An Old Pioneer Gone-A telegram
from Dickinson. says: Jamred G..
Thompson died this morning at his
home in Dickinson. The deceased
was a native of New York. He NOV
ed to Michigan early in the sos and
was an engineer on the Michigan Cen
trail many years. At his home in Mar
shall, Mich, the Order of Locomotive
Engineers had it's birth. The ances-
tors Of the deceased were soldiers in
the Revolution and Mr.. Thompson al
ways took an interest in national af-
fairs and had the honor of being del
egate at Jackson, Mich, at the birth
|of the republican party. In 1878
he moved to North Dakota and
for ten years was an N. P. engi-
neer. In 1883 he was appointed fore
man of the railway shops at Dickinson.
Subsequently being appointed postmas-
ter and at the time Of his death he was
serving his third term. Services will
be held from the opera house, Thurs.
day. "A wife and two sons survive
him. One son is Fred Thompson of
this city and the other is F. ]. Thomp-
son of Fargo, the well known secretary
OF the Masonic bodies Of the state.
M. i. HaIioran Dead-M. ]. Halloran,
for twenty-eight years a resident of
this city, died this morning at his
home on Second, street, Of cancer Of
:
the throat. Mr.. Halloran had been
afflicted with this malady for nearly a
year, although It had only been, about
two months since he had been obliged
to give up work, and he had only been
confined to his home for q few days.
Deceased was born at Lock Haven,
Pa, forty-nine years ago, and came to-
Bismarck rwenty-one years later.
TwenHy-six years ago he was married
In this city to Mary Agnes Kelley, who
with their i've boys, Francis, John
James. Leo. Paul. and q young babe
are left to mourn the loss OF kind
husband and indulgent father. Be
Sides these Mr.. Halloran Is survived
4 by fve sisters ana brother. From
1883 to 1885 deceased In company with
John Quinlan conducted the old Custer
House on Fifth street, and for tho
past ten years he had been one Of the
faithful guards at the penitentiary.