Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume], December 22, 1899, Image 8

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CITY AND COUNTY.
Thursday.
Attorney Yiss of Manikin was a
guest in the city this morning.
.Mrs. KiHianls is accompanying
Major Itichards on his visit to the city.
J. J. Roltiirson is among the guests
in the rity from Coal Harbor.
Pk'ive Itlfwett and Bridge Foreman
lngaiis CMIIIC in on rlic 110011 train from
tlic east.
Mrs. K. (I. Patterson lias returned to
St. Paul, where she will accompany
her hiis1and east.
Mrs. !•'. A. Kriggs and daughter
I Jessie have taken rooms at. the Sheri­
dan for Hie winter.
Miss Hessie Holmes of St. Paul is
visiting in ilie city winli her friend
Miss Kdit'll Skeels.
(ieneral K. A. Williams left last night
for Freeport, 111., to visit Ills daughters
who are in school there.
raptain Auld of ltickinson was con­
sulting with (Jeneral Miller this morn­
ing concerning militia matters.
The river is dosed, one of the latest
dates in its history. There is 110
crossing yet, however, as the ice is not
II nil enough.
Attorney Patterson has returned
from a trip to St. Paul. He saw Mayor
Patterson, and reports him looking
much improved.
Uufus Ulliiiu. who lias been seri­
ously ill in the city for some time, will
i.e taken tonight to the hospital at St.
Paul for treatment.
Dispatches report \V. T. Perkins,
past grand master of the state in
Washington to attend the Masonic
memorial services at Mount Vernon,
in commemoration, of the hundredth
anniversary of the death of Washing­
ton.
Governor Kaiicher today issued a
commission to .loliu II. Kraine as
major of the state militia, vice II. C.
Flint resigned. Fraine served during
the Philippine campaign as major of
the second batallion, Nortili Dakota
volunteers.
The county board for Kidder county
passed a resolution to give a $100 bond
to take the county's appeal from the
state supreme court to the United
States supreme court on a writ of er­
ror in Hie decision of rlie county tax
suit against the Northern Pacilie road.
Senator Met'umber has introduced a
bill authorizing the secretary of war
to have the arms and equipments used
by the First Xortn Dakota volunteers
while in the Philippines, turned over
to the North Dakota national guard,
to be used in drills, etc.. until dissolu­
tion, when tiliey are to be returned to
the department.
Captain (Jeorgc Auld of Dickinson
came down on the midnight train last
night and is ill the city. The captain
is now a. veteran of two wars and there
was no more eflicient commanding
ollicer of a company in the Philippines
than he. He is now village clerk and
street commissioner of the recently
organized village of Dickinson.
Stanton Pilot: There are prospects
of better steamboat, service on the
Missouri next season as Mr. Blood
good is now raising money to bund a
boat: to ply between Bismarck and
Benton. \V. D. Washburn will aTso
put a number of boats on the river to
run in connection with his railroad, as
the road will not be built further than
Washburn for some time.
Friday.
lion. K. O. Iirotnov of Grafton came
in ou the noon train.
Judge Winchester goes to Medora
Monday to hold court.
The Breen condemnation case is still
on trial in the district court.
Commissioner Thomas was elected
president oi. the tiax growers associa­
tion at Fargo.
Kditor Tut tie of Maudun will make
a trip New York after the adjourn­
ment of court here.
Denny Ilannatin tells the Fargo
Forum Cass hake is oooming and he
is Inlying all the real estate in sight.
Former Secretary l'helaii of the rail­
road commission delivered an able and
instructive address at the Unitarian
church at. Fargo.
Mrs. Dittnier is suing for divorce at
Fargo from her husband, Wells Ditt­
nier, who is serving three years in the
pen for embezzlement.
Payments of taxes at the county
treasurer's otlice are brisk. Both real
and personal taxes for tliis year are
delinquent on Feb. 1, next.
Commissioner Thomas is arranging
a number of farmers' institutes through
the.' state. The commissioner will
address the tiax meeting at. Fargo.
The Northern Pacific reports gross
earnings for November of $3,021,084
from July 1, $14,801),170 against $2,
!H«,704 and $13,372,053, respectively
for like periods a year ago.
District court will adjourn tomor­
row until Feb. 5. The adjournment
over the holidays would carry it. into
January, when there are terms ot' court
in Kidder and other counties. Not
Awful Itchingof Eczema
Dreadful Scaling of
Psoriasis
CURED BY CUTICURA
CUTICURA SOAP,
CDTICOBA
to cleanse the skin,
Ointment, to heal the skin, and
CUTICURA. RESOLVENT,
to cool the blood,
make the most complete and speedy cure
treatment for torturing, disfiguring hu­
mors, rashes, and irritations, with loss of
hair, which have defied the skill of thebeBt
physicians and all other remedies.
THE SET $1.25
Or, So*r, He.
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all of the condemnation cases will be
finished' before the adjournment.
Attorneys at Fargo have given notice
of a motion for a new trial in the case
of Eugene Andrews, sentenced to the
!en for five years for rnpe. Andrews
is a colored man and the plaintiff was
a white girl at Casselton.
Fargo Forum: It is said that Mr.
Carnegie denounced the war anil Mr.
Frick wa.s for the administration—and
that's why Andrew sold his interest
in the Carnegie works. And now
Frick is going into a. combine with the
Mellon Brothers, millionaire steel men
at Pittsburg—they used to be bankers
at Bismarck. You can't keep a North
Dakota man down.
Saturday.
Alex Fromme was in the city last
evening.
flic Dickinson militia company hope
to erect an armory another season.
Merchants are beginning to appre­
ciate the effects of the holiday trade.
United States Marshal John 15. Hag
gart came in from Fargo on the noon
train.
The Breen condemnation case is
being continued in the district court
today.
A light fall of snow last night gives
the slope a little more wintry appear­
ance.
Kditor Wilder of the Mandan Inde­
pendent gives W. A. Falconer a neat
compliment upon the excellence of his
barred Plymouth Hock poultry.
The department of public instruction
has mailed out the programs for the
meeting of the state educational asso­
ciation at (Jrand Forks Doc. 27-29.
Mrs. W. T. Best has returned from
Fort Keogh where she lias been visit­
ing anil on her return visited several
days in Dickinson with Mrs. J. W.
Currie.
An election of officers of Company
11. Jamestown, was held with the fol­
lowing result: Porter \\. Eddy, cap­
tain II. G. Proctor, first, lieutenant
Dornian Baldwin, second lieutenant.
Jos. I'ackinaw. Charles Burr and
several other Indians from Elbowoods
have been in the city for several days
consulting with Attorney Stevens re­
garding their claim for lands along the
Missouri riwr. This is the claim that
was urged by several of the chieftains
in the city last winter when Senator
MeCumber was elected, and the In­
dians desire Attorney Stevens to pre­
sent their claim before the depart­
ment at Washington.
At the meeting of the flax association
at Fargo H. U. Thomas, secretary of
agriculture for this state, read an inter­
esting statistical article on flax culture,
giving the figures, showing the acre­
age in the different states with espe­
cial emphasis on North Dakota, where
he thought at least no,000 acres were
in cultivation this year, an increase of
about 50 per cent over 'US. lie thought
the conditions in North Dakota and
northern Minnesota were as nearly
ideal as possible for the growth of flax.
There was an interesting collection
of people on tlie westbound train yes­
terday. Two coaches were occupied
by Malays, .Asiatic Indians and China­
men. The crowd were in charge of
Frank Towne and George D. Rogers,
Northern Pacific passenger agents.
The men belonged to the crew of a ship
wiucii was sold in New York and are
ou their way back to their native land.
The Chinamen and Malays were locked
in their coach but the Indians' door
was left unlocked. The N. P. is un­
der $500 bonds to prevent the escape
of each of the six Chinamen, being
sent back to their native land—hence
the locked door.
The following from the Dickinson
Recorder shows a spirit of advance­
ment with regard to the dog question
that, might well be emulated in the
Capital city: The dog tax ordinance
went into effect Dec. 2. and Village
Marshal Craig let out the job of catch­
ing fugutive (logs last Saturday to the
school boys at ten cents a dog. It
was a. novel sight to see the boys
scurrying through the streets and
alleys after mavericks. All day the
boys were to lie seen leading one or
more dogs attached to ropes in the
direction of the village pound. When
the marshal came to take account of
stock Saturday night he had seventy
live dogs without a brand on them.
Monday.
District court lias adjourned until
Feb. 5.
Judge Winchester will hold court at
Medora today.
Hon. Dennis Hannifin returned today
from a trip to Cass Lake.
Will Woods has returned to the city
after a couple of years passed in and
around Devils Lake.
D. W. Cassiday, of the Soo road, is
advertising in eastern papers for a
good hotel at Wilton.
It is reported that Lieut. Sclienk, for­
merly stationed at Fort Yates and well
known in this city, is now a major in
the Boer army.
Lieutenant Governor Devine has
been in Washington and goes from
there to visit his brother in Virginia,
aiter which he will return to the state.
It is reported that the Soo railroad
lias a party of surveyors in the field,
running a line from the Bismarck line,
branching off in the vicinity of For
man, to Jamestown.
Captain Swerts of the Salvation
Army, who was stationed here some
three years ago. will conduct a special
meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday) at
their hall, commencing at 8 p. m.
Dr. F. R. Smyth lias received a static
machine for the generation of static
electricity and expects an X-ray ap­
paratus in a few days, when he will
be able to make X-ray photographs in
his own office.
It is reported in the city that Chief
of Police Murphy of Moorhead was
shot by a tough on the south bridge
between Fargo and ^Moorhead yester­
day and so seriously wounded that toe
is not expected to recover.
Hollander congregations of the vi­
cinity of Eureka, and in Emmons
county, are contributing money
through their church organizations to
the Red Cross fund for the Boer sick
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BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DEC. 22. 1899.
and wounded. A similar movement
Is being taken in Holland churches
throughout the country.
The ladies of the Methodist church
took in $155 at their recent supper, and
cleared a neat sum. Next Sunday
will lie a notable one for the M.
Railroad Commissioners Simons,
Waltou and Erickson came in on the
noon train.
Joseph Kalberer of Emmons county
will pass the winter at his old home
in Switzerland.
A new heavy barred iron door has
arrived to be used at the pen in the
new arrangement of the cell house.
Four arrests were made at Mandan
yesterday afternoon for alleged viola­
tion of the prohibition law. Mrs.
O'Leary is the plaintiff in the cases,
and the arrests grow out of a local
wrangle, it is said.
Miss Birdie Lambert left on yester­
day's noon train for a visit at Renville
where she had taught in the High
school for two years and where she
made many friends. She will also
visit her sister, Miss Lambert, in Min­
neapolis.
Bob Wallace was up at .lliston re­
cently, and Dick Copeland of the
Graphic says it reminded him of the
time Bob camped near there with a
big band of cattle, and 'hot alcohol
slings" went—in lieu of coffee—before
the days of prohibition.
Auditor Moorhouse: We are busy
at the court, house taking in
taxes. All books, records and bus­
iness is in shape for the beginning of
the new year. About $1,000 worth of
taxes were bought in at the recent
sale. Back taxes .in Burleig1!. county
are pretty well cleared up.
A
petition from residents of Shey
enne praying that H. C. Sanders be
granted a new trial was presented to
Judge Glaspell. Sanders was sen­
tenced last week to serve a year in the
penitentiary for grand larceny. The
court decided to grant a new trial
:ind Sanders was released, giving
bonds in .the sum of $1,000.
W. II. Sanderson carried $700 insur­
ance on his clothing and household
oods. He saved some of the furni­
ture, but lost considerable in the way
of wearing apparel, and part of his
furniture. His loss will be consider­
ably more than the insurance.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson are stopping
temporarily at the Sheridan house.
A deer hunter up the river reports
coming across at least a dozen decayed
carcasses of deer in Stevenson point,
animals that had been wounded and
left to die unobserved. The same per­
centage of useless destruction, no
doubt, was followed in all the points
and another such a season of shotguns
and driving and there will not be a
deer lef.t along this part of the Mis­
souri. according to Editor Joe Taylor
of the Washburn Leader.
Wm. Dwyer of Medina states that a
state bank will be organized in Medina
in the Spring. The building will be
erected this winter. It is expected
that the bank will do quite a business.
A creamery will also be built in Me­
dina by Minnesota parties who expect
have everything ready by next
spring. The promoters expect to sell
farmers all the cows they may need,
Many of those residing near Medina
have already sufficient cattle. The
creamery will be quite an inducement
to settlers expecting to engage in
stock raising.
Williston Graphic: Frank McTav
isli, well known to the good people of
Williston, made the Graphic otlice a
friendly call last. Monday. Mr. Me
Tavisli is one of the North Dakota
loys w*lio nave just returned from the
Philippines, sharing the honors shed
upon that illustrious band of patriots
who made one of the best records for
bravery and effective work of any reg­
iment in the Philippine Islands. Frank
will endeavor to strike 'his old job with
ACTS GENTLY ON THE
KIDNEYS, LIVER
AND BOWELS
GUANSES THE SYSTEM
&
E.
church in the city, as all of the church
indebtedness will be cleared, and the
church will enter tilie new year with­
out a dollar of debt. Rev. Anderson
has raised $1,033 in the past year
toward paying the church debt—a good
work. Twenty-three members will be
received into the church Sunday.
Tuesday.
Secretary Stickley came in on the
noon train.
71
PERMANENTLY
Bur THC GtNVlNt-MANT by
(P?RNIA|TG,SYRVP(S
UU Sr MI Mfe KMgSfc
ow* yjs*
Beautiful Scotch plaid smoking jackets
only
Plain brown tricot smoking jacket with
satin trimmings, only
Grey mixed covert cloth smoking jacket, white and
black check lining, trimmed with white (hn
and black cord to match «pO .OO
Beautiful golf cloth smoking jacket, red and black
lining, beautifully trimmed, nothing finer
market I O.OO
in the:
Just received anew and up to date line
of neckwear especially for Christmas
at 25c, 50c, 75c and
Mr. John Grogan, for whom he worked
nearly two years before the outbreak
of the Spanish-American unpleasant­
ness.
Wednesday.
Mrs. Voss of Mandan is in the city
today.
County Commissioner Johnson is
down from Painted Woods.
Attorney R. N. Stevens has gone to
Washington to look after some legal
business.
Nels Hawkinson has left Leslie &
McAfee and after the first of the year
will represent Wright, Barrett &,Still
well of St. Paul.
The Alert says a petition asking
Governor Fancher to be a candidate
for re-election is being circulated in
Stutsman county.
It is said the new N. P. coast train,
when put on early in the spring, will
be about the finest thing ever to come
over this pike-so the railroad boys say
who keep tab.
M. J. Speer, one of the old time and
popular employes of the N. P. at the
roundhouse at Fargo, will be married
at .»Iandan to Miss McDougall, a sister
of Senator McDougal.
The First State Bank of Slieyenne
and the Bank of Sheyenne have been
issued charters by Secretary of State
Falley. They will open for business
at the booming town of Sheyenne, in
Eddy county.
Flags are floating at half mast today
because of the death of General Law
ton, and the North Dakota volunteers,
who admired Lawton perhaps more
than any officer on the island, learned
the news of the death of the gallant
soldier with deep regret.
Chief of Police McHugli lias a card
from Oclire ltiver, Manitoba, announc­
ing the death of Mrs. Mary. Attrill, for­
merly a resiuent of this county, Nov.
15. Mrs. Attrill will be remembered
by many friends. She leaves two
daughters and two sons.
E. M. Valentine, representing ,T. D,
Franklin, star route mail contractors
of Sedalia. Mo., is in the city, looking
after the contract between Bismarck
and Andrews. He is also considering
the matter of bidding for the route to
Wilton, when the postoffice is estab­
lished there.
John Lind, a farmer living near Wil
ton, will leave in January with his
family for Puerto Principe, Cuba. A
New York syndicate is settling tne lo­
cality and lie goes to see how he likes
the country. He has made money on
the slope and wants to see a little of
the country. He will not sell his
land, but has rented it for a time.
The saloons raided at Mandan were
owned by W. It. Hawkins, F. McAu
liffe, Tobin & Drury and H. Grumple.
Liberal supplies of liquid evidence
were found in all the establishments,
and in the first three a large amount
of costly gambling paraphernalia was
seized. Four valuable roulette wheels,
a number of slot machines, poker
tables and other gambling devices are
included in the layouts secured.
A number of Jamestown people have
relatives in the British army now in
South Africa and they are rather anx­
iously awaiting definite news regard­
ing the recent battles. So far only
the casualties among the officers have
been reported. Mrs. Jesse Webster,
delivery clerk in the postoflice, has a
brother who is a member* of the Gor­
don Highlanders, and Fred Klapp has
a cousin in one of the regiments at the
front.
Thefts of snow fence are reported
in the western part of the state. Less
than a week ago it was reported at
division headquarters that a consid­
erable amount of fence had been stolen
from the right of way between Medora
and BeLfield, in the western part of the
state on the main line. A detective
was put at work to trace the lumber
and finally succeeded in locating it on
a ranch lying about ten miles south of
the line. A small granary for the
storage of oats was found which, had
THE BOSTON'S
We have made a special effort this year to have
JUST WHAT YOU will want for an Xmas present
$4-5°
$7.00
$1.00
First National Bank Block, Bismarck, N. D.
When doing your Xmas shopping do not fail to call at
The Boston and see the Most Complete line of useful
and always desirable presents ever shown west of Fargo
R. L. BEST & CO.,
been, built almost entirely of snow
fence lumber, and the ranchman had
built an eight-board fence around a
cattle shed, portions of which were
easily recognizable. The company
prosecuted, although the result of the
case had not been annaunced. Snow
fences are so constructed in sections
that a man with a hay rack
could easily remove a considerable
amount with little trouble.
W. C. Fortney, Northern Pacific tele­
graph lineman, had a dose call from
instant death while working at Tap
pen Monday. When up a pole thirty
feet he slipped and fell, striking on the
railway velocipede at the foot of the
Ladies, buy your husbands a real
skin cap, nothing nicer or more
ful, only
NOTHING NICER
Or more useful, than something in china,
cut glassware, or crockery
Kupitz is Closing Out
This Department.
An excellent opportunity to replenish your
china or table service,
Or to flake Some Friend a
..Nice Present..
Bargains in Dishes, Cut Glass, Lamps,
and Fancy or Plain China.^
CHAS. KUPITZ,
FOURTH AND BROADWAY.
pole and doing himself much Injury. Itoke
i- ii S)'"1 lV«,
A large and full assortment of silk handker­
chiefs for 25C
Better quality silk with beautiful
borders 5®C
A fine line of heavy silk with Persian borders,
usually sold at $1.00, now only 75*-
A real present, Japan silk bandanas, large
size ecru, color small neat borders
Plain white linen handkerchiefs.
guaranteed 2^C
Finest quality white linen handkerchiefs, small
neat hemstitch OC
Silk suspenders,
only
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F8£ YOUR SDE$°SD
VALOES
Clothing or
Gent's Furnishings
SUCH AS NICE SUITS FOR
Men, Boys' and Children's Reefers,
Overcoats, Caps, riitts, Shirts, Ties,
Scarfs, Handkerchiefs, Etc.
SMP IK lilCE VARIETIES FOB CRR1STIMS PRESENTS.
SEM LING & HOOVER.
te
$I.OO
75c
use­S5.00seal
Up-to-Date Haberdashers.
wrist hurt, and his body bruised sren-
3Land
hea^-
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the
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Fargo Forum: The boys are having
all kinds of fun with Tom Sloan about
his new regulation Uniform which the
company has ordered all conductors
to wear in the future.
%They
14 out
One ear was cut In two, his arm and |pre8S charges were rebated..
jv
V.
say it
was made by the company tailor in
St. Paul and the measure must have
betfn taken for a man about Babe
Daubner's size. The suit was sent to
Jamestown for Tom, be refused to
toe office until the fl ex