Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-09-26

WI. VII ss:sl: u III.
NEWS AVID NOTES.
The Secretary Of War has reduced his estimates
this year below any point since 1851.
Jack Gilner and George Hurst have purchased
n lead carrying $1o coo ore at Newton Forks Black
Hills. 3
The Homestake Mining Company, Black Hills,
cleared up SIS ,79O. .43 from two weeks run few
days ago. re-slsss q. sfats sga
The Republican candidate for governor in Cal
ifornta was elected by plurality of twenty-one
Thousand.
The failure of crops in Great Britain is 1as ex-
1ensivc as It was during the year Of Ireland's
gzeat famine.
The Entsrprise says New Torkers represent
ing capital Of $50 100000 are expected this week
in Deadwood.
The Enterprise reports very rich strike Of
quartz showing big chunks OF free gold on Poor
Man gulch, Black Hills.
The Alert says Jamestown is building 800
school house. jamestown is making wonderful
progress this summer. .is ~
A Louisville man recently poured coal oil oyer
himself and set fire to it. A short but terrible
cut for the internal regions.
A Sisters fair at Deadwood recently netted
two thousand five hundred dollars. The money
will be used for building hospital. s
Maine, at the last election, adopted the bien-
.nial Legislative plan being the twenty-fourth
state in the Union to adopt that system. I'M,
The Okalono statesman is not a success as
lecturer in the -,orth. Republicans will notlist3
'cn to him and Democrats fear to endorse him.
sauk Center people are searching enthusiast
cally for twenty five thousand dollars supposed
TO havebeen buried in that city by female swim
dler. @
The James river, from its source to its mouth,
passes over i've hundred and twenty-five miles
of country and would meatu ure not less than one
thousand miles. a
The Homestake mining company, Black Hills,
the Enterprise saye, has paid dividends to the
extent of 900 during the past nine months.
Pretty good stock to own.
Wheat is shipped by barge from aBreckinridge,
on the st. Paul d Pacific Railroad to Fargo in or
der to take advantage of the market on the North
Pacific which has the advantage of lake outlet.
j. $. Wallace, we'll known at Bismarck, the
Black Hills Nea0s says, is interested with Gil
mer & Hurst in the Newton Fork discovery,
which is likely to prove the biggest thing in
the Hills. 4 10 E E
1t is now believed that Keenc, the bank defaul-
ter, has ''salted" twenty thousand dollars of the
stolen funds and unless he gives up it Is pro-
posed to make the counts against him manner
GUS enough to send him to the penitentiery for
life.
The Pioneer-Press says: "Charlie Collins, the
founder of Brule City, on the Missouri, and it's
principal proprietor, is aseteran newspaper man.
He now lives in mansion of logs, a. many fsun.
ders of cities have before him, but the streets Of
Brule City have been named from First to Four
teenth, courthouse site provided, and q, desir-
able place set apart as q place where the capitol
buildings of Dakota are to be erected. Mr.. Col
lins possesses energy and liberality, and IL Brue
City docs not become the business point it will
not be his fault
1t is now just thirty-one years since the grand
discovery of gold was made in California Dur
ing this period there has been produced in the
States and territories west Of the Missouri river
bullion to the value Of 81 1856, ,527 $3.50. OF this
amount about 81 ,581, 1868 has consisted of
god and $405, ,094345 of silver. Besides this
there has been produced to date in the several
Atlantic states, something like 100000 600, the
moet of it in North Carolina, Virginia and
Georgia. If to this be added the entire yield Of
British Columbia to date, $ss, 10000, San Fran
cisco receipts from the northwest coast Of fMexl
60, 1000 600 andthe product Of the Atlantic
States, $50, 900, have total Of 81 8575 527,
9S9 produced from the above sources, all butt
s,0O0, QUO being from mines within the Limits Of
the United States.
''Heroes!'' shouted Nestor, as the Trogans
made sally on the besicglng Greeks, "Hither
come the ensanguined hirelings, whose machi-
nations have torn us from our peaceful homes to
brave the terrors Of the death-haunted battlefield.
by all the sacred lesendsb by which opr:mothers7
taught us to revere adhe valor ofsour sires, by
every ounce of Ghixalric blood chat courses
through your veins, by al athe admenitions of
those revered eages, whose Godgiven wisdom
And unfnching couage-'' II move that leave
be given to print tie balance Of that speech In
terrupted Achilles. Hump yourselves, boys,
and warm 'em.'' And in abont ten inmates, the
Greeks were toasting Trojan steaks at the even
Ing campfire, and awaiting the issue of the "ex-
trs," containing the unfinished portions ,cf Mr..
Ncstor's oration. E%s ~
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The New Board Of Direc1Hxh.a
From Mr.. Davidson we get the anHti1es
of the Directors of the Northern Faci6c,
elected at the e5meeting Of the stockholders
on Thursday, Three new men appear in
the directory: Walker Ferguson and J.
b. Williams, Of New York, and j. D.
Poor, of Philadelphia. They take the
places vacated by vice president Stark.
Charlemsgne Tower and Mr. Ashurst, Of
Philadelphia. There is no change in-the