Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-05-12
NEWS NOTES.

The Butte papers claim that branch of
the North Pacific railroad will be completed
from Missoula to Butte within year. The
distance is 100 miles.
The old idea that q drunken man can not
be injured by falling, has just been exploded
at Fargo. Bent Anderson, Norwegian IN
the employ of Chelsey & Lovejoy, lumber
dealers at that place, fell down stairs on the
night of the 9Th inst. and broke his neck. !
The Laramie Boomerang says that very
i aesthetic Boston lady has struck it rich. An
other lady asked her what was meant by cow
bows. as she saw the term used by the papers,
and was told that they were male calves.
She wasn't very far out of the way, either.
ROAD agents are operating in Butte. An
omnibus that conveys passengers from Butte
to the railroad depot was waylaid recently
by these agents when about half way to the
station. One horse was shot in the nigh fore
leg, but the driver got away with the affair
successfully.
From Capt. Fuller we learn, says the Hell
ena Independent, that a man recently ob-
tanned license to sell liquor and tobacco on
what is known as ''son of b-h" creek, IN
Custer county. The camp is said to be
lively one, although many pilgrims object to
locating there for tear they will be known by
the name of the camp.
YANkroN PRESS, 6: ''Word has just been
received that thirteen hundred Indians of
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brought into Fort Bennett. At that post
there are but twenty soldiers and three civil
ians, and serious fears are entertained for
the safety of people and property in the vi
oinity if the Indians get rebellious."
WHEN Col. A. D. Thomas, son-in-law of
Judge Barnes, of Fargo, was nominated as
candidate for mayor of Deadwood, we said
that the colonel was a very nice man, so nice
indeed that but few of the wicked voters of
Deadwood would cast their ballots for him.
The municipal election for that city occurred
on the I'd inst and our prediction was fully
verified. The colonel and the ticket he
headed was overwhelmingly defeated. We
never went wrong in calling the turn on
Deadwood politics..
ID. CAMERON, of Sioux Falls, who has
been in one way or another mixed up with
irregular land transactions in this territory,
has been again arrested, charged with being
connected with the bogus certificates of de-
posit, or land scrip fraud, which is at present
b agitating the territories. Mr.. Cameron is
unfortunate in getting mixed up in such
1 r hot ho1 xuh0 hovo
wicked schemes, nearly always try to in
veigle him into them, me, ely to use him to
pull the chestnuts out of the confagration.
He ought to have guardian.
BEFORE the recent city election in Dead
wood the Pioneer of that metropolis said:
CDR. Meyers says that no one can doubt his
democracy, but when he has to make a
choice as between two republicans, he is 60
ing for the best man, and therefore will
march straight up to the polls with a Thom-
as ticket in his hand, and hopes all good dem
ocrats will go and do likewise" After the
election, when the votes showed the utter
route of DR.. Meyers chosen ticket, the
Deadwood Times remarked: ':Yum- yum!
No one doubts the doctors democratic
proclivities; and surely no republican will
ever attempt his conversion; he can do us
more good as frightful example. We con-
gratulate our colored friends in having fer
reted out the doctor, and refused to recog-
nize him as one of their number" The
Times ''insinuations" are rather tough on
DR.. Charles w. Meyer, the ex-chairman of
the territorial democratic central committee.
The doctor who was formerly 'sgood medi-
cine'' in political contests in the Hills, it
seems is becoming a Jonah. The thought
that the colored voters of Deadwood refused
to recognize him as one of their number
must be CALLING to the ex-chairman of the
territorial democratic central committee.
COLORADO will presently be the p9radise of
legislators that Nevada has been, if it be
true, as reported, that Gov. Tabor announces
that he is a candidate for the long-term SEN
atorship, and will spend $1,00o,0o0, if neces-
sary, to be elected. An election in bonan-
"a mining country is a big event to mercen-
ary voters. The Homestake and eSmet
mining companies in the Black Hills three
years ago spent between $40 900 and $5O, 900
each, in order to secure the franchise for
putting in water works at Deadwood. Votes
were bought openly. Men congregated at
certain points in the different wards of the
city and sold their votes in gangs. Head
quarters were established by the leaders of
ward politics. Voters gathered at these
places and were sold to the highest bidder.
Gangs numbering from 100 to $50 were
bought at $8 and $40 head, and then