Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-05-19

THERE is town IN the MuSselshell valley
called Ubet.
WHEN Butte gamblers get the worst of the
tussel with the tiger they hold him up and
recover their money.
Sioux CITY is already agitating the celebra-
ton of the coming fourth of July. It's not
too early to begin the agitation.
The night watchmen of Helena are putting
in their time arresting old moon-eyed opium
smokers. Three we're bagged there on the
night of the 9Th inst.
The Miner says that Butte is overrun with
idle men; that work is to be secured, and that
$40 month and board will not coax the
idlers from the vicinity Of saloons and the
gambling dens.
The fraudulent Santa Fe land scrip racket
seems to be purely Dakota invention The
Sioux Falls fnancier, and the printing of the
scrip was done at Canton, D. T.
AN item headed ''Fickle Fortune" was
stolen from this column by the Helena 1nde-
pendent. The TRIBUNE cared nothing about
the theft, but since other Montana papers ere
reprinting the item and crediting it to the
Independent, the TRIBUNE kicks.
GA1LAr1N NEWS: civilian Langston is in
town. He says his skull is rapidly recovering
from the fracture. Three square inches of
his skull came out and two ounces of brain.
His recovery. which he believes to be perma-
nent and complete, is wonder to all familiar
with the accident"
GREATER activity than ever is being dis
played by the mine owners of the Black
Hills. Hydraulic operations are being pushed
all over that country, and more dust will
be washed from the ground this season than
in any year since the occupation of that
country New and rich strikes are being
made in old quartz leads, developing mineral
wealth that is bound to give the Hills region
arenewed interest. That section is just be-
coming fairly prospected and its permanency
is being every day more and more assured.
JUDGE J. A. COULTER, of Colorado, one of
the snartest men in that state, is at WASH
~ington on public business, and he talked quite
freely recently on Indian affairs. These are
his sentiments: 81 think the government
should kill every one of the Apaches, take no
prisoners and give no quarter. They are of
no earthly use, and seem only to clog the
wheels of progress. At the White river
agency they are broken up, and lively fight
ing is looked for this summer" What kind
of an Indian agent would he make?
ST.. PAUL and Minneapolis are calling on
Montana to relieve their distress in the
scarcity of fat beef cattle, and are calculating
on an earlier supply from that quarter than
usual, but the Helena Herald of the 9th
dashes the hopes of these towns. It says: 1T
is thought in Minnesota that the grazing sea-
son here is month ahead of last year and
that shipments of beef cattle will be that
much earlier. We doubt this. The supply
Of cattle is comparatively small. The con-
tinuance of cool weather has kept grass back
and stock. as a rule, are unusually thin.
There is this about Montana grazing: It
comes forward quick enough after the start,
and cattle pick up wonderfully fast after
that"
The Fort Benton River Press has invented
new style for its facetious items, as follows:
Now
That the
Boats are hero
The voice of the
Gentle pilgrim, who
Carries a revolver in each
Hip pocket and bowie knife
Besides, is heard in the land; but
As positions as bank presidents,
Business managers, and treasurers of
Mining companies are little scarce just
Now, it is much to be feared and regretted |
that
A few of them will be disappointed with |
the country.
In yesterdays issue of the TRIBUNE the |
damage caused by the flood to the brick |
blocks in Fargo, was referred to. In addition |
to that the following fuller particulars, from |
the Moorhead News of the 10Th, are pre- J
sented this morning: "About 11:30 o'clock !
last night it was discovered that the founda- |
tions under the Chicago dry goods house and |
Jewett's clothing store (the former two
story and the latter three-story block), two !
of the largest and best buildings in town.
were giving away, and the prospects were that |
both buildings would soon fall. The bell in !
the iremen's lookout was sounded, calling
out the fremen. Chief Engineer Brewer was
on the ground, but he declined to give the
order, and SO the ''boys' busted themselves
incarrying out whatever remained in the
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