Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-10-13

the theory that honesty is creditable in poll
tics. .it... .-.
SOME newspapers are publishing nonsense
about the critical physical condition of Pres
ident Arthur.
BUTTE is credited with possessing m ore
musical and literary taste than any 9th 81
town in Montana.
@. s. BARTLETT, late editor of the Fargo
Bee, has accepted position on the staff of
the jamestown Alert.
A SHORTAGE of nearly $500 has been found
in the accounts of Police Justice Cults, of
Grand Forks. His friends are trying to let
him down easy by pleading that he is in very
poor health, and that he will make restitu-
ton.
IT was an t'off year" in Ohio, anyway, the
fight being only for few inconsequential
state offices. The republican gun is loaded
ideas" usually wins VIII erever it il worth
while to make fight.
WITH feeling of great modification and
chagrin Snowman Barnum beholds the pub
lie gazing nightly, free of charge, at the
comet. The fact of so much sightseeing 60
ing on without profit to him seems to him
like an invasion of his rights; and he is sad.
PIONEER PRESS: The latest ambition
attributed to Vanderbilt is to acquire the
North Pacific and hitch it to the tail of bis
trunk lines by means of the Northwestern.
and so secure the first complete trancOnti-
mental line. It lsa worthy ambition, but
So q lfxyi fhn
Willard.
THR TRIBUNE is sorry to say that wheat in
the shock is badly grown in the vicinity OF
Casselton, where there has been an excessive
fall of rain during the past two weeks. A
Casselton telegram to the st. Paul papers
says quarter of the wheat crop and three
quarters of the oat crop there is still in the
shock or stack. ... .
The Minneapolis Evening Journal has a
dispatch from Portland, Ore, stating that 2,
500 white construction employees of the North
Pacific in Montana struck Saturday on ac-
count of raise in board of q half dollar a
week. There is no violence. The supervis-
ing engineer telegraphed that low board rates
will return to work. The Chinese, number
ing 5000 were not in the strike.
A MEMBER of Beecher's congregation who
dissented from the Plymouth pastors recent
anti -Folger sermon, sent him note saying:
s'Dear Mr.. Beecher: You made an ass of
yourself yesterday" 70 which Mr.: Beecher
very promptly replied: 'tDear Sir: The Lord
saved you the trouble of making an ass of
yourself by making you an ass at the begin
ming, and his work stands sure" This ter
minated the correspondence.
In the house of representatives few years
400. James G.. Blaine and the late Senator
Hill, of Georgia, both brilliant in debate and
rspartee, were frequently pitted against each
other in fierce, partisan discussion. A few
years later, when both had reached the SEN
ate, there spranR up between them personal
friendship that endured to the day of Sena-
tor Hills death. Mr.. Blaine has just sent
$50 to the fund for monument to the
memory of his dead friend.
In view of the evident inability of Mis-
sourians to express the admiration which
they feel for the eminent outlaw, Frank
James, the TRIBUNE would suggest that the
Missouri democracy might bring him for
ward for the presidency when he gets out of
bonry of the great commonwealth of Mis-
souri, would be q compliment which a gentle
man entertaining Mr.. James peculiar ideas
Of glory could not fail to appreciate.
THERE is now pending before the supreme
court at Yankton, q case brought by one
Francis Peronto, who claims to have lega!
title to q quarter section of land upon which
g Aha hne;noaa nnrti0n Of the citv of Fargo
now stands. His claim is based on pre-
5 emption fling alleged to have been made
prior to the grant which gave the North Pa
j cifics company possession Of the property.
\ The railroad company is fighting the claim,
and whichever side wins, the case will 60 to
the the US. supreme court.
faEneEs have made 8 good deal of money,