Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-10-20
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Rev. GEO. G. Min has scored success in
his debut as Hamlet, in Chicago. A New
York dramatic critic says his reading is bet
ter than Edwin Booths. :s'el .'ss
JAMESTOWN Capital: The Jamestown demo-
crat maintains in highly creditable man.
ner, the tradition of his party in respect to
voting early, often and upon all occasions.
SIOUX FAILS is somewhat excited over a
large poker game between a distinguished
North Dakota newspaper man and distin-
guishei member of congress, in which the
distinguished newspaper man took the pot.
BozEMAN Avant- Courier: A new paper is
to be started in Missoula by publisher from
Denver. Thus it is that as soon as an old es-
tablished paper gets beyond starvation, some
of its living. H..
A KENruoKY "college'' for young ladies
sends out the following in it's prospectus:
The president is southern by birth, by rear
ing, by education and by sentiment; the
teachers are all southern in sentiment, and,
with the exception of those born in Europe,
were born and reared in the south. Believ-
ing the southern to be the highest type of
civilization this continent has seen, the young
ladies are trained according to the southern
ideas of delicacy, womanhood, religion ana
propriety hence we offer frst-class female
college for the south, and solicit southern pa
tronage. 'i':. ~ 81. --,..,:5.;.
AN Ohio man, who had been in Kansas,
and while there had kept his eyes and ears
open and an interrogatory tongue in motion,
recently told an indianapolis reporter what
he had observed in the prohibition state. He
said: s'Topeka has fifty saloons in full
blast. During the state fair they were
crowded with business; and so far as con-
cerns the amount of liquor consumed and
the number of drunken men seen on the
streets, could not see that Topeka is any
better off than any city where license laws
prevail. There is great deal of liquor used
that is not sold in the saloons" The effect
of this prohibitory legislation, the same
gentleman said, was to create dlssatlsfac-
ton among business men. Many merchants
were leaving the place because of the lmpo,
sition of the Occupation tax" a tax levied
by the municipality. The saloons formerly
paid annually into the city treasury about
$4,000 year. Prohibition had prohibited
the receipt of that revenue. There was not
now a dollar in the Golfers of the treasury.
There was nothing to pay the salaries of po.
lice officers, nothing to Keep the machinery OF
the city government in motion, nothing to
forward needed improvements of all kinds:
The streets were in terrible condition. and
there was no money to clean and repair them.
The introduction of electricity for street IL
Illuminating purposes had been prohibited by
the exhausted condition OF the public ex,
chequer. Dry goods merchants were taxed
$500 a year for the privilege of bankruptlng
themselves in waning community. Grocers
maid $l5O for the same inestimable privilege;
nhvsicians, 800; ike street car company $5OO
and $50 for each car run. Everything that
could be taxed had been taxed to create a
revenue that should fill the void caused by
the loss of saloon revenue. Many OF the
merchants would resist the collection OF the
tax, others would submit to the imposition,
Int would leave the city before tho collector
called and still others who had gone there to
embark in business enterprises would aban-
don the dubious undertaking. The Cover,
nor of the state had said that he had received
many threatening letters and had claimed TO
regard prohibition as success, but the opln-
ion of many was that he was not honest IN
his professions and only wished to ride into
congress- on his favorite hobby. In concio-
sion. the interviewed gentleman said that hls
visit to Kansas had efectually cured him OF
q Ieaningtoward prohibition and helwas con,
vince that the people of Kansas who had
voted and worked for the measure we're sorry
that they could not undo instantaneousiy
what they had labored so long to accomplish