Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1884-09-05

are preparing to erect iron structures in
the place of wooden ones.
/ By the recent corner in pork, Armour
& Co. netted over $4,000. 600.
New ORLEANS has an artesian we'll
$50 feet deep from which issues steady
flow of clear, cold water.
HUaH j. CAMPBELL is writing long
articles for the Yankton Press and Dako-
taian to convince Attorney General
Brewster that he is innocent.
The name of the Devils Lake Pioneer
Press has been changed to the News and
is now published by Nadean & Carruth-
ers, who show evidences of newspaper
get-up-and- -get-iveness.
AN eastern paper says it is rumored
that the national republican committee
is out of campaign funds. If this horri-
BILE state of affairs really exists, Colonel
Plummer and Colonel Donan may be ex-
pected home at any time.
"WANTED-A Little Girl" is the title
and refrain of the latest poem of the
poet-bride Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The
Buffalo Express warns Ella not 10 be i'm
patient some delay in such cases is al
ways considered orthodox.
| STANLEY WATERLOO, late of the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, is the protector
of the new paper, The Day, shortly to be
issued in st. Paul. It may be q Water
loo for: the Dispatch and then, again,
is may be Waterloo for The Day.
COLONEL DoNAN made his first speech
Tor Blaine and Logan at Centralia, H.,
lone evening the past week. It is the
home Of Col. Nat. Reed, with whom
Colonel Donan is visiting. His effort is
mentioned very favorably in dispatches
to Chicago papers. !
THERE are prospects of John G.
Drake, of the Aberdeen Pioneer, being a
member of the next legislature. While
Drake has said many things about Bis
marck that ought not to have been said,
still there is great deal OF good in him
and it will come out in the deliberations
of the legislative assembly.
The Current finds that the livestock
interest in the west is working commen-
dably for humanity. Already many cow
boys have become orderly homesteaders.
The stuff of which many of these cow
boys are made is good material for ma
tion. They are brave and generous. As
a member Of the stranded and famished
troupe of "Wild-West'' actors said in
Chicago, the other day: can outfit of
hungry people would not have gone so
long without being offered something to
eat, out in our country" ~
FARGO ARGUS: The Portland Inter-
Ocean publishes calls for two conven-
ions in Trail county; one at Mayville,
September II. This call is signed L.
Thompson, chairman, and I. w. Chant
land, secretary. The other call is for
Kelso,. September 9, signed by George b.
johnson, chairman, and A. T.. Hanson,
secretary. Both proclaim themselves re-
publican and each outfavors the other in
allegiance to the time honored principles
of the party. Trail county delegates
will have the fun Of sucking their fingers
at Pierre, when the uncontested counties
make up the slate.
GEORGE FRANo1s TRAIN accuses Gen.
Benjamin F. Butler Of stealing his ideas
and language. He says: "Butler's re-
cent letter was made up from my old
speeches. In every respect they are
similar in thought, diction and manner
Of argument. Any one can see that my |
short, peculiar epigrams are scattered all
through the letter. It is the most con-
summate piece Of robbery I have seen
for q long time. To tell you the truth,
General Butler has been stealing my
ideas and living upon them for fifteen
years"
IT is said there is man around New
York with q new scheme. He proposes
. subterfuge by which men on limited
salaries can keep up appearances to
some extent. He makes pool in q
j a11mmar hat for instance Fnnr men |