Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-18
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able retailers to pay their license, voluntar-
lily reduced the price of beer ten per cent,
amounting in all to more than $500, 1000. If,
therefore, a license be imposed on the brew
5ers they would have to pay double tax.
. The prison population of Great Britain
was twice as numerous in 1882 as it is now.
The decrease is most rapid in the ranks of
juvenile offenders, and the causes are found
in the diminution of intemperance and the
growth Of education. -
There is now on exhibition in Toledo,
Ohio, the largest steer in the world, weigh
ing 1850 pounds, and the smallest cow in
the world weighing $50 pounds, being
thirty-fourj inches high, and giving three
gallons of milk per day. Il 3D..
St. Paul Globe: Several Dakota statesmen
recall the statement Of Dean Swift that ano
age can produce more than six great men"
and wonder who the other five can be-.
They expect to be senators and congress
men when a state is admitted.
st. Paul Globe: Shippers state that the
Duluth market shows of late from one to
two cents better figures for North Dakota
wheat than Minneapolis, and that a larger
portion is graded Mol hard there. More
of the crop will be sent there than ever be-
fore. g :-
Grand Forks Herald Mr.. Mel, of Grant
county, enjoys the distinction of having
made the only sensible motion that could
be made by the Sioux Falls rump conven-
ton, viz, that it do adjourn sine die. He
had at least eleven sensible coadjutors in
that body. .-3r ....
/ Edward Wilson, of Wyoming, and Col
Inns J. Barnett. also of Wyoming, have been
appointed assistant superintendants of the
| Yellowstone National park at $500 year.
These two men are old mountaineers, and
are just the men that the superintendent of
the park wanted. ~
| A man killed himself in Central Park
last Tuesday. He left some writing to
prove that he came to New York to purify
the world and prove that there is no here
after. He did not succeed in the first at
tempt, and, as for the second, he probably
knows now, but will never tell.
Average eggs weigh eight to the pound
Thus dozen eggs weigh one and halt
pounds. A pound of eggs contains more
nourishment than pound of meat and
bone. Hence, eggs at twenty-four cents
per dozen are as economical food as beef
steak at sixteen cents perpound.
A La Crosse, Wisconsin, special says a
woman in Bennett Valley, Buffalo county,
recently gave birth to four children, three
of whom are living. Taken collectively
they weighed twenty-five pounds. The
smallest weighed five pounds. The mother
and three children are doing well.
st. Paul Globe (dem.): Most of the pa
pers of his district would commend the
good taste of Judge Francis should he re-
sign. It must be conceded, however, that
he is a wide awake and hard working
I judge, and deserves credit for rising above
misty precedents and blazing his own path
They are bound to please down in En-
mons county. The following advertise
ment appears in the Winona Lancet: "Bank
of Winona. Concert saloon. Elegant bar
Delicious liquors. Square games, fine ci-
gars, ravashing music, cozy parlors and q
| regiment of pretty and attractive waiter
girls. S. F. Wilson & Co., proprietors."
/ The Northern Pacific has nearly as many
articles of exhibit at the Minnesota state
fair as all it's competitors combined. The
road seems to have bumped itself in col.
lecting its remarkable display. Among the
other things is an Oregon watermelon thai
weighs 104 pounds, and Montana turnir
thatsbrings down the beam at seventy-sever
and one-half pounds.
/ Jamestown Alert: There is an irrepres
sible conflict raging and ranking between
Mandan and Bismarck, which also involves
Judge Francis, on account of the cha nge
of venue asked by and granted TO Marquis de
Mores. Some of the prominent citizens OF
NP0A
their sense of justice 1t seems to the
| Alert that the people of Mandan worked
themselves into white heat over an af
front that was, entirely imaginary. 1t is
not an uncommon thing for person &C
cused Of capital offense to apply for g
change of venue because of a supposed
prejudice in the locality against him by tht
people, and it is frequently applied for or
account of supposed prejudice of the court
Whether this is real or imaginary it is tht
custom of courts to grant the application
where there is no probability that the end
of justice will be in any way defeated
thereby. In view of the session Of cour
Immediately to follow at Bismarck in thi:
case Judge Francis would have seemed
arbitrary almost to the point of censurt
had he refused the application for changt
and so far as his action in this case is con
cerned the unbiased public will see moth
ing in it to justify the wrath that has beer
poured out upon him. In granting the ap
plication for change of venue Judge Fran
i els neither affirmed nor denied the truth o
the assertion of prejudice. TWAS not hi:
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