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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
Kerr's Life Insurance.

QUEBEC, August 13.-Mr. F. Marsh, of
Saltwater, Mimi, and a brother Of r. W.
Kerr, who recently committed suicide on an
Intercolonial railway train, are here for
ton into the nature Of Kerr's death. Life
insurance to the amount OF $4,000 is in
yOlved. tl3s W. ,...p-.. w.. ..
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
Buried Under a Land Slide.

ITHIcA, N. Y, August ia gang Of four
laborers on the Cayuga & Lake Shore
branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad dur
ing heavy rain late this afternoon sought
shelter under an Overhanging bluff, when a
land slide fell upon them and buried Mi
chael McMann, Patrick Mahon and Michael
Fahey, all Of whom were killed. The
fourth man escaped. McMann was unmar-
ried, but the others leave large families.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
Want a Fair Divvy.

ST. PAUL, August 1.-THE state river
commission has formulated an explanatory
letter to the editors of the leading papers in
st. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, ex-
planning the call for convention of the up
per river states and territories independent
of the lower river interests. They protest
against the imputation made in southern
journals, that the call was meant as hostile
or antagonistic to the south, but as an
exercise of the right of independent action.
The letter says the policy has been to
slight the producing centers, like the new
northwest, in sbestowing the bulk of ap-
propriations on other sections and cities.
Nine state und territories of the northwest
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Mon
tana, having over seven thousand miles of
nayigable water way and producing the
bulk of all grain and meat of the country,
river and hi harbaT Si w1cS i giyes s 6e
to points on the Mississippi below Cairo
alone. The amount needed for improving
the water ways reaching the northwest
territory is insignificant compared with the
benefits to be secured by these improve
ments. Six feet of water on the Mississippi
llSCl dUOfC NG LOtllS dllu UU GIle
to Bismarck means millions of dollars to
the producers of the northwest every year.
To illustrate this let us call your
attention to the present situation be-
tween st. Louis and st. Paul.
Regular railroad freight when the river
closes is forty cents, but on the opening of
navigation the steamers make rate of
twenty cents, and the rates on merchandise
now between the two cities is as low as five
and ten cents, which the railroads can not
meet. This is on partially improved river.
But for this regulator the rate
would still be forty, and we would do no
business with st. Louis. we hope to see
the time when we will have a rate of six
cents per bushel on wheat from
st. Paul to the tide water and
float our crop via St Louis. This
we can secure when our river improve
ments are completed at an expense Of two
or three millions at the utmost. Such con-
sideratiOns as these have led the friends of
the river improvement of the northwest to
consider the propriety of an organized ef-
fort to convince congress that 81
spent in river improvements in the states
named will accomplish more toward the re-
lief to both producers and consumers than
$40 possibly can, spent on that charmed
outer circle which has from the beginning
absorbed the bulk of all appropriations.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
Damage Done by a swaterspout.

SCHENECTADY, August 13.--The damage
by the waterspout in Glenville is greater
than at first supposed. The farmers have
lost their crops and fences, worth $4,000,
ard for three miles the culverts of tine
turnpike are washed away. Huge b0ulders
aud cattle were carried along by the tor
rents Ers~a, y -'5- a'
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

During the past fiscal year there were
5,28S deaths in San Francisco, against 5000
of the preceding year. '&
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The earth has nearly 50,0O0,0OO Of square
miles of land surface, and 16,OO0, 900 of these
miles are well adapted for settled popula-
ton. Half of the remainder could be occu-
pied by nomads for pasture lands and by
game. TO people 100000 Of square miles
as densely as Belgium is peopled would
give the earth population Of 64OO,0OO,OOO,
or over four times its present population.
The United States and territories, If as
densely populated as Saxony, would have
population equal to the present popula-
ton of che world. Europe, whose area diff
fers little from that Of our country, now has
wealth and population our country is only
in its infancy. anr. s&s+
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
Wants Damages.

. MINNEAPoLIs August 11.--Hope Elem
has entered suit against the Milwaukee
road for $4,000 damages for false imprison-
ment.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

There are 250 disabled ex-confederate SOL
diers living in the poor houses of North
Carolina. .....,....
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Francis A. Underwood, Bret Harte's sue
cessor as consul at Glasgow, was the first
editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

While digging well a Turner county
man, at the depth of forty feet, struck
tree, partially petrified.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The Indians have given General Sheri-
dan the name Of "the chunky man who
means business" 1."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The doctor who waited on the lady at
Watertown who produced the quartet Of
blooming infants has reported the matter
to Governor Pierce, and asks official recog.
milton Of the prolific event; but the execu-
tive, like the United States attorneys be-
fore the recent grand jury at Fargo ex-
cuses himself on the ground that there is
no statute covering the case. 1t is believed,
however, that he regards it as dangerous
precedent, and not to be encouraged, as it
would be burdensome to families Of small
means, and, if attributable to the climate,
calculated to ietard migration to the terri
tory. f.. .. -.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Fruit trees are so heavily laden in some
places on the Pacific coast that hundreds
of laborers are kept employed thinning out
the fruit. ,...,,. o.. ,.. 1-.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The ST.. Paul coal dealers have broken
their pool and are engaged in coal war Of
large dimensions. .
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
NEWS NOTES IND COMMENTS.
Over $4,000 people have already died from
cholera in Spain this year.
Bartley Campbell's mother died at Pitts
burgh last Thursday, aged 8S.
Sir Charles Dixie, it is said, is preparing
to settle on Dakota cattle rancho.
The room in which Patti was divorced
was that wherein she was married in 1868.
Postmaster General Villas is said to be
jealous of his first assistant, Mr.. Stevenson.

Sarah Bernhardt is said to have earned
1S,OOO,OOO francs since she first trod the
stage.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

1t is said that IS per cent Of all persons
dying in Paris are buried at the public ex-
pense. . >s. ....y,s..... D.. . -, a.,.s
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Emperor William, of Germany, always
has chapter from the Bible read to him
Immediately after dinner.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
An Innocent Spectator, as Usual,
Killed by the Bullet In
r'. tended for Another. -s.-:.,
Wilkes Defeats Phallas in the Trot-
ting Match at Belmont Park,
. . Philadelphia. -.s
Washington News-The James River
Valley Railroad-The Fargo
Encampment. -n
The Philadelphia Races.

PHILADELPHIA, August 1S.-In the trot-
ting race to-day between Phallas and Har-
ry Wilkes, the first heat was won by
Wilkes in 2:l6. The second heat was won
by Wilkes in 2:2O. Phallas won the third
heat in 2:21I and Wilkes won the fourth
heat and race in 2:188l. = ,} .i1!- y
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The odd fancy of Michigan man is to
build his summer residence in the shape of
a huge lantern. The site for the structure
is on bluff overlooking Lake Huron.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The Mormons have sent agents to buy
land for settlement in Alabama where
they expect to place 300 new converts who
are coming over from Europe.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Affidavits accompanying homestead and
timber culture entries should state whether
the entryman is q naturalized or native
born citizen. &.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The good people of Boston are up in arms
against reckless herdic drivers. There
have been countless accidents from this
cause recently.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The greatest height Of an ocean wave
is said to be thirty-five feet above the
level. 'laf s,Hy "
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

One of the Oldest newspapers in the coun-
try is the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
1t has passed its one hundredth year, and is
in no sense debilitated by it's extreme age.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The Dakota Clipper says it will be hon
est with its delinquent subscribers and tell
them the truth-that the editor is hard up
and wants them to pay up. 49,.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

An Oregon man has followed out the
stump of large tree in the fashion of a
room, cut door and windows in it, and
has there taken up his abode.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Boston Globe: 1t is claimed that Da-
kota's population has gained from 10000 to
100000 in the last five years. 1t is still like
horse car, however; there is room for one
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

General Hazen is off on vacation. We
are having some pretty good weather now.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

A fire at Sanborn, Dak., Sunday, de-
stroyed the stores of Covey & Brown. D. F.
Siegfried and VIM. Holiday; loss, $4,000;
Insurance. $4,000. .-. .. .
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

An infants outfit has been selected in
San Francisco, says western paper, at a
cost of $1,500, for the use of young Co
lonna who is soon expected to gladden.
Grandpa Mackey. EssF
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The area Of New Mexico is estimated at
78,OOOOOO acres, that 100000 acres are fit
only for pasturage, and that 2O,OOOOOO acres
of this, by restitution Of water, is available
only for sheep. This leaves 5O,OOO,OOO acres
for cattle, but the availability of this is
greatly diminished by the sparseness of
springs and streams.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The Philadelphia Call is agitating in fa-
vor Of freight street cars for the city of
brotherly love. Passenger street cars are
good enough for Bismarck. ..q
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Governor Hauser, of Montana, offers
a reward Of $1,000 for the apprehension
and capture Of Winslow D. Morgan, mur-
derer of Frederick B. Haining, in Beaver
head county, on the 9Th of July last.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
The number of scholars enrolled in the
United States is placed at 100000.
1t is said that such a thing as good
looking Arab woman does not exist.
The house in which General Grant first
saw the light had only two windows.
There are in England 1877 ragged schools,
which are attended by $4,000 children.

Color blindness is said to be many times
as common in the male as in the female
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

The wars which have been waged by
Great Britain since Queen Victoria as
cended the throne number twenty-five, of
which twenty are due to the liberals and
five to the conservatives. The most import
ant of these wars were the Crimean, in 1854;
the Indian mutiny, 1857, and the Egyptian
war. in 1882. 81 n H. .,.rHs 1 ..ts, Fgy.E g..
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Blne Earth county, Mimi, is about to
erect $4,000 court house.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

Margaret Weston, an Indian woman
living at Flandreau, is ITO years old. The
ozone of Dakota will probably prolong her
life many years yet. She was born in Min
neSOta,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

s A 10 year old lad, living near Yankton,
was bitten on the hand by rattlesnake.
The father of the boy bound the wounded
hand in manner to stop circulation, and
sucked the virus from the wound, saving
the life of his child.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14
NEWS NOTES And COMMENTS.

I The average duration of life in Russia
is only twenty-six years.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

North Dakota is complaining of pros
pective shortage in harvest hands, and at
the same time all the towns in tnat region
are said to be flooded with tramps claiming
to be hunting for work. Sioux City Jour
nal. s. Z.
There may be some truth in the second
line of the above paragraph, but exception
must be taken to the rest Of the statement.
Marshal McC Clure. of the jamestown Alert,
has been through this part of the country
within a short time, and not tramp re-
mains to recount his exploits. Laborers
are as scarce as tramps, however.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14

There are no hod carriers in Germany.
Bricks are passed by hand. The higher up
the brick layers are the more men are re-
quired to toss the bricks. Two men to a
story is about the average, with enough
more to lead from the front of the building
to the place where the bricks are needed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-09
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1875 for Is of 1907: I121 for rs
sterling. 81 s4ei S61l 10S2z for Is; silver
bars, LOS.
Silver in London, 475zd consols. 80 5-l6d; S
per cent United States bonds, extended, los;
Is. le7; rs, 115sl.
The mining share market did not open favor
ably for the long interests in San Francisco
yesterday morning. Most OF the ComstOcks and
outside shares, which had so rapidly climbed
fhe ladder at the same time Monday, had
sharp little decline, and outside holders became
nervous. On the regular call, nearly all the
stocks sold at lower rates. Hale & Norcross de
clined to $40 and Savage 70 81 50. The Bodies
we're very weak, Bodic Consolidated falling to
81 IS and Mono to 50 70. Holmes advanced to
IS 50. Business was fairly large.
IN Oakland, yesterday C. T. White shot and
seriously wounded woman. and then killed
himself
Rufus Rowland dropped dead in San Fran
cisco, yesterday.
William H. Vanderbilt died suddenly in New
York, yesterday, of paralysis of the brain.
l..c in Milwaukee, yesterday, destroyed two
mills, causing a loss of 500 900.
The Transcontinental Pool win meet at Mon
terey on the 18th inst.
It was rumored in London. yesterday. that
Lord Salisbury. the Premier had resigned.
~ the execution of murderer in Norwich,
Eng, Monday. the drop was so great that the
criminals head was severed from his body.
Jack Burke and Mike Cleary are to fight six
rounds, Queensberry rules, with hard gloves, a:
Chicago, December 25d.
The Mayor OF Salt Lake city asserts that the
reports that the property and lives of non Nor
mons are insecure in tina. city are without foun-
dation in truth.
A congress of workingncn assembled in Wash
ington yesterday.
The French Government has ordered 22O0.-
100 pounds of dressed beef from a Chicago can
ming firm, for the use of the French army.
Or. W. b. Stamper died suddenly of heart dis
case. yesterday, near Clements, San joaquin
county.
The Presidents message to the Forty ninth
Congress viii be found IN to-days RECORD
UNION, having been transmitted from Washing
ton by telegraph,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-09
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION

THE wisdom and experience of the past has
devised no better way to build up commerce.
stimulate industry and develop the resources of
a young and growing country than our modern
system of protective tariff-tLos Angeles Ex-
press.
THE common impression that the boys and
girls taken from the colleges when times grow
hard practically lose all scholastic training
during the continuance of the dull seasons, is a
mistake Some, no doubt, are compelled to
abandon all further hope of school education,
but with the majority this is not the case.-rSt.
Louis Globe-Demoerat
IT is told. on excellent authority, that Mrs.
Fanny Davenpor. has, during the past four
years, On three occasions been sealed for time
and eternity in the everlasting covenants, to
three distinct Saints OF course it is no affair OF
ours, but the question Of how those everlasting
covenants are to be satisfactoril! adjusted in
the world 20 come worries the ordinary under
standing tremendously. Is there polyandry in
Paradises 1t is clear, il there is not, there are
covenants which can never be kept in the
shadowy land.-isalt Lake Tribune.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-09

ITS dependencies is an empire of itself. CAPABLE
.0I supporting comfortably millions of those
western people who know but little of this
lanc OF milk and honey" Their rivers are as
nature Ii # them, improved by the expenditure
OF TINS nations millions; ours have been dam
, ageo by the sutferance of the Government in
permitting the production of the precious
metals, which product doubtless sustained. if
not preserved, this nation in its time of greatest
peril A moiety has not yet been returned ms
III appropriations to repair those damages We
must nave our rivers repaired to save a vast
rlch realm from being iilundatt d snd DESTROYED
lhelr MYERS are Gu. nearly at right angles by n
thousand and one artificial lines of commerce
running east and west. Their rivers and their
proposed canals will be closed to commerce one
| nail OF The year. Our rivers are open free TO
everybody, 800 days of the calendar wear and
are paralleied on both sides by system of rail
roads, extending from the base OF the ruount-
aims to the seaboard which are controlled nv
one management
AS long as opportunity-improving man con-
erols railroads.. let the river once become thor
oughly disabled, and the pc pie will come to
more or less grief. Let me illustrate that posi-
PIE future by domestic parable certain
man al the East. whose first wife, u good aver
age woman, had died (po sibly from neglect a
second one, more pleasing, but, not liking his
mulish whims, had left h m without 'siust cansa
or proyocation." He had just closed the last
qunarter OF a short honey moon with a third one,
, Wnen a Trend lneE him with the greeting ;
wen, friend Matrimony, what is the verdict %
Grasplng the situation from his standpoint and
Whue tear soraped down his cheek like q
piece of rock salt, he promptly replied :" Bet
ter to worse Just be careful with what Won
have got. and be happy" 1t was evident that
no. . was Mrs; Daniel. who. without any help
from the Almighty could quiet eyerythinr in
the den" Therefore, let us cherish our first
love- the rivers and be careful of what we
have got" Look as this question as YOU NAV.
II a rlver and harbor improvement bill can find
Just basis anywhere in this country, it Ger
teinly is here, here is located the orchard, the
vineyard, and the field of this great common
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-09
THE CLOWN DOWNS.

Parscn Downs, of Boston, got mixed up
IN the Taher divorce case, and, as the
Court found, carAally and unlawfully.
Then the trustees of the parsons church
bounced the susceptible preacher, and put
paddock on the doors of the sacred edi
fee. The parson then rented hall and
drew large audience to hear his side of
the story. All Boston has been stirred up
about the matter, and the moral sensibili-
ties of that people have been shocked
fearfully. Now comes the dispatch with
an account of meeting of BARRIERS, called
by the parson. There we're present, he
sides the BARRIERS, 5000 people, and the de
throwned clergyman saw the opportunity
to make a sensation, and embraced it. He
told how he had once shaved himself. and
exhibited the strop with which he sharp
ened the razor. Then he said, with fash
of humor that will light up the pathway
Of the ages, know of no better use to
make of this than to give it to the report
srs who have said so many bad things
about me. They can take it and put itin
the papers" Thereupon he threw it at