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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The st. Paul Globe seems to have
maliciously misrepresented Senator
Pierce's position on the bill subjecting
imported liquors to the laws of the sew
eral states. It quotes him as opposing
the measure and as criticising congress
for attempting to conform it's legislation
to please the 'transition fanaticism of
such q state as Iowa." Senator Pierce
took no such stand. On the contrary he
took a directly opposite view-a states
manlike ~position-and made one of the
most telling speeches of the session. 1t
was full of wit and sarcasm in which the
tables were very cleverly turned on SEN
ator Eustis of Louisiana. A Washing
ton special speaks of it as follows:
The feature of the discussion was the
speech of Senator Pierce of North Dakota,
which was n Of the most witty and en-
pertaining that has been delivered in the
senate this session. Senator Pierce held
that the law was not a question of prohi-
bition merely. The point involved was the
power OF a state to levy taxes or make any
regulations whatever regarding traffic in
any kind Of goods in original packages.
Under the decision as it stands the local
option laws Of South Carolina, the excise
laws Of New York or the high license laws
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

of Illinois and Minnesota could not be en-
forced against parties who desired to evade
local laws by selling in original packages.
The supreme court, seeing the danger, had
suggested the remedy and it was quite
plain. Congress has the power to decide
what articles are and what are not sub.
jects of commerce. The court so declares
emphatically, and if it may decide
this it may decide the lesser ques-
ton OF when and how such articles Shall
loose their character as subjects of the
commerce and be merged in the common
property of the state. Regarding the
speech of Senator Eustis. in which the lat
ter said republican senators were falsify-
ing their records and making a comical
picture of themselves in their advocacy of
state rights, Senator Pierce said that the
senator from Louisiana had joined in a re-
bellion to preserve such rights; had braved
death and invited the devastation o. the
south in the defense; that he had never
last he halted. The invulnerable place in
his shield, had been discovered.
Consideration of property, Of personal
safety, of patriotism had been lost upon
him, but when Onr mash suddenly stood
in peril the senator ran frantically down
from his mountain of state sovereignty
and begged senators for heavens sake to
invoke the strong arm of the general gov
eminent to prevent the states from regu-
lating their domestic affairs to suit them
selves. At the close of his remarks he
was warmly congratulated by his col
league, Senator Casey, and other republi.
can senators. Ten minutes after the
speech was delivered he received a tele-
gram that his father, Sylvester Pierce, had
died at Valparaiso, Ind. He left for the
west tonight.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

one and the verdict found for the defend
ant, Griffin, after mature deliberation.
Let that end it. In this connection, it
may also be proper to add, as the opin-
ion of one who has made human nature
a study to some extent, that the tactics
used by the attorneys for the plaintiff
in summing up the case-denouncing
the witnesses for the defense as perjurers
and villains, in no way strengthened
their casu. On the contrary, these I'M
just accusations weakened the plaintiff s
case. This was a civil suit brought by
w. P. Moffet. The expense Of trial
must be borne by the plaintiff, not by
the taxpayers at large. In criminal
cases of course the county would have to
stand the expense. The criminal case
was decided two years ago. This much
in answer to an inquiry from a taxpayer
as to who pays the court expenses while
private individuals fight their battles.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The rains of the past few days seem
to have been general all over the North
west, but particularly heavy on the Mis-
souri, slope, where the deficiency is great
est. 1t has rained almost continuously
at Bismarck since Saturday and more
water has fallen than in a similar period
at any time since the establishment of
the signal Office. The ground is thor
oughly saturated-even Oh the hill tops
to a depth of twenty inches. Expert
ments with a post augur on the berch
land indicates moisture to a depth OF
over two feet. The crops are now as
sured. There can be no disastrous hot
winds where there is 80 much moisture in
the ground. A few hot days will cause
such rapid evaporation that frequent
showers will be inevitable. Now is the
time to figure on another year. This
year will take are of itself and the far
mer can bank on a sure thing. The
acreage of small grain and the acreage
of corn ought to be doubled next year.
This season will be particularly favor.
able for breaking new land. Thousands
OF acres in Burleigh county await owner.
ship and the thrifty settler will never
again have the opportunity he now has
to obtain free. land.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

WHILE sensational journalists are
pleased to publish long accounts of
"wire cutting" at the time of the lottery
discussion and connect the name of A.
j. ,McCabe with it, that gentleman is at
tending to his duties as division superin-
tendent and enjoying the confidence of
his superiors. No person-mark these
words-no person except a moral hypo-
critic who sold out both sides on the lot
terry question, believes MI. McCabe
guilty Of cutting wires. The Jamestown
Alert says of this that "The interview
with General Manager Mullen ought to
settle the question of Mr.. McCabe's in
nocence. People here, who are ac-
quainted with the business relations of
the Northern Pacific and Western Union
and know that every message that goes
over the wire comes through the dis
patcher's Office, laugh at the charge that
the wire was cut two and q half miles
east of Jamestown"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

AT the recent meeting of the North
Dakota needles in jamestown the follow
ing officers we're elected for the ensuing
year: DR.. Coe, Mandan, president; DR..
Shurlock, Fargo, first vice president; DR..
Marchant, Glendale, second vice presi-
dent; DR.. Mcintyre, HiIlsboro, secretary;
DR.. Rounseville, Larimore, treasurer;
Doctors Rankin, jamestown, and Mills
paugh, Park River, censors. The next
meeting will be held at Fargo, May 26,
1891. At the request of Gov. Miller the
association prepared a list of physicians
for appointment on the state board of
medical examiners. The board consists
of nine members, one attorney, one allo-
pathy and two homeopathy physicians.
The names presented are: John NJ.
Cochrane, Grand Forks, attorney of the
board. Physicians: DR.. Logan, Grand
Forks; Mclaughlin, New Rockford; Por-
ter, Bismarck; Archibald, jamestown;
Quack, Wahpeton; Wear, Fargo. The
homeopathic physicians are DR.. Vidal,
Valley City and DIR. Kendrick, Bis
marck.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The WEEKLY TRIBUNE is published
upon the theory that the farmers know
the difference between a newspaper in
all that the word implies and one that
pretends to be a newspaper. It believes
the farmer, like the business man, wants
the news. If he pays for it he is en-
titled to it. The farmers care very little
for the personal quarrels of individuals
and a very little politics will go q long
ways. What the people want is the To-
cal and foreign NEWS. Compare the
WEEKLY TRIBUNE with any other paper
read it's columns-and be convinced
that it is the paper-as the Slaughter
correspondent says-for the farmers. It
will oe made more newsy than eve this
year. Correspondents will be obtained
in every township, and in every way the
TRIBUNE will try and merit the support
it receives. It will be found almost in
dispensible to the settlers on the Mis-
souri, slope.
Subscribers to the TRIBUNE will be
entitled to our clubbing" advantages
whereby any other publication in the
world can be obtained and supplied to
regular readers of the TRIBUNE at from
ten to twenty-five per cent. below the
price they can be obtained for direct.
Later in the season the TRIBUNE will
also offer a large number of special pre-
miums to subscribers.
Remember that the TRIBUNE is the
only paper in the state that published
the full legislative proceedings and the
laws passed by each legislature.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

at the low price that was reached by the
bidders. One friend of our local coal in
terestS said that he thought this was a
scheme to defeat the Ignite coal being
burned there: He had it figured out some
thlng NE thls-When the coal is furnished,
report that it won't do the works. no
good, and the like: and the contractor will
be delighted to throw up his contract.
which will be then cancelled. 1t is to be
hoped That there is no such scheme as this
on hann, IL it does not appear to the Pio-
neer that there will be anything of the
sort develop. While it is we'll known that
the administrations at the asylum have
nnt been at all friendly to our native coal,
and the engineer there has reported ad-
verse y against it a good many times, yet
there are plenty Of engineers to be OBJ
tanned VINO can use tiff Engineer Pettingill
cant. n view OF the success with which
the capitol building and penitentiary are
heated with lingite coal, it is altogether
to late in the day to say that it won'tdo for
heating purposes in a large building. If it
is handled intelligently the state will save
several thousands OF dollars a year with
this coal over eastern coal. Last year there
was burned at the asylum some 1900 tons
OF eastern coal at a cost of about $4,000.
This year the cost will be a great deal less
than this with the most bungling of man
agement, and it is to be hoped that the
present engineer-if he is the same one
that was employed there a few months
ago-is retired, andra man put in his place
who knows something about Ignite. The
writer of this is somewhat of an expert in
using Ggnite-practical and theoretical
and he desires to say that with intelligent
treatment, and treatment that comes from
experience, Ignite can be made to give out
to its user, 40 per cent. more heat than
where it is not ~intelligently used. Espec-
tally is this true where it is used under a.
boiler.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06
The meteorological summary for til

The meteorological summary for the
month of May at Bismarck reveals the
fact that this month this year was the
dryest of any year since the signal office
was established in 1876. Some weather
prophets have told us that these climatic
changes come in seven year ycles-seven
years dry, seven years wet, etc. The
record for May may be cited in ~proof'of
this claim. For instance the average
rainfall for the past seven years in May
at Bismarck has been but III inches,
while for the sever year period previous
to 1888 the average was 2.94inches. The
average for the first seven from the es-
Establishment Of the Bismarck signal office
was $50 inches, and the average for May
for sixteen years has been 2.61 inches.
With this record for May in view-and
should the summary for June show a
similar-condition may we not naturally
admit there is something in the six, seven
or eight year cycle business and that now
we are entering upon an era of abundant
moisture when the lakes, which have
been drying up for the past seven years
and the sloughs and creeks which have
gone dry entirely, may again fill up and
abundance may be the reward of the hus-
bandman. What a glorious climate,
what rich soil North Dakota is blest with
1t has been simply a lack of moisture
here and there that has prevented the
farmers of this country from being the
most prosperous and the cities from be-
ing the most progressive of any in the
world. With all the discouraging eli
matte conditions during the past few
years, has not this region, after all, fur
nished homes and happiness for thou
sands who, but for natures bounteous
provision and Uncle Sans liberal land
laws, would to-day be paying tribute to
landlordism or belong to that vast army
of wage-workers, Ga per cent. of whom
must be content with barely enough
to keep body and soul together
Here, on North Dakota's broad pra
ries, the settler has health and indie
pendence; his children have the advan-
tages of free public schools and grow up
to be strong, vigorous men and women.
North Dakota is all right, even in a dry
season, and when the food-gates of
heaven stand ajar during the growing
months of May, June and July it's a YER
liable paradise.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The address by Comrade Hutchinson
receiver of the Bismarck land Office, was
a contribution to the memorial services
at the Atheneum Memorialday worthy the
orator and the occasion. It was a pro-
duction OF thought rendered in the pure
language of a mature scholar, his theme
being in harmony with the sentiments
uppermost in concentrating the day.
The marked attention not only Of the
veterans and SOM of veterans, but of the
entire audiance rendered continued ap.
plause and told how deeply in sympathy
we're the speaker and his hearers. It is
no exaggeration to state that rarely on
such an occasion do the efforts of an Or
ator receive a more hearty approval of
intelligent listeners. Mrs. Slaughter's
poem was patriotic in sentiment, easy
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

ON the 18th of this month the people
of this county vote for superintendent of
schools. Mr.. Perkins has filled the of.
flee acceptably and nothing can be
gained by picking up a new man. The
emoluments of the office are small, but
it is an Office suited to MI. Perkins
tastes and he makes an efficient and
faithful official. His experience during
the past year will make his services all
the more valuable during the coming
year. Better keep MI. Perkins. Ger
tainly no more faithful or deserving can.
didate has been named.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The %penitentiary is to be congratu.
lated on the appointment of Hon. W. H.
Rowe on the board in the place of John
son of Oriska resigned. MI. Rowe was
one of the leaders in the constitutional
convention, was one of Governor Mil
ler's swarmest supporters last year, but
like many others who did the best work
in his behalf-suffered from the COVER
nor's f~orgetfulness. The governor seems
to be now working On the theory "better
late than never"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

TEE legislature of New York enacted
a law which goes into effect July l, re-
quiring manufacturing, mining or quar-
rying, numbering, merchantile, railroad,
surface, street, electric and elevated rail-
way Except steam surface railroads.
steamboat, telegraph, telephone and mu-
nicipal corporations, and express and
water companies to pay their employees
weekly and within six days after the end
of each week.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06
Down in the Red River valley a terri

Down in the Red River valley a terri.
BILE howl is going up about the boiler in
spection law and the estray law. The
same may be said of the marks and
brands law. The cause of the opposition
is the excessive fees. The fees may be
high but the advisability Of having all
steam boilers inspected cannot we'll be
questioned. No less than fifty persons
were killed by explosions Of threshing
engines in North Dakota last fall. The
farmers must not be too previous in con-
demning the new law. Let us find out
how it works and if imperfect, amend it
next winter.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The new liquor law which recently
went into effect in Boston did away with
public bars. OF the $50 saloons in the
city 79 have their bars protected by
iron screens or wire netting, as the law
demands. Drinks are furnished only
to customers seated at tables, and no
man is allowed to drink standing. The
thirsty public is kicking like a gaiety
girl, but the saloon men are following
closely the instructions of the police
commissioners, with the two-fold pur-
pose of making the law odious and of
avoiding the forfeiture of their license.
AS flood" must be sold with drinks"
bills of fare are put out by some-as at
"Dougherty's," for example: Ham sand
wich, with lager, 10c; hard crackers and
cheese, with ale, SC; hard crackers and
cheese, with old bourbon, 1Oc; hard
crackers and cheese, with Holland gin,
15c; hard crackers and cheese, with a
pint Of %claret, Use; and so on over two
pages, crackers and cheese, with some
thing else. An Atlantic avenue dealer
made up his mind that he would supply
10 liquor without food and taking a
small oyster cracker attached it to q
piece of string and carried the cracker
in his vest pocket. With each round OF
drinks supplied he. placed the oyster
cracker in the center of the table. OF
course, after receiving pay for the round,
he would turn away, and the cracker,
being attached to the string, would fol.
low, only to do duty at another table
Very many of the dealers, however, con.
tent themselves with putting a plate Of
crackers on each table.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06
and graceful in it's measure, smoothly
and distinctly recited and received with
appreciative applause.
MEMORIAL DAY.

The Both day of May occupies a re-
served niche in the calendar and by law
and custom has become a memorial day,
dedicated to keeping green the memory
not only of those who fell in battle or met
an untimely death as a consequence of
the war, but also to perpetuating a COM
partnership made sacred by a co-partner-
ship in privation and suffering incident
to putting down the rebellion. The de-
sire to do honor to the dead who died in
a good cause is a noble sentiment, and
while it effects only the living, it is a
tribute to patriotism-the most exalted
of all national virtues. AS General
Charles Stevens said in addressing the
Grand Army of the Republic as it's fourth
commander in chief, eff old schoolmates
and classmates delight to keep up the
happy ties of former days, surely that af-
lection which unites men who have suf-
fered together can be no ordinary one.
Soldiers cannot be insensible to the
merits of comrades who stood with them
in the ranks of war,and upon whose hdel-
ity and courage their own lives often de-
pended, and it would prove a grateful
duty to do Justice to the memory of those
who have fallen, and to guard the welfare
of the living ALSO" As years advance the
feeling of devotion towards departed COM
rades grows stronger instead of weaker,
and as their ranks are being rapidly
thined by the flight of time, the compan-
ionship of old associates becomes more
firmly cemented. Divested of all parti-
san ambition and impulses memorial
day" is and ever will be deserving the
patriotic recognition it now receives, fit
to be remembered and to be honored as
long as the nation survives. The old
soldier begrimmed with "villainous salt
petre" which will not wash out, may not
always be young Hotspurs' ideal of a
'beaux," but if he helped to save his
country's flag from dishonor his grave
will have more attraction when decora-
ton day comes around than a whole COL
ony of perfumed "knights" who will
never be soldiers as long as "vile guns"
are used. All honor to the veterans liv-
ing Or dead who helped to establish a
second natal day and when compatriots
shall cease to muster for it's observance,
worthy "sons'' Of worthy sires will, pro-
long the eulogy and protect the flag.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The TRIBUNE cut of May 80, contained
portraits of fourteen illustrious heroes of
the late war. Those who served under
"Little Mac" missed his inspiring coun-
tenance. The designer or engraver of
that cut may have forgotten General Nc
Clellan, but those who belonged to his
army and yet live have not and never
will forget him. The little grave that
holds his dust was not neglected yester-
day when the flower strewers passed it.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

The only reliable irrigation committee
did great work Saturday evening and
Sunday afternoon. The country within
a radius of one hundred miles of Bis.
marck received two inches of solid water.
This will give great Joy to the farmer,
and the crop boomer will be the happi.
est man in the land. The drouth's back
is broken, as it deserved to be, and the
chronic croaker will now talk of bad
roads and muddy streets.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-06

HE TRIBUNE regrets to see 80 able
and wise a man as Hon. M. N. johnson,
and a man with such bright possibilities
as his party has in store for him, contin.
ually referring to his nationality and
thus creating in the minds of those who
might otherwise be his friends the fear
that he is e~ndeavoring to create race
prejudices. The Scandinavians are a
great and sturdy people and make good
citizens, but it is as wrong to build up a
race prejudice among them as among the
Germans, Irish or any other nationality.
All should be Americans in this country,
and to assume that the Scandinavians
must band together, by forming a7.parti-
Fan clan, in order to gain that recogni-
ton which theJ deserve, is an insult to
their intelligence, and he who seeksto
build up a race prejudice is a dangerous
man. Mr.. johnson frequently gives ut
terance to the most loyal sentiments, yet
there seems to be in most of his speeches
an underlying sub-stratum-an appeal
more to the power than to the reason of
his countrymen. Nor is Mr.. johnson
alone guilty, for We see in nearly every
county the same tactics pursued by am
bilious politicians who aspire to the
most insignificant offices. It is reported
that Mr.. Johnson, at the recent meeting
of the state Sunday school association
drew inviduous comparisons and among
other things said that "two Norwegian
papers in North Dakota had more brains
than the hundred and fifty English pa
pers in the state" This may be true but
it is in exceedingly bad taste, and very
unklnd for Mr.. johnson to present the
contrast SO strikingly emphatic, be he
candidate for congress, United States
senate, or any other office, appointive or
elective this fall. If it is Hansbrough's
shoes Mr.. johnson is ambitious to fill
and the choice must fall between the two
it is likely that the obscurity of the one
hundred and fifty English papers will
not seem so "obscure" after alias Mr..
Johnson might wish they were. By the
way. it is noticed that Governor Miller's
chief advisor, Mr.. W%inship, and other
recognized loyal l%ieutenants throughout
the state-so far as Mr.. Hansbrough's
candidacy or fitness for another term is
concerned-are most sagaciously non.
committal. If there is not "a hen on" Of
some kind why has it not been recorded
that MI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS one OF
the most trying positions ever taken by
! q new member of congress-has beer
faithful to his trust and successful to 6
greater degree than the people had reas r
to expect; that he has now acquired that
acquaintance in the departments so nee.
essary to successful work and 80 diff.
cult to obtain and that being a clean
honest and creditable representative, il
would be a doubtful expedient to cas-
him aside for one whose worth is I'm
tried, whose party loyalty is no more sin
cere and who must, all other things be
ing equal, devote the same length O
time to gain that which is of *
much value to a constituenoy-experi
ence, . s