Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-10-10

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bushels to the acre for his summers work
and the grade is No. l hard.
Wednesday was a Puget Sound day, but
the drlzzllng rain was welcome. 1t will
thoroughly dampen the grass and prevent
the further spread of prairie fires.
The st%raight-out Jeffersonians have ha(
their innings. Let the independents go tt
bat. The straight-outs say they have
kick registered against the umpire for un'
fair decisions.
Mandan Pioneer: The sheep men art
feeling jubilant over the rise in the price
Mckinley bill: 1t will be difficult for Mr.
Benton to explain how free wool will aiG
the western Dakota sheep grower
Rev. Bollinger will preach his last ser.
mon at the Methodist church next Sunday
morning before his departure for his ole
home in Pennsylvania, where he expects
to remain a year in the hope of recuperat.
ing his impaired health.
The old. time friends and customers of
Sig Hanouer will be interested in knowing
that he has opened up in the clothing bus
mess again at No. 1858 Wabasha street, St
Paul: He says it's the same old "one
price" system, and he wants to see his Bis
marck friends when in the metropolis.
Speaking of prOtectlon-what protection
have the people of this city got against
danger Of breaking their necks on such 6
night as last night? Not a light on the
street-absolute darkness. What has be
come OF the electric light matter? Didn'l
the council accept the proposition? Why
are not the lights turned on again?
There were rumors in the "wednesday
that the prairie fires south of Mantan were
lVan mona RI i @ q OF fnl,S Than rn1>nrf,, -, tl,
TRIBUNE. 1t is reported that the River.
side company lost 400 head of stock. The
cattle run ahead of the fire until they be.
come exhausted and then lie down and
perish. The only means of escape is for
them to strike a stream.
Mr.. Davidson, who returned from Dick.
lnsOn, Thursday evening, where he attend
ed'the constitution of Dickinson lodge No
80, A. F. and A. NJ, and the installa.
ton of the officers. He says every courte-
sy was accorded the visiting delegation.
The installation was followed by a grand
banquet and ball, the music being fur.
nished by the famous Fort Keogh military
band. 1t was the grandest Masonic event,
Mr.. Davidson says, ever had in North Da-
kota.
It's understood that each saloon-keeper
in town received a polite invitation
through the mails Thursday, from Attor-
ney-General Goodwin, intimating that
trouble and expense would be saved by an
immediate closing OF their places of Dusi-
ness in compliance with the state law. So
far as the TRIBUNE can learn, but one man
was missed. The attorney general in do
passed by the last Legislature. There is
nothing personal in it-simply a matter of
laW-as it appears in the statutes.
Olaf Peterson of Conger is a settler in
Burleigh county who has no kick coming
about the prCductlveneSS of the soil Oh the
slope. He was in the city Wednesday buy
ing winter supplies, and when asked re-
garding his crop he informed the TRIBUNE
that from thirty acres he threshed 4SO
bushels of wheat; had an abundant yield
OF potatoes, and his cattle are getting fat
on the range. II make enough money"
says Olaf. On the Michaelson claim,
north Of his place, the yield was twenty
three bushels to the acre. Irrigation would
not better thai crop much.
Up in Mercer county they have settled
the political Question-every voter an
office holder-and only one ticket in the
field. The Pilot publishes a cali for a peo-
pies mass convention and says "the voters
OF this county will not draw party lines in
filling the offices of the county, but will
support honest men, competent to perform
their work" That's the stuff. But the
difference between the non-partisans of
Mercer county and the Independents Of
Burlelgh is that up there they are all in
office and don't desire a change, and down
here they are all out of Office Tor soon will
be- and want a change bad,
Messrs. Suttle and Faunce have Just re-
turned from a successful hunting trip
in and around Lake Garfield, bagging
sixty duck-mallards and canvas backs.
Ihey bring the information that Bill Low
lost over 100 ton tons OF hay by fire, and
that his range is entirely burned over. A
Swede family (name unknown) on that
section was burned entirely out, saving
scarcely enough clothing to protect them
selves from the chilly weather. This fam
lily was careless In taking precaution
against prairie fire, and nov they will be
rustling for the next two or three years to
play even.
The Grand Forks Heard of the 9Th inst
contains the following which refers to a
young lady we'll known in Bismarck as
one of u former teachers: Miss Clara
Barker still fingers between life and death
nounced yesterday that she could not live
through the night. Her brother arrived
Saturday evening and has been unremit-
tingly by her bedside. Kind hands and
hearts have been constantly trying to
alleviate the poor sufferer. The ladies of
the Hotel Dacotah have been with COM
mendable zeal inconstant in their attention
and nothing has been left undone that
could be done.
Farmer Burton Of Logan township:
This country is all right. l can make
money here. l had twelve acres of wheat
Of my own and rented LIS acres, receiving
one-half the crop. l was out nothing ex-
cept my time and feed for a month
and three days. l had 1,748 bushels. There
is some money in that, amt there? When
l came here in 1888 l had just IS cents-my
folks back in the east without anything. 1
now have machinery and stock and grain
and nothing against 'em. This country is
good enough tor me. Sold sixty. nine bush
els of potatoes yesterday for IS cents q
bushel. My brother is in Illinois-in a
great apple country. l wrote him | would
trade potatoes for apples-bushel for
bushel. He wrote back mo apples and no
pOtatOes-bOth a failure here" 1 guess
my brother will not find any more fault
with this country.
FRIDAYS Personals, Sd inst.
Attorney Rice was over from Mandan
yesterday.
J.B. Levi represents the worlds fair city
in the capital.