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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

the men at Bismarck who are fighting the
lottery. Its reason for this is self evident.
These men are in the minority in the legis-
lature, and do not represent the majority Of
the constituents of their districts. For self
ish reasons, pure and simple, the Pioneer
Press is fearful lest the lottery bill be
again introduced and passed, and hence
this sudden interest in the men it seeks to
fatter or influence. After the legislature
adjourns, how long will the Pioneer Press
know Of tile men? They will go home to
answer to their constituents, not to the
Pioneer Press. They will continue to live
among their North Dakota nelghbors and
the Pioneer Press, having used them, will
forget their names and their votes. The
Pioneer Press never elected a man to an
office in North Dakota yet, never will, and,
what is more, can never prevent the cleo
ton Of one. The members of the legislature
should act as North Dakotans, not tools of
the ring, being bolstered up by a newspa-
per Of another state, which does not know
them or care a picayune for them, and
whose influence on North Dakota politics
has never swayed a vote. The members
of the North Dakota legislature ought to
consider these things.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
Silence comes like q poultice
To heal fha xnnnd of nnisa y

"SET up stoves" That is the significant
message that was to be sent over the wires
and convey from the attorney-general to
his friend Editor johnson, of the New Lis
bon Star-whose appointment as postmas-
ter is still hanging ire-the news
that the "damnable lottery scheme"
was introduced. The copy of the attorney
generals letter-which forms a part of the
records of the house and is published in
another column of this paper-explains it.
self. The senate has been having a mo-
nopoly Of the sensations during the past
few days; the house has now taken the
front rank. Sorry spectacle indeed
for the legal adviser Of the state
to refuse to go before the investigating
committee and then in the same breath
make the charges he does in the letter of
February 2. Mark his words-"Senators of
influence r offered $10,O 900 in stock, war
ranted to pay 100 cents on a dollar every
six MONTHS" Another charge is that the
rank and file of the members are being
bought up for from 5000 to $500 cash down,
and promises Of more should the lottery
bill become a law He is so positive about
this-and "Steve holding out for S10.OOO"-
now that his letter has got out so unexpect-
eddy, will he go before the committee and
'fess up to all he knows?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

REPRESENTATIVE MCINTYRE's bill to
encourage the manufacture of binding
Irvine in the state of North Dakota has
been favorably reported from the COM
mittee. Regarding this industry, which
should this bill pass promises to be an i'm
portant mi in North Dakota, the Mime
apolis Journal says: "A factory for the
manufacture of Irvine from flax fibre is to
be established at Heron Lake. The,parties
interested have gone east to examine the
workings of such factories there. This is
the way to solve any doubts about the
business. There ought not to be any
doubts at all. At the big Irvine and cord
age factory of J. c. Todd, in Paterson, N.
j., very excellent binding Irvine is made of
upholster tow from flax raised in Kansas,
which costs $120 a car load to get 1t to New
York or to Paterson"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

In 1867, Secretary of State VIM. H.
Seward closed the bargain with Russia
for the purchase of Alaska, giving 49,
100000 therefor. In twenty years
the income from tie seal
fshery-over $350,000 per annum-
has paid the purchase price. On the 21st
inst. Secretary Window opened the bids
for the exclusive right to take fur seal
on the island of st. Paul for the term of
twenty years from May LIST, 1890. Twelve
bids we're received, two Of which were re.
jected as the 100000 certified check
insisted upon did not accompany the
bids. Among the ten considered, was
the following astonishing bid:
The Alaska Commission Co. offered to
pay $4,000 rental and 1915 for each skin.
Also to provide 100 comfortable dwellings
for the inhabitants of the island and to
make ample provision for their mainte-
nance II support, and to establish a reg
ular mail service from San Francisco to
Alaska without cost to the government.
Also to provide schools, churches and a
hospital for the inhabitants. To provide
wharf facilities at Gun, Alaska, and to dis
tribute supplies gratultously to the various
points in Alaska. Also, in the event that
any other responsible party shall offer in
good faith any greater amount for the said
privileges, to pay the United States the full
amount offered by such party. They say
their offer cOntemplatcs an annual revenue
to the United States Of 1876, 900.
This amount, $S75,0OO, is equal to 70
per cent. Of the original purchase fund,
$7,200,000, and that from one industry.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

THERE is a bill pending in the legisla-
ture defining a newspaper. Judge Will
liams, of st. Paul, recently rendered a de-
cision which adds to the importance Of
the measure. He says that a paper that
publishes no telegraph news,n no CONNER
cial news, no political news except in
times of local political contests, is not a
newspaper. The Minneapolis Tribune
says the decision is important, not as an
aid to the public as to what paper to take
when they want the news, but it is calcu-
lated to affect the validity Of legal publica-
tons in weekly papers, made up largely of
stereotype plate matter-mere hand bills.
The decision Is evidently based on the
very sensible view that such papers must
necessarily be of very limited circulation.
Nobody takes them for the news. A pub
llcation in such places does not make pub.
lie, and the intent of the law is not COM
piled with. Judge Wilkins decision raises
the question of the validity Of all the pub
locations heretofore made in printed sheets
that are not newspapers, and suggests the
adyisability in the future of compliance
with the spirit of the law.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

AMONG the important bills introduced in
the house last week was one by MI. Will
Jams fixing the salaries of state and judi
cial officers. The salary of the governor is
fixed at $4,000, the secretary of state, aud
itor and treasurer, each $1,000; the super
intendent of public instruction, attorney
general and commissioner of agriculture
and labor, each $780,; the lieutenant-gov-
ernor $40 per day during the session of the
legislature or while engaged in any other
state duties; railroad commissioners $500
each; Judges of the supreme court $4,000
each; reporter OF the supreme court $500.
1t is provided that the salaries established
in the bill shall commence as to each Off
Ger from the date of his qualification; pro-
vided, however, that the present incum-
bents shall receive the stipulated salary as
provided in the constitution, except the
judges, who shall each receive the constitu.
ton salary until the first day Of January,
1891,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
In Representative Hansbrouph's frs

In Representative H~ansbrough's FIRST
interview with a Washington reporter he
raised his voicei in behalf of the American
hen. He found that about 25,OOO,0 900
dozen eggs we're annually being shipped
to this country from Canada, Scotland
and Holland, and that the native hen
was gradually losing her grip because of
the want of protection. Mr. Hansbrough
has succeeded in getting the house COM
mittee to agree upon a tariff of five cents
a dozen on eggs, which will exclude i'm
p%ortations and give a great impetus to
home industry.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
years..

If the discussion in the house Monday
will have a tendency to cause members
who write letters to newspapers to confine
themselves to the truth and to assertions
they can prove, then it was a quarter of an
hour we'll spent. Some members seem so
void of all sense of decency, all considera-
ton of courtesy to their fellow members,
that they do not hesitate to charge them in
the public prints, with bribery and the
most fragrant outrages. Such reflections
by n member upon another is punish
able by severe penalties under the consti-
tuition and statutes. Those persons who
cry fraud so loud and who see so much
corruption on every hand are best described
by the niger who said:
DE bigger dat you see de smoke
De less de fire will be-;
An de ~leastest kind O possuu
Climbs de biggest kind o. tree.
De leader at de ole camp ground,
Dat kin loudest sing an shout
Is gwine to rob some hen-roost
BefOr' de week Is out"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
The following bill, No. 315, was intro


duoed by Representative Lutz:
SECTION 1. That section 345, chapter 10,
of the criminal code Of procedure be
amended to read as follows: The judg-
ment debtor or redemptioner may redeem
the property from the purchaser within
n year after sale on paying the purchaser
the amount of his purchase with z per
cent interest per annum thereon, together
with the amount of any assessment of
taxes which the purchaser may have paid
thereon after the purchase, and interest at
the same rate on such amount; and if the
purchaser be also a creditor, having a
prior lien to that of the redemptioner,
other than the judgment under which
such purchase was made, the amount of
such lien, with interest.
SEC.2 The excessive rate of interest now
authorized by law is an inducement to
soulless creditors to fOreclose mortgages
and is thereby working additional hard
ship upon many of our citizens already
existence; therefore an emergency exists
and this act shall be in force from and
after its passage and approval.
MI. Lutz also introduced another i'm
portant relief measure, temporarily ex-
tending the time for the redemption of
real property sold upon foreclosure OF
mortgage, by order, judgment or decree
of court. The redemption, 10Y one year,
is in this bill, for property sold in years
1890, 1891 and 1892, extended to two
years,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
The Heart of the Allechanies.

The Heart of the Alleghanies,
Writing of a recent trip across the noun.
tains Of West Virginia a gifted journalist
says:
"Twilight on the grade is grand. The
mountain submits look like the bushy
tops of trees. The sun has disappeared in
a ball of fire at his "jumping-of place. but
the vivid lightning of the western sky by
the still upturned illumining face below
the horizon is in marked contrast to the
gathering shades behind the rushing train.
From shelf to shelf, from crag to crag.
from brink to brink, we almost fly. Like
a flashing transformation, rendering al
most past belief the fact that the scene is
in the midst of the Alleghanies, comes a
bit OF landscape gardening with all the
beauties of walks and hedges and
brooklet tumbling through the Centre
Buckhorn Wall, the most noted and most
admired view that can be had from any
known point in the Allegheny range. To
enable the road to span the tremendous
gOrges. a massive wall of cut stone was
erected for a distance of several hundred
feet, and more than a hundred feet above
the foundation rock. AS the river makes
an abrupt turn at right angles. a deep can
yon is opened up for miles. Range after
range OF mountains disappear behind each
other. The shadoWy outlines of single
ibis beautiful scene is on the Baltimore
& Ohio r. +. near Grafton, w. Va. The
entire line from the Potomic to the Ohio is
a majectic panorama OF the grandest views
on the continent and all endowed with
historic interest.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

SENATOR STEVENS has introduced a bill
amending section IA of the act providing
for the leasing and sale of school lands
approved January 10, 1890, to read as fol-
lows:
SEC. IA. The board of university and
school lands shall designate for sale from
the most valuable lands SO appraised, in
their discretion, an amount not exceed
ing in the aggregate n hundred thousand
acres, which land so selected and desig-
mated by said board shall be sold or offered
1891, in the manner prescribed in this act;
Provided, however, that if any lands so
sold have been leased by the board of uni
versity and school lands it shall be unlaw-
full for the purchaser of such land to cult
vate or in any name interfere with sue
lands without the consent of the lessee.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

AMONG the most persistent opponents
of the district system features Of the edu-
c~ational bill were Representatives Selby,
Strom and Jahr of Trail county. That
populous county has the district system;
her people are satisfied with it and do
not wish to change. Among other good
amendments proposed by Nj. Strom was
n providing that where there are more
than three schools in a district there
shall be elected n director from each
school, There was strong opposition,
however, and the amendment failed to
pass. Mr.. Strom also attempted to re-
duce the maximumta lax that may be levied
from 30 to- 20 mills, but it was argued
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
NOTICE.

The following described common school lands.
Dakota, will be offered for lease for meadow and
pasturage purposes only for a term of five years.
g. public auction to the highest bidder, at the
mencing Thursday, May 18th, 1880. from 10
O'CLOCK q: m; to O'Clock p. NJ, and continuing
from day to day until all such lands have been Of
Tered. Lessees vii! be permitted to erect such
may deem necessary for the convenient use and
occupation Of the tracts leased by them and to
remove or otherwise dispose of the same prior to
TERsdS: The rent must be paid annually in
advance. 0ne-fourth of the rent for the first year
must be paid; by the successful bidder when the
first years rent when lease is executed, which
must be within three days after the tract is struck
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
THE LEGISLATURE.
Question submitted to the house and the
ouse sustained the point of order-3O to.
CONTINUED FRoE PAGE IL

Question submitted to the house and the
house sustained the point of order-30 TO
%. " -
The conference committee on senate bill
70 reported in favor of %receding from the
house amendments and the report was
adopted. The bill passed-48 to 3.
House bill 297, protecting earnings of
labOrerS. LOst-19 to 49,.
House bill 273, authorizing auditors to
assess corporations which refuse to pay
specific tax. Passed-54 to l.
The house cOncurred in the senate amend
ments to house bill 254, to license express
companies. Passed-55 to 0.
House bill SO, amending laws relating to
license Of warehouses. Passed-41 to IL,
House bill! 276, covering payment of
awards. Passed-50 to l.
House bill $50 was indefinitely post
poned.
Senate bill 1856 was referred to commit
tee on education.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
Mr.. ESTABRONK (by unanimous con-
sent) introduced No. S4S, amending section
2 of the act establishing a board of inspec-
tors tor steam boilers, approved February
Mr.. LUTZ Thy unanimous consent) No.
S49, ~appropriating money to pay James NJ.
Gleason.
The house adjourned until $50 a. m.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
AS there is already a law for taxing ur

AS there is already a law for taxing un-
organized counties, the veto committee
find the governors objections to Senator
Belyea's bill of questionable merit. Under
the present law the taxes 20 to the organ
lied county to which the unorganized
county is attached for judicial purposes,
whereas the Belyea bill covered this tax
into the state treasury for the benefit of all
the counties. If the state at large doesn't
object the counties adjoining the unorgan-
lied counties ought not to complain of the
present law.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
CHAPTER 2O5 Of the laws of 1887 r

CHAPTER 205 Of the laws of 1887 pro-
vides that in every public department
and upon all public works of the state
and of the cities, towns and villages
thereof, honorably discharged union SOL
diers and sailors of the late war shall be
preferred for appointment. Representa-
tive Estabrook's bill, No. 1886, adds a
penalty clause, making any violation
punishable by a fine of not less than $50
nor more than $500, or imprisonment in
the county jail not less than twenty days
nor more than six months or both fine
and Imprisonment in the discretion of
the court.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

The gross earnings law has finally
passed the senate, amended 80 that 9
half instead of one-third of the sum COL
lected shall 60 into the state treasury,
and the other half to the counties
through which the railroads run, whether
main lines or branches, in proportion to
the number of miles in each county. The
counties along the main lines feel that
they should have had t%wo-thirds, but
one-half was the best that could be had.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

If the unmusical house of representa-
tives "sat down" rather unceremoniously
upon the senate's board of piano tuners
the senate found speedy revenge in hatten-
ing out the house neutrality-suspicious.
Observation-Disclosures vinegar cotton
se~ed-lard-bill. And in this non-abatement
of evils, it is believed that the senate has a
little the best of it. The unskilled piano
fend, who pirates on your "high c." annoys
you for half a day perhaps, and when he
goes around the next corner in the search
of a new victim, then, in the language of
DR.. Holmes, goodbye to the 'organ-
grinder"
SILENCE comes like a poultice
To heal the wound of noise"
and the ears are at rest. But the disor-
dered stomach, Uttered with alum baking
powder, soured with vitriol vinegar and
larded with something foreign to the gen.
uine "hog," will not travel unless you 20
with it, and as a ''stayer" it is a more I'M
welcome guest than the quack with a
stunning fork" AS a promoter of mischief
the house Is ahead.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

THE South Dakota legislature has ad.
journed, and SO far as has been learned,
but very little legislation OF general i'm
portance has been enacted. A large mum.
Der of bills have been introduced, but few
of them have become laws. The school
law failed, and the revenue law has been
poorly patched up. For beneficial legisla.
ton the records of the North Dakota legis-
lature will prove that body fully equal to
the average,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

REPRESENTATIVE ICELAND has beat the
record on short bills and solicited him
himself with the druggists of the state at
the same time. His bill, No. 317, reads
as folio VS.:
SECTION 1. All practicing pharma-
cists shall be exempted from serving as
jurors.
Can it be that the going into effect of
the prohibition law induces the drug
gists to be excused from jury duty?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14
THE bill TO encourage the use of native

THE bill TO encourage the use of native
coal by obliging its use in the public in
stltutions of the state, was killed in the
senate. This was a mistake. An amend
ment had been accepted allowing the
Grand Forks institution to use wood if
it desired-as it is claimed it is now doing
and this concession ought to have satisfied
the members from that section. 1t would
have been wise to try the experiment a
year anyhow and if it was not practical
and beneficial, the law could have been re-
pealed by the next legislature.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

SENATOR PIERCE has introduced a bill
authorizing the state of North Dakota to
transfer TO the agricultural college
the school section adjoining the
city of Fargo, on which it is de.
sired to erect the institution. Gov
ernor Miller has signed the bill for the
location and thus after a seven years fight
Fargo has at last won the victory and the
prize she so richly deserves.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

THE National Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance Union are preparing for an active
campaign in the west and have created a
new department of work, 1.-THE Relation
of Temperance to Labor,"-designed to
effect a coalescense between the prohibi.
ion forces and labor organizations
Mrs. Anna Snead Cairns OF st. Louis is
the national Superintendent of the new de-
partment, and Mrs. Linda w. Slaughter of
Bismarck is state superintendent of North
Dakota.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

The universal practice in all legislative
bodies has been that a bill having been in
definitely postponed cannot be brought up
again during the session. The attempt to
pass q new lottery bill instead Of to resur-
rect the old n ought to have been the
plan of procedure.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

HE house very promptly concurred in
the senate resolution creating a commits
sion of seven to devise ways and means
for assisting the needy farmers in some
portions of the state to procure seed
wheat and feed for their stock. The ap-
pointment Of this committee was wholly
unknown by the parties composing the
commission, but it is b~elieved-at least
hoped-they will accept, for zone are more
qualified than the gentlemen named.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS bill max
ing the state offcers-governor, secretary
Of state, auditor and superintendent Of
public instruction-a board Of control and
management for public institutions of the
state, has now passed both houses and only
needs the approval Of the governor TO be-
come a law. This change will save the
state from fifteen to twenty thousand dol
lars a year. Inthe original bilIthe lieutenant
governor was made a member of the board
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

THE sudden death of Superintendent
Mitchell is a great loss to the educational
interests of the state. He was a thorough
organizer and had his important work we'll
in hand. His place will be difficult to fill.
For this position it requires a peculiar dis.
positions thorough training. Mr.. Mitch.
ell possessed the patience, the conception
of system and general qualifications in the
highest Decree,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

SENATOR L1rrLE's bill, No. 200, pro-
vides for the disorganization of civil
townships, by a majority vote Of the resi-
dents therein. The bill provides that all
debts Of the township must be first paid.
In a great many townships, like cities,
the people have found that the govern
ment is expensive especially in sparsely
settled townships and it Is for the relief
of such that some such law is wanted.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

instead of the auditor, but as the Office of
the acknowledgement is not at the capital
it was thought best by the senate to sub
stitute the auditor, and the house con-
CURED. The members of the board as now
constituted can get together any day on a
moments notice and although mileage is
allowed in the bill this item will amount to
a very Insignificant sum during the year.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

SENATOR SwANsToN has introduced the
railroad laws-one Of them fixing the
rates on all articles Of transportation. In
Iowa mixed passenger trains are being run
on most of the roads, and a good clean
Pullman car is a rare luxury. We want no
Iowa blue laws in the Dakotas. It is all
right and proper to compel the railroads to-