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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-04
why He Didn't Stay Out West.

A Young man who went West
filed with enthusiasm and desire 10
grow up with the country, surpriseu
his friends by returning home after ~ -
absence of several weeks. lie salu
that while he was out land hunting ~
what he thought was the garden SPI'
of America he came across boarueuI
up claim shanty. On the boards nalleu
across the door he found this lnScfp
ton. Fore miles from a nayDer. DIN
teen miles from a postotis. Twenty,
five miles from raleroad. A hundred
and atey from timber. Two hundred
and fifty feet from water. Ihere ~
place like home. We've gone East ~ y
spend the winter with my wife's T. Ks
IN. Y. Ledger.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-04
Mountain of Clam Shells.

A mountain of clam shells has been
discovered about three miles east of
Mount Vernon, Va. 1t is over 600 feet
high and has surface of soil nearly
foot thick Underneath this clam shells
abound to the level depth. There are
trees growing on the mountains which
show an age judging by the rings
about the heart, OF from 100 to 200
years.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-04

The statistics of the Partisan prefec.
ture of police show that from 1872 &c
1888 the number of cases of insanity
in the city has augmented by one-third
DIR. Paul CARRIER, the able police ply.
stefan. attributes this startling Increase
to the use of alcohol among the work
ing classes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-04

got hold of the book first. and | after.
wards found scn,e of the leaves scatter.
ed in the back yard. Detroit Free
Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-21


the loss being reckoned at 5000 or
5000, while Bennington and Addison
counties on the west side of the
mountain suffer similar losses, though
possibly not quite so heavy in the
aggregate Only So of the 247
towns in the state show a gain in
population. Essex county leads in
the number of towns which have
made gains, having eight Rutland
and Washington follow with seven
and six respectively. Four counties
show gains only in two towns each,
while six counties show an increase
and eight counties a decrease. Of
the four counties, Washington, Rut-
land, Chittenden and Essex, the
former shows the largest gain (chiehv
attributable to the granite town Of
Barre the Others gain relatively in
the order in which they are named.
Two towns each in Bennington,
Grand Isle, Orange and Windsor
counties show gains, Lamoille and
Windham counties have three towns
each in which there has been an in
crease in population, Brattleboro,
Rockingham and Dummerston being
the three towns in Windham county
also showing gains. These figures
prove pretty conclusively that Yer
mont's population has not increased
as a whole within the last decade,
and the returns now in the hands of
the state supervisor will, it is feared,
show a decrease, notwithstanding
the fact that the large towns show
material prosperity and an increased
population with every indication of
future growth, which, as heretofore,
will possibly be at the expense of the
agricultural districts.-[ Brattleboro
letter to Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-21

was born in Boston in 1914. He
early removed TO Cambridge, where
he became an iron-moulder. In July,
1862, he shipped as landsman IN the
United States navy, and served on
the sloop-ofwar Preble until she
was blown up in Pensacola bay Aug.
81, 1868. He is a member OF Dahl
gren post 2 of South Boston. He
was on the staff of Commander
Hayes. and in 1888 was member
of the council of administration. In
1884 he was elected junior v1ce-com-
mander, and in January, 1886, he
was elected commander of the de-
partment of Massachusetts,. He has
also served in the State Legislature.
Junior commander George B..
Dreamer was born at Albany, n. Y,
in 1871 but removed to Maryland IN
1915. He enlisted in 1868 as a pri-
vate in Co. B. 10th Maryland volun-
teers, and, after serving one year
was mustered out a sergeant. He IS
the past commander of Wilson post
I of Baltimore, Md, and has served
several terms as a member OF the
national council of administra ton.
BY occupation he is a merchant in
that city. The delight of the mem
bers of the Maryland delegation at
the honor bestowed upon their COM
rade seems unbOunded. Ever since
his connection with the Grand Army
he has proved popular and valua-
BILE member.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-21
VERMONT'S POPULATION.

The statements that have gone
out through the columns of some of
the metropolitan journals to the
effect that Vermont has gained in
population during the last decade
are not likely to be verified by the
official figures, which will soon be
published. The gains in the larger
towns, which were relied on to offset
the material losses in the agricultural
districts, will doubtless prove insult
ficient to bring the total up to the
figures of 1880 The so-called farm
ing towns" will probably show a
losseven beyond expectations. Two
counties at least, Orange and Wind
sor, both of which are largely de-
voted to agricultural pursuits, will
show a large falling off in population,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-21
PREJUDICE IN CHINA.

Few railroads have as many tribu-
lations as the little line in China
which mob has just torn up for
some distance, believing that the I'M
canny innovation caused the floods
in the PeihO river. Last year, when
the Temple of Heaven was burned in
Pekin, the natives regarded it as a
Judgment upon them from Heaven
for tOlerating this railroad, and they
forthwith tore up a more northern
section of 1t. Earlier last year,
while the railroad, which, if it is ever
completed, will connect the seaport
of Taku with a suburb of Pekin, was
slowly advancing toward its north
ern destination, the Emperor sud
denly stopped the work on the
ground that the road is obnoxious
to the people. There are a number
of Chinese railroad projects in the
air, but they are likely to stay there
for a while. Foreign promoters of
these enterprises are finding the
Chinese oyster exceedingly difficult
to open.-[N New York Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-21
Special Notices.

Mr.. John Carpenter of Goodland, Ind,
says: Il tried Chamberlain's Colo. Cholera
and Diarrh4a Remedy, for diarrhea and
severe cramps and pains in the stomach and
bowels with the best results. In the worst
cases 1 never had to give more than the third
dose to effect cure. In most cases one dose
will do Besides it's other good qualities it is
for sale by Flint Bros.
During the epidemic of f1uX in this country
last summer, had hard work to keep a sup
ply of Chamberlan's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrahoa Remedy on hand. People often
came ten or twelve miles in the night to get
a bottle of the Remedy. 1 have been selling
patent medicines for the last ten years and
find that it has given better satisfaction in
cases of diarrhoea and f1ux, than any other
medicine l have ever handled-J H. Benham,
Druggist, Golcondar, Pope, Co, Illinois.
Over five hundred bottles of this Remedy
were sold in that county during the epidemic
referred to. 1t a perfect and
the only remedy that did cure the worst
cases. Dozens of persons there will certify
that it saved their lives In four other cpl
denies of bowel complaint this Remedy has
been equally successful. 25 and so cent bot
ties for sale by Flint Bros.
AS a general 1iniment for sprains and
bruises or for rheum atism, lame back, deep
seated muscular pains, Chamberlain
Pain Balm is unrivalled. For sale by Flint
Bros.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-21

The great combined strike and
lockout in South Wales is not yet in
full swing, but already 900, 900 dock
laborers, railway men and golfers
are idle The mems demands are
moderate, the chiefbeing that days
labor shall consist of 10 hours, each
day to stand by itself The employ
ers object to make the day the unit,
and want to base wages upon a
month of 24O hours, so that if man
does not work that number of hours
per month he shall not be paid over
time
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

jamestown Capital: The Lisbon Star
mentions the fact that Jud LaMoure,
chairman of the republican state central
committee, has requested Attorney Gen.
eral Goodwin to act as a member of the
executive committee, and winds up the
item with the following contemptuous
expression: "Merit and true manhood
are sometimes recognized, it seems, even
by Jud and the old gang" AS Jud is
much the bigger man of the two, and
Goodwin was glad to get under his wing
and work with him for Hansbrough
in the Grand Forks convention, we do
not see what disparagement of Jud the
Star man has coming in the matter, es-
pecially when the making of the Star
man postmaster at Lisbon cost Hans
brough the delegation from Ransom
county. In the selection of Mr.. Good
win as a member Of the executive COM
mittee Jud exhibited a much more liber-
al spirit than the Star man manifests
toward Jud. Whatever may be said of
Jud LaMoure, he cannot compress him
self into the i~nfnitesimal smallness of q
mustard seed as does the Star
man in the item from which
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12
the words above quoted are taken.
Hansbrough would have been better off
politically if he had had less such friends
as the Star man.
The New York Press Of a recent date
contains the following editorial which Is
applicable to the whole northwest:

The New York Press of a recent date
contains the following editorial which Is
applicable to the whole northwest:
go west, young man." Figures con-
corning the cost and profit or wheat raising
in the great northwest, which were pre-
scented in the Press yesterday in CORE
spCndence from st. Paul, bring fOrcibly to
mind HOrac. Greeley's ancient, but still
timely advice, Go west, young man."
Some further facts 10 sustain that sdvice
When half the land of Minnesota is still
uncultivated, can be bought for SIS to $40
an acre and will produce from sixteen to
twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre, SELL
ing at a dollar a bushel,it may we'll be
wondered why any young man with a
taste for agricultural pursuits hesitates
about where he should so to locate a home.
Minnesota is representative of the great
belt of western states from Kansas to the
Canada line. There may be a young mar
who reads the Press who may inquire:
"But where am I to get the SIS or $40 an
acre" If he will go west next summer in
the harvest season he will find ready EN-.
ployment at $l.75 to 80 a day and board
good, square meals three times a day-and
if he proves industrious, sober and frugal,
secures the good will and commentator
of his employer, the chances are ninety
nine in a hundred that he can get the land
next year to work on shares, and from that
to ownership is only a step. The young
an independent and sovereign citizen, with
a roof over his head and a threshold where
he is king, instead OF being a wage Garner
and a day by day tOiler to the end of his
life, can do no better than "go west" and
grow up with the country.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

TIE other day Banker Mears was
bounced from the North Dakota Bank.
ers association for alleged unfair bust
ness principles. Here is what the Park
Park River Gazette says:
What kind Of "banking" business is gen
orally transacted by "the Bank of Minot''
and E. Ashley Mears, attorney? The
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean last week pub
lishcd twenty-five foreclosures of farm
mortgages, which recite the debts and tees
in this fashion: Debt S12.90, attorneys
5000; debt $37.14, fee 5000: debt $135, fee
5000; and SO On. Hannah, Judas. Shylock
aud Captain Kidd would abhor themselves
and commit suicide if ever beguiled into
any such parallel transaction. Who is "E.
Ashley Mears" ANYWAY?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

The jamestown Alert says that the
st. Paul Globe is trying to make it ap-
pear that Senator Pierce is through with
the old gang of North Dakota rustlers,
and is only friendly with them for the
purpose of reelection. Undoubtedly
Senator Pierce has some convictions that
are not swayed by the %exigencles of Of
flee getting. But that lie wants to incon-
tinently shake his old time associates
and take up with a lost cause-which
promised, but didn't deliver-is not to be
believed without better authority than
newspaper reports.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

prelude to those which will gather in the
years to come. -.
We shall not be here to witness the full
fruition of the Work, and it would be haz-
ardous to predict what that completed
work shall be; but, sir, in the fuiluess of
when science shall have still further be-
Titled distances, when the principles of
liberty have ueen extended, and the lessons
Ut freedom learned from Behring's 10
Terra del Fuego, then it is not too much to
hope that lines Of union shall he amplified
and extended: and before the historical
scroll shall be finally rolled up it may be
found that even two continents are none
two large to be merged into one govern
ment, under the banner of that great re-
public which leads in the onward march
of civilization.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

EDITOR MoFFEr takes occasion to
again SANDER Farmer Wallace, who has
been serving the TRIBUNE as special cor
respondent during the past few months.
He calls him a "~jaw-farmer'' and init
mates he has been out writing up free
puffs for the farmers and making a play
for the legislature. Nothing could be
more contemplate than these unwar-
ranted filings at Farmer Wallace. The
Farmer has been working all summer
solely in the interest of the TRIBUNE and
the farmers of the county. He has been
writing up the country. giving the true
condition of the farmers and endeavor-
ing to brace up the discouraged, and
illustrating by figures and actual statis-
tics that the country is all right. His
mission was not political, and the TR1B-
uNE challenges any person in
the country, with whom the
Farmer has %conversed, to come
forward and say that Farmer Wal
lace has preached the subject of politics,
either directly or indirectly. He has
not mentioned politics to any farmer IN
this county and the only talk of his can
didacy for the legislature has come from
a suggestion of his name in the city dur
ing the past few days. An injustice has
been done the Farmer-an injustice he
does not merit. Farmer Wallace has
been a useful member of this community.
He has been a loyal Bismarcker and an
enthusiastic North Dakotan. He was
gathering samples and taking them to
eastern fairs and by his voice and pen
picturing the advantages and possibili-
ties of this region long before Moffet
and his traducers were in the country.
He was a member of the territorial
legislature away back in 1881. He is an
honest man and his greatest guilt IS hav-
ing been a true friend to those who have
been his true friends. Mr.. Wallace is a
man of much more than ordinary ability
and would make a most excellent men,
Der of the legislature, but he is not a
candidate. He has lived in this COM
munity a long time and has the respect
of his fellow men, and it i'll becomes the
editor of the "estray" organ to villify
him. The TRIBUNE is charitable enough
to believe that Editor Mofet has been
imposed upon in this matter and be-
lieves when he fnds-after consulting
with the parties whom Mr. Wallace has
mentioned in the TR1BUNE-that he has
done him an injustice, will apologize, not
to the public, but to the man he has at
tempted to iniure.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

The Grand Forks Plaindealer says it
may be necessary to re-enact the prohib.
itory laws, at least it SO appears from the
action of one of the courts in Iowa. If
the position, that the prohibition law was
void alb initio from lack of power in the
legislature to engraft it upon the stat
utes, then it certainly cannot be revived
by the delegation of power from con
gress. It is an interesting question, and
the presidents of law run in one line.
Under our code and the construction of
the same by the territorial supreme
court a statute once declared unconstitu-
tional is dead, and no subsequent en-
largement of power by congress revives
it, unless the legislative authority ex-
pressly re-enacts the same. The Plain
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

AT LAST Walter Muir has succeeded in
making an ass of himself-a destination
his friends had hoped he would not
reach. He has called a meeting of the
Farmers Alliance and such other organ
i~zations as will join in the movement, to
be held at Grand Forks, to inaugurate a
third party movement-in which Mr..
Muir doubtless hopes to attain more
prominence than he has thus far in the
other political parties. The republicans
have an excellent state ticket in the field.
Walter Muir is the first man to kick. It
is not likely he will be endorsed by q
very large following.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

DISTRICT COCHRANE, OF
Grand Forks county, has thrown a bomb
into the camp of the woman sutfragists.
He has filed an opinion recommending
that the petition of the woman suffrag-
lists association to the county commits
sioners praying to be provided with
separate ballot boxes for use at the COM
ing general election be denied. He
holds that article 1913 of the constitution
Is not self-executing and that supple
mentary legislation is required to put in
operation this constitutional provision;
and that women cannot have their bal
lots deposited in the same box with those
of voters of a more extended franchise
because, among other reasons, there is
no method of protecting the vote against
fraud; that if any number of women we're
to vote the full ticket the present method
would result in loss of the legal votes
and might invalidate the entire election.
Therefore, as there is no provision in the
present law for separate ballot boxes
and polls for women, there is no
authority in the county board to supply
the defect in the law, and that until the
Legislature acts women cannot vote for
the state superintendent of public in
struction. This decision will create gen.
eral surprise in the ranks of the woman
suffragists, who have held all along to the
belief that the franchise extended to
both sexes in general elections as we'll as
school elections.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12
Wales Waftings.

The government is finding out that there
are a number of deserving old soldiers in
this vicinity. Mr.. Joseph Jennings is the
first to receive his pension-S27 monthly.
A party OF half breeds with three CAP
tive black bears camped at the Burnt Creek
bridge Sunday night.
Duck shooting on the creek is fine sport
now. The wary coot and nimble "didap-
per" have been here all summer; now they
are reinforced by Hocks of %green-lIead
mallards from the north and our sports
men are happy.
For convenience to the pupils, who all
reside in the northern part of the town
ship, the Burnt Greek school is held this
term in the commodious house on the Wal
lace farm. D"
There is no question that fruit trees will
grow and bear in this climate when the
wild fruits grow so a%bundantly. This
season the woods have been full of june
berries, nlac k currants, gooseberries. a
and choke cherries and plums, and now
the frost grapes and bullberries are ripen-
ing, and our ladies nave been kept busy
canning and making them up into %jellies,
jams and wines. The Juice of the cher.
ries, grapes and bulIberries make finer
wines and jellies for hospital use and for
the sick than the domestic fruits.
There are several trees of the SCRUB
oak" variety on Burnt creek that gives in
dications of being over 100 years old.
They stand on a hill protected from prairie
fires and are conclusive proof that if the
bane of the region, the prairie fires, so de-
strnctive to growing trees, can be subdued,
timber can be grown successfully on the
prairies and hlph points. Indeed, there
are indications that trees once grew and
thriyed upon the prairies between the Mis-
soull and the head waters Of Apple creek.
me wallace farm, now owned by Geo.
10y, IS one OF the most valuable and judi
owner, Hon. j. F. Wallace, having spared
neither m nor money nor hard work to
develop and adorn it. The comfortable
dwelling house, the immense, but symmet-
rical, barn, crowned with a graceful OBJ
servatory, from which grand views of the
%t t5e %eIff 'O snd %ey be orchard nasal
in which apple trees and small fruits are
yet growing; the we'll fenced pasture and
the fertile acres Of cultivated land which
nave just yielded a heavy crop Of wheat
and oats, all bear witness to the skill and
courage OF the brave hearted pioneer, who
It's prairie sod. But the most interesting
object on the farm is the old sod shack ia
which this worthy settler and his no less
worthy and courageous wife began house,
keeping on the claim and in which they
lived for the first two years. There is
s SOM Rgd pathetic in these old sod build
those earlier days when men, and
women, too, accustomed though they
were to the elegancies of life, took
up uncomplainingly and hopefully the
burdens of pioneer existence and cheer
fully submitted to hardships and priva--
Farmer Wallace by his own skill and
labor succeeded in converting this raw
prairie section into a valuable and pro-
ductive farm, and has left behind him a
testimonial to his courage and persever-
ance as lasting as the land itself.
g LINDA w. SLAUGHTER.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

DENNIS HANN1F1N has organized a sui
eide club and he is now down the road
looking for recruits. He wants twelve
members besides himself-thirteen in
all. His idea is to prove the sincerity of
man. He wants those who declare they
will conquer or die" to prove their sin
certify. He is after Glaspell of James,
town. He wants him to join his suicide
club and make his word good-prove his
sincerity-win-or failing to win-die.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

AT the suggestion of Hon. NJ. N. John
son the republican state committee is
making. efforts to secure good speakers
for the coming campaign in North Da-
kota, among whom are such gentlemen
as Hon. Knute Nelson of Alexandra and
Senator Davis of st. Paul. MI. Taylor
of Chicago is another old-time campaign
speaker whose e%loquence the republicans
of North Dakota would like to hear.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

A CALL has been issued to the men,
bers of the state republican executive
committee to meet in Grand Forks on
Monday, September Is. The following
are the members of the committees: B.
F. Spalding, George F. Goodwin, A. M.
Tofthagen, E. j.. Landers, E. H. Thursby
Jesse A. Frye.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

IT is possible hat the selection of the
Worlds Fair site is the best that could
be made in Chicago, but a great deal of
explanation will have to be made to con-
vince the people of the United States
that a divided site-fve miles apart-is a
good thing. The lake front, but for the
complication with the railroads, is the
proper place.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12

IT is reported in the Grand Forks de-.
partment of the Fargo Argus that Hon.
w. H. Fellows is a possible candidate
for state senator from the fifth district.
Mr.. Fellows will be remembered as one
of the leading members of the lower
house of 1885.