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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

TUESDAY, June 18th, being the ami
versary of the battle Of Bunker's Hill,
Bism arck INDUCED in a little celebration
of the event, although it was a sort OF
Bunker Hill and Waterloo combined.
The contest in the field commenced at 2
o'clock p. m. The "estrays'' and the
"Grays" having combined, felt confident
OF victory, and their band played "The
Campbells are Coming" as the first charge
was being made, the heavy infantry and
a detachment of the 'blue bonnets' hav.
ing combined to make the assault. At 4
o'clock it looked very much as though
"the Campbells" were in possession of
the field, but some of the more alert tac-
ticians on the other side knew where
there was a reserve that could be de-
pended upon, and adopting Napoleon's
maxim that 'the great secret of victory
laid in the legs" they soon got up "get
there Eli" (Perkins) movement, and be-
fore time was called at 5 o'clock to "cease
firing" the coalition" we're down on
their marrow-bones praying with all
their might 20 that night or Butcher
would come"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

By the telegraph it is noticed that the
Bismarck and Galveston railroad has
been incorporated in Kansas. It is be-
ing incorporated in each state. It is be-
ing talked of all along the line and the
day is not far distant when work in
earnest on the grade will commence. A
north and south trunk line is a necessity
in the United States. Foreign capital
lists have asked why such a road has not
been built before. They are ready to in
vest in such an enterprise. The road
passes through a wonderfully produce
tive country all the way-the richest in
the United States. The road can be
built cheaply-no mountain ranges-no
bad lands-only two expensive bridges.
Take down your map, you doubters, and
trace the line from Bismarck to Calves
ton via Pierre, Wichita, Arkansas City
and Kearney, and see what a feasible
route it is. Its a winner.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The senators from the Dakotas and
Montana who are working to secure in.
creased appropriations for the improve.
ment of the upper Missouri we're materi.
ally aided in the arguments before the
committee by a telegram from Captain I.
P. Baker, then in st. Louis, giving a
comparative statement of the business
done on the upper and lower portions OF
the river. The showing was as fol.
lows:
Total shipments between St. Louis and
Kansas City. value, $500,OO0; tonnage, co..
lOO. No business between Kansas City
and Sioux City. B tween Fort Benton and
Sioux City, value, 100000; tonnage. II, 0OO
River shipments from Bismarck exceed in
tonnage and value any other Missouri river
city, including st. Louis. Seven boats now
running on upper Missouri, three boats on
lower Missouri, exclusive of government.
It is believed the northwestern sena.
tors will be successful in obtaining 70,
the upper Missouri much more consider.
alton than has heretofore been had, and
that this portion of the river will receive
its just proportion of the appropriation
and that its expenditure will be made
under the direction of a Missouri river
commission.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The city of Pierre in South Dakota
will doubtless profit by the Esau act OF
Watertown. The action of Huron-rhe
cool exhibition of nerve and fragrant
bribery accepted openly by Watertown-
is a chapter in South Dakota politics
that only a capital fight could furnish
material for. Watertown, in a public
meeting of her citizens, votes to accept
the offer of Huron, the conditions of the
proposition being the payment of $4,000
in cash and a note for 100000, signed by
forty citizens of Huron, payable to the
city of Watertown, due January l, 1891,
provided the people by their votes de-
eide to locate the capital at Huron. If
this ~stupendous piece of barter and sale
does not operate as a boomerang to HUI
ron, then the citizens of Pierre have lost
their cunning and the people of the state
their good sense.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

IT wa the policy of the interior de-
partment of the previous administration
to dictate to Indian agents who. should
be their clerks, the idea being that they
would be sort of spies for the govern
ment on the actions of the agents. This
system proved a very vicious one and the
present administration has done away
with it. It is now argued that in order
to maintain proper discipline, avoid fric-
ton and give the best service to the gov
eminent all government officials should
appoint clerks with whom they are thor
oughly acquainted and who will work in
perfect sympathy with their %superiors.
Political appointments usually result dis
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

AS an addenda to the Stewart Powell
contention referred to in Thursdays
TRIBUNE, the following, under the head
OF, senatorial amenities" in the Chicago
News Washington letter Of Wednesday,
is in order: 2''
There was an exciting scene in the SEN
ate marble room yesterday. Senator Stew
art of Nevada attacked Senator Reagan of
Texas with a volley Of words, charging
him with being the tool and puppet Of
Major Powell, Of the geological survey. In
the fight between Stewart and Powell the
senator from Texas has defended Powell,
but he did not relish the language of his
colleague and retorted hotly. He denied
that he had been influenced by Powell.
Stewart retorted that he did. Reagan de-
clared that he hadn't. Stewart charged
falsehood. Reagan made a rush to smite
the Nevada senator, but was restrained by
friends, who led him away and got Stewart
also out on the porch to cool off. The lat.
ter afterward made an ample apology to
Reagan and the TWO senators shook hands,
but they will never be friends again.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The Watertown Courier News says;
It used to take a calf to buy a saw. You
can now buy n of Disston's make for
its hide. It used to take a pound of but
ter to buy a pound of nails. Now you
can buy a pound of nails with a quart of
skinned milk. The democrats want to
get back to the good old times, with
butter at 5 cents a pound, eggs 8 cents a
dozen, chickens at 81 a dozen and pork
at $3.50 a hundred. These we're fine old
times in the day of a tariff for revenue
only, when we we're running in dobt and
paying u per cent. and selling the United
States bonds at 4 per cent. discount.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20
astrously. That is what caused the
trouble with Major Murphy of the Berth
old Indian agency.

THERE is one member of the cabinet
in the state government that the news
paper boys at their meeting at Devils
Lake will not fail to remember with a
vote of thanks. Commissioner of In.
surance Carey set his foot down upon
the, scheme of advertising agents to
work" the newspapers, and made'it not
only possible, but absolutely necessary
that each publisher receive the full rates
established by law. The newspaper
publishers had but to demand the legal
rate from the advertising agents who
offered cut rates, and, being backed by
the commissioner they were successful
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

DR.. J. B. VANVELsoR, one of the old
est physicians in the Northwest, died at
Yankton, S. D., Tuesday evening at 6
o'clock. The doctor came to Dakota
from Canada in 1868 and has been a resi-
dent of Yankton since that time. The
cause of his death was consumption COM
plicated with other diseases. His wife is
the second daughter of Gen. J. B. S.
Todd, who was the first delegate in con-
gress from Dakota, and a sister of Mrs.
E. T. Higbee of this city. The inter-
ment will take place at Yankton. DR..
VanVelsor was of a family of physicians,
there being five brothers and all of them
physicians.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

IT is just a little amusing to see such
cities as st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and other towns who have been holding
themselves up by the boot-straps for sew
eral years record a mighty kick against
the census. Uncle Sam is not in the
TOWNSHIP booming business and the re-
suit will prove very damaging to the
plumage feathers of many ambitious
burgs. Bismarck and other North d.
kota towns, where the water has all been
wrung out by several years of depres-
sion, do not expect much of a showing
and they'll not be disappointed. In five
years, however, these towns will stand in
better condition than those who now
keep their heads above water only by
standing on tiptoe.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

SENATOR FISHER seems to have Just
found out what an outrageous thing it
was on the part of the senate to censure
Messrs. Dodds and Barlow for making a
slanderous report regarding the majority
of a certain committee they were on.
Where we're Fisher and Winship when
their co-workers we're being roasted in
open session? Why didn't they come to
the rescue then? Not a word-not a
whisper did they utter in defense of their
fellows at that time. Great lot of war.
riOrs,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The attention of the farmers of Burleigh
county is called particularly to this issue
of the Bismarck WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
It contains much matter of in
terest to them. The TR1BuNE's
special correspondent is making a
complete tour of the county and
his letters will be found interesting.
In his description of the country, no ex-
aggerations will be made-the endeavor
being to faithfully present the condition
of affairs in this section.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20
STATE NE WIS.

The artesian we'll at the asylum at
jamestown has reached a depth of 1000
feet. If '.
Twenty special police will be put on in
Fargo the night the circus arrives. 1t is
said there are a hard lot of hangers-on.
A South Dakota girl has struck it
rich. Miss Rosa Blake Keeling of Alb
erdeen has married Stilson Hutchins, the
successful Washington journalist.
Senators Pierce and Casey and Con-
gresham Hansbrough Clipped in $50
each to the Fargo fremen's tournament
fund and the state officers $25 each.
Edgeley Mail: The precipitation of
rain during the recent heavy rain wa
greater, by actual measurement, than the
total rainfall of the preceding thirteen
months.
On the land belonging to the state
asylum at jamestown there are about $50
acres Of oats, barley and other grain, all
looking we'll. A herd of blooded stock is
to be added to the farm.
The methodist college committee has
adjourned to meet at Grand Forks Aug
ust II, when, it is expected, the definite
location of the college will be secured.
It is said Larimore's bid is the highest
thus far.
The jamestown Alert says that Gar
| rington & Casey have in crop this year
$500 acres of wheat, 800 acres of fax, 500
acres of oats, 200 acres of barley and 100
acres of millet. This is the largest crop
they ever put in and they have the finest
| prospects they have aver had.
G. P. Smith, in jamestown Alert: For
forty years 1 have never seen the price
Of butter as low as it is at present. If
the creamery could get along without
losing I would give my time for the next
three months rather than to see the price
! of cream cut. We have been obliged to
reduce the price at the creamery two
cents per gauge. The bottom has fallen
clear out OF the market. Iowa and Min
nesota are full of creameries. The whole
country seems to have gone into butter
making. The best fancy brands are
only worth thirteen cents after being
brought to market.
Travelling man, in Wahpeton Globe:
Say, but those Fargo fellows are hot over
those land office appointments. They
damn the delegation, and they damn the
governor, and they damn the appointees.
It does seem rather tough that Fargo
men should always be put in the hole,
but they put themselves there. Gearey
and Capehart are both good men, but
the two factions of the party were divided
on those men, and neither would submit
to the others appointment. The talk is
now that Governor Miller will not be q
candidate for senator this winter, and
that in recommending Davis appoint
ment, the governor gave Senator Pierce
to understand that he (the governor)
would not claim Richland county's vote
in the legislature this winter for senator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

zens and tax-payers-and in the selection
of a principal for the coming year all but
one, DR.. Frazer, voted for Prof. Hallock,
who it is said had excellent recommen-
dations. There have been ingeniously
circulated on the streets a great many
misrepresentation of this matter, and
the TRIBUNE hopes in the interest of ed.
u%cation, common honesty and common
sense that something higher than senti'
mentality will govern the good people
who pass judgment on the management
of our school affairs.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The indications are that the Wilson
original package bill will not pass the
house in it's present form and possibly
will fail altogether at this session. In
such event original packages Of liquor
can be sold in North Dakota and other
prohibition states with perfect impuniry.
How about the revenue? If, as leading
lawyers of Iowa declare, a license on orr
ginal package dealers can be laid by the
city authorities, then this question will
have been answered. The TRIBUNE has
maintained that high license is the best
means of regulating the liquor traffic,
and that prohibition does not prohibit.
But we are not in favor of free whiskey
or free original package dealing, and if
the original package business cannot be
regulated so as to bring a revenue to the
city, then public sentiment ought to be
against the traffic. On general princi-
pies the original package decision can
have no defense. It means that the man.
ufacturer in another state-who makes
beer for instance and ships to an agent
in a prohibition state to be sold by the
bottle-has more rights than the bona
fde resident of that state who bears his
proportion of the burden of taxation. It
means, to localize, the virtual confsca-
ton of $4,000 of brewery
property in Bismarck-because the
manufacture is prohibited-and the
building of a large plant at Moorhead,
just across the river, to collect money
from North Dakota without returning
anything in the way of taxation. The
TRIBUNE is not sure, however, but that
the public bar system of drinking is a
nuisance that ought to be done away
with, and car see where stringent laws
against treating might be of benefit, but
the attempt at absolute prohibition will
be a failure in the future as it has been
in the past. There is no reason why the
traffic cannot be regulated so as to bring
a revenue without being surrounded by
all the Objectionable features with which
the public bar-room is cursed. The re-
suit of the new law in Boston, which
does away with public bars, will be
watched with interest.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR D1cKEY got
back from a visit to the coast last Thurs
day and here comes the Seattle Press
of June 9Th with the following:
Lieut.. Gov. Alfred Dickey of Dakota, a
banker at jamestown, is in the city to-day.
He has been in Grays harbor country for a
month or more, where he has invested
heavily. and is now on. his return home,
having beer called thither by political
friends, who need his assistance in oppos-
ing the Louisiana lottery faction, which is
reported to be alarmingly active. Mr..
Dickey will return to Washington later in
the season.
AS Mr.. Dickey announces, since his
return, that he Is in no n to be
considered a candidate for reelection
and as som of MI. Dickey's warmest
personal friends were in the lottery fac
ton last winter it must be that the lieu
tenant governor has been misrepresented
by the Seattle paper. That Nj. Dickey
may have been requested to assist il
'casting out"-obliterating from the
face of the earth-of all who last winter
favored the Sandager revenue lottery
measure, may be possible, but while Mr..
Dickey, personally, was not insympathy
with the lottery people, he certainly has
more sense than to fight ghosts. But
that sentiment-"clean out the lottery
faction"-is the one cherished by the
Millerites throughout the state. 1t is
not the lottery question that is an issue
now, but the edict has gone fourth that
all those who in anyway were connected
with the lottery proposition, shall have no
voice whatever in the future politics of
the state, no matter what issues may
arise. Gan such a policy win? Are the
thousands of citizens of North Dakota
good loyal republicans, who petitioned
the legislature to pass the Sandager bill
as q financial relief measure to be "ta.
booed" and read out of 1.-THE republican
party, simply because their action didn't
suit Governor Miller? The lottery advo-
Gates had a right to their opinions, and
Gov. Miller and his friends had right to
their views. The lottery was knocked
out, and now the company will in all
probability stay in Louisiana, or go to
Nova Scotia or Mexico. What then is to
be gained by this attempted Punishment
Of q large and influential portion of the
republican party? Is it glory for John
Miller? Satisfaction for Winship? Con-
ISOLATION for Jordon?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

PROHIBITION IN Iowa has received an
other set back at the hands of Judge
John G. Sherwin at Mason City. The
decision was rendered as covering sew
eral original package injunction cases,
and the judge finds that the beer in ques-
ton wa owned by citizens of Minnesota,
was shipped to their agents at Mason
City in quart bottles, placed in cases, the
said bottles being taken from the cases
and shelved and sold by the bottle as
called for; that sales were made to minors
and to persons in the habit of becoming
intoxicated, and that the beer was intoxi-
eating and was drunk on the premises.
From the foregoing facts the court
made the following conclusions of law:
That the defendants, as agents of i'm
porters, could occupy the building for
the purpose Of selling the beer in origi-
nal packages to all persons excepting
minors and habitual drunkards, and that
such use would not constitute a nuisance,
though the beer was drunk on the prem
Uses by the purchasers, and that the sales,
although the liquor was shipped by the
case' were in original packages. He
granted a temporary Injunction restrain
ing the defendants from selling to minors
and those in the habit of becoming in
toxicated. Someof the leading attorneys
it is stated now advise that the city coun-
Gil impose a license on original package
dealers, as a last resort, claiming that
the money can be collected BY law.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

EDITOR BowsF1E1D, of the Glendale
Commercial, who has a good nose for
news, has been smelling around and con-
cludes that Governor Miller will neither
be a candidate for governor nor an as
pirant for Senator Pierce's place, but
will continue to manage the Dwight farm
on a salary Of $1,000 a year. Bowsfeld
writes some very readable fiction.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

ENOUGH returns have been received
from the country precincts to confirm the
election of W. T. Perkins, for superin-
tendent of schools. He carried the city
precinct by 80, and also has a safe major
ity in the country precincts outside of
the city. This is al it should be. Mr..
Perkins has the work of the Office we'll in
hand and the people of the county
have made no mistake in re-electing him.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

REPRESENTATIVE SPRINGER of Illinois
must have a promising son-Ruter H.
Springer, as he took the two prizes Of
fered for the best legal essay by a men,
Der OF the post graduating class and the
best essay of the graduating class at the
commencement exercises of the George
town university Tuesday. A large num-
Der of new lawyers were placed upon the
market at that date.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The Napoleon Homestead asks the
TRIBUNE and n or two other papers a
question-wants to know the meaning Of
a certain section of the penal code. It's
meaning is plain. Editor Bryant should
read the section he quotes in connection
with the last item on the seventh page OF
the very clever weekly of which every
body in Logan county is proud-the Ma
poleon Homestead of June 10. 4L74t
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The Casselton Republican thinks Cass
county has an opportunity to get the
governor next time-Hon. A. H. Burke,
of Fargo. The Republican has an idea
that Cass county could unite on Burke
and probably couldn't on any other per-
son that might be named.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The election Tuesday demonstrated
the fact that the bump of combativeness
is about as we'll developed in women as
in men and also illustrated another trait
of character so prevalent among male
politicians-that of pretending to do one
thing and in reality doing another.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

LET us hear no more from the Far
mers' alliance Of South Dakota about
Legislative bribery. Their official organ,
the Ruralist, urges the acceptance by the
alliance Of Huron's proposition to give
them land valued at 100000 contingent
on the alliance vote for Huron for the
capital.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The commissioner of the general
land office recommended the following
amounts for surveys in the northwest:
Minnesota, $4,000; North Dakota, $50
600; South Dakota, $25,OOO; Montana,
$4,000; Idaho, $4,000; Washington, Co.,
600; Oregon, $4,000.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20

The deepness of the plot in South Da-
kota will be understood when it becomes
known that as a sequel to the recent
Farmers Alliance movement in South
Dakota, Wardell and Harden will be
pulling far congress and Loucks for the
United States senate. Mellette and Nc
Coy, who have been flirting with the Sin
dependents" will get left. 81"