Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-31
From THURSDAYS Daily.

The contests for the prizes at the Cath
olic fair are growing exciting. The prizes
offered are costly and handsome, and all of
the candidates are popular. The members
OF the legislature and numerous sover-
eigns of the third house are taking a deep
interest in the campaign for the gold
headed cane for which Secretary Bowstield
and Chief Clerk Hamilton are the compel
itors. The cane is one of the finest ever
brought to the city.
The gold watch was purchased in st.
Paul and is of the best make. The candi-
dates, Miss Nellie Brady and Miss Maggie
Richie, are taking a lively interest in the
matter and their friends are making a
thorough canvass for votes.
Much interest also centers in the race
for the magnificent table set. Mrs. John
A. Stoyell and Mrs. Samuel Whitney are
both popular ladies and each is being en-
Enthusiastically supported.
MRS. MCCORMACK VS.. MRS. WALSH.
The event which will attract the most in
terest among the visitors in the city will
be the race between Mrs. Captain McCor-
mack and Mrs. Geo. II. Walsh, for the
saddle cushion. Father Meyer and the la
dies of the church are to be congratulated
Upon having selected two such prominent
and popular ladies, and they may rest as
Sured that their friends and admirers will
add to the life and interest of the fair.
The voting will take place tomorrow
evening, and the hall will be crowded with
a throng of happy vote winners in friendly
but spirited rivalry.
The attendance at the fair last evening
was large, the fancy tables were literally
patrOnlZed. the supper was greatly en-
joyed and the fish pond and p~ostofice fur
niShed amusement II entertainment
THE RAFFLE
last evening was a feature of exceptional
interest. The table castor was won by No.
rs, held by Mrs. John McConville.
The pair of blankets was drawn by No.
96, held by II. Nicholson.
No. 4 got the silver dinner set, NJ. Arm
strong, of TT. Lincoln, being the lucky
holder.
All of these articles were drawn from
table No. l, over which Mrs. Cunard and
Mrs. KupitZ presided.
AttabIe NJ. (which is in charge of Misses
Annie Robidou and Cora Fox, the wine set
was captured by Miss Maggie Dolan, who
held No. IL.
Why Surveyors Have Not Been Paid.
A Washington telegram TO the Pioneer
Press avs that "the congressman from
North Dakota, Montana and Washington,
have the scalp of a division chief dangling
at their belts" 1t appears that John A.
Preston, chief of the surveying division of
the general land Office, who is the man
who has been removed because of compli-
cations growing out of one of the orders
of Mr.. Sparks. the land commissioner OF
the last administration. Under that Off
ciaIs order four inspectors were appointed
to examine surveys and certify to the gen.
eral land office as to their pay for services.
They could not keep up with the work and
some of them apparently lost forever. In
several instances the appropriations lapsed
before the settlement came, and the money
was carried back into the treasury.
That left no pay for work done except by
the presentation to congress of a
claim and the tedious grind that fol-
ing in from ali the states where
public lands to any great extent were To-
Gated. The land department has been IN
vestigating, and found that Mr.. Parsons
was so welded to the system that he could
not get away from it. One claim from
Washington was held in his office for sew
ment for no reason whatever, so far as
could be learned, and this was the immedi-
ate cause of his dismissal. There have
been many complaints from Colorado, Ne
braska, the two Dakotas, Montana and
| Washington, and in the interests of those
who ak up lands Mr.. Parsons was let out.
This will give the settlers on the old Fl.
Rice military reservation, which Was sur
veyed in 1867, a clue % the delay which
has kept them from filing upon their lands.
No examination of the survey was made
of any account until late in the season of
1889, and under the new order of things an
early report may now be looked for.