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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

COMMISSIONER of Agriculture and La
Dor Helgeson's plan of furnishing seed
wheat to the needy farmers of Nelson,
Ramsey and other counties is as follows
according to the Grand Forks Plain
dealer:
The elevator companies to furnish the
wheat, requiring each applicant for the
same to make an affidavit that the wheat
is for seed, etc, also that a law be passed
BY the Legislature making a lien, in the
form OF a special tax, TO be collected the
same as an ordinary tax. BY this means
the tax would be a lien on the lard, having
a priority to any mortgage or other lien.
1t is also proposed to raise a guaranty
fund by subscription, by which any loss
resulting from any of this special tax
which is not paid. Mr.. IIelgeson is hope
full that such Il guaran y fund can be
raised without difficulty.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

THERE is no use Of joking about 60
piers and gopher bills. Something must
be done looking to the determination of
these little pests. In many portions of
the state they are much more destructive
to crops than drouth or hail, and it is the
duty of this legislature to enact some
law that will give relief. The bounty
law will hardly work because it costs
about 3 cents, on an average-for powder
and shot, to say nothing about ones
time-to kill a gopher. Therefore, 3
cents or over must be paid for scalps.
Mr.. Thomson, of Walsh, has given this
subject some study, and believes that
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

The Walsh revenue bill was reported
back to the house by Mr.. Milstod chairman
of the committee on taxes and tax laws,
with sundry amendments, and the recon-
mendati on that it pass us amended. The
committee has given this bill careful
consideration, and it is believed the bill
will pass the house at in early date with
out much further amendment. A good
revenue law is the most important meas
ure that can be passed at this session
and it is believed that the legislature will
be equal to the task. Ry this law it is
estimated that from IS to 30 per cent.
will be added to the assessed valuation
OF the state, and more assessable prop
erty is the only preventive of financial
embarrassment.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

IHERE is danger of our going too far
danger of our painting in too vivid COL
ors-danger Of over-shooting the mark
in our admon1tions of economy, our
warnings of a prospective embarrassed
state exchequer. It is true that under
the most rigid economy our state expens-
es will exceed our income during the
next two years, and our debt limit will
be exceeded, but this does not argue
against the resources Of the state, nor is
it an evidence Of extravaganza. The mis-
take is in the constitutional restriction of.
100000 debt limit. It is a case of short
%sightedness on the part of our constitu-
ton trainers. The debt limit should
have been, say $1,0OO,OOO for the first ten
years, and $2,0OO,O0O after ten years. 1t
was a piece of bad financiering and ought
to be rectifed as oon as possible. It is
all bosh to talk Of Bankruptcy of a
state having such i~nexhaustible and I'M
developed wealth as North Dakota
possesses. Our debt is not a
"drop in the bucket" compared with
the value of our security. We could
float, if we wanted to, a million, two mill
lion, three million or five million of
bonds at a low rate of interest, still we
are now ~picturing the most dire results
from a bonded indebtedness of half a
million and a prospective necessary in
crease of two hundred thousand more.
It is about time to take another tack on
this poverty plea and meet the e~xigency
in a business-like way. The Fargo Argus.
takes a philosophical view when it says
that "old timers do dot believe North
Dakota is as bankrupt as some would
seem to wish the world to believe. The
assessment indicates that there is at
least $$3OO,OOO,O0 Of property held by in
dividuals and corporations in the state.
In addition to this property, the national
government has just given the state 5OO,-
600 acres of land, besides the public shoot
lands which amount to more than
100000 acres; these two grants
of land alone are estimated as worth
more than $l2,OOO,OOO. The outstanding
Indebtedness of the late territory and the
prospective deficiency are nearly bal.
anced by the value of the public institu.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

petent persons. There is merit in this
bill. 1t gives to the court power if salts
fed it would be for the best interests of
all concerned, after q full hearing upon
the petition of any one interested in the
estate of such persons, to authorize the
executor, administrator or guardian to
borrow money upon such real estate and
execute a mortgage therefor to an amount
equal to one-half. Under such a law
minor heirs of an estate might be en-
abled to saw to themselves a great deal
OF property. For instance such as the
mortgaging of a valuable piece of prop
erty to pay the membranes on another
not now but prospectively me valu-
able,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
In Minnesota the law enforcing a ia

In Minnesota the law enforcing a tax
or fee on corporations upon filing arti-
Giles of incorporation or upon increase
of capital stock, brought into the state
treasury upwards of 100000 a year. SEN
ator Little has introduced a similar bill
in the senate. Another of Senator Lit
ties bills which is likely to pass is the
Il making boards of education in cities
not organized under the general act, elect
i've. Such board is to be elected at a
special election to be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in April.
The board is to consist of nine members
three to be elected annually-the first
board to be classified by lot.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

The organized efforts to reinhabit some
Of the deserted farm lands in Vermont is
producing results. With an immigra-
ton bureau and extensive advertising
the advent of the first end of a Swedish
colony has been secured. 1t almost pro-
vokes a smile when one looks back over
the lapse of a few years only, and recalls
the time when v e the suspicion of a
foreign voter in a Vermont town was
good cause for a "know-nothing" organ
l%zatlon, and the farmers who had the
temerity to raise a Swede turnip was re.
garded as an alien. Deserted domain is
a misery with which Vermonters are be-
coming acquainted. Sumptuary laws
and better and cheaper lands elsewhere
have had much to do in hurrying up the
acquaintance.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

GRAND Forks wants the state fair To-
Gated permanently in or near that city,
and Senator McCormack's bill, No. 80,
IT passed, will accomplish that result.
The proposition is that Grand Forks
shall donate to the state forty acres of land
within one mile of the city upon the con-
dition that the same shall forever be
used for the purpose of annual exhibits
of the agricultural, stock breeding, hor-
ticultural, mining, mechanical, industrial
and other products and of the
state of North Dakota" The act in
question, in other respects, is similar to
the present law. The department of
agriculture is to be managed by a board
styled "state board of agriculture" to
consist of one person from each judicial
district, who shall be appointed by the
governor. An annual appropriation of
$4,000 is provided. Grand Forks is CEN
trally located and accessible by rail from
all parts of the state. Her hotel accommo-
dations are unexcelled. The exhibit
buildings are already built. The race
course is one of the bestin the northwest.
The country around Grand Forks is so
densely populated that the fair, even
under disagreeable weather, could hard
ly fail to be a success. Grand Forks is
the home of Billy Bulge, and a host of
good fellows, who know how to run fairs
and pay losses-if there are any-which
has happened once or twice already. A
fair is better than the capital and Grand
Forks wants the fair. Her people will
take great pride in it and the people gen.
orally will endorse her claims. No other
city is SO favorably situated for it unless
it be Fargo-which wants the agricul-
tural college with it's $4,000 a year from
the government-over the veto if posi-
BILE, or if not possible, then next winter
with good interest-and no more fool
ishness.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
The pernicious system of putting up

The pernicious system of putting up
the city printing at auction to be hawked
around and finally let to some obscure
hand-bill or irresponsible sheet, with no
standing and of no benefit to the people,
is being done away with in the east. In
Minneapolis the work was being done at
so low a figure that organized labor rose
up in arms against a system that neces-
sarily cut their wages down to the min
mum and gave the city shoddy work, and
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

UNDER Representative Rawlings bill,
No. l42, county boards may purchase an
artesian we'll drilling outfit to the extent
of $4,000, which can be used only in the
county to which it belongs. The county
pays a competent engineer to take charge
Of the outfit, not more than 1915 per
month for time actually put in, but the
party on whose land an artesian we'll is
being or shall be bored, pays all other
expenses. The county may issue bonds
to the extent of $4,000 for the purpose of
purchasing an artesian we'll outfit.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

OLIVER DALRYMpLE-who wanted "the
farmer legislature to amend the school
trespass law-which has now passed the
legislature-so that those who have i'm
provements OF school lands that they
as trespassers-have exhausted by ten
or twelve successive crops, could take
them of-has read the state constitution
which he might have done had he n
tinued to read the TRIBUNE and-paid
up that old subscription account.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

The special committee on coal, coal
lands and mining, will visit the coal mines
at Sims and Dickinson. The members
desire to acquaint themselves with all the
facts possible to obtain regarding the
mining of the native coal and charges in
transportation rates required to popular
ize the use Of Ignite in North Dakota.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

IT is noticed that one of the first acts of
the South Dakota legislature was one
offered by Mr.. Bangs, of Pennington,
%instrueting the secretary of state to pur-
chasea little mating for the aisles and
sides of the room. Another resolution
fixes the pay of the secretary of the SEN
ate at SIS per day, assistants 81, commit
tee clerks So and chaplain So. The first
bill introduced in the senate was one
authorizing the refunding of the state
debt Of South Dakota. This will prob
ably include the $4,000 due North Da-
kOta
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

SENATOR McCoRMAcK's bill. No. SO,
Classics the judicial districts of the
state and fixes the salaries of judges as
follows: In districts polling less than
5000 votes, $4,000, per annum; over 5000
and less than 5000, $500; over 5000
votes, $4,000. This would give Judge
Templeton $4,000, Judges Mcconnell
and Lauder $4,000 each, and Judges
O'Brien, Rose and Winchester $4,000
each,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 8tl

A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9Th
says:
Senator Pierce returned from his west
erin trip TO day, and took his seat in the
senate. He had a large stock of mail to
90 through, and has not had time to do any
business. Among his letters was one
from the Nelson county relief committee,
in which the senator's course on the relief
solicitations in the city was approved. The
letter further stated that Mrs. Mcdowell
had been denied further credentials by the
commissioners of Nelson county. Senator
Casey and Mr.. HansbrOugh have been
waiting for Pirrce's return in order thai
the North Dakota appointments may be
taken up and made. The administration
is anxious to dispose of the new state ap.
pointments A. soon as possible.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

The Manlan Pioneer of a recent date
contains a long communication from C.
E. Button, chief engineer of the United
States geological survey, addressed to
Mr.. J. NJ. Turner, in which that gentle
man liscourages, to some extent, the idea
of irrigation by artesian wells, because
of the limited supply of water. The
gentleman seems to have doubts of the
success of artesian wells on the Missouri
slope.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON, of Cass,
has a bill in which makes it unlawful for
employers to compel any woman or any
child under Is years of age, or permit
any child under 16 years of age, to labor
in any day exceeding ten hours, or per-
NIT any child under - years old to labor
in any mine or factory. Representative
Lilly also has a bill in of the same tenor.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

small shipments Of clothing have been
forwarded free, besides, since November
18th, a half-tarif rate has been in vogue
upon shipments of corn, oats, hay,
ground feed and potatoes from eastern
terminals to those regions on their lines
where the crops we're destroyed by
drouth. This has amounted to thous-
ands of dollars to the needy. Corpora
tions are not all heartless, after all.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

MIR. CHAs. F. MERRY, the well-known
insurance man, has been appointed by
the commissioner of insurance as special
inspector of insurance companies doing
business in the state. The commissioner
desires to guard against "wild cat" COM
panies, and Mr.. Merry's experience in
insurance matters will, by this appoint
ment, be brought to his aid.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
HERE is the way Editor KELLOGG does

HERE is the way Editor Kellogg does
up the Pierre liar:
The Pierre liar who is reporting affairs
TOR some eastern paper that can only be
learned of at Bismarck. should be muzzled.
His latest effort, that North Dakota had
detaulted on the payment of its bond in
terest, is a fair sample of what he can do
on a pinch. He has worked off on the Twin
City press more fakes than all other
western correspondents combined and it
would seem that it was about time for
some managing editor, who knows his
business, to choke off the faklr'S wind.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

REPRESENTATIVE MCCORMICK has SOL
iditied himself with his landlord. He
has introduced a bill which makes it I'M
lawful for any person to obtain lodging
or board and leave such hotel or board
ing house without first paying for such
lodging or board. A fine, and imprison-
ment in the county Jail for twenty days
or more is the penalty.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

SENATOR SMITHS bill taxing express
companies provides for a tax levy of 5
per cent. upon gross receipts, with penal
ty of 81 900 to $1,000 for failure to make
statement or for making false statement
to state board of equalization.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

SENATOR WINsHIP has introduced a
bill which gives power to county courts
to direct the mortgaging of real estate
belonging to the estate of deceased per-
IONS and the estate of MINORS and incom.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

time past been the managing editor of
the Minneapolis Tribune-Star, is about
to assume a similar position on a new
daily to be established at West Superior,
in which Mr.. Haskell is interested.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

poison is the cheapest. He has, there
fore, introduced a bill authorizing the
county commissioners of each county to
furnish poison to the extent of $50 for
each township upon petition of ten legal
residents thereof.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
AT this time, when credit ia heinc

AT this time, when credit is being
given to those whose liberality has
prompted them to contribute to those
less fortunate, in the drouth striker re-
gions of North Dakota, it il not generally
known to what extent the Northern Pa
cific has contributed. Free shipment of
coal to the following points and to the
tariff amount opposite each town has
been made by the Northern Pacific on
account of the de~stitute:
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

SENATOR BARLow's bills, Nos. 10 and
Ill, provide for the submission of an
amendment to the constitution provid-
ing that members shall receive $500 for
the session instead of SIS per day as now
provided.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

MANDAS made a good sale of 7 per
cent. city bonds the other day. Mr.. j.
NJ. Turner, the miller, took $4,000 at
par for 6 per cent.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

REPRESENTATIVE TYLER's bill, No.
155, taxes each county for the support of
insane persons sent from each county re-
spectively to the state hospital for in
sane.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17

SENATOR STEVENS thinks a veterinary
surgeon is a useless ornament, and IN
necessary expense to the state. His bill
abolishes the office.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
The 8ismarek TribMme.
BY NJ. H. JEWELL.
H DAILY TRIBUNE,

L DhlA ANA
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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
He Knew Only Six Men.

The other day, says Chatter, a n. Y.
boy asked his father if he could not go
across the street and sit up with aplay-
mates dead fathers body.
why do you do that?" asked the
parent. That is not nice thing for
a child to do.
"Ah, we'll, father" said he, ''NIr.
Behrens, though he was so wealthy and
lived in such comfort, knew only six
men,
knew only six menr' said the
father; ''what foolish boy you are!
How could man live in city of l.
100000 people Gin which 1000, 600 peo-
pie assemble daily and know only six
men?n
However, the boy sat up two nights
in that house of grief, and the follow
ing day the father went to the funeral
and introduced himself to the widow.
He had livC& opposite her for twenty
years. but he took that opportunity to
Introduce himself to her.
''Well.'' said she. my dear Mr..
Carl, you can scarcely estimate the
kindness you do to poor woman in
presenting yourself on this sad oc-
fasion. We will only have two coaches,
because my husband only knew six
men,
Only knew six menr' said Mr.. Carl.
''How is that?'
Il do not know how it was" she said.
He was born in this city, but he was
the last of his race, and he loved his
violin and his books, and in the day
time he kept the accounts of large
corporation downtown, in whose
office he had little glass box where
he sat at a desk, and so he knew only
six men,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
Do Women Ruin Men.

Women are frequently accused of
running their fathers and husbands by
wiliful extravaganza, with an emphasis
on the adjective. They probably do
assist at their downfall in repeated in
stances, not from willfulness, but from
lack of understanding of the value and
uses of money. The idea of any nor
NAL representative woman being so
malignant, or reckless, or inconsider-
ate as to crafty her taste, her love of
adornment, or her sense of luxury,
with any consciousness or suspicion of
such a result, is preposterous, es'
pecially when she is supposed to es-
ly undoes. Such a thing is so entirely
foreign to her nature as to be beyond
hypothesis. She would not be capable
of it, if she were totally Indifferent to
the man. Nothing but the densest
selfishness, or the deepest malice would
furnish the motive for such an act,
which is. as Il rule, incompatible with
woman's nature or woman's methods.
At any rate, is it not an exception
when a woman ruins man financially,
OF otherwise, indeed? He is very ready
! to proclaim himself ruined by her; he
seems to think that the charge relieves
him. He is so constantly the cause OF
her ruin that he is anxious to turn the
| tables on her. And to be ruined by a
woman sounds romantic, is calculated
to excite pity and sympathy, to put him
in the position of martyr, especially
in the eyes of her own sex. Men al
most always ruin themselves, in q
monetary sense particularly, but lack
the courage to avow it. Their weakness
destroys them, and they dislike to ac
knowledge weakness; they prefer to
give it the name of some picturesque
wickedness. Henri Br0Une, n
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
Do AIligators Swallow stones4

The Indians on the banks of the Or
inoeo river, South America, asserts that
an alligator, previous to going in
search of prey, always swallows a
large stone that it may acquire addl-
tional weight to aid it in dragging its
nrey under water. Bolivar, the traV-
eler, related this to companion, who
was somewhat inclined to disbelieve 1t.
To prove that there was really some
thing in the stories related by the in
dams, Bolivar shot several while in
the presence of his friends, and in all
of them rocks were found weighing ac-
cording to the size of the ''gator- "
One immense fellow, over seventeen
| feet long, had stone in his stomach
as large as one man could lift.