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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-14

TlG COLLEGE Of MONTANA.

FACULTY or 10 PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS.
Five Distinct Departments, viz;
The Academy-The College The school OfMines
The Conservatory Of Music and Art and N,
Commercial Department, including ~tonugraphy
and T%ypewriting. Building new and ample. Steam
neat. bath rooms with hot and cold water servic,
throughout Both sexes admitted on equal terms
81 For Catalogue and information apply 20
aeTD.L NrMILLAE.D !. Pres ,DeeTLOige, Mon
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The following is floating around
among the exchanges, and if based upon
a solid foundation, is worthy of atten-
ton: "Saloonkeepers and others who
deal in, cigars would do we'll to closely
study the law enacted by the last con-
gress in regard to the sale of cigars. Sec
ton 1862 of the Revised Statutes says
that cigars must be sold to the customer
direct from the properly stamped box.
A dealer who takes out a handful of CT
CARS and laws them before the buyer to
choose from, or a saloonkeeper who
brings a customer a cigar on a plate or
in a glass makes himself liable to a fine
of 500"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

SUPERINTENDENT OGDEN thought he
found evidence of collision in the sale of
school lands in Grand Forks county and
now it appears another county is also in
the same boat-at least the Grand Forks
Herald says that "Cass county lost about
$1,000 on a single quarter section of
school land. A bona fde bidder offered
as high as $2l.6O per acre, but one, who
afterward appeared to be a stool pigeon,
bid $21. 65 and got the land. When the
time came for putting up the money, the
bogus buyer failed to put in an appear
ance, making it necessary to sell the land
again on a subsequent day, when it was
sold for. SIG per acre, the man who really
wanted it and was willing to pay $21.60
being unavoidably absent, so that the
school fund lost $1,000 and the party
who wanted the land most and was will
ing to pay the highest price for it was
cheated out of it. All such cases as this,
where collision undoubtedly exists,
ought to be rigidly investigated and set
aside and the parties guilty of collision
properly punished.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

FATHER SLOAN has decided to leave
Dakota and spend the remainder of his
days in Philadelphia. He is probably
the oldest and most loved minister of the
gospel in North Dakota. Way back in
the early days of hardship and privation,
Father Sloan cast his lot in the wild
western towns of Dakota, and on many
occasions has a gambling hall been
turned into a place of worship, with the
reverend gentleman in the pulpit. He
was loved by everyone in those days and
at the present no one would d~isrespect
him. He was a friend to everybody and
everybody wa a friend to him. But age
compels rest and the time has come
when active work can be done by him no
more. His farewell sermon was preached
in Mandan last Sunday.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The first practical test of the much
talked-of theory that the firing of heavy
explosives would lead to the fall of rain
was made at Elleudale last week. The
experimenters report it a complete sue
cess, as-1t rained. Whether or not the
plan can be operated successfully in a
dry season is a problem that only the fu-
ture a determine. That in this p%articu-
lar instance the object was attained is
certain. It would seem as though the
government might very properly instruct
its weather bureau to make some united
tests and see what efficacy there might
be in dynamite as a rain producer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The department of agriculture claims
to have demonstrated the success of a
new grass, and Secretary Rusk is quoted
as follows: II am more than delighted,
and words cannot adequately convey the
Importance of our demonstration. Here
after grass can be grown in the semi-arid
sections of the west and northwest. You
can say to the people of the Dakotas that
the department has been experimenting
in order to find a good grass for that Sec
ton, which will grow without irrigation.
We caused $50 acres to be tried in an arid
section of western Kansas, and the result
is before us. The bronnes, or Austrian
grass, has grown to luxuriance upon soil
which has received only ~ inches of
rain in five months. The same grass
will thrive in Dakota, North and South.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
Jacks Full on Red Seyens Fatal.

L was watching a game of poker once at
Helena, Mont: says a writer in the Detroit
Free Press. The players were a gambler
(WhOm knew slightly and who bore the
sobriquet OF LUCKY Biil') and two miners.
Suddenly, after the hands were dealt and
the players had "chipped in" and drawn
cards, Lucky Bill with perfect calmness
in the expression of his face, laid his cards
on the table. took a note book from his
pocket, and deliberately wrote few words,
Then he tore out the leaf and handed it to
me.
Look at that when you get home to.
night.'
His voice was steady and did not betrav
a particle of excitement. | thrust the
paper aimlessly into my pocket and gave
the matter hardly a second thought.
The play progressed. Lucky BilI's face
was unyielding as a stone and entirely in;
expressive. He noticed everything, how.
ever, and his vigilant eye did not miss the
slightest move on the part of the other
players. He was a typical gambler and
one of the most successful Of his guild,
Hence his sobriQuet.
AT last there was an alteration between
the two miners. Hot words ensued and
revolvers were drawn. Some of the by.
ISLANDERS interfered at this point, and, in
the scutfie that followed, l heard the sharp
whistle and spring of a bullet. Lucky Bill
This good star in the descendant) fell to
the floor and expired without a groan. He
had been killed by the accidental discharge
OF a pistol in the hands OF one of the
miners.
was Mortified at the occurrence and
that evening, after l had reached home, !
thought OF the line the gambler had writ.
ten me. took it from my pocket and
read as follows: 81 have drawn a pair of
sevens. l now hold jacks full on red
sevens. 1t is a fatal hand. No one ever
yet held it and left the card table alive.
shall die. l have $4,000 in the FIRST Nation.
al OF Bismarck, North Dakota. Notify my
mother, Mrs. -, Of Franklin, KY.O
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The Northern Pacific has made a spe-
cial rate on wool this year from Fargo
east, either to Duluth, West Superior,
st. Paul, Minneapolis or Minnesota
transfer, of So cents per hundred in COM
pressed bales, or IS cents per hundred in
sacks, and allow the same rates when
shipped in less than carload lots. This
is the first time a reduction has been
made east of Mandan. They will also
see that low rates are obtained east of
the cities named if shippers want to send
the wool farther toward the seaboard.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

OHIO has a law against playing ball on
Sunday, but the Sunday players at Gin
cinnati have found a Judge" who de-
cides that as nine innings constitute a
game, eight innings cannot be called a
game of base ball, and therefore the Of
tenders may play ball all day Sunday
without violating the law, if they do not
play nine innings. That judge is entirely
too we'll versed in base ball rulings to sit
on the bench. He should be retired
from the judiciary and raised to the po-
sition of umpire.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

Gov. BURKE went to jamestown on
Friday morning, to confer with
the board of trustees of the hospital fol
insane in regard to the water supply OF
that Institution. It will be remembered
that a fine artesian we'll has been supply.
ing water for the institution, but last
winter, for some then unknown cause
it ceased to flow, and DR.. Archibald tele.
graphed Gov. Burke the condition OF
affairs. The governor at once called the
attention of the legislature to the impor.
lance of providing a reliable water sup.
ply for the hospital, and the legislature
before adjourning, appropriated $3.50
for the purpose, but placed the appropri.
alton entirely under the control of the
governor. The superintendent has dis.
covered that the bottom of the we'll is
filling up, and the governor has been
asked to confer with the board at its
regular meeting to-day, with a view Of
devising some means to supply water fol
the institution,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

FARGO Republican: Hon. Seth New
man has just returned from a business
trip to Chicago, Toledo, New York, Buf-
falo and Washington. While at the lat
ter place he made application to the su-
preme court of the United States for a
writ of error in the case of Tyler VS.. Cass
county, which was granted, and the case
goes to the United States supreme court.
At the October term of the state supreme
court the case was heard and decided in
favor of the county. A petition for Il re-
hearing was fled and denied. Applica-
ton was then made to the chief Justice
of the state supreme court for a writ of
error, which was also denied, and as a
last resort Mr.. Newman made app]ica-
ton to the United States supreme court
and it was granted. There final action
will be taken, and it will finally deter
mine the liability of counties in North
Dakota to refund money paid on the sale
of Northern Pacific railroad lands for
taxes.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The poor judgment and unprincipled
manner used by some we'll known cores
pondents in sending matter to the east
ern press for publication is calling forth
the wrath of indignant citizens. A man
who will damage his own city and
county several thousand dollars to en-
rich himself a few paltry dollars should
be searched out and dealt with severely.
The sheep article going the rounds Of
the press is a fair sample. If the cor
respondent wished to supply his paper
with this matter it would have been
little trouble to have interviewed Mr..
Wilson or Mr.. Bumstead and instead Of
the damaging news published, the true
condition of affairs could have been as
certained which, if published, would
prove conclusively that this is the best
state in the union for sheep raising.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The expected has happened and soon
Fort Abraham Lincoln will exist only in
history as a has-peen. The fight made
for its retention was conducted against
heavy odds and the fort goes the way of
the river engineers headquarters-to
some more favored spot. Mandan and
Bismarck will regret the order to remove
the garrison, but regrets don't 60 very
far against decided opposition of the
powers that be. Farewell, a long fare
we'll to all my former greatness" Sc
lahl
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The festive Injunction is abroad in
jamestown, and some buildings, in which
it is alleged the cup could be purchased
that maketh a mans path look like a zig
gag fence down On some stony Vermont
farm, are in the hands of the sheriff. At
Fargo, the grand Jury now in session
have issued something liks $50 invita-
tions to citizens to drop in and see them,
presumably on a like mission. All of
which goes to show that life is not exact
ly a bed of roses to som citizens of the
state.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

A WASHINGTON special has the follow.
ing to say of a lady we'll known in the
city: Mrs. Florence Huntley, widow OF
Stanley Huntley, formerly of Bismarck
N. D., and we'll known throughout the
northwest, has been more than a veal
past in Washington, where she added tc
her reputation as a writer. Her friends
will be grieved to learn that she has been
compelled to abandon her profession, al
least for a time, on account of an attack
of congestion of the brain, brought on
by overwork. She will spend part Of
the summer in the west and endeavor tc
r%ecuperate her health"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

As will be noticed by the official pro-
ceedings, published in these columns
yesterday, the school board has followed
the example of the city council and has
used the pruning knife, and while not
materially reducing salaries, they voted
to dispense with two teachers, making
an annual saving of near $1,000. With
he proper Reconsideration of the four
upper rooms, when the total average
daily attendance the last month was
only forty pupils, two teachers can GER
tainly accomplish the work. We believe
the action of the board will be generally
upheld.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The TRIBUNE is in receipt Of an able
and carefully prepared article on irriga.
ton, but on the principle of letting well
enough alone, the same is held in abey-
NICE for a few days. 1t is among the re.
mote possibilities that the subject may
have to be changed to a drainage disser-
tation, if the rain record is kept up at
the present pace. For fear of offending
the rain god, all irrigation booms will be
"fled" for the time being.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

WHAT is the matter with the slope
stock interests? Nothing. Look at the
results at one mans farm: w. B. Couch
one of Burleigh county's farmers, has &C.
cumulated thirty head of COWS. On June
LIST he made a dairy experiment, with a
result or % pounds of butter from one
days milk, which is equivalent to about
$4-or 1913 per week. He has twenty.
five calves, his loss being only about one.
sixth. A good showing.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

SOME of the Washington papers think
that General Greeley will be put in
charge of the weather bureau under the
new regime, not merely as ad interim SUI
perintendent, but permanently by ap-
continent. The general has just re-
turned to the capital after an extended
tour of the country, making an inspec-
ton of the principal signal service sta
tions prior to the formal transfer a
month hence.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The Fargo Argus is authority for the
statement that the director-general ofthe
great Chicago fair holds that the selec-
ton of a site by the North Dakota
commissioners, on their recent $500 trip,
was not in accordance with the rules laid
down by the national board, and the
same will have to be done over again. 1t
is to be hoped this board business may
he settled soon and the permanent work
ACCOMPLISHED.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12
A DISPATCH from Washington says

A DISPATCH from Washington says:
Charles F. Alfred, deputy postmaster at
Fargo, is the coming man. His applica-
ton for the postmastership is Endorsed
by the majority of the best citizens of
Fargo. The president is in a dilemma
concerning that postoffice and the ap-
pointment of Alfred would solve the
problem for him. To give the position
to Plumley, Jordan or McDill would be
to concede to one of the factions; to give
it to Alfred would produce little acri-
mony. This is the way it now looks at
the p~ostoffice department. The people
are not very particular who gets it just
80 the agony is ended. .
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

Increase in the Area as with
the Breadth Harvested Last Year.
WASHINGTON, June 1O.-The report of
the statistician of the department of
agriculture, makes the area in winter
wheat as compared with the breadth har-
vested last year 111.5; spring wheat,
1884; barley, 1O7.1; rye, 1915; oats. 96.6.
The condition: Winter wheat, 96.6;
spring wheat, 1926; barley, 90.3; rye, 1854;
oats, IS. In comparison with 1889 the
increase in the wheat acreage is quite
moderate. A reduction last year of
more than two million acres suggests a
reason for most of the present increase.
This advance is therefore both a replace
ment and development,the former, notably
in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Cali
fornia; the latter in less degree in Wash
ington, Oregon, the Dakotas and in sew
eral territories. These violent huctua-
lions make the investigation difficult
and districts will render necessary sup
Elementary work. To some extent the
present estimates may be considered
preliminary. The extension of acreage,
according to our correspondents, de-
ponds on the price of wheat and not on
available land. The large increment of
the wheat breadth is reported in WASH
lngton, "the large amount of new land
is being broken for the next years CROP
and the local opinion is expressed that
not more than one-ffth of the wheat land
of that new state is under cultivation,
The first monthly statement of averages
Of spring wheat makes Wisconsin, II;
Minnesota, 80; Iowa, 95; Nebraska, 81;
the Dakotas, So. Early sown wheat was
injured by frost in Wisconsin and Min
nesota. termination was arrested by
drought in the same region. In South
Dakota drought has retarded the growth.
The conditions have been more favorable
generally in North Dakota.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

and with any number Of packs of cards.
All bet against the dealer, who banks
and deals from a box similar to a cigar
box. The face cards each count ten, and
the others according to the number of
their spots. After the bets have been
made, the banker deals two cards to
each of the players, including himself,
but the other players must receive their
cards before the banker is served. The
aim of the players is to make the numb
ers 8, 10, 20, or as nearly those as posi-
BILE, as 8, Is, and %. Any player is at
liberty either to ''stand" with the two
cards first dealt, or to call for more, at
the risk of exceeding %, when his stake
is forfeited to the dealer. If, latter the
first distribution Of two cards to each,
any player has a ''natural"-that
is, a sum making 8, or next in value 10,
he declares it, and the banker pays all
who hold superior hands to his own,
and claims from those holding inferior
hands. The players stake their money
separately, there being in fact, as many
separate games in progress as there are
players, and the spectators may wager
their money on any one of them, all of
which must be accepted by the banker.
Prior to the banker making a start, he
states the amount in the bank-for ex-
ample, ESQ. Any one sitting down at
the table has the right to call the whole
of the bank, selecting the left or the
right, on which to pick up the cards. If
the bank is not called, then the banker
proceeds to deal to eos a side, or as
much of it as may be marked" or called
the former meaning that the money is
placed on the table; the latter, that the
banker has accepted the bet without the
money being staked. The latter course,
however, is quite the exception, the
ready coin being invariably planked.
Previous to the banker dealing the
cards, it is the duty of two croupiers,
one of the right and the other on the
left. to count up the stakes deposited on
either side, and then make up the bank.
Thus the banker knows, to the smallest
coin, the exact amount of his liabilities.
Had the game been properly played at
Tranby Croft, no one would have stood
an earthly chance at cheating.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

GENERAL ALGER ex-governor of Michi-
gan is just now being put to a test by
the possible president boomers. There
is one thing certain if Alger should be
elected president of the United States
and pursue the same honorable course
that characterized his administration as
governor, the union would be benefited.
His contributions to institutions for
homeless children exceeded his salary.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The Mercer county people are Gin
line" on the matter of holding an agri-
cultural and stock exhibit this fall, and
the Stanton Pilot urges that immediate
action should be taken and delegates Sc
lected to meet the other counties in the
proposed district. From the fave rable
way in which it is being taken up there
is no reason to doubt a successful out
come of the project.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The citizens of Buford and Flannery
counties are preparing a petition to the
governor for organization to be sent in
as soon as the law creating them into
one county under the name of Williams
county, takes effect.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

A MONUMENT to the memory of "Sun-
set" Cox will be erected in front of the
new mercantile library in Astor place,
New York. This great orator, who won
fame by his eulogy to the setting sun,
has a place in the memory of all Da-
kOtana.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

THE jamestown Alert still sees no use
in the Devils Lake deaf and dumb asy-
lum buildings, and in a half column of
drastic language gets back at Senator
Hansbrongh's Inter- Ocean. OF course,
promises were made in 1890 that no
building appropriation would be asked
for until 1895, but then in a grab-bag
game promises are made to be broken.
The record of the senate shows, however,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The Hillsboro Times mar has had a
vision and his prophetic eye sees in the
near future a illegal organization" of the
board of Worlds Fair commissioners
and that Colonel Plummer will be the
chairman and Fred L. Goodman, of
Hillsboro, the secretary.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

AMONG the attractions which will be
displayed at the Firemen's tournament,
Fargo, will be a race between six lady
riders of bicycles. This will undoubt-
edly prove a drawing card.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

FROM the extensive reports being
printed of the baccarat scandal in which
the prince of Wales is credited with
holding the stakes, one is led to believe
that card cheating in England was a
terrible crime. The truth is, bigger sem
sations are daily happening but the
prince don't hold the stakes.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

SENATOR CASEY is reported as saying
to a Valley City paper: "What match
less sites you have here for the location
of your public bnildings"-and then
goes On to poke it to Bismarck by add.
ing-"I know of one instance where a
public building is located on a gravelly
hill, a barren, dreary spot. a location
much regretted now"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

Hon. LEWIS THOMPSON, one of the
prominent members Of the last legisla-
ture, died at his residence in Buxton, on
Friday last. Mr.. Thompson was one of
the foremost citizens of Trail county and
leaves behind him a wide circle of
friends who regret his sudden removal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

In the Milwaukee depot at Sioux Falls
a notice issued by the general passenger
office has been posted requesting all con-
ductors to take up the pass numbered E
2,541, to D. w. Maratta of Fargo. Can
it be that Dan has neglected the Mil
waukee while on his matrimonial trip in
Florida
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

The official notice of the abandon
ment of Fort Lincoln has been received
by Major Powell. The order as to the
disposition Of the troops, etc., was ex-
pected at the fort yesterday.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-12

AN enterprising wool man in Rolla,
Rolette county, claims a clip of liz
pounds to the fleece as an average of his
flock. Who will beat this and secure
the large and valuable chrome offered as
a prize to the champion rail, spelled
hackWard2