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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
HE WAS A
Trade Talk of a Curious Character Cor

Trade Talk of a Curious Character Con,
mon Enough In New York.
Some hundreds of keen and not ove>
scrupulous New Workers are perpetually
haunted by visions of wealth to be made
through petty inventions. The success of
"pgs in clover" concentrated for a time
the whole energy and cleverness of these
men upon puzzles. A dozen new puzzles
were promptly invented, and as many old
ones were revived. There was an uncon-
scionable amount of lying done about the
prospects of each invention. Half a dozen
of the spectators were tortured by pros
pective success that stopped short in the
first week, and twice as many more per-
severed for months, led on by a hope plain
ly enough vain to all save the unhappy
victims.
A typical man of this class perched him
self on a stool in a dingy second hand book
store the other day and talked of his trade.
He was not twenty-five years old, tall,
slender, agile, red haired, sanguine and ap-
parently void of conscience. His speech
was a curious mixture of slang from the
slums, figures from the counting house
and technical terms caught from the me-
chanical trades with which his precarious
business brought him in contact. He was
glib of tongue, quick at repartee and at
times peculiarly happy in rude figures of
speech.
All his talk was spiced with a cynical
wisdom of the world, and beneath the sur
face lurked, half hidden, an intense desire
to get money easily and quickly. He had
sold everything, from a knitting needle to
q rag baby. AT that moment he was can
wasting for a new puzzle, but the owner of
the invention expected too much, in fact
hoped to sit still and see dollars roll right
In at his doorway. "But that amt my
funeral; it's his cemetery, see? So long as
he pays me five dollars aday for canvassing
Ill work for him."
There was always some jay around own
with $500 looking for a cold cinch. Such
persons expected to get the earth and put
a fence round it, and all for $500. He him
self had a little thing of his own invention.
There was a comfortable living in it for
the next twenty years, and he had it tight
with a copper fastened patent. He had adj
vertised in a Sunday paper for a partner
with $500, and had received three or four
answers, but they all wanted the whole
thing. He didn't intend to sell a good liv,
ing for twenty years at any such price.
His invention had to do with sinks.
Now, there were 25, O0O,0 200 sinks in the
United States, and every one Of them was
bound to have that article. 1t could be
sold cheap and made for little or nothing.
A profit of less than a cent on each meant
wealth. He need not keep an office, but
could have his article manufactured in
Brooklyn and receive orders direct at the
factory. There was nothing like a house.
hold utensil for selling. Puzzles didn't
last. They played out in a few months
and something else had to be done, but the
world would 60 right on using his article
till sinks were ne more.-New York Re.
corder.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
An Armed Force Sent Out,

DENvER, July 27.-The Denver, Golden
and Lakewood railroad officials have
sent an armed force of twenty men to
Netdale, eight miles from this city to
prevent the Denver and Western people
from building a line over two and a half
miles of its right of way on the side of
Table mountain, which is now about
the only remaining pass through the
mountains which q railroad can use.
The men are armed with repeating
rifles. The Denver ard Western people
have 400 laborers on the grounds, await
ing the arrival of teams with ties and
rails. The Lakewood people declare
that they will shoot down the first man
who raises a pick or shovel. ~
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
An Excursion Train Returning From
q Picnic Wrecked Near
Middletown, Ohio.
Three Killed and Seventeen More or
Less Seriously In
jured.
A Collision at Saint Mand, France
Results in the Death of at
Least Thirty People.

DAYTON, O., July T.-From II o'clock
at night till 6 in the morning, the Union
depot was thronged with an anxious
crowd of people. All were impatientg
waiting for tidings of relatives or
friends on the National Cash Register
picnic excursion train, which had been
wrecked about 0 o'clock by a rear end
collision, near Middletown. The Gin
cinnati. Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
company, IN whose road the accident
occurred, controlled the only telegraph
line to the scene of the wreck and it
was impossible TO get anything like &C.
curate information. The suspense Of
the people was painful to witness. The
first train to arrive, bearinga portion OF
the excursionists, came in about 4 a. m.
and two hours later another.
Rearing the Dead and Wounded.
Then 1t was learned that three people
had been killed outright and seventeen
others injured, some Of them seriously.
The wrecked train consisted Of fourteen
coaches and n baggage car, and was
bearing about 800 employees Of the Cash
Register works and their friends to
this city from Woodsdale Island Park,
near Hamilton, where they had spent
the day in enjoyment. The train was
delayed, a broken draw-bar necessitated
a stop on a siding near Middletown.
This trivial accident had been repaired
and the train was just getting under
way again when the engine of a fast
freight crushed into the real coach.
Then Ensued n Frightful Scene.
Three coaches were completely demol.
ished and three others badly damned
UP. Engineer Schwind, of the freight
train, saw the passenger train in front
of him. He reversed his engine, whis-
tied for brakes and applied sand, but to
freight train was too great to prevent g
collision. He and his fireman jumped
In time to save themselves. The excur-
sion train was just pulling off the side
track when the collision occurred, and
the engine struck the hind coach at an
angle. knocking it off the track. It rip
ped the side from the next one and lift
ed the next one right up on top of the
steam dome. 1t was in this car that
three persons lost their lives and most
of the injured were seated. There have
been wild reports all day OF loss of life.
some persons declaring thai they had
seen a dozen dead bodies taken from the
wreck, and others placing the number
as high MS eleven, but the company't
surgeon here declares that only three
were killed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
The Miners Submit.

KNOXVILLE, July 25.--The war is over
and the miners have Internationally
surrendered. Governor Buchanan has
won a great victory and without blood
shed. The satisfactory result was
reached a little before 6 p. m. In the
morning it was very generally believed
that the troops would move to Coal
Creek early in the day but it wore along
and no troops moved. At noon it be-
came known, however, that the troops
would not be ordered to move though
they were ready to go at a moments
notice. It was true that when the COM
mittee of miners left the governor
Thursday night the men were angry.
Several of the committee said they
would not have anything more to do
with the governor, but they were hot
headed men. They afterward agreed
among themselves that the governor
was right in not accedlng to a violation
OF the law. They got together about 3
O'clock and were in session some time.
When they broke up they went to Gov
ernor Buchanan with the proposition to
abide by the law. The following is a
copy of the agreement which the miners
have come to and which is considered q
settlement of the mine trouble:
The Agreement.
The committee acting in behalf Of the
miners and their friends of Briceville and
Coal Creek, and in the interest of peace
and harmony, do submit the following,
trusting it will meet with your favorable
consideration:
First-Sratus quo TO be restored and
guards and conyicts not to be molested or
their return to the mines and we will use
all ordinary caution and honorable means
to prevent any interference with them.
Secopd-Reposing confidence In III gov
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
An Unforeseen Emergency.

First Youth know where l can hire a
boat. Let's go sailing.
Second Youth never sailed a boat, nor
did you, l guess.
First Youth-No; but I've bought a book
which tells all about how to sail a boat.
Come on. I'll read the instructions while
you steer.
Both Youths half an hour latereOool
wool wool We're upset.
Second Youth Qoundering around in
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. shall we do
now?
First Youth (~gasping1-I-I don't-n-n-
know; I've lost the book.-GOod News.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
Compensatory Damages only.

ST. PAUL, July 27.-Three supreme
court decisions have been filed, among
them that Of Isaiah Finch VS.. The
Northern Pacific. The plaintiff was
riding from Muskota to Moorhead with
out a ticket and refused to pay tho addi-
tional rs cents for a rebate certificate.
He was put off the train and in the trial
was allowed $500. The supreme court
holds this is more than compensatory
damages, which is all that can be al
lowed. a new trial was ordered, unless
the palintif would stipulate for $3.50
damages.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
Nav EC

SEDAL1A, Mo-, July IS. -Startling evil
dence has recently come to light in the
case Of Tom Williamson, condemned to
be hanged Aug. 81, evidence that would
indicate that he is not guilty of the
crime. A petition has recently been
circulated in his behalf, praying for the
Communication of his sentence to life i'm
prisonment and to it nave been attached
the INT OF 500 prominent people OF
the community.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
Chinese Medicines.

Scorpions, according to the Chinese way
of thinking. are invaluable when employed
as a remedy for a badly congested liver,
which ailment can only be surmised by the
Chinese druggist to be the ono which
aflicts his sore and wearied customer.
Powdered bees and beetles are highly re-
garded by the Chinese physician in the
treatment of throat troubles, and if they
do not instantly effect a cure on being
taken the patient deserves to suffer.
Blood troubles, malignant cancers and
scrofulous diseases HE away when brought
into combat with powdered lizard.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
A Political Dreibund.

WASHINGTON. July 27.-There was an
interesting conference at the National
hotel between Senator Pettigrew, Judge
Clifford and Chairman Mccoy. It has
been reported that serious differences
exist between these gentlemen. At the
meeting both Mccoy ana Clifford ex-
pressed the frmest friendship for Petit
grew. The trio were together visiting
the department., and in the future there
will be M ground for alleging enmity
between them.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
Blew the Top of His Head Oh.

ST. PETER, Mimi, July 27.-News
was received here of the suicide of
Henry Moss, of Cleveland, LIE Sueur
county. He was found in the rear of
the granary with the whole top Of his
head gone. The gun was still in his
hand. He was 81 years Of.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
First publication July "a. 1891
Notice of Homestead Final Proof.

July 20. 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following-named
settler has fled notice of his Intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the register and re-
ceiyer at Bismarck, N. D., on August %, 1891, viz:
WILLIAM MoCRORIE,
for lots 8 and 4, seo. 2, twp. 1855 north, range 70
west fifth principal meridian.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of,
eaid land, viz:
Henry eager, Etewartsdale, N. D.; Frank h.
&. Pitcher, Glencoe, Nd; John H. B 4al, Glen
cos. N. D. Joseph Allen, Sterling, N. I.
e. NEAL, Register.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
First Publication July "a, 1891
Notice of Final Proof,

LAND OFFICE AT BISMARCK, N. d.
July q, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
ton to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the register and receiver at Bismarck, N. D.. on
September IL, 1891, viz:
GEORGE WATSON,
for the SEX, sec. 8, twp. 1888 north, range n west,
Fifth P. M.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of,
said land, viz:
Ernest Voss, David Richards, Albert c. Jones
and George s. Brooks, all of Mckenzie, N. D.
E.S NEAL, Register.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
First Publication June 26, 1871
Notice of Mortgage Sale.

Default existing in a mortgage, executed by
Conn Molloy and Lizzie Molloy (his wife) to
John ". Dean, dated June Is. 1885.
recorded June q, 1885,, at ILLS a. m,
in Book c of mortgages. page $50, on the east
ne-half of the northeast quarter and the east
one-half of the southeast quarter of section nine,
in township one hundred and thirty-nine of
range. seventy-nine. in Burleigh county, N. D.
Now due on said mortgage $5sO.75. Said mort
gage will be foreclcsed and said premises will be
sold to the highest bidder for cash, at the front
door of the court house of said Burleigh county,
by the sheriff Of said county. August l, 1891, at2
p. m, to satisfy said debt and costs.
June %, 1891.
FRANCIS & BARNES,
Attorneys for Mortgage
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
First publication July 8, 1891
No.ioo of Hovo aekooI E;,o1 Dro1F

First publication July 8, 1891
No ice of Homestead Final Proof.
LAND OFFICE AT Bismarck, N. D..
June 26, 1891.
Motto, is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the register
and receiver at Bismarck, N. D., on August 10
1891. viz:
THOMAS FLANAGAN,
For the nwA sec %, township 40, range 10.
HI names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon. and cultivation of,
said land. viz:
James T. Mcdonald, James P. McGarvey,
John Nauehton and Calvin Jeffries. all of Bis
marck, N. D. E.. s. NEAL,
Register.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-31
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria is 50 well adapted to children THAT
RECOMMEND tia superior to any prescription
known to me-" n. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17

Manuripg crops in the hill is simply tC
concentrate the fertilizer in Il small
space. Such Il plan will answer if there
is an in%sufficlency of the material used
but as the roots of plants spread over 1
large area in search of food it is better
to broadcast all and fertilizers
thus not only giving greater feeding ca
pacity to the roots, but also permitting
of a more intimate incorporation of the
ingredients with the soil during cult
walton of the crop, The Philadelphia
Record, authority for the foregoing
further says: Mix plenty of land plaster
with your manure. Plaster absorb'
gases, arrests the escape of ammonia
and is of itself an excellent fertilizer
For grass crops and as special fertilizer
for clover it is unexcelled. 1t is alsC
cheap compared with its real value
Used in the hills with corn, plaster as
sists in attracting both moisture ant
ammonia from the air and gives thu
young plants a good start.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17
Our Farm Amin

According to the annual report from
the agricultural department at Wash
ington the number of horses on farms is
IA, 056, 80, with an average price Of all
ages at $61. The number of mules is
2,2S6, 532, having an average value OF
$11.SS. The number of mich cows is
1903, $50, an increase of 66, 10S from last
year. The average value per head i,
$21. go. There is a tendency to increase
of d~airying in the south, especially in the
mountain region. Other cattle aggregate
&c. 1915, 64S, including those on ranches.
The highest value is $2S.6 4 in Connects
cut: the lowest S. 6, III Arkansas. The
number of sheep is 43,43l 1856. The aver
age value is $2.5l, an increase of more
than 10 per cent. All other kinds of farm
animals have declined slightly in prize,
A tendency to increase of numbers is
seen in most of the states. The aSgre-
gate number of swine is 50, 500, l06. show
ing "A decline of nearly . per cent. The
average value is 81. -, a decrease of );
cents Der head.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17
Mistakes in Pruning Trees.

Nothing in the shape of ornamental
trees has a more awkward appearance
than one of long legged form trimmed vi
with a bare stem as high as a mans head
or a housetop, especially if it is an ever
green. Standing alone, they should be
perfect specimens feathered all the way
down to the ground, or if the trees art
old, large and stately in growth, pos
lsessing the magnificence of broad spread
ing oaks or magnificent elms, the foliage
and the wide branches which sustain il
should approach SO near the ground tina
the huge stem would be barely visible
Country Gentleman
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17


EYES.
hand, holding the stem end downward
and toward the operator. Turn it so as
to bring the lowest eyes toward you,
,hen with a sharp thin knife cut them
out, making a curving downward stroke
extending to the center and base Of the
tuber. Turn tuber slightly to bring
other eyes toward the operator, and re-
peat the operation. The eyes of a po-
tato are arranged more or less regularly
around a spirally ascending axis, and by
turning the potato slightly after each
operation they can be cut away in COM
pact pieces so as to give each n a nearly
equal proportion of the tuber. This, of
course, cannot be done at the seed end,
and when the operator has removed the
eyes AS close as practicable to the seed
end a good practice is to cut it down
through the center.
This method of rotating the tuber and
cutting the eyes away successfully is
shown in the cut. There, however, the
illustration represents the pieces cut to
one eye; but the system of cutting works
equally well with the two eyed cuttings,
and, for ordinary seed, the bulletin
quoted from advises about that size. If
the seed is cut in advance of planting, to
save time in the rush of work, the pieces
should be thoroughly busted with plaster
to prevent evaporation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
INFORMATION OF PRACTICAL IMPOR
TANCE TO RURAL READERS.

Observations on Cutting Seed Potatoes
Made In "A Bulletin Issued by the viz
ginIa Experiment station-Rotating
Method of Cutting the Tuber Illustrated.
1t is true that whole medium or large
sized potatoes usually give an increased
yield over smaller tubers or small cut
tings, and also show a gain of a few
days in edible maturity. But they also
show a very decidedly larger yield of
small or understandable tubers, and in
crease the cost of seed many fold, vary
ing of course with the size of tuber used.
This may he illustrated by stating that
seed cut to 1.-TWO eye" pieces requires 8
to 10 bushels to plant an acre if the
pieces are placed 10 to II inches apart in
the row, and the rows % to 3 feet apart.
Whole seed planted in hills 10 to 20
inches apart will require 40 to 60 bushels
to plant an acre. The conditions desired
in growing potatoes is to place the plants
so as to occupy the entire ground,
having them just far enough apart to
secure good individual development of
tubers. This can be best accomplished
by small cuttings planted closely-say,
rows % feet apart and planted 10 inches
apart in rows. With Early Ohio, Early
Hebron, Sunrise and several other va
rieties so planted nearly the entire yield
will be of marketable size.
The often practiced method of cutting
the tubers in two lengthwise or cross
wise at random and her cutting these
pieces into smaller portions is reprehensi-
BILE. There is in our estimation but one
proper method of cutting seed, and we
believe that growers who have once tried
this method will assent to the above
statement.
The method of cutting which we al
lude to is to take the tuber in the left
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17
DRY UP

your tears. Shout the glad
tidings. Kickapoo Indian
Sagwa, the genuine Indian
remedy made by the Indians
from Herbs and Banks, cures
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17

liver, or Disease of the Blood.
Sagwa cures Constipation,
Liver Complaint, Indiges-
ton, Loss of Appetite, Scrof-
ula, Rheumatism and Chills
and Fever. No Pains, no
Tears, no Signs, no Sobs if
you restore your health with
Sagwa. For sale at all
Druggists.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-11-21

profits. Making, therefore. q oonserva'
tive estimate. and allowing Tor breaks n
production. We have paid Ia there t~cnty
years some 800. o00. 900 more than j
We had produced our own tin plate a.
home. Instead Of paying $500 oot', 900
to the Welsh iin-plate trust, we would
have paid 100000. 600 TO American
manufacturers. 20 be paid hy them in
wages 10 American laborcr~, while The
500. 900 900 that we have been paying
60 the trust in the form 81 higher. prizes
would have remained m additional
savings in the pockets Of American work
ingnen.
Thus Il il that protection would M
crease national wealth by placing rs
beyond the reach 81 foreign trusts and
monopolics But this Is just what the
subsidized American Cobdenitc does not
want. By his eternal shrek that the
tariff is Il tax, he seeks TO hide the real
facts, which are that protection has ever
reduced prices, while free trade, after a
short period OF delusive 'eheapncss, " has
always ultimately raised them.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-11-21
WHIT FREE TRADE IN TINPLATES
has COST THE AMERICAN
CONSUMER.

While the American advocates 81 the
British tin.platc manufacturers are filling
1 the air with predictions OF the imm -
burden which the duty on tin lfatc IL
sgong 20 prove to the AmcricasF consum-
s1sr, il may not he amiz<<fo cxninine the
;ntact in The lig,s<J, facts and statistics,
r5lnd no SoYfncTs assertions. Tin plate,
isas every one now knows, isrcally nothing
rSut sheet iron coated with tin. This
s5heet iron forms about 0S percent. oithe
win plate. While we have been fully pro-
electing iron and almost every mnnuiac-
2fnre OF iron, tin plate has been single
lind mcxplainable exception. The result
u that while we produce nenrly MI the
syon we need ourselves, we are dependent
'9s our whole supply OF Tin plate upon
british manufacturers. The following
u}ble Of comparative prices 81 sheet iron
hnd tin plate (the cheaper quality used
Frcanning purposes since 1873 shows
That this has cost the Americanconsum-
tdand IL very suggestive;
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-11-21


Il This table shows That while iron, which
has been protected, has fallen in price
.*fty per cent. since 1878, tin plnnt, on
Sheet iron coated with tin, has risen in
price eight per cent. during the same
Period. Now, why Is thsg Why, simply
because home competition under pro.
lection has reduced the price Of sheet
non, as IL has OF everything else protect
~, while under frcc-tradc We have been
onpcIIed to purchase NIL our tin plate
efpm the Welsh tin-platc trust, which, OF
curse. has raised prices TO suit itself.
\ Now, II under protection we have been
~ to reduce the price Of sheet IRON fifty
cent. II il safe 10 assume that u tin
BE, which Is ninty-eisht per cent sheet
n, had been adequately protected. we
pa have corr~pondinrly reduced it's
~ Tor Tie pie tin, which forms bot an
e',IIIcnnt part q the tin plate, we can
''uce on just a. advantageous terms
Al Ne British. The total quantity OF
.ia(ce imported into this country an
Srn(y ycar from 1871 70 1891 was
!. b rroeu lon>. and the total Tor
)|1o 81 these appropriations was