Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-11-13

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more's figures and the stake holder
handed over the money.
VIM. Wen the tree puller of the Mis-
souri, returned this week with a large boat
load of young trees. For the past two
months Mr.. Wen has been in the vicinity
Of Glendive engaged in pulling trees, of
which he shipped about 100000 to par
ties in different portions of the state, and
brought down river with him about g.
100000 more.
Fred Kenzie, the runaway boy from
Tacoma, was put aboard the west bound
passenger tram Monday by Chief of
Police Molloy. He had two companions
who left home in Tacoma at the time he
did. They are about. ten and twelve
years old and said they intended to go
to st. Paul 20 shovel snow this winter.
They bought tickets to Mandan.
The government boat Josephine and
the Bachelor were in port Wednesday.
The Abner O'Neal wal up river after
wheat and will probably be in to-day.
The Rosebud is coming from Pierre and
was due here yesterday, but, owing to
the heavy winds, will be a day or two
late. The snag boat Mandan was up
river, but will probably go in winter
quarters here.
An old river pilot, who has been on
the Missouri for many years, tells the
Sioux City Journal: There's just as
much water in the Missouri as there was
thirty years ago. I piloted on the river
in the '60s. The stream was easier to
navigate in those days because the
greater number of boats running kept
the channel clear. The first craft over
a bar has a hard time blowing through,
but after her passage the water scours
out the channel and the boats following
have no trouble.
st. Paul News, 7th: The 500 is rapid
ly penetrating to the Northwest, where
it bids fair to become as important a
commercial factor as it now is east of the
Mississippi river. Its new branch from
Hankinson, N. D., to Valley City, sixty
miles west Of Fargo, was thrown open
yesterday and passenger service inaugu-
rated. The line is pushing on and now
extends twenty miles west of Monango.
Bismarck, for the present, is the main
objective point and will be reached dur
ing the middle of next year.
North Dakota Republican: Farmers
On the Missouri slope are holding their
their grain because they have not time
to market it. There has been great scare
ity of laborers, and in order to get their
threshing done, the farmers entered into
an agreement to help each other. A SUI
fcient number to run a machine agree to
assist each other until all have threshed.
So when a farmer has completed his
grain, as in former years, he is obliged to
help his neighbor. The threshing on
the Missouri slope is o we'll advanced.
A heavy marketing of grain will soon
commence.
Major Dickey: Some curious claims
for Indian depredations are now coming
up for settlement by the new court for
this kind of claims. Last week a claim
was put in for the loss of a couple of ne
groes away back in the '3Os somewhere.
If you will look back in the
congressional debates of ~ or
43, you will find that this
matter was up. The theft by the Indi-
ans was admitted and the claim on its
face was regular, but John Dickey, my
father, then in congress, opposed
the payment of the bill and defeated the
measure on the ground that "the consti-
tuition Of the United States did not re-.
cognize the right of property in man."
A good story is told on one of the
county justices of Bnrleigh county. A
colored gentleman who had been work.
ing for a farmer for some time was un
able to collect his wages. He went to
the justice to sue the farmer. The
justice had no blanks, on which to make
out the complaint, and having never
performed any of that kind of work, he
advised his client as follows: "You GO
back and tell Mr.. ----- that if he
don't hand over your wages you will
pound the ID out of him. That is
all the papers yor ,sed." The hired
man thinning that Wasflaw, as it came
from a justice, returned to his employer
and taking off his coat started in to exc
cute the orders of the justice. But be-
fore he got commenced, the farmer
pulled out his pocket book and paid him
his earnings. The colored gentleman
offered to pay the justice a fee, but he
told him he was not a candidate for re.
election and while his Office lasted in
formation would be free.
Fridays Personals, 9Th inst.
Colonel Lamont came up from Fargo
yesterday to attend the meeting of the