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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The department of justice has sent out
a circular of instructions to claimants
and attorneys in relation to the proceed.
ure in regard to claims FOR Indian dep
relations. One clause says:
"In considering the merits of claims
presented to the court, any testimony
atfidavits, reports of special agents or
other officers, and such other papers as
are now on file in the departments or in
the courts, relating to any such claims
shall be considered by the court as COM
potent evidence and such weight given
theretossas in it's Judgment is right and
proper Provided, that all unpaid claims
which have heretofore been examined,
approved, and allowed by the secretary
of the ~lnteior, or under his direction,
shall have priority of consideration by
such court, and judgments for the
amounts therein found due shall be rem
dered unless either the claimant or the
United States shall elect to reopen the
case and try the same before the court,
in which event the testimony in the case
given by the witnesses sand the docu-
mentary evidence, including reports of
department agents therein, may be read
as dispositions and proofs: Provided,
that the party electing to re p the
case shall assume the burden of proof"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT WHITNEY
of the Great Northern has acored a good
one on MI. W. W. Finley, chairman of
the Western Passenger association, and
who has the power-given him by the
i'trust"-tc authorize such special rate
on any road as he may see fit. MI.
Whitney has discovered that there is a
scarcity of harvest hands in the north
west and he wanted a special rate made
so that men would be induced to come
to the assistance of the northwestern
farmer from the over-crowded labor
market of the east. There was Sc much
delay in Mr.. Finley's action-or rather
there being no indication of any action
whatever-Mr. Whitney addressed him
another letter in wich he congratulates
the sagacity and consideration for the
public's welfare that actuated him to
make a speedy and favorable ruling on
the request for reduced rates for the
Hall Fitzsimmons prize fight to come
off in st. Paul this week. In the Whit
ney-Finley contest Whitney has secured
a complete knockout.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York
Sun, in a more learned and scientific
argument than has hitherto appeared on
that side of the question, declares that
killing by electricity is the most uncer-
tain and "likely inhuman" method of
taking life that has yet been devised.
He argues both from his own experience
and from a physiological standpoint that
death by the electric current can be
painless only in exceptional cases. Here
is a description ofthe victims sufferings:
"He will feel that his muscles are being
stripped from the bones; that each nerve
is a conductor heated to intensity by the
current that sears, burns, fries the parts
adjacent which offer a greater resistance
to it's flow; that he is being burned to
death by fires internal, or that a demon
has an iron grip on every inch of him
and is rending him piece from piece in
the fires of hell" According to this
writer it is not logical to draw any COM
parison between manufactured electrici-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

AT a recent meeting Of lawyers and
statesmen in the east the comment was
had that the v~ice-president cuts but a
small figure in his retired niche, and the
challenge was made to anyone IN the
company to name all the vice-presidents
elected during the adult life of the Oldest
of the gentlemen present. This was
found to go back to 1852. Each wrote
out q List with more or less blanks. Not
one in the company succeeded in the
effort. Many names were used of per-
IONS never candidates for the office. No
one remembered w. s. King, the mate
with Pierce in 1852, or Wheeler in 1876.
The list in sequence would be King,
Breckenridge, Hamlin, Johnson, Colfax,
Wilson, Wheeler, Arthur and Hendricks,
all dead. One who could name the de-
feated candidates for vi~ce-president,
even Of the two leading parties, would
be looked upon az 8 walking encyclop@-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The Hail. Fitzsimmons fight in st.
Paul has been declared off. Public
opinion was against it and in the face of
public opinion the minions Of the law
dared not discountenance the provisions
of the statutes. The most elaborate
pr eparations ever made for q pugilistic
en- counter in the country had been made
for this contest. Special rates had
been made on many of the railroads and
the SANITY city had filled to overflow
ing with the sports of the land, which in.
cludes q great many respectable people,
as well as all manner of thugs, escaped
criminals, gamblers and toughs. st,
Paul never had such q cosmopolitan
gathering before. But there is some.
thing revolving in prize fighting, no mat
ter by what name il may be known, and
its popularity as q recognized institution
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The Sioux City Journal evidently
does not feel that the prohibition law
is in force in Iowa, or at least in that
portion in which Sioux City is situated.
The Journal says: Sergeant Franciscus,
of the police department, who has charge
of the collection of saloon licenses, says
that there will be fully fifteen saloons
less this month than last. He says that
the number was too great for the wants
of the drinking populace last month,
when there we're over ninety of them that
paid licenses. Many of the places lost
money. The saloons closed are mostly
in alleys and out-of-the-way places
to which people would not go when
saloons were running open on the bust
ness streets. Some places were closed
because the owners of the buildings oc-
oupied would not permit the business to
continue for fear of injunction proceed.
ings.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

HE commissioner of agriculture and
labor is in receipt of a communication
from an Iowa man, H. L. P. Hillyer, at
torney and loan agent, asking for infor-
nation regarding farm lands in North
Dakota. He says "quite a number of
u farmers are getting more money
than they can use to good advantage
and they are asking for information re-
garding North Dakota farm land invest
ments." This from the state which our
democratic, free trade friends speak of
SO often as being "plastered all over with
mortgages" and 1.-The farmers irretriev-
ably incumbered with debit is pretty
good. The large number of mortgages
in Iowa is cited by the anti-protection-
lists as an evidence of the viciousness Of
the protective theory, yet here is a state
where the farmers are*seeking invest
ments-"have nor money than they
can use in their business" If that is the
condition brought about by poverty,
what a blessing is poverty. If
that is. the result of protection
and misrule, what q blessing is
the tariff and republicanism. AS a mat
ter of fact, the figures in the matter of
mortgages in Iowa and other western
states do not lie-they are simply misun-
derstood by the masses and purposely
misinterpreted by the democrats and
free traders. If Iowa farmers have
money to invest outside of Iowa, does it
not stand to reason that they have
money to invest in the state? The truth
is, the farmers themselves own a large
number Of the mortgages held on the
farm lands Of Iowa and other western
states, and they are in each others en-
brace and not in the grasp of the eastern
usurer at all. Hundreds Of thousands of
farmers find it profitable to borrow q few
dollars to make more rapid the improve
ments on their farms and hundreds and
thousands Of farmers find in q neighbor-
ing farmer-whose thrift and enterprise
has enabled him to accumulate q surplus
"a sfriend in need il not a 'friend in
deed" Iowa farmers have 'more money
than they can uss"---tthhe state ont OF
Wf1tE Hna ~ ma
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The following is an instance of the
way things are done in Dakota, says the
Fargo Argus: Ed. Ripley came from
England three years ago to work by the
month for E. H. Thursby in McHenry
county. He saved up enough money
and last year bought 103 sheep. Henow
has 233-having raised 100 lambs. He
clipped this spring an average of "a
pounds from the original 103, and sold
the wool at II cents net. The ewes are
all natives, but he uses a Shropshire
buck. Mr.. Ripley lives seventeen miles
north of Towner, adjoining Thursby's
cattle ranch. This shows what a man
with a head on him can do in North Da-
kota, if he wants to.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

FROM statistics furnished by the q. S.
census bureau it is learned that the total
number of pupils in schools for the blind
in the United States in 1889 was 1881,
while in 1880 the number was 2,041, an
increase in tho decade of $50. The ap-
parent increase IL the decade is due to
for the reception and education Of the
blind in the schools established for
this purpose. In the Illinois institu,
ton for the education of the blind, at
Jacksonville, in 1889, the total number of
persons was 215; of these 125 we're male
and 80 females. The total cost of main
tenance of the institution for that year
was $53,O9S.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

NOTHING to be gained by too much
booming about the wheat crop. 1t will
only have the effect of bearing the prices
down and keeping the market weak. The
harvest isn't on yet and there are signs
OF some damage by rust in some portions
of the state, particularly in the Red river
valley, where the bulk of the wheat is
raised. The crop will not be what the
enthusiasts now claim for it. There is
no use of being ~extravagant in expecta-
lions.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

ST. PAUL did herself proud in the en-
tertainment of the National Editorial as
ISOLATION, last week, and the delegates
will take home with them naught but
the pleasantest recollectlons of the
SANITY city. The meeting of the associ-
alton was the most successful in it's his
tory, and attended by delegates from
every state and territory in the United
States. Some excellent papers were read
and discussions of great value INDUCED
in, the talk by Mr.. Scott, who has made
such a phenomenal success of the Chica-
go Herald, being particularly worthy of
mention. The association was in session
three days, and the unstinted generosity
of the st. Paul people in a social way
was equaled only by the perseverance re-
quired to resist the temptation of "all
play and nc work" on the part of the
delegates to the convention. A banquet
at Lake Minnetonka, Friday night, fol-
lowed by excursions to Duluth and Su-
perior, the Yellowstone Park and Pacific
coast on Saturday rounded up the pleas
ure of the association, while the business
happily ended in the election of Hon.
VIM. Cappellar, of Ohio, president, and
the reelection of j. M. Page, of Illinois,
corresponding secretary. The next meet
ing will probably be held in San Diego,
California.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

LAST years immigration, though
heavy, was smaller than that of several
earlier years. Nor does it's general char
acter excite any particular apprehension.
OF the total number of immigrants, 405,-
664, Germany supplied nearly one-fifth
and Italy considerably more than one-
sixth. The italian contingent is pro-
badly open to large objections; and
among the Austrians, Hungarians, Poles
and Bohemians, who together compose
an army of IS, 726 strong, there are un-
questionably many who, under a proper
consular inspection, would not have been
admitted.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

burning quite a hole in the side Of the
office, then going out without doing fur
Their damage.
The Grand Forks base ball club has
disbanded for the season.
Mclean comfy has 656 acres more
wheat and 10 more acres of corn than
last year.
John j. Robinson is purchasing and
shipping cattle from Mclean county.
He reports it a profitable business.
DR.. Lovejoy has severed his position
as physician at Fort Stevenson and re.
turned to his home at Sidney Center,
N. Y.
Billy Bulge has returned to Grand
Forks from a two months visit on the
Pacific coast. It is SAID he cleaned up a
little money.
North Dakota Eagle says that fax will
be grown this year by a good many
farmers who have never before handled
1t, and that som remarks upon harvest
ing the crop may not be out of order.
The Rolla Star states that an illicit
distillery has been running way back in
the mountains for over a year. The
place is said to be inaccessible from this
side by reason of swamps,the entrance be-
ing on the Manitoba side, but the still is
on American soil. The liquor is said to
be the regular tanglefoot stuff. The
proprietors dispose of their manufacture
during the night.
Dawson Times: Henry Anclam, one of
the boys of Dawson, came in from the
west on Mondays train. He left here
last fall for Ft. Buford where he spent
some time and then went to Bismarck
where he remained and sheared sheen
until recently. He reports crops in
Burleigh county looking we'll, but that
more time and attention is given to sheep
raising. Wages are fair, and none need
hunger for want of work.
Mandan Pioneer: Five pupils OF the
Clantauf Indian girls school in Minne-
sofa came in from the east yesterday
morning. After partaking of a good
breakfast they started for their homes at
Standing Rock where engagements are
awaiting them as teachers, laundresses,
etc. They were all bright looking young
women, but their shyness when ap-
preached by their red sisters in paint
and native Indian toggery was particu-
larly noticeable.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

dia; but only two of them are living,
English and Thurman. Blaine is the
only survivor of the candidates foFpresi-
dent ofthe two leading parties who was
never elected. Greeley died in 1872, but
the others since the war all died within
a half dozen years. But one survivor
of the Lincoln cabinet is recalled-Mc-
Cullough. Senators Sherman and Nor
rill are becoming lonesome among the
political veterans in congress. Public
life is evidently not coducive to longe-
Vity.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

Hon. WALDO NJ. POTTER, whose re-
publicanism bubbles over in frequent
letters to the press, has one in the Fargo
Republican which seems to intimate that
there are "grave causes of dissatisfac-
tom and that a Harmonious sentiment
is wanting in the ranks Of the republic
can party in North Dakota. It is easy
to Sound alarm and recommend "har-
mony" in politics, but why this interest
at this particular time? What is to be
gained by intimating or charging, at
this time, that there is any "division" in
the republican ranks? Give the people
a rest. Let the farmer harvest his crop
in peace. What he wants now is assist
ance in a substantial way. He would
rather read a discussion of the ways
and means for procuring a little aida
short loan at reasonable rate of interest
to secure his harvest, than a lecture on
politics. He wants harvest hands. He
wants binding Irvine at anti-monopoly
prices. He wants help in the fight
against unjust discrimination in freight
and elevator rates. He wants an honest
grade and a fair price, and when he gets
all through-has paid his debts or inter
est, and provided for his family for the
coming ~year-then he may be interested
in things political. and being interested,
will, when the proper time comes, take
a hand in the business. For humanity'e
sake, let a people already cursed with too
much politics have a rest.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

IT now seems to be the settled policy
of the 500 road to finish the grade from
Monango to connect with the Bismarck
and Aberdeen grade and lay ten miles of
track, leaving the ironing-for lack of
money-of the balance of the line to Bis.
marck until next spring. A late, open
fall, however, might change the program
aud more iron be laid this year.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

Mr.. G. @. BowsF1ELD, who sold out
his North Dakota Newspaper union, &C.
complished a big thing for North Dakota
country newspapers. They will get a
distinctively North Dakota "inside" here
after, the St. Paul Newspaper UNION
which is said to have paid Bowsfeld
$4,000 for his misunderstanding decided
to make the branch at Fargo permanent.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The country press of Minnesota is not
giving the peoples party of that state
the support that Sachem Donnelly and
Bodad, the Boss Prophet Erwin, had
hoped. Even the farmers alliance, in
some instances, where guided by men of
mature thought and sound sense, does
not take kindly to the seductive illusions
of the peoples party.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

debt-money in the treasury-this the
state the democratic alleged statesmen re-
fer to so often as presenting the awful i'm
press OF the "iron heel of monopoly" and
the home of the down-trodden and pov-
erty-stricken farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The TRIBUNE has made arrangements
whereby it is enabled to furnish any
magazine or newspaper published-if
taken with the Bismarck TRIBUNE, daily
or weekly-from ten to twenty-five per
cent. off of regular subscription price.
Subscribers to the TRIBUNE who desire
other publications also should remember
thic
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24
First Publication July "a, 1891.
Notice of Final Proof.
LAND OFFICE At B1sMARcK, MD

g. LAND OFFICE AT BIsMARoK, ND, laE4
&5 July q, 1891.
Notice il 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: 7
GEORGE WATSON.
Fifth P. NJ. ~
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of.
Ernest Voss, David Richards, Albert C. Jones
and George 8, rocks, all Of MCKENZIE, N. %.
s8 E.S. NEAL, Register.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

The commissioner of the general land
Office has issued an order apportioning
the 100000 appropriated for surveys of
public lands during the fiscal year end
ing July 80, 1892. The amount appor-
toned to North Dakota is 1926, 900.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24
The Bismartk Trihnme.
BY M. H.
THE DAILY TRIBUNE.

Published every morning, except Monday, at Bis
marck, Dakota, is delivered by carrier to all parts
of the city at Is cents per week, or 81 per month.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Daily one month, postage paid, s 1 90
Daily three mnpths, postage paid, 90
Daily six months, postage paid, 90
Daily one year, postage paid, 10 90
WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Eight pages, containing q summary of the news of
the week, both foreign and local; published every
Friday, sent postage paid to any address, for one
year 81; six months, 81; three months. rs cents.
The WEEKLY TRIBUNE is the Oldest paper in
North Dakota and the aim is made to make it a
perfect encyclopedia of Dakota affairs. Its circu-
lation is large, both in the territory and the
states.
The DAILY TRIBUNE, like the weekly edition,
containing the full Associated Press dispatches,
is a desirable advertising medium through which
o reach all northwestern towns and military
posts remote from railroad lines.
The DAILY TRIBUNE will be found on file at
the Grand Pacific hotel, and Lord g. Thomas, ad-
~vertising agents, Chicago. and at reading rooms
and news depots throughout the country.
The general eastern advertising agent of the
TRIBUNE is a. F. Richardson, Room IS, Tribune
Building, New York. AL advertisements for the
TRIBUNE from points east of Illinois should be
sent to him.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

GENERAL ALLEN has been interviewed
in Erie, Pa, and denies with some feel
ing and positive emphasis the report
that he had left North Dakota. North
Dakota is indeed a seductive spot. Even
the disappointed and unappreciated
politician becomes attached to her peo-
pie and the ozone in the atmosphere,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT FEES
latest success is the fine map showing
the route of an excursion steamer on an
Alaskan trip. The Alaskan travel this
season is larger than ever before.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

JOHN WEIsER and James Stull began
The publication of the Daily News in
Valley City Saturday. That city, which
is soon to have the 500 line, now has a
daily, a semi-weekly and two weeklies.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24
First publication July "a, 1891
Notice of Homestead Final Proof.

LAND OFFICE AT BISMARCK, N. D.,
July 20. 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following-named
final PROOF, IN support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the register and re-
celVer at Bismarck, n. D., on August 20, 1891, Wis.
WILLIAM MoCRORIE,
for lots 8 and 4, SEQ. q, twp. 1856 north, range no.
west fifth principal meridian. ->S.5
He names the following witnesses to prove his
eaid land, viz: GaagE =
z Henry !1c Gsgs'r, steweTsts%dale, n. p; Frank b.
Coz. N. D.. Joseph Allen, Sterling, N. D.
e. 6. NEAL, Register. ~
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

has not thus far extended ia the cities
OF the northwest. Public sentiment is
against exhibitions of this character and
an outraged public sentiment hath great
furv-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24
lsMARCKIWEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAYI1JuLY 24 1891.

ty and the lightning flash, because the
latter's force can only be estimated by
billions of volts. So it must be ad-
mitted, even yet, that there are two sides
to the electricity question.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

In some parts Of Colorado the grass.
hoppers are an inch thick or more and
driving cattle and sheep before them,
as they eat every green thing.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

North DAKOTA has only thirty-fve
paupers that are cared for in aims
houses.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-07-24

SAYS the Fargo Argus: With the adj
vent of good crops the agitation Of or
ganizing farmers alliances and their
work seems to be on the wane.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-01

Stevens, and is thorough, competent
railroad man, and the engineer is VIII
liam Laycock, and he is also perfectly
reliable. Both are men of property and
responsible for their acts.
My commission reads ''To construct,
equip and operate the Portage railway
therefore l trust / have not overstepped
my office by employing good, compe
tent operating service for the portage.
In conclusion permit me to say have
no hesitancy in stating that the state of
Oregon has good substantial portage
and fully equipped to do all the service
that may be brought to it and feel sure
that the relief asked for by the people of
Eastern Oregon is accomplished. Again
1 thank you, gentlemen, for my appoint
ment, and for the kindness that you
have extended to me as your servant and
trust my services have been satisfactory
to you and to the state of Oregon. / am
Your obediant servant,
q. J. FARLEY,
Superintendent.