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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
Points of Interest,

This fact stands out in the midst Of
the disastrous experience of numerous
sheep raisers in the past half dozen
years: The price of wool has been like
the Indians description of the white
man, mighty onsartain," but more and
more mutton has been consumed every
veal. The inhabitants of the United
States are becoming II sheep eating peo-
pie, and you Il depend o. that. When
wool does not pay, therefore, you can be
sure that good fat mutton always will.
In western Colorado mutton brings a
better price per pound than beef.
The hogs of Maine, Rhode Island and
Connecticut bring the highest price per
head of those of any of the states.
The year 1890 has added more than a
thousand new trotters to the 2:3O list in
America.
A movement is now on foot to cross
the American trotting horse with En-
glish hackneys. 1t is expected that from
this cross an animal will result which
will possess the speed Of the trotter and
UlC luigi tAu S1LC VI C4lC LliClAICS.
It is hoped to produce a superior car
riage horse from the cross.
Big hogs are raised in South Dakota in
spite of the belief that swine thrive best
in a warner climate. A farmer near
Sioux Falls lately sold seventy-five hogs
that averaged 375 pounds apiece. But
how old were they?
If the sheep is healthy and growing,
putting on flesh instead of shrinking,
the mutton will not have a woolly flavor.
It is the sheep that is on the down grade
that produces woolly mutton.-Field
and Farm.
Eastern farmers should think how it
would seem to go out among their herds
some morning and find that from fifty
to a hundred Of their best and latest
cattle have been killed or stolen during
the night. This is what the redskins
have been at in some localities.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
ANIMAL INTERESTS.
WHOLESALE SACRIFICE OF RANGE
CATTLE IN THE WEST.

Some Language Which Is Plain on This
Subject-Not Enough Cows in tho United
States to Produce n Steer Crop That Is
Sufficient for the Demand.
Any person who has had access to the
market reports contained in any of the
papers published throughout the Il
try during the last four years knows
that the marketing of cattle has been
something wonderful. They know also
that cows and calves have been forced
on the market, and if the result has not
been a reduction something is wrong.
Any person who has been connected
with the range business knows that the
object was q reduction or sacrifice of
cattle, as it was no longer a profitable
thing to run range cattle at the ruling
price, which has dropped lower and
lower because Of an ovcrcrowded market.
Now it this wholesale sacrifice which
has been going on since 'S6 has not re-
suited in a reduction it is one of the
even wonders. Cattle holdings are
not increasing in this country; on the
contrary, they have been falling off for
years, and at this moment there is such
decrease in numbers as compared with
former years that a general knowledge
of the facts as they exist would stimulate
values, for the reason that once it be.
came generally known just how many
cattle there arc in the country, the ship
ment Of she cattle, yearlings, calves and
unripe stuff would cease and a shortage
would at once be seen.
We have said before that the trouble
with market prices OF cattle is overmar-
keting, and it is going to be apparent
very shortly hat there are not COWS
enough in the United States to produce
d steer crop sufficient to supply the
home demand for beef if we should keep
the she stock and yearlings off the mar
ket for three years. Cows are worth
double the amount they will bring on
the beef markets for use at home if own
ers could only be convinced and hold
them off the market till the actual con-
dition of the product Of the country be-
comes apparent, for the farm cattle have
been as systematically sacrificed as the
range cattle, and the whole matter is go
ing to be forced upon the country with
all the horrors of a robbery of beef from
the dinner tables of the working Glasses.
Take Il "hunch' and hang on to my
thing in the way of a beef animal till
the shortage appears; it won't be long
and is inevitable.
This is the wrong season of the year
for silver lining editorials, so this cannot
be classed rs such.-Montana Stock
Growers Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
LIVE STOCK COLUMN.
WHICH PAY BEST, SHEEP OR CAT
TILE? THAT IS THE QUESTION.

Which Is More Profitable, Beef and Milk,
or Mutton and Woolo-How Much Cow
and Sheep Take from the Soil and
How Much Each Gives to Man.
Can mutton be more cheaply produced
than beef? AS bearing upon this subject
Stewart calls attention to the fact that
the sheep is a source of double income
meat and wool. He refers, too, to the
experiments of Sir J. B. Lawes, in refer
ence to the percentage of food utilized
OF stored up by different animals, and
these experiments presented the sheepin
a very favorable light. OF the dry food
consumed he found that the sheep stored
up increased weight 12 per cent, while
cattle only laid up in increased weight s
per cent; that is, 81 pounds Of dry food
increased the live weight of cattle.
So that, relying upon these expert
ments, sheep must be considered as ex-
cellent utilizcrs of food, as producing as
many pounds of mutton, besides the
wool, from q given quantity Of food, as
as a be produced of beef; and, as the
best mutton brings as high a price as
the beef, it would appear on this basis
the sheep would give the fleece as extra
profit over cattle. IF this is not too
favorable a view, the sheep on suitable
lands must be considered among the
most profitable of farm stock. 1t is true
the dairy COW brings her profitable flow
of milk to offset that Of wool, but the
dairy COW does not lay on flesh while
producing milk as does the sheep while
producing wool.
A fleece of five pounds of wool grown
in a year requires only a daily growth
of onc-ffth of All ounce, which can take
but Il small portion of food to produce.
The mineral matter taken from the soil
by the fleece is only 1.G ounces per year,
and if six half mutton sheep represent a
COW the whole mineral constituents
taken by the six feeces would only be
9.G ounces and about 1.9 pounds of nitro
gen, while the ordinary COW yielding
1000 pounds Of milk would take 26
pounds of mineral matter or ash and IS
of nitrogen, or 43 times as much mineral
matter and Is times as much nitrogen as
the feeces of the sheep.-Montana Live
Stock Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
Side ofBArh

free from lice: but in the winter at the
north hens must have u warm house to
yield eggs, especially the Leghorns and
similar breeds. Many farmers who
have no comfortable places for fowls in
winter can have something like that
shown in the picture, and by Il trifling
outlay sccure eggs during the winter. The
sides, where there is no hay, are lined
up with boards, and the space is filled
with sawdust. One advantage of such a
house or room is that on warm days
hens can be allowed to run and scratch
on the feed floor.
l often see directions for building a
shed attached to a hen house under
which the hens may go in mild weather.
but in the north the snow would blow
into such a shed unless it was closed
with some kind of doors. Hens delight
to scratch in the chaff and hayseeds
which collect ON the barn floor. They
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
True I~nUeDonlnucc.

The stock farmer has the most indie.
pendent life in the world, says The West
ern Agriculturist. His stock and grass
grows day and night, rain or shine, with
out a host of hands to feed and pay off.
He is more independent of the bad sea-
sons than the grain grower, who loses a
crop when the season is bad. True,
there is nothing now to Drag of in prices
of stock, but still it is better than any
other business on the farm, and if we
have high grade stock we get the top of
the markets that pay well ever in these
times.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
The WOOlIy West.

The Big Timber Pioneer takes pride
in recounting the following facts to the
credit of its town and county in general:
One million six hundred thousand pounds
Of wool shipped from Big Timber the
past season, valued at 10 cents per pound;
$4,000 mutton sheep shipped, valued at
So. 10 per head; 0 1000 stock sheep sold to
Dakota parties at al average of $3.50
per head; nine cars of cattle shipped at a
value Of $$335 per head.-Montana Live
Stock Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
Salt Lake Stock Yards.

The stock yards scheme of Salt Lake
City bids fair to be consummated, and is
being pushed with commendable enter
prise. There are over 1870 incorporators,
including many Omaha, Kansas City and
Chicago capitalists, as well as Salt Lake
business men. The plans for the new
yards have been prepared by Super
intendent Childs, of the Kansas City
Union stock yards, and cover about
twenty-five acres, including buildings,
stable, yards and sheds for the handling
of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. The
exchange building, which includes the
Office of the stock yards company, Offices
for the various commission firms, proba-
bly, a bank, ETC., has a frontage of about
1870 feet, is two stories in height, and has
a depth Of so feet. The present plan
also contemplates a hotel and restaurant
separate from the exchange building.
No reason exists why q large and profit
able cattle trade should not be built up
at Salt Lake, where the business of
Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah can
be coIcentrated.-Field and Farm.
Senator Hampton says that a thor
oughbred stallion is the gamest cavalry
- s-cxl-E. IL 5EAENSs
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
Total expenditures .
Risks.

Risks.
Gross amount of risks
taken during the
oi ysar 1s. .},o3at ;fts27o,""',7ls
risks taken in the
state of North Da-
kota during the
year 1880. .......... 5aj. 1914 90
Whole amount of risks outstand,
Whole amonnt of losses incurred S'''' ''''i10"
during the year 1890, including
those claimed and not yet due. 912. O6o II
Whole amount of losses incurred
during, the year 1870, including
those claimed but not vet due in
the state of North Dakota. .. 2,sO5 OS
Number of agents in he state of
North Dakota ...........l3
STATE OF NEW YORK, 10
County of New York. {ss
Ihos. +. Goodrich. vice president, and Geo, G,
Howe, secretary of the Niagara Fire Insurance
company of New York. being duly sworn, depose
and cay, that the foregoing is II full, true and cor
rect statement of the affairs of said company;
that the said insurance company is the bona,
tide owner of at least OIL hundred Thousand dol
lars OF actual cash capital, invested in the state
worth double the amount for which the same is
mortgaged; and they are the above described Off
THos. f. Goodrich. President.
GEO. &. HOWE, Secretary.
Subscribed end sworn to before me this oath
day OF January, 1871.
(sEALJ RuFUs A. McHARG,
Notary Public, New York City.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
l. A. l.. Carey. Commissioner of Insurance. of
the state + North Dakota. do hereby cert fly that
he above 10 a trre copy of the original statement
now on file in this office.
In witness whereof, | have hereunto set nv
hand and affixed the seal of this office, at Bis
marck, this It'll day of February, 1891.
lsEALJ A. L. CAREY,
By l.. +. CoMERFoRp, Chief Clerk.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA.
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONED OF In, FRANC
COMPANY'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
Whereas. The Niagara Fire Insurance COM
pany. y corpor ton organized under the laws of
New York. has filed in this Office a sworn state
ment exhlb'tins its condition and business for
the year ending December 81, 1890. conformable
to the requirements of tn" laws of this state reg
ulatlng the business Of i. .>urarlce; and
Whereas, The said company has filed
in this Office a duly c"r lie | copy of it's CHARTER.
with certificate of org 'n,zation, in compliance
with the. requirements tf the insurance laws
aforesaid:
Now. therefore, 1. A. T.. Carey, commissioner OF
insurance Of the state of North Dakota, pursuant
to the provisions of said laws, do hereby certify
that tho above named company is fully empow.
cred, through its authorized agents. TO transact
its appropriate business of fire insurance in this
state, according to the laws thereof, until the 31st
day of December, A. D 1891.
IN testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
airy, A. ID. 1891. ~
tsEALl a. L. CAREY,
Commissioners Of Insurance.
By Y. =. sRF Chief Clerk
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
4 Winter

A correspondent of The Rural New
Yorker gives the following illustration
and description of a cheap winter hen
house with which he has had excellent
success:
Almost any kind of a house will do
for hens IN warm weather, il they run
at large, and the house is kept clean and
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17

The division of milk COWS Of the best
known breeds seems to be as follows:
Jerseys for butter, Holsteins for cheese
and Ayrshires for both milk and cheese.
The Ayrshire is probably the best cow
for the dairyman who supplies milk to
city customers. She gives a great guam
tity of milk, and is not such an immense
feeder as the Holstein.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
First publication March 20, 1871
Notice of Homestead Final Proof.
LAND OFFICE AT BISMARCK, N. d.
March 10 1SN1

LAND OFFICE AT BIsMAncE, N. d.
March II, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention IL
make final proof in support of his clai IL, ana
that said proof will be made before the register
and receiver ct Bismarck, N. D., on May 9,
1891, viz:
ANGUS MCLEAN,
70.
he names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
Eaid land. viz:
David Sullivan. John Mckenzie and Hector
Nc! can of Stewardadalc. N. D., and William
A.. Falconer of Bismar. /, N. D..
s FISHER. Receiver. :
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17

eat many seeds which might otherwise
get into the manure and make trouble
for the farmer. One great advantage in
keeping hens is that if rightly managed
there will seldom be Il time when a flock
will not be making some addition to the
farmers income. Last year | sold from
Oct. l, 1888, to Oct. /, 1889, ninety-three
dollars worth of eggs and chickens from
ffty-six hens, besides using all we needed
in the family and having ovar 100 fowls
On hand on Oct. l, 1889.
Once more permit us to remark:
Keep clean, dry sheds for your hogs to
retire to when the rain and snow trans
form their stamping grounds into
swamps that threaten to choke them
with mud, and when the icy blasts
whistle around corners and penetrate
even a hogs thick hide. Hogs that have
comfortable quarters do not require so
much feed.
The 2-year-old thoroughbred Bolero,
recently bought by Philip Dwyer for
$751; 600, brought the second highest price
ever paid for a racing horse at auction in
America. The horse King Thomas wa
Sold far ssss,0c0. ss
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the Year Ending Dee 81, a. ID. 1890.
of the condition and affairs of the
Western Assurance Company
OF TORONTO.

". =. BRBNcn)
Organized under the laws of tho Dominion of
Canada, made to the Commissioner of Insur-
ance of the State of North Dakota, in pursuance
of the laws of shld state.
President. A. NJ. Smith; secretary, {. c. Foster;
manacing director. }. }. Kenny; principal office,
y Wellington street East, Toronto.
Organized or Incorporated August, 1851; COM
menced business August, 1851.
Property or Assets of the Company.
the cash on hand in its office is ......S 5sl
Ihs cash on deposit in bank il ........ 49,, 257 ~
The cash in hands of agents and in
course of transmission is ............ 1874, 1893 81
Stocks and bonds owned by the COM
pany, as per schedule attached to
original statement, total carried out
at m rket valne..:;..... -......:.:: sos, 1922 so
All other sums due the company, bills
receivable 3O,033 93
1otil useelS IL, llo III
Liabilities.
Amount of losses yet nnpaid........$ S0,417 IS
Amount of claims for losses resisted
by the company. 1900 90
Whole amount of unenrned premiums
on outstanding risks =. .......... 535.slS 26
Amount of all other existing claims 17,297 ST
Total liabilities .............. $685., 1913 81
Income During the Year 1890.
Whole amount of cash premiums re-
ColEeu 81 ,gUo,gW II
Whole amount Of cash premiums re-
ccivcd on policies written in the
State of North Dakota .. .$2,S47 81
Whole amount of interest money re-
ceived 1892 OS
Total income. ............... 81 ,243, i32 %
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17

Senator Hampton says that a thor
oughbred stallion is the gamest cavalry
horse in the world.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
ANNUAL. STATEMENT,
For the Year Ending Dec. 81. A. D. 800
OF the condition and affairs of the
Imperial Fire Insurance Company,
OF LONDON,

Organized under the laws of the Kingdom of
Grent Britain: mnde to the COMMISSIONS of In
surance OF the State of North Dakota, in pursu-
anre of the laws of said state.
General Manager, Edward Coyens Smith, Lon
don. England.
Principal Office ir the United States, 20 Kilby
street, Eoston, Mass. John G.. Paige. Resident
Manager and General Attorney.
Western Branch, 2Ss and 24O La Sale street,
Chicago, Ill. Daniel {. Osmun, Resident Mana
ger.
Organized 1903; commenced business 1909.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-04-17
ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the year ending December 81, 1920, of the
condition and affairs of the
Niagara Fire ms. Co.

OF NEW YORK,
Organized under the laws of the state of New
York and made to the COMMISSIONS of Insur-
ance of the state of North Dakota, in pursuance
of the laws of said state.
President, Peter hoffman; vice president. Thos.
F. Goodrich; Secretary, Geo. C.. Howe. Prime
pal office, 49, Broadway.
Organized or Incorporated July, 1850. Com
mcnccd business August. 1850.
Capital.
Evening journal., 1891-09-30
TeLEeaApHlo sREvlTlEs.

Frank G. Almy, the Hanover murderer,
pleaded not guilty when charged with
Christie Warden's murder He was car
ried into court on a cot on account Of his
broken leg
In Covington, KY, the John Seller
Brewing company made an assignment
Assets, 100000 liabilities, s75 600
In New York the indictment against
John Carrera for assault on The Allen
will be dismissed on the recommendation
of the district attorney, who says that
conviction is impossible.
In Newark, O., Wilson McCreary aud
Tim Murphy were killed by cavein while
at work In a sewer.
Fire consumed the finishing aud store
sheds Of Gross Brothers marble quarry in
Lee, Mass In the building were stored
1000 finished government headstones.
which were practically ruined.
At Pittsburg the jury In the case OF Pat
rick Fitzpatrick, charged with the murder
of Samuel EARLY, rendered a verdict Of
guilty, first degree.
At plankinton South Dakota's first grain
palace has been opened to the public.
Rufus Ferry, hackman, and Carrie
Green, mnlatto, were drowned in the Chi
cago river at the Washington street bridge,
Ferry driving into an open draw
Annie, the seventeen ear-old daughter
Of w, H. Myer, Shiloh Valley oils. farm
en- has disappeared because her parents
insisted on her marrying an Objectionable
sutton. II is feared she has killed herself
William Gould, Jr., OF Albany, who was
found guilty Of aiding and abetting Book
keeper Whitney in falsifying the accounts
Of the Albany City National bank, was
sentenced to six years Imprisonment.
Bands Of riotous negroes have almost
taken possession Of lee county, Ark. The
killing OF Tom Miller, white man and
agent for J. L. Frank by the rioters aud
strikers at Mariana, precipitated a seri-
Gus state OF affairs
Thomas J. Marsh, a we'll known figure
IL Massachusetts, politics, died very sud
denly at Roberts, Wis.
Il is again rumored in Washington that
/ the president win ask for the resiguation
/ Of Pension Commissioner Raum.
Two steerage passengers on the Waes-
land are attacked with smallpox after
/ landing in New York There were i50
( other immigrants on the vessel
| It is denied that Convict Meredith, who
shot Phil DAILY, was transferred from Sing
Sing to Auburn asylum because he knew
dangerous prison secrets, aud assertedthat
he stole and falsifed the prison books
| while ia Sing Sing.
Evening journal., 1891-09-30
cAeLE RREvLrIEs.

Chancellor Caprivi, almost Immediately
after his recent pacific speech, told several
high military officers that no one could
know when the army might be suddenly
called 70 the defense Of the fatherland.
The Russians are avenging themselves
for German hostility 10 the cars financial
interests by harsh measures toward Ger
man residents within the Russian empire.
A decree viii soon be issued requiring all
foreigners either TO become Russian sub.
jects or leave the empire
The kaiser has had fair success IN bis
hunting trip He has become quite an ex-
pert in he use Of the weapon, especially
constructed for him, TO be used with one
arm. At grand battue the kaiser shot
more pheasants than any Of his staff.
The Gillian American difficulties are
viewed with great anxiety by the English
nitrate interests.
The strain Of the recent public functions
has seriously increased the feebleness OF
the pope, and his condition causes alarm.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt's eyesighi
Is falling, and he has paid fruitless visit
TO an oculist
Chinese troops in Human are in a muffin.
GUS condition aud fears are entertained fol
the safety of the foreigners.
Sixty thousand persons filed st. Peter,
IN Rome on the occasion Of the pope's cele
bration of mass.
English labor men have issued a mani
festo and insist upon greater representa-
Gion in parliament.
Evening journal., 1891-09-30

The southern Exp sition and Future
Prosperity.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
in a regent article on the prosperity OF
the country, gives the following:
afne sOutu will share 10 me fullest
extent in this great prosperity. With
the return OF financial activity the csDi-
tslists of the North and OF Europe, who
fully understand that the South is he
best field IN the world for safe and pro.
titable ~ yestments. will put their money
into this section more freely than they
have ever done The Manufacturer $
Record has made many predictions 10 the
past about the prospects OF the South
aud our readers will bear test imonv 10
the fact that hey have been more than
fulfilled II makes another prediction.
DURING THE LATTER PART or
THIS YEAR THERE WILL BE IN
CREASED scTIvITy THROUGHOUT THE
souTu FOLLOWED in 1892 BY sTIt I,
BETTER THINKS with neavy investments
OF outside money 10 railroads, in mineral
and timber properties and ia manufac-
turing enterprises, and the South will
make rapid and substantial progress in
the development Of its iron interests. 10
will rapidly expand u large proportions
81 the bulldiag up of a still eater for
elgn c,mmerce, aud ia The growth Of
southern sesports, These will be SOM
OF he leading lines Of advancement, but
great progress will be made in the gen
eral industrial and business interests OF
the whole South.
The sentence In small capitals is
I - I'll
Southern Exposition is TO be held in
Raleigh, n G.. during the months 81
October and November. There will b.
shown the products and manufactures o.
! the Southern stts There the people
OF the SouGh will gather and there
Northern investors can meet thos'
who have lands 10 sell, or WIN
can offer other lines OF Investments
The Exposition will be an Exchange fol
the whole untry Low rates Of trave
will bs offered from New York city.