Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-26
A Drove of Horses Passes South of
Town in Sole Charge of a
Woman.
The State Board of Equalization
Convenes Again, and Com
pletes Its Labors.
Local News of Passing Interest
Gathered from Various Sources
Near and Far.
A Woman With Grit.

think that woman is deserving of
"rights," and that she should be allowed
a voice in the affairs of this nun
dane sphere, should have seen a woman
who passed through the country about
fifty miles south of this city, several
days ago. Their ideal of the woman who
is capable of managing, and who does
manage, her own affairs, would have been
realized, truly.
The woman in question owns her own
ranch in the state of Montana. Here
she has horses, cattle, sheep and other
animals, which are guarded by herds
men employed by her, and watched
carefully by her. She attends her
own property, however, as far as selling
and buying is concerned, as shrewdly as
any business man, and she directs all the
workings of her habitation.
Some weeks ago she determined to
drive a bunch of horses eastward and
sell them along the line. OF course, the
proper thing would have been, if she
had followed the advices of Madame
Grundy, to have entrusted them to some
man, who should make the drive and
manage the animals. But this particular
woman wasn't built out of that kind of
material. She felt that she had an i'm
mediate and important interest in those
horses, and she concluded that they
could be in no better place than under
her immediate supervision. She didn't
stop to consider the hardships to be en-
countered or the inconvenience to be
suffered in making the trip. It was of
financial interest to her to &c, and she
went.
Now any one who has ever expert
enced the occurrences incident to an
overland drive of this description, knows
full we'll that it is n which requires
much endurance. There is a painfully
noticeable lack of the romance of which
we read so much, and a disagreeable
p%rofusion of hardships to be encount-
cred at every turn. There is the riding
all day long through the hot sun, and
binding dust; the occasional struggles
for mastery with an unruly broncho;
how and then a colt becomes imbedded
in the quicksand, and all hands are called
to the rescue, to become covered with
mud from head to foot and receive a full
share of kicking from the struggling
animal; the occasional stampedes, and
the madly dangerous riding to "round-
up the frightened animals; the cooking,
the sleeping in a tent. the occasional
soaking from rain, all these disagreeable
features wero undergone by this woman,
but she made the trip in triumph, and
arrived at Cannon Ball, in good health
and the best of spirits, riding boldly out
among her horses, aiding the men who
accompanied her when it was necessary
to CORRAL them, and finally pulling up
stakes" and heading bravely for the
Black Hills. Such are Montana women,
or some OF them. at any rate.
ShC Do0Au L IAuhAAAhGAOu.
At the session of the state board of
equalization Thursday morning the sub.
ject of the levy came up for considera-
ton, and acting on the advice of the
state auditor and state treasurer it was
decided to make the levy for general pur-
poses three and one-half mills, and for
interest OF the public debt fve-tenths of
a mill, a reduction over previous years of
seven-tenths of a mill.
At the afternoon session a prolonged
discussion relative to the assessment of
national and state bank stocks came up.
It was shown by the returns that a wide
difference existed in the different coun-
ties in the returns on the banks. A
resolution was finally ordered that the
county auditors extend the taxes on
banks in their counties at 60 per cent. of
the capital stock and surplus added. It
is believed this will be more equitable
than the present returns.
This finished the labors of the board
and an adjournment sine die was taken.
The New Ordinance.
The ordinance passed by the city coun-
Gil at it's session last Wednesday even
ing, was q source of considerable discus
Q about the town, Thursday. 1t was
poor corner which couldn't boast Of
its share of orators, some arguing
bravely in favor OF the ordinance,
while others acclaimed, equally loud,
against it.
OF course, the question is two-sided,
and as is usual, each side is represented.
The ordinance is, substantially, to JUS
tify the arrest and fine of any one who
maintains a public or rather a common
nuisance in the city of Bismarck. Any
common nuisance is to be investigated,
and the operator thereof fined. The or
dinance gives power to the city marshal
to enter any building in the city, and
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