Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-01

Healy can pull the wool over Willie's
eyes without half trying.
Citizen: For the first time in many
weeks I saw a bright light up in the
merchants block last night. What do
you suppose I heard was the occasion?
A new pig sly. By the way, are these
"blind institutions paying anything into
the revenues of the city? I am not a
prohibitionist but I believe they either
ought to pay a fine of 1926 a month like
they do in jamestown or else not be
allowed to rum"
A TRIBUNE reader, who has been
watching the course of events during
the past few weeks, doesn't understand
how Healy can declare that he was not
a member of the law and order league,
"for," says the writer, she (Hea!y) offered
me 1875 for each and every information
I would file with the states attorney
against saloon keepers. I told him I
was a poor man and needed money but
I could not be hired to be an informer."
The TRIBUNE is not criticising Mr.. Healy
for doing this-but he ought net to deny
tiff it is so.
Washburn Leader: Sam Brown was
in Washburn Thursday. Mr.. Brown
had succeeded in finding about thirty
head of his cattle he went in serch of.
He says it is reported that some three or
four hundred head of stray cattle are
scattered through the country north of
Dawson, with all sorts of brands. These
estrays are taken up mostly by farmers,
and he says it will take money to reclaim
them. It is thought that the principal
portion of this stock is owned in the
vicinity of Towner, on the Mouse river,
as they came from northward.
Stanton Pilot: One of the places of in
terest to tourists along the Missouri is
the burning coal mine hear Beamonts
ranch, opposite Hancock. The mine has
been burning for many years. The old
est %inhabitant cannot tell when the fire
started. Smoke and gas come out of
c~revices along the side of the bluff, about
so feet above the flood plain of the Mis-
souri,. Cold days it has the appearance,
at a distance, of a volcano. We have
been told by those who have assembled to
the opening or mouth of the mine that
the surface is soft and spongy, making
it dangerous to venture close.
Major Fleming in Fargo Argus: What
do I think about the Lehigh mine? I
think just enough of it to invest my
money in it, and I have here the legal
documents giving us the possession of
it. Mr.. Lally stated to me that "North
Dakota capital could buy the mine, but
no tenderfoot need apply, as he had had
proposition after proposition from east
ern capitalists" When Fargo capital
and the old-time men got after him, he
said, "Take it, and you have my best
wishes for the success of the venture"
We have a large force of men at work
having put on a night crew, and we will
work the mine for all there is in it.
Captain J. W. Gregg, chief clerk in
the state auditors office, was engaged
Wednesday in checking up the delinquent
and back taxes of Burleigh county that
have not been paid the state by reason
of not being collected. The amount SO
charged against the county is about
$1,000, and this amount the county has
valid offsets of nearly $4,000, leaving a
balance due the state, if ever collected,
of about $4,000. This checking is the
result of a law passed last winter where
by the state auditor and public examiner
are authorized to make the settlements
with the counties and wipe off from the
books a large amount of non-collectable
and dead taxes.