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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
VALUABLE MUSSEL SHELLS.
Pearls of Great Price Found in Ohio
Rivers.
Especial Correspondence

Rivers.
Especial Correspondence
WAYNEsyILLE, O., May l0.-Mr. Israel
Harris, a banker, geologist and antigua
rian, of this village, has probably the
largest collection of American pearls in
existence. The pearl mussel is found in
both the Great and Little Miami rivers,
and for a number of years the business of
pearl fishing was prosecuted here with a
good deal of diligence-so much SO, in fact,
that the mussels were pretty nearly eradi-
Gated. They were hunted SO recklessly
that few were left to propagate, and the in
dustry in consequence has nearly died out.
During its height some years & MANY
good finds were made, and as the fortunate
ones were always anxious to realize on
their good luck, Mr.. Harris drifted into
the business of buying the pearls. Usually
he sold them again to jewellers in the large
cities, but such as particularly took his
fancy he retained for his own pleasure. In
his collection are now many curious ones,
pink, black and varicolored and some odd
formations. These latter serve to show
how the oyster builds the pearl. The be-
ginning is some minute foreign substance
which finds its way into the shell, and
which, as he cannot remove it, the oyster
begins to coat with nacre so as to make it
smooth and q nonirritant to his tender It's
sues, as the nacre hardens, successive coats
are applied and so the pearl grows by de-
grees. Sometimes the foreign substance
becomes attached to the shell and then q
one sided pearl is formed. These OCCASION
ally a very irregular shapes, one in Mr..
Harris collection much resembling the
human hand. A number have been cut in
halves to show the process of building, and
the successive layers appear as regularly
as in an onion.
The largest pearl ever found here was
the treasure trove of a lucky lad, who real
lied about $500 for it. Subsequently it
passed through many hands at a con-
stantly increasing value, and the last
known of it was when it appeared in the
the display of a firm of New York jewelers.
at the last Paris exposition, and was then
valued at s., 500.
Near the mouth of the Great Miami are
some huge shell heaps which have long
been a puzzle to scientists. Recent exca-
vations at Fort Ancient, near here, have
disclosed the fact that the Mound Builders
knew of and valued pearls, as some were
found in the tombs. It is very probable
that these shells were gathered by aborig-
inal pearl fishers long ages ago..
Pearls are occasionally found here yet,
but of little value for the reason that I
lave stated above. If the river should be
protected for a number of years, giving
the mussels opportunity to propagate and
time to grow, the fishery might easily be
re-established. JAMES K. REEVE.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
HOTEL RYAN, ST, PAUL.

anxiety seems to be to make things pleas
ant" and the question of candidates is SO
far a secondary consideration. That is for
the delegates themselves to settle, but the
details of comfort, pleasure and accommo-
dations are in the hands of the twin city
ties and they are fully resolved to acquit
themselves with credit before the world.
What the outcome will be of course ]
cannot say, but at present the prospect has
a highly favorable appearance.
+. X. WHITE.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
North Carolina in SILK.

HARTMAN, Tenn, May 9.-Mr. Samuel
Owens, of Tennessee, has a rare curiosity
in his, possession-an heirloom chat he
could not be induced to part with. 1t is a
white silk quilt on which a map of North
Carolina was worked with needle and
thread by Mr.. Owens grandmother when
she was a pupil at school at Raleigh acad-
envy and but fourteen years old. The map
is perfect, having counties, towns, rivers,
sounds, ETC., displayed. This wonderful
production was made in 1919, so that it is
s~eventy-three years old.
The little miss who wrought so deity
with her needle afterward became Mrs.
Harriet B. Harden. The quilt will be
taken to the Worlds fair.
J, ". BRIDWELL.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
She knew How to Harness n Horse,

Sho AAAS" INV" ~ 11siTncSS n Horse.
Every woman who drives a horse
should know every strap and buckle on
a harness and how to adjust them. A
horse became frightened, overturned
the vehicle, throwing out the occupants,
and fell entangled in the harness. Strug-
Cling to free himself, the lady driver
fastened and held him down by the
head and another lady to whom she
called took her place. Then, speaking
quietly and firmly to the horse, she
gently unbuckled the harness piece by
piece and removed it so that the horse
was relieved. Pulling back the a
rage, she took the reins and, speaking
soothingly, compelled him to rise. This
shows what a lady who has a thorough
knowledge of Harvesting can do.-Field
and Farm.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
PULLET MATCHING MONTHS.
To Lay in Winter, Pullets Must Hatch
in March and April.

To Lay in Winter, Pullets Must Hatch
in March and April.
1t is an old saying, Never wait if you
can move on" and this maxim should
never be forgotten by poultrymen, es-
pecially at this season of the year.
Keeping q flock of hens in winter with q
view to obtaining a profit depends on a
few rules that should be vigorously OBJ
served. The first is, do not wait too
long for a hen to begin to lay. If she
does not lay and cannot be induced to
lay, then get her out Of the way and fill
her place with a hen that will lay. 1t
is a loss to keep an idle hen, just as much
so as keeping a dry COW. To feed any
kind of stock and receive no compensa
ton is like a leak in a barrel. The time
will come when it will be discovered
that the contents have disappeared. As
the dry COW goes to the shambles if not
expected to soon be in full flow of milk,
so should the Improbable hen be dis
carded for something better.
Waiting for the pullets to begin lay.
ing is a great leak and loss. But there
are pullets that will never lay in winter
simply because the cold weather caught
them before they had reached the laying
period. They will lay in March or April,
but not now. You may feed them as
literally as you wish, but you cannot in
duce them to lay. The reason is that
you did not allow sufficient time for
them to grow in when you Matched
them. No pullets can be relied upon tc
lay in winter if they are Matched later
than April, especially if of the medium
or large breeds. The quick growing
Leghorns may make UP for lost time,
but it is unsafe to rely on pullets as
winter layers unless they are out of the
shells early in the spring. And, it may
be added, they should not be matched
earlier than March, as they may mol
in the fall. March and April, then, ar,
the pullet Matching months.
If you are wise You kept every old her
that began to mott in August or sooner
Most persons send such hens to marke
because they cease laying, but there il
where the mistake is made, for the OLE
hens are more reliable for winter laying
than the pullets, and when they begil
to mott in August and finish the proc
ess in November they are then in prim,
condition for laying, and will begin t,
lay by December, keeping up the worl
uptil spring, when they will begin t,
hatch the early pullets to succeed them
The matured hen always produces
stronger chick than does the pullet, ant
to be successful in raising chicks tn
eggs should be from old hens in goo'
health.
If hen lays only one egg a week sh
will pay her expenses. If she lays tw,
eggs she gives a good profit, and if sh
lays three eggs she gives twice as mucl
profit as from two eggs, because tn
first cost always remains the same. Il
other words, the cost is nearly as grea
for a nonproducer as for a producer, an,
great care is necessary to have no sue
thing as a nonproducer around.-Ame1
lean Cultivator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
Live Stock Points.

Joseph Cairn Simpson, president of
the Pacific Coast Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders, goes in for a strong dash
Of running blood in the trotter.
A noted turfman says, "Never allow
q sickly or diseased man to rub or
handle q horse between heats He
ought to have gone further and said that
a sickly or diseased person ought to be
forbidden to handle live stock of any
kind at any time.
Never mind if they do say occasionally
that there will be no money in horse
breeding any more, when electric and
cable street cars take the place of horse
cars. Croakers said the same kind of
thing when steam cotton looms were in
vented, and shoes began to be manu-
featured by machinery, also when ma
chine reapers and plows came in, yet
non of the dire results predicted ever
followed. There will be constantly
more and more horses wanted. The
style of them may change, but the num-
Der will increase.
The territory of the United States
Ought to support five times as many cat
tie, twice as many hogs and twenty
times as many sheep as it does now, and
it will do so when it's fertility is properly
developed. Talk about o%utgrowing the
food supply! We have not yet more
than begun to scratch up the fringes
Of III soil. Use brains and see how
many more and better domestic an
imals you can produce on the land you
have already.
Tennessee and Virginia beef breeders
raise Shorthorns, with an occasional
small herd of grade Devons. The cattle
from these states are somewhat similar
to the fine Kentucky beeves, though not
SO carefully bred and tended. Mean
time, the better care and feed, the ten
derer beef and the better price for it.
Make it a rule to go to your barns
every night just before going to bed and
see that your stock is all right. Do this
alike with your live stock and your
children.
Bad fences make breachy live stock.
Good road and carriage horses have
been comparatively cheap in Chicago
this winter. The fall and winter is the
best time to get bargains in carriage
and riding horses.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17

FIG. W-PLATFoRM FOR LOADING HOGS.
placed at q end of the house. 1t
should he substantially made and have
a gate, A, at n side. The gate bears a
hook and when not in use is folded back
and fastened to a staple in the wall.
To remove hogs from the pen close the
gate and back the wagon with its rear
end squarely against the end of the
platform. The movable block, E, Fig.
:, is then pushed aside and the swinging
door is then easily removed. The hogs
may then, without the least difficulty,
be driven along the passage and directly
into the wagon with not one-tenth the
~vexation of loading from an open pen
James M. Shull in Rural New Yorker.
It is gratifying to know that the NUT
ton market has kept up well this spring.
Supplies were light early in the season.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17

he readily seen from the design. This is
made to work neatly but easily, and is
shot into a corresponding hole in either
side of the trough, thus retaining the door
in the desired position. An iron handle is
attached by means of which the bolt is
worked, while at the same time it serves
to draw the door backward or forward.
The door is pushed back and bolted,
leaving the trough clear as at G, Fig. 2.
When in this position the Stops may be
poured in from the passageway without
even the slightest annoyance from the
hogs inside. It is then drawn forward
as at D and the greedy animals take
possession.
The fact that the entire building
should be raised off the ground will adj
NIT of an elevated platform, Fig. 4,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
CONVENIENT HOGHOUSE.

Some Ideas Which Will BE Useful 70
Breeders of Hogs,
To raise good hogs and make pork
making profitable it is essential that tho
buildings and appliances be we'll ar
ranged and kept in good order. No mud
hole with a few rails around it and some
boards over one corner will serve the
purpose. The building for a limited
number of hogs should be SO by 10, with
a passageway 4 feet wide along one
side, and it should be divided into six
apartments, each 6 by9, which commune
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
H THRIVING TWINS
WHY MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL
ABIDE IN AMlTY.

C%uriously Enough, the Prevailing Peace
Vas Produced Through Politics-How
minneapolis Got the Republican Con-
vention and How II Will Manage 1t.
Especial Correspondence
MINNEAPoLIs, May 10.-One evening some
years ago, when the telephone was not so
perfect an instrument for he1ransmission
Of the voice as at present, the managing
editor of a St. Paul paper attempted to
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17

lower part only
being made solid,
the upper part
being fastened to
the stanchioll by
means of a coach
I e This part
is made movable
and can be push
ed aside as in
Fig. 2. In the
center of the
swinging door is
a strong wooden
bolt, B, whose
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-06-17
Married.

At the residence of w. a. 81. Mercer
Of Painted Woods, on the 7th inst. by
Geo. Z. Van Solen; justice. MI. Edward
Kirkie of Bismarck, to Josephine John
son OF Painted Woods.
On the 9th inst, at Painted Woods, by
Justice Van Solen. Mr.. Gus r. John
son OF Painted Woods, to Miss Anna
MariaP Peterson Of Nc Iisl e,ll. rs
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Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14

| MCI.EANsBERE, Ills, May 9.-After 6 family quarrel David Rhodes, son of 6 | farmer living here shot his brother,
 inh;cting a severe wound then blew out
 his own brains.
 CovINGToN. Ky, May 9-Three weeks
 ago Tax Collector P. J. Becker reached | the end of his term and retired to .pri- vate life. It was stated that shortage | of few hundred dollars existed. The committee which has just finished the investigation finds him over S51, ,O0O short. His friends claim that over charges ard bad tax bills will greatly reduce this amount.
 CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 9.-Gov. Bar Der, after hearing the railway people and the Southern Wyoming cattlemen, refused to alter, h's quarantine procla- nation to allow the unloading of Texas cattle. at Orrin Junction. The regu- lation prevents the trailing of 100000 head of grassers across the State. There were dozen Union Pacific men here trying to effect compromise, but left very much disappointed. Unless low-joint rate for the delivery of cattle at Brennan, $. D., can be made, the Union Pacific will suffer heavy loss ID the traffic.
 MIssoULI, Montana May 9.-The Re- publican state convention was called 10 order by State Treasurer Hickman, who spoke chiefly in the advocacy of free silver.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14
A Decisive Blow For Freedom

From the tyrannical yoke of those des- pOtic allies, dyspepsia, constipation and liver cOmploint, is streck when the quandOn victim of their galling suprem- acy has taken a course of Hostetter's stomach Bitters. Then they vamose defeated, and health resumes it's well come sway. Such is the invariable ex- perience of those who use the ruling al- formative to get rid of these associate eyils. Anti-dyspeptIes, cbOlagogues, drastic cathartics are as the sands of the sea, numberless and-useless. The hap py blending of remedial properties, de- rived from natures botanic storehouse, with pure, modified spurious basis ex- istent Tn the Bitters, rot only initiate but effectUate the joint cure of chronic indigestion, irregularlty of the bowels and pArversiOn of the bile. The surest defense against malaria is this agreeable fortifier and preservative of health un- der uufavOrable atmospheric conditions. It cOunteracts a tendency to rheuma- tism, rouses the kidneys and bladder when sluggish, from traction, and en- dOws q debllitated. nervous invalid with yigor. IncOmparable of a tonic.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14
5. Govt Report. king ooRder. 4 PURE
5. Govt Report.
The Pick of Creation.
4 PURE:

t is a San Francisco writer who ot-
 rves that man finds any amount of AUlt with woman, yet works tooth ard nail to get her. He calls her extrava- gant yet yearns to pay her bills. She's heartless, yet he devOtes months to fnd- ing the spot where that heart should be. She's tickle, yet he fights for place the place-in her affections. She's tim i'd, yet he, noble beng, has courage for two, She's fraud, but darling. She's a goose but a duck. She's snappy and sweet. She's 1.-the and graceful and dear and changeable as the wind. In fact she's chameleon in the very latest style of spots and dots and feathers and tixiEgs. Ste's a most desirable article of household furnishing, and there are mighty few men who want to get along without her.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14
In Memoriuu7.

At meeting of the citizens of Har- shaw, Arizona, a committee was ap- pointed to draft resolutions in memory of our late departed friend W. E. Farris who died at Bisbee, Cochise county, Arizona May 2ud 1892, at six o'clock a. m. aged 25 years. The committee pre- sent the following preamble and resolu- tions.
 Whereas Supreme Ruler of our Gestinies, has called from among us one of our dear friends, Mir. W. F. Paris, who we have all known, only to love and honor him for his maDy virtues and manly qualities as a friend and citizen, respected and honored by all who knew hime therefor, be it.
 Resolved that we. his friends. mourn for the untimely taking off of our young friend in hls early manhood, and bright promise, that bid fair to make him known to a large circle of appreciative friends.
 Resolved, That we tender to his be- reaved relatives, and particularly to his brother J. H. Paris who was with him in his last moments, our sincere and heartfelt sympathy, and assure them that we mourn with them in their sad bereavement.
 Resolved, That we respectfully ask the following newspapers to publish these resolutions. The Southwestern Adver. tiser of Nogales, The Enterprise of Tucson, Ar'zona, and the Huntsville, Item, of Texas.
 RICHARD EARREL
 JAMES FINLEY
 J. w. HUBBARD
 MAGE BURGooN
 Harshaw, May 2nd, 1892.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14
WEEKLY CITIZEN. SATURDAY,....M MAY 14, 1892.
THE GENERALLAND OFFICE.

Judging by the following from the New Mexican, the people of New Mex ico can appreciate good thing as vel as the people of Arizona in the manage ment of the General Lini Office and through it the local land offices in the states and territories.
 "The United States iand office in this city has rscelved paterts for all final homestead entries made in January last and for 50 per cent. of ali homestead en- tries made in February last in that of flee. This may not signify much to people not interested, but to land own CTS, settlers and immigrants it matters much. It is proof conclusive, that the bus mess of the general land office under Commissioner Carter is conducte effic- iently and thoroughly; that business com ing before it is promptly examined and quickly disposed of; that the provisions of the law are earned out in letter and spirit, and that the rights of the set tiers and citizens as we'll as those of the government are fully protected.
 Contrast this record with the record of the general land office under Sparks and Cleveland. All patents and all is- sues of patents were suspended; settlers and citizens of the great west and spec ialIy of New Mexico were branded as thieves and perjurers. A horde of scoun- drels were appointed special agents. and sent to the southwest and into New Mexico for no other purpose than to blackmail the settlers and land owners, institute corrupt prosecutions, and make fees for the United States attorneys, the United States Marshals, the Clerks of the Courts and the judges. for it is fact that is so easily susceptible of proof, that proof las never been demanded, that in this lst Judicial District and in the 3rd District Of New Mexico the Democratic judge divided fees with the clerks of their re- spactive courts.
 The people of the great west and es- pecially of New Mexico are to be congra> tulated indeed upen the fact that under Secretary Noble aud Commissioner Car ter wise, liberal, public spirited and honest policy prevails in the department of the interior and the general land of flee. Commissioner T. H. Carter is certainly the right man in the right place and his selection as commissioner of the general land office is proving most wise aud proper appointment. The New Mex ican and the people hope that the rumor of his intention to resign is untrue.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14

TIE bills which the Democrats have offered in Cngress will be offered to the country as the platform of the party on the tariff question. Yet the authors of those bills have been frank in their avowal that If the Democrats are given power on that comparatively moderate platform their purpose is to break down the whole tariff system. The action by which the House declined to consider the Bland bill, will be pointed to as proof of the moderate sentiment of the Democratic party on the silver question. Yet the overw whelming majority of the Democratic party is known to favor free coinage of silver, and their leaders are frank to acknowledge that if :hey are put in power at the coming election they will consider themselves author ized t0 rip up ths financial system of the country by passing a free coinage bill. This is the characteristicaily dis honest and straddling position of the Dem cratic party for many years.