Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-05-13
AROUND THE STATE.
The Grand Forks Plaindealer advo-
Gates the early closing movement.

The Grand Forks Plaindealer advo-
Gates the early closing movement.
The LaMoure Chronicle has a complete
account of the teachers institute pro-
ceedings, this week.
The Grand Forks city council has
voted $500 towards the expenses of a
fremen's tournament to be held there
sometime in June.
Fargo Forum: An amendment to the
sundry civil appropriation bill author
ICES the creation of two new military
posts on the northern boundary. Will
North Dakota get one?
Work has been begun on the Northern
Pacific artesian we'll at Medora. The
river water at that point is SO alkaline
that it cannot be used in engines, hence
the artesian we'll.
Tiffany & Co., of New York, have en-
graved the official seal of the board of
lady managers, from the design furn-
ished by Miss Sara Bodtker of North
Dakota, and presented it to the board.
The workmanship is of the finest.
In Mandan, folks seem to be very we'll
satisfied with what the Morton county
delegation accomplished at Grand Forks.
Everybody gets over his surprise that
Morton allied itself with Burleigh, when
the facts are explained, says the Pioneer.
Mandan Pioneer: Mayor McDougal
Thursday afternoon personally superin-
tended the measuring of the a~rtesian
we'll, and finds it to be down exactly l.
4O4 feet and five inches. He has written
the Grey Bros, asking them to put in
more help so that the work can be COM
pleted before the next cold season be-
gins.
Water was struck Friday afternoon in
the new a~rtesian we'll at the Diamond
mill, IN Grand Forks, at a depth Of $50
feet. The water is of the purest quality,
and was found in a bed of coarse sand
five feet in depth. The flow is estimated
at 100 barrels. per day, but as the guam
tity is not large enough for the mill pur-
poses, the contractors are boring deeper.
John Claus, a farmer living fifteen
miles up the river from Minot, has just
finished threshlng wheat which he
stacked last fall. The yield was forty
two bushels to the acre of No. l hard.
He got 112 bushels of oats to the acre.
Farmers are finishing up their thresh-
ing, and the yield in all cases is over
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. Will
liam Snyder, a farmer of this county, had
a yield of thirty-four bushels to the acre.
This speaks we'll for the Mouse river val
Icy.
Bottineau Free Lance: We had the
privilege of listening to the distinguished
orator, Senator Worst, on Tuesday last
as be lectured in connection with u
county teachers institute. The lecture
was on patriotism, and was ably handled
and impressively given. The feeling we
had while listening was, that the senator
is a very loyal American, and that such
lectures must tend very largely to the
making of our American youth, through
these teachers, thoroughly loyal to the
"Stars and Stripes" Vive la America!
jamestown Alert: President Fancher
of the asylum board has recsived word
from Senator Casey, who writes that
while it is true that Senator Hans
brough's amendment to change the APP
preparation for the Grafton penitentiary
to one for a branch insane hospital, has
been favorably reported by the commit
tee, still he bill is a long ways from be-
coming a law and the board need not
worry over the matter. 1t would seem
that Senator Casey is looking after the
bill all right, and will no doubt prevent
its passage.
The cash business Of the United States
land office at Devils Lake exceeds that of
n year ago by more than $4,000. For
the quarter ending March 81 there we're
OO1 L~~,,c+ool f1irrc DC ouo;,oo+ Al 20,
the same quarter last year. Homestead
with 81 filings in April, 1891, and for the
six months, Beginning Nov. i, 1881, and
ending April 80, 1892, there we're FOG en-
tries under the homestead, timber and
presumption laws, as compared with 251
entries covering the same period in 1890
and 1891.
The senate committee on public lands
had a special meeting May 2, to consider
the bill introduced by Senator Dolph
last week, providing for the settlement
of the trouble over the lands in the Red
River valley in North Dakota affected
by the supreme court decision last
spring., 1t will be remembered that
Dolph's bill provides that the Great
Northern can take lands in lieu of those
occupied by settlers in the Red River
valley in any other state where their
road runs. The committee agreed to re-
port Dolph's bill favorably, and it is
probably that it will pass.
jamestown Alert: Dickey county Of
fers a bounty of three cents for the four
feet of every gopher brought in to the
commissioners. LaMoure county's
bounty is two cents for gopher tails. 1t
has been learned that quite a little'trade
is being done by swapping tails and feet.
The Edgeley Sentinel says that when
certain parties in LaMoure county kill a
gopher, they take off the feet and tail,
and the Dickey county party does the
same tbing-the LaMaure party swap
ping feet for tails, and the Dickey party
tails for feet, thus making each gopher
killed net them over five cents. It may
be all right for the fellows but it is death
on the treasury.
Grand Forks Herald: It is now an as.
suredfact that the Mccormick Machine
company will have their long-talked-of
machinery warehouse, and that the va
cant lot on Fourth street opposite the
g. Odd Fellowa' block will he covarad