Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-12
A CORRESPONDENT INQUIRIES ABOUT LANE
ON WHIOH TO LOCATE A SMALL
COLONY,

"A CORRESPONDENT INQUIRIES ABOUT LAND
ON WHIOR TO LOCATE A SMALL
COLONY.
NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 29.-[ro the E 1itor of the
Irlbone:J-A company of twelve, residents of this
county, have been contemplating a removal to
the west, and from the reports received are in
cllned to go to North Dakota and open farms.
Can the Tribune give ns advice as to the best
bought for? Are there schools and church pri-
vileges? We hear that the railroads practically
own the state and escape staxation for their own
property, while the farmers are taxed excessively.
Is this true! We would be very much Obliged
for an answer to these questions. y
Z. A. BALLARD
ANswER-The best point to settle depends
on how much the cOlOnistS are prepared to
pay for land and whether they wish to d.
versify their farming or devote their atten-
the state raised good crops last year, but
the Red River valley is the section most
highly regarded for wheat. Land is much
higher there, however, h in the Devils
Lake region, the James River valley or the
Missouri slope. 1t varies from 50 to $25 an
acre. Choice lands in the Red River valley
are held even higher. The schools and
spect.
We have never heard complaints of the
railroads interfering except in Burleigh
county. Here a very disgraceful state of
things undoubtedly exists. A county com-
missioner is being kept out OF his seat by
what seems to be the direct interference Of
the railroad interested. The case is likely
to attract the attention of the whole coun-
ry before it is ended. for it shows how the
Will OF the people can be trampled under
1oot IN these remote and Sparsely settled
counties. OF course the success of such all
Undertaking is but temporary. for 1t is too
destructive of free government to be long
tolerated, but while it lasts it is a practical
despotism. The only way is to avoid the
locality until better methods prevail.
There are plenty of other sections of the
state, however, where ibis objection will
not be found. The best plan is for a mem.
Der OF the proposed colony to visit the state
and judge for himself.
The above is a piece of illegitimate,
disreputable and dishonest newspaper
work, unworthy of a great metropolitan
paper such as the Minneapolis Tribune
aspires to be. 1t stamps the author as a
small-minded man, incapable of rising
above petty jealousies and wholly lack
ing IN Judgment and good sense. Such
an insult to Bismarck, to Burleigh coun-
ty, to decent journalism, cannot go IN
challenged. The reader will observe the
fraud on it's face-that the Newark
letter was manufactured for the sole pur-
pose of giving an opportunity for the re-
ply. The object you ask? Only a part
of the bureau work now being sys-
tematically carried on in behalf of
Healy. During it's whole existence
under its present management the Min
neapolis Tribune has purposely and
maliciously misrepresented the prosecu-
ton of Mr.. Healy in this county. It has
insisted that it has been persecution in
stead of prosecution, and it's judgment
has been made up not on facts, but on
prejudice. The Minneapolis Tribune
has been the particularly willing medi-
UNI through which the friends of Healy
have heaped out their abuse on those
who have not seen fit to bow down to
this consummate hypocrite and who are
as honest and conscientious in their belief
that he is guilty of the crime charged as
his friends are in his innocence.
Opinion in this community is
divided or the Healy matter up to the
present time, but it will not be divided
on the proposition that the Minneapolis
Tribune has made an unwarrantable,
unjust and malicious attack on this
community.