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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
North Dakota's Governor Issues
a Quarantine Proclamation
Against Manitoba.
The Prevalence of Smallpox al
Gretna and Other Canadian
Points the Cause.
Wisconsin Republicans Begin
an Attack on the State APP =
portionrnent Law.

PEMB1NA, N. D., Aug. Lowing to
danger arising from smallpox at Gretna
and other points in Manitoba, Governor
Burke has issued his proclamation absos
lutely quarantining against Manitoba.
State Superintendent of Health Devaux
and DR.. Musgrove are here comforting
with other members of the board of
health regarding regulations. Guards
will be stationed along the boundary
line, who will allow no one to cross to
this side until the quarantine is raised.
All trains will be stopped at the boun-
dairy. Such people as are in Winnipeg
and other points in Manitoba who wish
to come home will have to remain there
until the quarantine is raised. When
passengers on the north-bound train
found out the state of affairs many
stopped and took the return train south.
There are no cases on this side of the
line, and with proper precautions it is
thought all danger will soon be over
and traffic resumed. Premier Green
way and the Manitoba officials are aid
ing all they a to make the quarantine
effective.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
iii CUSTER HOUSE.

The Custer cemetery lot is located on a
rise of ground overlooking the city, and
is surrounded by beautiful trees. The
monument is a simple shaft of white mar.
BILE five or six feet high. On either side of
the monument is a simple headstone, one
marking the last resting place of the aged
mother and the other that of Boston, the
brother of General Custer. Around the
lot is IN iron fence. Exactly one-half of
this fence-the Custer half-is neatly
painted black, and in that half the grass is
trimmed and flowers are growing. The
other half of the lot is owned by another
brapch of the family, and that half of the
fence is rusty and dilapidated. Clusters
remains were not mutilated by the In
dams and were conveyed to West Point for
burial.
The house that General Custer lived in
when at home is still owned by his widow
and is located near the business portion of
the city. It is a comfortable looking, old
fashioned house, with a wide porch extend
ing around three sides of the front. The
porch is covered with woodbine and other
vines, and around the house are trees of
magnificent growth, completely shading it
in summer. The house, it is understood,
is for sale, but Monroe is an ancient town,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05

tho bill to amend the organizing of
circuit courts of appeals so as to give
them jurisdiction of certain Indian
cases, and the bill referring the McGar-
rahan claim to the court of private land
claims.
Investigations were a feature of this
congress especially in the house and
committees devoted much time to them.
The pension Office and its management
received the attention of a special com
mittee which reported Encouragement
OF the bureau generally under the adj
ministration of Commissioner Raum
and recommended to the house that the
president be asked to dismiss that Off
cial. The committee on public lands
looked into the management of the Vel
lowstone national park and reported a
bill to rectify the condition of affairs
there. The report also criticised Russell
B. Harrison, the presidents son, for his
connection with leases there. The COM
mittee appointed to investigate the cen
sus office began their work late in the
session and finally postponed it until
next session.
In both branches Of congress a large
number of important bills which had
been referred to committees and re-
ported back will retain their places on
the calendar in the second session. :
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Balled Fixed for nIiners,

BOISE CITY. Ida., Aug. Limited
States District Judge Beatty has fixed
bail for the nineteen miners from Wal
lace and the sixteen from Wardner who
are now in Jail charged with contempt
of the federal court. Bail was fixed at
$1,000 each, but SO far none have fur
nished bonds. The hearing on the con-
tempt proceedings will be held Tuesday.
Twenty-eight men from the Gem and
Burke mines who were paroled a few
days ago have been rearrested and taken
to the Wallace military prison.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
SOME NEW DEVELOPMENTS.

Plans for Sending Pinkertons to Homer
stead Made a Month Prior to the Riot.
P1TTsBURG, Aug. 1.-The Homestead
trouble is the subject of considerable
study by those who wish to ascertain
the exact cause of the trouble and the
previous attitude of the Carnegie Steel
company and the Amalgamated associa-
ton men at Homestead. The cause of
the riot is we'll known to have been the
introduction of an armed body of Pin
kerton detectives who are always so
hated by workmen, but the original in
tentions Of the company to the work
men have not heretofore been fully
learned. Mr.. Prick, in his testimony
before the congressional committee,
stated that he made arrangements for
the bringing of the Pinkertou men here
about June rs. Captain Rodgers, in
his testimony, stated that Mr.. Frick
sent for him on June rs and made ar
rangements for transportation of these
men to Homestead. This may all be
very true but they are not facts. One
fact previously noticeable in this con-
nection is that Captain Rodgers made
application for a permit to change the
character of his two steam vessels-the
Tide and the Little Bill from tugs to
passenger vessels on the 18th of June.
This fact proves conclusively that it
was the original intention of the COM
pany to break the union and they had
this plan in view for some time prior to
the move. What time Mr.. Frickintimat-
ed to Captain Rodgers his plans is not
Known.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
NOVEL RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
The Cogging Mill at Homestead Turned
Into a Chapel.

Into q Chapel.
HOMESTEAD, Aug. 1.-The strike of
Homestead steel workers has been char
acterized by many interesting features,
not the least novel Of which were the re-
ligious services held in the. mills Sunday
morning. With the great cogging mill
for a chapel, with 100 armed and uni
formed watchmen on guard and with
over 1000 soldiers within h~ailing dis.
lance, 800 non-union men attended di-
vine worship at II o'clock. On a plat
form beneath the projected arms Of a
ponderous crane was an orchestra of six
pieces. A broad four-inch steel slab
served as a pulpit, while the choir, COM
posed of clerks from the company's
offices, occupied the top of a large plan.
ing machine. The congregation was
made up of men representing many ma
tionalities. The majority of them were
arrayed in blue overalls and flannel
shirts. The services were conducted by
Rev. Clarence Adams, of the First Bap.
fist church, of Franklin, Pa, who is
chaplain of the Fourteenth regiment.
His wife, the only woman present, occu.
pied a chair in the congregation and
helped lead the singing.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Many Members Of Congress
Anxious for a Speedy
Adjournment.
An Agreement on the Sundry
Civil Bill Expected During
the Week.
Resume Of the Work Accom-
plished by the Fifty-second
Congress.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Leading men,
beers of the senate confidently hope to
be able to come to solue adjustment
with the house on the sundry civil bill
by Wednesday 80 as to permit of an ad-
journment between the 9th and 10th of
August. Torrid weather of unusual in
tensity and the approach of a presiden-
tial campaign, which is conceded will
be very closely contested, have made
senators eager beyond precedent for
speedy adjournment. First sessions of
previous congresses have been prolonged
far into September or even October
with less restiveness on the part of the
senators than is now apparent in the last
days of July. Many of them have mat
tiers at home which need looking into.
Reliance is placed upon the magni-
tude and infinite variety of the
principles involved in the sundry civil
bill to bring about a suitable termina-
tion of the national lockout. In the
stoppage of these workshops here in the
capitalize government printing Office
and the bureau of engraving and print
ing, where all the bank notes and eve
nue stamps are printed, and of the cost
ly and many differed semi-scientific
bureaus of geological and coast surveys
are first to attract attention, but the
lockout goes much further. It includes
the life saving stations and all light
houses, the quarantine stations and
every authorized precaution to prevent
the introduction of cholera, yellow
fever or other plaques, all the govern
ment hospitals and asylums, the mints
and assay Offices, the United States
courts, marshals and district at
torneys, the registers, receiver and sur
veyors of the public lands, the national
parks, cemeteries and military prisons.
The bill takes everything down to the
monthly gas bill at the White House
and the feeding Of the animals at the
national zoo. Appropriations for all
these stopped at midnight Saturday and
stringent provisions Of the revised stat
utes prohibit any Of these working in
advance.
Predictions as to what may be done in
the house during the week are idle and
one guess is as good as another. The
situation has not changed and matters
are in statu quo. Danger threatens the
worlds fair people only in the eventthat
their forces weaken and will no longer
remain in a heat congested city to carry
their point. The resolutions extending
for a few days the sundry civil measure
will probably be made, but it cannot be
told about its ultimate result.
Many congressman think, and all hope,
that this week will be the last.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
prizes among the contestants.
VOKAW.

r The remainder of the programme will
include sessions of the council in chief,
receptions, military ball, parade, etc, the
convention remaininghi in session till Aug.
Is, when the commander in chief and party
will leave for the Yellowstone National
park.
The committees having this encamp-
ment in charge expect that there will be
upward Of 5000 people in attendance. The
secretary of the executive committee Of
the eleventh annual encampment is Will
liam S. Votaw. Mr.. Votaw is a Montanian
by birth, and is twenty-eight years old.
He first Joined the Sons in 1883 and has
been frequently promoted until, in 1891, he
was elected captain Of o. S. Grant camp,
No. l. Secretary Votaw's father was one
of the loyal Missourians who enlisted in
the Union army in May, 1858, in Company
G, Thirty-sixth Missouri militia.
Another faithful worker in the interests
of the encampment is Ebert d. Weed,
United States district attorney for the dis
trict Of Montana, who is chairman Of the
executive committee for the eleventh ma
tional encampment. Nj. Weed was born
in Allegheny county, N. Y, Dec. /, 1858.
Mr.. Weed has been eminently successful
at the bar, and has been frequently hon
ored with responsible Offices. Mr.. Weed il
q single man. i. M. CUsHiAN.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Collided with an Excursion Train.

CINCINNATI, Aug. IA switch en-
CINE on the Big -Four railroad collided
with an excursion train from Niagara
Falls at the Evans Street crossing of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton track.
Engineer Downs and Fireman Powers
of the freight engine were caught, the
former being SO badly injured that he
died on his way to the hospital. The
other was seriously but not fatally hurt.
A number Of passengers were slightly
bruised and shaken up and all badly
frightened.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
THE FIGHT BEGUN.
Wisconsin's Apportionment Law Attacked
by Republicans,

Wisconsin's Apportionment Law Attacked
by Republicans.
MADISON, Wis. Aug. 1.-The Repub-
lican attack upon the apportionment
law enacted at the special session of the
legislature was made this morning. The
petition, signed by John G. Spooner,
George W. Bird, c. E. Estabrook and
George Green, as attorneys, was heard
by the attorney general. The applica-
ton to the attorney general is for him to
move the supreme court Aug. 8, the first
day of the August term, for leave to
bring suit in that court in the name of
the attorney general against the secre-
tary of state to enjoin him from putting
the new apportionment law into effect.
1t is sought to enjoin the secretary of
state in the contemplated raid to prevent
the notice Of the general election includ-
ing the new districts as created by the
new law. The second respect in which
it is sought to restrain the secretary of
state is to forbid him filing nomination
papers received from legislative districts
greater than n county as created by
the new law. The third is to restrain
him from certifying to the county clerks
of the counties embraced in joint dis
tricts the list Of nominations. The petit
ton sets forth in detail the alleged vio-
lation Of the rule of equity of represen-
tation required by the constitution in
Legislative appointments as held by
the supreme court Of Wisconsin in the
first gerrymander case and was recently
emphasized by the supreme court of
Michigan. Under the constitution it
appears that in more than half Of the
senate and assembly districts this rule
has been violated, and to such an extent,
it is claimed, as to show an entire aban-
donment of that rule. The differences
in senate districts reach all the way from
a few thousand to $4,000, as, for example,
the Seventeenth senate district, COM
posed of Rock and Green counties, con-
tains 80, O52 and the Fourth district in
Milwaukee county only 3O,2Ss, a differ
enc of 81, $3.50.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
CONGRESSIONAL RESUME.
Review of the Work Done by the Fifty
second Congress.

second Congress-.
WASHINGTON, Aug. LATTER session
of eight months the first session of the
Fifty-second congress is about to end
and a review of its work may prove in
teresting. The house devoted the first
two months to the discussion and adop-
ton of a code of rules, after which reg
ular business was taken up. Bills to the
number of 9.6S7 have been introduced in
the house and referred to committees.
Of this number 2,115 have been reported
and placed on the calendar and about
$50 have passed the house. The most
important measures considered by the
house, excepting the general a~ppropria-
ton bills, were the silver bills; the tar
if measures reported from the ways and
means committee; the Chinese exclusion
act; the intermediate" and army nurse
pension bills; the bill to enforce recip-
rocal commercial relations with Canada;
the bill increasing the pay of the life
saving crew; to establish lineal promo
ton in the army; for the better
control of national banks in
regard to loaning money to directors and
officers, and to add the name of the Sec
rotary of agriculture to the cabinet Of
fcers who may act as president in GER
tain contingencies. The Bland silver
bill failed in the house, as did the free
coinage bill which passed the senate.
The several tariff bills passed by the
house failed in the senate, as did also the
hills ~rox,iIi,,~ Coz. 4ha o1,oicc;or &c AJo-,
Mexico and Arizona as states.
Of the 3,492 bills introduced in tho
senate 1,0l2 were reported upon by COM
mittees and 800 of them passed. Among
the most important measures passed by
the senate and not accepted by the
house were the following: To facilitate
the settlement of claims for arrears of
pay and bounty; for the construction of
revenue cutters two each) for service
on the great lakes and the Pacific coast;
The ''pure food" bill; to increase the
rate of pension for certain cases Of deaf
ness; to fix the price of lands entered I'M
der the desert land laws; to authorize
the secretary OF war to cause a survey
to be made for the ship canal from Phil
adelphia across New Jersey to new
York bay and the better enforcement of
tSe immigr; ton laws. A large number
Of public building and claim bills passed
by the senate also failed in the house.
Four hundred and three bills have
passed both houses and been sent to the
president for signature. There are
twenty Of these bills still under consid-
Grafton by the executive; one has been
returned to the house by its request
without signing; two have been vetoed
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
POWER OF THE LOBBY
HOW AN IMPORTANT BILL WAS
PUSHED THROUGH CONGRESS.
Robert raves Contrasts Latter Day Lob
bying with the Style Formerly in Vogue.
McGarrahan's Claim-Laziness and Self

McGarrahan's C~laim-Laziness and Self
ishness the Chief Congressional Vices.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, July 25.-We are at the
end of the first session of the Fifty-second
congress. Every congress, every session of
congress, has its secret history, and this
one is no exception to the rule. There are
many things about this session which I
would like to tell but dare not, for I should
be sure to give offense in one direction or
another. There are men whom I should
like to denounce for their demagogy, their
laziness, their Indifference to public well
fare, their narrowness, their %selishness.
Probably the two greatest faults of our
public men are laziness and selishness.
Corruption-direct, unmistakable dishon-
esty-ls happily rare in congress. I often
think the public has a mistaken notion
concerning the corruption which is popu-
larry supposed to exist in high places.
Probably If the .innermost secrets of this
session of congress were laid bare not one
case would appear of a member or senator
actually taking u direct bride. Only a few
days ago a bill was passed which was
worth S3,OOO,O00 to one man. I speak
of poor old Billy McGarrahan, of whose
good fortune after more than thirty years
of poverty and struggle you have doubtless
read something in the Geographic dis.
patches. But perhaps you do not know
that when congress passed the bill refer
ring his claim to the court of claims it not
only placed So, 900, 900 in his pocket, but
100000 in the pocket of a man who is
known as a lobbyist, and who makes no
secret of his connection with the McGarra-
han bill.
1nasmuch as this case gives us an insight
into the character and methods of modern
lobbyists, I will tell you something about
it. McGarrahan has been here almost a
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
wants $50, 900 Damages.

NEW YORK, Aug. Miss Henrietta
Green, of 575 Gates avenue, Brooklyn,
has brought suit for $50, 900 against
Lyman Israel, the owner, and Richard
Meares and Charles H.. Phelps, the les
sees Of the Hotel Royal, which was
burned down on the morning of Feb. 7
last. Miss Green, in her affidavit, says
that the defendants knew that the build
ing was without suitable means. of
escape in case Of fire. She occupied a
room on the fifth floor. She ran into
the hall, but as the stairway wa aire
she had to jump from the window. Her
left thigh was broken in nine places, her
skull was fractured and she was injured
internally. For four months she was
confined to the New York hospital, and
now she is q cripple for life.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Heaviest Death Rate for Twenty Years.

Heaviest Death Rate for Twenty Years.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-During the
t~wenty-four hours ended at noon there
had been 2s6 deaths reported. This is
the heaviest death rate for a single day
for twenty years. The number of
deaths for the week just past is 1,434,
the heaviest since July 6, 1885, when
1851 deaths were reported for the week
ending that day. Out of the 1,400 en-
ployes of the sugar ~refineries of Will
iamsburg, Brooklyn, the past six days
of dreadful heat, almost 500 men were
Frustrated and fourteen succumbed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
CrOp.

YANKToN, S. D., Aug. Harvest
has been in progress q week. Barley,
rye, oats and a few fields of wheat have
been cut, all producing a greater yield
than last year. The average for wheat
is placed at thirty bushels per acre.
Corn has made wonderful progress dur.
ing the last week, and stands fourteen
feet high in the fields, and six weeks OF.
good growing weather will insure q full
crop. Farm hands are in demand.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Indians Threaten Trouble.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. There is
trouble brewing among the Indians on
the reservation and in all probability
United States troops will be called out
toquell the threatened uprising. They are
up in arms against the white invaders
and are intent in driving them out. T.
G. Chaplin, who has just arrived here
from Maurus, says %prospectors have
been dubbed and driven out. The In
dams are sullen and are said to be hold
ing a pow WOW which may lead to
trouble. .aI,.. , 4
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
THE CUSTER MONUMENT.

and real estate is not in demand. The
house is pointed out as one of the attrac-
tions to all visitors in the city as the place
where General Custer lived and where he
spent his happiest hours.
General Clusters father, Emanuel H.
Custer, is still living. He is over eighty
years old and makes his home with his re-
naming son, Nevan J. Custer, who op-
crates a farm about three miles from town.
The old man is a familiar figure around
town and is often seen on the streets.
L. G. STUART,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Signed the Amalgamated Scale.

P1TrsBURa, Aug. 1.-The LaughGn
nail works at Laughlin Ferry, Ohio, the
largest in the world, has signed the
Amalgamated association scale and will
resume work Tuesday. The Etna and
Standard rolling mills gave also signed
and will start shortly. The Dunbar
company has shutdown their two foreign
department indefinitely, 300 men being
thrown out of employment.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Especial Correspondence

third of a century,
trying to get JUS
tice from congress.
Repeatedly his
bill has passed one
or the other house,
but it has never
before passed both
in one congress.
There has been NO
doubt all these
years of the jus
tice of his claim.
Committee after
G m Mite has
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
SONS OF
Great Preparations for the Annual En-
campment at Helena.

campment at Helena.
Especial Correspondence
HELENA, Mon, July 26.-The third, last
and probably the largest of the national
conventions to meet in Helena this year
will convene on Aug. 8. This is to be the
eleventh annual national encampment of
the Sons of Veterans.
Helena herself has a large encampment
of Sons of Veterans, all of whom are en-
thusiastic over the national encampment,
and their interest has stirred the whole
city to an extent hat assures a most cor
dial welcome to the visitors.
A special feature Of the encampment will
be a grand prize drill contest, open to all
uniformed and armed camps of the order.
Fifteen hundred dollars will be distributed
in nrizes among the contestants
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
GENERAL cusTER's OLD HOME.
A Visit to the Old House and Family
Burial Plot.
Especial Correspondence. |

Burial Plot.
Especial Correspondence.1
MONROE, Mich, July 26.-Sixteen years
.agothe entire country was in mourning
over the death of General George A. Gus
~ter, who was a victim of the memorable
Sioux massacre of June &c, 1876.
General Clusters home was in this city.
He was born in Ohio, but at an early age
with his parents came here, and the older
residents yet remember him as a pupil
in the city schools, tall, awkward and not
exceptionally bright. 49,. y.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
Smallpox e Port Arthur.

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. THE govern.
ment has been advised that smallpox
has reached Port Arthur, Ont.