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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
A Bird That Lives on the Water.

Little Peter'' is the real name of the net.
rel OR bird that lives on the sea. The hard
er the STORM the better he likes it, and the
more noise the sea makes the louder he
cries.
The sailors, who are all so jolly, never
like to meet a petrol. They are SO dismal in
their coal black coats, and seamen think
they bring them i'll luck too.
You could not guess how the petrol sleeps.
He first makes of himself a feather ball and
sits on the water, just as your canary does
on his perch.
Why doesn't he sink? Because his feath.
ers are so oily he can't.
These birds grow so fat that to the poor
islanders in very cold countries they are in
valuable. After they are d. | a wick is
drawn through their bodies and set on fire,
and you can hardly believe how we'll this
queer kind of lamp lights up their huts.
The petrol never goes on shore except to
build her nest, which is hidden snugly
away between rocks or in the sand. There
she lays her one egg and brings up her
baby. All day the petrol lives on the water.
but she never forgets at night to feed it.
Sometimes they are called Mother Ca
rey's chickens" If you ever 60 across the
water, you may see them some day.-Mon.
treal Star.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

FARGO papers and correspondents
comment upon the interest taken by the
ladies in the recent school election there,
and say that lover fifty ladies" voted.
At the election of superintendent of
schools in this county last year, nearly
$50 ladies exercised the blessed right of
suffrage, and some of them blossomed
out as politicians OF the most improved
type. When it come to ladies taking in
terest in public matters, Bismarck is de.
cidedly in it, everytime.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

BLA1NE's friends are evidently not
wanted by the present administration
and the last Of them has been routed out
of the department Of agriculture. This
time it is j. H. Kelly Of Baltimore, who
was a personal friend of the "plumed
knight" and whose appointment was
made by Jerry Rusk, in compliance with
a request in an photographic letter from
Blaine.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

THERE has been constructed for the
production of 1.-THE World Finder"
which is to he given in "The Chicago
Spectatorium," three caravels which are
exact facsimilies of the Santa Marie,
Pinta and Nina. These boats will be
practical ships and in the production
will be manned by lake sailors, who will
vancouver them with the same methods
that would obtain were they aAoat on
the old ocean instead Of a miniature sea
The largest ship, the Santa Marie, is AZ
feet over all and in mast, rope and sail
q duplicate of the famous boat which
bore Columbus to the new world.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

IT is said Governor Lewelljng of
Kansas, has assured the Santa Fe
strikers that he will send no troops to
protect the railway property, but that in
case they 1.-THE strikers) need assistance,
he will send troops to see that they re-
ceive the proper protection. Governor
Lewelling Is making a uniquely original
reputation for himself, and we're he gov
ernor of any state but Kansas, his actions
would seem a little queer, to say the
least.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

TIE Grand Forks Plaindealer is just
now experiencing the darker side OF
western journalism. The high water
has put out the fires in the Opera House
block, where the Plaindealer plant is
located, and the Office force is tenn
porarily embarrassed thereby. The
editor asks i0dulgence-promises to get
out a daily-but admits it may be ir.
regular in it's appearance.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

NOTWITHSTANDING the published de.
malls Of the smallpox scare at Winnipee,
the st. Paul Dispatch of Monday adds
another chapter to the story, and claims
to have authoritative information that
300 smallpox suspects have been quaran.
tined at the outskirts of Winnipeg, and
that the facts in the case have been care.
fully withheld from the press. It hardly
seems probable the Dispatch would
publish the statement without founda.
ton for facts as cited, and yet the
Winnipeg authorities are firm IN thei,
denial. What is the matter anyway?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The American toy balloon is a thing that
appeals to the childish Chinese fancy, and
the vendors do a big business. Little wag-
ons are occasionally seen, and yesterday one
boy had an automatic tin horse that ran on
the sidewalk whenever the owner could
find room for it.
In their enjoyments the children of the
Chinese are about like any other children.
They have few sports in the local settlement
to amuse themselves with, but they get as
much satisfaction out of whatever comes in
their way as anybody could.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

JuD LAMoURE is securing somt
unique titles from newspapers who com
ment on his Washington doings. Every
time an opposition editor speaks of JUG
he seems to endeavor to excel himself ir
the attempt to glorify him by the be.
stowal of a title more cutting than an,
yet put forth, and Jud goes to Hot
Springs-and Was ,ington and othe,
places of interest-and seems to have
a very good time, Notwithstanding.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

KENTUCKY is rapidly sinking into the
depths, and it's people are voluntarily
throwing away the characteristics which
have been their principal claim to recog-
milton. Sam Jones. took Q contract for
$4,000 to reform the town of Bowling
Green, preached ten days and made
$500 converts, n for every dollar o
bis contract price. He also started at
moral wave against the liquor traffic, and
as a result the city council has refused
to reissue the saloon licenses. II the
residents live up to the law, and content
themselves with cold water, there prom.
lses to be an awful thinning out of Ken
tuckians.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The trouble in the city council 10 oc.
%casioning considerable comment among
state papers, and with a few repetltionf
of the proceedings of the first and sec,
ond meetings, that august body prom.
Uses to become the cynasure of all eyes
Alderman Braithwaite's appeal from
Mayor Aliens veto is the cause of con,
siderable merrlment among state editors
and the next council meeting will bt
eagerly awaited, in anticipation of new
departures.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

IT is reported that ex-Attorney Gen.
erale Eogle, of Aberdeen, is about to sue
the News and Sun of that city, and also
the Minneapolis Journal, for libel. These
papers, it will be remembered, published
the history Of the recent trouble be.
tween Engle and his family, and some OF
their comments were rather caustic. II
is to this, probably, that Engle takes
execution.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The Argus criticizes very severely the
statements of Whitelaw Reid, regarding
the policy o fthe present administration,
and remarks him as ''entirely too pre-
Nous." Then the Argus goes on to say
tbatit makes the criticism, not as a sup
porter of the administration, hut merely
in the interests of fairness. Verify the
amount of fairness" with which Editor
Shaw is so suddenly stricken is start
linz.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

NEcHE must certainly be without the
limit of telegraph lines and railroads.
In the issue Of the Oak Leaf of the 22d,
the editor remarks that: '.The governor
has 80 far 10 fit to ignore the honored
custom Of designating a special day for
the planting of trees-Arbor day. The
governor has designated May 9Th az
Arbor dsy, and the fact was announced
two weeks ago.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

THE Hillsbo1o Herald has discovered
that K. N. Hesgard, one of Governor
Sh%ortridge's appointees to the agricul.
tural college board, was, back in territorial
days, indicted for, arrested and convicted
of selling Intoxicating liquors without q
license, and fined S1034O.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

WEARS the matter with that Crooks
ton lawyer, who was to have proved the
North Dakota prohibition law uncon.
stitutional? Haven't there been
enough $500 subscriptions made, OF is
he holding off for higher prices? If the
gentleman arises to the necessities OF
the occasion, and proves the law n. 2.
he will forever endear himself to the
vets. Why this delay?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

WINTER has added one more generous
blizzard to his already large list of gifts
to Minnesota and eastern North Oak ota
and has given other states, more south
ern, a slight taste Of his powers. And
the cry goes up everywhere, "Give us a
raatn
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

FARGO citizens are looking at the rag
ing Red-and swapping recollections OF
old times and "reminiscences of former
days. Ills passing strange what stories
OF days gone by a sever storms, a high
wind or a turbulent river will bring
forth.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The following is a copy of the de-
eision rendered by the supreme court of
the United States in the Northern
Pacific tax cases, and by the decision it
will be seen that the case is not in the
condition indicated by reports which
have already been published in various
county papers Of this state, but that the
supreme court has reversed the decree
rendered at Fargo by Judge Caldwell,
in which he dismissed the case for want
of equity, and that there is an express
permission in the decision that the bill
OF complaint of the railroad Company
may be amended so AS to show that the
amount of taxes in the various counties
is sufficient to give the court jurisdic-
ton: in other words, the case is in Just
the same condition that it wa before
trial in the circuit court at Fargo, with
the exception that the supreme court
has indicated how the complaint should
be corrected after which a new trial
must be had in the circuit court, so that
really very little progress has been made
in the action so far as reaching a de-
eision upon the merits of the case are
concerned:
This was a bill filed in the circuit court
Of the United States for the district of
North Dakota, Nov. q, 1890, by the
Northern Pacific Railroad ma
against the county auditors of twelve
counties of that state. praying for a de-
e7ee %adjudging certain assessments and
taxes levied upon lands in each of said
counties to be illegal. and void and
that defendants and each of them be re-
strained from selling or attempting to sell
said lands or any portion thereof, or issu-
ing any tax certificates therefor. The case
proceeded to a decree, dismissing the bill
for want OF equity, whereupon it was
carried by appeal to the circuit court of
appeals for the Eighth circuit.
Certain questions or propositions of law.
concerning which that court desired the
instruction of the supreme court for a
proper decision Of the case, where certified
10 this court, and argument having been
had upon the certificate, w directed a
eertiOrari to issue, requiring the whole
alton. This has been done, and we find
ap0n examination that the case comes
directly within Walter VS.. Northwestern
Railroad company, l48 U. S.
The record does not show that the
amount of the assessments and taxes,
forming the subject Of the litigation, levied
in either or all of the counties, exceeded
she sum of $4,000; aud even if this had
been so as to the aggregate, the defend
ants could not have been Joined in a single
suit, and the jurisdiction thus sustained.
Upon the face Of the record therefor, the
st It. $50, G. 1873; Is Stat. 43S3S, e. 1867, but as
perhaps by amendment the bill might be
retained as to some n of the defendants,
we will not direct its dismissal.
In pursuance of section 10 of the
judiciary act OF March 3, 1891, (26 Stat.
1921 the decree of the circuit court is re-
versed at the costs of the appellant, and
the cause remanded to that court with a
direction for further proceedings in con-
tormlty with the opinion.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

THERE are several cases Of smallpox
at Winnipeg, and although it is said
there Is no danger of the disease spread.
ing, it would be just as we'll for state
health officials to be careful. Smallpox
is not an especially desirable immigrant
and the 'ounce of prevention" adage
will apply.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

FoK the first time since the settlement
of the country, says the Northwest
Magazine, the farmers near Bismarck
have during the past winter hauled in
dressed hogs for sale. This is one fact
OF many showing how farm industry lie
being diversified in the great prairie
state.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
A MEETING Of the state executive con

A MEETING OF the state executive com.
mittee Of the independent prohibition
party was held in the Elliott house
parlor, Fargo, Thursday evening. An
aggressive campaign was planned and a
campaign fund started with pledges
amounting to 1925. 1t is said material
assistance is promised by the national
executive committee.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

THE Fargo Forum has a quarter
column of advice--well meant perhaps
to Judge Winchester, regarding the peni-
Tertiary case-all Of which the judge
will no doubt receive with thanks-and
then render the decision he thinks just.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

Ar Grand Forks the Red river has
equalled and risen above the high water
mark If 1882. The Herald and Plain
dealer pressrooms are submerged, aud
the damage done has been such rs to be
remembered in future. The elements
everywhere seem a little "otf' this spring
and the Red seems inspired by the uni
versal desire to be in the swim.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
A Warning tn Paranta-

Mr.. Figg GmpressivelyeHere is an ad
in the paper of n more boy Wild
went into the river on Sunday and got
drowned.
Tommy-1 'spect his folks kept him sd
busy through the week goin to school and
runnin Grants that he didn't have no
chance to learn to swim.-ExchanRe.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

IT'S. said Senator Roach can clear him.
self OF all hame-simply by making an
explanation. It would seem that the un.
limited Roach talk would give way, and
mace room for that explanation. II
would certainly be preferable to the PEG.
pie Of the state.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
newspapers

The Pembina Pioneer Express says
that Jud LaMoure has ordered a new
four-oared boat. Is it possible Jud is
going to the island after some of the
politicians whom he left there?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
Hiss NIuffet the Third.

Little Miss Muffet Of old,
She ''sct on u tuffct," they say;
But little Miss Muffet the second or third
Is always dancing and gay
And out for a holiday!
Little Miss Muffet of old
Was eating her curds and her whey:
Miss Muffet the third is eating bonbons,
Sweet as the honey bees gay
When out for q holiday!
Little Miss Muffet Of old
Was frightened by Spider, the grim;
But little Miss Muffet the second or third
Would soon have dissected him,
Boxed him away in a tin!
Now which would you rather he?
The first or the second or third?
All, ION a tuffet' is quite out of style,
Indeed tits very absurd!
I'D be Miss Muffet the third and the gay
And out for a holiday!
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The ninth annual report of the civil
service commission has been issued, and
this urges the extension of the classified
service, until it shall be made to include
every public position to which it can be
conveniently applied. The policy of the
civil service commission is to place COM
petent men in government positions
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

A TELEGRAM from Washington has it
that Willis A. JOY is to be postmaster at
Grand Forks. But then, Benton was to
be land commissioner-and something
failed to connect. Joy will probably
feel safer when he gets his commission.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

MINISTER PIERCE will have to come
back. The president has appointed
George w. C4ruth of Arkansas, to re-
lieve him. Well, Mr.. Pierce had a
pleasant trip on the continent, and he
al not complain.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The following surprising bit of in
formation is CLEANED from the Nelson
County Observer:
Six empty beer kegs were shipped from
seen, almost every day. on the street. II
is about time that the states attorney, or w
II. S%tandish, look into the matter, and ROOT
the ''hOg'' from his lair.
Six empty beer kegs! How startling
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

MINISTER PIERCE has engaged in a
newspaper controversy with Editor
Dana q: the Sun, regarding the latter's
criticism Of the length of time consumed
by Pierce on his trip to Portugal, and
the St. Paul Dispatch sadly says: APoor
Mr.. Piercet No flowers"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

A WASHINGTON special says that no
decision has been rendered in the Glass
case from North Dakota, which affects
the validity of the law making all ele.
vators public. The case will in all proba-
bility 90 over the vacation.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
Saturday, tn: 9Th Day Of May, 1893,

as Arbor Day, aud earnestly Recommend q uni
eersal and appropriate observance of the day by
the people of our State, and especially by the
teachers ard pupils of our public schools. Let
each person, young or old, feel it to be a duty to
plant and care for one or more trees, vines OF
shrub for in SO doing will be found a source of
future pleasure. of pride and benefit to our State
aud succeeding generations.
Done at the Capitol. in the City OF
Bismarck, North Dakota, this 18th
SEAL day of April, in the year of our Lord
Oh ethousand eight hundred and nine.
ty-three.
&c. D. sHORTRIDGE.
By the Governors: Governor.
c. NJ. DAHL, Secretary of State. -
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

plum. This time it is the first assistant
postmaster generalship, and w. ID.
Haynie OF Rapid City, is to be the
lucky individual. And North Dakota
still shivers and relapses into u condi-
ton of ]"inuocuous desuetude."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

SENATOR HANsBRoUGH has been as
sured by Doctor Wyman, supervising
surgeon general of the marine hospital
service, that the examination of baggage
of immigrants to the United States by
the Canadian route will be close. and
the quarantine rigid.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

TEE Forum says Oil Inspector Lamp
man has made his headquarters in Fargo,
and will hereafter look after oil in good
shape. The oil inspector has a field for
the doing Of some greatly woodwork,
and work which will be highly ap.
preciated.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The present spring, for raw winds
and wet weather, bids fair to rival that
Of last year, when from May 1st to 2lst
there was hardly a day upon which at
some time it did not rain or snow. Back
ward springs seem the fashion, every.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

SENATOR Roach has returned home
and is again at Larimore. There was
no demonstration upon his arrival. The
senator wal very quiet on his return
trip, only stopping in st. Paul to re-
mark, this time to a Pioneer Press re-
porter, that he was ready for that..inves.
tipatjon.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

DIR. A. F. H1NTz of Minneapolis, has
been studying out q new mode of
capital punishment and the result of
his researches ia as follows:
Put the subject into an adjustable chair,
and have a sharp spring lance fastened to
the back of the chair, its point resting over
the space between atlas and Occiput. BY
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

The Duke de Veragua is in Washing.
ton, taking in the sights of the capital
city of the country discovered by his
illustrlous. 1t is to be hoped the
Washington authorities will do as did
the New Workers, and extend to him the
freedom of the CITY. Otherwise the
duke might feel as though he were an
intruder.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

MAJOR SHAW of the Argus, has gone
to St. Paul to take charge of the Daily
News. AS editor of the Argus, Major
Shaw has not particularly distinguished
himself, but it ic probable not much of
his time was devoted to the paper-and
the reputation he has may have come
through the work of some one else.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28
~Toboxranine In Canada

The popular winter sport in Canada is
tobogganing, and the ''grownups" as we'll
as the children indulge in the exhilarating
exercise which the Chinaman described as
swish! swish! Walkee back a mile"
A toboggan is a light sledge made of
WOOD usually s orr feet long, very much
In The shape of the blade of a Dutch skate,
except that it is about 20 inches wide. On
this perch one. two or three people. the
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

releasing the spring, the knife will enter
between the bones and sever the cord
thereby causing instant death. This prac-
tically is the method by which cattle are
killed, and one that never fails. 1t
virtually substitutes successful hanging,
as it interrupts immediately all nerve
force and thereby life. The most timid
could witness such All execution without
horror.
The solicitude which scientists mani
fest for the neatness Of the execution of
criminals, and the intense eagerness
with which they seek novel and delicate
means of taking away life are certainly
commendable. 1t is probable, however,
that the gallows will do business at the
usual rates for some time to come.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

DAN MARArTA has said, quite forcibly,
that he is not angry with Cleveland.
He goes farther than this and says
Cleveland is a good man, and a kind
man. All of which will remove, no
doubt, a great load of distress from the
mind Of the latter named gentleman.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-04-28

where competency is Il necessity, aud the
carrying out Of this policy and the en-
tension of the powers of the commission
means a better and more efficient class
of public servants.