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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08

steady. Prime to extra native
steers. $4.SO@5.1O medium, $4.25@4.50;
others $3.95@420; Texans, $500 14.2O.
HoGs-Receipts. $4,000. shipments,
none. Bulk sold &c lower; closed a lri1e
better. Rough, heavy, $425@4.5O;
packers and mixed. $4.60@475; prime
heavy and butchers weights, $4.70W
4So; assorted lights 81 55@4.6l
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts, 5000.
Extremely dull. everything lower except
few tops. Top sheep, $400W4.25; top
lambs, $4S0@5.O0; few at $3.50
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

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Grain, ProviSions and Stocks. Real Es-
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08

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After Blue had been presented and
made short talk the convention ad-
journed sine die.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

THERE is q movement on foot to have
the federal government print and distri-
butte the records and proceedings of the
several congresses at the Worlds Fair.
The movement was begun by those who
we're leaders in the congress auxiliary,
and has the sanction of the leading
scholars OF the country. The congresses
and their proceedings are matters of
world wide interest, and placed in shape
and printed will be of great value as
records in the advancements in the arts
and sciences-as set forth in the con-
crosses of the Worlds Fair-which ex
listed in 1899. q. E. Young, n of the
secretaries Of the Worlds Fair congress
auxiliary, goes to Washington next
week to push his plan, and he makes the
following arguments:
The general object of the worlds con.
crosses of 1893, was to bring together from
all countries of the world, the leaders OF
progress in all departments of enlightened
life, for mutual acquaintances, and the es-
Enlistment of fraternal relations: to sum
up human progress in every department
to the year 1898; to state the living ones.
tons OF the day which await solution and ia
suggest the means by which difficulties
may be removed and further progress
made.
That these congresses have more than
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

FROM a purely sentimental point of
OF view it may be all right, but it seems
sad that the Worlds Fair buildings
which were consumed by fire at Chicago
Monday, should have come to such an
end. Practically, they have served their
ends, and their missions are completed.
They have furnished abiding places for a
collection OF the worlds curiosities, and
as the exposition which they graced, is a
thing of the past, the usefulness of the
buildings is past. But after having
graced the grounds as they did, it is a
sort of ignominious ending-that of be.
ing charred and blackened and consumed,
They would have to have been torn
down, anyway, but at the same time ii
would have been better could the mater.
ial out of which they we're constructed
have served a better purpose than that
OF furnishing food for flames and for a
brief illumination of the heavens in the
region Of jackson park.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

IT does Q as though there should
at some time be an end to the practice
of pointing unloaded guns at innocent
persons and pulling the triggers just for
fun. The latest fatality comes from
Peoria, ILL.,, where p young fellow pointed
a shotgun at another, for a joke, so he
said. To render the joke more COM
plete he pulled the trigger of the
weapon. To make the joke fuller and
%completer the gun exploded, and the
full completeness of the joke did not
impress itself on him until he looked up
and saw that the top Of his comrades
head was blown away, and his brains
scattered idly about the vicinity. It
would seem hardly right to hang the
shooter, but hanging would be no more
a joke than almost wanton murder, even
it it was done Gin fun"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

The New York Sun has a way of say
ing things that is always forcible if not
elegant. The income tax measure of the
democratic ways and means committee
is the latest thing which has disturbed
Editor Dana's undoubted democracy
After a%rraigning the policy as q whole,
and pointing out it's ~fallacies and weak
nesses, the Sun says: "There would be
more than $4,000 income tax ~investiga-
tors, spies, itinerent collectors, and com.
puters to pry into the affairs of the
thrifty and energetic, to disclose the me-
cessities of the i%mprovident, to provoke
the resentment of those of independent
courage, and put a premium upon the
fra uds CT the mendacioue." and further
and sharpest of all, the Sun concludes
its arguments: "Instead of talking
about an income tax, would not Prof.
Wilson's committee be better occupied
if they give their attention to some
method of taxation which would permit
the people to make incomes?"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

FREE trade and low tariff e are
about to assume sway. At a meeting of
a committee of manufacturing potters in
Pittsburg it has been decided to adopt
the English scale of wages and put it
into effect. The change will be made
when the Wilson bill passes. Added to
the scale will be the tariff, whatever that
may be. The pottery manufacturers say
they examined all the wage scales of
other countries and found England's
the highest. In some departments of
the pottery business English wages are
SO per cent. less than in America. Cheap
free trade pottery may be a boon to the
laboring classes-but if their wages come
down about SO per cent, it is probable
they will fail to see the boon-and won
der where the immense advantage of low
tariff comes in.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12
F

Every reader of the Bismarck Weekly
TRIBUNE should have the session laws of
North Dakota. In many instances liti-
cation and trouble would be averted by
q familiarity with the provisions of the
laws we are expected to obey. The ele-
vator laws, the game laws, the prairie
fire and estray laws, chattel mortgage
aud.usury laws should be studied by all.
The TRIBUNE will give a copy of the
1891 and a copy Of the 1893 session laws
to every weekly reader who pays all ar
averages and one yearin advance for the
Weekly TRIBUNE. We have only a few
hundred left, and propose to give them
away in this manner Address,
The TRIBUNE, Bismarck, N. D.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

realized the expectations entertained in re-
gard to their success, is almost universally
admitted. In the number, comprehensive
ness and the Importance of the subjects
treated. and in the ability and eminence Of
the writer's and speakers, these congresses
have been of the highest rank.
That the proceedings are pre.eminently
worthy of publication, as presenting the
best thought OF the age, on all the leading
topics OF human progress, will hardly be
disputed.
To make these proceedings accessible to
the students, investigators, thinkers and
writer's of the world, is no more than their
Importance demands, and it is believed that
no other act on the part of this government
could be more creditable to the country
9 more useful to mankind.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

NORTH DAKOTA is to have a new road.
r. s. Munger of Duluth, and T. B. Casey
of Minneapolis, q brother of the sena-
tor are interested. The line is from Du-
luth, slightly north Of west, striking
the Red river valley north of Fargo, and
south of Caledonia, and thence to Car
rinRton. The farmers of several of the
prairie counties through which the line
will run, have offered to grade it free of
charge, and a very valuable donation of
land is already pledged to the projectors.
Munger claims to have assurances Of
large support, and the Canadian Pacific
directors are said to be alive to the value
and feasibility of the plan.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

LOWER wages were to be expected
and consequently put up with under a
tariff for revenue only, says the New
York Sun, (dem.) but to cut down wages
a quarter or a half, or at all, merely for
the purpose OF shifting the ballast OF
protection, naturally makes the iron
and all other workers burn in the neck.
They would object to low wages, even
under the other system, at first; and no.
body can blame them for objecting to
low wages without a compromising low
ness in the general cost of living. Who
could have believed that instead Of a
change from q protective tariff to a
tariff for revenue only Prot. Wilson
would propose a change from protection
with high wage to protection with low
wages?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

The Sells Bros. and Sells and Rent.
frow, the latter Of which circuses was in
Bismarck last summer, and whose ar.
rival was heralded by the distribution
OF handbills from the first named COM
pany, which went to "roast" the latter to
a brown turn, are in trouble again.
Sells Bros. are preparing to sue the lat
ter for damages to the their reputation,
for Misrepresentation, and num- rous
other things. IT Sells Bros. get the en-
tire aggregation of the latter troupe in
the suit, they will not realize enough
on it to satisfy even a very moderate
claim.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

THERE are all kinds of methods to
make money. There is about t$42,OOO in
gold in circulation in Chicago, each piece
of which has been trimmed Of 81 or
81 worth of the yellow metal. The
scheme consists of turning the gold
pieces down a triae on the outer rim
until about 81 or 50 worth. of gold was
secured, and afterward remilling the
coin 80 perfectly that the work could
only be be detected by weighing the
coin, and the work done indicates per-
feet workmanship.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

ONE, MI. Youmans of Michigan, who
was defeated by Wm. s. Linton for the
office of congressman, claims that his
defeat was accompanied by the Protect
i've Tariff league, and has presented a
petition to congress, in which he alleges
that the voters of the district we're pre-
JUDGED, deceived and misled by the Pro-
tective Tariff leagues representations,
and that, thereto re, Linton is not en-
titled to his seat. Speaking of the prob
ability of the appointment Of a commit
tee to investigate, thu Chicago Inter-
Ocean, sums up in a sutsheIl, a series of
facts, which are interesting. It says:
The investigations of the committee
should begin with President Cleveland.
Let Tom Reed cross-examine him on the
democratic platform. Did that not de-
nounce republican protection as a fraud
and declare that the federation govern
ment had no constitutional power to en-
force and collect duties except for pur-
poses of revenue only? Did not Grover
Cleveland promise that a public office
should be a public trust? Did he not
promise to abolish the trusts and monop-
olies? Did he no. promise to favor just
and liberal pensions to the soldiers ?
Did he not promise to repeal the 10 per
cent. tax on state banks, and to give the
people an income tax? Did he not pledge
his administration to give the country a
foreign policy, consistent and vigorous,
compelling respect abroad and confidence
at home? Would Mr.. Cleveland like to
take oath that he did not deceive the
American people in all these charges and
promises? Then call the democratic mem
bers of congress who promised incidental
protection to n class of voters, and free
trade to another class. Ask them about
those pledges OF better times, higher wages
and cheaper products when the democrats
came into power. Call the member who
defeated Mckinley three years ago, charg-
ing that the Mckinley bill would raise the
price of tin cups to Is cents apiece. Bring
in tho members who promised to make the
wheels of industry 60 faster. Put on the
stand all, the democrats who promised to
give the country better times. And if they
swear that these representations they
made to the electors of their various dis
tricts were true, confront them with the
facts as nov presented in New York, Chi
cago, and every city in the union, and the
assertion of the federation of labor, that
more than a million men are ont If worlx
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

The Hawaiian investigation is not pro.
crossing in such a manner as to be pleas
ing to supporters of the policy of the
administration. Surveyor General Alex
ander OF Hawaii has ripped the Blount
report to shreds-exposed falsehood and
Misrepresentation and shown where
Blount actually expunged a part Of a
record made by the surveyor general at
Blount's request-in order to make
things fit the stand he wished to take.
Paramount Blount's record in the matter
is not enviable, nor is that of the ad-
ministration.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

CONGRESSMAN BURROWS did some
talking to the democrats on the tariff
the other day. He dissected the new
tariff measure and compared it with the
old. You said," began Mr.. Burrows,
shat the act of 1890 would develop no
new industries; it created them by the
hundreds. You said it would bring no
resultant benefits to our workmen-it Sc
cured for them enlarged employment
and increased wages. You said it would
enhance the cost of the protected ar
ticle. It cheapened it to the consumer.
You said it would diminish our foreign
trade. It augmented it in 1892 to $780,
6SO'61O, an increase over the previous
year of $128,283.6O4. You said it would
shut out our products from foreign
markets. Our export trade increased
s145, 1857 1888, swelling its volume to ST.
6~3O,278,14S the largest ever known in the
history of the country and exceeding the
value of our imports by S2~O2,S75,6s6.
You said it would paralyze our domes.
tic? 1t was never more vigorous than in
the years Immediately following it's en-
actment; and so every prophecy of ill
found swift and complete refutation in
increased industrial activity On every
hand and enhanced individual and ma
tional prosperity. We are, therefore,
justified in asserting that the act of 1890,
could it's permanency have been assured,
would have accomplished the double
purpose for which it was enacted
revenue and protection. The Mckinley
tariff never closed a mill in the United
States, shut up a mine, stopped q wheel,
blew out a furnace fire or drove q single
workman into the streets. This general
paralysis of business throughout the
country comes solely from the ascen-
dancy OF a political party pledged to the
repeal of the act Of 1890 and the substi-
tuition therefor of a tariff Invested of all
protective features. With such a party
in full control of the government is it
any wonder that domestic manufacturers
suspend operations until advised of the
conditions under which they must
market their oltput?"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

In Troy a year ago, says the New
York Mail, 25,OOO persons we're employed
in the various industries o. the city.
Now there are $4,000 out of work. In
Cohoes last year at this time $500 were
employed. To-day the workers number
but $500. In Newburg half of the $500
operatives who had work at good wages
a year ago, have nothing to do. Detroit
has 25,000 unemployed; Pittsburg
another $4,000, and Newark $1,000. The
democracy can look at these figures and
behold its work.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

The death Of Matthew j. Edgerley
adds another to the list of prominent
citizens and old timers, long and init
mately associated with city affairs, who
have within the past few months crossed
the dark river. Slowly but surely the
death roll of those who came here in the
long ago, those who endured the hard
ships of the city's first growth, those
who aided in it's building, and those who,
while they came later, yet were here
early enough to be associated with the
difficulties of organization, is increasing.
The number of the remaining old timers
is gradually decreasing, and each death
sadly and forcibly impresses the fact.
The rapid passage of time is in no wise
better exampled. Those whose lives
were in the prime at the founding of the
city, those who were young and strong
and active and in the full flush of health
and strength, have lived through q fifth
Of a century since then. and are begin
ming to feel the weight of years. Their
steps lack just a little Of the elasticity,
their muscles a little of the activity
which characterized them in former
years. Those who were the builders and
organizers, have watched the growth OF
the city, have aided in all work which
was necessary to be done, and are now
ready to rest from their duties, and let
the later ones assume the more difficult
tasks. They have earned whatever OF
rest they now ENJOY, and the newer ones
will unite IN saying 'God bless the old
timers, every one."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

THE YEAR WITH THE RAILROADS.
The Railway Age has an interesting
article upon railway mileage in the
United States, and the amount which
has been added the past year. Its
records show that the new main track
laid in the United States in 1893 aggre-
gates $3.50 miles on 222 lines in 43 of
the states and territories; also that in
Canada 461 miles have been built on is
lines, and il Mexico SO miles on 5 lines.
In commenting upon this addition it
says:
The wide distribution of these $3.50 miles
of new track is noteworthy. Only 5 of our
states and territories-Vermont, Connecti-
cut, Delaware, Nevada and Indian Terri
tory-show no addition whatever, but
several of the states added from only l to
5 miles each, and the entire 222 miles give
an average of less than IL miles to each
road. Pennsylvania leads with S99 miles
on As lines, followed by Florida with 212
miles on 9 lines, North Dakota 1914 miles on
2 lines, Georgia. 173 miles or Z lines, Texas,
1876 miles on 10 lines, Ohio, 146 miles IN Z
lines, etc. In respect to greatest total mile
age the order of the states is not materially
changed. Illinois still standing at the head,
with 1O,427 miles, Pennsylvania is second
with 1858 miles, and Texas third with
1926 miles.
The new mileage of 1898 is less by about
1900 miles than that of either of the two
preceding years, and is much smaller than
that of any year since that of 1878, when
the total was only 2,s79 miles. But in the
four hard years from 1874 to 1877, inclusive,
the additions were still less, going as low
as to I'LL in 1875. The lowest point
reached since 1873, was in 1885, when only
3.l31 miles were built, but in the following
year the e mileage leaped to 1928 miles
andin 1887 it reached the extraordinary total
of about 10000 miles. Notwithstanding
the great falling off in activity in the last
four or five years, the past ten years have
seen an addition of st, 1893 miles, or an aver
age Of about $50 miles a year, while in
the twenty years since 1873, no less than
07,5S5 miles were built, the average in
crease being 5.S79 miles per year.
The present railway mileage of the
United States, according to our record, is
177,85 miles. 1t will require only an aver.
age increase OF 3,164 miles for the next
seven years to bring the total at the begin
ing of the year 1900 to 100000 miles, while
if the rate of the last twenty years is aver
aged the total will then be over 215,OOO
miles. In view of the immense area of our
country which is still to be supplied with
railways 1t seems hardly possible that any
year in the rear future will show so small
q construction record as 1893. There are
enterprises already under way sufficient to
greatly increase this figure for 1894 if only
ordinary commercial conditions again pre-
vail, and legislative harrassment of railway
investments is suspended.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

B~RADsrREEr's trade review has an in.
teresting article on Northern Pacific
prospects, which just at this time will
be read with interest by all who are
located in the country traversed by the
system, and whose interests generally
vary with the variance of Northern
Pacific interests. The article is a COM
ment of the report of Receiver Rouse
and says:
Mr.. Rouse's inspection indicates that a
little less than S1O,0OO,OOO will be needed to
bring the property into condition for effect
i've operation, an expenditure of $4,000, 900
per annum being indicated as necessary.
Much of the property cannot at present be
operated at a minimum cost. About 1,OOO
miles of the line are without ballast, or
only partially bailasted, while considerable
mileage is still laid with old, light rails.
Estimating expenses Of operation at $1,000.
600 per month and allowing for an average
decrease of q per cent. in gross earnings
for the ensuing six months, he counts on a
balance of net earnings for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1893. of only "a, 1900 900. It
is also pointed out that the competition of
the Great Northern in territory heretofore
monopOlized by the Northern Pacific and
the extension of the Burlington lines into
its districts present important and difficult
questions.
The references to the branch lines OF the
Northern Pacific system embodied in this
report are also instructive. The fact is de-
velOped that of the $45, 600, 900 of underlying
bonds on these roads the Northern Pacific
holds 8 ,0OO.OOO, their mileage being the
principal property on which the consoli-
dated mortgage bonds are a first lien. The
earnings of these twenty-seven branches
over their expenses in 1893 were $3.50 ,2O9.
and the deficit under their fixed charges ST.
44,70S. In spite of the fact that in some
cases the branches are allowed an arbitrary
division of earnings on traffic exchanged
with the main line, by which their con-
structive mileage Is counted at double its
actual amount, only two of the whole
number earned a balance over their fixed
charges.
The conclusions at which this member
of the board of receivers arrives, and which
it is the purpose of his communication to
urge upon his colleagues, are that the ex-
listing unfortunate conditions cannot be
permanent. and that before long the traffic
Of the Northern Pacific system will in
crease. In order to meet the demands of
such traffic, he suggests that it is the duty
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

of receivers, while operating sthe railroad
as economically as is consistent with safe
ty and good service, with the sanction of
the court, to raise its physical condition to
such a standard Of excellence as will en-
able it to successfully compete with it's
rivals, to meet the demands of increased
traffic, and to take a proper position among
the transcontinental lines.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

They are discharging professors and
instructors at Harvard college now.
Let's see? Didn't the president of that
institution say not long ago, something
about "the duty of every young Ameri-
can to vote for free trade" or something
of the sort?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12

Down in Missouri, Sol Collins threw
some damp giant powder into the kit
chen fire. The funeral Of MI. Collins,
his wife and four children will occur as
o as the remains can be gathered to-
gether and sorted out.