Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-07-27

are after the rum sellers with a sharp
Stick. Saloons have been started by the
drys, whiskey Of the usual rock-ribbed,
red-eyed variety, guaranteed to create
as extensive a menagerie of serpents and
insects in q given time as any other
whiskey, is being retailed by them at 5
cents a drink, and with every drink
which fades away before the excessive
thirst Of the old Bay state at this ruin
GUS price, there is tearing of hair among
the vets. Beer is dispensed by these
prohibition saloons ut 2 cents per drink,
and it is just as berry a beer and Just as
booty a beer as is dished out for S cents
by the vets. The drys hope by these
meansto drive the vets out Of business,
until they a create a sufficient senti-
ment to carry the question of prohibition
but I fear at these Utopian prices of
drinks, the creation of prohibition sent
iment will be a tedious job-very tedi-
GUS.
Those who are acquainted with State
Superintendent Of Irrigation and For
estry W. W. Barrett, and are aware of
his enthusiasm in things agricultural,
vegetable and mineral, will be better
able to appreciate a practical joke which
was perpetrated upon him not many
days ago, when, in the dead Of night,
some n sailed his land with coal. The
wiry forester was prospecting for novel;
ties in melampsora populina, and making
calculations as to the extent of the raw
ages OF glaeosporium nervisequum, when
he discovered the carboniferous CONSOLE
dalton which had been strewn over the
land covered by his researches, and with
throbbing heart and trembling fingers
he abstained from his his examination
of fungicides, long enough to examine
the newly discovered deposit. A stock
company was at once organized for the
working Of the mine, and shares were
melting before the eager demands Of
purchasers like ice cream at a church
picnic, when Barrett perceived the joke.
There was warmth of temper in the
head of :the state tree department.
for a short time, but at latest reports, I
understand the genial Barrett has be-
com reconciled, and is busy with a pre-
paration Of a means for the eradication
of phragmidium m%ucronatum, together
with a short treatise on the danger to.
the onion crop from neocystis cepulae.
I am creditably informed that the adj
minlstration which is in control of the.
state at present is highly particular as to-
the class of workmen who are employed.
upon the state capitol, and that the,
balances upon which the propriety of
the person who applies for work is,
guaged, are supported in the middle by
State Auditor Porter and Private Score
tary Sanders. A laboring man in the
city, who was willing to work for what
ever wages he could secure, applied, sol
am told, for a position at the capitol, and
asked as to the amount of wages paid.
He was informed that $l.25 per day was
paid common laborers, and he responded
that he thought he could do as great an
amount of work in one day for $1.25. as,
any other person Of his acquaintance.
and would like a Job. Considerably to-
his utter mystiication, he was asked it
he had a certificate, and in answer to his,
astounded inquiry came the explanation
that it was n of the understandings
that are not included in the written con-
tract, that no D should be employed
unless his credentials should be certified
to and his propriety vouched for by
either Secretary Sanders or Auditor.
Porter. I am inclined to the belief, and
I think the opinion is general, that pat
ness from a political standpoint is a.
greater recommendation with these
arbiters of the destiny of applicants for
positions, than is ability from a mechan-
ical point Of view. At any rate, the ap-
plicant inquestion invited thosei in charg e.}
to go to H|if they wanted him to insure
his vote in return for a job. The populists
seem determined to squeeze all the
medicine possible from the bricks and
mortar of the capitol addition. 359
The SPECTATOR.
Contracts Awarded.
Bids for supplies for the penitentiary
were opened by the ~penitentiary board
Wednesday, and contracts awarded. H.
L. Nicholson was awarded the contract
for grocery supplies, and Lucas s.
Beardsley were awarded the COM