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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

The Northern Pacific employees have
given no intimation yet as to whether
they will accept the notifications to
the schedules offered by the receivers
and they are still discussing the matter
among themselves. It 10 known that
the answer of the receivers delivered
through General Manager Kendrick, is
not as favorable as the men expected,
and some of the latter are inclined to
hold out for the full extent Of their de-
mands. Should the men decide not to
accept the notifications, it will remain
open with the receivers whether to ap-
ply to the court to have them put into
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02
ON THE GREAT PRAIRlEs.
Vastness. Isolation and Monotony Reign In
the Treeless Plain Stretches.

Vastness, Isolation and Monotony Reign In
the Treeless Plain Stretches.
If there be any region in the world where
the natural Gregarious instinct of mankind
should assert itself, that region is our
northwestern prairies, where a short, hot
summer is followed by a long, cold winter,
and where there is little in the aspect of
nature to furnish food for thought. On ev-
cry hand the ~treeless plain stretches away
to the horizon line. In summer it is check
cred with grainfelds or carpeted with grass,
and flowers, and it is inspiring in its color
and vastness, but one mile of it is almost
exactly like another, a v where some wa
%tercourse nurtures a fringe of willows and
cottonwoods. When the snow covers the
ground, the prospect is bleak and dispirit-
ing. No brooks babble under icy armor.
THERE'S no bird life after the wild geese and
ducks have passed on their way south. The
silence of death rests on the vast landscape,
saw when it is swept by cruel winds that
search out every chink and Granny Of the
buildings and drive through each unguard-
ed aperture the dry, powdery nov
In such q region you would expect the
dwellingsto be of substantial construction,
but they are not. The new settler Is too
poor to build of brick Or stone. He haulsa
few loads of lumber from the nearest rail.
way station and puts up a frail little house
Of two, three Or four rooms that looks as
though the prairie winds would blow it
away Were it not for the inventions Of
tarred building paper the fimsy walls
would not keep out the wind and snow.
With this paper the walls are sheathed un,
der the weatherboards. The barn is often
a nondescript affair Of sod walls and straw
roof. Lumber is much too dear to be used
for door yard fences, and there is no inclo-
sure about the house. A barbed wire fence
surrounds the barnyard. Rarely are there
any trees, for on the prairie trees grow very
slowly and must be nursed with care toget
q start. There is a saying that y4u must
first get the Indian out of the soil before a
tree will grow at all, which means that
some savage quality must be taken from
the ground by cultivation.
In this cramped abode, from the windows
of which there is nothing more cheerful in
sight than the distant houses of other set
tiers, just as ugly and lonely, and stacks Of
straw and unthrashed grain, the farmers
family must live. In the summer there is
q school for the children one, two or three
miles away, but in winter the distances
across the snow covered plains are too great
for them to travel in severe weather. The
schoolhouse is closed, and there is nothing
for them to do but to house themselves and
long for spring.-Atlantic Monthly.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

ANOTHER feature Of the Wilson bill, as
affecting the sentiment existing among
Canadians toward the United States, is
brought out by Alden Solomon, of Con-
necticut, one of the largest hat manu-
%facturers in the country. MI. Solomon
says: "Last year I went off on a fishing
trip to canada. There were four of uain
the party, and we finally landed on
Prince Edwards island. We were all of
us struck with the unanimity of the an
nexation feeling among the natives. In
the two weeks Wa were there [ don't re.
call having met with a single native who
didn't favor annexation, and it was all on
account OF potatoes: 1t is a great coun-
try there for potatoes. They raise as
fine potatoes there as in any place in the
world. They would say: Now, if we
could only get annexed to the United
States, that would give us a market for
u potatoes. But we can't compete with
the American farmer on account of the
duty. That 26 cents a busnel duty is
too much for u.s. Now to the point.
The Wilson bill takes that duty off, and
what is the result? Why, there won't be
an annexationist on Prince Edwards
island. They get our market without
contributing either financially or any
other way to the greatness of the coun-
try. The Wilson bill will go far toward
killing annexation sentiment in Canada"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

In his report to the governor, just pub
lished, Examiner Peabody comments on
the Lloyd bank failure. He says: 81
consider this a bad failure, not because
OF any deficiency in the amount and
character of the assets, but for the
reason that 1t was brought about I'M
necessarily. I do not believe that the
stringency in the money market had any
thing to do with this failure, unless, per-
haps for the reason that this %stringency
made it impossible for the officers of the
institution to borrow money with which
to replace the funds they had wrong
fully withdrawn. I say wrorgfully
withdrawn, because it was taken in d.
rect disobedience to Section &c Of our
state banking law, which reads as fol-
lows: Each association shall at all
times have on hand in available funds an
amount equal to 20 per cent. Of it's de-
posts, one-half of which may consist of
balances due to the association from
good, solvent banks, and one-half shall
consist of cash on hand; whenever the
available fund shall be below 20 per cent.
of it's deposits, such association shall not
increase it's liabilities by making any Q
loans or diecounksj otherwise than by
discounting or purchasing bills of ex-
change payable at sight, nor make any
dividends Of its profits until the required
proportion between the aggregate
amount of deposits and its lawful money
reserve has been restored The weak.
ness of this clause is apparent, from the
fact that no penalty attaches"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02
SPECIAL OFFER.

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
a 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
andiusury laws should be studied by all.
The TRIBUNE will give a copy OF the
1891 and a copy of the 1898 session laws
to every weekly reader who pays all ar
averages and one year in advance for the
Weekly TRIBUNE. We have only a few
hundred left, aud propose to give them
way in this manner. Address,
The TRIBUNE, Bismarck, N. d.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02
BISMARCK WEEKLY TKIBUNh: FRIDAY. FEB. 2 1894

have dried blood upon his table, and re-
joice that it is no longer a luxury.1Then,
too, the farmer may have cuttleish
bones whenever he wants 'em, and every
tiller Of the soil may lay in a huge
stock of dragons blood and fish skins,
absolutely free of duty. Acorns and
skeletons, also, are articles which the
Mckinley bill has kept beyond the
reach of the agriculturalists for, 10, oil
these years, and they will shed huge
tears of Joy to learn that catgut and
bristles are no longer taxed, but are as
free as salvation. The duty on Aints,
fashion plates and fossils, accounts for
the impoverished condition of innumer.
able wheat ~raisers, and when the duty
shall be removed, the Golfers of farmers
will run to o%verflowlng with the yellow
gold, which is saved to them by this wise
provision of democracy. With turtles
on the free list, there will be no reason
why any farmer should not have a flock
of 'em in the bsrnyard, while a herd of
snails and shrimps will soon become q
common right on the typical American
farm. And then can the farmer gaze
about him, and contemplate all these
blessings of democracy, in exchange for
which he is Only asked to stop the rails.
ing of barley, of knock off a few cents
on each bushel. Truly, the farmer will
be blessed, under the careful provisions
of the Wilson bill!
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

PURSUANT to directions of the repub-
lican club of New York City, the COM
mittee on national affairs of the organi-
cation has made an investigation and re-
port of the labor panic. Some of the
statistics touching upon the damage al
ready done, and what a reduction of
wages means, will 5e interesting. The
report says:
The eleventh census will show upward
OF t~wenty-four million ~breadwinners m
pioyed inthegalnful occupations in 1890;
Of this number nearly uine million are d.
rectly engaged in manufacturing, mining
and mechanical pursuits, and in trans porta-
ton and trade, making, with their fami-
lies and those dependent, a total Of over
one-third Of the population of the entire
United States. Actual figures just pub
lished by the Census show that the earn
ings of those engaged in manufacturing
alone in 1890 exceeded two Thousand mil
lion dollars. A moderate estimate Of the
total annual earnings of the country would
therefore be ten thousand million dollars
QO,OOO,OOO,OOO). Not merely the wages of
those engaged in manufacturing have been
seriously reduced by this panic of labor,
but in one form and another the injury
resulting from the effort of the democratic
party to fasten foreign or British free trade
upon this once prosperous people,, has, or
will ultimately, extend to oil who live by
daily work. The actual loss to the people
up to date has simply been:appalling, and,
unless soon checked, will bring still fur.
Their loss and desolation to every one OF
the twelve million homes of the repub bile.
A 10 per cent reduction of this earning
power means an annual loss to the nation
of II thousand million dollars: a 20 per
e n reduction, of two thousand million.
Here we make no allowance for loss re-
sulting from shrinkage of values. The
factories, the workshops, the machinery
will be here, to be sure, but half of the val
ue will, with half of the wages of those en-
ployed, be gone, if the Wilsonibill shall be-
come a Jaw. Astounding as it ~mayiappear,
the sum total of the nations loss, in shrink
age of value, reduction of wages, loss of
employment and liza fourfold increase of
| liabilities in bankruptcy, has already ex-
ceeded the assessed valuation of all the
property Of the thirteen southern states, as
shown by the census of 1890 ($S,809 600, OOO).
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

The Wilson bill, says the Chicago
Tribune, places coal on the free list.
This is for the benefit of Canada, whose
Nova Scotia and British Columbia mines
will ship a great deal of coal to the
United States. The Dominion, however,
collects a duty of 60 cents a ton on coal
sent to Ontario and Quebec from Penn
s%ylvania, Ohio and Indiana. Some days
ago Congressman Hit gave notice of an
amendment to the Wilson bill to be
added at the end of the free list. It was
in substance that if any article on that
list was imported from a country which
imposed a duty on that article when ex-
ported from the United States the ar
ticle thus imported should pay the duty
now collected. The congressman stated
that this had special reference TO coal.
The bill looked after the interests of the
Standard Oil company, and provided
that petroleum should not be discrimi-
mated against, and he thought it only
proper that there should be no discrimi-
nation against American coal, and that
the coal of countries which would not
admit product free should not be let in
here free. When the subject of free coal
was under discussion day before yester-
day Mr.. Hit tried to get in his amend
ment, but it was ruled out as not being
germane. It should be incorporated in
the bill, however. It would have been
put in originally if the democrats had
not felt more kindly toward Canadian
than American producers. As Mr.. Hit
stated, it is the power of congress by
adopting his amendment to make the
Canadians take off their duties on coal
and various other articles. They will
not take them of as long rs the similar
Canadian articles are admitted into this
country Internationally free of duty.
Mr.. Hit has appealed to the democrats
to forget the foreigners for one moment
and think a little Of the interests of the
people of this country. It is not likely
that they will listen to him.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

want. And yet the fact that the long
idle factories are so generally resuming
work implies that manufacturers are
aware of the exhausted state of stocks
and believe that the markets are pre-
pared to take a fair amount Of goods.
AS this city is the headquarters for man
ufacturers as we'll as Tor distributors, it
is not surprising that the dispirited
feeling among the former should find ex-
preston here more than elsewhere; and
a little more experience is likely to con-
vince producers, that it does not pay to
infect their customers with their own
misgivings. When that point is reached
there is likely to be a marked change
from the feelings and the volume of
trade which exist at the, moment. Mr..
Philip D. Armour is quoted as saying
1T is is time to begin to hedge on "bearv
views. Trade has picked up SO much
in the last ten days, I feel myself like
hedging on the view OF the situation I
took a fortnight ago. There have been
more signs Of returning confidence this
week than I have seen for a long time.
The general mercantile trade has very
much more of the old-time look to it
than I have seen for many a MONTH
This is important testimony from a COM
petent judge of affairs in the west; and
the improvement to which Mr.. Armour
t~estities cannot long fail to make its i'm
preston at this centre. What Mr.. Ar
mour reports for Chicago appears to ap-
ply equally to the southwest.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

In the last issue Of the Steele Ozone,
there is a half column of criticism of the
interview which was published in the
TRIBUNE Of a week ago, relative to some
of the facts and incidents of the Bonn
berger hanging. The finer sensibilities
of the editor seem to have been sadly
shocked, and he laments that part of the
interview which describes Bomberger's
GOODNESS and nerve. It is also q matter
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

ALMOST every day the democratic
party spits on it's hands, and adds a Few
cobble stones to the elegantly macada-
mized road which it is building for
the republicans right up to the door Of
the White house and the capitol build
in.r
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

HENRY CLEws weekly financial review
takes a hopeful view of the mercantile
and financial situation. It says. "This
turn of the tide is most CONSPICUOUS in
the northwest and southwest. In those
sections, the mercantile interests show a
distinct improvement, which expresses It,
self in the markets of this city New York;
in an increased numbero Of buyers, as we'll
Is III an ability to buy larger parcels, and
IN better collections and fewer requests
for extensions Of Payments. Unfortunate.
ly, on arriving here, these interior buyers
find still a discouraged feeling, much
complaint and a lack of frmness in
prices Notwithstanding the extraordi-
nary lowness of the stocks of goods; and
under those circumstances they deem
it prudent to buy less than they really
want, with consequent encouragement
to our local merchants. A few days ago,
a series OF concessions were made in
staple cotton goods, which, instead of
encouraging sales, have frightened buy
ers and produced a general check on
business in that branch of trade. It
would seem as though manufacturers
and commission merchants have allowed
their fears ut the effects of tariff changes
to get the better of their sober judy
ment, with the result of their overlook
ing the favorable points in the situation
and placing themselves at the mercy Of
customers, who, under such circum-
stances, buy much less than they really
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

IT seems a season of reconciliations.
William and Bismarck have made up,
Corbett and Mitchell have shaken hands
and now if Mrs. Lease and Governor
Lewellyn should bury the Ratchet, the
would be close at hand,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

IF the officials in Illinois--after the
bungling job they made of Painters
execution-want some pointers on a
nice, neat, we'll regulated hanging, they
might come to North Dakota and get
'em from Sheriff McCune.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02
effect or to continue working under the
present.
OWING to a chapter of accidents dur

OWING to a chapter of accidents dur
ing the past week, the serial sFortress
to Farm" will not appear in to-day's is
sue, but will be published next week as
usual. The next installment of the
serial deals with early events in Edwin
ton-the trials and hardships of the
first settlers of the city, and will be read
with interest by everyone.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

CHAIRMAN WILSON says the demo-
cratic party has grown immensely in the
past ten years. As it is generally under
stood that the democratic party" is
President Cleveland, the statement is
undoubtedly correct.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

MAJOR BALDWIN, the congressman who
said he didn't propose to oppose any of
the Wilson bill, just because some of his
constituents didn't want free iron ore,
has been hanged in efigy at Duluth, by
the mass Of voters who protested against
froo ;ro,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02
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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-02

TO the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS controversy,
is published by the Howard Publishing
Co., of Detroit, Mich, from the pen Of
DR.. 0. w. Owens. The author has passed
the years of his life from first manhood
to middle age in the study of his sub.
ject, and he claims to have discovered a
cipher, which, properly applied to the
works commonly accredited to Shakes
peare and to those acknowledged ones Of
Sir Francis Bacon, unfolds a series of
hidden communications, which prove
that Bacon is the author, not only of the
works commonly credited to Shakes
peare, but also of those Of NARROW, Spen-
ser and others. The opening argument
of the work is plausible, and fascinating
to the close student of literature. Com
parsons are made of certain passages in
the plays, with certain ones in Bacon's
Essays, and in cases innumerable, the
thoughts, the phraseology, and even the
expressions of language are almast ex-
actly alike, showing them to have eman-
ated either from the same mind, or from
two minds, whose workings we're exactly
alike. Another telling argument is made
from the fact that in several Of the plays
reference is made to the circulation of
the blood, and to hearts, veins, arteries,
and "the spirits in the arteries"-of
course, meaning blood. As the discovery
of the circulation of the blood was not
made until three years after Shakespeare
died, then either the plays in which
these illusions appear we're not written
by him, or he had knowledge of the cir
culation before it was discovered and the
first of these appears the much more
reasonable proposition. On the other
hand, Bacon was an intimate friend of
DR.. Harvey, the discoverer of circulation,
and it is more than probable he was
present at the court of the king, when
DR.. Harvey presented proofs of bis DIS
covery. Again, in referring to the cir
culation, the works of Shakespeare,
which we're not published until 1923, and
then for the first time, those of Bacon,
acknowledged, and those of Harvey, the
d~iscoverer, use expressions which are not
only similar, but exactly alike. Each
one OF the three works refers to "the
workshop of the body" "the storehouse
of the BLOOD" and other similar expires.
sions. Bacon and Harvey were closely
associated in the discovery, and it can
be seen how they would use the same
expression. But how could Shakespeare,
who died three years before the discov-
Grey was made, make use of expressions
regarding a subject, which knowledge
that he did not possess alone would war.
rant? Is it not more probable the
works accredited to Shakespeare in
which these expressions appear, and
which were given to the public
until the publication of sthe folio edition
of the plays in 1923, were written some
time between the discovery, 1919, and
the date of their first publication, and by
some n who was familiar with the sub.
ject? And if so, it could not have been
Shakespeare, for Shakespeare was dead
and buried. Who, then, was it? The
book referred to abounds in such q
ments which are telling, and it should be
read by all who are interested in the
controversy,