Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-02

his office was either at hie house where
he resides, OF at the Office he used in
connection with the practice of his pro-
fession. During the years 1883, "a and
'S5. as appears from the records in the
office of the auditor of Burleigh county,
he drew $1,000 each year for acting as
physician Of Burleigh county. During
the years 1885, '86, ~. 's8 and 's9 be re-
ceived tor his services as physician at
the state penitentiary the following
amounts: September "a, $3.50; October
26, $3.50; December %, $50; 1886, Feb
ruary 5, $50; May IL, $50; December 10,
500; 1887, June II, $3.50; August 81,
$3.50; November %, $3.50; 1888, March 3,
$3.50; June 10, $3.50; October 2, $3.50; De.
cember II, $3.50; 1883, February 20, $3.50;
May "a, $3.50; August %, $3.50; October
%, $3.50.
The records of the state penitentiary
show that there were confined in the
penitentiary a daily average of prisoners
for the year 1885, Alba; 1886, 1885; 1887,
6O72; 1888, 1892; 1889, ALL.
It the doctor bills of Burleigh county
were as great for the attendance of the
same number of patients as the territory
and state of Dakota paid Dr.. Bentley for
medical attendance at the ~penitentiary,
1T is no wonder that the people of the
county are in straitened circum-
stances, but it is strange how so few
doctors could have made go much money
and still some of them plead for office on
the grounds of poverty.
DR.. Bentley served as colonel of the
First Regiment, state militia, for the
years 1887, 'S8 and 'S9, for which he re-
ceived, as appears from the records in
the auditors office, So. He also re-
ceived 5 cents for each mile actually
travelled while acting as colonel in the
militia, and we are informed, and believe
he had at that time and used a railroad
pass for such travel. He was appointed
adjutpnt general of state militia and
served during the years 1890 and 1892,
receiving as salary for each year 81, 800,
and ST.. for Office rent, in addition to
which he received S.. for necessary
travelling expenses and mileage, while
riding, as we believe, on a railroad pass.
In 1892 DR.. Bentley was elected to the
lower house of the legislature and re-
ceived as compensation for his services
$500, making in all a total of S11,75O the
records show he has received from city,
county and state since 1881, every dollar
OF Which he has received by virtue Of his
election or appointment as a republican,
and while holding the positions I have
mentioned by virtue of the grace and
will of the republican party of Burleigh
county whom he now denounces as cor
rupt. If the Jersey COW has been MIXED
dry, it is PLAIN to see who has gathered
the cream from the tactical fluid which
has been go generously given out by the
old republican COW until even the vigor-
GUS bunting that DR.. Bentley is able to
administer will not cause her to give
down and milk freely any longer.
In 1889, an encampment of the terri
torial militia was held at Huron, S, D.
DR.. Bentley, as colonel, had charge and
control of the First regiment, Territorial
National Guards, and as such officer
control of the camping equipments, guns
and munitions Of war which were stored
IN North Dakota. A large number of
tents and other things of that character
being stored at Bismarck. These we're
all shipped to Huron for that encamp-
ment. The constitutional convention
met at Bismarck on the 4th day of July,
1889, the day or which the encampment
at Huron broke up. I myself was the
quartermaster of the Lisbon battery.
We were equipped with two cannon and
accouterments and we're attached to the
Second regimen1, of which Sbief of
Watertown was colonel. [ learned while
there that South Dakota intended to ap-
propriate to herself the militia's prop
erty, but by an agreement between Col.
Shief an myself, as quartermaster, and
W.K. Smith, captain IN command of the
battery, W we're enabled to remove the
cannon belonging to the battery and re-
turn them safely to Lisbon. To do this,
however, we were compelled to make a
detail of the battery who stayed with the
guns through their shipment and until
they arrived at Lisbon, and the battery
was afterward compelled out of their
treasury to pay for this service in getting
back from South Dakota the cannon
which belonged to us. Col. Bentley was
mayor OF Bismarck, and left Huron to
come here and be present on the 18th of
July, the day Of the opening of the con
stitutlonal convention.
When the committee appointed by
the constitutional convention of North
and South Dakota met in session at
North Dakota, at the capitol for the
purpose of making an adjustment be
tween the soon to be states of North
and South Dakota, and a division of the
property of the whole Territory het,uaan