Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-06-15
YEARS AGO.
Information Gathered from the Files
of the Bismarck Tribune of
June 10, 1874.

President dominates Lyman Norton as
register of the Bismarck land office, vice
Miller, declined. Chas. B. Jordan, of
Wadena, gets the Fargo land Office.
Wintermute, who killed Gen. McCook,
convicted of manslaughter in the first
degree. The steamer Western arrives
from Fort Benton, with 113 horses, 1915
bales of furs and 40 passengers ...C Capt.
Bralthwaite goes east after his family
-. Major Dickey resigns his post-trader-
ship at Fort Lincoln. IA lodge. gf
Masons organized in the city, with Col.
Brownson, w. NJ; John A. Mclean, S.
w.; Thos. Van Ettan, J. w.. Raymond
& Co. sell $1,000 worth of goods in one
day....James Ross, a private of the 18th
at Lincoln, while on fatigue duty, was
struck by a falling tree, his skull being
fractured. He died two hours after the
accident 49,. The boundary survey COM
pany leave for Fort Buford. ...V alua-
ton of the territory of Dakota is $685.
647.S1, and a tax of.one mill is levied for
territorial purposes ....M Major Dickey an
nounces himself as a candidate for con.
gress. Express business at Bismarck
amounts to $4,000 per month. -. Indians
making trouble near Fort Peck. ... Trees,
evergreens, to the number of 400, are
set out at different places about the city
Fifteen communicates at the Epis-
copal church, a larger number than at
any place in the territory. -. Rain every
day for a week, and gardens looking fine.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean makes a
logical and earnest argument, in favor
of a protection for wool. It sees the
necessity for the protection of this in.
dustry, SO deeply concerning wool grow.
ers all over the United States. It Is op.
posed to the stagnation and gdestruc.
ton of the industry by democratic free
wool legislation, and it cites an array Of
facts and figures, in it's request for the
protection of wool growers:
Oregon is one of the leading wool grow.
ing states of the Union. With a popula
ton Of only 31S,767 it had in 18,732,456, OF;
sheep, which is more than Illinois and In
diana Tor wisconsin, have both together
A few days ago the people of Oregon were
heard from at the polls in a congressiona
and general state election, including gov
ernor. The result was al old wartime
republican victory. The flock owners anc
sheep shearers of that state are tired anG
sick of a party which has %cobwebbed the
warehouses Of the large towns, usually
piled to the rafters with wool, but nov
empty. The farmers say that it would
hardly pay them to haul their wool to tow
for the price now offered. Private bins
were already choked with last years crop
and what to do with the new one is a per-
picking and impoverishing problem.
Statistics of 1898 give the number OF
| sheep in the United States as ~, 29S, 553
The number has been greatly cut down
since then. All last winter the market
was fairly glutted with mutton, not the re-
fuse of the flock, nor yet full-grOwn
wethers, but lambs. Millions Of them
! who had never felt the shears were
brought to the block, and that in anticipa.
tion of the schedule now under cOnsidera-
ton. Free wool is more deadly to sheer
than any epidemic which ever decimated q
flock. 1t drives all ages to the shambles
especially in farm regions. Ranch ssheeI
are not in quite as much danger. From q
wool point of view Ohio leads all the
| states, having 4,S78,7 25 sheep, with no Other
states anywhere near her, except Texas
and California. Each of the three goes be
You'd the four million mark, while M
| other reaches the three million MARI
! With the exception of Australia the