Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-30
TWENTY YEARS G
Information Gathered from the Files
of the Bismarck Tribune of
March %, 1874.

One of the TR1BuNE's subscribers
sends in a communication, urging the
planting of trees, and giving directions
therefor. ... Persons who know say the
Northern Pacific will be extended 200
miles the coming season. Gen. Cass and
the directors prepare for a trip over the
line. TRIBUNE publishes an article
from w. Minor Roberts to the New
York Tribune, correcting some of the
erroneous impressions conveyed by the
letter of Gen. Hazen. To give an idea
of the impression conveyed by Hazen it
may be we'll to publish an extract from
his letter, which is as follows: "Respect
ing the agricultural value of this country,
after lessing the excellent wheat grow
ing valley of the Red River of the North,
following westward 1900 miles to the
Sierras, excepting the very limited bot
toms of the small streams, as we'll as
those of the Yellowstone and Missouri,
from a few yards in breadth, to an &C.
casional water-washed valley of one or
two miles there are bottoms or grassy
places in the Yellowstone valley ten to
fifteen miles w1de) and the narrow val
leys of the streams of Montana, already
settled, and a small area of timbered
country in northwest Idaho probably
one-tiftieth of the whole) this country
will not produce the fruits and cereals
of the east for want of moisture, and can
in no way be artifically irrigated
and will not, in our day,
and generation, sell for n
penny an acre." County Commissioner
Mercer and Dan Williams go off on a
moose hunt. Lake Superior and Pu-
get Sound company's 'skirmish line" is
out, and their deserted cabins are again
occupied. ...T TRIBUNE will appear in full
size again after April 18th. go. Fred Hol-
lembaek buys Lawrence's meat market
....Bailey rents the Ostlund house,.
Col. Lounsberry expected home from the
east....R r. M. Douglas claim on Apple
creek is jumped. -. United States Mar
shall Williams and Fred Edgar mixed up
in a runaway, in which both are thrown
out, the horse killed, and Mr.. Williams
badly injured. 49,. Three cases come up
before Commissioner Jackman for cut
ting timber on government land, and
n party bound over to United States
district court at Yankton .. The follow
ing published result of an inquiry as to
the high price of liquor at retail will be
interesting: "Upon inquiry we learn
from the larger portion Of the saloon
keepers that it is useless to attempt to
reduce the retail price at present, as the
prices of living and building will not
justify it. The saloon keepers as a gen
eral thing are not stubborn in the mat
ter, but say it is a plain business fact
that they cannot keep mp a stock of
good, frst-class liquors and cigars, such
as people here demand, for less than Is
cents. We are glad to learn thas it is
their intention to keep up good stocks
and do all in their power to please Gus
toners. From what we learn, the reduce
ton to Is cents a drink is g f~ailure."....
Another shooting ARRAY occurs, in which
one man is seriously wounded. Frank
Cole, James Black and Frank Reynolds,
three r%utians, march down Main street to
the Exchange saloon, shooting up and
down the street, and into the saloon. A