Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-19

enthusiastic as to be carried entirely off
the track. The a felt likewise, and
preceded him into the ditch. He struck
on his face and remained for some time
unconscious. Carver lay some distance
away when found, just as unconscious,
but fully convinced that thirty miles per
hour on a hand.car was possible.
Tho Dickson Case.
The case against Mary Dickson, who
is charged with mailing an obscene
letter to D. R. Streeter over a year ago.,
and whose case has been called and put
over several times because of the illness
OF the defendant, was begun Saturday
morning.
The testimony for the prosecution &C.
cupied the greater part of the forenoon.
Testimony was first introduced as to the
passage Of the letter through the post
office, and D. r. Streeter gave testimony
of its receipt by him. The letter, which
is a vile epistle, was produced in court
along with the envelope, and introduced
as exhibits.
Mrs. Streeter and Mrs. Yeater gave
testimony as to securing a sample of the
handwriting of the defendant, in an au-
tograph album, for the purpose of COM.
parison, and the album was also intro.
duced.
Commissioner Hoskins gave testimony
of the preliminary examination of the
defendant before him, and stated how,
on the first evening Of the preliminary,
the defendant had denied writing either
the letter or the envelope, and afterward
had admitted writing the envelope.
Inspector Clement gave similar testi-
mony, and stated the defendant had
stated she had written the envelope at
the request of one, Thistlewaite.
r. H. Thistlewaite was called and
shown the exhibits, and stated that he
never seen either the letter or the en-
velope before.
The prosecution rested, and the de-
Tense presented its first witness, Mary
Dickson, the defendant. She denied writ
ing either the letter or the envelope, or
mailing them. Said she had made the
admission to writing the envelope at the
preliminary examination upon advice of
her counsel at that time, who had told
her that was the way she must tell her
story to get out of it.
Inithe a~fternoon!the defense introduced
several witnesses, among them Clerk
Montgomery and Attorneys Newton and
Boucher, who testified that in their
opinions the same person who wrote in
the autograph album did not write the
letter and envelope.
The arguments in the case begun at
about 3 O'Clock.
- A Big Trip.
A special from Ordway, S. d., dated
April II, says: A large Russian thistle
was found to-day in a wire fence near
town, and attached to the center of the
thistle was this letter: Bismarck, N. D.,
Feb. 16, 1895. Here I am; set adrift in
a storm. Whoever finds me, please re-
port me to J. S. Clark, Bismarck, N. d.
This makes a distance of about 100 miles
the weed has travelled, scattering it's
seeds. Probably in it's rambles back and
forth across the prairies, the weed has
travelled several hundred miles more
than the distance from this place to Bis
marck."
Silver.
simultaneously with the adjournment
of congress came the announcement of
the proposed formation of a "silver
party" a political organization whose
chief plank should be action in regard to
the use Of silver as coined money. Per-
haps at this time a few non-political
facts in regard to silver may be of in
terest. Like gold, silver is almost uni
versally diffused throughout nature. It
is computed that the waters of the ocean.
contain silver to the value of ten thous-
and millions of dollars. Unlike gold, how
ever, silver, when freed from the rocks
where it is buried, is driven into cew
combinations by the elements, or even
dissipated and lost. Hence, there is no
silver ''placer' mining, but it has to be
conducted by subterranean digging, and
the operations are expensive. Careful
SCOTS Emulsion