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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

PRESIDENT LAWRENCE of the United
States Wool Growers association, asks
that all wool growers urge upon their
representatives in congress to have in
%corporated in any revenue bill which
may be passed by the next congress,
more adequate protection for our home
industries. He says it is now conceded
on all hands that the Wilson tariff act
is a failure as a revenue measure. Under
it the government, in a time of peace, is
issuing bonds to meet current expenses.
President Cleveland will of necessity
ask congress in December next to pass
a bill to increase the revenue. The
present law, with it's inadequate duties
on farm products and free wool, is an in
vidious and odious discrimination against
the agriculturists of this country. The
sheep farmers have lost by free wool
more than 800, 900, 1000 in the decline in
value of sheep and wool.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

THE TRIBUNE will have to call Mr..
Clifford down on his statement that
under Governor Miller's administration
the attorney general held that the North
ern Pacific's main line was exempt from
taxation by act of congress. The atten-
ton of Mr.. Clifford and others is re-
specially called to page SO, report of
Attorney General Goodwin, for 1890, in
which he distinctly holds that this prop
erty is taxable as all other property in
the state. This explanation is due to
Mr.. Goodwin, now in Salt Lake city, as
we'll as to correct history.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

IT IS evident from the internal reve-
nue. receipts from the consumption of
tobacco that we are a nation of smokers.
chewers and shutters. This is discour-
aging to those who rail against the vice,
but then they have the satisfaction Of
knowing that the indulgence costs the
smoking public dear. Just how expen-
sive it is to use tobacco cannot be easily
ascertained, but it may be gagged in part
from the fact that the revenue from
tobacco alone during the fiscal year 1894
was $685. SIT ,S98.62.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

A NOVEL IDEA, suggested by the Kan.
sas City Star, is the selection of post
masters by the people. There is no
reason" says the Star, "why ~postmasters
should not be elected by the people. It
is folly to pay any man $4,000 a year to
select men for postmasters of whom he
knows nothing, when the people who
know them can do it a great deal better
themselves. The same reasoning applies
to district attorneys, marshais and many
other officers. 1t would not add to the
expense or create added bitterness in
the elections, because men who antici-
pate these Offices are always active in
the campaign. Indeed, it would lessen
the pernicious activity of politicians very
much, for there would not be SO many to
fight after it was known to whom would
fall the fruits of victory"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

HOGAN, Goodwin, Rogers, Burns,
Elliott and Keller of Debs' staff have
completed their terms of sentence, and
been!liberated They all speak Of their inn
%prisonment as being pleasant under the
circumstances. Debs has three
months yet to serve. Their release will
mark a new departure in the work of
organizing railway employees. District
headquarters will be established in all
the large railway centers throughout the
country. In each of these districts
solicitors will be employed to obligate
members, keeping their names absolute
ly secret. Since their imprisonment
156 local unions that were shattered by
the strike of last summer have been re-
organized and twenty-eeven new ones
instituted.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

LAST fall there we're numerous boiler
explosions in the state, about threshing
season, in which numerous lives we're
lost, and many persons manned and dis
figured. 1t Is to be hoped the explosion
which occurred in Cass county a few
days ago, Is not to be but the first of
another list of catastrophes of the kind.
The use of old and worn outfits for
threshing purposes is a menace to the
safety of all who are employed in thresh-
ing, and too much care cannot be taken
to guard against the employment of
worn and unfit machinery.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

HE Grand Forks Herald has either
misunderstood Attorney General Cowan
or else it gets the cart before the horse,
IN stating that he figures the state will
get $4,000 more in taxes from the rail-
roads than ever before. AS Attorney
General Cowan figures, the whole state
will receive from $4,000 to 100000 less
in taxes from the roads than it received
last year, and it was for this reason that
the attorney general stood out against
the district members of the board, and
~endeavored to secure a higher valuation
than was placed on the railroad property.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

is favored by a great number of those
in the business world who do not want
to see a period of four or five months of
political excitement break in upon the
nations business doings. A large num-
Der favor August as the month for con-
v%entions, thus giving over September
and October to the excitement of cam
paigning. They believe the result will
be the same, and it will be much mere
satisfactorily accomplished, with a short,
sharp fight.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30
The Jackson's HI lie difficulties appear

HE Jackson's HI lie difficulties appear
to have been settled. The Indian bureau
will discourage hunting by Indians as
far as possible, and at present no passes
will be issued permitting the braves to
leave the reservation. 1t is probable
that a small number of soldiers will be
kept IN Jackson's Hole country during
the remainder of the hunting season,
but if it should be deemed advisable at
any time to permit the Indians to leave
the reservation to hunt the whites will
not be permitted to modest them. The
department has decided that the state
cannot abridge the right of Indians to
hunt on occupied lands.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

SOME taxpayer" in the columns of
the Settler asks why it is that the school
books of the American Book Trust COM
pany are favored in this county IN pref
erence to those published by the Werner
company of Chicago. Let's see: isn't it
the Werner company that is just now
being placarded by trades unions as an
unfair publishing house and not deserv-
ing of patronage from friends of honest
lahnr2
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

THERE is no more fertile soil on earth
than that along the Missouri river bot
toms, and with rain properly distributed
throughout the crop season, the yield of
crops which can be obtained from this
land is enormous. South Dakota farm
ers, being in the artesion belt, are able,
if they choose, to correct occasional de-
foiencies in rainfall, by means of irriga-
ton from artesian wells, and the extent
to which this method of insuring a crop
is being carried, promises the ultimate
prosperity of the individuals who are
practicing irrigation. As an example of
what car be done, a farmer living in the
bottoms south of Chamberlain has an
artes,an we'll 686 feet deep, with nineteen
in ch flow. The we'll cost exactly $4,000.
The owner had never previously had any
experience in irrigating. He put in
ninety acres Of corn on a field which has
a gradual slope from the point where
the we'll is located. Two bitches four
feet wide were constructed along one
end and one side Of the field. When he
was ready to apply the water to the
growing corn, or thought the corr
needed it, he tapped the bitches, letting
the water run in small burrows between
every other row Of corn. It took but,
five days for him, working alone, to irrii-
gate the entire ninety acres. OF course
the ground ear the bitches become so
saturated with water that it was feared
the corn in the immediate vicinity would
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30
on the supreme bench, the ermine should
not be donned after SO or IS, but they
are the exceptions which prove the rule.

The recent performance of the big
American line steamship st. Louis, in
which the vessel maintained a speed Of
% BIO knots for over four consecutive
hours, in addition to proving that Ameri-
can shipbuilders can construct the fnest
vessels in the world, is rendered doubly
interesting by the fact that the st. Louis,
by her performance, has won a mail
carrying contract for ten years, at the
rate of 81 per mile, for a weekly service
between New York and Southampton, a
contract which will take effect on Octo-
Der -. The legislation under which the
st. Louis has o this contract is the
act of March 8, 1891, which gives the
postofice department authority to con-
tract with citizens of the United States
for carrying the mails on American
steamships to such foreign countries,
as, in it's judgment, will best sub
serve and promote the postal and
commercial interests of the United
States, the service to be equitably dis
tributed among the Atlantic, Mexican,
Gulf and Pacific ports. In addition to
being of American register, eligible YES
sells must be owned and differed by
American citizens, and certain proper
tions of their crews are required to con-
sist of American citizens. The contracts
are to run for periods Of five and ten
years respectively. The proportion of
Americans among the crew is required
to be increased from one-fourth during
the first two years of the contracts of
one-half during the last half of the
period. The minimum speed Of the
first-class of these vessels is put at
twenty knots per hour, a speed sur
passed easily by the st. Louis, as will be
seen.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

The State of Minnesota, acting through
it's attorney general, will attempt to pre-
vent the contamination of the the much
discussed scheme of cooperation he.
tween the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railroads. Today when the appI;.
cation for an Injunction against the
Great Northern is heard, ATTORNEY Gen.
eral Childs, representing the state, will
ask to be allowed to intervene. The
case is now the famous suit of Thomas
W. Pearsall, of New York, who, as a
stakeholder of the Great Northern. asks
the United States courts to prevent the
completion of the deal on the ground
that he and other stockholders will he
injured so far as the value of their stock
is concerned by the proposed arrange
ment between the two roads. The
attorney general of the state will step
into the case on the theory that the com.
pletion of the proposed arrangement be-
tween the two roads will be a violation
of the statutes OF the state and detr;.
mental to the best interest of the pubIic.
The theory of the state is that the nro-
posed arrangement between the two rail.
road systems is to all practical effect a
consolidation within the meaning
OF the statute which SAYS: sNo
railroad corporation shall consolidate
with, lease, or purchase, or in any way
become owner of, or control, any other
railroad corporation, or any stock, fran
chlses, rights, or property thereof, which
owns or controls a parallel or competing
line" The contention of the states
legal representative is that the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
are such "parallel and competing lines,
and as such any attempt Of one road to-
control the other will be q violation nj
the statue quoted above. The next etep
IN the states argument is that the agree.
ment under which the two roads are to
be operated is accomplishing by indirec-
ton what the statute forbids being done
directly. The same question arises in
North Dakota, and the states west,
through which the road Is operated. for
all have about the same STATUTORY nro.
vision, prohibiting the consolidation.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

ANTONIO MAKING Mora, whose claim
against the Spanish government now,
after eighteen years, is to be paid, is at
present in the country with his family
living in a New York city flat, in strait.
ened circumstances. He is 81 years old
now. Twenty years ago a millionaire,
he was plunged suddenly into poverty.
His life since then has been one of pri-
walton. Alternately he has been buoyed
by hopes and cast almost to the depths
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

SENATOR BR1CE's Ohio convention
speech appears to have stirred up Sena-
tor Hansbrough, who is of the opinion
the address was prepared in the White
House, to represent the PRESIDENTS ideas
of finance. Brice, however, is looking
for results, and if he can attain them
with an address so prepared, it isn't
probable he would be any great stickler
for originality Of sentiment or wording.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

be drowned out, but it is noticeable that
the reverse is the case and that the corn
there is the best of all and has attained
the greatest growth. Ten days ago the
corn stalks averaged over ten feet in
height and were as thick as a mans arm.
Conservative estimates place the yield at
100 bushels per acre. Alkali hay on irri-
gated land stands five and one-half feet
high, and some blue joint and red top
has been cut that yielded four tons per
acre. From his crop this season the
owner will be able to pay for his we'll.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

In Minneapolis, where a circus paid
5000 a day license, there was merry war
because the management failed to comp.
all the alderman, and they threatened all
sorts of dire things until they were
honored with passes. The circuses
should hereafter take pains to remember
that passes are among the divine rights
of Minneapolis alderman, and those
rights must not be trampled on.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

MAR1s Taylor of Huron, S. D., writes
to the Chicago Times Herald calling at
tention to the publication in that paper
OF August l5 OF a picture of himself
bearing the name of the embezzler W. W.
Taylor, ex-state treasurer Of South Da-
kota, now under a fve-years' sentence to
the penltentiary. The other fellow stole
$4,000 Of the peoples money, and Maris
Taylor naturally objects to having his
picture used to illustrate an article de-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

ATLANTA is beginning to learn that the
road to en- exposition is not strewn with
roses. The managers already have had
a bull fight row, a Woman's board
.squabble, and a musical rumpus, and
now they are graphing with the Con-
solidated Street Car company, which
proposes to double fares during the ex-
position period, making.a ten instead of
a five cent rate.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

AN attempt is being made 70 get
Treasurer Taylor out of his scrape upon
a technicality, thus to relieve him of his
serving q term in the %penitentiary, but
it should and will probably fail. All
things considered, Taylor's sentence is
light, very light, and he should not be
permitted to escape it. 1t is such ma
neuvers as theoe which promote embez.
element and kindred wrong doing.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

The Grand Forks Herald remarks that
it has not delved down deep enough into
the matter (of railroad a%ssessment) to
fathom the motives of the majority of
the board, but from a superficial glance
at their proceedings it confesses it's in
ability to account for the extraordinary
generosity shown to the railway corpora
tiOns.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

The Northern Pacific fight is now on
at both extremes of the contlnent-fnan-
cial manipulations being the order on
Wall street, while in the courts at Se-
attic, a fight is now on to GUST the re-
ceivers. The road will probably be re-
organized in the near future, but the
identity of the r~eorganizers continues
still to be a matter OF much doubt.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

IT is the general policy of government
IN all civilized countries to encourage
marriage and to discourage vice. But
W have one provision of national law
that imposes a penalty on marriage, and
in SO doing inevitably promotes vice,
says the Washington Post. We refer to
that clause of the pension statutes which
stops a wido VS. pension when she re-
marries. It is presumed that this
subject has been thoroughly exam
ined and thoughtfu;ly considered by pen.
sion committees in many congresses and
that they have concluded that such legis-
lation is %expedient. They must have
known that it's tendency was to check
the natural and proper inclination of
poor widows to marry. The sum of $14
a year appears to be a matter of no great
moment to a congressman with a salary
OF $4,000, but to a poor woman or q poor
family it represents the difference be-.
tween comfort and suffering. It will bay
a great deal Of food and clothing. The
mandate of congress that compels the
surrender of this fortune limits the prob.
abilities Of marriage, because it rules
out poor men from the list of eligibles
among candidates for the Widows hand.
1t will not be many years before the per-
sion list will be very small, but some of
the veterans of our great war may rea-
sonably hope to live far into the twen-
tieth century. The man who was "a
years old in 1865, when the war ended,
will be but S. when this century ends.
Should he live to 80 he will see the year
1885. If in his ninetieth yeac he marries
a girl of 18-as some of the revolutionary
heroes did-his widow may be drawing a
pension at the age Of 80, in the year
2007. And we have no doubt that a
grateful country will be glad to pay such
a pension.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

A CIRCULAR issued by the department.
of agriculture would convey the impress
sion that the countless acres of pasturage
in the western and southern part of the
country are lessening in quantity and
deterioratipg in quality Of production.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

JUDGE CALDWELL, who has long been
popular with a great share of the labor
element, and who has been mentioned
as a possible presidential candidate,
would not, 1t seems, be averse to the
honor. He is an ardent free silver man,
and believes in coinage without inter-
national agreement.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

In commenting upon the reported in
tention of the president to appoint as a
successor to Justice jackson, a compare
lively young man, an exchange, in ap-
proving the idea: brings out the point
that a young man has greater oppor-
tunity to make a record for himself, and
render better service in the end than a
man long past middle life. It is re.
marked that the duties of a justice of
our highest courts are exacting, and it is
desirable that men who come to it's bench
should be not only in the full possession
Of vigorous mental and physical powers,
but that they should also have before
them at least a fair prospect of a long
career, if they are to win fame for them
selves and render the most efficient SER
vice to their country. It is sometimes
said that a judge who is appointed to
the bench at 60 has before him the ex-
pectancy of at least ten years efficient
service, but that service will certainly be
more efficient if he has behind him ten
or a dozen years experience on the same
bench. John Marshall was but As, when
Washington made him chief justice, and
his term of service of upwards of thirty
years gave him the opportunity to make
his splendid reputation of the greatest
Of chief justices. Joseph Story was but
80 when he took his seat by the side of
Marshall for a term that lasted like that
of his chief for a third of q century.
s. T. Field was in middle life when Lin
coin gave him the seat where he has
made himself one OF the most Dustin.
guished memberso of distinguished body,
and the late Justice s. F. Miller began
his honorable judicial career OF twenty
eight years at the age of 46. There are
exceptions Of curse which may be noted
to the rule that for the highest efficiency
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

The announcement that the author of
"Four Years More of Grover has a
ANGER in his eye, proves that justice,
though occasionally misdirected, may
generally be counted upon to reach the
right spot.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

AND now if everyone who has been
murdered by Mrs. Nora Perkins of Min
neapolis will rise up and proclaim the
fact, the detective bureaus will be saved
much time and trouble.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

failing the conviction and sentence of
the felon. This is the second or third
time Maris has been confused with the
other Taylor, and he thinks it ought to
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

IT becomes more and more evident
each day that the breach between MIR.
Debs and the other half of the United
States is widening perceptibly.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

IT Is to be hoped Mr.. Holmes will put
off any murders he may have in mind at
this time until after the dog days.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30
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MURDERER HOLMES, however, still
holds the single-handed killing record.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

The question OF the length of next
years presidential campaign is nov
under discussion, and a short campaign
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

We may now enter with renewed vigor
and activity upon another week of North
ern Pacific rumors.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

The vigorous foreign policy" of the
Cleveland administration appears still
to be foreign-to the administration.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-30

10 "A life insurance of $1,000 is attrib.
uted another murder in Minneapolis,
this time the cold blooded killing Of sister
by sister. This, if true, adds another to
the already shocking list of crimes which
have been committed 70 the same end,
and proves to what extent humanity and
morality are occasionally sacrificed to
avarice and greed. The life insurance
murderer is a creature of comparatively
recent growth, but he appears to have
multiplied with a rapidlty which is
alarming. Since the revelation of the
heinous crimes of Or. Henry Myer sew
eral years ago, when it was shown the
numbering of insured persons was being
practiced to a degree which amounted
almost to science, subsequent crimes Of
the same nature have followed each
other at frequent intervals. The sick
ening details of the Hayward case, and
the more recent and celebrated plots
and crimes of the man Holmes have OBJ
tanned national notorie ty, and beside
these there have been innumerable in.
surance plots which have occasioned but
local excitement in various places.
There appears to be a mama among the
INSCRIPTIONS for the obtaining of money
in this way, which has been occasioned
by the details of the Vaccinations of the
pioneers in the art of numbering for the
securing Of life insurance.