Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-22
IN THE LOCAL SWIM.
The City Dads Fail to Connect, and
Business Goes Over Till Some
Future Date.
Cactus Representatives Get Home
from st. Paul, After Suggest
ing Plans for Action
The Changed Time on the Northern
Pacific Gets the Mail Contract
Local News Notes.
No Meeting,

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There was no meeting of the council
Monday. It was the occasion for the
regular meeting, and the mayor and one
alderman were all who were present to
represent the council, and so the meet
ing was adjourned for lack of a quorum.
There was not much business before the
meeting other than the routine petitions,
and the regular grist of bills. These lat
ter,however,do not demand any very seri-
Gus attention, and the readjustment of lost
valuation has placed the city indebted
ness considerably beyond the limit, aud
no warrants can be issued, bills which are
allowed being certified by a negotiable
certificate of Indebtedness.
Another matter which would have
been considered Monday night, had there
been a meeting, and which will probab-
ly come up at the next meeting is the
light contract matter. The original or
dinance granting the franchise was
amended when passed, and the ordinance
which amended, went into effect by de-
fault, having been neither signed nor
vetoed by the mayor within the required
ten days. For the reason of this second
ordinance, the contract for the granting
of the light privileges has not yet been
submitted to the council for their ap-
proval, but will probably be so presented
at the next meeting, at which time the
council will consider it, and act as to it's
final signing by the proper authority.
For Legislation.
The delegates to the Russian thistle
convention at st. Paul returned Mon
day from their trip. The conference ad-
journed Saturday after doing all which
was possible in the premises. The mem
bers OF the committee on proposed laws
and legislation, of which Senator Valen-
tine was one, suggested the following, as
recommendations to state legislatures
and all interested:
l. A special law relating to Russian
thistles alone should be passed.
2. This. weed should be declared a public
nuisance, and every plant should be de-
strOyed before it natures its seed.
3. Owners Of lands should be compelled
to destroy the weeds on their own lands,
and care should be taken to give due and
complete notice to nonresident land own
ers; also, railway and other corporations
should be compelled to destroy the thistles
on their own lands and right of way, and
to take all other precautionary measures to
prevent its farther spread.
4. Provisions should be made for the
destruction of all of these weeds on all
highways, roads and public trails, and all
other state lands, school lands and all lands
the title to which is still in the federal
government.
S. All precautionary measures to cause
its destruction and prevent its farther
spread should be passed and rigidly en-
forced, every p%recaution being taken to Sc
cure the right of the citizens to see that all
thistles shall be destroyed wherever they
may be discovered.
+. No special or new set of officers should
be created, except, perhaps, a state board of
thistle commissioners, but the destruction
of this weed should be enforced through
the channel of the authorities now exist
ing, such as county commissioners, town.
ship and road supervisors, street commits
Sloners, weed agents and police officers or
other specified officers.
7 The county commissioners, township
| and road supervisors, street commissioners,
weed agents, or other specified officers
mentioned in section 6 shall inspect all
public and private land in their jurisdiction
at least once in each month from july to
November, inclusive, and destroy or cause
the destruction, Of all Russian thistles
fOund.
8 An earnest appeal should be made
TO the federal government by concurrent
resolutions to secure a liberal appropriation
to assist those sections of our common
wealth where it has become a scOurge be-
You'd the control of its citizens.
Northern Pacific Gets the Contract,
The prompt maneuvers and logged de-
termination of Northern Pacific officials
have saved to st. Paul the government
mail train between North Pacific coast
and Puget Sound points and Chicago,
says the Pioneer Press. Few people are
aware Of the bitter struggle which the
Northern Pacific and Burlington systems
have been carrying on recently to gain
the superiority in east. bound time, the
latter to secure the mail contract and
the former to retain it. The result OF it
all is that the time between the coast
and Chicago via ST.. Parl haa hoon 70.