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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

the cactus became troublesome, in La
Moure county, Mr.. Underwood con-
ceived the idea of an improvement on
the fre-brake machine, for the purpose
of getting rid of the pest, and the pres
ent burner is the result. Several tests
of the machine have been made in La
Moure county, and all of them have
proven eminently satisfactory. The weed
has been completely destroyed, and farm
land cleared by burning in this way.
Orders for ten of the machines, says Mr..
Underwood, have been received by him
from farmers in LaMoure county. A
shop has been constructed at Edgeley,
where they can be turned out, and in
the spring it is expected to enlarge this
to a capacity of n or two machines a
day. Mr.. Underwood has talked with
several members of the cactus commit
tee, and says they have expressed them
selves as satisfied that the burning ma
chine is the solution of the question as
to the best means of ~eradicating the
cactus.
A Ransom County Farmer on Sugar
Beets.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: In order to get a
beet sugar factory located in North Da-
kota it becomes necessary, first, that
400 or 500 farmers in any locality make
the necessary experiments two or three
years, keeping an account of results,
having some of the beets analysed in the
fall that it may be determined without
any doubt that they can be profitably
grown, to the farmer. It the analy sis
comes Up to the standard, which is 1875
per cent %saccarine and 80 per cent
purity in order to make 1t profitable for
manufacturing, he will then be required
to make a contract for five years to grow
a given number of acres of beets for
which he will in turn be given a stipu-
lated price per ton for beets delivered
at the factory.
Twelve tons per acre is an average
yield and S. per ton is the average price
| paid at the factory, at the price sugar
now is, for beets coming up to this
standard. At some factories they pay a
graduated scale of 40 cents per ton for
each per cent of sugar contained in the
beets over and above the standard
which is 1875 per cent, bringing the price
of beets up to Sc OF ST per ton in some
localities. This is done mainly to en-,
courage the better cultivation of the
beet.
Capital cannot be expected to builc
large and expensive buildings and equiv
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

a single member. Olson has been a resi-
dent of the county for a number of years
and was we'll known. Two years ago, he
was an independent candidate for county
sheriff. He has resided at Sterling for
a considerable time, where he has been
engaged in farming and wheat buying.
The feelings Of the neighborhood in
which he lived can better be imagined
than described.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

Representative Littleton offered the
following unique preamble and resolu-
ton in the Minnesota house last Satur.
day, and it was unanimously adopted:
Whereas. Budd Reeve is American born
and has resided in the northwest for more
than twenty-eight years last past; is a man
of good intentions; has been a lifelong
democrat, and believes in Christian princi.
| Piles, and when the democratic party went
astray in North Dakota last year, he
mounted his horse, and took a dog, and
tried to get it back into the fold of Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew jackson; and,
Whereas, On the 9th day of November
last the wandering lambs were caught and
killed by republican wolves, and owing to
the sudden and unprecedented slaughter
of democracy and the low price of farm
products, said Budd Reeve is now a poIiti-
cal orphan, and we'll nigh unto the state OF
| a pilgrim, with a wife, three children and
a dog on his hands to support, and,
Whereas, To meet this exigency, he has
been forced to seek a new field, and has
woven out of original thought and home.
spun ideas, a lecture entitled "Roots and
Other Things" and,
Whereas, The said Budd Reeve now
comes knocking at the door of a republican
legislature, having lost his wandering
party, and has petitioned this honorable
body, asking to receive its recognition and
Endorsement, and has signified his willing
ness to appear before the legislature of the
state, on any evening in the near future at
the legislative hall and deliver said lee
ture; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the members of this
house tender to said Budd Reeve the use of
its legislative hall in which to deliver said
lecture, on any evening in which it may
not interfere with the business of this
body.
Budd will respond with his lecture in
a few days.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01
About Cactus Burners.

e. A. Underwood of Edgeley. the in
ventor of the cactus burner which was
displayed at the cactus meeting held on
Tuesday night, vas a TRIBUNE caller
yesterday. Mr.. Underwood states that
Charles Haas Of Edgeley is associated
with him in the ownership Of the ma
chine, and that the two originated and
perfected the idea. The burner was first
conceived several years ago, when q
bonus was offered for the best apparatus
for burning a fre.brake. Later, when
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01
The u S. Govt Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior to all others.
Electric BitCers.

This remedy is becoming Sc we'll
known land SO popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise. A purer remedy does not exist,
and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Electric Bitters will cure ali
diseases of the liver and kidneys, will
remove pimples, boils, salt rheum and
other affections caused by impure blood.
Will drive malaria from the system
and prevent as we'll as cure all malarial
fevers. For cure of headache, constipa-
ton and Indigestion try Electric Bitters.
Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. Price SOC. and 81 per bottle
at P. @. Remington's drug store.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

preparation of 100000 for 200 of these
machines to be placed in the hands of
the county commissioners of the infected
regions and they be made responsible
for their use. The cost Of using them
on the vacant and abandoned land to be
charged to the land and collected as
other taxes are. AS the state must help
the counties so the counties must help
the townships.
He harvested one-half section. There
was not a cactus to he seen on 1t and
yet in October enough had sprung up to
cover the whole section the next year.
Those who do not have it last year are
almost certain to have it next year or the
next and those who are over seen by it
are helpless. The state must help.
Mr.. Gill followed and expressed the
opinion that there is not a township in
Cass county that has not the cactus now
but in that county, by organizing, as
they would organize an army, they could
stamp it out. But they must declare a
war of determination, and they must
work to exterminate. Each county com
missioner should be constituted a weed
warden, and he IN turn must divide up
his districts and all must be held re-
sponsible, under bonds if necessary. He
told of one farmer who spent all the
time from after harvest to October rid
ding his land of the weed only to find it
covered by rolling weeds from other
lands, seeding it worse than before.
Senator Rourke brought out some hot
points during Gills talk. He spoke Of
sections where there was not a;weed a
year ago now overrun, and said a single
rolling weed would seed a strip thirty
three feet wide, and contained seed
enough to cover 100 acres.
Mr.. Laughlin said he had received 116
answers from his 700 letters of inquiry
sent out only a week ago, and was re-
ceiving many practical suggestions.
Hon. Frank Easterbrooke suggested
that the state buy the right to one of the
cactus burning machines and have the
convicts manufacture it. To stop it's
rolling in autumn sunfower belts1would
be Of service. He had heard of one
which was found forty-one miles
from the point where it was tagged, with
a request to report it's travels. They
could not pass the cactus, therefore a
fence of four barbed wires and iron
posts a rod apart would, in a measure.
stop the pest from coming if the roads
we're properly guarded and other fences
we're built to catch those which ESCAPED
from the first. He suggested a road taz
of from two to four mills, favored tht
machine for burning; said Senate,
Casey and Mr.. White had each prepared
a n~oxious weed law. The combined pro.
visions would be effective. Upon hjt
motion a committee Of one from eact
county vas ordered to act with the frs,
committee.
Mr.. Devine followed, urging burning
as the only means and offered a resolu-
ton favoring an appropriation suficien
to successfully grapple with the ques-
ton. This was adopted.
G. B. Lindstrom, of LaMoure county,
is also exhibiting a model of a cactus
burning machine at the Custer house.
1t is 1Oxl6, weighs 1000 pounds and
costs S75. The draft is created by q
swinging suction. 1t is drawn between
the wheels Of a wagon, taking thesplace
of the reach. ....--
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01
Budd Will Speak

Representative Littleton offered the
following unique preamble and resolu-
ton in the Minnesota house last Satur-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

At Devils Lake last Sunday Bishop
Walker took occasion to pay a loving
and beautiful tribute to the memory of
Mrs. Fl. G. Hansbrough, who had almost
from the very inception of the mission
there always been actively identified
with it's life and work, and who, with
unfaltering devotion and zeal, had
through many years so literally con-
tributed of her means, time and active
work. She was never so engrossed with
the cares incident to her high position in
society at the nations capital that she
forgot the interests of, or to express a
loving sohcitude for. the little church at
Devils Lake. During the services spe-
cial prayers were read for the comfort
ing of the bereaved husband.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01
Fargo's New Rates,

In a day or two the Northern Paciic's
general freight department will issue a
distributing tariff from Fargo, to be-
come effective in two weeks, granting, in
a measure, the rates for which Fargo has
been clamoring 30 loudly during the
past two years or more. This tariff will
show many reductions, which will tend
to place the Dakota town on a better ba-
sis, as a distributing and jobbing center,
than she has hitherto occupied. Many
rates are not changed at all, and those
which are changed apply to Northern
Pacific local points, SO that competition
will not compel the Great Northern, nor
the Milwaukee. to enter into the scheme.
Whether either or both OF these lines
will see fit to do so remains an open
question.
The Republican Way.
jamestown Capital: The Capital
learns from what seems to be a reliable
source that the back salaries due asylum
employees, and all claims against that in
%stitution. will be paid inside Of thirty
days. Word has been received from
Bismarck that the necessary funds will
shortly be available for this purpose,
and Steward Lowell will hasten the long
delayed work of paying off. This will
be good news to the large number of
hospital employees, who have waited
patiently for an improvement in the con-
dition of the states finances.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

1t will be seen by this statement that
the differential in favor CT Sims is de-
cided on the short hauls, while on the
long hauls Dickinson can compete with
Sims.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

them with costly machinery unless they
are first assured that they can get the
raw material. Hence the necessity of
tn csc systematic experiments. It re-
quires about 100000 capital to build
and properly equip a factory of 300 tons
daily capacity, with necessary working
capital. Beets can be profitably shipped
a distance of 100 miles by rail and can
be drawn by wagon a distance of eight
or ten miles to the factory or nearest
station from which they can be shipped.
In order to encourage the culture of
sugar beet in our state, we should for
three years pay a bounty direct to the
farmer for all the beets sold to a factory
in the state, say So per ton. AS the act
ual amount of sugar made during the
first year or two OF a f~actory's existence
is from 40 to ITS pounds for each ton of
beets, the bounty l have suggested
would be equal to l cent a pound on the
output; little enough, considering the
value of the industry to the state, as to
the actual amount which in all proba-
bility the state would have to pay out,
say for the first three years, you might
figure thus: A factory erected would be
very fortunate indeed for the first three
years if they could average 10000 tons
of beets per year. Thus in three years
the state would pay out $4,000. With
this amount of beets the factory would
produce in round numbers half a mil
lion dollars worth of sugar. After pay
ing the bounty we should then have to
the credit of money kept at home $780,
600. No inconsiderable sum these times,
and what applies to the Individual would
in this case apply with equal force to
the state, only it is not from another
state that we would withhold it, but
from a foreign country which is only too
ready herself to pay an export bounty,
that she may drain us of our ready cash
for the necessities of life which we have
failed to foster. T. N. ALUM.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

was an independent candidate Tor county
sheriff. He has resided at Sterling fol
a considerable time, where he has beer
engaged in farming and wheat buying
The feelings Of the neighborhood in
which he lived can better be imagined
than described.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Some further particulars of the catas.
trophe were received during the after.
noon. Coroner Webb and the officers
arrived upon the scene, and summoned
a coroner's jury. The scene of the acct
dent was visited and the bodies viewed
by the officers and the jury. It appears
that the body of the hired man was dis
covered in the ruins of the building
some time after those of the other mem.
beers of the family were found. When
the first report vas received, it was
stated that the hired man was missing,
and this gave rise to reports of foul play,
but the discovery of his body proves that
he met with the same sad fate as the
other members Of the household. The
hired man was one Of the Bathka
brothers, who have lived near Sterling
for some time.
The superstition of the residents of the
vicinity is that the fire originated from
an o~ver-heated stove. Aud from the
fact that no one escaped the very plausi-
BILE theory is that all of the persons who
were sleeping in the house were wholly
or in part suffocated by escaping coal
gas prior to the fire, and we're then una
BILE to help themselves or to make escape
from the flames. The bodies of Mrs.
Olson and two Of the children we're
found huddled together in one of the
bedrooms, where they had perhaps per
haps persisted as they slept. The body
of Olson himself was found in the ruins
of the woodshed, az though he had mus.
tered sufficient energy to get that far
and then persisted, or else he succeeded
in getting outside and persisted in an at.
tempt to get back to the rescue of the
others. The bodies of the hired man
and of the oldest boy, a lad of about II
years, we're discovered among the debris
in the cellar. The two, it seems, were
accustomed to sleep up stairs in a room
just over the cellar, and when the build
ing fell they must have fallen through
into the cellar. All of the bodies were
badly burned, so as to be in most cases
unacceptable.
The total determination of the family
is n of the saddest happenings in the
history of the neighborhood, and there
is a general feeling of horror at the
shocking occurrence.
| Comparative Coal Rates.
1t will be interesting to compare the
various coal rate tariffs now existing OF
proposed. First comes the rates which
have been in operation for two years
past, then the rate promulgated by the
late board of railroad commissioners just
before they went out of office. The last
column shows the rates prepared in
Senator Lambs new bill. The rates are
given from Sims and Dickinson to Bis
marck, jamestown and Fargo, and are
as follows:
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01
NOTICE OF LEASE OF SCHOOL LANDS,

The cultivated common school lands
of the state will be leased, or offered for
lease, between the hours of 10 o'clock
a. m. and S o'clock p. m. on the following
dates and in the following places, viz:
Richland county at Wahpeton, on Tuesday.
March 26, 1895.
Cass county-at Fargo. on Wednesday, March
q, 1895.
Trail county-at Hillsboro, on Thursday, March
%, 1895.
Steele county-at Sherbrooke, on Saturday.
March 30, 1895.
Barnes county-at Valley City, on Tuesday.
April 2. 1895.
Grand Forks county-at Grand Forks. on Tues
day, March Is, 1895.
Walsh county-at Grafton, on Thursday. March
%, 1895.
Pembina county at Pembina, on Saturday.
March 80, 1896.
Ransom county-at Lisbon, on Monday, April
l. 1895.
Done by order Of the Board of Uni
versity and School Lands, at the city of
Bismarck this, the 18th day Of January,
A.. d., 1898. M. D. WILLIAMS,
Land Commissioner.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

For Aching Backs,
&A or muscular pains, moth
Is 4H ~ ing so speedy, so sure
:N as Cuticura Anti. Pain
RS4NA w. vi Plasters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-29
SOUND MONEY SAYINGS.

....@Coin' has quit featuring for the very good reason that he can get no audiences. Great is the change a few months has wrought.-Toledo Blade.
 =. Somebody has called another "conferenceH on the free silver issue at Nashville. Perhaps it would be more accurate to term it a coroner's inquest. Louisville Courier7Journal.
 Coin" Harvey does not seem to appreciate the fact that his day isover, that be is out of fashion and therefore out of the world. Lie was at Ashland, Wis, the other day to deliver a lecture. Only few people attended. Thinking it was because he charged too much to get in, he gave free lecture the fol- lowing day. But the people showed no more signs of interest when he did not ask for hard money than when he did. They were sick of the fool and his folly. So Harvey departed disgust ed because the people of Ashland took more interest in iron ore and lumber, by which they live, than in his silver lunacies. Chicago Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-29

and a second mystery was added to the family history.
 The Bordens of Fall River have long been noted as leaders in the great in- dustries of New England. Fall River has long been the center of the cotton cloth manufacturing interests of the United States. Probably S50,000,000 is invested in this industry in that city, and at least half of it is con- trolled by the Bordens.
 The first John Borden was one of the original settlers in the community which made homes in the 17th century along the banks of the Quequeehan (FalD river; and from him all those who have lived and died, worked and prospered, in that neighborhood for more than 200 years were descended. It has therefore come about that all of the Bordens in Fall river are related, but the tie of blood is not cherished as closely in New England as, say, in Virginia, so the Borden tragedy a few years ago was not felt to touch very closely the other Borden homes in the city.
 In 1913 was incorporated the first company to operate a mill; in Fall River to-day there are 42 such corpora tions operating 2,7oo,oOo spindles and 61, ,00o loolns-that is, something like one-fifth of all the spindles in the United States. The largest plant, in Fall River, the largest cotton cloth plant in fact i'll the United States, is the prop erty of a Mir. Matthew C. D. Borden, a native of that city, as his ancestors have been for many generations. This gentleman, though he does not now make his home in Fall River, is consid- cred the first man of the place in wealth and influence. His father, Col. Rich ard Borden, for something like half a century, during all tht formative pc riod in Fall River occupied similar l position. The Fall River Iron company was started as a pri4ate enterprise by Col. Richard Borden with a capital of $24,0o0. What the capital is to-day no man caR tell save Mr. M. c. D. Borden, who owns 98 per cent. of the stock. ' But the property owned by the corpora ton probably amounts to as many mil lions as there were thousands put into the enterprise 74 years ago.
 The first work of this company was to make hoop iron and nails, and by 1843 there was large rolling mill plant.
 In that year the works were destroyed by fire as they were again in 1859, but
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-29
DIVISION OF TURl ".
How the Powers May Dispose of
 tho Sick Mans" Esfatb.
Petty Jealousy and Inordinate Greed Stand in tho Way of Final Settlement of the vexed
 Eastern Problem"
Written for This Paper.

A few weeks ago when MT. Gladstone wrote his now famous letter to Mime. Olga de Novilxoff some newspaper writers went so far as to call him a dotard. To-day the same document is pronounced statesmanlil1e utter ance. The venerable British sage has demonstrated once more that he is far ahead of his contemporaries in intel lectuality and in the advocacy of truly Humanitarian principles. Gladstone's letter was written October 22, when the reports of the massacre in Armenia were discussed in every capital of Eu rope. II see in my mind that wretched sultan" wrote Mr Gladstone, whom God has given as curse to mankind, waving his flag in triumph, and the adversaries of his feet are England, France and Russia. May God, in His mercy, send a speedy end to the governing Turk and all his doings, as I said when I could say, and sometimes do. So I say in my political decrep- nude or death."
 Following this letter came reports of further cruel slaughter of Arme- nian men, women and children in Ire bizond, Erzroom, Karpoot, Mush, Baya- gid and Van; and if the diplomats sta tioned at Constantinople are to be be- lieved these outrages were sanctioned
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-29
Curious Lake in wxnminr.

Bridger lake, in northwest Wyoming, has queer characteristic, and one which cannot be claimed for any other body of water in America, so far as we have been informed It has this pc culiarity: It discharges it's waters into both the Pacific ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. During the average seasons the waters of Bridger lake flow out through small river which is tribu- tary to the Yellowstone, and the water thus discharged finally reaches the gulf by way of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. During rainy seasons the level of the lake becomes so high that the waters empty through another opening also. The waters which are discharged through this second ehasm flow into Snake river, and thence to the Pacific ocean through the Columbia.