Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-07-05
THESE ARE new LAWS,
Some New Session Laws Which Go
Into Effect With the First Of
J%uly-Today.
Bismarck Fire. Department and Run
ming Team Receive Deserved
Notice in the Record.
Various Items Of Local News Picked
Up In and Around the City
of Bismarck.
New Laws,

Monday was the first of July. Perhaps
it does not differ essentially in point of
weather or chronology from any other
n of the several first days of July
which have recorded themselves at an
Dual periods in the course of the ages,
but it has an especial significance at
this time, as it marks the taking effect
OF certain laws which we're passed at the
last session of the legislature. The
question Of the taxing effect Of the new
codes will be passed up by the supreme
court the last of this week, but the ses-
sion laws, which we're passed without
emergency clauses take effect today The
anti-cigarette law is n of these,and, &C.
cording to it's provisions, the exchange
or Offering for sale of cigarettes will here
after be q misdemeanor, punishable. by a
fine of from $40 to $50. There were two
laws passed at the session relative to the
cigarette, the second making it a INSIDE
meanor to sell impure cigarettes, or to
sell them to persons under II years of
age. It is claimed that the law which
prohibits the sale altogether is %unconsti-
tutlonal, and that the other law, alone,
will be regarded. Whether or not this
is a fact remains to be seen.
Another law, of a similarly moral nat.
ure, is that prohibiting the printing or
sale of vulgar or indecent prints or
papers, sheets devoted to tales of crime
and bloodshed alone, and journals which
make a speciality Of this class Of matter.
Under the provisions of this law ,numer-
u publications which have heretofore
been freely offered for sale, will after to-
day be under the ban, and their sale be
a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.
The law protecting hotel keepers is
another to go into effect. Formerly, to
jump a board bill was naught but a vio-
lation of good faith-a sort of unpun-
ishable breach of promise. Now it be-
comes a misdemeanor, and whoever
slides out of a hotel between days, and
leaves the innkeeper to mourn, is liable
to arrest and punishment.
The Kelley cure law may also be TAX
taken advantage of, after today, and any
relative or friend of a confirmed in
ebriate, may, provided the inebriate
agrees in writing, apply to the county
commissioners, and have the person who
would cease looking upon the red wine,
sent to any reputable establishment for
the administration of aEliquor cure, at
the expense of the county.
Intoxication, likewise, is now a INSIDE
meanor, under the law, and any person
who is in an intoxicated condition may
be arrested and fined from IS to S25, the
fine to he worked out at 81 per diem
until paid.
There are a number of other laws. but
they are Of a less interesting nature.
The state from now on pays a bounty of
81 per hundred pounds of potato starch
or fax or hemp spinning fbres made in
the state, for five years. Farm laborers
may hereafter file a lien upon crops for
labor performed. The 100000 appro-
priation for Russian thistle eradication
also becomes available today, the work
up to this time having been done with
out funds.
The Bismarck Department..
In the current number of the Record,