Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-01-21
served. The proceeds to be applied to
the new Catholic church.

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the new Catholic church.
The TRIBUNE acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation to the celebration
by the Caledonian society Of Cavalier
county of Bobby Burns birthday, to
take place at Langdon, January 25,
through the courtesy of w. F. Gushing.
The Pioneer Press of yesterday has
excellent half tone pictures of John
Haggart, the recently appointed United
STATE marshal for the state of North
Dakota, and the Marquis de Mores,
from the last photograph taken Of the
deceased nobleman.
Neyt week the Indians at Standing
Rock will receive their annual issue of
clothes, wagons, stoves, sewing machines
ETC.. owing to Maj. Cramsie's recon-
mendation the Indians will receive no
overcoa's. He claims they trade them
off to the white men. It will beremem-
bered the Spicer murderers traded off
overcoats to procure their whiskey.
w. j. Price of Fargo, the champion
ladder climber OF the Rescue Hook and
Ladder company of Fargo, was rendered
a reception by the local fireman of this
city. Mr.. Price is an all around good
fellow and one of the leading firemen of
the state, and tho boys here think Moth
ing too good for him. He returned to
Fargo after a pleasant visit in the city.
Commissioner of Agriculture Thomas
sends out some figures regarding the
crop and live stock interests of the
state. According to his figures, there
are 30,472 farms in the state, with five
millions acres under cultivation, and
eight million acres total acreage. The
acreage seeded in 1897 was 3,5OO,OOO to
wheat, 100000 to oats and $1,000 to
barley, $4,000 to fax, $1,000 to rye and
$4,000 to corn.
Hon. w. L. Belden, of Napoleon,
Logan county, is en- route to Assiniboia
and Athabaska in search of young cattle
with which to stock the ranges in Logan
and Kidder counties, the high price for
stockers and feeders having practically
taken the available young cattle out of
the states. Mr.. Belden states that
buyers have bought up nearly all the
young stock on this side of the line and
much of that neal the railroads in
Manitoba. and he expects to go into the
country distant from the railroads to
pick up a supply, where buyers have
not yet been.
A suit brought for the purpose of de-
termining the constitutionality of SEN
ate bill No. "a, passed by North Dakota
Legislature of 1895, is about to be tried
in the district court in Stark county.
This bill was passed for the purpose of
anneXiug to the counties of Billings,
Stark and Mercer portions of the unor-
ganized county of Dunn. Wilson l..
Richards, n of the cattle men, began
suit against Stark county in November,
1896, for the purpose of testing the
validity of the law. The plaintiff re-
tanned Burke Corbett of Grand Forks,
and John Burke of Rolla, to protect his
interests, and the complaint was pre-
pared in Grand Forks and it was orig
inally intended to have the case tried
there. By stipulation, however, it was
agreed to transfer the case to Stark
county, where it will be tried by Judge
Winchester some time this month. This
case will DO watched with considerable
interest west of the Missouri slope, as,
upon its decision depends the right of
the counties named to a large amount
of uncollected taxes.