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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-21
S. ULLMAN'S SONS
GROCERY BARGAINS.
Headquarters for Xmas GOOdS

New Dates. per pound ..........
Mountain Fresh Roll Butter, l,'
pound t.s...... ...tt....t..t'tt
Homemade Mincemeat. peg rolH.
Good Rye Whisky, per gallon.
4-year-0ld Rye Whiskty, per
Virginia Apple Brandy and frt..
Brandy. per gallon .........'
Best Cream Cheese. per pound ...'.t
Broken Stick Candy. per pound "
New Seedless Raisius, per pound
New Cleaned Currants. per lpANt'
New Raisins, per pound .........'..
New Virginia Buckwheat, per loAt'
or. 3 pounds for ..,..........'..'.'
New Citron. per round ........t'.'.t
Wine, for Jelly. per quart .
New lemon ana Orangf Ftei, i'. n
pound ......... . ........
Fresh Country Butter, per poll'' "
l-pound blocks Best Creamery h1l-
ter .......s... .-......-.. t,tttttrFttf
New Mixed Nuts, per pound -..t,
Freshly-Made French Candy. i.i
8 pounds Light Brown Sugar f'i
1-pOund Fruit Cake ana l-p4aNA
Cake, homemade ..........t.'.'t'
l-pound-boS Layer Figs ...
Try our Creamery Butter l
finest on the market. onlf
pound-as good ms you pay
elsewhere Tor.
Old Port Wine. per quart ..,.
Sweet Catawba Wine, per quart
or, per gallon ,.......... ..''Ff
Best Sugar Corr, per can ,..t.''."' 81.
White a Sugar, per pound ..'
Large, juicy cocoanuts ..,.,.
Try our jefferson Spring Mhta'
Patent Flour, finest on the mar %
ket, per bag ............ .st'''
or, per barrel
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-21

Total .........'..'.s ''.'''''"'''s''0vV -
We have met all expenses and carried
forward a balance very nearly equal 10
that of last year. The permanent luiu IS
now $500 In cash in the state Bank VI
Virginla. and 500 of Virginia State ) per
g.rv Ian1g |.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

office of assistant attorney general, in
spectors of surveyor general and district
land offices, special agents for examina.
tons of surveys, special timber agents,
temporary clerks in land Office, contest
clerks in land Office, special Indian
agents, allotting agents, all special COM
missioners to negotiate with Indian
tribes, supervisors of Indian schools, ex.
aminers of Indian lands, superintend-
ents of Indian warehouses, irrigation
and logging, head clerk at each Indian
agency, all Indian agency employees of a
subordinate character, such as farmers,
ETC., Indian school employees, cooks and
laundresses, ETC., and special examiners
of pension bureau. The secretary Of the
treasury has recommended that deputy
collectors of internal revenue be taken
from the classified service, subject, how.
ever, to non.competitive examination. He
also recommends that persons holding
positions on what is known as custodian
and janitor service, low salaried Offices,
to fill which no academic test is re.
CURED or desirable, including elevator
conductors, firemen, dynamo tenders
and employees of a similar character, be
excluded from the classified list.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

EDITOR PACKARD of the Mandan
Times gives Winship of the Herald a
little comparative republicanism. He
cites Winship's appointment as oil in.
spector under Allin, and the fact that
Winship supported Allin's administra-
ton, while Packard of the Times-he
was appointed delegate to a waterways
convention with the privilege of going
at his OWE ~expense-and Packard also
supported the administration. But
after Briggs was elected, the Times says
it was this way: "The editor of the
Times did what he could to secure the
nomination and election of Frank Briggs
as governor in 1860 did the editor of
the Herald. Briggs was elected and has
thus far given the state an honest bust.
ness administration. Anybody who
says to the contrary is a liar. The edi-
tor of the Times has been appointed as
colonel on the staff of the governor with
the privilege of buying his own uni
form. He hasn't bought it yet. Gov.
ernor Briggs failed, however, to reap
point Winship to his greasy job and so
the editor of the Herald has been gritty
ever since and has lost no occasion to
slur the governor. This is the difference
in the republication of the Times and
the Herald"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

The directors and management of the
Northern Pacific estimate the net
revenue of the road for the current six
months at two and a half millions.
While the first half Of the calendar year
is not as profitable in point of results to
the Northern Pacific as the autumn
and early winter months, the present
year promises truly remarkable gross
and net earnings as a result of the Klon-
dixie excitement. The facts in connec-
ton with the latter are SO generally
known that they do not require to be
enlarged upon, and there seem to be,
therefore, some valid reasons for the
conclusion that the net earnings for the
period under consideration will exceed
the very modest estimates which the
management now puts forth, and that,
consequently, the outcome at the end of
the fiscal year is very likely to be such
that some dividend upon the common
stock may be within the range of
possibilities.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

food swallowed, but food we'll digested
that produces flesh and blood. Paine's
celery compound %disposes the body to
take on flesh. It makes the breath
sweeter, the strength more enduring.
the body plumper and the spirits better.
D~yspeptics and nervous, sickly per-
sons, whose whole lives are a failure.
both as to enjoyment and usefulness,
ought to learn how closely their debil-
ity, aches and pains depend on their
general rundown condition, and that
the sensible, lasting cure can only come
from building up their general health
and constitution. This is the grand
mission of Paine's celery compound. It
cures neuralgia, rheumatism, stomach
troubles, blood diseases and headaches
by this enlightened, broad treatment,
Pure blood and plenty of it., quiet, salts
factorily fed nerves and a condition of
the brain that makes sound, sweet sleep
a safeguard against all nervous troubles
come when Paine's celery compound is
used.
II you are s'p!ayed OUT" to use a for
chile street phrase, can't digest; can't
work and have lost courage, Paine's
celery compound will show itself to be
the best friend you ever had. It will
enable you to forget your stomach, and.
will do for you what it has done for go
many others-make you again a healthy,
active man or woman.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

receipts month by month, until they
have now reached such proportions as
to makei it apparent that the law will
supply under ordinary circumstances,
a revenue equal to the amount necessary
to meet the government expenditures
and furnish something of a surplus be-
sides. The january customs receipts
were more than IS per cent in excess of
the customs receipts of last year, and
were larger than the average customs
receipts during the entire history of the
Wilson law. The internal revenue re-
ceipts in January exceeded those of any
January since the Mckinley law was
taken from the statute books. During
the six months in which the new law
has been in operation, it has shown a
steady growth. The August receipts
were $4,000 900, thu Sc of September
nearly s22,O00,00O, October s24, 100000,
November over 1926, 900, 900, December
over s27,000,O 900, and January nearly
s29,0OO,OC0. The growth in the custom
receipts has been equally striking and
equally gratifying. In August the GUS
tom receipts were, by reason of the en-,
normous importations which had pre-
coded the enactment of the new law,
less than S7,000,00O, in September about
s8,0O0,000, in October over 50, 1000,
in November, nearly s1O,O0O,OOO. in De.
cember over sl2, 000 and in January
over $4,000, 900, showing not only a
steady growth but indicating the accu-
racy of the judgment of those who had
insisted that there would be a constant
increase in the earnings of the new law
when importations regained their nor
NAL conditions, after the absorption
of the enormous inflow of foreign pro-
ducts prior to the enactment of the new
law. Considering that we six months
supply of many of the most important
revenue producing articles had been
brought into the country prior to the
enactment of the new law, it is quite re.
markable that the new cuetoms receipts
8 should in the six months or it's opera
ton be greater than the average month
ly customs receipts under the law which
preceded it, especially in view of the
fact that that law is credited with many
millions of dollars which should properly
have belonged to the earnings of the
Dingley law.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11
Like Goldsmith's parsoa who

Tried each art, reproved each dull delay.
Allured to brighter worlds and led the way,
great preachers throughout the country
have been the most untiring and earnest
in telling the truth about Paine's celery
compound, in urging sick people to use
it, and at the same time they themselves
have employed the great remedy in their
own homes with results that have stead
lily kept up their faith in it's healthgiv.
ing powers.
It is significant that Paine's celery
compound stands alone as the one
remedy that is freely used in the homes
not only of clergymen, but of all liber-
ally as we'll as professionally educated
men; physicians, lawyers, school teach
ers and others, while every other RENE
dy purporting to accomplish equal re-
suits, is promptly shown the door.
No class of men have the public good
so disinterestedly at heart as clergymen;
none others see so intimately the affairs
OF so many homes. It is their business
to know the sad side, sorrows and suf-
ferings. AS %confidant, confessor and
comforter they learn the truth as even
the physician often fails to do.
And clergymen recommend Paine's
celery compound wherever they enter a
home where some member needs a rem
eral building Up of the body, a purify
ing of the bloou and a strengthening OF
tired nerves,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11
PLEASANT winters such as the present

PLEASANT winters such as the present
n have their disadvantages, as evil
denced in the present prevalence of
disease. Several cases of diphtberia are
reported in the city, and although the
board of health have taken steps to pre-
vent the spreading of the disease. and
the schools have been closed as a pre-
cautionary measure, invaluable assist
ance to the efforts of the authorities
can be rendered by citizens, in taking
such precautions as are vile and need
full in cases Of disease. Disinfectants
and sterilizers are available to all, and
their general use will be beneficial in
avoiding disease. Cleanliness, care, and
abstinence from public gatherings will
60 far toward preventing any general
epidemic and a little study of preventa.
tive methods and care in their practice
will be wise at this time. With a con
certed effort on the part of all citizens
the disease can be successfully combated
without great fatality.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

F. r. SPEARMAN writes of "Queer
American Rivers in the February st.
Nicholas. Mr.. Spearman says:
"With all it's other eccentricities, the
Missouri river leaks badly, for you know
there are leaky rivers as we'll as leaky
boats. The government engineers once
measured the flow of the Missouri away
up in Montana. and again some hundred
miles further down stream. To their
surprise they found that the Missouri,
instead of growing bigger down stream
as every rational river should, vas actu-
ally 10000 second-feet smaller at the
lower point.
snow, while 10000 second-feet could
be spared from such a tremendous
river, that amount of water makes a
considerable stream itself. Many very
celebrated rivers never had so much
water in their lives. Hence there was
great amazement when the Discrepancy
was discovered. But of late years Da-
kota farmers away to to the south and
east of these points on the Missouri,
sinking artesian wells, found immense
volumes of water where the biologists
said there wouldn't be any. So it is be.
lieved that the farmers have tapped the
water leaking from that big hole in the
Missouri river away up in Montana;
and from these wells they irrigate large
tracts of land, and, naturally they don't
want the riverbed mended. Fancy
what a blessing it is, when the weather
is dry, to have a river boiling out oil
your we'll, ready to flow where you want
it yer the wheat fields.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

floor, stands on a crest Of the water
shed between the Missouri and Knife
rivers, commanding a glorious view of
twenty miles in every direction. This
man owns six hundred and forty acres
of land, all of which is upland prairie.
such as American farmers, having in
mind the rich valleys of the Red, James
and other wheat-region rivers, had
deemed unfit for cultivation. Nor
could it be properly cultivated with
their %extravagant methods: but it's Rus
sian owner, in 1897, put lGO acres into
wheat that yielded eighteen bushels to
the acre. forty more into flax and pota-
toes, and enclosed the remainder with a
wire fence as a pasture for his 200 head
OF cattle. On the open range he herded
a flock of sheep, and from free prairie
meadows he cut 100 tons of hay, which
be hauled home and stacked for winter
use.
His stables and ou%t-buildings, low but
thick walled and warm, form two sides
of a square that opens to the south,
while his dwelling and adjacent granar-
les form the third side. Besides owning
several teams of fine horses, Il herd Of
cattle and a flock of sheep, he raises
pigs, chickens, turkeys andducks; sends
eggs and butter to market every week,
is not in debt to any man, has $1,000 in
the bank, and is estimated to be worth
$4,000 or more. Seven years ago, when
he located where he still lives, he had
less than $500 with which to make his
new start in life, and he was fifty miles
from a railroad. But he had pluck, en-
ergy and thrift, besides a family of sons
and daughters who had been educated
to hard work.
Now, though the old man still hauls
his wheat fifty miles to the railroad, he
can count twenty three home-steads
from his own house, and though most
of his sons and daughters have left him,
he is proud of the fact that they are
raising families of bright young Ameri-
who will honor his name and bless
him for their heritage of freedom.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

leigh county is an incarnation of
wickedness beside which the Wells
county aggregation is virtue person
flied. For it would not do to have it
known or believed that there were worse
places than Bismarck, for in that event
Moffet would lose his job as the great
moral savior of the slope, and the only
rock left west of the James river to
which virtue can make fast it's life line.
We look for a superhuman editorial
effort on the part of the Settler next
week to convince the backsliding editor
of the Wells County News that Bis
marck is still entitled to it's distinction
as the worst place in Chris endom-
which Moffet has SO industriously and
conscientiously assisted in comforting
upon the capital city.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

sane. and is confined in an asylum in.
New York City. Last fall, during the
municipal campaign, the incipient
stages of insanity we're first noticed, and
Alex Mckenzie and other friends in the
city employed experts on mind diseases
to stay the diseases if possible; but he
a grown worse from week to week and
is now a gibbering maniac. His hallu-
cination is that he is Banker Plummer
OF Hillsboro, and that certain enemies
IN Trail county are bounding him to
death. His daughter, Beulah, who has
lived in Maine for the past few months.
has gone to New York to do what she
can to comfort the declining days of her
father"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11
In Harper's magazine for February

In Harper's magazine for February
appears an article by Kirk Munroe on
"Some Americans from Oversea."
Munroe was in the city some months
ago, and from here made a trip up
through Mercer county to look into the
condition of the Russian settlers in that
locality. The result of his observations
he gives in IN interesting series of arti-
cles in Harper's, and of the Mercer
comfy country he says:
The fourth stage of the Dakota set
tiers progress, which I saw reached by
but one man, and he had been in the
country sever years, is the frame house
stage. The old.timer who has gained
this height of prosperity lives in Mer-
Ger county, which is almost wholly set
tied by Russians, and his neat dwelling
containing six rooms, all on the ground
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

Another great preacher, the Rev. S.
Domer, pastor of st. Paul's English
Lutheran church, Washington, D.. c.,
says:
Washington, d. c., May Is, 1897.
Wells, Richardson e. Co.:
Gentlemen-Have taken Paine's celery
compound as a tonic, and am pleased to
certify that so far as I have been able to
test it 1 have found it quite satisfactory.
Yours very truly,
SOONER,
st. Paul's Eng. Luth. Church.
1t cannot be repeated too often that
the stomach is the fountain which sup
plies every part of the body. If the
stomach is sick, the brain, heart, liver,
bowels and kidneys are all sick. The
trouble may all be felt in one spot; it
may be in the stomach itself, or it may
be IN the brain, or in a rheumatic mus
Gle. It will be felt in the weakest place.
Paine's celery compound is fully COM
petent to correct all such disordered
conditions of the stomach, and to re-
store a healthy, hearty tone that will
enable it to meet every demand made
upon it by hard-worked brain, heart and
nerves..
A dyspeptic stomach cannot furnish
sweet, healthy chyme. as the digested
food is called, but acids and poisonous
gases, and the brain and nerves thus
get poison instead of food. 1t Is not
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

No N better known in North Da-
kota than Col. w. @. Plummer, and no
one has done more to make North Da-
kotans laugh, with his witty and, cpl
grammatic sayings, and no one has i'm
pressed the m%ultitudes more with his
eloquence. Therefore the following
from the Grand Forks Herald will be
read with universal regret: 'The many
friends of Col. w. @. Plummer will re-.
gret to learn that he is ~hopelessly in
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

The grievances of Editor Motfet have
been nearly forgotten by the public-at
least the state press has had little to
say of late concerning Moffet-and in q
review of the past year Mofet's paper
this week alludes to the ~"desperate
efforts" that have been made 10 "silence'
him-thus to bring the matter back to
the public mind-and possibly gain a
little more sympathy and another
subscription list from the Grand Forks
Herald.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

The Wells County News states that
there is a gang in Wells county which
is worse than anything ever experienced
by Bismarck or any other place. Dear,
dear, how indignant this statement will
make Moffet. 10 what lengths will he
go, and to what eloquent damnations
will he have occurs next week to prove
conclusively to the News that Bismarck
is worse a Thousand times than Wells OF
any other county this side of the
sulphur pit, and that the gang in Bur
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11
OFFICIAL PAPER BuRLE|GH co.

Hon. B. S. RUSSELL of jamestown,
who represents the Campbell system Of
soil culture in the state and has had
charge the past few years of the expert
mental farms located through the state.
has a discussion in the current issue of
Campbell Soil Culture, a magazine de-
voted to improved farming methods, of
shallow vs.. deep blowing. In the North
Dakota department of the publication
named above Mr.. Russell Gays when Mr..
Campbell came into North Dakota, in
the early spring of 1896 and delivered
his first lectures on the merits of his
methods of cultivating the soil, there
was one point that attracted attention
of all those who had worked the prairie
soil for many years; that point was this:
He advocates blowing to the depth of
eight inches. 1t was we'll known that
very few farmers had ever plowed
deeper than five inches. 1t was also
we'll known that but very few had
plowed deeper than three inches when
the sod was broken first. 1t was also
we'll known that very rarely could any
crop be grown on the sod the first year
the proverb, "The Indian must first be
gotten out of the soil before a crop can
be raised," was patent to the experience
of every farmer. The soil had lain for
ages and, like the Indian and the buf-
falo, was wild. It needed the natural
elements as the sun, the air, the rams
and frosts to subdue it. These two,
three or four inches of sod therefore
gave, usually, crops that repaid the
labor. Wheat proved to be-, as it had
done since the continent was settled 300
years ago, the best cereal to get this
s'Indian'' or wildness out of the soil.
Intelligent farmers who heard Mr..
Campbell advocate blowing eight inches
knew that more of this wild soil would
be turned up, and therefore asked the
question, evil not this same wild soil
have to undergo the same process re-
uulECu ny luc 1l16I O1CuhAuSs VA ~ AOo
require one year or more before the ele-
ments have subdued it sc as to produce
a satisfactory crop?" These questions,
it was said, could not be answered but
by practical experience. 1t seems they
have been most satisfactorily answered.
Nine experimental farms were opened
in the sping of 1896 and worked during
that season. All of them were plowed
in the spring of 81 and to the depth of
six, seven and eight inches. The result
was satisfactory in every instance. The
increase was greater than on adjoining
fields of the old method. Many of them
were plowed and packed in the fall of
'96. On all such so worked the result
in 81 proved the truth of the above
statements. The soil had become sub.
dued, the elements had done their
work. The result was, in every instance,
a large increase over the first year.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11

ATTORNEY Fred Baker of Detroit, who
is interested in North Dakota property
at Steele, and has been retained to fight
the tax cases of Emmons and Kidder
counties, has an interesting ease of his
own to look after back in Detroit, involv-
ing the constitutionality of the Bland
Allison act and other laws pertaining
to silver as a legal tender. Stephen
Baldwin bought a farm, upon which
Mr.. Baker held a mortgage that
became due to the amount of 1864, in
Guiding interest. Mr.. Baldwin rendered
Mr.. Baker 1854 silver dollars and asked
for the cancellation eff the mortgage.
Mr.. Baker refused to surrender the
mortgage for the 1854 silver dollars. In
the answer Mr.. Baker submits that
under the power Ito coin money,
regulate the value thereof and of foreign
coins, and fix the standard of weights
and measures" the congress of the
United State S has no more authority or
power, as far as pre-. existing contracts
for the payment OF money are concerned,
to diminish or increase the number of
grains of pure gold or pure silver in the
dollar in which a contract has been law
fully expressed, than it has, as to pre-
existing contracts, to change the num-
her of grains in an ounce or the number
of ounces in a pound, or the number of
inches in a foot, of feet in a yard, or to
change any other standard of weights
or measures. Several of the leading at
torneys of Detroit are interested in the
case,