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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

vorcees began, and at the present time,
aside from a few sufferers from CALLING
matrimonial bonds who are willing to
wait a year to establish a residence,
there are few divorces in the state.
Many distinguished persons were
among those to take advantage of the
North Dakota law while it was in on
GRAFTON. At Mandan there was an or
ganized divorce colony, gathered
through a definite plan, agreed upon
between local lawyers and a firm of
eastern attorneys. The eastern attor-
neys gathered in those who had mari
tai troubles to tell and shipped them
of out west to establish a three
months residence. The decree of d.
vorce was practically guaranteed.
Under the operations Of this bureau,
Lillian Blauvelt, the singer, obtained
a divorce from her husband, ROYAL
Stone Smith. To the fact that she
wa forced to come to 4,orth Dakota
for a divorce a number of music lovers
of the far western city of Bismarck
owe the qualification Of a wish to hear
her voice. Olive May Carlton also
secured a divorce from her husband
Henry Guy Carlton at Mandan. New
Workers without number were separ-
ated through the quick working ma
chinery of the North Dakota courts.
At Fargo there were likewise MANY
distinguished applicants for judicial
consideration of requests for separa-
ton.
Europe furnished it's share of appli-
cants, and n of the seekers after
peace of mind came from far-off New
Zealand.
At the first move to restore the old
law, the pulpit of the state and the
state w. c. II. U. are up in arms
against the proposition. If an at
tempt is made to replace the present
law with the old one, it will precipi-
tate the bitterest kind of a fight.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
RESERVE TOBES SOLD.
Land Officials Instructed To Sell the
Abandoned Fort Stevenson Mill
tary Reservation.
Sale Will Take Place February 12th
Land to Be Sold to the Highest
Bidder,
Reserve Comprises $4,000 Acres of
Land Appraised at s1.25. to
IS An Acre.

register and receiver of the
local land office have been ordered by
n department of the interior to sell
the lands of the Fort Stevenson aban-
doned military reservation, thrown
open some time ago and ordered an
praised. The appraisers have COM
pleted their work and filed their lists
with the department and they have
cen approved by the secretary of the
interior and the sale ordered to take
place Feb. II, 1901. There are some
10000 acres in the reservation.
1t is directed that the lands
be offered for sale at the land office IN
the date mentioned, to the highest
bidder for cash, at not less than the
appraised value and not less than
Sl.2o per acre under the provisions of
the second section of the act of July ),
1854.
h lands in question are in town.
snip lit north, ranges 81, So, Sc and
%, township 14S north, n 81
west, and aggregate 45,5S5.7 acres.
The appraisal ranges from 81 % to
20 an acre. No tract is to be sold for
less than $1.25 an acre.
AT the time designated hereafter
the officials will offer each subdivision
separately in the order in which thew
appear in the copy of lists of appraisal,
the purchase money to be paid imme-
dlately on the acceptance of the bid.
IN the event of any bidder failing to
pay the amount of his bid they will
Immediately re-offer the tract.
The said Offering shall continue from
day to day if necessary, until all of
said tracts shall have been offered
once.
The offering will be so conducted
as Ito secure the best price obtainable
for said tracts.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

Accompanied by Mr.. Lee, the agency
clerk, he visited the day schools and
expressed himself as being we'll pleased
with the manner in which the work is
carried on.
Messrs. H. Merry and Ed Kenyon of
Washburn passed through the agency
today en- route to Knife river.
Mr.. George r. Dickens, one Of the
Oldest residents of this locality, has
been appointed postmaster, vice Mary
Farrell. The post Office has been moved
to the store of Joseph Packineau. {
Miss Mamie Mclaughlin is visiting
her parents at Elbowoods.
Agent Richards is absent on leave.
During his absence Clerk Lee is in
charge.
Local hunters report the deer as very
scarce and exceedingly shy. One of
the agency boys bagged a large porcu-
pine.
The Indians of the Fort Berthold
agency are now in the last year of their
agreement of March 3, 1891, under
which they were to receive $4,000 per
annum for ten years. On July 1, 1900,
after the last of the ten installments
had been placed to their credit their
funds amounted to $164, 775. 40; $751;
1852 being ac%cumulations of unex-
pended balances from former years.
At . p. m. this evening the thermom-
eter registered two degrees above zero.
This is the lowest point reached this
season. During the past week the av-
erage temperature has been, maximum
81, minimum II. Considerable snow
has fallen but no severe storm has oc-
Cured.
Cattle and horses on the range are
doing we'll.
GOOD GOOSE STORY.
jamestown Alert: J. J. Gokey of
Dawson was in jamestown last even
ing on his way to Wisconsin for a visit
with relatives and friends. He has
not been there for many years and ex-
poets to have a good time. The shoot
ing is all over for the season at Daw-
son, Mr.. Gokey says. He has been in
the habit Of shooting the geese as they
passed over the store buildings. Re-
Gently he shot a honker and the bird
dropped through a skylight and did
considerable damage.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
I'm tellin' We, an lef it there.

/ got my health, cause I've taken keer
0 my oil bones firm year t. year,
I've taken time t. chew my food
An that is why my stomach's good
An l amt dyspeptic, p'raps, like you,
So l got myself to thank-that's who,
Fer Mary Ann? Wal, l cant see!
She didn't have t. marry me!
She knew what she was gettin', too,
She don't have overmuch t. do.
Course she's good t. me, but fur
AS that's concerned, I'm good t. her!
l amt no c'nary bird. 1 amt,
An aint a maxim no complaint,
I'm only thankful fer one thing:
That when tn brains was passed, by
jing,
Tn Lord gave me enough supply
T. look out fer myself-that's why.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
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WILLIE,

Now's the season, drear and chilly,
When they fish II little Willie
From the mill pond or the brooklet, or:
the stream that courses by.
When a host of Mas and Aunties
Squeese the water from his panties,
Fill him up with steaming toddy and.
put him to bed to dry.
Now the dear and thoughtless laddic..
Needless of his dear old Daddy
HES him down unto the river, where.
the skating is so nice,
And he's hardly there a second
Before Daddy dear is beckoned.
With rope and pole to fish him. out
from underneath the ice.
Fear-the words to him a stranger.
Signs are here that tell of danger.
But his heart leaps with delight to: get
where ice is clear and thin.
Every other coward fellow;
Has shown his streak of yellow.
But Willie-then a splash-a. cry
Say. boys. he's skated in"
So they fish him out and shake. him
Take him home and steam and bake
him,
Fill him up with steaming toddies-
hang his clothes upon the lire.
And he mutters: IF l kin borrow
A pair o skates tomorrow.
| bet | kin skate, all around that
blamed oil Danger sign
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
TO sMIRCH MOVES.
WIDESPREAD CRITICISM OF
JUDGE MOVES SAID TO BE TIKI
RESULT OF DELIBERATE PLOT

WIDESPREAD CRITICISM OF
JUDGE MOVES SAID TO BE THE
RESULT OF DELIBERATE PLOT,
Tacoma WASH, Nov. 21.-A sensa-
tional story, which, if true, throws new
light on the famous Nome mining
claim litigation and tends to prove
that Judge Moves of the United States
district court and the officials under
him have been falsely and maliciously
accused in connection with the admin
istration of law in Nome, by the men
who have heretofore posed as victims
of their alleged m~alfeasance, was
brought down from the north by the
steamer Roanoke. The facts given
implicate w. H. Metson and Samuel
Knight, as the two arch conspirators.
These two men are prominent San
Francisco attorneys, and according to
accounts have fled from Nome.
The story is, in brief, that the orig
1nal owners of the mining claims in
litigation, the Pioneer IAining COM
pany and the Wildgoose Mining com
pany, after spending the whole of the
summer in a vain attempt to corrupt
Judge Noyes, played their last card
and deliberately bent all their energies
to procuring perjured affidavits upon
which to base an application for the
impeachment of Judge Moves in con-
gress next winter. Through the re-
fusal of one Of their own detectives to
aid them in their disreputable
schemes, the plot was foiled. Charles
E. Heron, this detective, laid all the
information in his possession before
Joseph K. Wood, district attorney un-
der Judge Noyes.
The charge is made that knight,
who is a member of a leading law firm
in San Francisco, fled to his home in
that city to avoid arrest on a charge
of contempt Of court, Of subornation
and of perjury. At first it was claimed
that he struggled himself aboard the
steamer st. raul in woman's clothes,
and thus eluded the deputy marshals
who, armed with warrants for his ar
rest, We're securing the city and search
ing the vessels in the horbor for the
fugitive. 1t is now asserted that the
deputy marshal who searched the St,
Paul was given a bride of $500 for
conniving at knights escape. It is
charged that W. H. Nelson, the other
San Francisco attorney, is equally
guilty with his colleague Knight, and
that both will have to stand an inyes-
tigation by the grand jury soon to be
called at Nome. Metson is now in
San Francisco, having also taken the
st. Paul.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
A THANKSGIVING D1sCoURAGER.

A THANKSGIVING DISCOURAGER.
Me give thanks? Wal, l guess not
much!
Leave that t. wimmen folk, an such,
But as for me, wal, I can't e
Why l sh'd everlastin'ly
Be raisin' up my voice in praise,
An y bet l aint a. goin' t. raise!
Thanks! Fer what? Jes' tell me
that!
Cause my stock is fed an my shoats
is fat?
Mebbe they be; but I'd like to know
Ell my own feed amt made 'em SO!
Y see them callouses? Their what
I've got t. thank fer all I've got!
Give thanks! Pooh! Bosh! Cause l
amt showed in?
Wal s'pose I amt. might a. been
Eff I'd lef' that ar Oh shovel be,
An spared by back, like some o. We,
T. give my praisin' voice full swing!
No, I amt nary hand t. sing.
I don't b'lieve thanks sh'd be returned
Fer what we've got-ef its been
earned!
I got my cellar full-each shelf
Piled up with grub that I earned my
self,
An nary angel come on air,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
WORRIED.

CONSERVATIVES IN ENGLAND
WORRIED OVER SOUTH AFRI-
CAN AFFAIRS.
Manchester, Nov. 2S.-The Guardian
says today the conservatives are en-
tremely uneasy over the turn of events
in South Africa. There is a nervous
searching for a strong man like Rose
berry who could be given unlimited
power to end the trouble.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
OUTFIT

DAN LUNG OF CAKES ACQUITTED
OF SHOOTING DENTIST ELLIS
WORTH.
Dan Lung of Cakes was acquitted of
the charge of shooting Dentist Ellis
worth of Cakes. The jury deliberated
ten hours, the case being given to them
after a stormy session. 1t Is said the
verdict was the effect of public opinion,
general sentiment being that Lung had
good reasons for his rash conduct.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
A SOUTHERN STORM.
Reports From the Southern States In
dictate a Severe and Disastrous
Storm Through the South.
Early Reports Confirmed By Later Dis.
patches and a Number of Fatalities
Reported.
Fifteen Persons Killed at one Place and
This Not Believed to
be all.

Nashville, l~ov. 21.-Further reports
from Columbia say it is feared more
are killed by the storm than fifteen, as
at first reported. The damage was
greatest in the negro section. In Will
liston county near Franklin, Alb Set
ties residence was destroyed and Set
tile and his son Hugh badly hurt. At
Boxley's store three negroes were
killed. A store house was destroyed
at Lavergne, and a cottage building
leveled. But sever persons escaped.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

1T HAS BEEN GENERAL ALL OVER
THE STATE-FLAX DESTROYED
RAILROADS PREPARING FOR
WINTER.
There has been a snowfall over the
entire state. The snow has fallen
steadily for the past few days and is
dry and with a wind would make an
up-to-date blizzard. So far the
weather has been mild and there has
been very little wind, SO that the COM
ing of winter has not been unusually
severe.
The 10 has harmed or ruined a
good many acres of flax that could not
be gathered. The railroads are pre-
pairing for winter by getting out their
snow plows and being in shape to buck
snow drifts if the snowfall should be
followed by a high wind.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
IN BAD SHAPE.

INDIANS WILL BE IN HARD LUCK
IF THE ISSUE OF RATIONS TO
THEM is SUSPENDED.
A newspaper correspondent writing
from Fort Yates says the Indians there
will be in bad shape if the government
stops the issue of rations upon the
recommendation Of Indian Commits
Jones. He says their crops
this year were a total failure, and the
rations r just enough to keep them
alive. If these are stopped, many
Indians, it is predicted, will starve.
The Indians on the reservation will
not become farmers, and there is little
labor at which they can obtain remun-
GRAFTON.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
NO EXTRA SESSION..

PRESIDENT SAYS WORK MUST
BE DONE BEFORE MARCH l..
Washington, Nov. 2S.-President
Mckinley has given members of
congress to understand he does not
desire an extra session and that all
important work to be done must be
done before. March / and everything
left undone will have to go over for
a year.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
ILLINOIS

Washington, Nov. 28.-The census
bureau today announced the following
as the population of certain Illinois
towns: Danville, 16,454; Freeport 49,.
258; Jacksonville, 1908; Champagne
9,098; Galesburg, 1907; Elgin, 49,
4333; Decatur, 2O,754; Bloomington
23.28G; East st. Louis, 29,655; Rock
ford, 31,O51.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
MAY BE TowNE.

CHARLEY TOWNE MAY RATTLE
AROUND IN DAVIS CHAIR FOR
A MONTH";.
Washington, Nov. 2S.-The death
OF Senator Davis naturally starts spec
ulatlon as to his successor. Governor
Lind, 1t is thought, is likely to appoint
Charles Towne. The appointee will
have only a month to serve as the leg
islature meets in Janusry.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
DIVORCE.

oAO LAW I'm ORl DAkUIA
ATTRACTS INTEREST.
\ Chicago Record special says:
There is a nov on foot to restore the
old quick-separation divorce law,
which was repealed in this state two
years ago, to the statute books. The
old law, which it is purposed to at
tempt to put back on the statute
books, required only three months res
idence to qualify a plaintiff in a d.
vorce case to begin action. The causes
for divorce in North Dakota, under the
code, are manifold. Besides the causes
statutory, there is the general cause
enumerated as "grievous mental an
guish," and this seems to be have
been the n under which most of the
separations under the old law were OBJ
tanned. Grievous mental anguish
covered a multitude of sins, and it was
a poor plaintiff who could not make
out a cas- sufficient to procure a
divorce.
Under the old three months law,
thousands of divorces we're granted in
the courts of North Dakota to persons
resident in all parts of the world. A
large element Of the population of the
cities of Bismarck, Mandan, Grand
Forks and Fargo a composed of per-
sons who came to the state for no other
reason than to be freed from a disa-
greeable marital alliance. Nobility,
the army and navy, the stage, the
clergy, and the laity were represented
among the seekers after divorce. The
hotels in the larger cities disposed of
all their surplus accommodations to
divorces, as they came to be termed,
and merchants, business men Of all de-
scriptions, lawyers and others reaped
pecuniary benefit from the law. In
Fargo, when the business under the
old law a at its flood, the divorces
were numbered by hundreds and their
expenditures N the different avenues
of trade aggregated hundreds Of thous-
ands. For a town of 10000 people
this was a considerable addition to the
natural flow of money into business
channels, and the recipients of the
money that was scattered lavishly
broadcast thrived and grew happy.
Then came the reaction. The state
W. c. T. u, the press and the pulpit
took up the matter and demanded the
repeal of the law. Bishop Stanley of
the Roman Catholic church took the
platform in a crusade against the law.
The vicious example being set to the
children of the state, the deteriorating
influence wie4ded by the many seekers
after separations, the unenviable noto-
riety Of the State through the east,
where divorces obtained in North Da-
kota were frequently opened, ventil-
ated and set aside, were argued against
the continuance Of the old law. This
resulted in the introduction of q bill
by Senator LaMoure two years ago,
repeating the old law, and requiring a
years residence to procure a separa-
ton. The bill was the first one in
troduced in either house of the assem-
bly, and the first n to pass and be-
come a law. Then the exodus Of d.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
SOME PRAIRIE BREEzEs.
THE UNKNOWN.

Some rise and some must fall.
For the world was ever so,
There is no common lot for all,
And some be high or low,
And come or veal or woe,
Who gains the prize, who PROSTATE
lies,
Some Fate has willed it so.
Some lose and some shall gain,
The struggle thus must end,
Or grain seem chaff or chaff seer
grain,
NO prayer or cry shall mend,
No unseen hand shall lend,
Its remedy, for thus shall be
The struggle till the end.
Yet come or fame or shame,
No worldly test shall say
And be of praise or blame
The tribute we would pay,
The tongue of Judgment stay;
For many a lie is throned high
And many a idol clay!
Fame not on tablets writ,
Nor craven on a stone,
The record, true of it,
Lies in the soul alone,
And, melody or moan,
Death, ~tributeless, may be success
known to the soul alone.
So shall we stand before
The cold unhonored bier,
What if the struggle DER
And protitless appear,
Yet we shall drop a tear,
Some victory of soul may be
In Death triumphant here!
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30
Facts
For Sick
Women.

Hrsf-tho medicine that
holds the record for tho
largest number Of ahso-
late Cures Of female Ms
Is Lydia E. Pfnkhas,,1s
Vegetable Compound
Sec0nd-Mrs. Plnkhas1,
can show by her letter
files In Lynn that q mill
lion women have been
restored to health by hor
medicine and ADVICE.
T5isd TO Mrs.
Pjnkhan, are received,
opened, read and an
swered by women only.
This fact Is certified to by
the mayor and posfnnas-
ter of Lynn and others Of
Mrs. Pi,kham,s own city.
Write for free book CON
tanning these certificates.
Every ailing woman is
invited to write to Mrs.
Pinkhan' and get her ADJ
vice free of charger
Lvd}a f, pinkhar Mod Co WYNN Mosa-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

AN INTERESTING RESUME OF THE
DOINGS OF THAT AGENCY.

DOlNGS OF' THAT AGENCY.
Elbowoods, N. D, Nov. 19.-Attend-
ance at the Fort Berthold Agency
schools shows a marked increase. The
average attendance at the several
schools, during the month of October,
is as follows: Browning boarding,
1903; No. ! Day, 16; No. 2 Day, %; No.
3 Day, 2S; Congregational Mission
boarding school, %.
e. L. Chalcraft, supervisor OF Indian
schools, recently visited the agency.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

Tn Lord gave me enough supply
T. look out fer myself-that's why.
IN OTHER YEARS.
Y member, Mother, how they used t.
sit,
Kin see EN- all as plain as yesterday.
A sittin' round tn table, see EN- Wit,
Although tn last one of 'em's been
away
Les see-how longs it now-ten years
l guess,
Ten long, long years away-an' you
an
Are sittin' here in sort o. loneliness
At IL Thanksgivin' dinner. Come,
don't cry,
| know sech days as these a Mothers
Flow mighty free. when Memory turns
about
A lookin' DER his shoulder down tn
years
T. when tn cheers was full, an none
lef' out.
John allus sat here, right a mex t. me.
Y member how, when sech a lii chap
used t. let hun sit there, on my knee.
Err sometimes We would hold him in
yer lap
Until we put him in tn oil high chair,
An he a p%oundin' on it with his
spoon,
Then jes' a while he got too big fer
there,
Growed up t. be a youngster, an so
Cd sit up at tn table by hi'self,
AS full O mischief as an egg O. meat,
y mind,
Allus a climbin' up tn pantry shelf
T. see what goodies mebbe he cd find.
Then Jim, he was a. comm on, "
mind,
Jim allus sort o. seemed yer favorit'
P'rhaps cause he was sick an some
behind
In size. low that was tn cause fer
it.
Poor iii lad. He made a noble fight,
An then We recollec' when he was ten,
How We leaned owe him there in tn
night,
Folded his arms an closed his eyes,
an then
Y come away with me, an never
spoke,
An re sat down together. close t.
him,
Poor Mother: Fer yer heart was
nearly broke
When Jim was took away. Poor. lii
Jim!
1t all comes back t. me so plain an
clear,
sort O. hear EN- speakin'-see 'em
smile,
TIL table piled with good things, an
each cheer
Had some one in it. What a III
while
1t takes t. skeer tn fledglings firm tn
nest,
An teach EN- how t. fly: Then, when
the learn
T. do fer th'r own selves, the never.
rest
Until they go; an some of 'em return.
An some of 'em that was so wild t.
T. try Their new found pinions on tn
air,
Don't never come back; an we only
There gone away firm home-but
don't know where!
Now, p'raps we git a letter-mebbe
two
Err three, a wishin' us a happy day,
The got new ties, O. course they hey
but you
An me we jes' cant tear tn old away.
We look back t. tn Of Thanksgiyin'
time,
When our boys an our girls was ell
our own,
Jes' like tn lhauntin' tune o. some CT
rhyme
We cant forget, although tn words
has flown.
An all tn days when all of 'em was
here
Are iii gems Of gladness. set i'll gold
O. Memory-the' sort O. help t. cheer
An keep u aehin' hearts firm :ses-
tin cold.
So, sit down. Mother dear, pray sit We
down,
I'll carve as in the golden olden year,
When John was here an askin' fer his
brown,
An Bob, he said he lowed he didn't
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-30

Kin hear tn OF songs now:-ln' then
it ends,
III faces disappear, tn dreams are
flown,
Tn voices die, tn pictures fade away,
Their amt no faces. Mother. but our
own,
An this-an this-is our Thanks
givin' day!