Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-12
Arnold

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Don't know" springs forth in re-.
ply with readiness which comes
only from habitual use
As Bismarck isn't going to cele-
brate, Burnt Creek ought to take
this opportunity Of making herself
famous. BEE
In fact Burnt Creek celebrations are.
quite celebrated already. We always
have big crowds and a good time if
it doesn't rain or something like
that. s5s
Now. fellows, let's all get togeth-
err and plan big picnic that will
eclipse anything ever heard of in
these parts.
1 We would suggest that Fred
Stone be made president Of the assoc
citation, as he has had considerable
lions.
Our city was graced Saturday night
with the presence of that great mu-
Faunce Luyben.
He and neighbor of his were en-
route to their homes in Kidder Co..
with two loads of posts, which they
had procured along the river. 2
4 Mr.. Luyben expects to be through
here again the last Of this week.
Deputy Assessor Yeater finished
his work of assessing last week.
Judging from the returns as given
into the assessor, we would say there
has been an alarming decrease in
the number of live stock in this and
adjoining townships. Some of the
farmers must have had some ex-,
tremely hard luck" just before the
assessor reached them. For instance
one man, who short time ago owns
ed seven head of cattle, shows. up in
three head of cattle, Of all kinds;
and he sWears to that statement.
Another gentleman makes affidavit
that he owns but 33 head of cattle,
1 when very short time ago he had
fifty or sixty head. Either these
gentlemen have had great losses and
"bear them very quietly or they
have committed the crime of per-
Tense. ,st
| At rough guess we would say that
4 fully four-ifths of those who were
assessed perjured themselves. and
that would. be very conservative
4 estimate. q
Of course, where a. course of ac-
tion is so generally adopted there
must be some reason for it. In this
case we think the reason is, pure
selfishness. Every man feels N i'm
PEELED to give in but a partial list
Of his property because he is pretty
sure his neighbor does the
same. And the majority of his neigh,
6 bors do do the same. But there are
some that don u some because the!
can't, and some because they are
too honest to do it. And there.
where the trouble lies. The homes
man and the man who has such {
small amount of property that hi
has to put it all in to make a show
ing, have to bear more than thei
share of the expense OF running tn,
government. All like to have goot
4 roads, good schools, nice publ,
Z buildings, etc. but each fellow want
to cut down his share of the ex
" pense to the minimum and each fel
low tries to keep his tax as low or
J little lower than somebody else, an.
in this way, by dint of a great dea
! of shaming and dishonesty they man
: age to keep the taxes pretty high al
the time for the honest man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Morris and Mis-
! Morris Jr., Miss Alice Wilson an
. escort took advantage of the mic
J weather Sunday by paying a visi
!, to Thos. Lennihan's.
The recent rains have made til
+, outlook for this country a great des
4 brighter and more promising tina
! it was three or four weeks ago. i
,ta fact the wheat and flax and othe
grains are doing about as well a
= anyone could wish. The former
i are 50 tickled over the excellent pro,
"a poets that they can talk of notfin
4 else. They have sort of forgotte
about that elevator they were 81
ing to build apparently. But the
may think about 1t next fall whe
they see the big elevator companie
r, growing rich off OF their crops. Thos
e, companies don't care how much til
lie farmer kicks and whines and fusse
id as long as he does nothing to hel
d himself, and the more he fuses I'll
Is more he sgets it IN the neck Z
ID The dear little mosquitoes, X
III whose coming we have SO anxiou
i. 1y waited. have finally appeared
th Our midst. Also elsewhere. The
as really seem to be quite delighted
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