Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-15

Either one may be found most any time
Of the night or day n seem to be wide
awake whenever in sight. {
Supply. Clerk Tousley of the office OF
the secretary of state is probably more
in demand just at the beginning of the
session than any other man in 0the
building. If a member or an official OF
either house var anything from q pin
to.a typewriter he gets a requisition for
It and sends q page to look for Tousley.
When senator Wesley Mcdowell re.
turned from spending the recess Mt home
! last night he brought with him Judge w
! ID. Lynch of the probate court of La.
Moure county. who will spend a couple
of days here looking at the wheels go
ing round and attend to business matters
in the city. The senator is enthusiastic
over the better farming game and never
loses an opportunity to talk about it and
the good it will and has brought to the
state. The judge appears to be a good
listener.
1t has been demonstrated that much
further growth of the state will require
a larger room for the house of represen-
tatives. 1t is crowded to the limit now
and another a"pportionment with in
creased membership in the house will
make more room absolutely necessary.
The cloak room is also proving to be too
small for the needs of the house. The
acoustic properties of the house cham
Der have not Improved any during the
past two years. a
Hon. +. w. Everson of Griggs county
Is one house member who is proud Of
tbo fnnt ihof bo &c n farunar and those
who know Mr.. Everson we'll assert that
he is a farmer that knows how to farm.
too. He has a fine farm near Walum,
which consists of 800 acres. About 40
head of fine ShorthOrn cattle owned by
the subject Of this sketch are the pride
Of his farm. Mr.. Everson says that he
milks from 5 to Is COWS and ships the
cream. It has been nearly 30 years
since Mr.. Everson last visited Bismarck.
and he said that he found many and
! many a change in the city since then,
all Of them for the better.
man who seems to be rapidly making
! the acquaintance of other members is
Hon. Robert Norheim of Alexander, Nc
kenzie county. Mr.. Norheim graduated
from the State university in 1904 and
| has been practicing law at Alexander for
several years. He served two terms as
states attorney of his county and has
succeeded in building up a lucrative le-
gal practice there. -f-
No more popular member of the legis-
lature circulates among his friends in
the hotel Hobbies than Sen. Ira A.
Barnes of Dickey county. one of the few
democrats in the senate. This was Mr..
Barnes first trial in the political game.
and he was sent from a district where,
the republicans outnumber the Bryan
ties two to one. He farms 1880 acres
Of land, has a wife, three sons and five
daughters and has been a resident of
the territory and state about 80 years.
| Mr.. Barnes converses in IN interesting
! way on mos. every conceivable subject,
but his favorite topic is the fine state
industrial school at Glendale. Sons of
! the farmers in that section Of the state,
says Mr.. Barnes, are given an opportun-
/ itys to thoroughly master gas and trsc-
ton engines md other farm machinery
while attending the school,. This ma
chinery is furnished by the big har-
vester and threshing machine concerns
free Of charge provided the freight on
the machinery is paid by the school.
; Hon. n. L. Davis of Monango is a
farmer by occupation and lis serving his
! first term in he Legislature. Quit a
number Of the members of the lower
house are farmers, but few OF them farm
| more extensively than does Mr. Davis.
His farm consists Of 900 acres and or
of his pet hobbies is raising Shorthorn
cattle and Percheron horses. His cattle
number 80 head or more and he has
about Sc head of fine horses. Mr.. Davis
! says that crops were fine down that
way this year and farmers were well
pleased with their yields. One quarter
section OF his wheat, Mr.. Davis said, av-
eraged 80 bushels to the acre. He has
beer a resident of the territory and
state nearly 81 years.