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Newspaper
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
Location
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1891
Page
4
The Bismarck Tribune reports a wide mix of items from hotel counts in Chicago to census gains in western cities, rail and post office matters, and Dakota events. It highlights agreements with Chilean insurgents, county railroad visits, and upcoming state meetings. The piece threads politics, industry, and local pride with terse notices and editorial asides.
The Cincinnati meeting created a larger, more representative body than that which birthed the GOP and the new party is radical in its platform. It promises relief for laborers and farmers, may draw disillusioned politicians, and could reshape the next campaign despite uncertain fulfillment.
Weekly Pinan cial Review notes persistent gold shipments and restricted transactions in the Stock Exchange while exports stay high. It cites tariff shifts and the McKinney bill as partial causes, with a forecast that the drain may ease as Europe strengthens and gold returns to circulation.
Tun Mandon Timea objects to paying 125000 to Sioux Locisne now at Standing Rock agency for ponies seized in 1876 during a war campaign. She says the U S government repeatedly broke treaty stipulations while expanding westward and civilizing. The piece argues the era justified compensation, noting wealth flowed back through traders.
In a routine city fire department meeting the motion to fund and sponsor the Fargo tournament was tabled after a vote. The discussion included brief remarks by officials and a call for further review before next session.
A jumble of items reports court rulings on crime and duress in Boston, farm tickets in Kentucky, fish stories from Winnipeg, a North Dakota Dairymen conference at Grand Forks, political moves in Cincinnati and Saint Paul, and strains in Florida senate politics. It mentions railroad tours, a Devila Lake encampment rate, Fargo divorce trends, and a Florida two thirds caucus rule affecting Senator Call.
A wide collection of short items covers party shifts in the South, a Grand Forks mill project, Kentucky and national party moves, a Cincinnati preacher’s wife, a Maine fundraiser, and a large land grant for a Jewish colony in Argentina. Also noted are World’s Fair board tensions, a county embezzlement case, church conference schedules, and geological survey funding worries. Major figures include A. T. Wood, Tepmane, and L. D. Bartlett.
A survey of North Dakota topics mentions Decoration Day plans, the third party labeled the whiskey party, a court term set in Emmons county, and the Red River Valley University cornerstone ceremony in Wahpeton. It also covers remarks on prohibition, World’s Fair matters, educator endorsements, and local tax and liquor case delays.
Crave bulletin No. 64 tallies national, state, and county indebtedness with per capita figures for 1880 and 1890. It notes the U S per capita debt at 846 09 in 1880 rising to 320 46 in 1890, cites Queensland at 338 46 and Britain and Ireland at 87 29, and lists North Dakota at 3 78. It discusses the county tax burden and sparsely settled areas, and briefly critiques the People's Party platform and currency proposals amid international debt concerns.
Amid rapid Chicago construction in May 1893, new apartment blocks rise on Cottage Grove Avenue near the proposed cable car route to the exposition. Officials debate admission to the fair grounds, aiming for a twenty five cent rate to attract poorer visitors, while Harvard’s Professor Putnam leads ethnology exhibits and foreign expeditions prepare to showcase antiquities and world cultures.
In Meadle and surrounding Coke region near Sporrspann poor workers cluster around ovens and villages. Birds alert to water safety as poison spills rise and fall with rain. Language barriers and diverse workers, including French and Poles, create confusion among residents and visitors alike.
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