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Bismarck, D. T., Dec. 20,1877. Bismarck. In Saturday's issue of the TRIBUNE we will publish a report of the building im provements of Bismarck during the past year. The showing is a handsome one arid every one having made improve ments, and all other good citizens, should send in an order for extra copies of the paper containing this rep Jrt. The report will classify the buildings, give the name of the proprietor of each and the cost of his construe".ion. Those who want to advertise Bismarck and please their friends should not fail to embrace this opportunity to put the paper where it will do the most good. Don't forget it. Th.a Sio.itli-Ca.liii Tragedy. Our attention has been called to a par agraph in our Buford corVespodence ex pressing surprise that so little attention was given the Smith-Cahn tragedy by the TRIBUNE, and it has been suggested by the friends of one of the parties that the TRIBUXE feared to offend a certain element in Bismarck lest its editor might some day want the support of that ele ment for iome elective position. The TRIBUNE can afiord to be misunderstood so long as its course tends to allay public excitement and to promote harmony among our people. It gave enough of the tacs, however, to show wheie the blame rested, and its editor did not care to manufacture public sentiment for eith er of the parties accused, believing that the evidence to justify should be first heard in the courts. The editor of the TRIBUNE is much more concerned about present bread and butter than about his future political prospects. Indeed, so long as he occupies a position where he is certain to bed if he takes a posi tion and equally certain to be if he don't, he cannot hope for political fa vor, and is precious little concerned as to what people think of him as long as they buy and read his paper. The Washington correspondence of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press says: A del egation from the Black Hills had a hear ing before the committee on Terriiories of the House the other da}', and present ed arguments in favor of organizing a new Territory, to le called Lincoln. They were opposed before the committee by Judge Kidder ar.d Dr. Burleigh, the former a delegate fron Dakota, and it is probable the committee will report ad versely—a majority of the members not appearing to favor the organization of a new Territorv at this time. General Nelson A. Miles is a bold man, is well a^brave. or he would not have dared to *1 the house, committee on mil itarv affairs that the average member of the staff service was merely ornamental: .that the present staff arrangements had a tendency to build up an aristocracy in the army, and should be done away v.ith: that there should be no permanent -taflf and no extra rank or pay, and that oliicers should be rotated in staff duty and fewer appointed.-rPioneer-Press. Major Newson, the proprietor of the biggest silver lead in the Ililis, intends to spend the winter months, giving his Drama in all the principa: cities of the East. He has taken this plan to further deepen the interest in the Hills and give the public an idda of the real hie visible there. He has also a book in preparation that will tell the story and show that this is the route to the Hills. A private letter from James Dowd, at Fort Pierre, says that a quantity of goods belonging to Vaughn & Decker, of this city, en route to the Hills, has been cap tured by the Indians between Pierre and the Hills. The same leler slates that the cavalry of Fort Sully and Cheyenne Agency have started out ou an Indian hunt. "Mr. Charles Jerome, of Minneapo lis, is here, striving to be governor of Dakota, in place of Pennigton, whose term expires January ist. Mr. Jerome's friends need give themselves no uneasi ness as to the result—another man will be the governor." The foregoing is from a Washington letter to the Pioneer-Press, Maior Newson, the best known man in the Black Hills, and the best posted, will give his Drama ot Life in that fam ous gold region at Music Hall to-night and again to-morrow evening at the Sheridan House. The Major is a St. Paul man who has struck it big in the Hills and is now on his .way East, a whole show in himself. Those who wish their advertisements changed should band in their copy, with a view to changing the appear ance of the paper. We shall re set most of tbe advertising. mMJBEHOIByWCT. Apprehension* mt Awotlmr General War la the Spriag—Stttfajg Boll's Reinforcements— Cra*y Heine's Dying Mandate to His Hatton—A Hegira Across the Border. FT. WALSH, NORTHWEST TEBBITOBY, Nov. 29, 1877.—Those who apprehend serious Indian troubles in the spring have some ominous facts to worry about. Whether Sitting Bull stays this .side of the border or returns to the United States Territory the prospect appears equally bad for peace. Here his bands are invaders of the hunting grounds of tbe Black feet,, who resent the encroachment. There they would b« regarded as outlaws, unless they sig nified their acceptance of the terms re cently offered them by the United States Commissioners. RE1XF0BCEMENTS FOB SITTING BULL. In the meantime Sitting Ball's camp is continually reinforced by accessions of Sioux from Montana and Dakota. Sixty lodges of them eamo over only a few days ago, and Maj. Walsh, hearing the news, went immediately to Sitting Bull's camp and held a council with the new chiefs. They stated to him. among other thing, that after the battle with Custer on the Little Big Horn River, in 1876, tbe camp divided, Sitting Bull going north and Ci azy Horse to the Platte and thence toward the Spotted Tai! Agency. They stayed there until the death of Crazy Horse, before which event they say tie United States gov ernment attempted to disarm and dis mount them. Some surrendered their horses and arms others cached their arms. Many did not go quite to the agency, but remained in camps gome distance away. Muzr HOBSE'S DYING COMMANDS. They said that Crazy Horse told them when dying:—"I have always wanted to go to the land of the white mother, hut my father persuaded me to stay here. I shall be dead in a few minutes and will then go to the whito mother's country. I want you all to follow me you see the Americans want to kill us. There is no peace for you in this coun try you can live no longer with the Great Father. If you want to live and raiss up your families you must go with me to the land of the white mother and the home of oar grandfathers.'' THE NORTHERN HEGIBA The whole nation, said the chiefs, was roused by these dying words of Crazy Herse and they resolved to move north. They were forty eight days on tbe journey. On tbe twentieth day a scout overtook them and told them that unless they turned back they would be overhauled by United States troops. To gain time they told the scout to re turn and assuro the white chief that they would tnrn back and that there was no nee**, for him to send any sol diers after them. When the scout was well out of sight they packed up and started north again as fast as they could travel. There are nine chiefs with the new arrivals, namely:—Black Moon of the Minneconjou*, and Yellow Thunder, Thunder Buil, Running Bull, Pretty Thunder, Fire Cloud, Running Eagle, Black Bear and Wa-ha-too, Minnecon jaus and Ogallaiss. A GENERAL MIGRATION INTO CANADA. Maj. Walsh is of the opinion that the dying request of Crazy Horse will in duce the fthole Sioux nation at present on the United States side of the line to cross to the Canada side. He thir.ks t'aey wi!» travel in smaii camps if the American forces should be large and hotiv pursue them otherwise they wiii probably move over in large bodies. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL WAY. Editorial Endorsement of the Pro posed Extension of Time and of the Line. Chicago Tribune (Editorial). li. E. Sargeant, Esq known to all our leading citizens lor many years as the able superintendent of the Michi gan Central railway, and now occupy ing the same position on the Northern Pacific, was in town on Monday, and gives the most encouraging statements in regard to the present condition and the prospects of the road. What dis tinguishes tbe road from nearly all the railways in the country is the gratify ing fact that it is absolutely -free from debt. It was sold out and bought in by the bondholders they formed a new company and thus tne old stock and debts were all wiped oat. Tbe com pany have some 450 miles of road, ex tending from Lake Superior to Bis marck on the Missouri, and 100 miles or more from Kalama on the Columbia river, to Tacoma, on Pnget's Sound. From the net earnings of the road du ring the past season they have built thirty-five miles from Tacoma to the coal fields, and thus the cities of Oregon are laid under contt ibution SHJJG AS A IFABEET FOB COAL. The company are considering tbe best means to extend the road some 220 miles westward to the upper Yel lowstone, thus giving them tbe control of the trade of Montaaa. There caa be no doubt whatever that the line is ample security for a moderate issue of bonds, and if these cao be negotiated on favorable terms—and there seems to be no valid reason why they should not—it is not unlikely that the road can be built to Montana daring the year 1878. This woald increase its usefulness and resources immensely, and be a sure promise of its comple tion to Puget's Sound at no distant day. THE MARKETING OF THB IMXBXSB wheat crops of tbe Red river valley du ring the season has furnished aJarge business for the rofl, and the fact that such crops can b« raised thsrehas stim- (listed beyond all precedent the settlement of the country. Col. Powv •r the.land agent of the company at St. Panlr is ran'niifj£ his' office -nigh# and day, and can scarcely keep up with the deihand upon him. Gentlemen who have been over the entire line of the road, and who have seen and studied t'ie country along the line of the Cent ral and Southern Pacific railways, give it as their decided opinion that there is more than twice as much land capable of settlement and profitable culture along the line of the Northern Pacific Riilwny than there is along both the others. The fact is important, exceed ingly so, when considering the resour ces and the prefects for the early completion of the road. THE COMPANY WILL BE OBLIGED to go before congress and ask for an extension of the time for tbe comple tion of their road. This request, made necessary by the panic of 1873 and the depressed condition of the finances of the country ever since, is so reasonable that it is hoped there will be no seri ous opposition to the measure. It is simp'y an act of justice to tbe enter prising men who are building the road, and to the people of the country through which it runs. Let the act be passed, and the road wil have the means from its receipts from its lands, and the substantial securities it wil! have to offer to the capitalists of the country, 10 extend its lin^ eastward and westward with all reasonable dis patch, and the time when trains for Puget's Sound will be made up right here in Chicago morning and evening may be much nearer than our most san guine citizens would dare to predict. Let it ccme. Proposals for Army Transportation On the Missouri, Yellowstone, and Big Horn.Bivers. Office Chief Quartermaster Dep't of Dakota. Saint Paul, 31inn., December 7th. 1S77. SEALED PROPOSALS will he received at this office until 12 o'clock noon, on the seven teenth day of January, 1878, for the Transpor tation of Government troops and supplies. 1. On the Missouri River between JYankton, D. T., and Fort Benton. M. T., from and be tween March 20th and October 31st, 1878. 2. On the Tellowstone River between Fort Bu ford, D. T., and Big Horn Depot. M. T.,from and between Mav 15th and Ansnist 15th, 1878. 3. On the Bis Horn River, etc., between Bi** Horn Depot and (Big Horn Barracks) Fort Caster, M. T., (by Steamboat or Wagon.) from and between April 1st. 1878, and March 31st, 1879. Each Proposal must be in triplicate, and ac companied by a bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). executed in legal form by two or more responsible persons, certified as fully responsible by a Judge or Clerk of a Unitecl States District Court, guaranteeing that in case the contract is awarded to the person propo sing, it will be accepted and entered into, and good and sufficient security furnished immedi ately by him in the sum of thirty thousand dol lars ($30,000.1. for the faithful fulfillment of the contract. The Government reserves tbe right to reject any or all bids that may be ofiered. Lists of specifications and requirements for the .information of bidders, form of contract-to be entered into in case of award, and form of proposal, can be had by application to this Of fice. or to the Offices of the Quartermaster's De partment at Chicago. Illinois: St. Louis Mis souri: Fort Leavenworth. Kansas: Omaha. Nebraska: Bismarck. D. T.: or Sioux City, Iowa: and no bid will be entertained unless ac companied by. and based npon. the list of specifications and requirements, and form of contract referred to. Moreo\#r, no bid will be entertained, nnder any circumstances, unless the bidder is present in "person, or by duly authorized atrent or attor ney. at the ope'ning of the bid-. sari is then and there prepared to show that i.'i is fully able to carry ont the contract in aii respects li award ed to him. Proposals snonld be eniior-ed "Proposals fi Transportation on the Missouri Iliver:" "Pro posals for Transportation o:i the YeilowstoU'. Hiver:" or "Proposals for Transportation on the Big Horn River." and addres.-ed to the iia dersiirue^. Forty acres one ami one-foaria miles from the .Sheridan House, 'A-im-wc'c looking the city, ami ,0 CTTAS. 7!. TOrjPKrvTS. Deputy Q'lartertnast-r f'enivn!. L". g. A.. Chief Qiir.riennasti-r. A GEEAT BAKGAI3T. wJar in high tabie land ever tb? river for several rn !e~, embracing the vary finest oat-lots in market, for sale at 4i~ ai .icr •. For farther particulars ad dress GEO. V'. SWEET, Bismarck, 1). T. TTtf AIT HAYHES, Portrait and Landscape & A E 33ooreiiead, Trias a. Publisher of BLACH HILLS AND NORTHERN PACIFIC VIEWS. Catalogue on application. 5 C. W. OAKES, Dealer in TINWARE STOVES Practical Worker ia Tin JPlate, Sheet Iron COPPER 6r ZINC Those wanting anything in -the above line will save money by calling and getting prices before buying. ALL WORK. WARRANTED. Camping Outfits a Specially. Maim Street, BIS3IARCK. 76tf Opposite TribH&e O&ice. P. 0. BOOK STORE. Books, Stationery, Toys, &a. A Full Line of CAM, TOBACCOS, CIGARS, &t. The Latest News always on hand. Orders for anything in the line of Books, etc., will receive prompt attention. GQ^-BOOKS FOR RENT AT REASON ABLE RATES. Agent for Am. Bible Society's BiblesJ F.D.BOLLES, 61 Poat Office Building* E. L. $TRAU8S & S "n"eVjr^ "r,ler DEALERS 1ST Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles, Etc. prj-ny mw FAIR PltiCES.' •onrrtly attended Ma°2c farnUhei for Bails. Picnics, Concerts, &c. T_* Ward & Gibson, EISTTERIPHISE Meat Market! Main St., BISMAECK, D. T. CHOICE MEATS, Constantly on hbnd. REDUCTIONS TO HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. Oysters, Game Fish, See., 55 At low prices. ASA FISHEE, WHOLESALE DEALER IX Wines, Liquors aDd CIGAKS. Foreign and Domestic Ales.. MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE SHERIDAN HOUSE BISMARCK. D. T. 38 Bismarcle, D. T. PARKIN & WHALEN, DEALERS IN GRAIN, PROVISIONS, PRODUCE, FRUITS, AC., &G. BISMARCK, X. T. DAN. EISENBERG, DEALER IN GENTS' AND LADIES' NOTIONS, See. Bismarck, Dakota. WELCH'S HOTEL, 0, it QTrii/T TT G"G" I S S O O A JS1"eat Repairing. Their niotloii, 'COOS WORK AT Or.ier from the Military I'osts BLACK HILLS First Class to every particular. New art'Eleptly FoniisM. CERTAINLY THE BEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. Headquaaters for Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota people. E. WELCH ic CO., Proprietors. II. PEASE, Manager. LJ1ZZSGH 6r BMGHQLM KSTAUUSHED *7-2. KEECILT ISTT. THE I'HCEXIXEB BOOTS & SHOES PIONEER DRUG Snmr, Third Street, BISMAE0Z. 2. T. :Dzrsf N sr co.j Wholesale and retail :i *,«„.! ™rSn«, DRUGS & TOILET AETIOLES They mc the best of stock in ail ousiom n: a!i I- si: OH? Varnish'-' 1 who ha7s i.s. liecn to 't* .vi.'? ov*1 fi'.TUfl** \7i :r.I es'ah!:s%3 ec£ if kind. iriiir. rije stoc's of 3x ib it, Wiaefi, ZA^iicx-i Always on 9 and C5srn.rs Itzr.d ar:d za S .A.TIO f) I 0^ {^J" 1 argenters ana KIS^MKCK. D. T. CONTRACT WORK. xi. 0. ijObTWIUE., Manager. [Put througl! ^Promptly ^lTrTT^L7* T? A TFZ" hji^%7' opposite post oifico, atthe Lowest Kates ivyXX A jl FRONT ST., BISMARCK, D. A.D 8^(1, fc, Cik(Hi, F?fiiLsy Terms Reasonable. iSATISPACTlOS (ICARASTEE# rmviiri'mfw'jfpv «r SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 015ce S I O S A E TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS Worth of 8ioax Half-breed Scrip for Hale, Geo. W. SWEET, Reall&rtate Agent \\U~. Office on Main, bet. 2d & Sd Sts. Will Attend to the Purchase, Sale and Renting of Town unusual! .FuU Line cf I \v,» «»?.: p-, £:«Trn-s JS A sp-cialty mad* of NOTION^). &C. L? Main Street, Bismarck, D. T. JfiCK D6T lllinOr&Q 1 iC. 1 A Tiberai GEO. P. FLAS5EBY, Bismarcic, D, T. Gl-mG MBS. J. A. MAXWELL, MILLI1VBBY & Dressmaking, —THE BEST- FALL & WINTER GOODS hi the city, and THE BEST WORK- DOXE. Store oa Third Street, between llelgza and Thayer 96tf Street*. redaction Lot3 Farms, Houses and Tenements. -A 11 and Complete Abstract of Title To all Real Property in Burleigh County. TAxes PrlfT iorSon-Sefident». (5-s-tO THE QjLD RELIABLE I CITY MEAT MARKET ON 4tli STREET, always supplied with everything io the way of Fresh: & Salt Meats, BUTTER AXO 5-24-tf EGGS Poultry &: Game ia their season i. Superior Facilities for Fnraislain^ Steamboats witli Fresh meats. JUSTUS BRAGG & CO. Brick! Brick! COLVERT & MASON, Contractors and BsiMers. All kinds of A N S 0 1 E O x.l'i. fu-acneij ir.i will interest rr.-.ri^ 1v io JOHN YEGiS. at the Shop on Fifth Street. £,(-/ !irpar Part:*? wishln- to ba:!d wiil Sni it John Yegin S I O it W. H. STIMPSOIf. half breed io the:." zr-t oar fiznres on brick the-, compare with wooden structures. Yon c-in 5*7- V.. LAXfs. SCJKJ 2}/ lUi 1 ll, ij- Goods Choice and Fresh and Delivered Free to any point in Greneral Hews Agent AND DEALER IN BOOKS, STATIONER! FRUITS, OF ALL IVLM^ TOBACCOS AND CIGARS, CONFECTIONED Y. BISMARCK, /r. 5tr2nger« and othor« wiii find ai! the .tfr papers and* fall stock of goobs. H. STll\ HEART EIVER COAL I The andersigned is prepafed to furnish HEART RIVER COAL AT S6.5D PEE TON. TOtr CM AS. THOMPSON