Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-09-04
COWARD n. FOSTER. EDITOR.
LOCAL RIP-RAPs.

The new steam yacht "Lillie Lec",
made her trial trip on he beautiful waters
Of Devils Lake last Tuesday, which was
qui success, except that her four fang
wheel was TOO small, and churncd the
water without giving her the required
speed. She mad" five miles per hour as
it was. Lieutenant w. w. Robinson will
get another wheel for ner ut St. Paul,
with two or three 6ange>, which will not
churn as much and will send her alcny
faster with the same amount Of power
used. In other respects she is Daisy.
Sergeant Charles Smith Of cnnpsrv
c, 17th U. S. Infantry arrived from Fort
Tot,en, On Monday evening after a party
OF recruits for his company. One of the
mules Of the government team With which
he came, while at Clayton's ranch, kicked
lis last kick, and the crows perch them
selves On his back bone. and pick his
eyes out, one by one;" leaving \ turee
mule team with winch to return. Ser.
geant Smith talks very positively "f set.
thing IN, or about Jamestown, ,.s soon rs
tbs time is out, which will be next year.
-. Buchanan broke last season be.
tween four and five hundred acres. They
had 125 acres in grain which w"u'd have
gone except for the heavy rains; 25 hush
els of wheat and 60 bushels Of oats per
acre. He has 20 acres If beans IN, 50 that
he will know beans another year. He is
building granary 3Ox4S; his large hand
some barn and every st t'wsble place being
full of grain; sitter which he will again 20
to threshing He has got fine section of
land and We judging from appearances on
our visit up there last week that he and
MriKearney, his father and foreman know
how to farm It.
Last Friday F.. P. Wells returned
with his family, comprising his wife, sis
ter and child. They have rooms at the
Dakota House for the present. j. S.
johnson and wife Of Janesville, Wisconsin,
parents of Mrs Wells. are also stopping
st the same place. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson
now hail from Janesville, Wisconsin, for.
merly from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr..
j, having purchased 1t $2.25 per acre, 100
a6res Of land on which y portion Of Miu-
neapilis now stands and has seen that city
grow from its extreme infancy to be the
Commercial and Manufacturing Metropolis
Of tue great Northwest. Mr.. ], is now
conjecturing whether to invest in james.
town with like prospect of growth and
Increase. s: ..-
"A suit comes of on Monday next, be-
tween u. NJ: Kelleher and Ward w. Bill,
a. to the recovery Of he, in the hands of
the stakeholder r. B. Harris Mr. K, bet
Mr.. B. $1,000, that the latter would not
recover certain sum disallowed B, 10y the
County commissioners, which B, respond.
ed to by putting an X, into MIR. Harris
hands to cover that put up by MIR. X.
The time allowed hy law in which to ap
peal from the decision of the Commits,
aioncrs having passed without appea; by
Bill or attorney, Kelleher greatly deserved
the small change from the stakeholder,
who was forbidden Ia turn it over by
Bill. and after queer muddle, suit is
to come of On Monday to settle the ques
ton. As lawyers are engaged on both
sides, some amusement will be afforded to
our citizens. @r@-
The Presbyterians of jamestown, are
making sn effort to erect speedily, perhaps