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Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-11-18
Your early reply will crafty

DAVID Curtin
Alfred Laurence
William, Elmer
Albert A. Allen
frank Barney
Joseph ID. Mills
H 7. Elliott
A. G.'Parkhurst
John J.""Nie,'ling
Anton Klaus, Jr
John E. Dow
Robert Hager
William, J. Barbour
Flint & Dole
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-11-18
THE DAKOTA VlEW.
JAMESTOWN, D. T. Nov. 14tb, 10.
New London, Wis.-Ny Dear Sil

New London, Wis.-Ny Dear Sir
Mrs --has sent extracts fiom recen
letter of yours, to which reply direct, MOI
for the purpose Of effecting = loan o
aiding in any negotiation, but merely y.
one having an interest and pride in Nor
thern Dakota that leads me to- improve
every opportunity for repelling sucl
aspersions upon our credit. l venture tn,
assertion that no party Of your acquainta anc.
has l"an' d dollar along the line of til.
Northern Pacific Il. H. a d thus been
obliged to borrow himself. If so,
will agree to pay principal and interest t.
date on h loan, and take the securt,
providing not over g the value OF tn,
property at tho time was loaned thereon
Not one acre ofland along this entire roao
hut What will sell to day for cash at forced
sale for from 100 to 700 per cent. advanc,
IN the valuation of one, two or three
Years ago. For seven years there has no,
been failure to realize an average along
the whole road of over 20 bushels of hea,
'cr acre, and in such country with sucl
Il record one does not find ia! mcrs default.
ing in principal or ,nteres', L am perlec,l,
familiar from personal acquaintance) not
only with your county, but with all you.
state and know that money is safer and
interest more prompt IN this part OF
Dakota, at same or any other rate Of il
crest than there in Wisconsin OF Waupaca
ounty.
Farmers here are not borrowing as the.
re there, and almost the only real estate
mortgages ore sees on the market here u,
hose given for part Of the purchase money
and such mortgages are every here con
sidered tue surest for the investor.
| send you to. day two or three papers
hat trust may modify your views o'
Dakota and lead you to ano, her conclusion,
han that investment in Wisconsin at even
) per cent. is better than in Dakota
Before closing, one thought must express
You loan money At the rate ofsay$10, ,t15 o.
$50 per acre ON farm lands III " iscvnsin
md consider yourself safe in % doing
uch loans as the one which has called out
his correspondence were made At the rate
It $3.50 per acre on lands in every wa,
superior 10 any in Wisconsin; lands, On
'cre of which will always produce a.
much (or more) as any acre in Wisconsin
snd where from convenience to marke,
he product will sell for more money than
n Wisconsin. Farms all about the on.
question, yielded this year from 90 t,
20 bushels Of number one hard wheat, tha
old imme diately after harvest at 80 cents
:Jer bushel and later in the season IS higl
Is $l.0O per bushel, and these lands Il.
.dvancing in price. as they should d.,
from 25 to 100 per cent. per annum. Such
nds arc not sold to pay mortgages. You
probably refer to southern Dakota, three
'lundIed miles away, where gnsshoppers
devastated the country for two or three
years. Come and see us, and We shall fN
glad to convince you Of the great injustice
you do us in your expressed sentiment.
Yours truly, E. P. W.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-11-18
SAFE INVESTMENT.

A lady in Wisconsin to whom Dakota
Investment was recommended, referred
the matter to gentleman friend for advise.
His reply was enclosed to prominent
business man and investor of jamestown,
who has permitted US to copy some ex.
tracts from the letter of this Wisconsin
gentleman t." his lady friend, as well as the
letter called out In defense Of Dakota
investments:
about sending money to Oak ota allow
me to suggest that 20 per cent. nor rs pcr
cent. even would be no inducement. !
know parties who hsve made the expert,
ment and are now borrowing here, because
the mortgaged property is thrown on their
hands and no money in return. Rattle.
than run the risk of losing, one had bet
ter bc satisfied with less interest. If |
could do no better, as last resort would
put the money in the savings bank at low
interest for time"
THE DAKOTA vlEw, ..-r
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-11-18
Expression Of Thanks.
To PROF. JOHN KIND1a:

10 PROF. JOHN kINDIG:
Dear Sir:-Appreciating the efforts you
have made and are constantly making to
cultivate the musical taste Of our people,
and also remembering with grateful SEN
timents your willingness at all times to
assist us in every attempt at amusement
or diversions, often at the sacrifice of your
own time and tastes, we, your friends,
would like an opportunity Of expressing
in public and more substantial manner
the regard we feel for you.
We therefore respectfully beg that you
will name an evening when it will SUIT
your convenience to assist in Testimonial
Concert for your benefit.
Your early reply will crafty
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-16
FINANCIAL FACTS.
Speech OF Hon. John Sherman at
Portland, Me.

Following is the able address delivered
by Hon. John Sherman at Portland, Me-,
on July 23d:
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-09

Life bears us on like the
stream Of a mighty river. Our
boat first glides down the mar
row channel, through the play
full murmurings of the little
brook and the winnings of the
grassy borders. The trees
shed their blossoms over our
young heads; the flowers on the
brink seem to offer themselves
to our young hand; we are hap
py in hope and we grasp eager
ly at the beauties around us;
but the stream hurries on and
still our hands are empty.
Our course in manhood is along
a wilder and deeper flood, amid
objects more striking and mag
ni6cent. We are animated at
the moving pictures of enjoy
.ment and industry passing
around us; we are excited at
some short-lived disappoint-
ment. The stream bears us on,
and our joys and griefs are a
like left beeind us. We may be
shipwrecked; we can not be de-
layed; whether rough or smooth,
the river hastens to its home,
till the roar ofthe ocean is in
our ears and the tossing of the
waves are beneath our feet;
and the land lessons from our
eyes and the floods are lifted up
around us, and we take our
leave of earth and its inhabi-
tants, until our further voyage
there is no witness save the In
finite and the Eternal.-Bishob
Hcbey.
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Something worth Knowing.

Every little while, writes a
correspondent, we read in the
papers of some one who has
stuck rusty nail in his foot, or
knee, or hand, and that lock-jaw
has resulted therefrom, of which
the patient died, If every per-
son in the world was aware ola
perfect remedy for all such
wounds and would apply it.
then all such reports must
cease.
The remedy is simple, almost
always on hand, can be applied
by any one, and what is better,
its infallible;; simply to smoke
the wound, or any bruise that
is inflamed, with burning wool
or wooden cloth. Twenty min
utes in the smoke of wool will
take the pain out of the worst
wound, aed repeated once or
twice it will allay the worst
case of inflammation arising from
a wound we ever saw. People
may sheer at the "old mans
remedy" as much as they please
but when they are afflicted, just
let them try it. 1t has saved
many lives and much pain, and
is worthy of being printed in
letters of gold and put in every
house.
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TIE Bonham Nf7os is a free
outspoken paper. 1t does not
believe in whipping the devil
around the stump" but speaks
its sentiments boldly and une-
quivocally. 1t has this to say
regarding the veto:
We stop the press to an
nounce that Gov. Roberts de-
stroyed the public free schools
because one Burleson, Waco,
told him to. Well, he hasn't
exactly destroyed them, but he
thinks he has-and the mud
headed old fossil pirates of
amending the Constitution so
as to educate none but paupers.
We beg to remind Burleson, or
Roberts. or whoever assumes to
run this machine, that the people
of Texas have some say-so in
this matter.
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General Walker expects

General Walker expects to
make all preparations for the
census next fall, and to make
the actual enumeration in a
months time. The statistics
of population will then be given
to the public almost immediate
ly. The results of the previous
census was completed and prin-
ted in 1872, and this time he ex-
poets to finish the work in a
much shorter period. The CEN
sus of 1860 was not published
till 1868, and that of 1850 not
till 1858, so that it really had no
value except an historical one.
Improved organization, aided
by the telegraph, has changed
all that, and general Walker ex-
poets to make the census of
1880 in every way a model of
promptness as well as of COM
pleteness.
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American Agriculture

The possibilities OF American
agriculture can bes. be appre-
ciated by reviewing the facts
that the area Of arabic lands in
United States exceeds f.Soo,-
100000 square miles. while tie
area at present under cnltiva-
ton is estimated to be i74.ooI,-
900 acres, or less than $4,000
square miles. 1t Is probable
that the next censtis will show
a valuation of farms exceeding
SII,oo 100000 and an annual
production of $4,000 oo, 900.
The fact that more than cne-
half of our people who are en-
gagged in the ordinary pursuits
oflife are directly employed in
agriculture, is at once sufi-
Gent evidence Of its universally
and Importance, In the year
1873 there were 81, ooS, 900 acres
in Indian corn, producing I,371,-
600. 600 bushels: 32.ooS,ooo in
wheat, with a yield of 422, ooo,-
900 bushels; I3,I76,ooo in oats.
giving 4II.S5I,ooo bushels; l.
100000 in barley, showing a
crop Of 100000 bushels; T.
67I.o 900 in rye, with 25.Soo,ooo
bushels, and $4,000 acres in
buckwheat. yielding product
of I2.277,ooobushels. Thus the
total cereal productions for 1873
was 2.2S4,oo2,ooo bushels,
raised of Ioo.476,ooo acres,
while in 1876 the total crops
were but I,5s4.ISo, 200, bushels;
in 1876. .9o3.S2I.6oo; in 1877,
2,I79o34.oso bushels. The fu-
ture increase in the farm pro-
ductlons of this country will re-
suit largely from improved sys-
TENS fcultivation, as well as
from extended areas under the
pillow. A system Of agriculture
presents but little to be proud of
which averages to the acre over
the whole country a yield Of but
twelve bushels of wheat, less
than twenty-seven bushels of
corn. and only twenty-eight
bushels ofoats. Compared with
what modern agricultural is Ca
pable off this direction, it is
not too much to affirm that our
crops, even on present area, may
be double in quantity.-Amsr-
ieaH Cninvak0r.
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OK Tuesday last about I4o
negroes, of all sexes and ages
arrived at St. Louis from Kan
sas and took passage on the
good and big steamboat How
ard, for their former homes in
Warren county, Mississippi.
They gave an unfavorable ac-
count of their reception and
treatment in Kansas,and were
exceedingly happy at being able
to return to the sunny south.
Parties in St. Louis interested
in their return to the south fur
nish them with abundant sup
plies for the voyage down the
river. They will in all probable
ity put stop to the exodus
from their hons neighborhood.
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lust wait until our Kentuck

Just wait until our Kentucky
army mules get within range of
the Zulus; and then you may
expect to hear of some casual
ties. Ifa charge of these noble
animals. made heels first, does
not scatter the best troops King
Cetywayo can bring into the
field, why, then, let the proud
bird of freedom scream no more.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-09

A MAN, whom we suppose
went from Washington county,
takes the trouble to write the
BANNEr a letter of nine pages
from Leadville, under date of
April 2Ist. but is too modest
to give his name. He has been
in Leadville for some time and
has apparently seen the ele-
plant in all his different phases;
he says there is more busted"
men to the square mile in Lead
vile than in any place he ever
struck, and judging from the
tone of his letter, he is one of
the noble army of "busteds."
He closes as follows, ain con-
clusion would advise those
who are fixed to let "well enough
alone" Leadville affords guam
titles Of risky investments and
if a man is lucky he may win. !"
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DR.. RuFUs c. BURLEsoN says
the present free school system
is ruinous waste ofpublic mon
ey, and further, if the state is
able and willing to inaugurate a
complete system of free schools
they will be a rich blessing to
all Texans. He concludes by
saying the present system is a
prodigal waste of the peoples
money and will bring odium and
ruin on the whole plan of free
schools. So the doctor writes
to the governor and the COVER
nor being naturally opposed to
free school, vetoes the appro-
priation. There is no use dodg-
ing the issue; the question is
simply school or no school. A
majority of the legislature voted
in favor of the schools and the
governor has interposed his We
to saying no schools, This is
contrary to the will of the peo-
pie as expressed by. their repre-
scntatives.
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Lot Him Have Hi. Receptions.


And now it is proposed in the
New York Legislature to give
Gen. Grant a public reception
on his return to this country.
Let Gen. Grant have this re-
ception. Let him have one and
many such. They will act both
ways. Some superficial person
will be carried to his support by
them. But the great mass of
the hard-handed yeomanry-
the thinking and self-respecting
farmers and mechanics of the
country, who constitute the
great majority of voters-detest
manworship, and will be more
likely to vote against Grant than
they would be if these recep-
tons were not rendered to him.
The movers of such proceed
ings will be observed, generally,
to be among the blatant politi-
clans, the place seekers who
hope to derive some personal
advantage from an early mani
iestation in support of Gen.
Grant. Such movements are
by no means the strongest evil
dence of the tendency Of pub
lie sentiment. To pass resolu-
tons and to make speeches in
favor of Gen. Grant are things
much more easily done than to
gain for him an honest majority
of the electoral votes.
In regard to the public re-
ceptions to be given to Gen.
Grant, it may be prudent in
those concerned in them to bear
in mind the recent wholesome
decision of chief justice Durfee,
Of Rhode Island, that it is ex-
clusiveIy for those who dance
to pay the fiddler.-N. Y. SIM.
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: At Waco a small dog, un.

- At Waco a small dog, UNI
doubtedly mad, attacked and
killed four cats and afterwards
turned his attention to a billy
goat, before he had killed the
goat, four negroes made war on
the dog with stones and slew it.
= San Antonio has a color
ed attorney-at-law, Gen. w.
Fremont, a young colored man
who was admitted to practice in
the district court. Three years
ago, says the Express, he came
to San Antonio stranger. Col.
Epson, Col. McLeary and other
prominent democratic lawyers
gave him the use of their libra
ries and encouraged hin every
way.
- The San Antonio Express
says a country justice Of the
peace writes to an attorney of
that city asking if his court can
be furnished with copy of the
laws passed by the legislature.
He says, II cannot possibly get
along without a great deal of
law when l cannot get whiskey.
But, if l can get a gallon of
whiskey each court, / will
try and get along without the
laws"
= A crowd of about 1000
people assembled at Waco on
Wednesday to see the great
balloon ascension, but instead
of the balloon going up the
1000 people went up-for their
time and trouble. The gas gen.
orator didn't work well and
some heather cut a hole in the
balloon. 1t was to have went
yesterday. Thursday. The an
nual meeting of the gun clubs
was quite success.
- At Overton, Rusk county,
on Saturday evening last two
men, i. S. Young and = Riley
were arrested for drunkenness
and locked up in the calaboose;
during the night they attempted
to escape by burning their way
out. but the fire getting beyond
their control the house was de-
stroyed and they persisted in
the flames. When the fire was
was discovered they could not
be rescued. The charred and
blackoned remains of the two
men were taken from the ruins
and buried.
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Law Regarding Continuanee..

The last Legislature passed a
law regarding continuances as
follows:
Article 500. In the first APP
plication by the defendant for
a continuance, it shall be neces-
sary. if the same be on account
of the absence of a witness,
to state under oath: /, First
the name Of witness, and
his residence, if known, or that
! his residence is not known; Sc
cond, the diligence which has
been used to procure his atten-
dance, and it shall not be con-
sidered sufficient diligence to
have caused to be issued, or to
have applied for a subpoena, in
cases where the law authorizes
the issuance of an attachment;
third, the facts which are expec-
ted to be proved by the witness
and it must appear to the court
that they are meterial; fourth,
that the witness is not absent by
the procurement or consent Of
the defendant; fifth. that the az
plication is not made for delay;
sixth, that there is reasonable
expectation that the attendance
Of the witness can be secured
during the present term of the
court by a postponement Of the
trial to some future day of said
term, and the truth of the FIRST
or any subsequent application.
as well as the merit of the
grounds set forth therein, and
its sufficiency, shall be address
ed to the sound discretion of
the court called to pass up the
same, and shall not be granted
as a matter of right provided,
that. should an application for
continuance be overruled, and
the defendant convicted, lift APP
pear upon the trial that the EVIL
dence Of the witness or witness
ses named in the application
was of a material character, and
that the facts set forth in said
application were probably true,
new trial should be granted
and the cause continued for the
term, or postponed to a future
day of said term.
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THE Austin GaseHe states
that there are in Travis county
Io4 communities with an aver
age attendance of4Ioo children,
and the average time taught is
four months. One hundred teach
ers find employment. The Ga
seae says were these 1914 conf
munities deprived Of these free
schools and these 400 children
turned adrift without any edu-
cation, the consequences would
be anything but desirable to So
ciety.
In Washington county, ex-
elusive of Brennan, we have so
communities and nearly 1000
enrolled. If the schools are
abolished but few of the chill
dren would get any schooling.
Four months in the year beats
no school at all by a large per-
centape.
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-Four schooners lost in the
gale" said the telegraph editor.
as he came in from his midnight
lunch. anybody drowned"
said the proofreader, somewhat
interestedly. We'll, no." was
the calm reply; it would take
more than four schooners to
drown Bill Gale"
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THE SCHOOLS.

According to the argument of
the Austin Statesman it is the
free schools that are mainly the
cause of the states getting into
debt, and that to maintain the
schools it will be necessary to
increase taxation, and that if
taxation is increased immigra-
ton will cease. So far as i'm
migration is concerned the
Statesman need not trouble it
self; immigration has already
ceased. Does the Statesman
or any of its fellow opponents
Of the free school system sup
pose for a moment that immi-
grafton will seek Il state which
openly contesses itself absolute
ly too poor to support its
schools and maintain the SUI
premacy Of the law. The sup
position is simply preposterous
and utterly at variance with all
that has been said and written
about Texas. Texas is immense
ly wealthy in lands. but if the
lands are not cultivated they
yield nothing and without labor
they cannot be cultivated; labor
is the one thing wanted and
under existing circumstances it
can not be expected to come.
For the existing state Of affairs
the new constitution and the
subsequent legislatures are
mainly to blame. Each legis-
lature has endeavored to reduce
taxation while expenses have
been increased. While some
good and able men have been
elected to the legislature by far
too many demagogues and pol
iticians. have been sent. The
average legislator goes to the
capital with a pocket full of To-
cal bills and having got them
introduced, is prepared to do
nothing, unless perhaps make a
speech for buncombe. The
buncombe business usually oc-
cupies about three-fourths of
the time of, not only Texas leg
islatures, but of a majority of
those of other states. Had it
been possible to have passed
the general appropriation bills
at an earlier day in the session
the present difficulty might
have been avoided. Between
the governor and the legislature.
and the legislature and the gov
ernor, the state is certainly in a
middle.
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The capitol in Washington is
soon to be Illuminated with the
electric light, and by placing it
on the dome 4 test is to be
made of the capacity Of the new
illumination to extend its clfct
over a large area.
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CHARLES FREEMAN of Pacas-
set, Mass, on the Ist inst, de-
libcrately stabbed and killed his
FIVE year old daughter, offering
her as u sacrifice. He is sec
ond adventist and had been at
tending revival meeting of his
sect. He received a wonderful
revelation and at once proceed
ed to STAY his child. He is cfa'
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-09

We have received the enitial
number of the Texas Mnst, ated
Monthly, published at Dallas by
Charles Cutter. 1t is intended
to publish illustrations of all the
important towns and interesting
scenerNin Texas. The illustra-
tons in the issue before us are
superb, having been executed
by the Photo. Eng. Company,
Of New York.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-09

TIE Galveston Meas cores
pondent at Washington inter-
viewed four of the Texas dele
CATION on Gov. Roberts veto,
but obtained not a single crumb
fcomfort-they hadn't read if.
and none had any opinion to
express.
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The people of BRENNAN were
taken somewhat by surprise at
the dispatch in the Nescs an
nouncing that Hayes, the SN7,
had changed his mind and NOM
mated Congressman Jones man
w. K. Holman for district attor-
ney for the eastern district
Senators, says the dispatch, are
inclined to confirm Homan, but
would like to hear from the peo-
pie of the district. Homan is a
political nondescript known as
an independent and being bit
terly opposed to the democrats
worked for Jones and is, it seems,
about to receive bis reward.
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a New YORK special to the
Meas says prominent dealers
in Texas state securities say
that Gov. Roberts veto had no
effect on the state bonds and
they are being held with conf
dene. That confidence is bas-
ed on the assumption that an
extra session of the legislature
will be called and an appropria-
ton made for the payment of
July interest.
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PRESIDENT HAYES veto is
thrown far into the background
by the old Alcalde S veto of
school and interest appropria-
ton. The first is hardly men
ton, while the latter is all the
talk.