Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-09-23
Dakota Daslles.

The Custer City Chronicle is
yearling.
Bishop Clarkson will be in Yank.
ton on the 18th.
Yankton has raised the funds for
a driving park.
There is demand for more houses
in Alexandria.
Sixteen new dwelling.houses are
being put up in Scotland.
G. T. Mccoy will furnish wood for
Bon Homme county at $4.75 cord.
Scotland is pleased over the move
ment to extend the Yankton road to
that place.
Parties are ready to start cream
cry at Scotland provided the farmers
will guarantee milk from 300 or more
COWS.
The Minor County Advocate is
the name of a six x-column folio news
paper started at Upper Forestburg
by II. >. douglas.
1t is expected that the Yankton
Water company will lay mains this
fall and give the city water for pro.
lection against fire.
The first stock shipment from Run
ming Water went east the other day.
1t consisted of 500 head brought over
from the Nebraska side.
A barbed wire fence caused the
death Of valuable COW belonging
to F. ID. Smith, near Vermillion. A
vein. was severed and the animal
bled to death.
The assessed valuation of Lawrence
county Is IL, l25, $3.50. The levy for
this year is SO mills; in Deadwood,
Lead and Central, 81 mills, mill
beng added for fire tax.
Ed McCaskell of DeSmet while
out hunting accidentally shot himself
through the hand, and at the same
time shot his dog. The dog is dead
nd Ed has suffered the amputation
Of two of his fingers.
Canton Advocate, 8: "Georgc
Dancy, former clerk for G. B. Dyke,
wholesale liquor dealer with Walt
Corson left very suddenly for Sioux
City last week, taking the key to the
safe and small sum of money. His
wife, who was living here, started
the day before, and they have left
for parts unknown"
Brave Bear, the Indian who mur.
dered family Of nine persons near
Pembina in 1875, arrived in Bismarck
on the II inst. and was turned over
to the United States commissioner.
He was a prisoner of war at Fort
Yates, bnt, hearing of the contempla-
ted removal, made an effort to escape,
and parties knowing Of the reward
offered for him pursued and captured
him, and turned him over as above.
Fargo Argus: The Bismarck Tri-
bune's railroad map makes that OBJ
scure village the imposing center of
a grand continental, transcontinental
and international spider-web of rail.
ways, compared with which Chicago
becomes rather Insignificant cross.
roads. Bismarck's chief importance
will always lie in the fact that she is
situated within ten hours easy travel
Of Fargo, and is the home of Denny
Hannafin.
Watertown Courier, Z: "Coding.
ton county has been organized about
three years and during that time has
issued warrants to the amount of
$s,76s. Can any other county in the
territory show an equally economi.
cal record? During the last three
months over 81 900 of these warrants
have been paid, and if all taxes were
to be paid to-day Codington county
would not owe dollar"
Deadwood dispatch, 9: "In the
United States court yesterday James
Leighton was convicted of the mur-
der of Curtis Olive, on the Pierre road
in 1879. Both were teamsters. The
trial Of the murderer of Lieut.. Cher.
ry was begun Sept. 9th. The trial
Of Crow Dog for the murder ofSpot-
ted Tail goes over to the January
term OF court, owing to the absence
Of witnesses for the defense"
Our farmers have commenced
plowing. This is right; the sooner
the plow is started the better it will
be for farmers. The fall rains will
cause the foul seed in the ground to
spring up, and the frosts will kill
them. But this is not all. By hav.
ing the ground all plowed this fall
the farmer will have chance to put
in his crops early in the spring. It
has always been known that early
sown wheat was a good deal better
crop, as a general rule, than that
sowed in lats spring; but now it is
pretty well demonstrated that oats
aud barley should be putin the ground
about as early as wheat. 1t seems
that the earlier in the spring most all
seeds are put in the ground here, the
heavier the crop will be. So keep
the plow moving.-DeSmet News.
Yankton Herald. The government
farm of over 800 acres at Yankton
agency, is like picture for nestness
and thorough cultivation. Farmer
Trumbo has numerous grain stacks
and the indications are that the farm
will have heavy crops the present
year. The young cottonwood trees
and wire fences are in fine condition,
around the fields aud the farm gates
leading from the place in several di-
rections are all kept in good order.
The young orchard is in a fine con-
dition and contains 400 apple, 20
cherry, and 20 plum trees. There
are on an average about TWENTY-FIVE