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Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02

Scaled proposals for the construction of pile
bridge across the ia les river the road running
north from 9th nvenne, in jamestown, Stutslnan
county, D. r., will be received at the county clerk
ofiise, up to 10 o'clock a. m. Dec. 10th, 1881.
Good and suncient bonds to the amount of five
hundred dol liars tS500) must accompany all bids
Contract price to be paid in Stutsman county or
ders. The board reserves the right to reject any
aud all bids. Plans and specifications can be seen
at tho county clerks Office By order Of the board
GBo. w. VENNuM, County Clerk (
Nov. 25, 1881, a.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF

Land Onicc at Fargo. y. r.. Nov. !3, 1851
Notice il hereby given that the fol!owu" nam
settle rhas filed notice OF hisinirMtOn to make fl, a
proofin support OF his claim and secure final cntr,
thereof on the Goth day Of December. 1851. VIZ ;:
Peter Skroch. d. S. No. CASA. for the ne of soc l.,
tn 141 II, r G3 W and names the rolIowju" u. his
witnesses. viz:
Jacob Gamarth, Gsory" Nr"oscck Theodore
Go'podar' Peter Fried, all Of jamestown, Slusman u
county, DIT.
The testimony TO he taken before johnson C.,
Nickcus, clerk Of the district court at jamestown.
ID. II on the gath day of December, 4. D. 1851, at
his Office. "'
~, HORACE AUSTIN, Register.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
ALLEN & DODGE's COLUMN.
~ OTICa OF FINAL PROOF.

Land Once at Fargo, D. T., Nov. Q, 1881.
Notice IL hereby given that the following name d
settler hs cd notice Of hisintenu.n to make final
thereof on the 18Th isy Of December, 1881, viz:
d. &. Flint, ID. S. No. 1885,, for the - Of se c
1s, tp 14o 81 ", End names the following his
Bailey W. Fuller and W. r. Dodge, all Of Stuts.
man county, D. T.
Testimony to be taken before johnson G. Nick
Gus. clerk Of he district court at ameetOwn, n. T.
on the 10th day OF December, 1881, at his Office.
HORACE AUSTIN,
Allen & Dodge, attorneys. Register
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
=. HUKl
White i Hewitt. Alt'r.
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF

~ o110H oF FINAL PEUUF.
Land ONCE at Fargo. ID. r.. Nov. "a, 1881.
Notice is hereby given tia the following named
settler has filed notice Of hi. intention to ma kc final
PROOF in support Of his claim and securr final entry
thereof on the :*th day Of December, 1881, Viz:
sainuel S. Pulver. D. :. No. $3.50, for tho nw OF
sec D ~ l41 II, r64 ". and names the following
As his witnesses viz:
Frank H. !lagcrty. Jacob J. Lcsch Henry
e;eeGhke, Patrick Burke, all OF Stutsnlan county
DIT.
The testimony TO he taken before johnson G.
Nickeus, clerk Of the district court at Jamestown,
D +. on tn" 10th day Of December, A. d. 1881, at
HonAcE AUSTIN, Register.
johnson G. Eickeus, Attorney '',
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
or FINAL PROOF,

Lant Office at Fargo, D. T.. Nov. 5th, 1881.
Notice IL hereby given that the following names
settler has filed notice OF his intention to nal kc final
proof in support OF hi. claim and secure fnr entity
thereof on the Sd day of December, 1851, viz:
Albert ". Latta, II. f., No. 1865 for the Sc Of
8, tp 142 n, O. ", and names The following us his
witnesses. viz: George ". kurlz. William y.
Elder, +. r. Wells. and Robert kcrachcr, all
OF Stutsman county, DIT.
The testimony 10 be taken before johnson C.
Nickeus clerk Of the disric, court at Stutsnaa Co.
D: r., on the Sd day Of Dec, A. d., 1885, at hi,
office,
HoRAcR AUSTIN, Register
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.
Land Office at Fargo. D. Y. :

Land Office at Fargo D. To
November goth. 1881.
Notice 10 hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice OF his intention to make Il
entry thereof on the 4th day OF January 1889, viz
John Swan, d. -. No. - for the II j NV I. II !:
ne OF sec IS. tn 139 H. 81 W, and names the fol
lowing rs his witnesses. viz: James Craig. James
Sears John Leuck, George McGrcsor, all of Stuts-
man county, IT.
Testimony to he taken before johnson {. Nick &
eus. clerk Of the district court at Jane stowi Stuls
man county. D. T.. on the 3lst day OF December
A. d. 1881, at his Office,
HORACE AUSTIN, Register.
johnson G. Nickcus, Atty.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02

And dealer. in Saddles, Brides, Collars Whips
Cnrry Combs. Brushes, &c We have ArAt
class facilities for manufacturing harness, sal ;
dies, and all kinds Of goods in o1r line. We
suauartee ali our work. Our goods are sold at
very reasonable price for cash. Call and zee Nv
Special ate ntion paid 10 orders by mail. 5.S
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
NOTICE.

n Office
Land Office at Fargo. y. r., Nov. 10, 1881.
Complaint haring been entered At this offire by
Carey B. Kinney against Philip Vcrplanck, Dr.. for
abandoning his r.. &. entry No. -. dated Nov.
in stutsman county. d. r.. alleging non-compli-
ancc with the law in that said Philip Verplsnck
Jr. has not broken caused to be broken, the i've
acres of land required by law to be broken the arst
year, with view to the cancellation Of said on
try: the said parties nra hereby summoned to ap-
pear at this Office on the 2Sth day Of December,
1881. vt 10 O'Clock. a. H., to respond and furnish
testimony concerning said alleged Noncompliance
with the tember culture laws.
HORACE AUSTIN, Register.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
OF FINAL PROOF.

M UTICE Of FINAL TRUUF.
LAND OFFICE At FARGO. Oct. u, 1881.
Notice is hereby given that tho following named
settler has filed notice Of his intention to ske final
y roof in support of hia claim aud secure Anal entry
ihcrrof on the 9th day Of December, 1881, viz:
George f. Ashley, ID. S. 65O6, for the " y nv y
of II, tp l39 II. IS W, and names the following
us his witnesses:
james i. Atkinson Richard r. Grifing, james
Pcndr,ly, and Owen A. Boynton, all Of Stutsman
county, d. u.
The testimony to he taken before johnson c.
Nickcus, clerk Of the district court at jamestown a.
d. r. the Sd day Of December A. D.. 1881, at his
office. HORACE AUSTIN,
Register.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

OFFICE or COMPTROLLER oPsrnR CuRRRxcY.o
WAsalscTcs. October, :5th, 1ss1.S
Whereas. by satisfactory evidence presented T.
the undersigned it has been made 10 appear that
'rrhc First National Bank OF Jamestown in the
village OF jamestown. IN the County OF Stutsmaa,
and Territory of Dakota, has complied with oil the
States, required TO he complied with before an ss-
sociation sh,l he authorized 10 commence the
hu.irss. of BANKING.
Now therefore ]. John Jay Knox. Comptroller OF
the Care cy. 10 hereby certify that .''rhe Fipt
National Bank Of Jamestown in the VILLAGE
of jamestown. in the County Of Stutsman
and Territory OF Dakots. is author.
iScd 10 commence the bnsint of Banking a. pro.
vided in Section Fifty-ore hnudred and e,x,v.
nine Of the Revised Statues Of the United States
In testimony whereof witncse my hand and Seal
OF Office th. 2ath day OF Octcber 1881.
IoHs Jay Knox, Comptroll Ter Of the Currency
lssAL No. 2,5s0.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
Allen & Dodge. Attorneys
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.

Land Office at Fargo, d. r., Nov. leth, 1881. =.
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice Of his intention to make lnal
proof in support OF his claim and secure final entry
William johnson d. S. Ne-for the Northwest
quarter In wH Of sec ,, tp 40 n, IS ": and
Vennun,. Geo. W. Vennum, James Fargo, W. T.
Dodge, all Of Stutsman County, ID. 7.
rhe testimony to he taken before johnson e.
Nickells clerk OF the district court at Jamestown
d. y. OIL the 18th day Of December A. D. 1881
ut his Office.
HORACE AUSTIN, Register.
Allen l. Dodge. Attorneys.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
TREASURY DEPAKTMENT,

1AEASt n AsEs "a ~ IL Dfe =,
O1PIcR or CoNrTROtLER or THE CfRRENCT,l
WAsHINGToS. October 25th, 1881. 5
WnERGAs. BY satisfactory evidence presented
TO the undersigned il has been made to appear that
..The James River National Bank OF ia an,s.towu." "
in the Village Of Jamestown In the county of Stuts
man. and territory OF Dakota. has complied With
the provisions OF the Revised Statutes of the Init
I'D States. required to c complied with before sn
associati an shall be authorized to commence the
businesa OF banking.
Now therefore ], John Jay Knox.
Comptroller Of the Currency. do hereby
certify that 1.-The James River Ns
tionai Bank Of Jamestown in the Village OF
Jameetown, in the County nf Stuteman. and
Territory Of Dakota. is authorized TO commence
the business of Banking as provided in section
Fifty-one hundred and sixty -nine of the Revised
Statutes Of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and Seal
Of Office this 18th day Of October. 1871.
JonS JA1 KNOX, Comptroller OF the Currency.
TsuA11 No. 2 so.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02

n or'cF.
Us. Land Office, Fargo, d. r., Oct. 2sth, 1881
Complaint having been entered at this ONCE by
ing his 'f. Z. entry No. --, dated Oct. 5th, 1880
upon the !. Of sec 20. tp lso n, Sc. in
Stutsman county, Dakota, alleging that Manue
to be broken during the first year after said entry
or toimprove said claim in any. manner, with Z
view to the cancellation OF said entry; the said
parties are hereby summoned to appesr this once
on the 5th day Of December, 1891, at 10 o'clock .
~, to respond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged abandonment.
THos. N. PUeH, Receiver.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
n BALDWIN, n. D.,
PHYSICIAN 3 SURGEON

ice, day and night, ground floor. Mason
Tempe, corner 4th Ave and I'd st. once hour
Vo1 to II Is.4,
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02

$4,000 to Loan, for term OF years, on
Real Estate Security. No red tape. No
waiting to submit the application 10 east
parties; but loan can be clnsed ana money
pDid same day application is made.
Il. p. WELLS.
once with james River National Bank.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
| HARNESS MAKERS, |

uM. sPANGENBERG i CO.,
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF,

F. H. Haggerty.
Jamestown alert., 1881-12-02
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.

johnson C. Nickcue Atty,
, 1881-05-04
THE TIMES ON THE TRANSVAAL
QUESTION.

It is with grave regret we receive from
the T%ransvaal news of the surrender of
Potchefstroom. It is not only that Eng
lishmen sympathize with the i'll fortune Of
a brave garrison, reduced by famine and
not by stress of arms and forced into CAPT
tulation at the very moment of peace. It
is also because this capitulation reopens q
wound of which the lapse of several days
has done much to allay the smart, and be-
cause it endangers by fresh complications
the ~permanency of the peace accorded by
us and accepted by the Beers. The feel
ings of the English and Dutch populations
, 1881-05-04
Acknowledgements

NET bekjendtgj0rss herved, at I'd
|UJ kast til Repartitionen i afgangno
Christian G. Wispetali og ettelleven-
de Enke Jane Wispetall, deres felleds
30, vii bliye fremlagt en- Session
som afholdes den 27de MAJ f5ratl10m
mende Kl. i slet Ettermiddag, hyor-
efter Boet foryentes sluttet.
Frederiksteds Skifteret, St. Croix
den 28de April 1881.
r. PETERSEN.
, 1881-05-04
Notice. i!
!. THE BANK OF ST. THOMAS

will receive money on deposit
at u g. 8 months at AL say
four per cent. p.a.-at s (six)
months at three 6 oIo) p. a.
subject to three months previous
Notice in Ease of withdrawal for
sums from $1,000 and upwards.
Any sums under $1,000 subject
to one months previous Notice.
2. PROMISSORY NOTES given
for the purchase Of Bills of
Exchange, will be discounted by
the Bank at 60Io (six per cent?
p. a. for the three first months.
8. RENEWA OF SUCH
NOTES, as well as Of Notes dis
counted against Cash, to be done
at SCI 10 (Nine per cent? P, a.
A. LETTERS OF 1T on
Europe, United States Of North
America, and Porto Rico, will be
granted on the usual conditions.
5. COLLECTIONS on Europe.
United States of North America,
Porto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela
will be undertaken at moderate
charges.
6. Telegraphic Transfers of money
from st. Croix to St. Thomas,
Europe, United States Of North
America, and Porto Rico viii be
undertaken subject to arrange
ment.
Bank Of St. Thomas, st. Thomas
25th February 1881.
ED. S. PETERSEN.
Manaerg
, 1881-05-04

BILLS OF EXCHANGE bought
and sold.
PROMISsORY NOTES discounted
at rates varying between 6olo
and 90|o p.a.
Arrangements made for the TRANS
MISSION OF FUNDS between
the two Islands.
st Thomas, February 1881.
GUSTAV O. GYLLICH.
Manager.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
SIDE DISHES.

Many people keep fine doctrines as many
people keep fine houses-to rent.
In matters of wickedness the devil helps
those who help themselves.-[S. A. Gardner.
When that young man out west hugged his
best Girl to death, was it not deadlock?
Senator Dawes is described by correspond
ent as shaped like one-half of parenthasis,
and as being thn-haired and scrawny.
81 have never KNOWN" says Josh Billings,
"a second wife but waz boss of the situation. "
Some men are never more possessed of q
devil than when they are self possessed.
Mark Twain tells us "that it is safer to
live on a Cunard steamer than on shore, for
during thirty years they have never lost a
passenger, while people have been dying on
shore all the time"
And did your late husband die in the hope
of blessed Immortality, sister Wiggins?" in.
uuired the minister. who was making his
first call on fair widow of his congregation
"Bless you, no, was the mournful response
"he died in Chicago.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
Fortunes In Little Things.

There are many small items which
reach an immense aggregate. One man has
got rich in the oyster shell business. He has
a barge ready to receive all that are sent, and
these he takes to Long Island and burns into
lime. His carts call at the oyster saloon and
remove their shells to the barge, for which he
receives Y cents per load. Another man has
made fortune in manure business. His carts
call at the livery stables and loaded without
charge, the accommodation being sufficient
consideration. They dump into a barge and
the contents are fioated to Long Island and
sold to farmers. The sand trade also reach
es an immence extent. This article is
brought in barges distance of 100 miles and
is stored in yards and sold to builders as may
be wanted. The traffic in empty barrels has
also become heavy item. Empty molasses
casks are taken to pieces, bound up in" shoks"
and reshipped to the plantations. Carpet
shaking las also become great speciality, be-
ing now done by steam. The beating is done
in a large room where draft carries off the
dust, and the result is so satisfactory that the
old method is superseded. The steam car
pet-bearter reaps rich harvest at this season
of the year. Little things thus reach vast
aggregate in a large city, and fortunes are
made in speciaties apparently of the most
petty character. Nothing is wasted here.
The refuse of the market is bought by cheap
boarding house keepers, and the chiffoniel
CLEANS from the sweeping of the streets.-N
| 7. Corr. Troy Times.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
Changes Of a Century.

The 10Th century has witnessed many great
discoveries.
In 1909 Fulton took out the first patent for
the invention of the steamboat.
The first steamships which made regular
passages across the Atlantic were the Sirius
and the Great Western, in 1880.
The first application to practice the use Of
gas for illumination was made in 1902.
In 1913 the streets of London were for the
first time lighted by gas.
In 1918 there was built at Waltham, Mass,
mill, believed to have been the first in the
world, which combined all the requirements
for making finished cloth from raw cotton.
In 1870 there were only 25 postofffces in
the whole country, and up to 1887 the rate of
postage was 25 cents for letter sent over 400
miles.
In 1907 wooden clocks com menced to be
made by machinery. This ushered in the
era Of cheap clocks.
About the year 1888 the first railroad of
any considerable length in the Unired States
was constructed.
In 1910 the first experiments in photosra-
ply were made by Daguerre.
About 1910 the first express business was
established in the United States.
The anthracite coal Business may be said
to have begun in 1920.
In 1887 the first patent for the manufacture,
of matches was granted.
In 1S45 the first telegram was sent.
Steel pens were introduced for use in July,
1903.
The first successful reaper was constructed
in 1888.
In 1916 Elias Howe obtained a patent for
his first sewlng-machiHe.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
Mechanical Quacks.

No trade is so pestered with quacks, botches
and pretenders as that of the carpenter and
joiner'S. Go where you may, the ubiquitous
botch, with his brier-root saw, battered jack
plane and defective square, is on hand, ready
to take the designing and erection of back
fence or state court house. Gifted with a
mind that rises above the ordinary concerns of
life, he looks with contempt on the man who
has ''fooled" his time away LEARNT. a trade,
or who fritters his employers substance by
making good Joints and lasting work. 1t
makes no difference to him what kind Of
abuilding you may have to erect, he is always
ready. willing and able to do it, and can make
the price to suit. Tell him how much money
you wish to expend, and the size, style and
character of building you want, and you will
find him equal to the difficult task of making
one fit the other. He is full of promises and
guarantees all SORTS of good things if you will
only let him have the contract. When the
work is ompleted-accordlng to his ideas of
completeness-if it stands to be completed,
you are astonished, though not charmed, al
the "emphasis" of the joints and peculiar,
bear-skin like finish of the work. Tue quar-
reling, the profanity, the jaw suits, suicides
and murders that follow, are interesting, ro-
mantle and delightful in the extreme; but
amid all this the 'botch" never loses his eqaa
nimity.-Builder and Woodvorker.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
Origin Of Familiar Phrases.

"You cannot say boo rto a goose" When
Ben Jonson, the dramatist, was introduced to
a anobleman, the peer was so struck with his
homelg appearance, that he exclaimed,
''What yon are Ben Jonson? Why you look
as if you could not say 'booH too goose
"Boo" exclaimed the witty dramatist, turn
ing to the peer and making his bow.
"He's peg too low," "Taking man down
d peg" way be traced to the pegging, or mark
ing the drinking cup, which was introduced
by St. Dunston to check the Incorporate hab-
its of the times, by preventing one man from
taking larger draught than his companions.
But the device proved the means of increasing
the evil it was intended ia remedy; for the
most abstemious were required to drink pre-
cisely to peg or pin, whether they could So
berly take such a quantity or not.
"Bue Hen," is the nickname given to the
state of Delaware. The origin of the term
is this; Captain Caldwell, an officer of the
first Delaware regiment IN the revolution, was
very fond of game cocks, but maintained that
no cock was truly game unless its mother
was a "blue hem" AS he was an exceeding
ly popular man, his regiment vas called the
"bue hen," and the term was afterward trans
ferred to the state and its inhabitants.
There's many a slip
Tween the cup and the lip.
The ancient Greeks had the following story
as to the origin Of this proverb: A King Of
rhrace had planted a vineyard, when one Of
his slaves, whom he had much oppressed in
that very work, prophesied that he should
never drink of the wine produced in it. The
monarch dlsresarded the prediction, and
when at an entertainment he held Il glassfu
of his own wine, made from the grapes O
thAt vineyard, he sent for the slave, asked him
what he thought Of his prophecy now. Tt
which the other replied, "Many things fal
out between the cup and the lip and hat
scarcely delivered this singular response be
fore the news was brought that !. moustleu
boar was laying waste the favorite vineyard
The King in rage, put down the cup whicl
he held in his hand, and hurried out will
ms people to attack the boar, but being to-
eager the boar rushed upon him and kille,
him without his having tasted the wine.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31

CHICAGO, May, PA San Antonio dispatch
says the citizens of Eagle Pass crossed the
Rio Graude on Monday to attend circus. AS
they entered the town they were surrounded
by Captain Villarel, commanding the Mex
lean garrison of Piedros Lequor, with force
of fifteen soldiers and marched to JAIL where
they lay all night. A party of their friends
crossed over this morning and caused the Al
cade to discharge the prisoners against whom
no charges were brought.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-02-10

swered my stepmother Their dress
es we're very pretty; but, indeed, your
Grace, your daughter was splendid,
and Lady Eva, too-most lovely"
The duchess opened her eyes.
Lady Eva is no beauty" she said
coldly, land as you know, didn't ap-
pear. But when can your daughter
come to us? Lavender is most anx-
ious"
.sI'm sure he's too good-my girls
will be delighted, either of them.
There's no such thing as jealousy be-
tween these two. Adelaide, my love
I think We can make a guess that it Is
Adelaide you want"
Pardon me-" said the duchess, "Ade-
laide is not the name"
Then it must be Cornelia! Really!
Cornelia, dearn'
The duchess shook her head.
excuse me, the name is still wrong.
The young lady want to carry OFT Is
Cynthia
I draw veil over what followed
the scene with my stepmother and
sisters when the whole truth was re-
vealed. But Jack reused my father, and,
the two combining, I went to Laven-
der Hall. I returned the affianced
wife of its owner, and III that exalted
position I trust that, like my prototype,
I have returned good for evil and not
revenged the Sights and insult shower
ed upon Cinderella.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-02-10
Louisiana Oranges.

There are not many persons who APP
preciate the extent of our grange trade
or who realize what an enormous
source of revenue the culture Of this
delicious fruit may be made. On the
25th of October there were shipped from
here on the Chicago, St. Louis & New
Orleans Railroad, eleven carloads of
oranges, destined to Denver, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Chicago and Evansville.
There was in this shipment 1920
barrels, and averaging the barrel at 500
we have total of 500, 900 oranges sent
in one day by one railroad to supply
the increasing demand in the west for
Louisiana oranges, which are far supe-
rior to the oranges of Cuba, and even
the undetermined fruit of Florida.
Between the first OF October and the
26th there were shipped by the same
road to the western cities $1,000
barrels an aggregate of 6.3Oo. GOO
oranges