Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-10-20
course of lectures could he secured that
would realize in profit IL handsome sum
for this laudablc enterprise.
Ths EacIs III the Case.

| lOl lnlS lduudDlc enterprise.
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| Tha facIs the Case
AS stated IN the Alert yesterday morn
ing L. Elmer was arrested night before
last and gave bail for his APPEARANCE next
evening. The facts of the case are SUBJ
stantially as follows: The evening before
in pursuance of an order Of the board of
trustees, Sheriff Nlckechnie notified EIr.
Elmer to close his place Of business This
he declined to do, and about midnight
McKechn1c applied to Justice Allen fer
a warrant for the arrest of Elmer. Mr..
| Allen did not think the allegations of the
compuint sufficient and declined to issue
the warrant Justice Watson was then
| applied TO who issued a warrant for the
arrest Of Elmer upon an affidavit alleging
the following charge; Onlittny TO abate
a nuisance, the board Of trustees having
declared his saloon and show nuisance.
The arrest was made and bail given as be-
! fore stated. Yesterday morning at nine
| O'Clock, the time appointed for hearing
Of the Case, MIR. Elmer, accompanied by
| his attorneys, W. E. Dodge and Johnson
| Nlckcus, appeared before Justice Watson
to answer to the complaint. No one ap-
! pearing for the prosecution, notice Of the
| pending case was sent to Mr.. Hewitt, viii
| lage attorney, who came into court but de-
Glued to prosecute the case for the tech
nical reason that the case was one in
| which the Territory and not the village,
| was plaintiff, and he as village attorney
| had nothing to do with it, but suggested
| the proper officer to prosecute the case.
Mr.. Allen was accordingly notified of the
| pending case and also came into court,
but declined to prosecute, on the grounds
that 1t was not among the duties of his Of
ice to prosecute cases in a Justices court.
Furthermore the village of jamestown
was the real plaintiff IN the SUIT though
It was commenced under the statute. Tn
der this condition of things, there being
| no prosecutor prcsentno evidence to sus-
tain the allegations Of the complaint,
Justice Watson had no alternative bat to
dismiss the suit, which was done and the
matter was dropped.
| a Broad Gauge Rsadiug Room.
| EDITOR ALERT:
Ibc subject Of Il public reading room IS
now prominently Eefore the people OF
Jamestown, and It Is one that en- ages the
interest Of all our people, more or less.
La general terms, a reading room may or
may not mean the same thing to different
Individuals. a person is apt to define
the term according to his own notion or
idea Of what a reading room should be,
and rs consequence, when they come to
compare notes, there is found to he a
great dvers,y y OF opinion as to what q
reading room property IS or on MT TO be.
II is we'll enough To consider, and, as far
IS practical, settle tins question as early
l- possible Ii VIII necessarily have to
be controlled by pertons selected by and
appointed for that purpose, and there
should be no close communion or narrow
contracted policy, in conducting and
managing 1t. 1t should be conduct on
the broad gauge system. All petty and
political and scctarian feeling should be
ignored entirely. The works of Nultaire,
Paine, lngersoll, Darwin, Beechcr, Camp
ell, Chapin, and other lilustrious men
Of church and liberal and state, together
with periodicals rep.esen, ative OF all the
varsous moral, social, religious and pol
tlcal theories eytant, should have place
side by side in the literature Of such a
place of public resort and information.
| There should also be the means OF varl-
Gus kinds Of amusement and PHYSICAL ex-
ercise and development, from cards, dom
noes, chess, checkers, billiards and pool,
| to a gymnasium. If IL be public affair,
pough. and expenses paid for by the pub
lie, it seems to me it should meet the
various wants of the public. "All work
and no play makes Jack dull boy' las
long been regarded as trulsm, and all
Sid study or reading, without any
means of amusement or recreation, would
have the effect to make reading room,
from which everything else was excluded,
dull place, and take from it the very
object of it's institution. The only way
to make such place of any value, would
be to make it popular, and the only way
to make 1t popular is TO make it supply
the wants OF the public.
| 4 CITIZEN.
Capital: We are not prepared to pass
any structures upon the conduct OF Mr..
Allen in refusing 10 act as prosecuting at
torney. He certainly has the sanction Of
the statute But we want TO know here
and now whether or no we are to be left
without any official to take cosnizauce of
Crine?
1t would certainly appear so, holy
brother, unless the board Of truS ees II