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Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
What Shall We DO With Them.

Time and again the Alert has sndeav-
ored to impress upon the minds of the peo-
pie of jamestown the importance Of there
being some means provided for the ac-
comodation of incoming settlers. Spring
is upon us, and as yet every effort to .e-
cure such Accommodations has ended in
talk. Nearly every one admits that some
kind of provision should be made, but no
one feels like taking hold Of the scheme.
The result will be simply this: New set
tiers with large families will be compelled
to do one of two things, viz: Put up at
some of our hotels at an expense Of from
fifteen to twenty-five dollars per day, or
leave the town for other localities. AS q
rule the average cmigrant is not able to
pay one hundred dollars per week for
board, and if, upon his arrival here he
tidds that he must do SO or leave, the
chances are that he will leave. If some
one would put UP u cheap structure and
partition it off in a suitable manner he
would be able to rent every room al fair
figures. -Four or five hundred dollars
would put up such building, and in all
probability could be made to pay for it's
self in one season. If some one will put
up such a structure the Alert will run an
advertisement, setting forth its accOmo-
dations, free of charge in both the daily
and weekly Alert. Who will make :
break!
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10

Yankton Press: The older settlers
in any western community will re-
cognize the truth, of this paragraph:
"All who have had OCCASION to notice
the growth and settlement new coun-
ties are aware OF the fact that two
or three classes ofpeople are required
to complete the settlement. The
first class is Obliged to struggle and
combat with all possible inconveni-
ences, which cannot be overcome for
several years, and it ls almost an in.
variable rule that two thirds Of them
are obliged to sacrifice a portion Of
their earnings to second class Of
Immigrants, and seek other places to
obtain p: "fresh start" while said Sc
cond class is furnished with all the
and results of the la
bors of the first class. Hence the
foundation is laid for prosperity in
succeeding years."
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Raise Trees.

Some may scout the idea of raising trees
successfully upon the prairics in our VI
cinity, but they should make trip over
the formerly treeless pralrics of southern
Minnesota in order to convince them of
their error. Along the Sioux City rail-
road, for instance, many fine groves may
be seen protecting the track from snow
drifts, and sheltering the houses from
winds. The secret of success in tree rais-
ing is in thorough cultivation of the young
saplings. They require just as much care
as grain The climate in southern Min
nesota is fully as cold in winter as ours,
and yet groves five and six years old are
very noticeable there. Cottonwoods grow
most rapidly, and in the district referred
to would now make considerable cord
wood if necessity compelled the ssttlers
to cut it. They prize their groves, how
ever, and the destruction of the trees
would be their last thought.
Far north of jamestown on the shores
of lakes and rivers--notabiy at DeYil's
Lakc-finc forests can be found in q 'cli-
mate which in winter is naturally colder
than ours lftrees grow there they will
grow here, and those who are caring fpi
the saplings started two or three years
AFRO should neither dispair nor remit theiI
efforts towards raising groves upon their
claims, In other places such groves
greatly enhance the value of the lands,
and those who go on perseveringly in the
work of tree culture here will be amply
ewarded.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Funeral Of j. A. Olds.

We learn that the funeral services OF
this much respected citizen will occur at
the Presbyterian church At O'Clock to-.
morrow afternoon, and that he will be
buried with Masonic ceremonies. The de-
ceased was one of the most prominent
Masons in the place; was = prominent
member Of the church above named, and
had '4en prominent member Of the
toHg, of education, and was prominent
and efficient in great many capacities
and was thorougly useful citizen; and
doubt less his old friends and neighbors
will turn out in great numbers tomorrow
afternoon to pay him their last tribute OF
respcet Mr. Olds leaves wife, and VIC
believe three children. 1t will not be
without interest to state that Mr.. Olds
was, as we are informed, sixty years of
age last November, and that he was in
sured in the Masonic Relief Association
for $4,000, and that he also had some
other insurance in one Of tie stock COM
Tribune.
The sad intelligence of Mr.. Olds death
will be received with universal sorrow on
the part OF every citizen of jamestown
who had the honor Of his acquaintance.
Mr. Olds was true gentleman in every
respect and his kindness of heart together
with the many noble principals he pos
sessed will ever exist to cheer the multi
tude of friends who mourn his departure
We understand that Mr.. Old met his
death by falling from an unfinished build
ing upon which he was working.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Close Of the Celebrated Land Controversy
Elicit ". Kellsher.

This celebrated case, which involved
title to lots thirteen and fourteen of Sec
ton twenty-six, adjoining the townsite Of
jamestown, and the validity of Mr.. ELL
lott's homestead entry of lots eleven,
twelve, thirteen and fourteen III the same
section, and which has been fought with
such unabated energy by both parties and
their counsel during the last year, has at
length been brought to final close, and
yesterday Mr.. Dodge obtained title for Mr..
Kelleher to lots thirteen and fourteen,
willie Mr.. Elllott's entry was held good to
eleven and twelve, being the two lots west
of the park and the river, as between the
parties, and his attorney Mr., Pinncy Sc,
cured him title to the land, where Mr..
Elliott will soon build new and more
commodious residence and move into the
same. Although Mr.. Kelleher claimed
only lots thirteen and fourteen, yet had
Elliot's entry been declored void in toto,
he would have lost the whole, so he can
not but feel we'll satisfied with the result,
and Kelleher IN getting what he claimed
is certainly to be congratulated, as is also
his attorneys Messrs. Allen and Dodge.
Had the case gone on it would eventually
have cost both parties all the land is
worth, while now they are both possessors
of valuable lie tract, finely located, and
nearer the business center of the town
than much that has already been plated.
The Alert congratulatcs all parties con-
cerned.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
NO. 40
as' ri RI = III T. > v
Ts Many Ceeks.

Jud LaMoure Of Pembina, ard !. =.
cCormick OF Grand Forks. two of -
North Dakota delegation whica receaeIy
went to Washington to urge divistoa O.
the territory, returned Sunday, An4 - -
evening prooceeded homeward. 1heyf
were not inclined to give the boys awAy.
but enough was learned from thsn %
confirm the reports from other sourcesI
to the effect that the Two or three hun
dred Dakotans in Washington e this
time are not exactly a band Of bsoeh0o.
On the contrary they are divided q iaeeI.
est and on plans. Every promising town>:
sire wants to be a capital every deuStsh.
ing man wants to be a governor, judgs g
an official of some sort. In fact il the
big territory could be divided into twsn-
ty the whole crowd couldn't be satis6ed.
Two or three good men would have besA
more useful than the crowd, for, Waah.
ington work. Argus.
Perhaps the Argus will evsntuallv con.
ceeds that the Stutsman and Grind Forks
were not 80 far of in their q.
forts to keep the delegation to Washing-
on down to three good men.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Business.

There is time In the history of every
town when taken by the flood that leads
on to victory. Just SO, and if that time
has not yet arrived in the history Of
jamestown it never WILL When NOR
chants, bankers, and other level=headed
business men have begun to erect brick
blocks, paying from ten to twelve dollars
per thousand for brick, there must be
good grounds upon which to base the in
vestment or they would not put their
money to such use.
Within the next five months there will
certainly be erected in this city five brick
blocks which will cost, on an average,
twenty. .flye thousand dollars each. There
is NO guess work about it, and IN three In
stances we have tho assurance that the
plans are already perfected and that ar
cnitects en- nave Deen set at work upon them.
y nat are we to infer from this? Simply
that jamestown has about it : country to
sustain such improvements. The thous-
ands Of acres Of rich and inexhaustablc
farming lands that meet the gaze of the
stranger upon arriving, that tells him that
the solidlty of jamestown is unquest1ona-
BILE, Possessed Of every advantage first
class agricultural country could possibly
have, with competing lines Of railroad,
extending east, north and south, tapping
az they do all the principal markets in
the east, jamestown must boom and her
citizens become prosperous and happy.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
,,epeai Of the Pre- Emptlon Law.

VOID be pre- -cmptors are hustling
rouita now a days to secure their claims
before the possible repeal Of the pre-
emption law, now being agitated at Wash
ingtnl. 1t is we'll that they do 80. Those
who have selected lands should PVT their
bu!idi45s up quickly and send their filing
papers in, so that there can be no question
about their settlement upon, and right to
the land We do not believe in land
grabbers or spectators getting lands un-
der the pre-emption law, but VIC do ant
to see farmers get all they can under the
laws. Tue frauds in the Minnesota pne
land districts are a good prctext for the
repeal of the law, but we hope the
agitation Of the question will result in 4
correction Of the abuses of the law rather
than in its repeal, While the question is
pending, farmers should not let wintry
,ve. ,.''ar deter them from making improve
ments necessary to obtain their ights upon
such CLAIMS as they have selected.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Indications point to an immigr

Indications point to an immigra.
ton into our county the coming
spring that will exceed anything seen
n the past in the whole Northwest.
Hardly a citizen here but receives
notice of one or more Of his former
neighbors who will move this way at
the close ofwintcr. Many will bring
capital to invest, while larger num-
Der come with what is required by
MS more than money-muscle. With
this great increase Of population the
railroad interest will be given an in,-
petus that will bring two or more new
roads into our town, and we believe
that great as has been our growth the
last two years, the close of 1882 will
zee a town here of $500 people, if
not 5000. With such possibilities in
store for us, Our business men are
justified in increasing the limits of
the town by adding new additions
thereto.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
SHALL WE HOLD OUR own.

What care North Dakotaians for
the connivings of railroad manipula.
tors. Gould may try his hardest to
secure for the Union Pacific the
freight that rightfully belongs to the
Northern Pacific route, and in his
efforts may deprcciate Northern Pa
cific stock, and yet that depreciation
will result beueticially to the North
Dakota wheat producing district.
This may seem incorrect at first, but
the fact is that Moth Dakota
wheat lands are in demand. Thous-
ands stand ready to buy them. The
Northern Pacific still has plenty to
sell that can be paid for with pre-
fcrrcd stock. The cheaper the stock
the larger will be the amount pur-
chased, and the sooner they are
bought and put under cultivation
the better it will be for the country.
Many who have already bought lands
will take the stock at lower prices,
pay mp the balances due on their
contracts and go on with the devel-
opment of their holdings. The Alert
wishes to see the Northern Pacific
prosper, we do not care to see its stock
decline in value, but even if it does,
this wheat producing district will
hold its own, and will continue to
attract the attention of the world
notwithstanding the actions of
schemers against the northern Pa
cifc. Other railroads are tapping
our lands and giving us freighting
facilities. and with splendid coun-
try to offer them, and the low cost
for laying rails across our prairies we
are not likely to suffer from stock
iohhing operate s
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Fargo Republican: Last Saturday

Fargo Republican: Last Saturday
a terribly severe snow storm prevail.
ed throughout New England.
Trains were blockaded, and roads in
the country rendered impossible.
The snow fall is reported as beng
from fifteen inches to two feet, and
badly dritted. The storm extended
southward through New York, Penn.
sylvan;a and Virginia. In some
places in Pennsylvania thirty-six
inches, three feet of snow on the
level fell in three days. Only think
of it! and yet here in North Dakota
no such storm prevailed nor have we
ever had such storm here since
the country was settled. The Down
Easter who, yesterday, were wal
lowing through high snew drifts
"hreaking out their roads," will
hardly credit the story that in Far
60 there is hardly snow enough to
make sleighing and the streets yes'
terday were muddy and sloppy. We
have often remarked that, lying so
far away from any large body of wa.
ter, and north of the snow belt,
North Dakota is seldom troubled
with deep SHOWS.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
They Buried the Remains.

A somewhat remarkable funeral took
place in Bismarck the other night. i
was as silent and quiet Is the celebrated
burial of Sir John Moore. Upon this re-
cent and local occurrence the shattered
remains of stove were laid away under
the ground. The funeral took place from
a house in the alley near Fourth street.
and the circumstances which necessitated
the ceremony are briefly rehcarsed The
heater, in some mysterious manner got IT.
self around a loaded stick of wood which
had been placed on neighboring fuel
pile, and not being able to resist the force
Of the explosion, it went to pieces, TO the
utter amazement Of half q dozen c0Ons
who had gathered about its warm surface.
No one was killed, but the entire party
was laid out on the floor flat a. postage
stamps. Wood hawking is sometimes ex.
peusive and dangerous. Tribune.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Argus: Three feet ofsnow in Penn

Argus: Three feet Of snow in PENN
sylvania, roads blockaded and trans
delayed all over New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Geor-
gia, and business almost brought to
a standstill in New England, while
here in frigld and uninhabltable Da.
kota houses are thrown open, people
working in their shirt sleeves, peach
and pineapple trees in full bloom,
and nightingalcs and mocking birds
singing their love songs to the moon
amid orange and magnolia groves,
white with buds and blossoms.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
booming a Town.

The Fargo Republican thus replies to Z
"dlsgusted" correspondent who complains
that paper does not choose to initiate the
aatulent, extravagant, frothy-sensational
style of journalism demanded by specula-
tors and financial tramps:
While the Republican may be "slow
and old fashioned," as you say; it is true
at least that its editors and proprietors
cling to the sold fashioned belief that a
lie is never excusablc, and that the simple
truth is what is best calculated, In the
long run, to build up Dakota and its best
interests; to develop its resources and to
stimulate = healthy and permanent immi-
grafton of the best people in the old
states. Men who are only attracted
hither by visions of high-toned aesthetic
society, fashionable and extraordinary
revelry, or by the hope or expectation of
making their fortunes out Of the reckless
Of an artificial hot house state
of society or by the feverish speculations
arising out of an artificially stimulated
boom, are not the men who found and
build up great and prosperous States.
What we do want in Dakota are men
wholesouled, brave, honest, hardy, push
ing men, and noble women fit to be their
hclpmatcs, in the grand work Of building
up fortune, position and reputation, and
Of laying the foundations broad, deep and
strong, for great and prosperous COM
and of raising the standard
Of general intelligence, integrity and pros
perity for all. Such men dcspise extrava-
CANT laudation, empty boasts, and would
bear with cheerful willingness far greater
trials than, happily, can ever await them
here, while the white kidded, highly per-
fumed, dainty gentlemen who might be
and cropped in" by such pol
icy, will "fiax out'' very suddenly unless
,ome "soft thing" can be found which
thev will cOndsscend to accept.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-10
Dakota News.

A new county building will at oacs b
erected at Grafton.
For the week ending Feb. 5, the Fsrgs
land Office took in $1,000 7S.
County Clerk Bailey, of Grant county,
has gotten himself into legal dimcultio
by reason of official misconduct.
The Big Queen Bee Mill, at Sioux Falls
is to be started again after rest Of ssv-
eral weeks. This rest is said b havs
cost $3.50 per day, including interest
A term of court has been ordeisd 8
Mitchell for Davidson and Miner coaat3n
on the i4th of March, and term q CHAN.
berlsin for Brulc and Buffalo counties -
the 21st of March.
Generally speaking the territorial p.
pers are more interesting this week tkaa
ever before. Most of tho eaissss have
gone TO Washington TO help aloag the
division and admission schemes.
The Indebtedness of Lxwresce coupty =
$3.50, 600, of which three-fttns is boesled
and draws 10 per cent interest. Aod
now there is a proposition before the l,eo.
pls, endorsed by the last grand jary, .
issue more bonds for The purpose Wf
nlding a Jail, log SHACK bsisg IL oa:y
institution of the kind now OWnesa u
the county.
Rapid City Journal: Deadwood eaessup
are snacking their lips over prospect G
some disclosures which it u aald aso
coming to the surfaces, A short tins -
DR.. Wellington Hsrding. who - ~
borne tie best of regulations, w. insAicas
ed presumably for abortion, th,aeA ~
papers, as far as have been seso, hnQp
given the charges against hsA N 49,.
| He now threatens to make ID enceeaiann1
| lively for sane Of the 1pp0
tens Of the ty, and intimak0 ~
he will make disclosures which uill 60
some of the tony peopss 70 shahs =
4 their b,ots. Whethef ~ - III = =
bng or havado renains = b -