Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-04-21

| 9SfeeaDlC IMAM the winters or MlcnlGan
and that the 'strack of the great polar
storms" is hugbear of theory. The
fifteen land hunters that were missing re.
| turned to Aberdeen when their business
was attended to, aud throughout the Ter
ritory. the suffering from storms was COM
paratively lighter than what is experience
ed regularly in Michigan. The real in
centive for such an article appears plainly
in one of the last paragraphs:
! Why should any man leave Michigan
for climate like that! Soil equally as
| good, fully as fertile, quite as cheap,
| with better water, cheaper timber, nearer
to market, where every farm prodnct
| commands better prices can be found
| right here in Michigan. Hundreds of
| thousands of acres of such land can be
found on the upper peninsula or on the
lower. Taking all things into account
these new Michigan lands are infinitely
more desirable for the young and active
who desire to settle in new country, and
everywhere in Michigan there is climate
the equal Of Dakota at it's best, and ab-
solutely free from the destructive bliz-
yards which sweep over that territory
freezing men and beasts to death almost
in a moment
Dakota winters are tempered by the
warm chinook breeZcs and the Ter itory
is really out of the line of heavy storms
No such catastrophe can be found on re-
cord against Dakota as that Which the
very same paper-the ''Detroit Post and
Tribune" devotes two columns to on
April Sth but four days subsequent to the
appearance of the article which we have
quoted from. We extract the following
from the article of April Sth:
''The tornado season has set in rather
early this year, and with great violence
Cyclones like those which visited Oakland
and Eaton counties in this state, and Rice
county in Indiana, on Thursday evening
are rare in this part Of the country at any
ly appear oven on the western plains,
where such things are expected once in a
while, until about month later. There
was a hurricane in Arkansas, however,
on the last day Of February, which did
considera bic damage in jefferson county,
blowing down buildings and fences and
killing at least one person, and another
terrific wind storm at Arkansas City on
the 18th of March, On the 9th lorna
do passed into Georgia from Alabama
and killed a number of people, besides
destroying much property.'
1t then goes on to give the details un-
der this heading:
"Three or -Four Counties Swept by
Cyclone' "Several Lives Lost, and
$3.50, 900 Worth Of Property Destroyed"
'Devastation in Distant Places Caused by
Severe Storms.'
"The tornado of Thursday afternoon
was the most remarkable which has ever
occurred in Michigan for its extent"
In the horrifying account that followed
ten Michigan people were named as kill
ed and eight injured. In the same col
umn was a telegram from Evart, Mich,
saying: "High water in the big Muskcgon
river. The approaches to both bridges in
the village were washed out yesterday and
the passage of teams was totally suspend
ed" Another telegram from Kansas told
OF loss of life and property by cyclones.
Thus did the Detroit Post and Tribune
show up its own shortcomings in the mat
ter OF weather SO soon after Its malignant
drive at Dakota. 1t owes the Territory
an apology-it ought to know better.
Why-the same paper in its issue of
April Sth published the following dis
patch:
Yankton, D. T., April 2:-Tcrritorial
Treasurer McVay to-day cashed the last
outstanding territorial warrant, and has
S33 800 cash on hand Dakotas finances
are i'll better condition than ever before
1t shows a financial condition here that
would make Michigan blush and would
make her taxpayers, who hold their dear
but poor Badger State dirt glad could
they but share the benefits Of cheap lands,
low taxes, No. l hard wheat and de-
lighttut climate in the finest agricultural
district of the contInent-in famous North
Dakota.
No more let us have words derogatory
of our climale from the Post and Tribune,
or any other paper, but let their troubles
be corrected at nome before unjustly at
tacking Dakota.