Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-17
Additional Local.

E. P. Wells departed for st. Paul yes
terday.
G. W. Hall and Geo. Merrifeld came up
from Grana Rauids yesterday.
The passenger trains have added an adj
ditional car and now run three coaches.
The wages Of night brakemen on the
Northern Pacific has been increased from
SIS to $e5 per mouth.
Mr.. 1lcGinnis will build this summer
uSon the vacant lots between the Dakota
house and Klaus block.
1t is reported that Frank Nead, of Man
dan, will soon assume control OF the
Pioneer of that place.
The Spiritwood school district are taking
steps to build school house, and viii ad-
vertlse in the Weekly Alert for bids.
D. Fl. Fowler sold three lots in Klaus
addition today for 81 800 The lots were
sold to VIM. &. White Of Jamestown.
S. F. Lambert is on his way to James
town with fifteen teams. They will be
put on to the Jamestown and Mouse river
railroad grade
Mr. Cleveland, late of Lansing, Michigan,
is talking strongly Of putting in . paper
at Grand Rapids, some forty miles below
jamestown, on the jim.
The Bismarck Tribune says there is q
strong probability of the Missouri break
ing up soon and that it will probably do
so before the spring floods.
The man arrested for selling vcnlson
was tried before Judge Douglas yesterday
forenoon and fined s25. White, for viii
fpr rnfa
The nice little game a certain James
town man tried to play on j. w. Good
rich, did not work IN manner at all sat-
isfactory to that certain gentleman.
Will Elmer says there was much inter-
est taken in Dakota wherever he went in
the east and that quite number OF peO-
ple will come out this way from his old
home,
It. was the intention Of many Of our
farmers to have commenced seeding yss-
terdav, but owing to the change in the
atmosphere it is thought that they will
put it off until later date.
jeff Smith sthe original farmer Of Grand
Rapids is hauling lumber to Beaver
Creek, with which to put up house for
his son-in-law, who will arrive with his
family in about three weeks.
Dan Long has just purchased piece
of land at Aberdeen, which he will plat
| into An addition 10 the town. The price
| of the piece was &c. 600, and he sold an in
terest in 1t to A. Scidmore by Telegraph
this morning.
The Grand Forks Herald says that when
| the plats for the new towns around Graf
! ton were thrown open to settlement, peo-
pie arrived at the land Office at 3 a. m.
| and it required the service OF policemen
to keep order.
Judge OFT reports the mill running
night and day this week Two carloads
of flour were shipped last week, one to
Glendive and one to Miles City. There
| are now :, 500 sacks Of flour in the ware
house under the hall.
| Mr. Wallace, the Mouse river boomer.
says Mr.. BLY, told him that work on the
jamestown branch would be commenced
as soon as practicable, and that its pro-
gress this season would depend somewhat
on what the Grand Forks branch of the
Manitoba road did.
| The court house location seems to be
meeting witI.a some strong opposition.
| Prominent citizens on both sides Of the
track argue that the present site is unit
on account of its distance from the busi-
ness centre of the town, and the Alert is
informed that strong efforts viii be made
to induce the commissioners to secure .
more suitable location upon which TO
| erect the new structure.
The present proprietor OF the James,
town Hotel has decided to move that
building on to his lots at the corner Of
Front street and Fifth avenue, and re-
model it. Another story will be selflei3
! to the building and m addition pat ON 70
the rear end, which toge:Asf with the
main building viii Le vcneered with
brick. The etr.setuFe when com,le4o(l
viii be one of the finest hotel bull -
on the Northern Pacific.