Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-07-06
LATEST CITY ITEMS.

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Where are those street lamps,
JEFF Smith, Of Grand Rapids i in the
city.
C.B. Clark, the Eldridge tree mar, was
in town last night. 0
Manton E. Parker, of Carringtsn ,camc
down yesterday evening.
Chief Of police schmitz reports tho
gathering in Of eleven drunks yester-
day.
The Alert associate press reports for
the month Of June amounted to st, $50
words.
The ladies aid soclsty Of Grace r. 3.
church meets this afternoon ct O'Clock
at the Dakota house,
DR.. j. q. Walker, of indianapolis, an
old friend and acquaintance Of ALFRED
Dickey is in the city.
Those who staid at home on the
Fourth felt great deal better than these
who went and got drunk.
Only few weeks ago there were no
business houses south of the First Nation
81 bank, now there are five or six, and
good ones too.
Chas. Sharp Jr., representing .'The
West Shore,'' an illustrated magazine
published at Portland Oregon, in the in-t
terest Ofsthe Northern Pacific road waa in
the city yesterday.
The Northern Pacific, it would seem,
intends to completely cover the north
side Of Main street from Fifth avenue
west with buildings. 1t all helps to build
up the city.
Only two accidents happened in the
celebration of the Fourth here. One Of
them consisted in Billy Goo 1rlch falling
down and the other in Tom Bowditch
falling of horse in the slow scrub
race.
Judge Crouch, of Chicago, came IN by
stage from Grand Rapids yesterday. He
is on his way to Bismarck, and made .
stage trip across from the southern part
of the territory to look at the country
with which he Is we'll pleased.
j. s. NJ. Hunter of the Portland sun
day Times, and J. w. Nichols, OF st.
Paul gave the Alert call Yesterday The
gentlemen haye been looking over the
country aud are somewhat surprised to
400 IT a. far f1evelonrd
A foot race Of 200 yards was run on
the Fourth by Jack Moorhead and Dave
Smith which resulted in victory for
Smith of about two feet. The prize was
80 and silver cup, the latter of which
was engraved with I'D. Smith. Cham
pion.
The following is the list from Judge
Hayward's court yesterday morning:
Thos. Digny and James Murphy, each
three days On the streets, and james
Kelly % and costs for being drunk and
dlsorderly. Thos. Rhodes q and costs
for being disorderly. John Mckay, Henry
Wilson, Thos. Carson and James O'B1en
each three days on the streets for va
grancy. Two others were arrslgned but
discharged. John Cannon was arraigned
for petit larceny in appropriating the
contents of q vallse and was given twenty
days in the county Jail.
Hon. Jerome Preston, of Jamestown,N.
Y, was in the city yesterday, having
come up to see his namesake town Of
which he had heard so much about. That
he was more than pleased with our sur
roundlngs, his many expressions of de-
light gave evidence. He stated that
jamestown was truly beautiful place
and he marveled greatly at the beauty Of
our buildings, streets and residences
when he was told that we wcrs only four
years old. Just like an eastern town
tor all the world" he exclaimed. ssand
one which will grow to great size and
importance" Mr.. Preston left on the
afternoon train for Fargo where he will
visit before gong east.
So far as the assessment made by Mr..
Collins is concerned the Alert has moth
ing now to say, because 1t has not in
vestiKated the subject. If it Is unequal
and erroneous, as the Capital represents,
1t Is wrong and should be corrected. But
even admitting that all the Capital al
leges Is true it does not justify the un-
gentlemanly attack that paper made up
on him yesterday evening. Tom Collins
is one of the early pioneers of tins coun-
ty, has faithfully and honestly discharged
the duties of many important Offices, Is .
man among men, and no man IN this
county enjoys more implicit confidence Of
the people IN his honesty and personal in
tegrlty, officially or otherwise, . man
whose word is as good as bond, and to
make such an onslaught Of ridicule to
bring him into public contempt as that
made upon him by the Capital is SIMPLY
an outrage upon common decency.
A gentleman on the train from the
west yesterday gave the following de-
scrlptisn Of the fall Of an aerellte last
Thursday near Gibbons battle field in
Montana which must have been quite an
experience to take east. He says that
the aerelite buried itself in the earth q
hundred yards from tie cabin which he
occupied In company with another gen.
tleman and when it struck the grouad tho
conclusion caused the cabin to shake %
If struck BY . cyclone, and made q re-
port like the explosion Of q pexder mag