Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-04-13
NEWS ITEMS.

cases of the measles have been made SUI
cessful1y. 1t is sure cure for the mes
sles hut the objection seems to &c that
is at the same time certain death to til
patient
An exchange makes queer admission
1t says one of our office stoves blew u
yesterday with decidedly loud report
1t was quite clearly an attempt on til
part of somebody to discover WAC wa
burning their coal.
COUNTERFEITERs are making bonanz
out of the new nickels put out by til
government. All they have to do is
cxpcnd few cents IN giving them gol
plating when they present very passatl
appearance as five dollar gold pieces.
AdvIces received at st. Louis from TIL
cattle raising district of the southwes
Indicate An unusual activity IN preparing
for shipment. In Arkansas alone ther,
are now $4,000 head ready for market
That state is expected to furnish 25 ,OO'
head Of beef cattle this year.
The Atlantic milling company of ST
Louis have closed down their mills tenn
porarily and asked for an extension O
time to pay their liabilities, caused by &
lull in the European markets. They say
they will be able to pay all Indebtedness.
with interest in a short time.
THE Manitobans are kicking agains,
the tariff on agricultural implements i'm.
ported from tine United States aud de.
mand that the increase he abolished a
those implements manufactured in the
United States are in much greater de-
mand than those of the Dominion.
A FIRM in Chicago who arc working
mutual benefit scheme among those
who contemplate emigrating TO Dakota
Is exposed as fraud. 1t is the duty of
every newspaper In the territory to warn
the people against benefit schemes offered
by irresponsible and unknown persons
wherever they may hail from.
Herald, Yanktou: Hon E. r. Wells,
of jamestown, was in Yankton two or
three days this week in anticipation Of
the meeting of the board of tax commits
sloners of which hc is member, but
Judge Bennett failing to put in an ap-
pearancc no organization was effected
and Mr.. Wells returned home Friday.
ABOUT three hundred national banks
whose charters expired on the 25th day
Of February dated their new bills with
the expiration of their charters which
was Sunday. The question is now raised
whether or not those bills arc good a. 4
contract made on Sunday cannot he en-
forced nor q note dated on Sunday be
collected. The question is one which
lawyers are now puzzllng their heads
over.
A Washington special says the com.
missioner of the general land Office IS
taking active steps to enforce the law
passed at the last session of congress to
proven. frauds in the entering of public
lands. An appropriation of 800, 900 was
made for this purpose. Special agents
are being sent out in every direction to
make Investigations. The salary of these
agents is $5 a day and expenses. Mr..
B,ckford, lately a correspondent of the
New York Tribune, has been sent to Da-
kOta.
Chicago Herald April 3: The prophet
ress Of fashionable boarding house on
Sangamon street brought an infant about
ten weeks old to the Desplalnes street
court, which, she said, MIR. and Mrs w
H Bohn, two of her former boarders, had
abandoned about five weeks ago. Shortly
after the birth of the infant, which oc.
Cured at her house, its parents departed
for jamestown, D. T. Bohn is q sport.
ing man, and came here from Detroit
The child was sent to st. Vincent!
Foundlings' Home.
Green Boy (Wis.) Advocate: One Hen
~ Schult,es of Fargo, Dok., VISITED sew
eral saloons in Kaukauna, claiming to b
q U. S. revenue officer. He would fine
fault with the stamps on the beer kegs
threaten to take the saloon keeper to Mil
waukee and have him fined $500 and i'm
sor,soncd year, and then offer to compro
mise. He thus got Is out of one man
He was arrested by U. 5. Marshal Mar
shall, taken to Milwaukee, plead guilt.
and was fined $500 and sentenced to tn,
house of correction for year.
In its report Of the banquet at Valley
City thc Record of that city discloses tn
s'sreen eys'' somewhat by sarcastic note
Of the affair with special emphasis upo,
the llquM refreshments. Judging from
the manncr IN which the Record gets IT
ortl,ography Of champagne mixed, wh'cl
ut spells champaign" We are at I
loss to know which would be the mos
uncharitablc to assume, that the edlts
was there and answered to the hail "Ho'
through the list or that he wss deficien
in kts early education. For fear VI
might DO the gentleman injustice We re
irain from expressing an opinion in til
matter.
the papers arc now unusually full o
reports of crime resulting from jealo usy
OF all species Of monomania that disturb
affiict and destroy domestic happines
none are more numerous or more disas
trous than this. 1t Is the skeleton in NOR
closets, the bane in more cups of bliss;