Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-02-23

the general care and protection of th
navy in the line of construction and re
pairs of wooden ships, when the estimat
ed cost of repairs shall exceed Is pc
cent of the estimate cost of new ship o
the same size and Of like material, CAV
rise to long debate. The proposition
was amended so as to fix the limit at 2
per cent of cost of a new vessel of tn
same size and like material aud agreet
to, ayes 80, noes II.
When the paragraph appropriatlnl
$780, 900 for the completion of iron clad
in accordance with the recommendation
of the naval advisory board was reached
Mcpherson reviewed the history of ,lror
clads and argued that no appropriation
should be made at present for the com
pletion of any of them, but that even i
money was appropriated for others th'
Puritan especially ought to be excepted
from the appropriation because severa
boards, composed OF some OF the best Off
GERS in the navy, had pronounced her al
entire failure.
Hale favored the completion of tn,
vessels and called especial attention t
the fact that the present secretary wa'
not in favor Of the completion of tn.
WORK under the p,rmlssory contracts en-
tered into by Hon. Geo. Nj. Robson a.
secretary of the navy. These old con-
tracts were dead and nobody was seeking
to renew or revive them, and the whole
question of finishing these vessels re.
mained in the hands Of congress. W.
had great need Of such vessels as they
were designed to be for harbor defence.
Voorhees, said Hale's appeal might have
been quite impressive if addressed tt
those vino knew nothing of the history OF
these vessels for tie past eight years.
Eight years ago, under the administra.
ton Of Gen. Grant, these five iron clads
were ordered 10 be rebuilt, and how many
Of them were on the water, not one. Al
though the government had several navy
yards these iron clads had teen ordered
into the hands of private contractors and
kept standing through all these years as
means Of paying political debts and levy
ing Political assessments.
Vorhecs thought the senator was mis-.
taken. He understood ss,OO0,0oO had
!'een spent III rebuilding these vessels,
which cost about $4,000, 600 and there
was not a senator upon the floor who
could make any estimate of what amount
would be required to complete them.
The whole business was scandal and an
outrage and a crime, aud it should be
ended by ordering the secretary to take
the vessels out of the hands of the John
Reaches and other private contractors
and have them completed.
The house passed bill creating three
new land districts in Dakota. In eau
Gus of representatives and senators it was
decided to take up the Dakota division
bill.
Claim Jumpers.
GRAND FORKS, Feb. l6-News reached
this city to-day of another outbreak OF
The claim jumpers on the north shore OF
DEVILS Lake, IN which revolvers and
guns were brought into play, but foltu-
nately nobody was killed. 1t is alleged
that T. e. Walcott hired two men, Ros-
coe and Mckay, to jump claims held by
two Germans named Zelsky and Berry,
and that friends of the latter armed
themselves and drove the jumpers from
the land, giving them only a few min
utes to skip out or die. The party then
sought Walcott, who threatened to shoot,
but upon reflection concluded to flee
toward Larrimore, where he arrived last
Sunday and this morning swore out war
rants for the arrest of Lieut.. Creel, Major
j. s. Benham, Col. W. F. Smivall, Green
Smlvall and David Estrom. also war
rant was issued to search one of Lieut..
Creel's shanties for stolen tent. Sheriff
jerks has gone out to arrest the parties.
The feeling against Walcott is bitter and
more difficulty is anticipated.
The Flooded Districts.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb 2l-Slnce day.
lig,lt the river has been falling at the rate
If an inch and half an hour and is now
sixty-one feet eight inches at the foot Of
the fall. Many houses that have been
overfowed are beginning to show up with
liberal coa,ings of mud both inside and
out. Owners are busy cleaning out. In
a week business on the river front will be
re sumed. Portland has no: been SO for.
tunate. 1t will take weeks besides thou.
sands of dollars to put things on the same
basis as before the floods. The damage
to the cut off dam alone is estimated q,
$50, GOO by engineers to-day. Other pub.
lie works in the same locality Of less
suffer a comparative loss
while n,ne.ten,hs of the inhabitants viii
naye to completely refurpish their homes
Without unremittlng attention from
charity most intense suffering will con
tinue for weeks
JEFFERsoNvlLLE, Feb. 21-Estimatec
loss 10y floods here is s3,oo0,ooo.
Brutal Tr4 gedy.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. GA bloody
tragedy was enacted last night, min.
miles south Of this city. Daniel Town
send and his wife, an aged colored couple
while sleeping were shot and killed BY
Alexander Hill, a colored man wht
worked on the farm owned by Townsend
No cause for the desperate deed is assign
ee by Hill, who has the appearance .
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