Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-02-23
TO stock with food fishes the waters of


code relative to the publication of sum-
summons and adjournmcnts.
u Council bills passed council:
Providing for the relief of w. S. Good
win and Truman l.. Pratt. to reimburse
them $4,000 for loss in the erection of the
insane asylum.
TO establish the boundaries of Eaulk
and Potter counties.
TO provide for the payment of G. J. B..
Harris for services rendered in preparing
a revision of the general laws legalizlng
the assessment of the city of Grand
Forks.
To legalize assessments of the commits
sioners of Grand Forks county in assess
ing $40, 900 Of Jail bonds. as
House bills passed council:
To provide for the issue of bonds for
the purchase of normal school lands at
Madison, Lake county.
To authorize the joint school district,
33, of Cass and Barnes counties to issue
bonds.
| council DlllS paSScu Inc mouse.
Charter for the city oi jamestown.
Incorporating the city of Rcdtield.
TO create the counties of McCau|ey,
lnman and Edgerton from portions Of
Brown county.
10 rc-cnact the Spcarfsh normal
school act.
| House bills passed house.
| To preserve the waters of James river
for domestic and drinking purposes.
Incorporating The city Of Huron.
| Creating ,he county OF Schnaasse in
Slxon reservation.
incorporating the city Of Pierre.
Providing for the erection IT court
house III Griggs county.
There arc thirteen more working days
of the session, leaving cut Sundays and
TO morrow as holiday. In the council
l57 bills have b,en introduced and in the
house IT'S.
Tncre was another warm debate in the
council to-day over the northern peni-
tentlary bill, in the course OF which Bur-
dick of Clay remarked to Roberts of
Cass hat hc lied, deliberately lied, infa-
mously lied, and he was id liar.
The president called the speaking men,
Der to order and directed the clerk to
| take down his remarks.
YANKroN, Feb. 22-A brief session of
the legislature took place to-day and
both houses adiournlng at 1890 a. m. in
honor of a holiday.
Bills were introduced to amend the ex-
emption law; to present the spread of
noxlous weeds; to provide for the exami-
nation of public account; to create the
counties of Dclano, Scoby, Pyatt, Ster-
ling, Cheyenne and jackson; to provide
that any railroad wholly or in part within
the territory may lease or purchase the
whole or part of other roads when the
same can be connected or operated so as
to form continuous line; to insure the
better education of practitioners of den
tai surgery and regulate the practice of
dentistry; memorial to congress asking
the repeal OF the duty on nails, lumber
and barbed wire; to auth Orize the legisla-
tu.e to regulate the freight and passenger
rates on railroads.
The governor vetoed the Scotland viii
lege incorporation act, for the reason that
it gave the counties no discretion in
granting liquor licenses.
Bids for the capital are coming IN. Sioux
Falls is preparing to offer $25O,OOO and
grounds aud Elkpolnt offers 81 600, 900.
Freight Traffic.
| NEW York, Feb. 21-The executive
committee of the trunk lines and mana
gers of western roads signed the follow
ing amendment:
We hereby pledge ourselves that we
will not allow any variation to be made
from established east bound rates, by any
officer, agent or employee of the roads
controlled ny us, and that the commits
sioner when evidence, that is satisfactory
to him is presented that the established
rates have been cut by a connecting road
or its connections even though the reduc-
lion may be made in its or their own pro
portion of rate, we Will withdraw all
pro. rating arrangements and will not
accept from such connecting roads
through bills or through cars, hut will
cause transfer ana rcbillng Of property
a, full tariff rates from the junction
point, and we further agree that any
agent under our control who may he
shown TO &c quo,lng less or instrumental
IN cutting established rates either by re-
bate or otherwise shall be discharged.
Gen. Brisben on the Custer Massacre
MILLS CITY, Feb. l9-Gen James Bris-
ben lectured at Billings Saturday. In the
course of the lecture he referred TO the
Custer massacre and SAID that If General
Custer had obeyed the instructions from
General Terry it was probable that he and
his command would be living to-day.
The deaths of Custer and his men was a
useless and unnecessary sacrifice, brought
on by Custer's desire for glory and pro-
motion. He read documents to prove his
position and exhonorated Reno from all
blame in the battle of the Little Big
Horn. As General Brisbin was the next
cavalry officer in rank to Custer and sue
ceeded Custer when he fell, his remarks
, produced great sensation.
Irish Affairs.
r DUBLIN, Feb. 2l-Since Carey's dis
! v,ap., lrisl, and far.