Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-04-06
EVENTS OF A DAY.
Embracing Many Facts OF More or
les, MON mt to Readers OF
The AlcseG
The Valley City BanQuet-Demise Of
Peter Cunp"r-A curious APP
peal, Etc. .......
Valley City Banquet.

Valley City Banquet.
Special to the A'ert.
VALLEY CITY, April 4--Valcy City did
hers proud TO- 4hi in he banquet given
the members Of the fourteenth Legislature
distric, style "The iron brigade" +.
W. Benson entertained the foreign guests
at his stately mansion Tho hanquc'
spread in the dining room OF the Kindcll
hotel was such rs only the generous peo-
pie of this prosperous city could prepare.
J. ParihousL presided over the exercises
Of tht. banquet, VIII ch consisted Of loasto
and responses aS follows: "Our G,csts,'
by Charles Richardson, of North Dakota,
responded to hy J. l., Wallace, Of Bur
leigh, in an eloquent SPEECH. The "Press
of North Dakola," by Gov. Z. A. Louns
h rry,rf b smar"k; "Our common school"
by E. A. Sc"gnr, county superintendent
of scho. Is Of Barnes. ''Cur represent
a,lvcs,' Ivy N ckr,1s, Williams and Ben
sou. After the regular 1oasts and re-
sponses a feast of wit and h,w Of soul
and cllampa gne continued in the most
happy strain until an early hour in the
morning. The banquet was an earn
est and overwhelming endorsement Of the
manner in which the members discharged
their duties while in Yankton last winter
About two hundred were present.
In answer to the toast, "Our Members"
Mr.. Nlckeus responded as follows:
Now referring to our visit this winter
itm.ght be in order to say: That in the
southern part of our beautiful territory by
the flow of the inland river whence the
legislators have fled, where the blades of
the bravc-grass quivcr, asleep arc the
ranks of the dead. This Spot is known
in history as Il hamlet called Yank'on.
It was once known rs the capital of Da-
ko,a. This was before tue coming Of the
horsemcn of the nineteenth century. But
it is now called the political graveyard of
all Dakota, and right here will remark
should you took the continent over you
would not find another spot on It's great
bosom wherein are inferred so many dead
politicians with all their hopes and ambl-
d,ons-as you will at Yankton leach in
dis narrow cell forever lald," and know
of no other place il. our fair land that
would So well answer the purpose to
which this hamlet has been dedicated.
Here in Yankton the wind and disap-
pointed seem to sing requium to the
dead forever. Here in Ianhton flowers
in early spring put forth their sweetest
blossoms Here in Yankton the keepers
of the cemetery toll not neither DO they
spin. Here a kind and benefcent gov
ernment has provided sufficient means:
Tor many years to come, to keep from
want its defunct officials. Here in Yank-
ton all industry is hushed TO silence in
this solemn city of the dead, the sound of
hammer is uDt heard, the mills have long
since ceased to grind, the watchers living
on government pap. Here no real estate
fiends are offering their lots for sale those
lots (buraD have all been appropriated,
marked off and tomb stones erected, on
which noticed Inscriptions like the fol-:
Lowing: "Here lies ex-Gov. *Monds
who departed his political life on the -
day of - Iaonth in the year of our Lord
IS. He wa, great spirit, mighty in
finance and with the red man, hut per-
hapS migh,icr with the pen. He 1t was
that wrote some years ago, his impress
sions Of the fifteenth Legislative Assembly
Of Dakota, and which he kindly gave to
the world without money and without
price Il snppose); great, generous soul!
next noticed The tomb Of an ex-candi-
date for congress, 'relrab Pirt. asked
the sexton who this man was. Tic said
why, don't y"u know Telarb Pirt,
he was to the Bar of Yankton
what Conkling was to the y s. Senate
and like Conkllng he Undertook to initiate
himself but his skin was 'too thin and
like Conkling he "bustcd." But gentle
men; am occupying too much time in
responding to this toast. l shall simply
remark further that all of the tombs had
the little prefix EEK" engraved thereon,
ncx-Goysr 'sex-Gov. Gens'' were scatter
ed around like ''leaves IN wintry wealth
err They were there by the gross. There
were also gres. number of "ex-Mar-
shall" "ex'' Indian Agent ''ex'' Indian
Commissioner, "ex'' Revenue collector,
s'ex'' Judges, ssex"Dist. Atty's, "ex" Ser
geant at arms, ':ex'' Door Keeper and
.:ex'' Chaplain, of whom the latter three
were all of the Legislature of Dakota.
asSo saw tomb of an eek" member OF
the council who represented the city OF
Yanktou in the fifteenth Legislative AS
sembly, who died, one of the sextons in
formed me, FROM the effects of having al
lowed the capital to be removed. wa:
further informed by the same person thai
the last words this councilman was hearC
to inter, on his death bed, were sit woulc
have aeen ten dollars in my pocket had
never been born" Gentlemen, shall
sneat,on Que more mound that attracted
INV attention then l am done with thu
grave subject, "Our members Looking
off to the extreme eastern corner L saw .
little grave which indicated fthat q yer,
small individual, Ia person psriiap
about as large as an associate press cor
res,ondcnt lie buried there. asked on
of the snourners who 1t was. 'This
Annaniss Newab,'' he replied
He said further it was not positivcl
known how ne came to his DEATH som