Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-06-15

TuOllSNe0 June l3,' 1888. 55:8Js
JOE .: MILLS, JEROME J. FLMT. q
City Clerk. Mayer.
NEWS NOTES.
Fargo is to have letter carr,sss u
July I. S.sy
Crops are looking hne in Ps.hs.a
county.
Bismarck's artesian we'll il down l,lSS
feet, but no water.
At Bismarck the demand for tensasses
exceeds the supply. g:
Mandan is to have a telephone exchange
and wants street railway.
The Elk Point creamery produces $50
pounds of butter per day.
Hand county proposes to ra,se l0o, 700
bushels of wheat this year.
The Mandan flour mill will have O..
paclty Of 200 barrels per day.
Eleven car loads of potatoes were ship
ped east from Alexandria last week.
The virgin sod Is being turned over 6
the rate of 600 acres per day IN Hanson
county.
In Aberdeen the liquor license il eco :
year, el00 going to the city and 450o to
the county.
Goodwin. Deuel. county, Is bending its
energiers toward the establishment Of
cheese factory.
1t is claimed that in the Mitchell laaa
district alone 20 900 acres have been ob.
tanned by fraud.
The Mail estimates that from three 70
five new buildings are commenced each
day at Mitchell.
The amount of wheat marketed n
Brookings, the product Of 1882, viii sx-
ceed 2oO, 900 bushels.
There have been ll9 new residencee
and foundations for residences built II
Sioux Falls this spring
The Fargo Republican remarks that
farmers in that city are happy IN the prsG-
pect OF an enormous crop.
The citizens of st. Thomas, Pembfna
county, turned out en- masse the osher
day and killed twenty five pound bsa1.
The Egan Express says small grain of
all kinds looks fifty per cent. better Il
Moody county than it did last year at tAis
time.
One year ago there were not over 5000
people IN Dickey county. Now Tie pop.
ulation is from 1000 to 1, 900, and rapid
ly increasing.
Desdwood Times: A Areck estimated =
weighing ten tons was removed from II
resting place and carried down stream ~
yards by the flood.
Volga is to have new nsurins niil
with capacity Of making 200 barrels es
hour per day. The citizens.rsised 4l,sOo
in ten minutes Is q bonus for IT, eetabliah.
ment.
Two citizens of Lisbon thlnk they have
succeeded In inventiug . steam plov.
which If it prove successful, viii b Of
great importance to the farmers Of
Dakota.
A large white swan was shot in Tie biz
slough five or six miles east Of Columbia
one day last week. 1t measured about
nine feet from tip to tip, and is . beauti.
full specimen.
The question Of dividing the county sf
Pembina and creating the county Of
Harvey will be voted upon at an early
day. A strong opposition to diviaoa +
being developed.
Hanson county's assessor u taking the
crop statistics which the bosrd Of COM
missioners have authorized. II every
county in the territory would do the sane
thing it would be found very valuable.
1t is said that the land detectives rs-
Gently sent to North Dakota have tan.
bled to the racket of . business maa s9
Grand Forks, who u said to have hired
men to take up and hold clains foe
him.
Parker Era: The city fathers Aave
fixed the license fee to sell insoxicants as
$500 year. The county fee hes bssa
fixed at $500. making $500 year Parker
saloons will have to pay into the public
treasury
A temperance meeting was held IN The
Baptist church at Huron hast Sunday
night. At the close Z collection was t.
ken to defray the expense Of kee9iAg
tanks of ice water on the streets dutina
the summer.
Tho city council of Sioux Falls pansd
an ordinance fixing saloon license st 1A00
which the mayor gave notice Of vetsiae.
The coucil thereupon reconsidered IL
vote by which it was adopted and nada
it = special order for another meeting.
The Mandan Pioneer claims thas ~
Ignite soal found 80 plcntifully wese u
the Missouri Is . very excellent a1t,clo
for fuel, when 1t is learned how to - u.
and urges that an effort should be na1s
to introduce 1t into eastern and southern
Dakota.
Bismarck Tribune: There are M
towns in the United States where the \.
boring men have met with the good 1es-
tune which has Cvertaken then &C ~.
marck. In the early dayso Of he city tAsy
we're compelled 70 buy lots saA sgUse
houses such ~ they could n srdR - g.
tain shelter. These homes thsy havs
steadfastly refused to ssll havi1g -