Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-03-30
NEWS NOTES.

..Wheatland has organized board of
trade,
The boom, it seems. has struck every
part of Dakota.
The Merchants hank at Brookings
will open for business in April.
Bismarck saloon keepers have to pay
$500 each to the county and city for H.
cense.
Several prominent officials of the
Northwestern railroad will visit Huron IN
= few days.
There are over 700 cars Of immigrant
moveahlcs in the yards at Tracy, awaiting
transportation westward.
Tom Scott, son of the late railroad king
lost $4,000 at poker, in Philadelphia
recently on single hand.
Yankton gives the ferry boat that plies
between the city shore. and Nebraska 4
subsidy of 5000 per month.
John F. Weaver, Scotland druggist,
died on Tuesday last from an overdose
of morphine taken by mistake.
The Manitoba road is putting on some
equipments that are not cqualled by any
other road in the United States.
The jury IN tho Nash case at Wahpe-
ton disagreed The jury st"od nine for
acqui.tal and three for conviction.
Illinois is soon to send a colony to Da-
kota. who will bring with them about a
million Of money. So says the luter-
Ocean.
II. 2. Pugh ret,rcs from the receiver
ship of the Fargo land Office on the first
day of April, and will ne succeeded by
Col. Gray.
Manufacturing establishments tor the
purpose Of making lumber from straw
are being talked of in several points IN
North Dakota.
Grand Forks has population OF 6, 200;
number of voters, l,l90; number Of fam
lilies, 1850; number of houses, 80; mum.
Der Of shanties, 13o.
J. II. Simonson, of Whitcside county,
H., died suddenly at the Windsor hotel,
Huron, on Wednesday. His remains
were sent to his home IN Illinois
The new district formed by Judge
Edgerton, with headquarters a'
Columbia, comprises the counties Of
Brown, Edmunds and Mcpherson.
The Southeastern Dakota Telephone
Co. sold last week $l1 900 worth of stock
for $4,000, and since the sale has been
made the stock has jumped up to o.. 10.
Fargo is soon to receive her finishing
metropolitan touch She has every
modern convenience but gas, and with
this the city on tie Red is soon to he sup:
piled.
A Dakota man Is giving lessons IN Ell.
uuette at Milwaukee, A local politician
insultcd the Dakota mans wife on til"
street, and was promptly and handsomely
threshed.
Thomas McGelvroy, living near Grand
Rapids, went to that city to prove up on
his claim, got drunk and was robbed bv
Frank Crittcnden, who was arrested and
$l05 Of the money secured.
The commissioners of Dawson county
find that II. G.. AppIegate, late county
treasurer, owes the county Sc, ,lS7.6S, and
recommend that suit be be brought
against HIM and his suretics.
The Bis rarck building association has
taken the contract TO build the new
boarding school building at Standing
Rock agency. Said structure is to cost
80, 900, aud will, when finished, make a
very handsome building.
A peculiar feature of the railway
blockade Saturday afternoon was the
fact that the snow at the blockaded point
near Dawson, extended distance of only
100 yards. The track IN either direction
from that narrow belt Of snow was not IN
lie least oLstructed.
Down east there is considerable con-
cern and agitation over the subject OF
seed corn, the late rains and early freeze
of last fall having damaged the vitality
Of the kernels. Again Dakota holds over
those states IN the matter of weather, fl
we have heard not word of complaint
about seed corn among our farmers.
Bismarck Tribune: The Yankton pa.
pers it would seem, ought, as matter OF
news, to publish the laws of Dakota. The
Fargo. Grand Forks, jamestown or Bis
marck da,,ies would have had them in
print within three days after the adjourn
ment of the legislature, but Yankton
seems to have lost its grip since the capt.
tai commission bill passed.