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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
TIE result of the recent libel suit
AGAINST the Valley City Times is virtually

TIE result of the recent libel suit
against the Valley City Times is virtually
a victory for the Times and leaves tho
plaintiff in far worse light before the
publlc than ever before. The charges
made against him were at the time look
ed upon by the general public as OF ascn-
sational nature, growing out of the pollt-
zeal conteas5then ut fever heat, and but
for this suit the people of his own town
would have forgotten them by this time.
The enormous amount Of damages claim
ed by the plaintiff made the case ridicu-
lous from the outset, and the dimlnutive
amount of damages awarded by the jury
six cents-makes it still more SO. The
Times says that by the laws of the terri
tory verdict for sum less than $50 In
such cases carries with 1t costs of the
suit not tc exceed the amount Of the YER
dict, which makes an aggregate judgment
against the Times Of twelve cents. The
friends of Chas. Richardson, the victim,
made up by voluntary contributions the
amount OF damages, but the other SIX
cents, costs, they are going to let him
worry through with as best he can, and
he gives notice 20 his readers that lie can
nay 1t without crlppllng his paper as he
made $4,000. IS in the deal, the claim
being even Sll7 900: AS the trial occu-
ped nearly Two weeks the costs Will be
heavy, utRiclardso says that as the 9TH
er fellow has them to pay he did not have
in,cres, cuough IN the matter inquire
the amount. 4rm
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
II seems that through some informally

IT seems that through some informally
or stupidity or both IN obtaining the sig
natures Of the Indians. to the treaty for tie
ccssion of the Sioux reservation that the
treaty will fail and still leave the Black
Hills for an indefinite time almost i'm
passibly separated from the balance of
the territory. The Chicago g. North
western railroad, which is completed to
Pierre and heading for the Black Hills,
is barred from reaching that destination
by the reservation. 1t is right and proper
that the Indians should be compensated
for the lands, but they should not be al
lowed 10 stop the wheels of progress and
commerce by holding that body OF land
as an impassible gulf between the main
part of the territory and the timber and
lumber, the, mines Of coal, silver and
gold Of the Black uills,to the serious dis
advantage OF both. Railroads are wait
ing the opening Of the reservation to tap
the rich fields Of commerce in that region
which are now inaccessible to any ade-
quate means of transportation.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05

DID the Jamestown Alert ever reau
SECTION II of chapter l04 Of the laws OF
,s;! Section does ''not specifically refer
to section - as the Alert alleges, but II
IL did how Is the editor going to get over
lS!-Fargo Argus.
The Alert has read the section referred
to. and every other section of that chap
ter. Section II says: "Chapter OF the
p,lit,cal code, aud all acts or parts OF
acts. in any manner conflicting with this
act or repugnant thereto ars hereby re-
nea,cd.'' Ii this section is in force the
legislature abolished the capital OF tue
territory, and the Alert takes the position
that the legislature had not the power to
do that. Section declares that the cap
;t.l ia removed from YanktOn and us 10
Gated and established rs hereinafter pro-
v,ded !" Section says: 1.-The following
>.med commissioners shall locate tht
rerm.uent seat Of government and tht
nublic buildings of said territory.
tLen proceeds 10 name them. The mrs
section does not refer to the second oS
number, but it does oy provision as GER
t.inly as if the number had bcen named
The capital removal bill is not . moue
of perspicuity. 1t says these comm's
sieners shall not only locate tue seat o
government but ''the public buildings o
sa;d territory Under this provision
thev might have claimed the right TO 10
c.te the penitentiary at Bismarck, tn
insane asylum at jamestown and the ag
ricultursl college at Fargo, for they ar
certainly s.public buildings OF said terri
: tsry.''l II the Argus msans to com
down to, fine points Of discrjminat'sn an
construction, this oae must be taken Wit
~ etlegs.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
Nerth Dakota Csal c..

A. ]. Harwood returned few days ago
from st. Paul, where he had been to par :
tlcipate IN the orgaization Of the North
Dakota Coat company, in which he il
largely interested. The organization was
effected by the election of the following
officers: Hon. N. G. Deering Of Osage,
H., president; Leonard c. Standring of
Dakota, Ia, vice president; J. b. Cleland
of Dakota, Ia, secretary, and w. L. Ea-
ton, Ia, treasurer. The company, whieh
Is composed of many Of the wealthjest
and most influential gentlemen Of North
Dakota and Iowa, was organized for the
purpose of developing the coal Heldk on
Missouri river, fifty or sixty milss above
Bismarck Here they have sbeat l,0OU
vcres Of land, which - supposed 20 he
one inmense coal field. Ts deyelou -
utilize this great deposit, the cssApasy
will commence operations with espitol
steck Of t2oo, ,eoo.- .-Fargs Nsahliean.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
THE RAILROAD TAX LAW.

The Alert yesterday morning called
attention to very good law passed by
the last session Of the legislature but now
Ne will direct attention to what we con-
slider very bad one, what Is known as
the railroad tax law, approved Marcll
9. 1883, and in force from and after ITS
passage. This act provides that "ln lieu
OF all other taxes upon railroads, except
railroads operated by horse power within
this territory, or upon equipment, appur
tenances. or appendages thereof or upon
any ether property situated IN this terri
tory belonging to the corporation owning
or operating such railroads, or upon the
capital stock or business transactions of
such railroad" ETC., there shall be COL
lected TWO per cent. of the gross earnings
for the first five years and three per cent.
thereafter. 1t further provides that rail-
road land, which includes town lots,
shall become subject to taxation as other
similar property when sold, leased or
contracted to he sold or leased, return Of
which to be made to the county clerk of
each county through which such rail
road passes on or before the first day of
April each year, and up to the last day of
December preceding.
1t has been limited that an attorney OF
tho Northern Pacific railroad was the
originator of this bill, but we can hardly
believe that evens that corporation had
gall enough to ask such an imposition
upon the citizens of the territory, whose
lands and other property arc taxed. Itis
well known that a man or company
would be an idiot or lunatic TO under
take to make new town on any railroad
IN this territory without giving the rail-
road company at least half interest in
the proposed town. BY this law the rail
road companies can hold their lots and
lands exempt from taxation while the
citizen and speculator must put up taxes
on his by the side of them every year.
The farmer who improves and cultivates
his land thereby enhancing the value OF
! IdAAOnu hu9V pay 10ACo upOh
his while the railroad land along side OF
1t ia exempt The lands of the farmer
and nonresident holder are taxed 10
build school houses while the railroad
lands are exempt.
But it may be urged that the two per
cent on gross earnings compensates for
this If the railroad companies did no,
gain by it they would have made q kick
long ago, and we had almost said the law
never would have been passed. 1t seems
to be in contravention of the principle OF
equal taxation and will probably 60 the
way of the capital commission bill when
the courts come to pass upon it, and the
people ought to take steps to bring test
:ase before the courts. 1t is true. tho
country would not be worth much with
out the railroads, but it is equally true
that the railroads would not be worth q
continental without the farmers and
other producers. -..-.5.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05

The following slate has been made up
for the new state proposed for the south
ern part of the territory: For governor,
Hugh J. Campbcll; for United States SEN
ators, e. &. Moody. and Bartlett Trip;
for representatives in congress, +. NJ.
Zlebach and A. e. Mellbette. for Chief
Justice of the supreme court, Barney
Caul6eld The gentlemen named are no
doubt well satisfied with the arran ge-
nent, but how about those who are not
nameds There are number of patriots
down there who are not only willing to
serve their country in an official position
but will kick if they do not geta job OF
that kind.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05

In some parts of South Dakota the
people have abandoned all hope OF Sc
curing admission by the next congress
and arc advocating the dropping of the
statehood scheme and bending all their
energies to securing the division of the
territory. They have come to the con-
clusion that the politicians have been too
previous in their race for Office through
the fundamentally Of statehood. A
united effort Oh the part of both sections
Of the territory might secure division,
but the premature state scheme was a
monstrosity from its inception. The pre-
judice created against 1t by the Campbell
revolutionary heresy killed it in embryo.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
On his ret urn home TO Yankton Judg

ON his return home 10 YanktOn Judge
Edgerton WAS lnl.ryicwed with reference
20 the reported interview with him at
Bismarck on i.,s way home relative to his
decision III Inc uAu warrantO case. That
interview was 80 evaslve and unlike the
language OF amy man wbs Is versed In
the law that 1t carried upon its face
doubt of its authenticity. The following
IS from the Bismarck interview:
Rcp.-Did you declare the capital re-
moval act unconstitutional!
Judge-No,, SIR. There is nothing OF
that kind ih my decision. -
Kcp-Then you merely decided that
the commissioners had been informally
appointed, and were therefore an illegal
oody!
Judge-Yes, sir. That Is all the real
text Of my decision, and all reports that
DECLARED the capital removal act uncon-
stllutional are false. ..H..... ..
That interview was published IN the
Bismarck. papers and sent in full to and
published in the Pioneer Press, out OF
which grew many caust,c criticisms Of the
Judge and much ridlcule of the decision,
some going so far as to say that the
Judge was himself III doubt Us to what he
had decided. The following is what he
said about,it on his return home and
what lie SAID of the Bismarck inter-
view: = t t-as-t.n.. =
Reportcr-Judge, you we're reported in
tile Pioneer Press aud other papers as say.
ing to areporter at Bismarck on yeur
return that you had not decided the
commission act as unconstitutional,
but that the commissioners were
only informally appointed. Are you
willing to give what was said upon thss
| subject'
Edgerton-Somc reporter cane 10 me
and said, cit is reported that the decis.
ion as published is a forgery. Is that
truea'' Ireplied. "No, SIR; sigred il
and had it entered just ms it is published,
80 far as am anlc to remember the Ian
uuanc,'' One Of them then said to me
"Y our decision does not in terms declare
the constitutionality or unconstitutional
| i,y of the law replied: II presume
not, from my recollection of the Ian
guage. Its effect can be seen ny reading
i, aud any lawyer will he able to SET
! what Is decided; The conversation
| then upon this subject ended. This con
versat,en was very brief and was IN tn
presence of certain friends of mine VIII
will remember it. 4H=.il -. gssrif.
The only question before the court va
the legal standing Of the commissioner
and the judge would have gone outsid
of the case had he given decision upc
the constitutionality of the bill IN il
other provisions. In his Yankten inter
view he very properly says that 1t woul
be unseemly for him to discuss his ew
decision. and lie also very pertineutl
| says Of his decision that ''its effect ca
4 be seeu by reading it, and any lawyer wi
10 sbis 10 see vhss i decided"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
Deputy Sheriff McDermott's Chase after
Horse Thief,

Deputy Sheriff J. H. McDermott Of
Darlington is making quite record as
rustlcr and is fast becoming terror to
criminals. He came down on the train
yesterday with man charged with horse
stealing IN Morton county about fifteen
months ago whom he has been tracing
for long time and found up cast Of
Devils Lake The mans name is John
Dutcc Mack drove up to that; vicinity,
left his team, and dressed himself in over
alls and blue woolcn shirt and started
out "hunting work. applying at the
ranch where the man he wanted was
living, and was soon rewarded IN finding
his man whom he put under arrest. The
young man requested permission to go
into another room and change his clothes
which was granted, but he changed his
mind, slipped out the back way, jumped
astride of a mule and skipped. AS soon
as Mack discovered the game his prisoner
was playing, he started back about mile
aud half after his team and started out
after his man. 1t was then coming night
but he got sight Of his man and kept it
all night over hill and oale aud through
streams and sloughs. About daylight
one OF his horses gave out and he strlpt
the harness from the other and bareback
followed on into the reservation. At the
camp of the Chief Iron Heart he made
his business known through an inter-
prefer. when the old chief lifted trap
door and Mack hauled his prisoner out.
took him to Darlington and yesterday
lodged him in jail here notifying the
sheriff of Morton county by telegraph to
come after him.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
Helena and Benton Railways.

According to the Independent, a COM
pany is in course OF formation to build a
railroad from Helena to Fort Benton.
The bulk Of the stock will be controlled
by q syndicate representing a large rail-
road corporation perhaps the Union Pa
clfic or the Canadian Pacific. The con-
struction of the road is said to be an as
surcd fact, but it is probable that it will
not advance beyond survey this autuma.
-Liyingten Euterprise,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
A Fine Farm.

There are few farms,lf any, in this
county that are more valuable or better
titled than the one owned by our old
,ownsman James Lees. 1t IS located
about eighteen miles north of jamestown
on the James river, and has about 400
acres under cultivation. In addition to
the land being used for productive pur
poses there is large stock range which
IS aud has been for several years equip
ned with some of the finest blooded stock
the country affords. The farm houses
arc both convenient and tasty, and sup
pl,ed with indoor wells and cisterne.
The main barn, IN which the stock is
sheltered during the winter, is one hun
dred feet long and about forty wide, and
projects from large hill or bluff from
the south side, with solid stone walls
TWENTY-FIVE inches thick. THIS story or
basement is supplied with water by a
large wind mill, which pumps and forces
the water inside the building. On top Of
this basement is erected u large barn,
which is used for the purpose of storing
hay and grain. Taking everything into
consideration Mr.. Lees has one of the
most valuable general farms in Dakota,
and what is still more creditable &c him,
he knows how to run 1t.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05
SPAIN is highly indignant over the in
suits offered King Alfonso III France and
it looks as if there would be little blood
letting matinee between the two nations
over the affront.

The Bismarck Tribune gave cranks and
klckers raking down the other day and
the next day half the men in the
city called at the office and asked for
an explanation. The explanation of the
Tribune was that the shoe was only made
fnr those whom 1t would fit, which ex-
PLANTATION was entirely satisfactory-to
the Tribune ".,@
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05

CHICAGO, Oct. 3-Board Of trade circles
are laboring under = moderate state of
excitement growing out of n certain cir
cular alleged to have been sent out by a
number of prominent commission mer-
chants Of this city and New York out
lining the method by which they can
speculate on exchange on small scale.
The papers here publish the names OF
firms supposed to have sent ont these
circulars and are severe IN their denun-
Grafton of the supposed scheme. 1t is
declared the methods are only 8 shadow
different from those observed by the
firm of Fleming s. Merriam, the active
members of which firm was compelled to
leave the city and country owing to the
importantly of those who had been in
duced to invest money in the firms
schemes ltwas rumored that the hoard
oF directors of the board Of trade would
take official cognizance OF these hrmt
action with view to discipline but this
y denied BY the psssidsat Of the board,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-10-05

DIR. SCOTT, of Grand Forks, denies the
charge of bribery made against him by
the Herald in an article bristling with
red hot adjectlves.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-11
THE LATE SENIOR MLAUGHLIN.
Arranging to Remove the Remains TO
Their Last Resting Place.

Arranging to Remove the Remains TO
Their Last Resting Place.
Senator D. A. Morrison, Rochester, 7. B.
Clement, Faribault and A. G. Hickman,
Owatonna, appointed by the state senate
TO represent that body at the funeral of the
late senator James Mclaughlin, of Dodge
county, arrived in st. Paul yesterday morn
ing to perform the sad duty delegated to
them. The same train which brought the
committee also brought the venerable
consort and brother of deceased.
Senator Mclaughlin, as will be remem-
bered by many, expired after an illness of
less than a week at his room at the Sher-
man house, this city, at o'clock Thursday
morning, Feb. %. His disease was pneu-
monia. The following sketch Of deceased
is from the GLOBE notice of his death.
Senator Mclaughlin was a resident of
MantOrville, Dodge county, and was elect
ed senator on the Republican ticket from
the Seventeenth district two years ago, the
present being the second session of the
senate he has attended. He was born near
Londonderry in the north of Ireland in
1917, and was at the time of his death six
ty-six years of age. He came with his
parents to the United States while a boy,
and settled with them in Coshocton county,
Ohio, and taught school in that locality
a portion of his time for a number of
years. He began the study of medicine in
the Office of DR.. Lorenzo James, in Coshoc-
ton, in 1874, attended his first course of
medical lectures in 1848 at the Cleveland
medical college. and began the practice of
medicine the same spring, taking his
second lecture course and graduating from
the same institution in 1851 and 1852. DR..
Mclaughlin practiced his profession some
years in southern Michigan, removed to
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, from which place
he came to Mantorville. in 1866. He has
held several minor Offices, such as member
of the city council, member of the county
board of supervisors. member of school
boards, ETC., etc. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity and also of the Meth
Odist Episcopal church. His excellent
wife survives him, but he has no living
children. He has one brother, who re-
sides at Grand Forks, and other relatives
living at Fargo and Owatonna."
The funeral took place from the Sher-
man house Saturday, the oath, the senate
attending in body, while many of the
state officers, members of the house, and
residents Of the city were in attendance.
The services were conducted by Rev. Rob-
ert Smith, chaplain of the senate. After
the services, owing to the season, the re-
mains were deposited in the mortuary
chapel, Oakland cemetery, this city, where
they have remained until the present time.
This morning they will be taken in charge
by the senate committee and relatives, as
above, and removed to Mantorville, his
former home, where the final obsequies will
take place this afternoon from the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, of which he was
member. The train with the remains will
leave at $40 this morning.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-11
/ in its yearly orbit, and all these diff

sun in its yearly orbit, and all these diff
culties vanish.
The diurnal rotation of the earth ex-
plains the daily sweep of the heavens with
all they contain, from east to west. The
motion of the earth on its orbit explains
the change in our heavens month by month
as the seasons go by. The same motion
explains the greater puzzle to the ancients:
how the planets in the opposite quarter of
the heavens from the sun, seem to move
westward on the sky for months at time
and then turn eastward again.
With the aid of an achromatic telescope
on the stage the construction and various
mountings of that class of instruments
was explained. Their use in measuring
angles, their application in finding newly
discovered planets or comets was illus
trated. 1t was also shown
how, with simple and
inexpensive mounting made on the same
principle small telescope even may be
made of much service in the study of astron-
omy. If we think for ourselves and are
willing to take matters step by step, we
can from the first verify predictions made
for Us, and see for ourselves the wonderful
arrangements in nature by which such
predictions become possible. Soon we can
learn to take observations for ourselves and
such ones as may be of Importance.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-11
Nh AIlis, VIII.

The will of the late Lorenzo Allis was
fled for safe keeping in the Office of the
judge of probate yesterday and steps will
be taken to-day probably to have it pro-
bated. It was executed in 1868, in st.
Paul,in the presence of Henry L. Williams,
Mark J. Leaning and Greenleaf CIark,and
reads as follows:
III the name of God, amen. 1, Lorenzo
Allis, of the city of st. Paul, in the county
of Ramsey, and state of Minnesota, of the
age of forty-three years, and being of
sound mind and memory, do make, publish
and declare this my last will and testament
IN manner following, that is to say:
Igiye, bequeath and devise to my wife,
Mary Castle Allis, her heirs and assigns,
all my property, real and personal, of
every name and nature and wheresoever
situated; and 1 hereby appoint my said
wife, Mary Castle Allis, sole executr1x of
this, my last will and testament, and
hereby request that no bond be required
of her for the faithful discharge of her
duties as executrix as aforesaid, and 1
hereby revoke all former wills by me
made.
Ia witness whereof l have hereunto set
my hand and seal this 25th day of August,
4. D., eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
T,ORENzO ATTJs