Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-03-23
NEWS NOTES.

Lon Desmond shot Gustave Weston IN
the back at Dcadwood ,infl,ctlng a serious
wound, and has been held TO the grand
jury. ~
In Dell Rapids, Segcl Cav got behind
Thomas Adams in church and tckled
him. After the service Mr.. Adams gave
the t,ckler sound humping.
An Ollvet man, name not given, was
captured near Parker after having at
tempted to shoot his father. ln-law and
then stealing horse with which to es-
cape.
Dakota Pioneer: Mr. Geo. W. Ven
mum, of Jamestown, was married 10 Miss
Lucy A. Durham, at Onargo, Ill.,, Feb.
22nd. George has many friends in Dako-
to who will be pleased to learn of lis
happiness.
The Presbyterian Sunday school will
have Easter services ut the church Sum
day night The church will be hand
somely decorated aud the exercises will
consist of reading and responses together
with other matters Of appropriate enter
tainment.
The following is the way the Yankton
Herald welcomes the capital removal
commission, which will meet at that place
soon: "Thc capital commission gang
will meet in Yanliton the 3Oth inst We
advise our people to place their hen rooss
under lock and key and clear their clothes
lines before dark, IN anticipation of the
vls,t'
Trail County Times: Judge Hudson
will hold special term of the District
Court on April Sd, in place of the regular
term on the fourth Tuesday. We learn
that there are quite a number Of cases
down for trial, and Il lengthy term is ex-
pected. Soon the sheriff will be scudding
about in our midst IN quest of victims to
constitute tho grand md petit jurors.
The Grand Rapids Journal kicks like
bay steer over the rc-apportionment of
the legislative districts by which La
Moure county is attached to Cass and
other Red river counties. 1t claims La
MJure is wholly identified with the
James River Valley interests IN every
respect and that it was an act of gross IN
justice to make it the tail eud of Red
river district.
There were 545,SS7 members of the
frn In I,,;t nl
in 1880; little over one Mason to each
one hundred inhabitants. They are
thlckest in Maine, where there is one
Mason in every th'rty-,hrce Of the total
population. Next comes Kentucky with
one in every thirty-nine, and then follow
Michigan, Massachusetts and New York,
with one in every seventy.
Fargo Argus: 1t IS reported that
couple Of merchants yesterday invited
friend to dinner. In going into the din
ing room at Headquarters, it Is said, the
guest was designated rs a brakeman on
the Jimtown accommodation and was
steered of to a side table in the corner,
where he took his dinner with a couple of
coons, while the parties inviting him had
seats at the general tables. The Jimtown
brakeman is said to DC hot.
Fargo Argus: Among the on dts IN
legal circles is the report that the we'll
known and long established firm of Will
son s. Ball is about to dissolve by the
withdrawal of Mr.. Ball. whose private
interests are demanding much of his time.
1t s also rumored that Col. Thomas, one
of the leading attorneys of the Deadwood
bar, ana his father i,-law, Judge Barnes,
will unite with General Wilson in the
formation Of y new law firm.
The following item has been gong the
rounds Of the press for some time: IA
printers towel fell out of the third story
window IN New Jersey town
the other day and cracked a pavement
stone. The crash was heard two blocks
away, and little boy ran home, with
white lips and trcmbl,n" limbs, to tell
his mother that he had seen IA negro
man tumble off the roof and explode his
heaa.'' 1t is about time to nip that SLAM
der. 1t was hotel towel. The remain
der of the item is substantially correct,
and Is 4 circumstance that may occur any
place where there is a three story hotel, q
stone pavement, and little boy on the
street who has Il mother.
S;detrackcd in the Valley City yard
this morning was train Of twelve cars
loaded with emigrants and their effects,
bound westward All of the new corners
alad an appearance to thrift and inteili-
gence, and showed considerable famlliari-
ty with different sections uf Dakota. In
several cases all the stock and implements
necessary to successfully operate farm
were being shipped. and even the faith
full family dog was accorded place in
one instance The new co,nsxs are bound
for the vicinity Of jamestown, CIas!se and
Bismarck, and came from Missouri,
Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin,
and many more are to follow them from
the porsious of the States in which they
resided.-Valley City Times.
The ssmlsslug link" IN the great trans
continental thoroughfare from Lake Su-
perior to the Pacific ocean is being closed
up at the rapid rate Of three and half
miles a day, and but $50 miles now re-
Ma,n to he laid to tie those two great
water thoroughfares together by the