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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
A Cowbow Killsd.

PIERRE, D. T., May lO--Th,s evening
City Marshall Price shot and killed a
herder named Thos. Thompson while at
tempting his arrest for firing on Otto
Hinkle who was his rival for the affec-
tiaa az q woman Of Ill fame.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
After the Law MQkals,

YANKroN, May Safeguarding the ac-
ton of the grand jury just adjourned it
is known that several indictments the
contents of which are scrupulously guard
ed by the district attorney. The jury
and court clerk have been relieved but
the reporters are unable to arrange af-
fairs. There has been present during
the jury session many witnesses who
would not probably have been summoned
except upon an investigation of certain
transactions during the last legislative
session. These witnesses have dropped
words in the course of ordinary conver-
sation and their utteranccs and other cir
cumstances have given rise to rumors that
several members of the late legislature
have been indicted for participation in
attempted bribery. Later developments
make 1t appear that at least four lndlct-
mcnts have been brought which relate to
the last legislative session and outside IS
that they pertain to legislatures and lob
byists. AS near as can be ascertained the
capital syndicate stock figures largely in
the bribery case examined into. The To-
ca lpapers are unable to obtain any names
but full developments are promised by
the officers after the arrests are made.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
The Feniau Scare.

HALIFAX, May Sowing to a startling
letter of warning from Sir John McDon.
aid number of special policemen were
sworn in for service about the govern
ment house, provincial buildings and
other points. Last night the provincial
and coast Office buildings were watched
by policemen of the city force detailed
for that duty as regular night watchmcn.
The policemen on duty at night through
out the city are ordered not to take relief
as early in the morning as customary and
who 90 off duty at 3 a. m. are until furth-
er instruction to remain on their beats un-
til 6 a. m. The cause of selec. ion OF Hal
flax as the spot for Fcnian action, IS ev-
identity owing to the prominence as mil
itary station. From what can be learned
as to source of information which alarmed
the authorities it appears was detected at
the recent land league conference at Phil
adelpha who had instruction that this
detective communicated to the govern
ment general or to the British govern
mcnt that day Brady's execution was to
be the signal for combined attempt at
revenge whenever opportunity might
offer.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
Star Route.

WASHINGTON, May s-Star Route Bliss
concluded his argument this afternoon.
He made particularly bitter attack up.
on Brady aud then turned upon the other
defendants. The overt acts charged
against each of them were recalled to
memory in succinct summary of the
evidence. The prosecution, SAID Bliss
in conclusion, was intended to protect
the treasury and such trials must neces-
sarily take place in this city and the eyes
of the country were upon this trial to
ascertain if jury could be found in the
district capable to understand case Of
this magnitude and able honestly to do
their duty without aid or prejudice.
Bliss then took his seat and Mcrrick said;
s'The government has closed its opening
The pause which ensued was broke by
Wilson who said: "Your honor, desire
to knew, whether the government will
CLAIM two arguments in closing" Mer.
rick answered in the affirmative. As
showing the sentiments of the Attorney
General Merrick read personal letter to
himself from Attorney General dated
Sept. "a. Attorney General refers to a
conference he had with Merrick on the
subject of closing arguments. He says
it has been his intention to take part in
the closing arguments.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
A Dakota Land Case.

WASHINGTON, May s-Thc case of
Plumber vs. Jackman involving the title
to 16O acres of valuable land near Bis
marck, d. T., has been decided by the
secrc tary of the Interior IN favor of jack
man for the whole quarter section.
Jackman's claim to the hand was con-
tested upon the ground that he had not
settled upon it IN good faith but to sell
on speculation in violation Of section
1862 Of the realised statutes. He took the
land at that particular point In 1872 with
other parties in anticipation that the
Northern Pacific would cross the Missouri
river here and town be built The
secretary in his decision says the law re-
ferrcd to one and the persons going to
frontiers or along lines of projected rail-
roads and anticipating centres Of popnla-
ton shall not enjoy the benefits of their
enterprises and foresight though they be-
lieved their claims would become of great
value on account OF proximity. to villages
or cities, or that villages or cities would
even be built upon such claims aud there
by enable them ultimately to change
prices for such lands. That is not the
speculation the statute intended to pro-
hibit.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
EccleSlas tical.

New York, May cardinal Nc
Closky was seen to-day about London.
Standards Rome dispatch to the effect
that Cardinal Jacoblne, the papalcy of
state, called inquiring IN it was time
Cardinal McClosky had received Alex
ander Sullivan, president Irish national
league, and demanding an explanation.
Cardinal McClosky denies reciv,ng such a
dispatch and characterizes the statement
absurd and ridiculous upon its farce as
any one acquainted with ccclesiastlc law
would readily see. Cardinal added that
it was impossible that any request should
be made.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
Louisiana LeveeS.

NEW ORLEANS, May Times Demo-
crat Baton Rouge special says: The gov
ernor issued an order reciting as all
citizens of Louisiana are vitatly interested
in maintaining, repairing and building
levees, the inauguration of practical
system to prevent and close crevasses and
the adoption of plan to prevent the
cutting of levees and use them as high
ways and consider means to be employed
for the improvement of navigation of the
Mississippi, therefore the governor has
thought proper to call convention COM
posed of delegates elected by police juries
of the several parishes and by the city
council of New Orleans to assemble at
the state capital June sth inst.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-05-11
Steamer Sunk.

BISMARCK, May s-About ten days ago
the steamer Big Horn left here loaded
with freight for Benton and passengers
for different points up the river. News
was received this evening that she struck
snag five miles below Poplar creek,
about Is miles above this place and sunk
in short time No lives were lost but
the boat and cargo is a total loss. 1t was
her first trip up the river this season.
Her upper decks was still above water at
last report but she was settling fast in the
sandy bottom. 1t is the same place
where the Red Cloud sank in making her
first trip last year.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
All Indian Agent VINO Easily OBJ
tanned a Restful Position.

The president likes q good story, es-
pecially if it is quaint. An Indian agent,
who came east not long ago to get some-
thing better than hig agency, got it just
for the story he told. He said: "Mr-
President. when I got out to the agency
l found that those Indians were just
about to have their annual sun.dance.
Of course, they invited the agent, and of
course the ageut went. 1t was very ex-
citing. I had never seen a su3-dance,
and l thought it was imm ense." And
then he described the wild ceremonies
at length. ~ watched them," he said,
"as they jumped and yelled, and
yelled and jumped, and cut
themselves, and marched and counter.
marched, and cut up like SO many
painted devils. All this time I was a
spectator. But presently they began to
pass the tire-water around. OF course,
they invited the agent to drink, and OF
course the agent drank. In fact, he
drank a good deal-a good deal too more
than he ought tn. 1t wasn't long before
he found himself in the middle of the
ring, as wild as the rest of them, dane
ing, yelling and bowling. Then he was
a participator. He kept this up some
time, Mr.. President, and then, it, is
said, Mr.. President. he got into a fight
with a big buck and made so much trou-
BILE that they had to put him off the
grounds. don't know about that, Mr..
President, but 1 know that very shortly
after he became a traveller, and now he
would like a little softer berth q little
| nearer civilization" He got it for the
tale he told.-Philadelphia Record.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
The Egg Dance In India.

The Indian egg dance is not, as n
might expect from the name given it, a
dance upon these fragile objects. It is
executed in this wise:
The dancer, dressed in q corsage and
very short skirt, carries a willow wheel
of moderate diameter fastened horizon
tally upon the top of her head. Around
this wheel threads are fastened equally
distant from each side, and at the end
Of each of these threads is a slip moose,
which is kept. open by glass bead.
Thus equipped the young girl comes
towards the spectators with a basket full
of eggs, which she passes around for in.
spection, to prove that they are real,
and not limitations. The music strikes
up a ierky monotonous strain, and the
dancer begins to whirl around with
great rapidity. Then selling an egg she
puts it in one of the slip nooses, and
with q quick motion throws it from her
in such a way as to draw the knot tight.
The swift turning of the dancer pro.
duces a centrifugal force which stretches
the thread out straight like a ray Shoot
ing from the circumference of q circle.
One after another the eggs are thrown
out n these slip nooses, until they
make a horizontal aureole or halo above
the dancers head. Then the dance be.
comes more rapid-so rapid, in fact,
that it is difficult to distinguish the fea.
lures OF the girl.
The moment is critical; the least false
step, the least %irregularity of time, and
the eggs dash against each other. But
how can the dance be stopped? There
is but one way;. that is to remove the
eggs in the way in which they have been
put in place. This operation is by far
the more delicate of the two. 1t is nee.
essary that the dancer, by a single
motion, exact and unerring, should take
hold of the egg and remove it from the
o A single false motion of the
hand, the least interference with one of
the threads, and the general arrange
ment is suddenly broken. and the whole
performance disastrously ended.
At last all the eggs are successfully re.
moved; then the dancerstops, and with
out seeming in the least dizzied by the
dance of twenty-five or thirty minutes,
advances with a firm step to the specta.
tors, and presents them with the eggs,
which are Immediately broken in a flat
dish to prove that there is no trick in
the performance.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
An American with a Title.

Anita Theresa Murphy, says the New
York Sun, who was lately married tc
Sir Charles Michel Wolseley, is a daugh.
ter of David G. Murphy, the senior mem.
Der of the dry goods firm of Murphy.
Grant & Co, of San Francisco. lie
spends little time in California, living.
for the most part, in London and Rome.
Though he is not very wealthy, there
was a time when he had to scratch hard
to make both ends meet. This was be.
fore be went into the employ of Eugene
Kelly, the banker of Exchange Place,
this city, who "a selling dry goods to
California thirty years ago. Mr.. Kelly
took him into partnership, and left him
the whole business soon afterward.
About q year and a half ago the pope
made him a marquis, on account of his
generous contributions to Catholic char.
tiles throughout Europe and California.
He had been a count and a baronet.
Though a singular diffident man, he
has a hankering after titles. His wife is
q power in Catholic society in Paris and
London,
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01

hous of commons in responset to q question
by Parnell, that he regretted that tho house
oflords had rejected the Irish registration
bill. He also stated that he would INTRO
duce a measure on the subject at the next
session OF parliament, Colling, liberal men,
Der Tor Ipswich, gave notice that at the
next session OF parliament he would offer a
resolution declaring it is desirable t O grant
. measure OF home rale to Ireland, as the
best means Of securing permanent peace to
the Irish: Ceilings announcement was re-
ceived with cheers.
Lord Wolseley has been gazetted a field
marshal. The queen insisted on having the
parliamentary. session brought toa close
because she desired to 20 to Balmoral
without delay. The ceremonies of the ded-
1cation of the cairn to John Brown is fixed
for September LIST. 1t is rumored that Bis
marck has made overtnres to King Alton
20 for q meeting at Berlin between the EN-
peror William, the car and the Spanish
king.
The postal service of Great Britain has
been transformed by the recent arrange
ment for transmitting PARCELS into a gigan.
tic express system. Groceries and market
ing for the country are delivered by post.
The carriers are expected to take thirty
pounds and they groan under the load.
Mount Vesuvius is in a state remarkable
activity. The continuous trembling of the
soil has resulted in considerable injury ia
buildings and TO the railway running up
the mountain.
Mr.. Bortase, chairman of the English
Farmers alliance, has accepted an invita-
ton Of the Messrs: Cunard to go to America
as their guest, and visit the great farms Of
the west.
Bismarck has invited the Sculptor schil.
ling to so to Kinsington in order to make q
bust Of the chancellor, which is to be the
final model for all future portraits of the
prince.
J Rioting between Orangemen and Cath.
olics at Coalbridge, Scotland, was renewed
OH the 25th. Twenty-Five persons were ar.
rested.
Baron Won Wallendorf. the Austrian
9cientist, is deed
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
NEWS CONDENSED.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES

WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
The appointment bureau of the treasury
departments hold the opinion that the civil
service regards the appointments to be made
hereafter as commencing afl esh in respect
to the appointment among the states, the
hrst appointment, that Of Miss Mary e.
Hoyt OF Connecticut, being that OF the
highest lady in the $500 class, without re.
partment from Connecticut. Appointments
will be made irrespective of the quota
from each state, until such quota be
hlied rom any given state by new appoint
ments. Then, however, the persons having
the highest records-if haiiine from the
states VIII. sc quota is full-will have to
stand aside in favor of the next lowest,
VII sc states are now fully represented i'll
proportion to their population in the new
appointments.
tn commissioner of the general land
ofiice has been investigating certain reports
reaching that Office of extensive depreda-
lions OF public lands adjacent the Canadian
boundary line. While the facts have been
somewhat exaggerated, the commissioner
is convinced that depredations on q great
scale would o o follow. Of timber al
ready stolen, a large percentage has been
seized BY the government, and criminal
p.oceedings will be begun against the guilty
persons. The secretary Of state will also
be requested to take necessary steps to Sc
cure the surrender of offending Canadians
to the United States judicial tribunal.
The first appointment in the treasury de
partment under the new civil service rules,
was made recently to fill $500 vacancy in
the national bank redemption agency in the
treasurer's Office. The civil service commits
sion certified the names of four ladies to the
acti g secretary of the treasury, who select
ed that of Miss Mary f. HOyt of COnnecti-
cut, the first on the list.
The treasury department has called for
reports from boards of immigration organ
lied under the acts of congress as to their
proceedings of the last fiscal year. 1t is
presumed these reports will contain ualua-
BILE statistical information, exhibiting the
character and progress of the work OF these
boards in their administra ion of the immi-
grant law.
Commissioner Dudley anticipates that the
publication of the pension list will make a
great increase in the work of the office, be-
cause it will bring thousands of letters from
every part of the country, protesting against
the granting of pensions to persons named.
The comptroller of the currency author
lied the Coin Exchange National bank of
Chicago to begin business; capital 81, OOO,-
coo.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01

A Polk county Tenn.) family boasts
three girls whose average weight is 242
pounds. The Oldest is nearly 10 and
weighs over 800, while the youngest IL
IL and tips the beam at 200.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01

The creditors Of. Wright, W orsker g. Co.,
the suspended wool dealers of Boston, vo-
ted to resuse any statement Of affairs for
publication, The firm re ported direct
liabilities $462. 900, and %on,ingent liabiIis
ties something over 500, 900.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
an average of fifty healthy chickens
every year, for twenty years.
-WM. G. LIE Due.
San Diego, CAL, July %, 1883.

Perry Davis Pain Killer is an excellent
regulator of the stomach and bowels, and
should always be kept on hand, especially
at this season of the year, when so many
suffer from bowel complaints. There is
nothing SO quick to relieve in attacks of
cholera,
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
PSALMS.
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know the value ofHop Bitters for bilious,
nervous and Rheumatic complaints.
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g.. Add disease upon disease and let
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z. For all nv life have I been plagued
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8. He that keereth his bones from ach.
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10. What woman is there, feeble and sick
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r.. Keep thy tongue from being furred,
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Is. ALI my pains and aches and disease
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IA. Mark the man who was nearly dead
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The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01

Probably no other city of 1000 inhabitants
in the union can show so much wealth as
Newport.
Ex-Gov. Benjamin Comfy, postmaster at
Atlanta and five attaches of the postofice
have been removed. The removal was
wholly unexpected by the public. The
cause is said to be general dissatisfaction.
6The rumor that Alexander White of
Sherburne, N. Y, had disappeared from his
home is denied. He is still ut home, and
the rumor that he had lost his fortune in
Wall street is said to be untrue.
A corporation has been licensed at Al
bany, with q capital of 100000, for the
mining, manufacture m export of ammOn-
lated aid other guanos in Ven ezuela.
1t has been agreed at a conference of
glass-blower manufacturers, held in Phil
adelphia, that wages shall remain the same
next year as this.
The formal opening and dedication of the
main building of Drake university, Des
Ioines, will occur Tuesday, Sept. Is.
The Chautaqua Conkling college has
cen permanently organized, with Mrs.
Ewing of Chicago as chiet.
Consumption is increasing among sailors
on the lakes, owing to bad sanitary arrange.
ments.
FL Paso, Tex, is talking up an America
Mexican exposition for next year.
Louisville distillers ale trying to organ
ize q whisky exchange.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
RAILROAD RUMBLINGA.

Gel. P. B. Grant, emigration agent of the
Northern Pacific, shipped to Cincinnati a
car load of exhibits for the exposition COM
mencing in that city on the 9Th proximo.
The shipment was made by way of the AL
bert Lea and Kankakee routes. The exhib.
its consist OF cereals in the straw and
threshed grain, specimens of wood, coal
minerals from Lake Superior and Montana
Territory, vegetables, building some and
brick, and also specimens of petri6catlons
from Pyramid pork, in the Yellowstone
country. The company will not make any
exhibit at the fair in Minneapolis this week,
but Burleigh, Morton Stutsman aud other
counties along the line will.
The large frame building being used by
the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
railway as a temporary roundhouse. at
Nanitowac, Wis, recently burned with four
of the company's locomotives in it. All
the tracks+around the building were filled
with cars. which were with difficulty saved
from burning. The loss is estimated at
arout $4,000 upon the engines and build
ings. Insurance, $4,000.
The Chicago & Atlantic has met the cut
rate of$20, Chicago to Buffalo and return.
and announces $40 as a ronnd "trip rate to
Chautauqua. A New York dispatch says,
as far rs can be learned, regular rates are
maintained by the different Western routes
from that city.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

George W. Bromley, whose death at Phil
adelphia is announced by telegraph, was
for several years ordnance sergeant, solitary
sentinel, and entire garrison at Fort Mifin,
ON the Delaware. He enlisted in the United
States army in the spring of 1885, served in
the Seminole and Mexic N wars, and was
severely wounded in the latter. He was
credited with having killed Osceola with
his own hand, and Gen. SCOTS reports bear
witness to his having been one of q party of
soldiers to plunge through the surf and
plant the American siege batteries on the
beach before the walls of Vera Cruz. Three
different lines he was offered promotion as
a reward for his valor, and as often declined
it. Last June, however, he obeyed an ex-
press command of tue president, VENT to
Washington, and was duly commissioned
an officer and put ON the retired list. He
was the senior soldier in the army of tse
United States. both in natural age and in
years Of active service.
The state of Kansas had retained the late
Judge Black at q fee of 81, 800 as counsel
in the suits to annul the charters Of the
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific for viola.
ting them in consolidating. He received
81, see of it Just before his death, which
b. called . dead less to the state.
The Dickinson press., 1883-09-01

MARIANA, FLA.-Dr. Theo. West, a :"I
consider Browns Iron Bitters the best tonic
that ia sold"