Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-10-23
DAKOTA DOTS AND DAsHEs.

lurements of Blunt.
Miss Eve Hollister, of Forest City. kill
ed rattle snake, with ten rattles.
Alexandrla claims to ship more grair
than any other town on its line of road.
Ex-Governor Ordway is now in Wash
ington and will be in Bismarck in few
weeks.
At Argus, eight persons have fallen
victims to small pox and 10 more are I'll
with it.
The various boats on the Red river are
using their whole capacity in carrying
wheat.
There are thirty one students in attend
ance at the Brookings agricultural col.
.lege.
By an inceEdlary fire IN Bismarck
Dsitrlch's store was burned With loss ol
81, 400.
The United States board of pensions al
Mitchell, examined twenty applicants
Oct. lst.
The Dakota Mutual Life Insurance as.
sociatlon, of Sioux Falls, was organized
recently.
A post of the Grand Army has been
organized at Scotland with seventeen
members.
The shipment of paving blocks and 9th
er stone is very important industry a,
Sioux Falls.
The Missouri River & Northern rail.
way IS a new road to run from Valley
City to Pierre.
Aberdeen will soon begin to lay sys-
tenn of water mains to supply the city
with artesian water.
Doc. Bentley was sentenced for six
months IN the Sioux Falls penitentiary
for stealing at Redfeld.
Miss E. Emma Nicholas, is candidate
for the position of superintendent of
schools of Potter county.
The Bismarck Artificial Stone company
have their works IN running order and
are turning out excellent stone.
One thousand four hundred head of
cattle passed through Fargo Monday for
Chicago via the Northern Pacific.
In dedicating q Methodist church at
Blunt the other Sunday, ReY. l. N. Par.
dee raised S2,22l to clear it Of debt.
Darlington township, ), Charles Mix cou n
~, has voted q. 600 bonds for tlc pnr-
pose of building five school houses.
The wild geese are migrating south
from the northern lakes of Dakota, and
thousands are being g hst on the way.
Antelopes ar, very numerous along the
Missouri division of the Northern Pacific,
and are seen IN herds of from so to 200.
A Mitchell man caused the arrest Of q
neighbor for stealing two carrots, the re.
tail price of which is ten cents bushel.
VIM. Morrison, living few miles north
of Valley City, lost his barn with 40 tons
of hay and considerable grain, on satur-
day.
The people of Morton county will vote
on the proposition to issue $4,000 in
bonds to build new court house at Man
dan.
The farmers of Beadle county have
sent committee to Chicago to secure
lower rates on wheat from the north
west.
Since the IRE at Pierre the city fathers
have issued fire ordinance of great
length and propose to carry 1t into ef
feet.
The South Dakota Mining company
haye leased the jerks farm in Yankton
county aud are sinking shafts to the coal
beds.
A petition, signed by about 600
narnes. will ask the county commission
,rs to again grant saloon licenses IN Un-
on county.
Pierre Good Templars are arranging
'or necktle soclabe. THIS society is
claimed to be one of the largest and most
in the city.
1t was agreed by counsel that the ar
,uments in the Traill county seat case
hould be heard October 1s, if Judge Hud.
en- should return from the supreme court
n season.
Ransom county has school superin.
endent, Miss Plndsll, who IS appreclat-
d, nobody being bold enough to run
gainst her for that office at the coming
lection.
The Methodist conference at Mitchell,
eclared they would meyer consent to the
doptlon of constitution for Dakota
hat did not contain constitutional pro-
lbition of the liquor traffic.
The delegates and spectators at the Re-
usllcan county convention witnessed .
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