Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-10-02
DAKOTA DOTS AND DASHES.


Dakota DOTS AND DAsHEs. =
hhndan wants to bore for gas.
A grey eagle was shot from the Pres
byterlan church spire in Casselton last
week.
The Pr esbyterlan denomination at La
Moure is building $4,000 church edifice.
It's alleged that Logan county was Or
gained on bogus petition before it had
single settler.
Over 10000 tons of hay have been cut
and stacked on the Mouse river this sea-
son. 1t costs nothing but tn cutting.
East Pierre has secured foundry and
machine shop, to be in operation by jan
uary.
The Mandan Pioneer suggests that the
democratic convention at Sioux Falls
nominate Raymond.
Z There are at present four companies of
trssps at Fort Totten, on DEVILS Lake
and 100 Indians.
The mercantile house of Robert Mac
nider & Co., at Bismarck, has failed. Ill
abilities 440, 900, assets nominally >30-
900.
Mr.. Stewart, Of Forest River, eighty
years of age, has been taken violently in
sane, and will be sent to Yankton.
The prohibitiouists in Sphinx county
have secured sixty indictments against
pessps for selling liquor without . county
The United States court at Deadwood
has been occupied for some time in trial
of parties from Pine Ridge charged with
selling liquor to Indians.
The loss by the fire in Pierre, is varl-
ously estimated at from 100000 to $780,
600 Much of the property will be rebuilt
at cnce. Mechanics are hurrying thlther
very rapidly.
Mr.. Mcclellan, a farmer at Grsfton, in
Walsh county, will send to the New Or
leans fair cabbage weighing forty
pounds.
There was an exciting fox chase in
Dickey county recently and five silver
greys were killed and the fortunate cap
tors claim that the skins will bring $500.
The item about the seventeen ounce
BABY being born at Casselton having gone
the rounds of the press 1t is perhaps as
we'll now to state that nothing Of the kind
ever occurred there.
The wheat crop of Dakota is estimated
at thirty million bushels for 1884. The
surplus with other grain for export will
bring q revenue of about s22, ,00o, 600 into
the territory.
County conventions throughout the
territory are adopting resolutions in favor
of a legislature that will restrain the ru-
inous spoliatisn of the people by railroads
and wheat buyers.
A supposed to- be father at Valley City
is supposed to have taken tumble to re-
cent developments and skipped from
town. No names are mentioned as the
parties :'1y hign."
The homeward trip OF Judge Clifford
from the Pierre convention was sort Of
triumphal march and the great enthu-
siasm evoked was the forerunner of the
big majority he will secure at the Nevem-
Der election.-Press and Dakotalan.
After the Huron convention it was gen.
er ally reported that Hon. Il. F. Pettigrew
event ashore with the driftwood." lie
must have floated back into the stream,
however, as at the Pierre convention he
turned up with open sails and carried oh
the champion pensnt by the successful
nomination of his friend, Judge Clifford.
Bismarck Tribune.
The Pierre convention is over. In its
results It ls the most important political
gathering ever convened IN the territory.
1t has united the people of South Dakota
IN a solid union whose object Is the ad-
vancement of the people and not Of any
man. ItLas placed prominently before
the public men unselfsh enough to forget
themselves while considering the interests
OF the people. 1t has placed upon the
republican ticket broad minded, honor
able, fair man who is thor oughly imbued
with the Dakota spirit of progress
Watertown Courier.