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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25
Legal Rates of Advertising.

An amendment to section %, chapter
80, of the political code approved Feb.
II, 1877, relating to legal rates for ad-
vertising reads as follows:
That in al cases where publication
of legal notices of any kind are required
or allowed by law, the person or eficer
desiring such publication shall be re-
quired to pay one dollar per square Of II
lines of noupareil type, or its equivalent,
for the first insertion; and seventy-fve
cents per square for each subsequent
insertion; and in all cases of
publication of notices in connection with
commencement of actions IN court, or
sales upon execution, the plaintiff may
designate the newspaper published within
the county IN which such notice shall be
published; that in all legal advertise.
ments, fractional parts of twelve lines
shall be paid for al the rate of ten cents
per line Of nonpareil type, or its equiva.
ent.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

IT is asserted that a delegation from
Bismarck is now in Washington to secure
the aid of congress in legallzing the loca-
ton of the capital of the territory at BIS
marck. The Alert does not join with
those papers which are disposed to crltl-
else or disparage this effort on the part
of the people of that city. 1t is both nat
ural and legitimate that they should do
so, and it is no more nor any less than
any other city ofequal enterprise in the
territory would do under like circum
stances. They have poured out their
money with LAVISH hand to fulfill every
condition Of the agreement and comply
with every requirement of the law of the
legislature under which the commission
ers acted presumably in good faith. They
have by their own energy and enterprise
constructed u magnificent capitol editice
without the cost Of cent to the people
of the territory.
The Alert hopes this delegation will
succeed, and that congress will settle the
question, silence clamor and end a
contenton that IS prolific source of
sectional bitterness and strife that is
detrimental to the general interests and
welfare Of the territory. The Alert sup
ported the idea of removing the capital
from Yankton to some more central
point, the necessity of which was and
is obvious to any impartial mind The
law was enacted by the legislature IN
due form and as It's operation would
not injure any one nor any interest
of the people as whole we supported it
and the commissioners acting under it
until court of high standing decided
against the legality of the plan and
agents employees to carry out the pro-
visions of the law. Ih n we maintained
and still insist that the decision of the
court was paramount to the law aud
should be respected as such until reversed
hy higher judicial tribunal, not that we
were opposed to Bismarck, nor because
we did not prefer that city to Yankton,
as the capital, but because the courts are
the power and authority through which
the rights and liberties of individuals and
communities aie enforced and nam
tained
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

Hon. JOHNSON N1CKEUs who has just
returned from a visit to Washington
city whore he had an opportunity of as
certaining something of the feeling Of
the national statesmen upon political and
other matters OF public interest. He
thinks there is no probability of either
the division or admission of Dakota ter
ritory the present session, and that the
most that can b; expected of this con-
gress is an enabling act providing for a
constitutional convention. As Dakota
has no political ioflu. nee in the election
to take place this fall she receives very
little consideration by the members.
Mr.. Nickeus lived may years in Wash
ington city and .sys that he never te-
fore, on the eve Of a presidential nomina-
tisn, saw the political parties so com
pl9tely st sea upon the candidates or the
issues to be presented in the campaign.
He never before heard as many names
proposed Tor the nomination nor knew
such an indefinite conglomeration of
ideas upon the subject. He thinks there
will be an upheaval and reorganization
OF the parties in the near future on the
tariff question, IN which old party lines
will be wiped out and new ones formed,
which will In great measure be Sec
tionsl, the high tariff states against fee
trade, and that the nominating conven-
tions Of both parties will be stormy upon
the tariff question and that much din.
Guilty will be experienced in finding can
didates among the prominent men in the
political circles Of both parties whose re-
cosua will harmonize vi b the platformi
that will DC adopted.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

THE papers bach east in the states
often print long and earnest essays upon
the condition of society in the territories
and offer well meant theories for the
moral elevation of our people. Having
read the blood aud thunder stories in
yellow back novels Of scenes laid in the
great AMT ricsn desert or mountains, but
which never had an existence anywhere
except in the fertile imaginatons of the
writer's. these educators of public opinion
consider themselves competent newspaper
missionaries, standing afar of, to civll'ze
the people "out west" They picture our
citizens with bowie knives in their bcots
and our preachers standing on pulpits
constructed Of whlskey barrels dlspens-
ing the gospel at the muzzle OF revolrers.
These pen pictures are so often seen in
papers of such general respectability that
their Influence Is much worse than the
yellow back literature from which they
receive their ideas.
The test OF this question Is the record
Of crime as furnished from day to day
through the associated press, which
reaches every locality and lays the cur
rent events of the world before the people
every day. Appealing to this record we
ask candid people and newspapers TO
render fair and impartial verdict as 10
what part of the country makes up the
crime record, and where it is that crime
escapes punishment the most. We main
tain that t.. pro rate crime with the pop
ulatlen Dakota territory can show bet
ter record than any state IN the union.
Dakota is the most dangerous place IN
the nation IN which to commit crime;
and there is no place where people are
more secure in life, liberty and property
than in this territory. ,'uries are acquit-
ting and turning loose upon society In
the states every day almost villains who
would not i've twenty four hours in this
territory; and yet the papers that record
and denounce these travesties on justice
at their own doors shed coplous tears
over the unclviIized condition OF society
in the territories.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25
TIA LamSarman.

LACROSSE, Wis, Jan. 23-Special to
Evening Journal: A iumherman just re-
turned from the Black river camps saws
the season has been unfortunate as TO ac-
ciden,s among The men A careful re-
view shows that faar choppers have been
killed Wy falling trees and fifteen badly
injured. The last falling accident was
IN John Paul's camp on East Fork. The
nan was buried at the camp rs no ore
knew hun. No winter was ever so itter
for lnsg~rs Estimated that the cut on
Black river and Tuiula river will be two
hundred million feet.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

dered pcnniless he takes his family and
goes to Europe on tour of two or three
years for his health, The people out
west can not understand This. The diff
Guilty is the difference IN the meaning OF
the term pcnni!ess in the two localities.
In New York the term is applied to those
whose finances have been reduced to less
than /. a million In the west it means
travelling on fool instead of IN palace
car. To be penn1less in New York is
equivalent to beng immensely rich in
the west. In the west it is no disgrace to
be poor, but very inconvenient. In New
York it IS disgrace to be poor but not
very inconvenient.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

THE discourse of Rev. s. N. Griffith
Sunday evening on amusements was ore
of many good practical suggestions and
solid though unpalatable facts The
ministry, in the cities especially, where
they are suspected of worshipping the
golden calf as much as the God OF Israel,
tread lightly upon this subject, for their
princely salaries come from brown stone
fronts, and it is only rarely the case that
the minister reaches q position in those
localities when, like Tslmadge, he can
beard the lion IN his den and defy the
society idols of the wealthy. While the
pastor of the Methodist church IN this
place would not be called liberal in his
views upon this subject he is neither
pharisai cal nor bigoted, and sustalns his
position by harmony of gospel, logic
and demons trated fact that must be ad
mitted whether agreeable or not.
He maintains that physical labor Is the
best and healthiest of all amusements for
both sexes and IN all pecuniary condi
tions OF life; that the servant girls of to-
day who wait upon the delecste young
ladies that sit in their parlors and think it
degrading to do housework in twenty
years from now will preside over their
own parlors while the ones they waited
upon will either be in their graves or
taking in Washing to support worthless
aad dissolute husbands; that the young
men of to day who labor to sustain
themselves will be the business men of
twenty years hence, while those young
men who now have nothing to do but
seek amusements will then be either in
their graves or IN the penitentiaries. He
maintained that these facts could be de-
monstrated by any one who would take
the pnins to 90 into the cities and inquire
the history Of the business u EN- and their
wives who now live In the stately man
sions.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25
THE weekly ALERT.
J. e. WARNQCK, :. EDITOR.

II Is to be hoped that the new man
agement Of the Northern Pacific railroad
will give immigrant rates next spring
that will put North Dakota on an equal
footing in this respect with the country
traversed by the Northwestern and the
Milwaukee roads
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25
LA INQUIRE NEWS.
tFrom the La Moure Progress

The church supper last Thursday even
ing was well attended, and the proceeds
s2l.l5, will go toward furnishing the
church.
The leap year party given Friday even
ing by Mesdames Dikeman and Bronson,
at the Garfield House was largely at
tended, and was the event of the season
in LaMoure social circles.
A Chnaman will start laundry In
LaMoure soon, it said
r. A. Shoemaker, the proprietor of the
Saratoga Springs, is In town. He con.
templates staring an extensive dairy IN
the spring.
Glendale Leader: Six townships in
Mcpherson county, joining Dickey, were
put on the market at Aberdeen, We'd
nesday, when there was the usual rush
The storms have retarded the mails
so that we have no later daily papers
this Saturday morning than those of last
Mondays issue.
The nearest point to get to train is
Glendale, on the Chicago, Milwaukee s
st. Paul. From present indications res
ldents of LA Moure will not be obliged to
go that far long, to get q train on this
road.
Mr. Benjamin, proprietor of the stage
line from here to jamestown, run in late
last night, bringing with him large
load of passengers. He went south to
Bare creek ranch this morning. He re-
ports the roads good.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

WHEN people in the west, by misfcr-
tune or otherwise, are reduced TO power.
ty they either apply themselves to labor
for wages or go to the poor house, but
In New York when a millionaire Is ren.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-25

New Rockford Transcript: We hail
the recently-made dec1slen of the James
town Telephone Exchange, to extend TO
New Rockford, With greatest pleasure.
Frank Conehay is the owner of the line,
and he has made it one Of the most pop-
.ular institutions in the whole James
river valley. Strong s. Chase have IN
fuenced this departure, and deserve the
thanks of the multitude.
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
Is Diphtheria Mastered?

The following specific for the treat
ment of Group and diphtheria was pub
lished in the TIMES, about two months
ago, but by special request, and as the
dread disease, diphtheria, seems to be
almost epidemic III our near neighbor-
hood, we republish it, that our readers
may be enabled to give it q trial if
emergency requires it:
The specific is a French discovery,
and according to the report made to
the French Academy of Medicine,
equal parts of liquid tar and turpentine
are put in an iron pan and burned in
the patients room. The dense resin
Gus smoke gives immediate relief. The
fibrinOus membrane soon becomes de-
tached, and the patient coughs up mi
crobicides which if caught in a glass
NAV soon be seen to dissolve in the
smoke. Entire recovery is said to fol
low this treatment in three or foul
days.
The Philadelphia Times reports 8
case in that city of its successful trial
The patient, little girl, had already
/ become too weak to allow of tracheO
tony, when DR.. Nichols, the attending
physician, saw an account of tht
French experiments with tar and tur
pentine. He resorted to them a once
the child being then in a distressing
struggle for breath. AS the Vapo
filed the room her breathing becam
normal, and in q few minutes she sanl
into q natural sleep. Some doubt tn
efficacy of the treatment in aggravate
forms of diphtheria, which are charac
terized by blood poisoning, but if
will relieve and cure diphtheritic crou
alone, its discovery is something to b
thankful for.
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
She Popped the Question.
DEACON BODKIN RELATES HOW HE
SPOILED A COAT AND WON A WIFE.

PA" said Samantha to Deacon Bod
kin, 8 ma says ask you to tell us how
you climbed the post"
" Go away, now, gals, and don't
bother me; I'm busy" said the dea-
con.
"Oh, please do tell us" chorused
both girls.
"Wall, to get rid on ye, I'll tell We.
1t was afOre we war married, an lot
O. us young fellers lived in a boarding
house together. l was a cOurtin' yer
ma then an all the rest was a courtin'.
Yer ma lived out to Milton, and there
was no way Of gettin, there then, 'cept
to walk"
How desperately you must have
been in love, pa, said Martha.
1--WE fellers had an understandin'
that as we all went cOurtin' Sunday
and Thursday nights, the one that got
home last must stand treat for the
crowd. Now my room mate would al
ways get in fust, somehow or other.
He had to walk five miles to see his
gal, but he was in bed when l got
in, so he never had to treat. couldn't
| understan' it. Sometimes we felt sar-
tin that he hadn't got home yet, and
watched for him, but he alters was
found in bed. At last l told him I
would give him a one dollar bill if he
would tell me how he managed it, for
/ most alters had to stand treat"
"Of course you did," said both of
the girls.
Wall, he finally showed me how he
climbed up the corner post of the piaz-
| zey, an got in the winder, while we
were watchin for him below.
That night was Thursday night, AN
1 went to Milton as usual. l wore a
bran new surtout. got back little
late, an slipped round to the corner OF
the piazzey an climbed up. l thought
the post was mighty slippery, but
jest put in an got up, an, got to bed.
The next mOrnin' eff | didn't have
the darndest lookin' suit of clothes yor
ever see. They'd been a paintin' thu
house, an l didn't know it, for l didn'
60 hum to supper, but went out to Mil
ton airly to take supper with your ma
New surtOut an all was covered from
top to toe with paint. Your ma, whel
1 told her about it, she says: Heze
kiah, you need somebody 10 take kee
of you All, says I, Hepzibah
s'pOse you try it, An your ma stick
to it that she didn't mean nothin' by il
an that she didn't pop the question t
me-"
"Of course, she did, ;" cried the girls
and how lucky it was for us that sh
r did"
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
THE GOLDEN ROD.

O. gaily raise your radiant heads,
And wave your gOld-fringed banners bright,
While DER the sun-brOwned hillside spreads
Your charm that sweetly wOos the sight
The fairest We of all the thrOng,
Mild heralds of Autumnal days:
In forests dim your light prolong,
Ger fields shine through the mellow haze.
Ye tell us that the trees shall stand
All leahess 'gaInst the sullen sky
And birds shall in some Southern land
Renew the songs they here let die.
How oft a rest the tOiler finds
By rOadSides where your beauty blooms,
And feels his brow refreshed by winds
That gently sway your glowing plumes
Sometimes upon the mountain wild
Your watch and ward ye fondly keep,
Ger natures waning life that smiled
Ere storm winds burst with whitening sweep
How oft the towering pine goes down
Beneath the tempests rushing gale
That passes harmless DER your crown,
Still bright with yellow blossoms frail.
The splendor Of the suns gay hue
Gathered from summers smiling skies,
Ee throw upon the world anew
When autnmns darkening clouds arise,
The brave and generous heart thus sheds,
Where'er in time and earth it dwell,
Beauty and blessing on the heads
OF those who feel its magic spell.
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
49,
Merchant Tailoring.

We have a very full
stock of the finest Foreign
and Domestic Suitings to be
found. Our Cutters and
TailOrs are the best. What
we have said about prices
will the more readily be seen
in this department, as any
business man can readily
see how we can afford to
make them much lower. We
do an immense trade and
hope to increase it, we are
sure we will when the people
find us out, as many have
done. We are now making
great preparations for the
Fall and Winter trade, and
want everybody to know ii
and come and see us.
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
What Arctic Exploration Has Ao-
cOmplished.

From an "Open Letter." entitled ''Is
Arctic Exploration Worth Its Cost ?"
by J. E. Nourse, in the October Cen
tury, we quote the following:
A true estimate of what Arctic eX-
ploratiOn has gained, will, in part, be
reached by a comparison of the knOwl-
edge of our own continent half cen
tury ago with that shown upon the
schoolboy's map of to-day. The maps
of 1925 exhibited for our northern coast
line Baffin's Bay only on the east, and
westward, dots only for the mouths of
the Mackenzie and Hearne Rivers, up
to the icy Cape of Cook, and the Beh-
ring Sea-all which was then known
except the new sweep of Parry's voy-
age in the far North. The charts of
to-day accurately delineate the zone of
land and the coast-lines within the
Goth and 130th degrees of west longi-
tude, up to Cape Parry, latitude 10
| 2l/, a region now largely frequented
by the trader. To these add the eXplo-
rations in the Eastern Hemisphere by
the Russians, Danes, Austrians, Dutch
and Swedes, crowned by the circum-
navigation, first in in the worlds his
tory, of Northern Asia. And now
! Lockwood has extended the line of
North Greenland.
again, no Arctic expedition has
been fruitless of commercial and scien-
tifc gains. Cabot failed to find the
passage, but he established the claims
for our inheritance of English liberty
and law The first attempt to find the
passage by the northeast, brought from
the ill-fated Willoughby news like that
from our DeLong:
90 He, with his hapless crew,
Each full-exerted at his several task,
FrOze into statuGs.
But Willoughby's second ship made
the discovery of Russia's wealth. &
new Indies for England, the begin
ming of maritime commerce on the
north. Among direct or indirect gain:
of this kind, for us, have been the
whaling grounds of the northeast, anC
the fisheries of Behring Straits, Il re
gion rendered safe by the voyage and
charts of the Vincennes, the explora
tions of the Coast Survey, and lates
by the COrlUjR and the Signal Service
Alaska is now attracting immigration
but its shores seemed fOrbidding in tn
extreme before the surveys of ROdger
, | anu Une Iflal OBSERVATIONS OF Ddll ant
others were charted for the guidance
: of the mariner. The increasing return
= to the Government and to the mel
! chant from the fur seal and the otte
= have shown the wisdom of the pun
chase.
Still higher results are associate
. with the photography Of the grea
: oceans; the observations needed fC
= the further knowledge Of the laws GOV
erning the origin and the course {
+, storms; and magnetism, its relation
: to the compass, the telegraph, the tel
= phone We shall never accuratel
:, know, says the President of our Ow
% Geographical Society, the laws of aer
= al and oceanic currents, unless v
:, know more about what takes place
: the Arctic Circle y
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
The Value Of Slang.

"Slang has this value, that it shows
how language grows. The English
tongue $50 vigorous that it seizes what
ever it needs for growth, just as it did
in its infancy At that period direct
limitations Of sounds were constantly
made into words, as the young vandals
of to-day use 'chink for money
Farther on in the growth of the tongue
it took from ordinary speech these i'm
itatiVe words, and converted them to
new uses, just as you say ticker for
watch, and puff for advertisement
The contraction of words is another
stage, as mob now perfectly good
English, was at first merely slang for
the Latin mobile, the tickle crowd, as
cab was slang for 'cabriOlet,' and
'furlOng for furrOw-lOng,' the length
of furrow, and as mob is slang for
mobility
We make words from mems names
in the same way. / suppose boycott
ing may be good English soon. Mar
tinet,' now indispensable, was the
name of historic general Over-strict
in discipline. Derrick was a famous
hangman of the seventeenth century,
in honor of whom the rOughs named
the gallows-like hosting apparatus
and these are two, only, out of scores
of cases.
Many of the words that are now
responsibilities of conversation were
once gutter-children. Drag for in
stance, was a thieves word for car
riage, and dragsmen the particula
variety of thieves who followed the
carriage to cut away the luggage from
the rack behind. But drag is gOot
English now for a private coach. Kid
nap was thieves slang for child-steal
ing that is to nab kid Tie TO
cravat, was as much the slang of low
life as chOker is now. COnundrum
and donkey and fun were all SLAM
words, though perhaps not so low
Bore was Slang, and SO were 'wad
die and bother. '"-From " Slang,
By Lucia Gilbert RunkIe, an st. NichOtd
for October.
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01

A young BurlingtOnian is dreadfully
anxious over the result of the cam
paign. He and his girl have made the
following agreement: If Blaine is
elected, he is to marry the girl if
Cleveland is elected, the girl is to mar
ry him; if neither of them get it they
are to marry each other.-BUrtington
Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
The odd Fellows Cemetery
SMYRNA, DEL.

The Trustees of this Cemetery are now ready to
sell lots and issue deeds for the same The size OF
a whole lot is 30x32 feet and the prices are as fol-
lows. For a whole lot $50; half lot, $50; quarter
lot $40. There is not badly situated lot in the
Cemetery, but every one has choice OF location,
and there being but one price according to sizel
enables those first selecting to get their choice Of
location and as there has been several already
sold we would advise those who have no place OF
burial that it will be to their advantage to select
them as early as possible.
This is undoubtedly the best location in this
vicinity for a Cemetery being all high and n
nearly level piece of land beautifully situated on
the State road, within sight Of the town, ana yet
at such distance from It as TO guarantee that il
will never be used for other than Cemetery pur-
noses (and the deed of agreement positively Tor
bids its use for any other purpose than that OF
sepulture) For further particulars call on or al
GEO N. STEVENSON
f. NJ FOWLER,
JOS WRIGHT, Tu,eiees
D.. J. COLT,
b. V. WELDON,
JOS. EVANS,