Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-11-27
DAKOTA DOTS AND DASHES..

DOAe1 AA>D D<AbCAAAECs
The new Masonic hall al Watcrtowu
vas dedicated the 18th.
! The Bismarck Sentinel has changed its
name to Dakota Blade and is democratic.
Grand Forks is represented at New Or
leans by a cabbage head nine feet in cir
conference.
|, Gov. Pierce, who lives 100 miles wes,
OF jamestown, gave brilliant reception,
last Tuesday evening.
Ex-sherif McFadgen, OF Valley City is.
said to be an aspirant for the United States
marshalship of Dakota.
The new Dakota capitol building, 100
west Of jamestown, has been formally
turned over to the governor,
An exhibit of Dakota products sent to
Amsterdam, Holland, from Castalla, was
rewarded with a gold medal.
Lieutenant Creel, by an order of the
court IN the Creel divorce case, pays $50
month alimony and $3.50 attorneys fee.
An artesan we'll al Hurley, only TWEEN
ty-three feet deep, spouts stream OF
water four feet above the surface of the
ground.
A reward of fifty dollars is offered by
the mayor Of Huron, for the apprehension
of the parties who started ncendiary fros
at that place last week.
In Cass county the remains OF huge
mastodon have been unearthed One OF
the tusks was eleven feet long and six
inches in diameter.
The Bismarck Journal thinks Hon E.
A. Williams is the right man for speaker
of tho lower house of the Legislature.
Other counties have not yet been heard
from.
Here Is an example Of ,are christian
charity: The ladies OF the Wolsey Pres
byterian society are about to purchase an
organ 10 b" placed in the Methods,
church.
The election Of sheriff in Lawreace
county was so close that it required the
official count to decide 1t and then the
winning candidate, Garland, had tn. two
majority.
Samuel McMastcr has resigned the SUI
perlntendcncy of the Homestake mining
compan;, owing to continued Ill health
His successor !s William McCaskell, Of
Montana.
A rowing gang of horse traders, calling
themselves gypsies, are dong the terrific
ry now. Wherever they have been the
people are convinced they are rowing
gang OF thieves.
The c"rnct band accompanied by The
school children and large number Of
citizens attended the breaking Of ground
for the Baptist university at Tower City
one day la, week
y Minneapolis preacher discoursed up
on the iop:c "What is hell'" and the
Valley City Times answers that 1t is walt-
Ing week for the official count and then
finding that Cleveland is elected.
Rev. Father Flanagan, of Valley City,
has been succeeded IN the pastorate OF the
Catholic church of that place by kew
Father JasDers, of Green Bay, Wisconsin,.
Father Flanagan goes to Yankton.
Several horse thieves were recently cap.
tured by Montana cowboys up in the
Mouse river country and hung to the
limbs OF trees, which are much more con
venlcnt for hanging purposes than tcle
graph poles.
As an Illustration of the sttraction of
the winning side it may be noted That's
the recent election only III democrats
showed up IN Burleigh county while at
the ratiiicrtion Of Clevcland's election
oyer thousand bourbons came to the
front.
The fetal vote of the territory at tie
recent election was about 10000. This
would indicate population of about
100000, which is probably very nearly
correct, and is an increase of lOO,O 900 over
the population of 1882 estimated from the
vote OF ,ha; wear.
stalwart young Indian brave, named
ISL ung g-che-ung, recently swan the ra-
glng Missouri. near Bismarck, to gain the
hand of daughter Of his tribe. The won
der Of the feat was not alone in swimming
the trcachcrous stream, but IN acing wa
ter cold hs ice, with buckskin trousers
and shirt to catch the dangerous sand
with one hand fastened behind him.
Crop Reports.
Ole johnson, section "a, township l42,
range "a, this county, reports wheat so
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