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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-05-21
COUNTY, COMMISSIONERS.

Proceedings Of the Boa,d Of Count,
commissioners IN session al 10 O'Clock q
M May 10Th, 1885.
Present commissioners Eddy, Buck
and Woodbury..
woodbury. in the chair.
Minutes of last meeting read and an.
proved
oh motion road supervisor Wink was
instructed to improve and repair highway
on section line between sections ! and s
anu between sections II and IS in town.
ship l39 range 81.
On motion ih. county treasurer was
instructed IN TO from,c,ty cf-.tsmus.
in settlement between said city and the
county.
Board adjourned until ? O'Clock p. NJ.
Full board in session at O'Clock p. m.
On motion road and. bridge order for
$3.50 was allowed w. NJ. Bartholomew
road poll tax 1884 erroneously assessed.
On motion the county auditor was in
structed to forward to FIRST National
bank Of st. Paul, Minn., sa6,5c0.oo in
road and bridge funding bonds with in
structions to deliver the same to MIR.
Crawford Livingston upon his paying the
sum of s36, ,6s5. 90 said amount to be re-
turned to county treasurer Geo ]. Web
ster.
Clerk OF court Hills presented receipt
from county treasurer for sl2s 10 turned
in from court fees and fines.
f. T. Kearney and others, pctltioned
for new road district to he created out of
road district No. 2.
On motion, all that part Of road district
No. 2 lying east Of Pipestem river and
north of township l4o, ranges GA and IS
was set off, to be known as road district
No. Z, and Thomas G Barrett was ap
poin,ed road supervisor Of said district
No. I.
The county attorney reported back ia
vorably the quarterly report Of Justice OF
the Peace Hamilton.
On motion, report accepted and fees al
lowed.
On motion, the following bills we're al
lowed:
T. b. VanWyck, goods for pau
pcr...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. = Dc
d. e. Buck, goods and provisions
for paupers and prisoners, 70 IS
j. NJ. Bowman, do do 6 OF
Bowman s. Lyon, do 90 25 81
Hicks, Topl,n & Co., fuel for court
house., Is 2;
Hicks, Topllff & Co., fuel for pau
| psrs. Is 81
| IN hoG-neo-- road viewer and
livery .................:. ..-.'.:. II 90
B. F. Broughton, work IN district
| No. 4, 1854. I SO
Wm. McFarlane, blacksmithlng 70
Drake & Baldwin, books, papers,
etc, for county officers ........ 80
Joe ID. Mills, services clerk of
| courts Office. 80. so 90
II. F. Elliott, bailltf April term
district court. ....... 80 90
W. A. Smith, witness and mileage
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-05-21

Yankton anu Bismarck were as insep
arabic as the Siamese twins in favor Of
the constitutional convention bill, and
yet the one did it to secure division aud
the other did 1t to defeat division, and the
indications are that Bismarck will as usu-
al come out ahead and ought TO send the
Yanktonites leather medal as the
champion suckers of the nineteenth cen
tury.
We have frequently noted the opposl-
tion to division lately developed in South
Dakota, among the latest of which is the
following from the Sioux Falls Argus, a
paper published in the hot bed the
southern confederacy and place appointed
for holding the constitutional convention:
"The scheme for dividing Dakota on the
46th parallel seems now forlorn hope.
Every argument has been exhausted and
the people have taken up the question
for consideration. 1t is found that the
reasons for the division If Dakota are no
better than could be presented for the
division Of Texas, California, and other
states, and If division is to be made at all
the 4Gth parallel IS no longer the favorite
line. l: is seen that the east and west are
quite as strong as the north and south; and
there IS strong sentiment being devel-
oped favorable TO three states If division
be made. THIS being fact the coming
constitutional convention has more and
more the appearance of boys play, and
no one who talks what he believes has
any idea that it is to be serious matter.
A job lot of political children from vari.
Gus parts of the territory will gather here
to efrervescc and save a rupt0re by an
ebb-ti!c of eloquence which has been
gathering Tor Two years. The whole af
fair means simply this and nothing
more"
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$500 PER Z EAR.
Aenerial ser.is

y mas been decided 70 hold tha -, y
rial services At The oper. rinl \. s.. .......o'
NAY y. 2lsh. At which time and pi4cs n, a. !,
=. 2. Hartman, chsplain 81 Fo,t se~.,d z
fosf, this city win deliver q addrs.. - 1
propriafe to the occaslon. r.. h,,.,a,..
Will be well seated 50 that I'll q. Z. n..,. ~.
comfortable. The exercises wlll & p... y
hmlnary and with refeseuce = !, &. ~ 80
nual decoration ceremonies anpoi..e., ~.
'.sy ,osn, and will he highly intere.tlns
as well a. entertaining.
Inc Alert is requested 10 :. oo,, =.
.nst the procession will be tornad = IN -
! old First National bank oorn.- :. n =
O'Clock .. m.. Sunday, May 2a.b. i
"n'cn all old soldiers resident or soi,urn
ing in this city or country around. q.
Light Guards militia company. and q.
members OF the Jamsstowa dre cepart.
m@ NJ are requested to JOIN. From IN.
s'a'ion they will march In military no.
cesslon 70 the Opera rink where tia nna-
nora. services viii be had attAe usual
nour l0f holding SandaY mnrninS chnrch
Revival 1eetisgs.
Never before in the history of our beau.
tiful city has there been a. deep An in
terest manifested IN religious matters as
there is at the present time. Some four
or five weeks ago reyivalist, the "Boy
Preacher" by the name Of Little, came
here and held series of meetings with
marked success, and many found that
blessing which God IN his Providence has
promised for all those who shall sock
him. At the conclusion Of Mr.. Little's
meetings, Mr.. A. !. Bell, an evangelist OF
Chicago commenced series OF meetings
in the N. E. church and such WAS the
awakening IN the great work, that this
church, although large and commodious,
was found to be too small TO contain tho
large crowd that nightly hocked there
The Baptist anG Presbyterian churches
were also employed, aud the local mimic.
ters Of our town all bnckled on thelr sl-
NOR ana went to work with . will both
night and day. But the churches soon
failed to hold the vast mum bers that had
been aroused IN the Holy cause, and the
skating rink was procured IN which TO
hold these meetings Y hich am told will
hold nearly thousand people. And now
every night this great room is filed with
people from town and the surrounding
country for many miles. Up to this time
there has been nearly two hundred con.
versions. embracing oil classes from the
young to the old and gray headed, and
still the noble work goes on.-Fayette
County Union, West Union, Iowa.
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On motion, board adjourned to meet at
10 O'Clock a. NJ, May 10th, 1885.
l.. B. MINER,
County Auditor.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-05-21

THE Alert has from the first opposed
the proposition for holding convention
10 form a constitution for South Dakota
for the reason that it would not in any
event accelerate division but rather, by
ITS seeming contempt Of federal author
ity IL the premises, retard 1t. The Alert
stood almost alone IN its opposition to
the apr roprlation Of $40, 600 from the ter.
ritorial treasury by the legislature last
winter to pay The expenses Of this colos
sal farce. The bill was put through the
legislature as quietly as possible and un.
der the false p,etense that the expenses
of the convc nlion were 10 be paid by
South Dakota. If this had been tue the
bill would still have been an imposition
upon the taxpayers of that section, for 1t
is subject matter over which congress
has exclusive control, but when tribute
was levied upon the taxpayers of North
Dakota, who have no part nor voice in
the farce, the appropriation to that ex.
tent became plundcring raid upon the
public trust fund,
Every day public sentiment is growing
against the scheme and threatens to be.
come boomerang that will not only de-
feat division Of the territory and the ad-
mission Of South Dakota, but will create
a sentiment In favor Of admission OF the
entire territory as siagle state strong
enough to accomplish 1t with the aid of a
favorable congress. There is point
where extremes meet and work together
for Numerically opposite purposes and
the South Dakota institutional convcn.
ton bill in the legislature last winter was
case in point. 1t was O scene to make e
angels weep for millennial joy to see the
rabbi divisionists Of South Dakota and
the opponents Of division in Bismarck
working hand IN hand and shoulder to
shoulder for the constitutional convcn.
ton bill when at the same time Senator
Vest in Washington had IN his pocket q
remonstrance against division signed by
those self same Bismarckers, and came
dlstressingly near giving their names
away in one Of his TRADES against Dakota
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The Progress " Education in Dakota

The Progress VI Education in Dakota.
In 1872 there were in the Territory
8 3,94G children of school age, and e34, ,203
expended for school purposes. The value
OF school property was e60, ,3l9, and there
were 14l men AMI ls9 women teaching
school. In 1854 there were 77,499 chill
dren of school age, SO graded schools,
1908 ungraded schools; value OF school
property, 81 ,6s9, ,65s; spent for school pur-
poses during the year, 81 ,3O6, ,s7s, and the
number of teachers employed in the Ter
ritory was s63 men ana 2,05s women. a
total of 1901. The Pioneer. Express says
the people as rule are alive to the i'm.
portance Of educating their children, and
neat little school houses dot the prairie
IN every part of the country. The aver.
age size of single school district is hree
miles square.
The schools in nearly every instance
are furnished with approved modern ap-
pliances, and IN the way of desks, maps,
globes, ETC., have the best, The teachers
are efficient and progressive. Well .sus-
tained Institutes and associations show
their intelligent interest in their work.
Higher education has been literally pro
vided for. In North Dakota there are
high schools IN all the larger towns, nota-
bly, at Fargo, Grand Forks and James
town. Graduation from these schools is
preparation for the entrance to the uni.
versities, ct which there are two the
Dakota University at Vermilllon, and the
North Dakota University al Grand Forks.
These institutions aree supported by the
Territory, and offer free l,ber.l educa
ton in literature and the sciences es-Pem
bina Pioneer
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The Wisaebago Reservation.


Gov. Pierce has issued the following Ia
all whom it may concern:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
BISMARCK, Dak., May 18th, 1855 !
To the settlers upon the Crow Creek and
Winnebago lands:
The following communication has
been received at this office from the
President of the United States, and is
published for the information of all con-
ccrned
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, May Is, 1855.
Hon. Gilbert A. Pierce, Governor, Da-
kota Ter'itory-Dear Sir: Your letter
May 9Th Is received, and thank you tor
the interest you have evlnced IN the sub
ject of the Crow Creek and Wlnnebsgo
reservations. l regret exceedingly that
there are any settlers in good faith upon
the reserv alton lands who will suffer at
all by the enforcement of the last execu-
tive proclamation. But it was issued be
cause the laws, justice and due regard
to the treaty obligations of the govern
ment demanded 1t. The reasons which
operated upon the executive and his ad-
ylsors inducing the issuing Of the procla.
nation still exist in full force, and mani
festly rendered it impossible to suspend or
modify such proclamation or extend the
time within which the same may be com
piled with.
Signed, GROVER CLEVELAND.
1t will be seen from the above, that
any expectation Of suspension of the
nrda- for ~, .a--.-.---.
lusive, and can only bring disappoint-
ment. therefore renew the request
made in former paper from this Office,
and enio,n upon the settlers to comply
promptly and quietly with the command
of the executive. Let the president Sc
that the settlers on these lands are law
abiding, and that whatever the personal
sacrifice they will interpose no o ostacles
to the peaceable execution of the order.
l repeat that nothing is to be gained
while much may be lost by failure to
observe this injunction. The same re-
gard for the moral obligations of the
government which inspired this order
will insure justice to the innocent suf.
ferers by 1t if they svince that spirit ol
obedience to the constituted anthor,tie.
which becomes American citizens.
Signed.
| Gu.RERT PIERCE Governor.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-05-21
on for the Sandwich Islands.

Hon. johnson Nickeus started on the
Pacific express yesterday morning for .
tour Of the Pacific coast after which he
will sail from San Franclsco for Honolu-
lu. capital of the Sandwich Islards,
where he will visit an old friend who Is
there engaged in the law business snd
where Mr. Nlckeus may conclude 70 lc-
cate.
The Sandwich Islands are group Of
twelve islands In the North Pacific ocean
about two ihousaod miles soushwest Of
San Francisco. Eight of these islands
are inhabited and four uninhabi.ed.
They are situated between latitude Is and
% north. The temperature il even and
said to be healthful. The average tenn
persture for the coolest month u 81 aud
that Of the warmest 81. Hawaii, the
largest island of the group is shout one
hundred miles square. These islands
were discovered by Capt. Cook in IT'S.
lie estimated the population st 400, 900
but it seems to have decreased rapidly.
In 1882 the census showed Q population
of l30,3l3 and that of 1873, s., 1856, among
them ss3 Americans. The government
is constitutional monarchy. Kalakaua
is the relgnlng monarch, and his sister,
who is heir TO the throne, Is married tc
An American. The legislative depart
ment of the government is composed Of
70 mobiles appointed by the king for life.
ard % representatives elected blennialIy
by the people
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-05

missing, and who of us will be
there? When the sheep shall have
been folded by the Great Shepherd
of Israel shall any. of US be
straying?
May God in His mercy bring us
into that land where parting shall
be no more. And now may the
benedictions of pastors God rest
upon you all is my prayer.
HIS LAST WORDS.
To my friends: 1 want to thank
the whole church for the kind
ness it has shown me.
want to thank those members
especially who have watched over
me in my sickness, and who have
been as loving as children to a
father.
want to thank the able physi-
clans whose remedies, by the grace
of God, so alleviated my sufferings.
And may heavens own blessings
be on those who have administered
to my wants and to the many more
who were SO ready to do it. And
especially amongst the friends to
whom 1 wish to testify my graft
sude is the noble, faiIhfal colored
woman who has nursrd me so de-
votedly and so long.
May this church be blessed with
the plenteous grace of God and
shine in its holiness and devotion,is
my prayer. VIM. SToDDERT.
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Keep Out ef Debt.

A debtor is a fetter. 1t cuts hard
into the neck. 1t binds you when
you lie down to sleep; rises with
you in the morning, it clings to
you through the day; therefore
keep out of debt. 1t is a vampire
that sucks out your hearts blood
and consumes your beauty, there
fore keep out of debt. The debtor
is not himself; he cannot look his
creditor in the face; he cannot look
the market man in the face; there
fore keep out of debt.
Running in debt" says an old
minister, sis the first sin; lying lie
the second sin, for running in debt
leads to lying" 1t leads to many
other sins, it leads sometimes to
self destruction. OF the large and
lamentable number of suicides that
have occurred of late the majority
have been caused by running in
debt. Therefore, again we say,
keep out of debt, If needful, wear
your old coat longer, live on sim
pie diet, take a palmer house, rise
earlier in the morning, do anything
fair and honest-if you must, to
save yourself, from running in debt.
For death is tyrant, goading you,
tantalizing, torturing you, and IN
plying as the grave, pursuing and
harassing you until you pay the
utmost farthing. Therefore as you
love serenity of mind, as you love
peaceful slumber, as you love man
illness, as you love sweet life itself
keep out Of debt.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-05
What Your Wife Can IN

She can say mo" and stick to it
for all time.
She can also say mo in such
low, soft voice that it means YES"
She can sharpen a lead pencil, if
you give her plenty of pencils.
She can dance all night in a pair
Of shoes two sizes too small for her
and enjoy every minute Of the
time.
She can pass display window Of
a diapers shop without stopping
If she is running to catch a train.
She can walk half the night with
noisy baby in her arms without
once expressing the desire to muir
der the infant.
She can appreciate a kiss from
hsr husband seventy-five years after
the ceremony has taken place.
She can suffer abuse and neglect
for years which one touch OF kind
ness or consideration will drive
from her recollection.
She can go to church and after
wards tell you what every woman
in the congregation had on, and in
some instances can give faint idea
Of what the text was.
She can look her husband square
IN the eye when he tells her some
cock -and-bull story about being de
tanned at the Office" without be
traying in the least that she knows
him to be q colossal liar
She can-but what's the use? A
woman can do anything or every
thing and do it well.
She can do more in q minute than
man can in an hour, and do it
better.
She can make the alleged lords
bow down to her own sweet will and
they will never know it.
Yes, woman can do anything,
with but one exception; she cannot
climb a tree.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-05
CHRONOLOGY OF SrEAMBoAr.
ING.
Origin I1veniion, and Introduction
Of Steam Graf.

The first idea Of steam nayiga-
ton was contained in a patent oh.
tanned in England by Huils in I736
Fitch Experimental in steam
navigation on the Delaware river in
1884.
Oliver Evans was the next exper-
lmenter in steam navigation in
Ramsey was also an experiment
er in steam navigation in 1857.
w. Symington made a trial on
the Fourth and Clyde with small
but rudely constructed model of a
steamer in 1889.
Chancellor Livingston built 4
steamer on the Hudson in 1897.
The first experiment in steam
boating on the Thames, England.
was in 1901.
MIR. Symington repeated his ex.
perlments on the Thames with sue
cess in 1902.
Fulton built the steamer North
River, and made a passage up the
Hudson river to Albany. from New
York, In 80 hOurs-the first pavioa-
ton on record. The engines were
constructed by Boulton d Watts.
The voyage was made in 1907.
Inc next steamboat was the .Tar
OF Neptune, 1908.
Fulton built the Orleans at Pitts
burg-the first steamer on western
rivers. 1t was completed. and
made the voyage to New Orleans
1000 miles, 1911.
The Richmond was built at New
York in 1912.
The hrst steam vessels Of Europe
1912. ~ "
Five steam vessels appeared in
Scotland 1913.
England built her first steamer
il 1875.
Tho first steamer in Ireland was
in 1920.
The Great Western, from Bristol.
England, and the Sirius from Cork.
Ireland, both arrived at New York
City, both on their first VOYAGE. and
each eighteen days out, on Jane II,
1888.
The first war steamer was built
in England in 1888.
Returns from twenty-three states
gave an aggregate Of 700 steam
boats IN the United States in 1888.
There were about 1900 steam
vessels in the United States in
l847.
The Washington was the first
American ocean steamer Of note.
She made her first voyage to South
hampton in IS47.
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Moderation.

A moderate desire, where reason
and prud ence have been allowed to
dictate the direction, may be more
easily secured, and will usually
prove more satisfactory than any
immoderate and an inconsiderate
one. An unreasonable conception
of a want has been often productive
Of difficulties and disasters. BY be
ing satisfied with 8 little, much
may be in time acquired. An i'm
moderate tendency generally pre-
cipitates into excuses and the en-
.couragement of habits that ulti-
mately lead to ruin. Many young
men, at the outset of their career,
have been hopelessly entangled
through an immoderate DISPOSE
tion. In their efforts to crafty
immoderate desires, they have
crippled themselves, and been there
by incapacitated for meeting future
exigencies. To be moderate in all
aspirations; to be under the control
of good judgment and a discreet
understanding, always presupposes
success in any undertaking. He
who fis content to make money
gradually is generally on safe
ground, and is seldom in danger of
failure. Make haste slowly. Cal
culate all your chances in favor of
yourself and then weigh those
against yourself, and make your
moves accordingly. Take heed
that you do nothing without first
counting the cost and considering
the consequences, and above all
things, let your judgment be tenn
pered to moderation. Seek by rea-
sonable expedients, under the guild
ance of experience and caution, to
secure a firm foundation upon
which to build.
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A Living Curiesity-132 years Old.

In company with prominent citi-
zens 1 paid a visit to one Of the
greatest curiosities in the shape of
a man that is now living-old
Grandpa Cillehunt, as he is called.
Living in recess or a hole, about
IA feet wide, p feet il length and
81 feet in height, cut into Higgins
bluff, three and one-half miles
west Of Friendship and one and
one-half miles east of the South
Forked Deer river, and surrounded
by 3 dense forest; he seems as
well cOntented as is possible to be.
In front of this little palace there
is rudely constructed shelter COW
cred with cypress slabs and boards
and moss, giving it an ancient APP
pearance. He claims to have been
there since the year 1898, and had
just completed his little domicile
when the first snow fell on the 18th
of December of that year, long be-
fore civilization had claimed this
country. He claims to be from
Virginia, was a warm supporter of
John Adams for president, and ex-
pected to have recognition in the
formation of Adams cabinet, but
was disappointed and became a
wGnderer, found his present abode
and resolved to shut himself in for
ever. He has sixteen traps of vari
Gus sizes flor catching game from
the bear down to the smallest mink
or rat. He seems to have lost all
reckoning of time except by win
tiers, and for every winter he has a
mark upon his wall of dirt. There
are eighty seven marks. He re-
members well the history of the
United States prior to that date.
He claims to have been born in the
year 1852, which would make him
13l years Of age. The hair has
grown out long all over his body
and only a little steel gray spot
around his eyes and forehead is
bare. He wears a suit of clothes
made from the hides of animals he
captured when the Indians roamed
wild in these forests.-AlamOS Sen.
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him transportation to the metropo-
lie, which, with a small sum of
money was quite enough to put him
on his feet again.
A few months ago 1 found him
in New \ ork, once more on the
high road to prosperity. Securing
clerkship in a banking house he
finally developed into a banker and
broker on his own account, in q
small way at first, but is now doing
an extensive and profitable business,
and Is enjoying life with his family
around him. 1 did not ask him
whsther he had made provisions for
his wife and children, but he did
not refer to the matter himself l am
afraid he has not.