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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29

The president has put his foot down
sudden and hard upon the Office seekers
6s6 mleSssl ferrous mob assl muititude Of
Office brokers who have swarmed In upon
him like the locusts on Pharaoh of an
cient Egypt. 10 taking this decisive ac-
ton the president ls entitled to the graft
tude OF aspirants for office, for they have
been bled long and deep, "held up" as 1t
were, by the self assumed dispensers of
federal patronage, who are as Unsuitable
in their demands for pelf and as dishon-
est in the means employed to extort mon
ey from their victims as the ''road
agents" on the stage routes in Montana.
Thousands of these office brokers have
gone to Washington IN palace cars and
maintained themselves at high priced ho-
tells on the money furnished for ''contin-
gent expenses by the over ambitious
dupes who imagined they were putting
their money where it would do the most
good in adva ncing their claims upon the
administration for recognition and official
appointment, and as this decision or
rule will sweep away the occupation of
these robbers, we say he is entitled to the
gratitude of those aspirants who haye so
long been bled by these political leeches.
The president gives notice that after the
first of November he will not grant inter-
views to those seeking public positions
nor their advocates. He evidently thinks
he has squandered enough time with
these mansion nu,sances, and snuffs them
out with one strske Of his pen. When
one reflects for moment that there are
about fifty thousand federal positions
worth striving for, and that for each of
these there are dozen applicants on the
average, and that each applicant has
from one to half dozen advocates in
Washington and gong to the capital oc-
casionally 10 urge his claims upon the
president, it will be found that nearly a
million interviews would be required to
afford all q hearing. No Office seeker
nor advocate could be gotten rio of with
less than an hours interview, without q
collar and elbow hint 10 depart, and as
an hours interview to each one would
require over forty thousand years, day
and night without eating or sleeping, it
is no wonder the president became dis
coursgsd and desperate at the demand
upon him for all this work the first year
OF his administration, and decided to
brokers out of the mansion and bar the
door against them.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29
Angels for School Teachers.

A lady teacher IN the Brooklyn schools
has obtained widespread notsrlety on
account Of humping a boy pupils head
and paying hne for 1t on the charge of
assault and battery. The manner of pun
lshmcnt, which consisted in banging the
boy . head against = window, could not
be justified anywhere. She pleaded in
mitigation that her salary was 50 small
that she was not able to buy ferule and
the school board did not furnish them 80
che employed the means at hand for
chastising the unruly lad. She being a
woman Of acute nervous sensibility could
not resist the temptation to then and
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29
Come to Oar Arms.
(Bad Lands Cow Boy. }

A curious reversal of "ths eternal fit-
ness Of things is seen IN the feet that
there are in twenty-five states, 3oS, AS
more women than men. The greatest
excess is in Massachusetts, where there
are &c, ,2O5 more women. In al the ter
ritsries, except the District Of Columbia,
there is large excess Of men. In Da-
kots there 10 the largest excess Of nen,
% AIS. In the whole Of the United
States, there are, according to the eensus
Of 1880, a, ,636, 1868 women and q, Sis, -
men. Thus We see that 'hops nay yet
sprilg eternal in the fensls bresst for,
IN the United States and Dakota there 10
somewhere manly heart and trus for
every husbandlsss female Who considers
it her ''spear to cling" Asideas ef Hss-
sachusetts, q st least about half Of you.
come to our arms, that i, . Daksea's
arms and help our sturdy pu0pkl1-rsl-
lss staEvs 70 dsath o. cur baeAful' ceU-
bcys to round up The len kins.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29

THERE was great slaughter of the in
nocents at the South Dakota republican
state ~ convention held at Huron last
week. The entire ticket was made up of
men heretofore almost unheard of, and
the prominent leaders were not only Civ
en- but voluntarily took back seats. To
those who are unacquainted with the
dark and devious ways of politics this
may seem not only very strange pro-
ceeding but an open rebuke to the lead
ers of the statehood scheme. But it was
neither. 1t was that popularity of ac-
tion which is called "methsd IN mad
ness.'' The scheme has reached that
point where sacrifices must be offered up,
and the men nominated at the Huron
convention last week are the lambs for
that purpose Does anyone whose sanl-
ty Is above question imagine for mo.
ment that Campbell, Gamble, Moody,
Pettigrew and politicians of that caliber
and celebrity would concede these state
office nominations to the unheard of
men whose names compose the ticket if
they thought them anything but an emp
ty honor? They do not for moment be-
lieve that congress will recognize these
officers even though the constitution
should be accepted. This nominating
convention was merely scheme to enlist
apathetlc men and their friends into sup
port OF the constitution and afterwards
to lay the candidates on the Shelf
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29
Wake Up Duluth !
Grand r orks Herald.)

Duluth has evidently been lulled into
pleasing and fancled security, by the
belief that J. j. Hill will sometime here.
after, no man knows when, tulld short
line o road between the Lake port and
the Red River Valley and thus necessarily
pour into that clty's lap the wealth of
our increasing millions of No. l hard
wheat. What majestic stride of pro-
gress in the mercantile history of our
country Duluth would take! But sup
pose Duluth should wake up from her
tiattered supineness and present comfort
able lethargy, two years hence, to learn
that she had been fondled and betrayed?
Her interest in the Duluth & Winnipeg
land grant gone, the valley Of the Red
R,yer tapped by two or three competing
lines to the south and southwest, another
line of barges on the Red River Where
would she be then? The Duluth Journals
and their board of trade, now chuckling
with delight at the vast and growing sup
ply of grain that flows thither from this
valley will cry out that this is the sombre
vision of an alarnist But, let us see
What does the entry of the Burlington
into st. Paul mean, taken in connection
with its relations to Mr.. Hills road?
With the easy grade the cost of carrying
wheat from st. Paul to Chicago will be
50 reduced and kept up all the year
around, that the lake route will fall into
desuetude altogether as wheat market
ing factor, BY the combination, even an
ordinary prophet may foretell, that the
lake route will be obvi ated and Mlnneap-
OILS and St. Paul continue to monopolize
the wheat product of the northwest.
The following item from the Fergus
Falls (Mlnn.) Journal will be OF interest
to those who attended the last show at
this place: Robinson's circus left this
city minus several of the most notable
features of its side show. There was
some sort of ruction between the pro-
prietcrs and some Of the attractions
which resulted in the latter throwing up
their situations. One of Robinson's s
sons also cut loose here and took the train
southward. Those who emancipated
themselves here are Henry Cooper, better
known as the foot giant, and wife, W.
E. Crosby and wife, the snake chsrmer
and iuggler, Miss Hattie Kendall and
one other, sort of attraction not learned
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY

gentlemen, if that Is your position we
shall exercise the right to withdraw. Not
another service, not another cent from US
in the Methodist church, Sabbath school,
or mission, till you have reached the plat
form, There is neither male nor female,
but we are all one in Jesus Christ. 4"
Suppose women should withdraw all
presence, countenance, service, and
support from all matters of public
concern until fully recognized as citl.
Zens?
1t is objected that these suggestions
display an antagonism towards men' Not
at all. No antagonism exists, or ever
existed, between the sexes, save that
caused by men taking position antagon-
lstlc to woman's development, happiness,
and best interests.
DO these suggestions appear chimerical
as well as revolutionary? Probably they
may not be practicable where organized
effort IS necessary to their adoption,
where unanimity on the part of the mass
of women is required, but in individual
cases they will be found more potent than
women have ever realized. For graphic
illustration of the effectiveness of protest
and self-assertion we need but to recall
the action of Miss Ada Sweet when re-
quested to resign her position as pension
agent, and the result.
FLORENCE NJ. Atkinson.
Gov. Pierce Repudiates that Excuse -
AS the Alert anticipated last week Gov.
Pierce repudiates the idea of an tsexcuse''
for vetoing the capital removal bill last
winter which was 80 generously (?) given
the public for him by the Press and Da-
kotaian at Yankton The following is
what the governor says about 1t over his
own signature:
BISMARCK, Oct. II, 1885.
find the following paragraph gong
the rounds of the newspapers, credited to
the Press and Dakotaian:
"Gov. Pierce has placed on f,e as enc
of his excuses for vetoing the capital re-
moval bill, letter from Judge c. S. Pal,
mer, urging HIM to veto the bill, and rep.
resenting that large proportion of the
people of his district were opposed to the
removal OF the capital from Bismarck
and were satisfied with the action of the
capital commission
The inference from the above is that
have been trying to saddle the response
bility of the veto of the capital remeva
bill on to somebody else, and that hav'
in some official manner filed letter from
Judge Palmer as an excuse for that act
which is absurd.
I have never sought Tor an "excuse" TO,
my course, and no person can truthfully
claim 70 have influenced me regarding tn
measure l believed it wrong, and We
toed it. have never seen momen,
when doubted the justice cf my course
or wanted anybody to share IN the res.
possibility, the glory, or the blame of it.
Bad or good, right Or wrong, just or un.
just, the burden rests entirely upon me,
and have never hoped, requested, or de.
sired anybody else to assume it. The
paragraph quoted places responsibility
on Judge Palmer which in no means,
shape or manner belongs to him.
Respectfully yours,
GILBERT A. PIERCE.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-29

GOOD REQ Flannel At zoe 4 YARD.
SPUN WOOL S0x 25c 4 PAIR,
GOOD COTTON SOx &c 4 PAIR.
A Good Ladys Newmarket Coat, to the bottom
Of her dress, for $3.50.
Girls Newmarket Coats at So and upwards.
Good Winter Underwear, all Wool, at 81.
Choice Misses and Ladies' Wool Hose at 25c.
4 Splendid line of Dress Goods at 2Oc yard.
All Wool Extra Heavy Wide Double Fold Dress
Flannels in all shades, at 6Oc q yard.
Splendid CIoaks for $3.50, $500, $500 & $3.50.
Wool Hoods at SOC and upwards.
Ohildren's all Wool Shirts, Pantlets and Drawers
at 36, 40 and 50 cts.
GOOD BUFFALO OvER.COATS, ST..
Mems Splendid Shoes at $l.75.
Qegant Childrens and Misses Shoes, all war
ranted. at 81 80.
<~mn. Is &. s4
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
THE RAILROAD STRIKERS.
The Strike Spreading ON the wabash ana
Texas Pacific Roads-The End


ST. LOUIS. March The railroad strike here re-
mains unchsnged. The few men VINO left the
Wabash repair shop, few days ago, still remain
out. but their places have been generally filled.
and the affair Is considered trifing by the
officers of the road. No action has yet been taken
by the Missouri Pacific employees here with view
to Joining the strikers in 1exas. and business is
going usual, except that perishable freight
is not being taken for poin.s in Texas. All pas.
senger trains are running regularly
Inc striking sbopmen 0i the Maoasn RalIway
ised aid from the Knights Of Labor. Martin. Su-
perintendent of the Car Service of the Wabash
system, claims that the strike is over. and says
more men are applying for work thRu eau be EN-.
ployed rumor is current in the shops here to
day that the Peru and Decatur men will quit
work after to-day.
the snop men. hostlers and wipers of the Missouri
Pacific; al this place, on a signal whistle
WALKED awsy from their work, formed
in q line about four hundred strong, and marched
TO Smlth's Opera House. where they held secret
meeting until after O'Clock. 1t Is understood
they resolved 10 stop all freight trains tonight
ard unless their demands are granted by Nolday
they viii allow no passenger trains to leaV-. moth
ing but locomotive aud mail Car VIII be allowed
TO pass. Toe shOpmeu held a meeting last night
aud made demand that their wages be restored
10 what they were before the cut OF last October
This was communicated to the officials OF the
road. with the statement that they could wait
till , n. N. to day tor au answer. No answer was
received, and the strike was inaugurated. About
o'clock TO night the car inspectors struck.
DESIsoN, Tex, March THE striEe proceeds
quietly, aud the news that the macniuists at Par
sons and Sedaa had quit work this afternoon en-
couraged the strikers here Two trains arrived
TO day, and both were sde-tracked by the strikers
ane the fires drawn from the engines The strik-
ers have notified the Texas Central Railroad that
If they send engines over the Missouri Pacific
track, for the purpose OF assisting the latter COM
pany in MOVING Its cars such relief engines will
certainly be seized and temporarily disabled. A
delegation from the striking workmen at Parsons
arrived this evening. and ere quietly cenferring
with the strikers to- night detail OF strikes Al
the shop keeps steam and L,se in readiness to ex-
tIngulsn a fire.
Reports from strikers sAs.srsaall Lougviex,
Palestine and Fort Worth slow no signs of weak
ening.
MAEsHALL. Tex, March ALI quiet
among the striking railroad employees to-day. At
a meeting this evening the strikers rescinded a
resolution notifying superintendent Haynes tnat
he must leave town in twenty-four hours Other
wise both sides remain apparently as firm on
the first day.
At Longview the strikers were firm I'm main
taining good discipline aud stopped five III, re
freight trains TO day coming from the direction OF
Palestine. The sidetracks are covered with freight
cars.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
LOVE ON LITTLE WHEELS.
How a Syracuse Girl and a Blacksmith
Met and Were Married.

SYRACUSE. March MARY SulliVaa. fourteen
years Olo is petite brunette, whose parents live
in this city. Charles L. Hoyt ia brawny black
smith OF twice her sge. He lives at OnOndags
Valley, arc is the son OF well-to.dO parents The
parents of the former are Roman Catholics. and
those of the latter staUnca members OF "a c
Methodist Episcopal Church. The pair came to-
gether q few dsys ago at the rink. IN q
few nights they we're desperately
smitten that marriage was propose ].
but the religious faiths being an
taGOnistic. ana neither being willing 70 yield.
the matter remained IN suspense until Monday
last when Miss Sullivan disappeared from her
home Bnd the police were notified. Her parents
thought she lad either been abducted or had met
with foul play. and were greatly agiated.
To-dey a detective found the couple living to
eether SIS happily as turtle doves In West Jefferson
street. They announced themselves as man and
wife. and produced a marriage certificate, by
which it appeared tney were married on Monday
by Justice of the Peace. When the father OF the
girl learned of the step his daughter had taken he
sw0re vengeance on the head OF bOyt, and regis
tered sn oath that he would shoot him on sight
At police headquarters the parents OF the girl the
newly married couple, the Police Magistrate and
Rev. DR.. James A. O Hara talked the matter over
and became recOnciled
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Spanish budget of 1855 shows a deficit of
s5,5C0,0C0.
The Great Eastern Steamship Company has
ordered vindup.
General Wolfeiey teleeraphs his ''eyesight is IN
affected and health perfect"
The Queen has just invested a million pounds
sterling IN ground rents in London.
Bishop Beceli. of the Protestant Episcopal
Church al Mount Vernon, Is dangerously III.
A general meeting of the National Base Ball
League was held a. the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New
York, yesterday.
One Russian. TWO Italians and sixteen Germans
were among the band Of Socialists expelled from
France yesterday.
The Toronto Trades and Labor Council memo
rallied the Government not 10 increase the cuty
on cigars from &c to IS per ,0c0.
Marquis OF Lorne. last night. in q speech ridi-
culed the idea OF approaching war with Russia.
He said all will be peacefully settled.
The dry goods importers of Toronto presen "a
memorial against the proposed increase Snd
change Of Classification duties on certain iaosics
II is stated that the British Government on FIJI
day sent an emphatic demand 70 81 petersburg
for the withdrawal OF the Russians from Affnsn
territory.
deputation was at Ottawa rom Montreal TO
urge the Government 10 make suangemene so
that the navigation OF the lower 81 Lawrence nay
be kept open later in the fall tnan Usual, en1 pc
opened earlier in the spring.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
soudan War Preparations.

LONDON, March The North Pacific ana Aus
trsian fleets will be reinforced the result OF the
conference with the agents OF the colonies at tn
war Office. The Government viii rely upon r.
oeving contingents from Canada. Australia and
New zealand. Transports are on their way to
Suakim with the guards, ETC.. are detained at Suez
awaiting General Greaves' report regarding water
supply at Suaslm. Transpo 1t is said. await
the orders whether 10 proceed 10 kurrachea from
Bombay, General Graham health keeps bin at
Cairo. He has beer plat Ell on the invalid list and
advised to return TO England. General Greaves
viii probably succeed him IN command of the
Suakim expedition. An advance beyond inkat
is not intended until autumu The intention is
10 encamp the main body al Snkat during the not
weather. the site selected beng 5000 feet sboVe
he sea level, and three days journey from
Susk sim.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08

PRIDGEPoRT, March : "A fortune Of so 90 was
recently Left by resident of the West Indies. who
was formerly pupil here. TO the man who saved
him from drowning when a boy, thirty seven
yesrs ago. There are two sets OF claimants snd
the case promises to become entangled in the
meshes OF the law. One of these is the widow OF
Baldwin PieTsOn ana her two daughters, Person
rescued a boy al the time referred TO. and ne is
said to be the one who left the money TO his res
cuer. The other rescuer was George Z. B0uton.
whose son Is claimant Twenty years ago an
advertisement appeared in local paper asking
for information OF a man who rescued a boy. say
ing a fortune sweited him. The estate is in the
hands OF j. r. Giddeys. OF Hartford.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08

gave way, and a strong current OF water rushed
down into the Alexandria bottom lands. The
Keokuk and 81. Louis line OF railway track is GOV.
cred with two feet of water above Alexandra and
Trains gre sent from Quincy 10 Burlington over
the c., B. aud Q. track in illinois. The iron bridge
over Sugar Creek. in Rock Island, is out OF line,
and two smaller bridges are damaged. Four miles
OF track is undtT water The gorge 81 Eddyville
extends up the river Tor FIVE miles. and the ice IS
piled up fifteen feet high. The railroad bridge at
the mouth of the Des Moines is still in danger
from. the gorge.
A party OF men who went few miles uD the
Des Moines river TO rescue Mrs. Mary Kennedy,
have lust returned. They were successful. They
say the Missouri bottom above Alexandra is a
sea of ice and water; fences and stock at least
must have suffered a loss. The water comes up
10 the tops of the corn stalks standing in the
fields The people driven from their homes are
near ST. Franeisville, Missouri.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08

MEMPHIS, Tenn. March Tine Avslanche's
Brownsville tTenn.) special says "A shocking
crime was perpetrated here yesterday afternoon
about dusk. Mis- Douglas, young lady aged
sixteen, while on her way home. two miles from
Brownsville. was assaulted and outraged By ne.
gro fend. Her cries for help we're heard, but
were attributed to some negroes who were at
tending funeral. Miss Douglas made frantic
struggle. and is bruised in fearful manner. The
accused is Charles Currie, aged twenty who was
srrestec, identified and committed to jail to
await trial. There is some talk of lynching."
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08

ALBANY. March Tt transpired the other day
that when Mme. Morosini HuelskamD sang re-
Gently in this city, that she was under the espion-
age of two private detectives. whom, il is said.
were employed by Mr.. Morosini. her father, with
the object OF preventing her from forming objec-
tonable stage associations should she tire OF her
husband, who accompanies her in her travels
She is now singing in small towns In this vicinity
in Don Pakquale IL a recent interview she 3
reported saying: al was so in love with Ernest
that made up my mind [ should die unless |
found out whether he liked me or not, and so one
day asked him, and you can imagine how happy
/ Was when he told me he thought of me con.
stantly. But then nv troubles began"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08
CalIers ON ,he New secretaries.

WASHINGTON, March 7-Seoretary Lamar re-
ceived great number OF congrstulatory calls to-
day. The Commissioner General of the Land
Office, the Commissioner OF Indian Affairs, and
the Commissioner of Pensions had prepared their
ierTed presenting them until Monday. One OF
Secretary Lamar's first official acts was
10 reinkiate Mr.. Hanna Private Secretary to
the $ cretsry of the Interior, which position
e had held under Secretaries sehurz and
Teller. From remarks thst nave been made b
the new Secretary il is evidently his intention 10
ADOPT a conservative course Ia making changes in
the personnel of the Interior Department and he
is said to be thoroughly N sympathy with Psesi-
PIES
Postmaster General Villas also received a num-
Der OF callers but left the department early in
the afternoon. thus preventing the Assistant
Fosimasters General from presenting their rssig-
nations