Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-04-16
DAKOTA DOTS.

DAKOTA DOTS.
IL Is stated that four elevators will be
erected in Park river the coming season.
each with capacity of 10000 bushels.
In the north tho first rain of any note
since November, fell on April 9Th, and
was very heavy, followed by sinking of
the thsrmcmeter nearly fifty degrees.
Judge Hudson says he will hold court
at Wahpeton April 2sth, Grand Forks
May 18th, and Fargo Juno 2nd, unless
the president relieves him from duty.
The vote last week to divide the coun-
" OF Emmons and make the new county
of Wlnona, for the benefit OF town of
that name, was defeated by a tie vote,
1.7to 157.
A special tram has been chartered over
the Fargo Southern to take the G. A. Il.
and CITIZENS from Wahpeton to Fargo
Wednesday night to witness the military
drama to:be run there three nights
At Mayville, in Trail county, q demo-
cratic city ticket was run Tuesday, the
FIRST attempt ever made to show the mum.
Der OF democrats there, and the result
was highly encouraging TO them.
IL is noted at Buxton that quite mum.
ber Of young men who went east last fall
declaring that they would not return to
Dakota are now back there aud say they
have come to stay. They prefer DAKOTA.
The Wahpeton agent who went east to
sell s2o, 200 bonds Of the city has returned
and reports that he sold in New Hamp-
shire sl5, 900 at par and $4,000 at 9715
per cent. The figures are regarded as
satisfactory.
Hon. John Flitt'e, the popular states
man of Trail county, has visited the New
Orleans exposition since he concluded
his labors in the legislature, and is SAID
to have been impressed by beauty, who
will yet come to Dakota.
1t ls believed that the trouble over the
opening OF the Winnebsgo reservation
will divert much Of the emigration fur
ther north, where the lands are claimed
10 be quite as good, and there will be no
trouble with the cove, nment.
The farmers in Grant county have Or
ganized q mutual insurance company uu.
der the new law of the late legislature.
About sl5,o 900 :sas subscribed at the first
meeting. 1t is probable that many such
companies will be organized.
T"ere is quite = contest in the Bis
marck and Missouri regions to secure the
colony of 500 families to come from the
east as soon as their agents decide upon
q location. Tney are Sweeds and very
desirable class OF people. They will like.
ly go west of the river.
The second daily at DEVILS Lake was
started simply because the first was, and
to make its career uncomfortable and
brief The citizens look for the dcm,st,
OF one of them, but each has friends that
will stand by it while the other lives.
There are no signs Of early deceasc in
either.
Much sympathy is felt for e. W. Nor
gan, the popular msmber of the lcgisla.
ture from Trail, IN the suspension of the
firm OF Morgan & Hanson, merchants, at
Portland, Of which he was the senior.
They put their assets at 3l5, ,450 and LA
billties at sl3, ,345, and expect to pay IN
full and resume.
The farmers alliance in Dakota is
much the same as the grange in the states
except that more regard is paid TO the
political feature. They mean to secure
legislation in their interest, but the So
cial feature is prominent. There arc oyer
100 cluUs already organized. A convtn-
tion for the territory is to be held at Col.
umbia Sept. 8.
1t is expected that the war in the Cam
dian regions north will divert emigration
and send many of the residents of that
country to Dakota where the land is as
good if not better while the climate is sup
crior. 1t is intimated that the past year
5000 have come down south Of the line
and are but the advance.
J. E Wiser, one of the Lisbon rust
lers, lately sold one Of his farms Of l..
600 acres for SIS an acre, to be paid for
in wheat at 81 bushel. He IS confident
that wheat will nearly reach that figure
AS the farm is not near any town the
price Is regarded as far.
Jewell If the Bismarck Tribune claims
to have put SIC, 900 IN the new outfit to
take the place OF tie one burned, and
will also IN connection with others, erect
handsome brick block Immediately. He
intends to make 1t one of the most com.
plete establish ments in the territory aud
shows Dakota enterprise.
A mutual insurance company IS to be
organized IN Parker in Turner county,
The auditors report shows that in 1883
Dakota paid out s5s3,0Oo In premiums
and received s242,0O0 for losses. That
margin, with the growing business it is
thought, will sustain about forty home
companies and 1t looks as if there would
be nearly that numbtr at no distant
period.
Among the Improvements already in
progress or early promised at Wahpeton
are an Episcopal church, big skating
rink, an engine house for the water works
being put IN, probably a fine banking
house and new school building. Water
from the river is to flow into huge well
and be pumped from that. The opera
house being refitted Will be one of The
most convenient and credrtable in the ter
ritory.
There has been some telegraphic men
ton Of the killing of NJ. A. Plummer, q
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