Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15

AC "ouiu keI C6ukHt ~ Ju't W ulnhc q
point against the Alert which he hates
as only hypocrincal christian can hate.
His last exploit of this kind was in
placing MIR. N,ckeus in false and rldic-
ulous position as an attorney In order to
give out 10 the public . false impression
against the Alert's printing bill, and
when called upon afterwards by MIR.
Nickeus with demand, TO correct the
statement lie whlmpered through half
column to admit that he lied about it but
didn't expect to be caught in it. That is
the kind of information he is giving the
public on current events of the city. He
is willfully and knowingly decelving his
readers by false statements and mlsrepre-
sentatioIs to raise himself up by pulling
his competitor IN business down, and the
people are getting ontosit.
Last Friday evening he quoted from
the report of the council meeting pub
lished in the Alert the day before the fol-
lowing garbled extract from the report of
the opinion given by Mr. Nickeus at the
council meeting on the Alert bill for
printing the delinquent city tax list,
lie said the law for the collection of
taxes was created by the same pswer that
created the city council and the council
had no power to change or vary its terms
and provisions: that the city had no right
TO speculate off the dellnquents by COL
lccting more costs than was to be paid;
that the duty IF The treasurer to pay the
costs collected for publication of the de-
llnquent list was PLAIN, and If he refused
do hls duty in the premises.
After quoting the above Mr.. Burke
sailed into the legal realm and pronounce
ed the legal opinion Of Mr.. Nickeus con-
tanned in the above - a ridiculous,
f1imsey argument"
Now VIC will give little incident which
occurred in connection with this subject
which does not appear in the Capital.
On the way home at noen MIR. Burke met
Mr.. Nickeus at the foot of the stairway
to the latter's office when the follow ing
COliuuuy euSueu:
Mr.. Burke-Alr Nickcus, the Alert
your opinion on Nc Clure's 8
bill for printing The city tax list, did it
not?
Mr.. Nickeus-l don't know; have not
read 1t yet anil don't know what it did
say about it.
Mr.. Burke passed on and Mr.. Nlckeus
went up TO his Office and read the Alert
report Of his opinion rs given to the city
council.
1t so happened that on Mr.. Burke's re-
turn down town from dinner they again
met at the foot OF the sranway wnen the
following second colloquy ensued on the
sane subject:
MIR. Nickeus-Mr. Bnrke, l have read
the Alert ana 1t reported what SAID
exactly right. ...
MIR. Burke Well, but Mcclure told the
council that his bid included everything
and that what was not ordinances and
notices to be charged by the follu was to
be counted job work, and 1t was so un-
derstcod.
Mr.. Nickeus--I don't know what was
SAID or understood outside. All know
about IS the contract as re-
membtr to have seen it published. If
there was any other contract that | know
nothing about, that IS different thing.
This was all that was said about the
matter and Mr.. Burke went to bis office
and wrote the following additional to bis
articla on the subject:
Since writing the above, we have seen
MIR. Nlckeus, who disclaims the utter
ances attributed to HIM by the Alert, as
to the authority of the council to change
or vary the provision regulating the com
pensatlon for printing the delinquent tax
list. Moreover, he sayes he was not aware
that the contract with the Alert for doing
the city printing was made with the un-
that it should include all
printing and publications OF any kind
required to be done by the
city.
For unadulterated lying the above
would take a wholesale bakery, and It
was written, too, only few minutes af
ter Mr.. Nlckeus had told the sanctificd
liar who wrote it that the Alert had re-
ported HIM "exactly right" While these
words were still ringing in his ears Mr..
Burke wrote and afterwards published
as information to his readers that Mr..
Nickeus ''distlalm the utterances attrib-
uted TO him by the Alert
Last Monday an Alert representative
called upon Mr.. Nickeus to ascertain the
facts in relation TO the apparent incon-
sistent position he had taken on the ques-
ton, when he emphatlcally and with just
disavowcd the sentiments
ascribed to him by the Capital and forth
with proceeded down to that office to
have the Misrepresentation corrected,
which accounts for the whlmpe ring con-
of words on the subject IN
thst sheet Monday evening under the
head of can Explanation, which Mr..
Burke, with the humility of a whipped
cur, commences as follows: "We iear
(fear is good) that we have un,ntention-
ally (unintentienally is better) caused Mr..
Nlckeus some annoyance. In giving his
opinion on the matter Of McClure's bill
he based that opinion upon the written
proposition of Mcclure 10 the council.
We based our criticism upon what We
knew to be fact-that 1t was understood
by the committee etc. Farther on the
explanation t!) says: Taking Mr.. Nick.