Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-02-05
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answer the purpose and be less annoying
4 TO the minister.
4 A daily mail service has been ordered
! on the Fargo Southern TO commence Feb
4 10th
Huron people thre .ten T., tar and feath.
er legislator Miller for urging the division
of Sphinx and Beadle counties.
Travelling salesmen rsport business and
collections better In Minnesota and Da.
kota than in Iowa.
| Wahpeton, Richland county, is for
mulatlng city charter which the legis-
lature will be asked to give vitality,
! Delegate Raymond has introduced
| bill In congress to increase the iurisdic-
ton Of probate courts to $500.
petition is being circulated in Valley
City requesting the city authorities 70
close the roller skating rink.
The Bismarck journal sayslt is rumor-
ed that Col. Ordway will soon resign the
office Of territorial auditor.
Mandan wants an amendment to the
city charter so that the county treasurer
shall collect the city taxes as well as
others.
Robert Trembling las been arrested at
Dwight, ILL.,, and brought to Belmont,
Dak., TO be tried Tor completely in land
! frauds.
| 1t is thought the women suffrage bill
now pending in the legislature will come
near enough passing to make it an issue
in the next legislative campaign.
The Turtle mountains are said 10 be
covered by the finest body Of timber be-
tween the Minnesota pinerics and the
Rocky mountains.
The mayor of Chamberlain, Oak, whe
is druggist, has been arrested and is
held for trial on charge OF selling whisky
to Brule Indian.
/ IL. G. Hutchins, formerly collector for
the Ester]y machine company, died sud-
denly at Wadena, Mimi, and left no
trace as to family or friends,
Commissioner Alex Mckenzie has re-
ceivcd from the territorial treasury the
s25, 900 appropriated by the legislature
for the New Orleans exposition exhibit
/ The Washburn Times is surprised that
the legislature has been in session several
weeks without slugging match or SCAN
dai being produced.
A memorial from Dakota has been pre-.
sented asking congress 10 appropriate
land or money for building homestead
monument at Mitchell.
The Yankton pork packing establish
ment is able TO get away with 500 hogs
per day, but still cannot meet the de-
mands upon it.
The Nebraska Legislature has passed q
bill prohibiting the sale Of tobacco TO mi-
nors. The boy that cannot clrcumyenl
that law has no claim upon the title Of
Young America
The Washburn Times is RELIABLY in.
. formed that four-ffths Of the people liv.
ing, in the row of townships on the north
: slic OF burtuish rtrsirc to he annexed u
Mclean county.
The Pioneer of Aberdeen brands DIR.
Kennedy, member o. the territorial
council from Brown county, Judas Is
cariot for his action on the capital re-
moval question,
Hon. Henry Oliver. Of Ransom county,
champion of the open wheat market bill
In the legislature, was given an ovation
at the depot at Valley City while on his
way home Friday evening.
Two hungry wolves chased a Valley
City man and team several miles q few
days ago. When they came up to him and
saw that he was one of the kickers OF
that town they turned tail and fed.
Under the two per cent gross earnings
tax law the railroads in Dakota paid
sl27,335 for the year 1853 One third Of
this went into the territorial treasury and
the balance to the counties through which
the roads pass.
1 A man who disappeared from Winona,
Mimi, III 1868, leaving his wife and
children unadvisei of his destination re.
turned the other to find that his lfe had
taken another husband.
Hon. Mark H. Dunnell, OF Minnesota,
IS confined at Owatonna by sickness.
The gentleman is well known in these
parts as one of the proprietors of New
Rockford.
Many physicians assert that the secret
of long life after three score years and
ten is to keep warm. The secret Of long
life in younger days ls TO keep cool, is
our observation.
Hon, Jud IaMoure has gone home 10
Pembina to sit at the head Of the table at
banqute to be given him Friday night
in iub,lation of his triumph in his con-
| test case.
The new county of Fancher, for which
Councilman Nickeus has introduced
bill, is made up from McHenry and Slew
ems counties, about 200 miles northwest
of Stutsman county.
The supreme court of Illinois las de-
cided that telegraph companies are res
ronsible for mistakes made in the trans
mission of messages aud are also liable IN
damages for unnecessary delay.
The Valley City Times says: Miss Fan
ME Fitz, roller skater of some celebrity,
will give an exhibition at the Valley City
rink shortly. Miss Fitz is jamestown
girl
The Mitchell Republican says the
Washabaugh and Pettigrew bill for
constitutional convention is about ~ great
Q piece of folly as the capital removal
hill and IL "a haned will meet the SAM