Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-01-01
What Our Exchanges Say on Yarlou
Subjects.

"'He O"s LACHhuScs SHy OH v0FlO0
Subjects.
Democrats of the territory are eagerly
discussing ho the next governor will be.
This seems to us to be little premature.
Governor Picrce's commission runs four
years and he will hardly be removed ex-
cept for good cause, which is not yet ap-
parent.-Columbla Dispatch.
In regard to Senator Vests seeming
lack OF information as regards the popu.
iation of Dakota, a writer says: 1t would
be well for Senator Vest 10 look up the
statistics and inform himself on a sub
ject that every schoolooy is supposd to
know something about. Even q United
States senator IS not excusable for his own
ignorance when the means are everywhere
at hand to give him information. Fargo
Argus.
Ansclfort is to be made to secure the
passage of bill through congress requir-
ing the cattle trails of the west and the
southwest TO be kept open. Cattle raisers
complain that the fencing in of lar ye
tracts of land has blocked the trails over
which cattle are driven ON their way to
eastern markets.-Duluth Herald.
North Dakota, according to the election
returns, and allowing four and seventy
eight one hundredlhs people to each vote,
has population of 196,376 and southern
Dakota population of 1920. These
added together give population of 492,.
296 for all Dakota. These figures arc
reached by estimating the vote cast as
eighty-fvc per cent of the full vote OF the
territory.-Press and Dakotaian.
Senator Vest deserves the badge for
being the most impudcnt liar in the Uni
ted States. A man who has been consld-
cred worthy of seat once occupied by
Thomas II. Benton, who will assert from
his official position that Dakota has not
sufficient population to entitle her to ad-
mission as state IS no common liar. It
must require some moral courage to as
sert as fact what he and everybody else
IN the world knows to be false.-Helena
Mont Herald.
The people of Splnk county are putting
weapons into the hands of the enemies of
Dakota to knock this territory out of any
beneficial legislation by congress. The
county seat war between Old Ashton and
Redtield, in which hundreds of men have
been armed on either side, comes at q
time when knowing congressman willn
fail ~ make use of 1t to illustrate how
utterly unfit the savages of Dakota are to
govern themselves. Black Hills journal.
Senator Vest does not appear to have
struck the popular chord, at least so far
as Dakota is concerned, in his speech
against admission in the senate last week.
The senator should pull down that por.
ton of his apparel indicated by his name.
|-Yankton Herald.
A lew more county seat mobs might
assist in Dakota's admission. If the peo-
pie of Dakota could adopt the general
principle of being little more conserva.
tive, not IN such rush to get rich and
drive things faster than they will natural
ly run, all these difficulties, from terri
! torial admission down to county seat
wars would be properly and honestly ad-
justed in the course of time. It's not
precipitation Dakota needs, but patience.
Fargo Democrat.
The old Indian tribes who were the alb.
origines of Dakota got along more peace
ably than the present Inhabitants. 1t
seems that some of the towns up there
are protected from sack and pillage only
by the blzzards. The lawlessness and
rash appeals to mob law and violence,
show that civilization has not reached
that law abiding point which qualities for
statehood Madison, Wis, Democrat.
The slander heaped upon Dakota by
Senator Vest of Missouri regarding the
admission of Dakota has created great
deal o; ill-feeling among Dakotans, and
large indignation meeting was held here
today, in which. the leading citizens, in
Guiding democrats, expressed themselves
bitterly. Resolutions were passed de-
nouncing Mr. Vest. The jobbers have
agreed to cut st. Louis merchants from
their list. Senator Vest sowed the wind
and St. Louis merchants reap the whirl-
wind.-Pierre dispatch to Chicago Trib-
une.
The farmers of, Willmar have drafted q
bill which. they will have presented to the
legislature to. regulate Transit rates, in
spectlon. and storage..of grain, (which has
some binding features. 1t provides that
all elevators shall be declared public
warehouses and cannot be operated until
a license has first 5een.secured and bond
furnished. Separate bins, ,''are.to be pro-
vided so that..grades may not be mixed.
A board of warehouse commissioners is
to be appointed. by the Judge of the dis
trict court, and IS to convene in st. Paul
each September Inspectors and deputy
inspectors are provided for and their
sphere of duties clearly defined. An ap-
peal from the inspector goes to the ex-
ecutive committee for review. The bond
of inspectors is fixed at 100000; deputies
S., ,000.-Valley City Times.
Early Death.
The Foster County Gazette died
"natural death" in Darlington, on Satur.
day, December 20, aged thirty.four weeks.
The demise of this promising" infant is
attributed to defective circulation"
aggravated by chronic general debility
and the feeble character Of the pabulum