Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-03-25
GENERAL NE WS.

G A. Pillsbury has been renominatcd
by the republicans for mayor, of Mime
apolls.
The switchmen of Kansas City have
Joined the strike and business is almost
suspended.
Governor Stoneman of California, has
appointed George Hearst, United States
Senator, vice John F. Miller, deceased.
At Glcndive yesterday morning fire
destroyed the Merchants hotel and ten
other buildings. Loss $4,000 partially
insured
The &. A. r. Encampment at Water
town, is largely attended. The commit.
tee on credentials reports over five hun
drcd members present. "
The Nebraska cowboy Johnson, whose
real name was Wright, was riddled with
bullets and burned in the barn where he
took refuge after killing two men, and
won ndlng others.
Stutsman county has 3S1 ,307 acres of
Northern Pacific land upon which no sur
vey fees have been paid, and consequently
no patents issued by the government.
This will throw large revenue into the
county from taxation.
The St. Paul Herald the favorite So
clety and literary weekly Of that city,
appears tins week with new set of Of
ficers on deck A. E. Chantler sewers his
connection with the Herald, and the new
men promise more and better things than
ever in the Herald.
Gabriel Dumont, one of the Rieh revo
lutionists IS m Montana, and it is said is
again trying to intuce the Indian tribes
there to join in the proposed Canadian
lnsurrection. He is now at Fort Benton.
He has made overtures to the Crows,
Crees and Cheyennes with considerable
success
Prince Napoleon figures in Cora PEARLS
memoirs as "Duke Jean," and the story
of her relations with HIM IS unblushingly
related. She says that she received from
him hundreds of thousands of francs, and
magnificent mansion in the Rue des
Basins, costing nearly half million
francs, but that after 1870 he was able
10 do but little for her.
The knights of Labor, of Pittsburg,
will shortly establish an employment
bureau for union workmen. Nothing of
this kind has ever been attempted in this
country before, and its success is as ured
even before 1t has commenced Its work.
ings. The bureau Will furnish union
men out of employment with positions,
and at the same time will keep listed all
mills or employers employing union men.
The Northern Pacific Railway company
has sent to Surveyor General Taylor OF
! Huron, for a statement Of the amcunt Of
| fees due for surveying the company's
| land IN Dakota. The company has 2,
73e, ,7s7 acres in the territory for which
| patents have never been issued because
| survey fees have not been paid. c. B.
! Lanborn, land commissioner for the
Northt IN Pacific road, says the tees will
! be paid as soon as the amount is asccr-
tained. Chief Clerk Cameron of the sur
veyor generals office with several assist
ants is busy preparing statement, anG
hopes to have 1t ready by the end OF this
week. lie cannot now give the exac,
amour. of fees due, but thinks it will moi
tall short of SIS 900. Cass county alone
beng $l4 200. These lands are in Nc.
Lain, Wells, Steele, Foster, Griggs, Ran
som, Richland, l4aAloure, Stutsman, Nor.
ton, Stark, Cass, Burlclgh and kidde1
| counties.
Editorialy the St. Paul Globe thus
predicts the result of the present strike
! on the Gould system. "The result is that
all traffic will be stopped for all indefinite
time. Tue labor organizations have the
power to put break on every car whee
in the United States, and to stop every
train, and they seem disposed to exercise
that power at this time, unless the rail
on terms Of clvility. 1t is no use dlsguis
ing the fact that we are approaching s
crisis. There Is a storm brewing, tht
force of which no one can tell. The in
nocent are to suffer along with the guilty
Business interests of every character are
to be paralyzed. 1t is a gloomy outlook
but we had just as we'll face it and pre-
pare for It, Unless an amicable arran ,e
ment can be made by tomorrew between
Vice President HoXie and the strikers or
the Gould system there Will be a genera
strike ordered, and the next day there
will not be freight train running within
the borders of the United States. 1t il
not very encouraging prospect, never
theless it is the situation as 1t exists
The Devils Lake Farmers Alliance, re-
Gently formed, has adopted the following
resolutions That our organization !:
not limited to farmers, but invites the Co
operation Of all who believe that our gov
ernment should be used 10 promote th'
equal and greatest good to ali, That Il
this end our settlement laws should b,
made and enforced so as to impose tn,
least expense and privation possible tt
the settlers, and still accelerate and pro
mote the settlement, cultivation, aud de
velopment of the west, lessen the expen
soc ami iDcrcaSe the protitS ancrpinC II