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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-10-04

ton appropriating $713, to meet Septem-
Der liabilities. The resolution was adop.
ted under suspension of the rules.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
Report Of police magistrate for quarter
ending September 3Oth, was presented.
Report showed s3O.55 due the police
magistrate. Report was referred to
judiciary committee on motion of Alder
man Clark.
Contract with the Electric Light Co.,
for the five 80 candle power incandescent
lights recently ordered by the city council
was read and approved. Lights are to
run according to the Philadelphia all
night schedule for $32 each per year.
Alderman Hughes moved that the mayor
be instructed to execute the above con
tract. Carried.
Alderman Watson moved that the
resolution adopted at last regular meeting
permitting Thos. Barrett to fill his water
tank from the hydrant on the Grand
Central corner without charge, be rescind-
de, complaints having been received of
his misuse of the water.
Alderman Hughes moved to amend
Alderman Watson's motion as follows:
That the chief of police be instructed to
inform Mr.. Barrett that he will be per-
mitted to use water SO long as he COM
phys with the resolution granting him
that privilege; otherwise he will be plo-
hibited the use of the water. The amend
ment prevailed and the original motion
as amended was voted on and carried.
no pEnr1cE WATER RENTALS
Alderman Hughes moved that the wa
ter works committee be instructed to
revise the water works ordinance re-
ducing the water rates one half. This
motion opened up lengthy discussion
of the water works ordinance and
drew out general expression Of opinion
as to the advisability OF reducing rates.
Alderman Klaus thought the rates alto
gether too high and was heartily in favor
OF reduction. He thought there would
be large increase in customers if such
were done. He said the railroad compa-
ny wanted water if it could obtain it at
reasonable rates.
Superintendent McCabe was present
end stated that the company wanted to
make four taps-two between Fourth
and Fifth avenues and two between
F fifth and Sixth avenues-for waterin,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-10-04
THE CITY COUNCIL

Il { r. & & y
THE CITY COUNCIL
Discusses Number of Important
Questions AfTecting City Interests.
Adjourned regular meeting OF the city
council Tuesday Mayor Allen presiding.
Present Aldermen Clark, Hughes, In
graham ana Klaus. Absent Aldermen
Alley, Hewitt, Seluidge and Watson.
The minutes Of the last regular and
intervening adjourned and special meet
ings were read and approved.
Petition was received from e.. p. Ward
asking that the council cancel city order
No 1s47 for $l610, drawn in his favor,
and issue duplicate, the first haylne vi been been
lost by him. Alderman Hughes intro
duced resolution authorizing the city
clerk to issue duplicate order in compli-
ance with prayer Of petitioner, upon the
filing Of bond by petitioner indem-,
nifying the city in double the amount OF
the order.
Aldermen Alley and Watson arrived at
this point and took their seats NJ the
council.
Communication from City Clerk Blew
ett in regard to stationery needed in ct y
clerks Office, was read and on motion eof
Alderman Clark the clerk and treasurer
were instructed to order warrant book
and record book.
Communication was received and read
from "A. A. Allen requesting return Of
money paid for tax certificates secured at
tax sales on lots where the treasurer has
been enjoineS from issuing tax deeds.
Alderman CLARK moved that the matter
be referred to the judiciary committee
and the city attorney with instructions to
bring in written report.
The judiciary committee reported on
report Of police magistrate, referred at
last meeting, recommending that $3l.95
be paid in full Of claim. Report was
adopted on motion.
Financial committee reported on bill of
John H. Fillmore recommending the
settlement of the account, s 80, for $500.
Report was adopted.
The electric light committee, which
was 10 report Oh tu0 Ia1S1uS VI
the light at the Gladstone corner, was
granted further time on motion.
Alderman Watson moved that the city
attorney be instructed to call upon the
owners OF land across which Elliott road
runs and make such demand as is neces-
sary prior to condemnation proceedings.
Carried.
BILLS ALLOWED.
Freight on hose and hardware IS 4 10
John Kelley, labor r............... 90
The Alert, printing ...........s.. 90
The Alert. publishing delinquent
tax list and other printing .319 %
Gieseler. Blewett & Co., / 10
III E Ward, boerd Of prisoners 49,. 60
Fargo Argus, advertising SO
Gull River Lumber Co., lumber. 81 ~
Thos Bell, burying horse. .......... 50
Jamestown Electric Light Co.,
LIGHT 81 81
Joe Mason, building sidewalks. z. ITO 33
Alex Esler, work on road. ........ 90
Harry Holt. labor. so
W B Newland, labor. 8 90
Frank Andre, labor. .......... 95
James River Lumber Co., lumber
used in repairing bridges. ...... SS "a
Gieseler Blewett & Co., nails for
sidewalks .......... OS
s F Mitchell, repairing sidewalks. 90
Witness fees es................. w
Alderman Watson introduced resOlu-
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-10-04

jamestown, Sept. %, 1888.
The resignation was accepted and the
consideration of the numerous applica-
tions for the position was next in order.
It was reported that after much discus
sion it was decided to accept the appli-
cation of Mr.. M. L. Parker, chief clerk of
David Goodman. But the final action
Of the board reconsldered Mr.. Parker's
request, and appointed for the new stew
ard Mr.. E. Schwellenbach of Frederick,
Brown county, Dakota. Mr.. Schwellen-
bach is father Of E. j. Schwellen enbach
of this city, and Mrs. Tony Klaus. He
is democrat, and is said to be we'll
qualified for the position in every way.
His selection will undoubtedly give salts
faction to the great majority Of the
party in the county, as we'll as to the
trustees. the majority of whom stated
that'a other things being equal they
desired to make a selection in accordance
with the desires of their friends.
Mr.. Nickeus leaves the institution with
many friends who wish him continued
success.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
CIRCULATING LIES.

Democratic campaign workers are en-
gagged in distributing in this city, and in
the State generally, slanderous literature
concerning General Harrison's connection
with the strike of 1877 at indianapolis.
They excuse themselves by shelter be-
hind the order of an Assembly of the
Knights of Labor organization in Indiana,
which put into print the story now being
used for partisan purposes, to wit: That
General Harrison attempted outrages upon
the rights of workingmen. 1t is in EVIL
denee that the knights of Labor are not a
unit upon that subject. Very many Of
their leaders deplore the action taken and
denounce it as outrageous. They know,
precisely as our Democratic friends know,
that General Harrison in 1877 did that
relating to the railroad strike which re-
bounds to his infinite honor, and that
which every citizen of the Union who
has any respect for the laws of the land
and the rights aud lives of its people,
would do-possessing ordinary courage, of
course.
When the Democrats of California do
as some of them are now doing-circulate
the mendacious story that General Harri-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
" SnOcktDR.n

The newest industrial "craze" is "smock-
ing" Now shocking" is a revival Years
ago our grandmothers shocked" or "honey-
combed" their best bedspreads and towels.
Now it is being used considerably for trim
ming dresses. 1t is very ornamental; the
pattern is usually a acknowledged de-
sign, and it is said the knack once acquired
the work is easy and rapid. Curious it is
how fashions reassert themselves in all
branches. Take group of ladies chatting
over their morning fancy work. The
needle of one speeds over band of
smocking-work another clicks a bewilder-
ing number of long, steel needles, rounding
the toe of silk stocking, and another GRO
chefs quaint coin purse, just as did the
DANES a century ago.-August Table Talk.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

Southern Representatives was originally
supporter of the Southern Confederacy
and the Rebellion of which it was born.
1t is submitted that this is such vicious
politics and legislation as spring only from
a deliberate scheme to achieve the ends of
power, regardless of the undeniable Justice
of the claim that in the adjustment of its
tariff policy every section of the country
should have full and fair opportunity.
Mr.. Kelley, in his admirable work upon
the Old and New South, has shown by
irrefragable proofs that the Southern rep
resentation upon the Ways and Means
Committee, the most important of all the
branches of Federal legislative machinery,
stands for less than one-fifteenth of one per
cent. in each district of the laborers of the
nation; that FIVE of the Southern districts
represented on the committee use less
than one-third of one per cent. of the total
capital employed in manufactures, and
have still smaller percentage of one
third Of one per cent. of the number of
non-agricultural laborers of the country.
Yet in the city of Philadelphia alone
there are five Congressional districts that
employ S178,000000 more of capital and
$4,000 more of wage earners. That is to
say, the districts represented upon the
Ways and Means Committee in Arkansas,
Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas,
employ but As per cent. of the capital
used in industries III Philadelphia and but
AZ Of the labor employed in Philadelphia.
1t is submitted that this discrimination
is not the result of accident, nor merely in
the order of party selection, but that cool
Judgment is justified in estimating it as
part of a scheme TO give to the ex-Con-
federates of the South dominance in the
Government. The action of the COM
mittee in protecting every Southern in
dustry while exposing vital interests and
the labor of the North to unequal Euro
pean and Asiatic competition it is perfectly
fair to estimate as part and parcel of a
scheme to return the country to that condi-
ton in which free labor was, at the South
badge of dishonor and when the domi-
nant party in the Government represented
Interests inimical to independent and self
asserting industry.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

The London "Times," having a
letter from President Cleveland in
its possession, after quoting passages
from it, editoriaIly says: 1T would
hardly be possible to put the free
trade case more clearly or more
strongly. The arguments which
Cleveland uses arc those which Cob
den used to employ forty-five years
ago, and which any English free
trader would employ now. They are
purely Hree-trade arguments, and as
such we are glad to see Cleveland
usiog them, though sorry for the
popular inflammation which makes ii
dangerous to give them their right
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
{" SAYS GROVER"
Air-"Old Virginny,r

All Olu NllSluuHp
Says Grover: "Pn go to foreign shore
To get my salt, say;
American wells may all go dry
And the workingmen get no pay
But the workmen draw their eyelids down,
And nothing green display;
And they're whooping 1t up,
They're whooping it up
For Harrison every day.
Says Grover: "Pll go to Canadian ports
To get my lumber, say;
You may pull the teeth of American saws
And the ak you may throw away"
But the woodmen laugh in ghoulish giee,
And the sawyers work away,
And They're whooping it up,
They're whooping it up
For Harrison every day.
Says Grover: "pll go to foreign land
To get my wool, say;
American sheep may die in the field
And the farmers get no pay"
But the farmers smile knowing smile
To their children at their play;
And they're whooping it up,
They're whooping it up
For Harrison every day.
Saws Grover: "Pll go to the English mill
To get my iron made;
American wheels may all stand still
And the mil,-hands go to the shade"
But the fires burn and the ehimneys smoke,
Aud the anyils ring, say
And they're whooping il up,
They're whoopiDg it up
For Harrison every day.
Saws Grover: "Tll save the nations gold
I'll veto this pension bill.
The veteran old may ragged go,
And his children hungry still
But the nation frowns at the unkind word
Frowns at the taunt, say;
And We're whooping it up,
We're whooping it up
For Harrison every day.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
GOVERNOR BOOTHS RETURN.
A Personal Friend of General Harrison
Speaks in Plain Terms,

Speaks in Plain Terms.
Ex-senator Booth has returned from a
visit 10 his old home in Indiana. He is q
personal friend of Mr. Harrison, the Re
publican candidate for President and Wis
tied him while in Indianapolis. Governor
Booth says Mr.. Harrison is exceedingly
popular with all classes in Indiana, and
predicts that he will certainly carry that
State at the election in November. Con-
corning the effort of the California Democ-
racy to make capital out of the fact that
Mr.. Harrison commanded one of the vol
unteer companies at Indianapolis during
the labor troubles of 1877. organized to pre-
serve the peace, Governor Booth says that
at that time the Democratic Governor,
blue Jean" Williams called upon Gen
eral Harrison to command all the troops
called out, but he declined. The company
General Harrison commanded was raised
for the sole purpose of defending property
and maintaining order. They guarded the
United States arsenal, and in the discharge
OF their duty not gun was fired, blow
struck or an assault made. The
trouble at Indianapolis followed
on the heels of the Pittsburg riots, and cit
iZens regardless of politics, were united for
the preservation of life and property. a
NUMBER OF the leaders IN the trouble were
arrested and convicted, but through the
interposition of General Harrison, who
claimed that the purpose of the law had
been fulfilled, they were set free. His act
was that of a good, law-abiding citizen;
and there is no fair minded man in Indian
apolis-be he Democrat or Republican
who does not to this day commend Cen
eral Harrison warmly for the position he
took at that time, and no one sounded his
praise louder at that time than did the DEM
ocratic Governor of that State When the
Republicans of Indianapolis paraded the
streets of that city in honor of General
Harrison's nomination, great numbers of
Democratic homes along the line of march
were illuminated and decorated. He is
popular with all classes, and with none
more so than the laborers, whom the
Democratic press claim are arrayed against
him. Senator Booth speaks in the highest
terms of General Harrison's ability, claim
ing for him a record of high statesman
ship. Governor Booth spent couple of
weeks in New York, and he says wherever
he went he found the party united and con-
fident of winning in the coming contest.
The all-absorbing topic of conversation
was free trade and protection, and many
Democrats who have never affiliated with
the Republican party are in harmony with
it for the protection of American labor, and
will vote for Harrison. He spent a few
days in Canada, and says Cleveland will
run well with the Canadians, who are for
him, for obvious reasons.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

over our lost cause. Andi in the name of Robert
L. Lee and Stonewai Jackson, andsn the name
OF the thousands of unknown Confederate
heroes who sleep on every battlefield of that
terrible conflict deny that the right TO intimi-
date voters or TO corrupt the ballot-box was any
part OF the cause we loved and lost. Idenounce
1t as SANDER on the Confederate cause and the
Confederate dead. This is not an issue of the
past but new and living issue of the present.
1t is whether the Constitution shall be respected
or violated whether the negro shall be counted
IN for representation and counted out at the
DaIlot-o0X IN Congressional elections o. not.
The Republicans are fighting il at
terrible disadvantage. The Democrats have
the counting power in the South, and they viii
use 1t. You may as well expect the hungry
wolf quietly to give up the lamb he has stolen
as to expect Southern Democrats to give up the
Increased power which the acknowledgements of
the negroes gave them, or to permit the negro
vote 10 be counted to overthrow their power.
And the certainty of 153 votes in the South is a
states IN the North to unite with the South and
seize the relns of Government. Already il is
proclaimed by such men as Wade Hampton
and Henry WatteTSon, in substance if not in
words, that the end justifies the means and that
the negro vote must be suppressed to sustain
white civilization in the South. If the Demo-
Gratis succeed in this election the frauds in the
South will be sanctified and the cohesive
power OF the public plumber will eventually in
duce them to extend these practices as they
have already attempted to extend them in New
Iork, Ohio and Indiana. If Cleveland is
counted in again freedom of elections in this
Union Will be gone forever without further
bloodshed. We who opposed the Democrats in
the South, whether white or black. are tied
hand and foot The men of the North must de
eide this question for themselves, and they must
decide it at this election. They must decide
whether an oligarchy at the South with the
AID OF New York city and few votes from some
other States, shall rule with an iron rod the
greatest republic of the world
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

THE San Francisco Examiner has mani
tested its fear of General Harrison's
strength before the people, by devoting
several pages of a supplemental sheet to
an assault upon him on account of an al
legged pro-Chinese legislative record. To
give its labored attack greater emphasis, it
duplicates its articles in the German
tongue, thus appealing directly to German
speaking citizens. 1t is scarcely necessary
to restate that all this hullabaloo about
General Harrison being pro-Chinese, is
veriest 4" rot" 1t has not leg of fact to
stand upon. General Harrison's record is
that he voted for the best restriction bill
ever offered, while the Democrats in the
House throttled the measure and choked
it to death. AS lawyer he once voted
against surplusage in an anti-Chinese bill,
as a lawyer and statesman should. He
stands on platform clear and salts
factory upon the Chinese question. He is
the friend of American labor, openly and
ardently SO, and is recognized as its cham
pion.
Now, then, will the Examiner, since it
has been at such pains also to conjure up
the ghost of the falsehood that the Repub-
lican party is friendly to Chinese immi-
grafton, and since it has assaulted General
Harrison on his legislative record, tell the
story of the pro-Chinese action of Mr..
Cleveland and his Cabinet?
VIII it have the honesty to give the
record of the Cleveland order to the Con-
suls relative to the issuance of certificates
to Chinese desiring to emigrate to the
United States? Will it publish the facts
in the Mosby case, and the letter of that
indignant Consul in response to the orders
from Washington? VIII it explain why,
after suggesting that the Chinese mission
should be filled by Californian, he turned
upon his heel and bestowed it upon gen.
tleman hailing from the Hoosier State?
VIII it explain what Mr.. Cleveland
meant by the question addressed by him
last winter to Californian, "Why can't
you Christianize the Chinese and make
good citizens out of them ?" VIII it pub
lish as fully as it has the groundless charges
against General Harrison, and the silly
indictment-of pro-Chinese sympathy
against the Republican party, history
and analysis of the valueless Chinese
treaty negotiated by Mr.. Bayard, and
which it is believed the Chinese Govern
ment will reject, but which measure the
Administration has presented as the sum
of all its efforts to check the Monaghan
influx? VIII it explain with as much
publicity as it charges the Republican
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

IT'S sometimes good politics to claim a
great deal. Whistling and whooping give
some weak hearts sort of courage. Here
is Colonel Brice, of the National Demo
cratic Campaign Committee, claiming that
his party will carry Michigan, Minnesota,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. This is a
right royal claim, and speaks for the enter
tainment of more fear on the part of the
Colonel than he is charged with, though
we are aware that he is badly frightened.
When his expectation becomes reality the
grandchildren of Mr.. Cleveland will be
twanging harps in the sweet by-and-by.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

IT speaks volumes for the trustworthi-
ness of the army of Woodworking men,
whom we know as "letter-carriers," that so
few losses have occurred in the Postal De-
partment through their negligence or
criminality. 1t has just been discovered
that in Chicago a fellow named Won
Oberkampf, has for two years been robbing
postal boxes, and that the checks, money,
and other valuables he secured in this way
aggregate million dollars The thief
gained access to the boxes, it is believed,
by the use of key which was furnished to
him by letter-carrier. If this theory is
sound, it is the first instance in which any
heavy stealing has been chargeable to
carriers. Yet the opportunities are very
great, as is proven by the Oberkampf
revelation, and the temptations strong,
more so perhaps than among indoor en-
ployes of the Postal Department. The
carriers number several thousand and
handle millions Of valuable letters weekly,
and it is too much to ask of human credu-
lily belief that none of these men prove dis
honest. But it is entirely Unsuitable to
say, that since the establishment of the
"postman" system in the United States,
the men employed, by their integrity, have
won for their membership honor and con-
fdence. Not that their honesty should be
especially applauded, since it is but duty
doing and conscience approving, but
when so large a body of men serving for
wages not by any means high, working
arduously and at unusual hours, and in
vested with important trusts that might be
betrayed with but small chance of guilt
being fixed upon the offenders, that so very
few abuse the confidence placed in them
gives men better opinion of humanity,
and fortifes the generous belief that there
is not nearly SO much abuse of trust by the
working forces of the Government, as
pessimists would have us believe.