Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-09-12
ALONG THE ]. & N.
An Alert Reporters N otes Of Inc
dents and Events IN the Up
per Country.
Indians Farming Like Whites, AID
Working on Rallr Dads Like
Other Laborers.
Judge Rose Nominated for the
District Court Bench Of the
New Fifth.
Notes OF the j. & n. Country.

Notes OF the j. Il n. Country.
The Catholic mission at Ft. Totten,
which owes it's existence to the munifi-
| cence of the Misses Drexel of Pbiladel
ph1a, IS doing a grand work for the
Indians of that vicinity. There are be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 worth Of pro-
perty at the mission and several teachers
are engaged in training the young Indian
idea how to shoot like his pale face brother.
The installation of civilized ideas into
the minds of the aborigines, and their
daily contact with the whites, are making
good citizens out Of the rising generation,
These Ft. Totten Indians are probably
as far advanced in the ways of civilization
as any Indians in the country. They are
fair farmers and many of them are in
good circumstances. AS the train last
Saturday pulled into Oberon, crowd OF
| Indians with their teams, was seen
around the elevator, to which they had
drawn their graln-au indispntable evil
dence OF Los partial conversion TO the
| ways of the white man. The writer was
chatting with Hon. e. S. Rolfe, in his
of7ice--the Bank of Minnewaukan-when
| two young bucks walked in and handed
| two checks through the window. The
checks were scrutinized a moment. and
then banded back for Endorsement. The
bucks unhesitatiugly took up the pen
and writing their namas-Barney Two
hearts aud George Shorter-on the back
OF the checks with a roundness and Leg
ibility which q good many white men
might envy, counted their money care
| fully and withdrew in all the stolld ta"-
iturnity OF the race. .'Ihatn said the
banker sis what the Catholic mission is
doing for the Indians. Those bucks
have been working on the grade Of the
J. & N. extension" Mr.. Rolfe was a
| member OF the constitutional convcn-
tion-and one of the ablest and most
popular of the members, too. He has r
nicely framed photo-group of the con.
con-, members in the bank and his friends
occasionally drop in ard discuss the
features of Robinson Of Walsh, the sturdy
Scot with whom their representative con-
tested for the palm of beauty, and the
| warrior Bartlett, who looks nearly enough
like him to he his twin brother.
The crops along the road will average
about the same as in Stutsman county.
Considerable uncut grain was seen from
the car window. Harvesting is all over
and those fields were probably not worth
cutting. The best wheat on the line is
near Melv;lle-On the CarrinGton &
Casey farm, some one said.
The Minnewaukan people say that the
line os the proposed jamestown d North
ern extension has been surveyed to
Brandon on the Canadian Pacific IN
Manitoba. The Northern Pacific now in
Winnipeg, they say, will build west from
that point and connect with this North
ern line at Brandon. At least thirty
miles of road north of Leeds, they say,
will be graded this fall. The Mime
waukan people do not seem to be at all
disturbed by the rumor that Il round
house will be built and division head
quarters established at Leeds They
content themselves with the reflection
that if the road is completed as they
think it has been projected. the
branch will become a very impor-
tant one and the train service be
considerably improved. There is.
it must be admitted, room for improve
ment in this particular. They get pas
senger train up once a day and down the
next and freight every other day. The
passenger moves along like Artemus
Wards string of second hand collins.
The time is so slow that the engineer
frequently becomes impatient aud speeds
the iron horse, but has to wait ten or ff-
teen minutes at the next station to leave
on t1me. The J. & N. passenger train is
an accommodation" in the fullest sense
of the term. If a drummer happens to
be aboard and wants to sell bill of
goods at small station, the conductor
very cleverly waits for him, and at Car
rington the Mlnnewaukan passengers
lay over two hours and give the hotel |
man fifty cents for dinner while the train
runs over to Sykeston and back.
And Minnewaukan! That musical |
Indian name ought to make city of it
but it don't. Since the Arlington hotel |
was pulled down and shipped to Brai-
nerd, the town looks vacant. any unfor- !
tunate traveller who has ever stopped at |
one of the present putting up places
thinks Minnewaukan needs hotel. The !
town is now in the dumps. Even the |
lake recedes and seems trying TO get |
away. It is said that steamboats, can
only get within five miles of the landing. |
Gen. Nickeus is largely interested in |
owns some 300 lots and !
number of quarter sections around it. !
He selected the site and doomed the |
town IN the early days. The Indians
were thorn in the flesh of the townsite !
men then. They claimed that the site !
was within the reservation. and Il year !
was spent III running through the inte-
Nor department for records and settling !
the matter TO the satisfaction of ALL The !
indians were wrong and eventually be !
came so convinced, hut by their acts
wear was lost, and when the lots were