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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18
North Dakota The Place.

What weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing Of teeth there will be among the
hundreds Of ambitious men and women
who are focking to Montana and Wash
ington! Every train over the Manitoba
and Northern Pacific is loaded with emf
grants from the east. Thousands of
dollars have been spent advertising
Tacoma, Seattle, Great Falls and other
towns of the west. The result is the
tremendous boom that is now in pr ogress
and the influx of myriads Of spectators
and home seekers. The Herald does not
wish to say anything unkine of the two
prospective states, Montana and Wash
ington, but a word OF warning vii not be
amiss. All boomers and spectators may
go on westward, but for those who are
seeking homes where peace and plenty
reign and where hones5 industry meets
it's Just reward, the proper place is North
Dakota. Here are honest homes. Many
men who come without a dollar may own
comfortable farms and pleasant homes.
All that is needed is energy and viii to
till the soil. Those who prefer city life
may come to Grand Forks and find an
activity that Is agreeable. Here are op-
portunities for new enterprises and an
excellent chance for success. The spring
of 'S9 is opening with every prospect of
prosperity and the coming summer will
be fun of excitement and interest. The
right hand of welcome will be extended
to all new comers-who come for busl-
ness.-Grand Forks Herald.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18
State Rights in Dakota.

A week or two ago The Alert had oc-
cas1on to correct statement made in
the New Rockford Transcript by Hon. A.
Nj. Thomson, who claimed that there was
no provision in the omnibus bill regulat-
ing the price of the school lands granted
to the new state, but that "the price,
terms of payment and the use of the
proceeds, are subjects that are wisely
relegated. to the wisdom of the legisla-
ture." The Alert pointed out that such
provision was made by section II of
the omnibus bill which provides that
call lands herein granted for educational
purposes shall be disposed of only at
public sale and at aprice not less than
$40 per acre.
Notwithstanding this plain provision
made by congress with regard to the
price and manner in which school land
may be disposed of, Mr.. Thomson again
reiterates in last weeks Transcript his
statement that ''the price, terms of pay
ment and the use of the proceeds are
subjects which are wisely relegated to
the wisdom Of the legislature In the
ordinary way it might appear hardly
worth while to combat such perverseness
as this, but as Mr.. Thompson is hoping
to be sent to the constitutional conven-
tion it may be we'll to devote little
space to exposing his fallacies.
Mr.. Thompson has always been regard
ed as republican but in his latest letter
he advances the old states rights doctrine
in all its pristine glory. His argument
is as follows:
I do not think that The Alert will con-
tend that the price of $40 per acre named
in the enabling act IS to stand forever
upon the statute book as the price of
school lands in North Dakota. Neither
do think that the intelligent editor of
that paper will insist that congress will
have anything whatever to do with the
price of school lands in North Dakota
after she is admitted into the union as
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18
Gov. Mellette Selects a jamestown
Man as the Administrations
=. Legal Adviser.
Exhaustively Discussed Last Night
at the Meeting of the City
Council.
Another Band Organized-Its OFF,
GERS and Members-Other
Local News.
Attorney General Nickeus.

In response to telegram from Gov.
Mellette, Hon. johnson Nickeus went to
Bismarck Sunday and was there ten
dered the appointment as attorney gener-
al of the territory. The appointment was
accepted and his commission was issued
today and is probably now on the way to
Jamestown.
When Gov Mellette was appointed
governor, the newspaper men of the ter
ritory who were aware Of the strong per-
sonal friendship existing between the two
gentlemen, began to predict that Mr..
Nickeus would be the next attorney gen
eral. The feeling that he would be or
could be if he SO desired, was general
and dsubsequentev events show it to havebeen
we'll founded. For reasons which need
not be mentioned, however, Mr.. N1ckeus
did not ask for anything for himself and
for several days it has been given out
that Delegate Clifford would be the man
Mr.. Clifford was offered the appointment
but felt called upon to decline and ques-
tions having recently arisen wherein the
advice of an attorney general is necessary,
Gov Mellette resolved to offer the Office
to Mr.. Nickeus and did SO with the
above result. .....-'
The tender of the Office was consider
able of surprise to Mr.. Nickeus mas
much as he and other Jamestown men
had repeatedly stated to Gov. Mellette
that all the people of jamestown wanted
was the retention OF r. E.. Wallace as
public examiner, to which position he
was appointed by Gov. Church.
It is needless to add that the appoint
ment will be good news and give general
satisfaction to the people of Jamestown.
Mr.. Nickeus' popularity is as we'll known
as is his legal ability, which Gov. Mel
.9este So fttiHgsy aSkno,T.sag ss III hls
latest appointment. @T
johnson Nickeus was born July 3, 1850
and is consequently only 3S years of age
He has, however, had rather eventful
career. When not quite twelve years old
he left home and joined Gen. Pope's army
as newsboy. He continued as such
until the war closed. He says he has sold
many a paper to the brigade of which
Ira Pierce of this city was a member;
For seven or eight years he resided in
Washington. D. c., where he held posi-
ton as one OF the senate clerks, being in
the same room with Charley Gray. Early
in 1880 he left Washington and came to
jamestown, where he has since resided
His career here is well known. He was
first, clerk of the district urt,which he
resigned to become a county commits
sionor. In 1888 and 1885 was member
of the territorial council from this dis
trict, and in both 1885 and 1888 was
urged to again become candidate, but
declined. In August, 1888, he was ap'
pointed district attorney to fill the va
cancy caused by the, appointment o.
Judge. Rose to the bench, and last fall
was elected by a majority of 500 for
term of two years.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18

James Kennedy VS.. the Northern Pacific
Railroad company. The regular panel
was exhausted. and the sheriff had to
fetch some extra talesmen, as a number
were challenged on the ground that they
had formed or expressed an opinion on
the case.
The action is being brought by Kenne-
dy to recover damages from the railroad
for injury and loss sustained by him
through having been struck and thrown
into the air by one of defendants en-
gines, while riding in his wagon, which
was crossing defendants tracks on Fifth
avenue, this city, on the Sd of last De-
canlber
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18
Dakota Weather For April.

Prof. Blake, the great Kansas weather
prophet, was not exactly correct in his
forecast for Msrch, says the Mandan
Pioneer. but he takes hand for April.
He says that in North Dakota the pre-
cipitation during April will be less than
usual for the month. He says in the
Washburn Mail: -
while the first part Of the month will
be mild, yet it will turn cold during the
middle of the month, and part of the
precipitation will be as snow. We advise
the farmers there to follow the sugges-
ton contained in our letter of March,
and be prepared to SOW their wheat and
oats as soon as possible after the cold
spell ends about the middle of April. AS
there will be no frosts i n North Dakota
this spring, after the first week in May,
we advise planting eighry-day corn as
early in May as possible, SO that it may
escape the terrible drouth which will
exist there during the summer months.
But with all that can be done, it will not
be possible to raise more than half to two
thirds of an average crop OF wheat or
corn there this year. We therefore ad-
wise farmers to plant katfir corn and
sorghum, as they will endure the drouth,
and hogs, horses and cattle can be both
wintered and fattened on them. as has
been repeatedly proved in Kansas"
In conversation about the ordinance
requiring the Northern Pacific to place
fagmen at the intersection of their
track with certain streets, which was
passed Monday evening by the city
council, a gentleman said last night to an
Alert reporter: 1T is bad policy for any
city to antagonize q railroad company
which is so much to it as the Northern
Pacific is to jamestown. 1t would be
very easy thing for the road to order all
the married conductors transferred to
the east end. thus necessitating the re-
moval of a score OF families from James
town to Fargo. Again, I understand that
plans have already been drawn for
new brick depot at jamestown. VIII the
company be any more likely to build If
the city exhibits aspiritof unfliendliness?
I don't say that the city is antagonistic
or unfriendly to the railroad but if the
passage of the ordinance should be so
construed by the officials of the road I
think that the result would not rebound
to the advantage of the city"
F. B. Fancher, who has been in Cass
county several days en- alliance insurance
husinesS returna,l this noon
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18
The Boom Craze.

OF all the crazes with which this
country has been afflicted, says the Sioux
Falls Press, the Oklahoma craze is the
most remarkable. A little spot of ceun-
try of no special advantages in fertility
or climate is attracting tens of thousands
of people, but a small percentage ofwhom
can get claims when it is opened to SET
tlement. The only way to account for
tie intense desire of these crowds to get
in is upon the theory that they have
heretofore been kept out-just as so
many times people who never cared par
ticularly for drinking liquor are seized
with tremendous thirst for it as soon as
there is an attempt to deprive them of
it. Their experience is something like
that of the man who had not been out
side the walls of Paris for forty years,
and was shot during the siege while try
ing to clandestinely escape over the city
walls-when he could get out he didn't
want to, and when he couldn't get out he
lost his life trying. These Oklahoma
boomers wouldn't care particularly to
enter the domain were it not interdicted.
Dakota has millions of acres better in
every way which may be had for the TAX
ing. How would it do to issue an edict
that nobody would be allowed to enter
this territory that inspire a
terrific rush? It's in matters of this kind
much as it is with salvation-so long as
it is free there is no overwhelming de-
mand for it, but if people had to obtain
their religion by paying dearly for it,
everybody would be crazy for a supply.
AS soon as the boomers can get into the
country they will be satisfied to get out.
Now the sigh for Oklahoma gain direct
" their chant will be, "Och! la! home
again."
Money to loan on city and farm mort
rooac TuOyDS
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18
An Explanation.

EDITOR ALERT:-Having been an
nounced to preach in jamestown the
evenings of Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday of the present week and on ac-
count of rather peculiar (and unavoidable
on my part) circumstances am not per-
mitted to fulfill the engagement, I deem
it necessary and due to my friends and
the public that this explanation be made.
Having been called to jamestown last
August to hold some meetings we re-
sponded and the German Evangelical
church!was kindly opened to us by its pas
tor. Meetings were continued over two
Sabbaths with good results and blessing
to many hearts. At that time we were
urgently requested to return at some
future date The pastor of the said
church also endorsing the work as OF God
and stated that at any time We wished
the church to hold services in (when un-
occupied by himselD if we would inform
him by letter, he would announce it and
haye it published. Consequently we
made the appointment and wrote the
said pastor concerning g the church about
six or seven weeks ago to which we re-
seiyed the following card April 5th:
Rev. e. l.. Smith st. John Dakota:
Wish you the Lords blessing in your
work. Excuse me for waiting so long
have been away from home very much
On account of Bro. Parker OF the NJ. r.
church I better not say yes. For myself
I.would let you have the church but
circumstances alter cases. Hope you can
find some other place in town here.
Come and see us when you come.
Your Bro. in Jesus,
e. W. TEiCHMAN.
The above card largely explains our
failure to preach as advertised. We en-
deavored in our short stop last week and
our slight acquaintance to secure place
for services without success. We frankly
admit that it is with deep sense OF NOR
tifcatioa and painful to our heart to be so
we'll appraised of the fact that we have
been cleverly and rehgiously "boycott-
ed
Yours in defense of Bible holiness.
E. l.. Smith
Alexandria MINI.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18

Prof G. J. Pickert, the accomplished
institute conductor for North Dakota,
writes from Bottineau that the farmers
are putting in an increased acreage of
grain and are doing the work in better
shape than ever before.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18

oSooo Ou OH cludlluy WILL Cllo o"AoA
states" The price named in the Spring.
ser bill 1s advisory and not mandatory,
and was no doubt inserted to meet the
already on the school lands who might
set up the claim that they are entitled to
the land at the old government price OF
Sl.25 per acre. That congress expected
and intended that the whole business of
selling, leasing and caring for the school
lands should be relegated to the legisla-
ture is shown by the extract quoted
when it says that such lands may under
such regulations as the legislature shall
prescribe ETC., ETC."
1t is difficult to understand what
object the Hon. A. NJ. Thomson can pos
$sibly have in this persistent endeavor to
lmislead the people Of his county on this
question. BY the omnibus bill congress
deeds certain specified lands to the new
states, for certain specified purposes, and
under certain specified conditions. The
state will have no power-aither now Or
at any future time, to change either the
amount, the purpose, or the conditions
OF this grant. If the price of school land
lis fixed by congress at $40 per acre it
will remain at that price, until congress
sees fit to change it. If under Mr.. Thom
sons Estate rights construction of the
law, North Dakota had power to change
the price imposed on these lands by con-
gress, they would have equal right and
power to change the purpose, for which
they were given, and use the school
lands to build capitol or an insane
asylum.
Mr.. Thomson attempts to bolster up
his assumption of supreme power for the
state, by the above quotation Of an ex-
tract from this section apart from the
context, and putting, "etc, ect," insteadof
quoting the complete passage. "But
such lands may under such regulations
as the legislature may prescribe, BE LEAs-
Ed" The last two words convey a very
different meaning to "etc, etc.
It is unnecessary to waste more than a
few words on Mr.. Thomson's argument
that because provision in the Sioux
Falls constitution is in conflict with this
act OF congress- the act of congress is
thereby rendered null and void. The
idea that law of congress could be alter
ed OR nullifed by a state legislature was
exploded 25 years ago.
The section IL of the Omnibus bill
/ relating to the school lands is quoted in
full below, and appears to be plain
enough for any reasonable person to
| sa.;,! .s3ssiou ! That Ill lands herein
granted for educational purposes shall
be disposed of only at public sale, and at
price not less than ten dollars per acre,
the proceeds to constitute a permanent
school fund, the interest Of which only
shall be expended in the support of such
schools. But said lands may under such
regulations as the legislature may pre-
scribe, be leased for periods of not more
than I've years, in; quantities not exceed
ing one section to any one person or
company, and such land shall not be
subject to preemption, homestead entry
or any other entry under the land laws
| of the United States, whether surveyed
or unserveyed, but shall be reserved for
school purposes only.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18

Money to loan on city and farm mort
cages. LLoYDs.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-04-18

F. B. Fancher, who has been in Cass
county several days en- alliance insurance
business returned this noon
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-29
THE c

Thess Ouseaessos Arr Rsvsseh aoA Cer.
rectea Every Day.
Huear1Grsnulat~d. per IN. \" eaa0; light
s s;s:D: ,n ssrsi ISl msSss Y A. Ne" York
ca Sssef Riss. &c., ::''1 .sy. s' xsnd siSl sse &c:
Mocha, ssG1sr: Roasted RIO and Costa Rics. $40
3Dr; rraxted Carbaio,. nj; uasted Mocha and
Java, aSQs0c: Arbuckle'n, 35r.
,, Iss: t.:nSs"as 800. 3D. E1 a$si s. Srs"t 1ossx 'e nS.
rTlctIssS EASTERN gal. $3.50, gal. $3.50; 10
gal, ei0O.
Cabbage-Per cwt. q.
Eggs. per caSc, Ss.OO.
Butter, per n, 3St4Or.
Cheese. per n. 3Dte2r.
s, sSn Tito s1sssxi ar = Boxes sss Sn ,sc I psa 5: rsacsrs
salt Lake, iSc; apricots, 81: eSapOrated ditto,
25c; h!arkberrics fis,; raspberrtes. Jr.
California fruits, S5-OOltS.s0 per case.
s-S Standard CORN, ss.So.
Pm standard peas, $50; seconds, cara.
I'm string and LAMA beans. S2-s5.
Dried Brans.Navy, $6.U per TOO D: Lima,
Wheat. no. 1, per TOO n, seyD.
Corn, cracked, per 100 N, Si.75.
Bran. per 100 N, si-5O; bran and shorts per 100
fiour-P~r 100 N, rilsbury's bess. $3.50. Ogden.
Corn meal, per iOO n. se.aL.
DAT meal. per ioO n, $40.
Fresh Mrats-rork isc: beef s@sOc: lamb,
Salt Mcats-ham lO6naOc: bacon Lc; cOrned
beef i0c; pork iac; Sausage i.isdtl5r.
Coal-Per ton. hard SO. soft 500.
Wood-Prr cord sam.
nay-Pcr ton S25I0.
ton Si2.O0.
tats-Per cwt. S2.O.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-29

tho we'll bced In show their fcelin9s, and
n shere had NOT bcen . m~ischieyous hoy
OF ~ I'm the family I have no doubt the
Rirl would still he c~snulating the example
OF thu old T1an ~ $50. IL waa this boy WIN
conceived . plan IN start tho tarricr home
correct style and then wrote to - opc
which makes q speciality OF such things
the following parn9rnph:
-"Mins -. who haas been staying with
- for this last thrsss months, has re-
turned IN |; ~ ho0se in -"
The author Of this society note took care
his victim should see il. She took the
hint and departed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-29
SHE STRUNG THE BEANS.

The New Saying that Puzzled the Old
Prom the Chicago Herald.
A reporter who went down to Braidsvood
10 gather some news regarding the desti-
tuition of the miners tells a story oh an old
Scotch lady living i'm the nciRhborhood.
The reporter heard the yarn from n store
keeper. II seems this old lad had not
long ago left the land of the heather and
was not fully up i'm the peculiar ways OF
the Americans. One day at q store b
noticed some string beans exposed
for sale and she said IL WA u shame to
pick them before they were ripe.
The groceryman explained TO her that
the beans were very FIN eating, indeed.
He urged her to buy some, at the same
time giving her some Instructions about
preparing them. He told her she must
string them and then boil them until soft
and tender. The old lady, anxious to
learn all she could of the ways of the land
of her adoption, finally took . mess
home. Some hours later q iGh Ia
wolnan) came i'm and found the old lady
busy i'm the preparation Tor her MONDAY
meal. What she saw caused her to burst
out laughing. There the old lady sat with
the beans in her lap, a needle and thread
i'm her hand, strinRing the beans. In "a
few moments the n~eiHhb had shown the
old Scotch woman how to string beans,
but the joke was too good Ia keep and the
groceryman heard IL.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-29
urious Watches.

From tho American Analyst.
In 1888 u Matchmaker OF Dresden ex-
hibited q watch made entirely of paper.
The paper was chemically prepared and
the maker claimed that ii would he as SER
viceable rs IL made of the material ordi-
unrily used. The same year at u fair held
at Worcestershire, England,
Bros. & Co. exhibited one made entirely
OF iron. An ingenious prisoner at Kariaus,
Bohemia, recently constructed a watch
eight centimetcrs in diameter, with no
other tools or material except two needles,
n spool of thread, u newspaper and some
rye straw.
The wheels. posts and coRs are all made
Of the rye straw, which il IL well known is
quite coarse and tough. II runs six hours
without winding and keeps good time. 1t
IL now i'm the possession of the project OF
K~ariaus, who considers IL the greatest
marvel of the nineteenth century.
pick watch ever manufactured WAS sent
out from the works of Patck, Philippe q
Co., of Geneva, Switzerland, in July, 1885,,
and il now i'm possession of Baron NIcho-
las. 1t il what il known as the full-sizcd
'hunter.o On one side there is n dial of
the regulation kind, exhibiting the hour,
minute and second hands; also an indie
pendent chronograph hand which marks
the hfths of seconds. The same dial has
repeating mechanism which strikes the
hours, quarters and minutes. The p po
site dial has hands pointing to the months,
weeks and days. Another large contra
hand OH this dial, If set at the beginning
phases and also acts as u perpetual cal
Sndar. 1t il SO constructed AS to admit OF
its keepinU two different times, say stand
ard on one side and sun time on the other
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-29

There are people who are always getting
themselves into trouble, and i'm fact don't
seem to know how to keep out Of trouble,
says the Kansas City Times. A few days
ago, when the United States district court
adjourned through respect to the memory
of the late district attorney, +. +. kimball.
there was necessarily some little confIIs-
ion az To how long the court would be adj
journed. and when the cases Ina which
there were a number Of Witnesses from
distant counties would bs tried. One
sturdy, long haired farmer. who was evil
IDENTIFY ut court for his first time and
anxious to get hack Ia his farm, APP
proached Deputy United States Marshal
Gates and said:
AVAIL, l don't reckon. cap'n. I'll have
to come hack here i'm that ar likker
case 2"
"Yes, you WILL" said the officer. ..and
don't You fail to he here next March,"
"Wall, I hain't under no obligations to
come, and I'll he blowing then, NO you'd
better take down what l know"
"I1l put you undcr obligations very
quick" said the officer, and, taking the
rural witness by the arm, showed him into
the clerks office and PUT him under a
bond Of $500 for his appearance.