Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-01-23
ASYLUM APPROPRIATIONS.
Senator Fuller and Representative
Lutz Each Introduce Bills Asking
for $3.50, ,4x0 for the Insane Hospital.

1AuuDlDk. ................... 5U
Ground improvements. 500
Water supply. ............ 49,. 1000
Reds and bedding. g............... 1,25O
Furniture, stock, etc .. 500
Covering steam pipes ..... 1000
Sewer pipes. 100
Furnishing boiler house w LOCO
Supplies for engine room . . 49,. 1900
Fire protection. $50. . 1900
Radiators. 500
Furnishing attic and basement. 1000
Paints and painting .... 1900
Repairs on roof damaged by the
stOru IOS
Senator Fuller introduced the same
bill in the senate.
Among other bills introduced were
these: BY Selby, appropriating $12, 800
to pay the expenses of the constitutional
convention in excess OF the $4,000 con-
gressional appropriation. Congress will
reimburse the state. Williams intro
duced q bill to define the duties of the
commissioner of agriculture and labor
and making him ex-officio dairy commits
sioner; Court, to authorize school boards
to purchase United States flags; Green.
to am md the game laws so that prairie
chicken and grouse can be killed after
Aug 1st 18th; and Lilly, to revise the
law in relation to boards of health and to
establish county and township boards of
health.
The house passed the Walsh revenue
bill which, has occupied most of their
attention for over week.
The senate bill extending the time at
which taxes become delinquent, or rather
the time at which the per cent penalty
attaches for delinquency, went TO the
governor today. 1t is intimated that it
will be vetoed on the ground that such
course wonld be lpjudiclous in the pres
ent condition of state finances.
The house odopted resolution calling
on Auditor Bray for an explanation OF
his neglect to honor the vouchers of the
honse for per diem and salary of mem
bers and clerks during the holiday recess.
The auditor will reply tomorrow, trans
mitting the opinion of the attorney gen
eral and his advice not to draw the same.
The matter will probably be referred to
the judiciary committee and if SO, it is
expected that that they will report reso-
lutions calling upon the supreme court
to pass upon the question. The impress
sion is prevalent that the opinion OF the
attorney general wont hold water and
that the vouchers will yet be honored.
The Senate
The senate today passed bill reGulr-
ing county commissioners to give bonds
in the sum Of $1,000: also Appleton's bill
| authorizing townships to bond for irr1-
CATION purposes.
Harmon's bill establishing county
! repositories was recommitted TO the com
mittee on ways and means.
Two Experiment Stations Needed
Senator Haggart having intr oduced
another Agricultural college bill and the
committee on education having reported
recommending that it pass, Senator
Diesem and Representative Ueland will
try to amend this bill so that one third of
the fifteen thousand dollars that the
state receives from the United States
government shall be annually used at a
branch station located at Edgeley. La
Moure county. The amendment ought
to pass.
The experiment station as located at
Fargo is worth as much to Minnesota as
Dakota, if not more. The people of the
James river valley and the western part
of the state, where the land is dry roll
ing prairie. and where the RAIN fall is
only from Is to Is inches annually on the
average, will have but little benefit from
experiments carried on at Fargo and the
bottom lands OF the Red river valley,
where the annual ram fall is from q to
2S inches. The Fargo delegation argues
that it is not good policy to divide the
station. 1t may perhaps be better for
the city of Fargo to have the whole of
the fifteen thousand dollars expended
there than to divide, il but it is not justice
to the whole state The Agricultural
college is located at Fargo. and before
long will be III full operation and then it
will be one of. If not the most valuable
institution in the state Now the state
having done this for Fargo, and IN ad-
dtion is willing to let them have the
main experiment station. Fargo ought not
to find fault if the paltry sum of five
Thousand dolIors should be used at some
branch station where it can do the whole
people more good. The assessable pro-
perty of LaMoure county is valued at
about one fourth of that of Cass and yet
they offer at Edgeley one quarter section
of as good land us can be tound in the
state, nearly all under cultivation, free OF
charge, for the privilege of getting a
branch station located there. when
Fargo's contribution to their AgrIcul-
tural college and experiment station is
yet an uncertain quanlty.
Two Of Mandan's prominent citizens
have been investigating Jamestowns
celebrated artesian spouter. They re
turned home enthusiastic advocates of
artesian wells. In spite of unfavorable
advice from a Washington expert, 1T is
not unlikely that well viii be bored at
Mapdan. The necessities for it are very
great.