Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-02-20

SCHOOL. 10060 interest," Warrants nave
been negotiated in the east by Senator
Robinson and funds thereby to the
amount of $4,000 will be obtained.
With this sum the necessary grounds in
the handsomest residence portion oi
Mayville are to be purchased, more land
in fact than necessary, and as numbe,
Of prosperous Mayville citizens have
built a fine class of residence houses
near the grounds in view, and others
will do SO if the college is located there
the result will be in the nature Of little
boom in town property, which Will sig
nalize the ingenuity and ability of the
Traill county senator and prove highly
satisfactory to all concerned. This is one
way to get a public benefit established in
state where the treasury is in a lean
and melancholy condition.
Live bismarck Topics
The following Item from the Portland,
TRAIL county, Inter-Ocean shows that
the bill introduced by Representative
Tyler regarding the maintenance ofins ne
interest ofthe taxpayers. The legislature
it through. The item in illustration of
u :
The Old Dane," 80 we'll known in and
around Portland, is now an inmate of the
ins ne asylum at jamestown, having been
sent there by Grand Forks county. Han
con is not very insane, but he knows
where to 10 to get winters good board
anu lOuelng.
SincePr ePresidentLincolni issued procla-
nation making freemen Of four million
slaves, nothing has apparently caused as
much general interest as the introduc-
ton OF the Sandager lottery bill. A few
weeks ago the railroad commissioners
Of Iowa drew lots to see who you'd get
the several terms, and not one of the
martyrs of reform-for which the state
is noted, being it's chief product saw
anything Objectionable in the proceeding.
For about month there has been a
deadlock in the legislature Of that com
monwealth. The only proposition upon
which the democratic and republican
members have agreed has been bill ap-
propriating money for their per diem.
They draw their salaries with unanimity
and regularity, at an expense TO the
state of about 81, 800 day. Some mem
Der, into whose head a little common
sense seemed to have wandered by mis-
take, a few days since proposed that the
deadlock be broken by device of Glance
that the organization of the house be
determined by the toss of a copper. But
the spasm of sham morality into which
the country has been thrown by the
North Dakota lottery scheme, has con-
vinced these Iowa prohibitionists and
high moral idea fellows that Il hearse is
concealed somewhere about every thing
connected with 6 ,ming, and that band
wagon goes along with noisy opposi-
tion to everything ,of tho kind, and SO
these violent demagogues rejected the
proposal with righteous scorn and the
farmers of Iowa are still paying a thou
sand and a half a day for their representa-.
tives TO make such gaudy plays.
Sturgis, S. D., Record: Not content
with allowing ministers the privileges OF
the floor, the house allowed the women
to take possession of It's quarters at
Pierre, aud these ''lobbyists" occupied
the seats of the members. It's serious
question now whether it wouldn't be
cheaper for South Dakota to erect big
boarding house and Sunday school
building under one roof for use as a state
capitol. Let's go the whole hog and
have state ecclesiastical or ecuminical
council, together with woman suffrage
debate!
A record manufacturer in the South
Dakota legislature introduced bill do
ua'ing one-h half the per diem Of members,
to over S25OJO, to the fund
for the purchase of seed wheat for desti-
tnte farmers. The enterprising author is