Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-06-12
STATE SUMMARY,

Kldder Go. Republican: David Bussell
has traded $50 acres of land for AZ head
of horses and 100000 cash.
Rolla Star: The price of wheat is 90
Ing up. 1t always does when no one
else but the elevator companies have
wheat to SELL
For the first time in it's history the
Bismarck penltentiary has female con-
vlcts and it became necessary to appoint
matron. The wife of Warden Williams
has been chosen to ill the place.
Mandans artesian we'll is expected to
cost not to exceed $4,000. During the
progress Of boring it is expected, that a
harder vein Of coal will he found. With
the we'll costing the above named sum
the city Indebtedness will be $4,000.
Darlington Independent: A. B. Clark
of Sioux City, Iowa, has been here for
week buying cattle. Uncle John Moore
plotted him around and helped him to
secure carload: The price paid was
two and one-half cents per mound.
George K. Sheldon of Alzada Mont,
writes as follows to the Montana Stock
Journal: Dear Sir:-I have mare that
has had two colts this spring, foaled
| twenty-five days apart. The first was
foaled April Is, and the second was foal-
ed May 10. They are both stout and
| healthy.
Napoleon Homestead Mr.. Dwyer,
while weighing buffalo bones, found
among the bones human skull. It is
| we'll preserved and the upper back
| ''molars" are still in place. The general
opinion is that it is the skull of an In
| dian, as the shape seems to Indicate that
| it belongs to that race
Last week Geo. Allen, of Tewaukon,
Sargent county, found in lake a skele-
ton of man and beside him an old flint
lock musket. The gun, once fine one.
was inlaid with gold. No one knows
! how long the skeleton has laid there,
but 1t is thought a great many years.
There was nothing about the gun by
which its owner could be Identified.
Hans Gilbertson informs the Griggs
County Courier, that a young man was
struck by lightning last Sunday at Har-
risburg. The lightning struck his watch
chain and melted it and struck off his
watch case but did not stop the works
| from running. The stomach and breast
OF the young man was badly burned and
he is now IN crazy condition. Hopes
OF his recovery are entertained.
| Devils Lake Inter Ocean Orders have
been received at Fort Totten within the
past week to vacate about half of the
buildings now used by the troops sta
toned there and to have them ready for
occupancy by the Indian school which is
soon TO be started It is thought that
the preliminary work connected with the
establishment of the school will be
commenced within few weeks. This
school will be very important educa-
tlonal institution and 1t is said will be
the largest of the kind in the United
States. 1t is expected that it will have
from 800 to 500 Indian children in atten-
dance. The superintendent will be ".
F. Garfield of Oakes.
Rutland Journal: A petit jury some
times comes to an agreement in a hurry.
Last Friday afternoon, at Foreman. a
big. threatening looking cloud was seen
approaching from the west. The Judge
thought 1t might be a cyclone approach
ing and adjourned court, forthwith. and
everyone made tracks for the prairie
But the judge, it seems, forgot the jury
in certain case then securely locked up
in the jury room, and they were left to
hold down the court house. The jury,
however, had their eyes on the approach
ing storm. and came to an agreement in
a hurry, the foreman signed the verdict,
when to their dlsmay they found that
the bailiff who had them in charge, had
skipped for the prairie and left them to
their fate. They had to remain until it
was over. The verdict was rendered and
it still stands.