Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-05-22
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year than last. The people around ED.
ridge are feeling better than they did
this time last year.
A. G. Tellner: Have just returned
from Chicago where I spent two weeks.
Had very pleasant trip. Am glad to see
the prospects here SO good. Have bought
fine stock of everything in my line.
G. w. Cowles: will leave Monday or
Tuesday for Pierre to look the town
over and remain a month or 80, probably.
l expect to return to jamestown and
open cigar factory in the fall. did
not make anything this spring, but
think I could this fall if we get good
crop. There are $4,000 sent out of
jamestown every year for cigars. If the
merchants, who kick when farmer buys
his groceries or dry goods from st. Paul
or Chicago firms, would only practice
what they preach we might have cigar
factory here employing tour or five men
the year round. That chipping you had
the other day from the Bismarck Tribune
is about rlght-every dollar sent away i'm
poverishes the city to help make the out
side world richer.
Manager Lieber: I have received a
list OF the prizes to be offered at the
Fargo tournament. Our band is not
saying anything but we will be around
when the prizes are distributed. We are
gong down and expect to come home
with some prize money.
Anton Klaus: Yes I have leased the
Gladstone hotel for another year. l do
not expect to be here all of the time, but
will look after the property more or less.
Chas. Klaus and wife will have the im-
mediate manageme ent of the hotel after
July lst.
Major Hamilton of Grand Forks by
letter: I understand the Hippocynagon
show will be IN jamestown this week. 1t
is wonderful exhibition and everybody
who attends it will be delighted, not only
kids, but adults. Do not miss it and say
through The Alert that it is we'll worth
seeing. In Grand Forks the houses were
crowded and the exhibition met with
universal approval. I am not an advance
agent and only write about it so that
my friends can enjoy good thing.
Father Perrault in Mandan Pioneer:
There are 81 Catholic priests in North
Dakota, and every Catholic church on
Easter Sunday made collection for the
Cathedrat1cum, or for the support of the
bishop. The jamestown collection was
the largest; then came Grand Forks and
| then Mandan. It is somewhat remark
able that Mandan should be ahead of
Fargo, Casselton and other popular cities
IN the state. Fargo made the most
strenuous efforts to get the headquarters
for the bishop of the state, but 1t would
seem from the close-fisted character of
the Fargo Catholics, that it was not en-
titled to it.
From Minneapolis: 1t is reported
here that w. W. Bill of Duluth, cleared
up $25,OOO on the board of trade last
week and that he has purchased the in
terest of Pressey and Wheeler in the
commission firm of Pressey. Wheeler l.
Lewis. The firm name hereafter will be
Bill Il Lewis.
Advance Agent Mckee of the "horse
show: There are some mighty dull
towns in South Dakota. Take Mitchell;
they had not had show there for SIX
months when we struck the town. 1
wrote Prof. Hurlburt that we wonld not
do enough business to buy hay for the
trick mules, but the people turned out
we'll because they hadn't had any amuse-
ments for 80 long Aberdeen and Huron
are both dead; Pierre is all on paper, but
Sioux Falls is good town. We give a
good show. Our educated horses are the
feature. The feats they perform are
nothing less than wonderful. Our street
parade is an elegant affair The profes-
sor drives his borses without birdie or
lines. We will be in jamestown Friday
and Saturday, giving performances on
the evening Of each day and matinee
Saturday afternoon.
Conductor Chas. r. Weber: Crops are
looking we'll all along the James River
Valley. 1t was reported at Cakes yester.
day that while out hunting with his wife
Tuesday afternoon Hon. R. N. Stevens
who represented Ransom county in the
last legislature, accidentally shot and
instantly killed his wife. The full
charge of a shot gun entered her head
Stevens is crazy with grief. His temper
ament is nervous and eXcitable and it is
feared at Lisbon that this sad occur
renee may permanently unsettle his
mind
Col. Blum: On the strength of the
'original package" decision of the SUI
preme court, have ordered car load
of bottled beer which l will sell by the
case, glass or,in original packages. by the
bottle. expect to open up an ''original
package" house.
Herder: We have about 100 cows in
our herd. Have to goa mile for feed
and water. Most of the herd is owned
by families in the city. The grass is get
ting better every day.
Capt. McGinn1s: Our little girl was
resting much easier last night than for
several days past.
rs. Underhill: Major Hinton of the
irrigation commission, has thrown good
deal more responsibility on me than l
care to assume. Am endeavoring, how
ever, to make my report to the depart