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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
The Artesian Well Accepted.

The board of asylum directors met
Thursday and accepted the ari eslan we'll
from the Gray Bros. of Milwaukee. The
we'll is down 1928 feet. It shows pres
sure OF Al pounds, and flows 2l,600 gal
Ions in "a hours. This is more per capita
than the largest average consumption of
any city or public institution IN the
country. The water is from the same
sandrock as the city we'll, and the reason
it is not as strong in pressure is that the
we'll is IS feet or more higher at the sur
face being bored near the buildings on
the bluff. The water is ample for every
demand, Is suitable for drinking and
laundry purposes and with the erection
of a larger tank OF suitable height, can
be used to furnish excellent fire protec-
tion. It can also be utilized to irrigate
the grounds around the asylum and to
keep the sewers constantly flushed. The
we'll is worth thousands OF dollars to the
institution, and is something that ought
to have been secured long since. It was
begun over three years ago, but various
difficulties have delayed its completion.
The we'll cost $1,000, vouchers for which
amount was made out to the success ul
contractors today. About 1000 feet of
the well completed by the Gray Bros. of
jamestown was utilized.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Thanksgiving proclamation, the full
text of which il as follows:


text of which il as follows:
BY the grace and favor of the AL
mighty God the people of this nation
have beon led to the closing days OF the
passing year which has been full OF
blessings of peace and comforts of
plenty. Beautiful compensation has
c.'me to us for the work of our minds
and of our hands in every department of
human industry, now, therefore, I, Ben
jamin Harrison, president of the United
States Of America, do hereby appoint
Thursday, the 9th day Of the present
month of November, to be observed as a
day Of prayer and thanksgiving, and l
do invite the people on that day to cease
from their labors, to meet IN their ac-
customed houses of worship and to join
in rendering gratitude and prayer to our
bene6cent creator for the rich blessings
he has granted us as a nation and in
voking continuance of his protection
and grace for the future, I commend to
my fellow citizens the privilege Of re-
membering the poor, the homeless and
the sorrowful. Let us endeavor to merit
the promised recompense. In testi
mcny whereof have berennto set my
hand and caused the seal OF the United
States to be fixed. Done at the city OF
Washington, this eighth day of Novem-
bsr, in the year of our Lord, one thous-
and, eight hundred and ninety, and OF
the independence Of the United States
one hundred and fifteen.
BENJAMIN HARRISON, President
By James G. Blaine. secretary OF state.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
The Church on Wheels.

Bishop Walkers church car is row
completed by the Pullman company and
will shortly be seen in North Dakota
In appearance the exterior of the church
differs but little from the ordinary Pull
man, except that from each side, midway
the two extremes, is a slight projection,
Gothic in form, which rises to the height
of what is known as the second deck.
This, Bishop Walker says, is for the pur-
pose Of giving the car more the appear
ance of church. The car is sixty feet
long and ten feet wide! It's interior is
finished in oak after the gothic style. At
one end is a room devoted to the bishops
use. The main body of the car church
contains chancel. altar, lecturn, baptis-
NAL font, bishops chair and cabinet
organ. There are seats for seventy peo-
pie.
''There are many little towns" said
Bishop Walker today, "the residents of
which are now practically barred from
church privileges. It IS for these people
that the church on wheels has been con-
structed. It is not possible to assign a
missionary or rector to these towns
They are too small to support one. My
cathedral car is by no means denomina-
tiOpal."
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
NIinnesOt:s's Taxable PROPERTY,

ST. PAUL, Nov. 12.-The valuation of
assessed taxable property in the state,
made by the board Of equalization, has
been tabulated by the state auditor and
shows the total valuation Of taxable
personal property in the state to be
$lO9,309, ,434, about $4,000, 600 more than
was returned by the assessors: tie val
uation of real estate is ;;491. lbs, ,2o95,
more than $25,C00,000 larger than the
assessors valuation. The total amount
of assessed taxable property is $685.
527, ,729.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13

weather. There is a general shrinkage
in corn, oats and hay due to the drouth
of summer. During the last week in
October the receipts OF live hogs in the
Chicago market we're 2l6,440. These
would load freight train twenty miles
long. The receipts in st. Louis, + an.
sas City and Omaha footed up the total
for the same six days to 363,0SS hogs.
Cattle and sheep have arrived in pro-
porticnately large numbers. For four
weeks the cattle shipments to Chicago
amounted to 330,662 head and 201.639
sheep, or total of all meat animals
brought to that market of 1.l65,593,
most of which were slaughtered for
local consumption and for canning.
Commenting upon these figures the
Orange Judd Farmer says:
The wonder really is, that these
enormous supplies do not entirely knock
the bottom out of prices. Having had,
for many years, in former times, the
charge of reporting the live stock
markets Of New York City for our own
and leading daily and weekly journal
of that metropolis, which was then the
great live stock mart of the country, we
are carried back in thought to the time
when the weekly arrival of five thousand
cattle swamped the market, and sent
prices down 80 to 50 per cent. The
growth and expansion of our country,
and the wonderfully increased facilities
for packing and canning and transport.
ing and distributing meats the world
over, are striking]y indicated in the
fact that all the above animals were
bought and paid for in cash, and that
good stock sold at comparatively fair
prices IN cattle. The scrubs and tail
ings, fit only for dog meat, or for canning
for foreigners, of course sold for little
more than enough to pay expense Of
freight and marketing, but they sold for
this much at least. Good cattle such as
all ought to try to raise for real profit,
sold up to $4.50@5.2O per 100 pounds
live weight. The fair and better grades
of live hogs, despite the number, sold
for 1915 to S4.2O per cwt. Sheep of
good quality at 81 90 to $4.75 per 100
pounds live weight.
The lesson cannot be too often Or too
strongly enforced, that the country is
being drained of meat animals, and that
there will be hungry market in the
future at good paying prices, if farmers
and stock raisers take care to grow good
animals, such as can be readily and
cheaply provided for by the infusion of
good blood. There ought not to be left
in the country single unsold, or un-
used. first quality improved sire, Of the
cattle hog or sheen kind
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Grain Blockade Imminent,

GRAND FoREs, N. D., Nov. 12.-There
is imminent danger Of a great grain
blockade in the Red River valley. The
railroads are making extraordinary
efforts to meet the demands of the
shippers with a daily freight movement
Of $50 loaded cars through this city on
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
ciic railroads, but with the rapid in
crease OF farmers deliveries during this
month and December. it is feared that
the elevators and railroads will prove
unequal to the movement Of the wheat
crop Of 35.000.O00 bushels in the twelve
counties of the valley.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Catholic Society Notes.

The rattle of tho elegant picture of
Bishop Stanley, which was to have oc-
Cured during the Catholic fair but was
postponed because all the tickets were
not in, will occur Wednesday evening at
the Gladstone Office.
Over $1,000 we're cleared at the Catho-
lie fair, recently held in this city.
Wahpe:on Globe: The Catholic school
will be dedicated on Thanksgiving day.
Bishop Stanley will preach the sermon
ard may deliver lecture IN the evening
at the opera house.
Bishop Shanley has returned from
Wild Rice, Cass county, where he con-
Quoted services yesterday.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
LAKE SUPERIOR MINES.
The Output This Year Will BE Upwards
of 5000, 900 Tons

o oSOOOsVOV 4OUAs
DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 12.-During the
season of 1890 the ore shipping business
of the ranges in Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Michigan, the Gogebic, Marquette,
Menominee and Vermillion ranges, will
represent figures unprecedented in
the history of the mining busi-
ness. Up to Nov. there had been
shipped from the ranges mentioned sew
eral hundred thousand over 100000
tons, as against 100000 for the entire
season Of 1859. Before the close of the
present shipping season, which lasts q
month longer, the grand total for this
season will reach over S,O000 0G0 tons.
This ore is valued at from 81. 80 to Sc per
ton to shippers, according to quality.
The probable total Of 5000, 900 tons is
exclusive of the ore received and manu-
factured at Bay View and other mills.
The largest shipments from any one
mine come from the Norrie. Up to Oct.
over 100000 tons We're shipped from
this mine alone, and the owners say it
will reach over LOCO, 900 tons before the
seasons close. This will be the largest
shipment from any single mine in the
world in the same time.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Rich Sensation for Mandan.

Bismarck Tribune: Judge Winchester
held term of court at Mandan yester.
day and disposed OF all the jury cases
but one, which opens this morning at 10
o'clock. This is the case of County
Commissioner Wheeler OF Mandan, who
is to be tried for bastardy. A Mandan
woman claims that Mr.. Wheeler 1s the
father OF an lllegitimate child to which
she gave birth recently. The defendant
is one of Morton county's highly con-
nectei citizens, and the details OF the
trial are expected to be of a very sensa-
tional nature. The court room will be
crowded this morning.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
The South Dakota Elections,

HURON, S. D., Nov. 12.-The senate
will stand: Republicans, "a; opposition,
81, with the house a tie. Mellett's plu-
rality for governor will exceed Loucks,
Ind, 1000: Taylor, DEM, $4,000. It is
very probable that the capital question
will 60 to tho courts for settlement
PIERRE, S. D., Nov. ll.-Latest ad-
vices, which are nearly if not exactly
correct, give Pierre the capital by over
1850 majority over Huron.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
HOG RAiSERS IN A RUSH
To Get Their Animals to Market Before
They Die of Cholera---This in Ohio.

To Get Their Animals to Market Before
They Die of Cholera---This in Ohio.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 12-The state
board Of agriculture is greatly excited
by the prevalence Of hog cholera in the
central counties Of the state and the ac-
ton Of large hog raisers in rushing their
animals to market. Large droves are
reported to have started within the last
week to the Eastern markets, not few
Of which are suspected cf having been
infected with the disease. The disease
seems to be unusually severe this year,
and where it has appeared herds Of sew
eral hundred have been swept away in a
week.
Hog Cholera in Iowa.
OsKALoosA, Iowa, Nov. 12.-There is
an epidemic Of hog cholera in this local
ity which is taking the animals off by the
score. Within the past two weeks NJ.
Price & Son have lost $4,000 worth Of
prize hogs from the disease.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13

An adjourned meeting of the city coun
Gil was held last night. Mayor Fuller and
all the aldermen except Alderman Adams
and Klaus being present.
The electric light committee reported
on the proposition of Mr. Klaus in regard
to putting in more electric lights as fol.
lows:
We recommend the placing of four
more 1000 candle-power arc lights at
once and that the price be made 1925 per
year for each arc light used including
those already in use, to take effect as
soon as the additional arc lights shall be
put in and are ready for use. Said price
to be for one year and no longer. The
price after one year to be at the present
contract price, $95 per year per,light. We
further recommend that the incar descent
street lights now in use be dispensed
with as soon as the additional arc lights
shall be placed and ready for use.
Signed-J. T. Eager and p. NJ. Garri-
gan, committee.
The report was adopted Oh motion of
Alderman Alley.
Alderman Steel moved that no fire be
kept in the engine house this winter and
that the chief OF fire department be in
structed to empty the chemicals to pre-
vent them from freezing. Carried.
The matter OF freight charges on water
works material was referred to the water
works committee.
Council adjourned on motion of Alder
nan Driscoll.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Live Stock Shipments.

The enormous shipments OF cattle
hogs and sheep have continued through
the month of October. This is the re-
suit Of over r-produc ton and short winter
forage. Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska
pastures have not furnished the usual
sustenance for stock for the coming cold
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Thanks in the RED River valley.

The Red River valley Immigration
committee held another meeting yester.
day at Fargo. Among the buslness
transacted was the adoption of the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved:- That as Providence has
showered its choicest blessings and
prosperity and abundance rewards the
toll Of the people of the Red River valley,
the wheat crop of six counties alone be-
ing 20, ,2OO, 600 bushels, be it resolved that
Wednesday, November &c, 1880, be des-
ignated as day Of special Thanksgiving
and rejoicing and that said day be here
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Saloonkeepers Must Pay. N%l

M1NNEAPoL1s, Nov. 12.-Some time
ago there was discovered a shortage in
License Inspector Rays accounts Seven
saloonkeepers had deposited $500 license
money with the city treasurer aud $500
with Ray. The latter amounts turned
up missing, and the police commission
has decided that the saloonkeepers must
put up another $500 or shut up shop.
They are given forty-eight hours to pro-
duce the money.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Another Psarl-sJ Craze.

BLooMiNGTON, Ills, Nov. 1.-the
boys residing at Kappa recently obtained
about forty pearls from mussels found
in the Maclsinaw river. Two of the
pearls they took to Peoria, where they
We're offered see for the pair. 1t is be-
lieved that there are many thousands of
dollars worth Of pearls in the mussels
which the Mackinaw is profusely
stocked. The discovery has organized a
pearl-hunting craze,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13

by set apart as date for every patriotic
citizen OF the Red River valley, interest
ed in our common veal, to constitute
themselves committee OF one to write
letters to eastern friends and home-
seekers that they may be advised of
our prosperity and advantages and
thereby cast their lot in the Nile Valley
of the north and breadwinner for the
nations
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
..now to Cure all Skin DISEASES"

Simply apply "Swayne's Ointment.
No internal medicine required. Cures
tetter, eczema, itch, all eruptions on the
face, hands, nose, ETC., leaving the skin
clear, white and healthy. Its great heal
ing and curative powers are possessed by
no other remedy. ASK your druggist for
Swayne's Ointment.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Tin Men Are Scared. /.

P1TTsBURG, Nov. l2.-The syndicate
formed for the establishment of tin plate
factories are said to have abandoned the
project on account of the Democratic
low tariff outbreak of Tuesday.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13
Hog Cholera in Iowa.
TO RUN ITS OWN sLEEPERs.
The Milwaukee Road VIII do Away With
Its Pullman Service.

Its Pullman Service.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Eight years ago
the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
Railroad company decided to turn over
the management Of it's sleeping cars to
the Pullman Palace Car company. Mon
day night the contract between the two
companies expired. and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul again com
menced the operation Of its sleeping car
service. By the action Of the st. Paul
road, which has about 1900 miles of
sleeping car lines, the Pullman company
loses one. Of the greatest lines in the
Northwest and one of the most impor-
tant districts.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-11-13

Thanksgiving Proclamation.
President Harrison has issued his
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-12-25

The Boston Advertiser publishes careful
survey of the situation in New Hampshire
furnished by its own special correspondent
The general effect of it can hardly be con-
sidered as inspiring to Republicans. The
spectacle is presented of the Democratic
party thoroughly united, with confidence in
their leaders and disposed to follow their
counsel Implicitly, while the Republicans
are broken up into factions, each faction
bitterly hostile to the other, and one of
them at least disposed to look with more
complacency upon Democratic triumph
than upon a result which shall enure to the
advantage of the other. 1t is generally
Conceded that the Republicans had it N
their power to legislate at the recent special
session Of the legislature in such a way as O
secure control of the next legislature
beyond all doubt. 1t is generally
conceded too that such legislation would
have been legal and binding. Indeed it is
alleged that the judges of the Supreme
Court were anxious that something should
be done, to relieve them of the danger of
being called upon to pass upon the questions
at Issue and thus getting mixed up In DO
litlcal quarrel The majority Of the Republi-
cans were In favor of such legislation, but
minority objected and made d trade with the
Democrats to defeat 1t If it should be at
tempted So the opportunity was lost, ana
now the outcome Is matter of grave doubt,
with the chances apparently rather in favor
OF the Democrats by reason of Repub lean
quarrels and disagreements.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-12-25
Former Mckinley

This is equivalent to saving tho,
the changes in the tariff on wool
buttons, and braid. the articles that make
up underclothing, justify an increase Of
from Is to 90 cents In the different kinds Of
underwear cited above. What are the chang
es In the rates of duty on these articles |?
Undertaking made from what are classed
In the tariff schedules asjwools of the first
class and the duty on these is increased one
cent pound. Braid is increased 80 cents
per pound and in addition 10 per cent. ad
Vaiorem. Ivory, vegetable-vory, bone. or
morn buttons such as are used on some kinds
oil undertaking have an inc eased duty of
20 per cent. per dozen ad yalorem. That
- 10 say button costing two cents n
uozen VIII hereafter cost two and a half
cents. On the other hand lasting. moLair
cloth, silk or other manufactures of clotb
woven or made in patterns of such size.
shape o. form as to be fit for buttons which
are used extensively on underwear have
t'uuctlon Oh fifteen per cent. ad valorem At
n's' SIGHT this array of per centum Der
pound" Increase looks formidable. but when
oDe considers the weight of winter nndpr
1885, 'he mountain disappears An
uoue'Sn,l' measuring 80 inches, on which
lhele is an advertised increase Of X
cents weighs considerably less than half 4
pound, braid, buttons, wool and all WooI
increases one cent pound, braid 30 cents
and pound of braid woul' trim FORTY shtr,o.
and buttons, of kind not commonly ussd
25 per cent. dozen, enough for three shirts
while the commonest kind of buttons has a
reduction. The whole Increase is therefore
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-12-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A New York mechanic has solved the pro-
blem of making penny go long way. He
rolled copper cent into ribbon three
quarters of an inch wide and 81 inches long.
A lawyer at Oakland, Cal, is reported to
have pocketed 1884, 900 In fees this year. This
would seem 10 be promising field fol young
limbs of the law.
The electric drill is meeting with great sue
cess in shipyards. Those who have used 1t
claim that in half an hour 1t will bore holes
which, under the old method it would take
two men half day to finish.
Incandescent lamps placed near the CELL
ing will cause it to blackeD, contrary to gen.
eral belief. The blackening is due to a cur
rent of hot air which deposits black particles
on contract with cold surface.
IL is said that If chain were made of al
ternate links of platinum and silver, aud
strong electric current passed throuah it, the
platinum links would become red hot and
the silver remain comparatively COOL
Shutdown Doctors are one of the peculiar
features of Washington life. During the day
they occupy positions as clerks in the govern
ment departments, but at shutdown, or after
O'Clock. they are regular practlcing physi-
clans.
The desk in Congress long used by the
late William d. Kelley has been removed and
sent to his daughters home at her request
on payment Of $55. A similar disposition,
IL is said, was made of "Sunset" Cox's desk;
and now 1t Is proposed to buy that OF Samuel
J. Randall and present it to his family.
The rabbit is not looked upon as an un-
mixed evil In Australia, since it is good to
eat and furnishes cheap meat for many peo-
people. 1t also affords employment in Vir-
toria to more than two thousand persons,
who are employed in efforts to exterminate
the prolific creature.
While an Austrian regiment was on dress
parade recently, says the Detroit Free Press,
bug crawled into the ear of sergeant. He
put up his right hand to remove the insect
and court-martial reduced him to the ranks
fined him $1S and obliged him to carry a
weight of sixty pou ads on bis back for four
teen days. 1t is the big bugs who have the
call over there.
The New York Sun says:-"An excited
woman hustled into the office of the District
Attorney yesterday and asked to be ushered
to the presence of Colonel Fellows. He
wasn't In. She said that perhaps the fore
man of the Grand Jury might do. The wo-
man said she was Mrs Eagan, and was
W -rtn $4,000. She started downtown yes
terday morning to buy some Christmas pres
ents. and bought a ticket at the Thrty-tbird
street station Of the North Avenue Elevated
Railroad, presenting silver quarter and re-
ceiviDg two dimes in change. In her haste
she dropped one of the dimes With her ticket
in the box. To her intense Indignation, the
ticket chopper refused to return the money.
Mrs Esgsn was finally hustled upon train
aud at once made up her mind to have Jay
Gould indicted. 1t is time she said, that
the grasping capitalists be made to feel the
power of the law Assistant District At
torney Lindsay, the adviser of the Grand
Jury, assured her that her case would re-
ceive prompt consideration