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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
pelled to change my business for any
consideration I shall make haste open up
stock ranch and farm in North Dakota
Stack, or Build Granaries.

Grand Forks News: If the railroad
commission back down, burnt sulphur
will not save them from the universal
conclusion that they we're bought off.
Elevator agents now peddle around that
they want Doodle, in order to poison the
public against them. The commission
ers must 60 on. They cannot retrace
their steps. Let people howl. The
common school system was forced on the
people against all their bowls. "The
law IS good If man use it lawfully"
Stack your wheat.
The farmers have their own salvation
in their own hands. It is as lawful for
them to defy the laws as it is for the ele-
vator and railroad trust. Let them
stack their wheat and market it at
leisure. Heretofore they have howled
from Fort Pembina to Fort
SissetLn that the railroad commission
was 10 league with the monopoly. Now
they have Il commission that means to
enforce the law. Let the farmers as one
band, a solid phalanx back up the COM
mission. If they have no granaries, let
them stack.
Provision will be made to sell every
bushel OF wheat that it is obligatory
upon the farmer to sell. Stack your
wheat, Lu;ts slanting, heads high and
full IN the middle.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
Beginning to Look Gloomy.

A. G. Chambers, general manager of
the Northern Dakota Elevator company,
says the Pioneer Press, does not take so
happy view of the crop situation IN
North Dakota, as some Of the other ele-
vator men whose views have been made
public in these columns.
"There are SO many conflicting reports
as to the damage done by the late frosts
in North Dakota" said Mr.. Chambers
yesterday, ''that it IS impossible to tell
what the actual damage will be. We
have had experienced experts investigat.
ing matters up there, but as yet we can
not make up any definite statements: 1t
is too early for man to 60 on record yet.
I should say, however, in the way Of a
prediction that the frosts would cause a
shrinkage of 5,OOO,OOO to 9,0OO,OOO bushels
in the quantity of the North Dakota crop
and affect the quality from one TO two
grades"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
WILL HEW TO The Line.
The Railroad Commissioners do
not Fear Political OBJ
Scurity.
They Declare the law of Inspect
ing and Grading Grain Must
be Enforced.
The Possibilities of the Future
Discussed by a Member of
the Board.
That West Superior Offer.

Commissioner Harmon of the railroad
commission, has this to say in the Bis
marck Tribune, about the West Superior
proposition to handle North Dakota
wheat:
I'VE met the Superior delegation
early in the day. 1t consisted OF the best
business men in that city. There were
ex-governors, bankers, large wholesale
and retail merchants, members of the
hoard of trade and others who are in
earnest in wishing to establish the outlet
for Our wheat through their city. The
scheme proposed will be sure to work in
time. 1t ls quite task to enforce this
law and new complications arise on all
sides. The Superior delegation proposed
TO build several elevators, say three for
the present-and locate them on the lake
front. The ground on which these ele-
vators are to he built will be donated free
and West Superior is willing to subscribe
$4,000 in capital stock. They ask the
cooperation of North Dakota capitalists
and l believe they will get it. The
scheme is worthy one, and forever set
ties vexing problem.The wheat grading
is to be in accordance with the laws gov
erning the same, and which we are try
ing to enforce. This Superior market
will simply be a large storing point
and the wheat will be handled by the
board of trade. Besides this there will
be from S1.OO to $3.50 saved
in freight on every car shipped to Su-
perior Minneapolis has friends in the
state who are working against us. They
are at points where they buy without
opposition. Minneapolis buyers will not
come in and compete with them and
they in return skin the farmers for the
Minneapolis parties. 1t may take several
sets Of railroad commissioners 10 enforce
this law. The people tell me it will kill us
politically. Well, suppose it does, there
will be more to fill our places who will
have the law to fulfil. am not working
for political glory, nor do I believe the
balance of the board is. but We are going
to enforce the law. OF course we cannot
dictate where the farmers shall sell their
wheat but We wish to establish market
OF our own where our vast crops of No. l
hard can be honestly marketed and the
laws be fulfilled and the farmers have
their full earning for their labor, which
must be accomplished by fair grade
and an honest market"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
4 North Dakota Fable,

Grand Forks News: There was
North Dakota farmer once who kept
pet lion which he raised from a cub to
sleek roaring monster. Every year he
worked so he might have enough surplus
to keep this lion on nice fat beef and
English mutton chops and fancy cuts.
But there came series of years IN which
it was nip and tuck whether the farmer
should so hungry or the lion. The far
mer groaned and the lion savagely beat
his sides with his caudal. This course
of i'll luck could not last always, so Prov
idence one year blessed this farmer with
tremendous crop and he fastened to
the lions den to make merry with the
king of beasts over the prospects for the
season. The lion was very hungry, and
as the farmer had left the door open to
free access to his herd, the lion said to
himself: II will keep 1t all because
am the lion. Laws be damned! My
necessity knows no law!' With that he
bit off the farmers head and possessed
the flock.
Moral: Stack your wheat.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
4Fire.Break Machine.

E. G. Rice of Mandan, has shown the
county commissioners an apparatus for
making fire breaks on the prairie. The
machine Is his invention and has been
used in Morton county for one or two
seasons, with considerable success, it is
claimed. 1t consists of gasoline reser-
voir attached to an iron pipe about five
feet long. This pipe terminates in a
frame of smaller pipe, shaped something
like grldiron and covered with sheet
iron. The gasoline runs from the can
down the pipe, and generates gas in
the prongs OF the frame, which, when the
machine is drawn over the ground, ig-
mites grass very quickly if it IS dry
enough to burn. Behind the machine
are three iron discs, each several feet
long. They confne the fire to the space
burned, and prevent it's spreading. Be-
hind the last disc is dragged a wet cat
tie hide, loaded with earth. This effect
ually puts out any scattering fire that
may be left, and a man follows in the
rear of ali to extinguish any burning
manure or weeds. The machine is drawn
by three horses. The strip burned over
is five feet wide. and about 20
miles day can be made if the
grass is dry enough to burn readily.
The cost of gasoline will run from 10 to
40 cents mile according.to the condi'
ton of the grass. The commissioners
have purchased an outfit, which costs
s115. and the machine is expected to
arrive here by next Tuesday. 1t will be
operated, beginning at Windsor and run
as far north as the county line, then east
Afterwards 1t will be sent south to the
county line and thence east again. After
wards other breaks will be burned, and
the work kept going until all danger is
over. Messrs. Lloyd, Jandell, Kearney
and others will furnish the outfit to run
the machine free, for the privilege of
using it. OF course, if the plan is sue
cess, the breaks made will only be a
check in preventing any general fire. It
is not intended that individual farmers
rely on the county's efforts to protect
their places. The danger from prairie
fires is even greater than frost or hail,
and there is great carelessness seen every
where in the delays in making breaks.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
JAMESTOWN,

enough to buy breadstuffs. This will
add to the consumption and demand.
The Orange Judd Farmer is not bear
in the market. While commiserating the
foreign sufferers, it greatly reJoices in the
abundant crops and good prices to be
realized by our own farmers. 1t pros
pers as it's readers prosper. But it can
not avoid words of caution against the
excitation of false hopes and expectations
that may cause many to hold their grain
for prices that may not be realized.
Please mark these words, to refer to or
s months hence.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
To Keep n. ID. Wheat Separate.

A committee of leading capitalists and
residents OF West Superior were in con-
sultatlon yesterday in Fargo with SIM
liar committee of the board of
that city, on the subject near
and dear to every North Dakota
mans heart-the grading and selling OF
hard wheat on it's merits as t1our pro-
ducer. After the Fargo conference, the
West Superior men took special train
to Grand Forks on similar mission.
All parties are enthusiastic over the
prospects of success of the scheme, the
chief obstacles now being the opposition
of Sawyer OF the elevator companies, and
J. j. Hill. In the discussion at Fargo,
both sides agreed upon the benefits to
come from the plan proposed, which is
to have the wheat of this state graded
here and sold on those grades in West
Superior. Wis. This would draw COM
peting buyers from all quarters of the
country, and would help both that city
and North Dakota Another confer
ence in the near future has been ar
ranged between committees from Fargo,
Grand Forks, the railroad commissioners
of the state and West Superior parties.
In a report Of the meeting at Fargo the
Republican says:
One gentleman declared that it was
North Dakota that first raised No. |
hard, and before, that distinctive grade
had never been heard of. That it was
worth from two TO five cents per bushel
more than the wheat raised elsewhere,
yet in the past and present soft wheat is
shipped from Nebraska, Iowa, South
Dakota. Southern Minnesota, and run in
with this IN the elevators-and this
wheat is called No. hard. Their grade
is improved and North Dakota's i'm
paired, and the value of theirs increased
aud ours decreased by the operation.
The gentleman declared it was gross
outrage and injustice. What should be
done was to establish North Dakota
grade that would be recognized in the
markets of the world. and they at West
Superior wanted to cooperate with Da-
kotans in bringing this about. He
thought that the idea of inspecting the
grain at the points of exit in North
Dakota might not be practicable at
present, but it would be practicable to
have North Dakota inspectors at the
West Superior elevators, and they would
abide by their inspection down there.
Furthermore. they would willingly es-
tablish facilities for handling North
Dakota wheat dlstinctively. Now, they
say, that for every car of wheat that goes
over the bridge to Duluth, dollar or
dollar and half toll is imposed. This
would be saved by shipping to West
Superior direct.
Coal is shipped to West Superior as
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
Asylum Trustees Meeting.

A regular meeting of the asylum trus-
tees was held Thursday, President Fan
cher, Secretary Lieber, and Mr.. Auld of
Dickinson, being present.
The regular August bills were IN
spected and accounts allowed
There being an appropriation for the
purpose, it was ordered that hot house
be constructed adjoining the superin-
tendent's Office, to cost 5000. Work be-
gins Monday next in cleaning out the
artesian we'll. The machinery has been
shipped and will arrive here next week.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10

ballast, the freight almost amounting to
nothing, and they would like to exchange
coal for wheat. We could get coal
cheaper shipped via West Superior than
in any other way. They also want to
establish market for our wool at West
Superior, and propose to make it an OBJ
iect to US to bring this about.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
It's Getting Very Chilly.

Pembina Pioneer-Express: The eie-
vator men have all been wearing buffalo
overcoats in North Dakota since last
weeks frost. They are very susceptible
to cold, The ground is said to be frozen
to considerable depth under the eleva-
tor buildings already.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-09-10
Which Leg?

Fargo Republican: The Grand Forks
Herald says obey the prohibition law and
d1sobey the wheat inspection law. Which
leg is the Herald going to stand on?
Telegram-herald., 1891-03-30
Testing Their Courage.

zone time. in order 20 test the courage
II bengal tiger and lion.r said we'll
known Snowman. I'VE placed a shooting
cracker IN the respective cages. and fre1
the fuse. As soon 80 the fuse began 20
burn they attracted the attention ~ both
animals. but In widely different man
ner The lion drew int corner and
watched the proceedings with a distrust-
fs,l ard uncssy eyc The tiger. on the
contrary. sdva-ced ~ the burning fuse
with = firm step ard nnsinching gaze.
on reaching the cracker h. lsii his pav
CT T. and began - roll IL over Tire eoor.
ard when Il exploited h-nesth his very
ns~e he ia not sfrca but continued his
examination until perfectly satisfied The
Hsn betrayed great fear when he heard
The report of the explosion. and for quite y
time coald not ~ coaxed cut ~ his den >
Telegram-herald., 1891-03-30
Proposals for Supplies.
HrApovAR1tRs MicnIeAs soLprtns' HoNS. !

GRAND RaPIDs. Mica. March q. 1881.
SEALED PROPOSALS viii be received IL the
once 1.-THE Michigan So;diers's Home. Grand
Rapids. Nich.. until April 3. 1891. at noon, by
the Board OF Managers OF the Michigan sold
ier's Home. for the furnishing and delivering
at said home of the following articles to sun
ply said home Tor the period of six mon rs
and after April -. 1871:
SUBSISTENCE srrriJEs-
$500 pounds Of aour, strictly straight roller.
in luo pound sacks; 200 pounds, more or less.
to BE- delivered zach month.
30 o pounds fresh beef, 10 be steers Of not
less than 81 nounos per side; IZVD POUNDS
cersed beei. boHeiess. best quality; tuspounds
Of mutton. dressed, all tsiiUw aud trimming +,
TO he removed. neess cut close. the fore legs o
be cut OF as TIE Knee joints and the hind legs
~ tho books. no carcass that il Boos or 81 bad
color will he accepted $40 pounds IF fresh
pork loins Sso pounds Of veal. dressed; 500
pouads OF sausage. fresh prs and beef sish-
teen barrels nfssit pork. clear. 10 rounds Of
green meat to tn barrel: gTG pounds Of beef
liver: loOo POUNDS Of ham sugar cured and thor
oughly smek KID. none 20 weigh less than 10 or
more than "a pc urds, 600 pounds OF shoulders.
cholce. frsa. sugar cured. mnSi be thoroughly
smoked. clean and good ~ color. no shsaiS~r
TO weigh naturally less than or mere than y
pounds; 100 pounds Of Chicago lard Ia cans.
sfg roauds Of breakfast bacon. Clear sides un-
canvss~d- frTsh meets are to be delivered
three times week or eftener " required salt
meats, IT times and in quantities az ordered.
CLOTHING.
= dorm otischecked shirts. all n Re extra
inches. IS DOZEN each Badershirts sne drswe~s,
best random mf1ed not TO cesf 10 exceed - ~
per dozen siges. shirts, - u IS drawers. "A te
l4s TO Dozen cotton seeks size let< md u - he
equal ta style ~ ~ Nelson knifginE Co q.
Rockford. Illinois; 40 pairs SKY Blus army
trousers; 4H blouses DART tlst mage. 81
wool unlin~s 3 outside sn6 inside peel etc
with NJ :. ". gift bpfteBs; 30 vests. same
goods ~ hlosees. buttons; ~ pairs al brorans
with buckle. cost bot 20 exceed si-Es, y dozen
barbara nsnsterchi~fs. o,s-hsif each zee sas
hire. Izfofrn carpet ippers-
Samples Of al eiofht3E vii be required
All goods 10 10 delivered NJ the bone free ~
charge far arsys9e. pscks~ss etc. ard ev-
press charges OF sszsples must be ssrepsaa -
tss home.
a surrrsert bend ~fli be required from the
sucr n histers
Pace -. ss RUE. yin - rsd- rscrth,v.
1r~ - "a reserves the fteht TO RE q sny
ptds 81 - r~Afe % ary s5re4> e~firie
Favelaf@s rHet 70 endorsed ~<sfee Frorcs
ais fer r0pFss<s ard addressed 70 tts corn
rnanaaaf EicAigsa Soldiers Home. efsuf
Rar46s. Mica
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Apr a r. n PfEKcs. Con nandsrt
Telegram-herald., 1891-03-30
eASHFUL eRiDEGROOMS.

Brides Arc More Self Possessed Than Thei1
Partners In Facing tho Minister.
Ministers declare that In nine cases
out of ten brides are much more self
possessed than are bridegrooms whea
the marriage ceremony is being per.
formed.
A shy, modest looking little creature
robcd in white will stand perfectly
erect, looking the minister calmly and
squarcly in the ego without for an in
slant losing her self poise, while tho
big, blunt six-footer Of q bridegroom
by her side Is pale and nervous and
trembling. His fingers arc likely to
twitch nervously and he may even
hitch at his trouser legs or twist q cor
ner of his coat skirt.
was once ''bcst man" to a stalwart,
niddlc-aged bridegroom, noted for his
courage and feats Of daring, says a
writer in the Philadelphia Call, and
when the time came for Us to 60 down.
stairs to meet the bride and her attend.
ants be nearly had fit, and he looked
like walking corpse al through the
ceremony. had to keep saying: brace
up, old boy" and ''Come, como, you've
got to go down." to get him started at
oil, and at the door he was idiotic
enough to clutch at ne and say:
''Say, Fred, how would it do to have
Mary and tho preacher sliY0in here and
have it ill over with befort fe go down
Mt all? / can't 60 through It before all
that crowd"
idiot" I said briefly and pointedly
enough to leave no doubt as to my
meaning. "Mary won't come in here
and you win go down this instant"
He got through at Inst without doing
or saying anything ridiculous, in which
respect he was luckier than another
stalwart bridegroom of my acouaint-
ancc. who was so dazcd aid overcome
that he held out one of his own fingers
for the ring when the minister said:
"With this ring thee we'd"
Another bridegroom know lost his
head to such degree that when It
came time for him to say: II, Horace,
take thee, Annie, to be my lawful wedde1
wife," he said, in on unnaturally lorv
lone: II, Annie, take thee, Horace, to
be my lawful welded wife," and when
the time came for him TO introduce his
bride to some Of his friends who had
not yet seen her no did it by saying,
awlSwardly: "Ah. er-Miss Carter, this
Is my wife, Miss Barton" calling he- by
her maiden name.
Few men say my wife" easily and
naturally the first time they use tho
words in public
A funny case was that of q badly
ratified bridegroom who stared blankly
at tho minister until asked il he took
this woman to DO his lawful welded
wife," when he started suddenly and
hastily, and said. In the blandest man.
ner:
"Ah' beg pardon. were you speaking
to me?"
A village preacher says that he oncc
married q rural couple at the homo of
the brides parents in the presence Of a
large company Of invited guests. Tho
bridegroom was big, bony, rcd-faced
young fellow who Boked as though he
could have felled an OK with his fist;
but he shivered and turned pale at the
beginning Of the ceremony. and at its
close he fell down IN a dead faint, TO the
manifest annoyance of his bride, who
had been as cool ss cucumber through
out the ceremony.
Telegram-herald., 1891-03-30

roared and his anvil rang, but on Sum
day he lifted up his mellow voice in
praise OF the God he sincerely
worshiped- lie was quaint and humor-
Gus, but was always tender, and do
not believe In AL hts long life he ever
shed drop OF any creatures blood.
Last summer. while on visit to Ten
nessee. l strolled into an cid orchard
burying ground. and on an old stone
read these words: ''Old Jerry, the
preacher Born 1888: died 1851. No
purer soul has gone before"
At Easter services, held by tho
whites. Old Jerry was nearly always
called upon for a contribution. and.
among the many sermons that / have
heard him deliver, this one comes up
brightest from fading past.
''Dar lay dc little chile in lie trough,
an de bright star VIVA lookin' In glory
at Him. Pore people come wild sobs o
gladness in dar voices, fur da peered
ter feel dat fricn' O all suffers had
been bornd- De time went by an bad
men riz mp an wanted ter kill de chile
an He wux tuck away-bct whit is dc
usen dweilin' on dis glorious childhood,
fur woe Is de man indeed dat amt
heard de story. Whit we Is como zero
fur Is ter talk er bout de sufferin' an do
final glory o. de Sabyur O. er sim
cussed mankin'. De night wuz still an
beautiful. dat sort o. beauty dat speaks
O. sadness Oar wuz er SCUM o. prar in
de garden. an dc Son o. Man knowd dat
His time o. awful suHerin' had dun
come, but dar want no word o. plant
frum His holy lips. Frien's wuz wild
Him-frien's sorryin' fur da seed dar
dear Marstcr so troubled, but somehow
da could'n un'erstan Him. Somehow
ia thought dat when He spoke o. bein'
de King o. de Jews, Ee oughter had er
big army. All, but afterwards da
l<nowd dat His kingdom wuz fur above
all arthly soldiers He had prayed an
Telegram-herald., 1891-03-30

IHE LAWD Is III Up.
'Oh, wuz dar wings swift er nuff ter
carry dat glorious newsl Think o. dc
susferin' an 'ziety o dem po' 'ciples an
de ueler folks dat Jesus iubed. Think
o. tekin' 'em sich news as dat! Oh, il
wuz er day o. Joy, not only fur dem holy
pussons, but fur us all. fur dc rich
white follxses an fur de po' niger. Wuz
dar ever any news in dc worr like datl
1t wuz do news dat said do worr wuz
saved. An oh, think o de happiness
dar wuz when Mary an do 'ciples an
all de loved ones met do Lawd er
gin Den His many words wuz all clear
as de brook dat flowed through de
garden. but dar wuz one pusson dat
want satisfied. Oar allusis. Oar is al
ways some pusson dat wants ter be
smart Dis mans name wuz Thomas
an when some one said ter him dat de
glory o. DC worr had dun come, he sorter
shuck his head, he did, an says:
"I doan know er bout dat
"'Whut is it you doan know er bout?
Doan you know dat de Lawd wuz cruci-
.ded?'
"'Yas, knows dat
"'Wall, but doan you see him standin'
sdarT
80 sees er man, but doan know dat
he Is de same pusson dat seed cruci-
fed
''It wuz den dat he wanted ter put his
fingers in de nail prints, an when he
had done it, he bowed his head an wuz
c'vinced.
"An' den de Lawd dat had died fur US
oil. de Lawd dat had suffered mo- den
any o. Us kin suffer, wuz tuck in glory
ter his home, whar we dat worship Him
kin go when de time comes. We dat hnb
'cepted Him an hain't axed ter see do
nail prints will STAN In de Joy o. His
lHeabenly smile"
Iwell remember tho day the old man
died. It was an Easter morning and
when the congregation had assembled
some one asked If old Jerry were COM
ing. Just then o woman came In and
said that the old man was dangerously
i'll. was q boy, but as the old man
had ever been dear to me, followed a
number Of people to his cabin
I can not recall all that was said, but
remember when the preacher re-
minded the dying man that Easter
morning had come, he smiled and said:
"Yas, it is dc birthday o. dc glory o.
dc human family. Lii me up an let
me sec dc sun. Blessed wuz de news.
Ter-day I shall be wild Him"
OPIE p. READ.
Telegram-herald., 1891-03-30
Er~a IA Tribute so thu Ein~.

Formerly, At the approach of Easter,
oil the hen-roosts of France were ran
sacked for the largest eggs. which were
brought rs tribute 20 the King. At
the conclusion of the Easter high mass
in the chapel Of the Louvre lackeys
brought into the Royal Cabinet pyra-
mids of gilded eggs, placed in baskets
adorned with verdurc; and the chaplain.
after having blessed them. distributed
them. In the presence OF his most Chris
tian Majesty, TO ell the persons about
the court