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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06

out Of the way, and purchased his squat.
ter's right, including the log house. As
the ground at time was still q reservation
they, of course had no real title to the
house and some time after 1t was remov.
ed by Charles A. Roberts to his claim,
which is now Roberts addition. While
he was moving it some of the employees
of the company found 1t out and ordered
him to stop. Charlie told them that as
he had a load OF logs he might as we'll
take it home, which they told him be
might Go, but he must not take any more.
Charlie hauled the logs home, and at
once went back for another load. Then
there was row, but Charlie had started
in to get the house, and he got it, as
bluffs didn't go in those days. Charlie
Roberts put the house up on his claim,
and lived in it till November of that year,
bis son Lee, the first white child born in
Fargo, being born in it. That winter he
built larger house and used the first
one for stable. It was afterwards
moved by H. Fuller to his claim near
where the roundhouse now stands, and
is standing there yet. though as it has
since been clapboarded most people are
not aware that it is a log house.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
A Red River Curio.

The city council Of Fargo has been
presented with sketch of the first build
ing erected in the city. The donor is
Col. W. H. Lazelle of the United States
army. The Argus says Of the picture:
1t represents small long building,
about 20 by II, with bark roof. There
is door in front but no window, and
mud fireplace IN the interior. A gun is
leaning up against the door, and the
skeleton Of buffalo Is lying in the
foreground with wagon and team in
the rear Of the house.
The building was erected by Nor
wegian in 1871 near where the Washing.
lngton house now stands, At that time
the whole Of the country on the west side
OF the Red river was an Indian reserva-
tion, and the early settlers were several
times removed by the troops stationed
at Fort Pembins, at that time in com
mand OF Colonel Lazelle. The Puget
Sound Land Co., wanted the Norwegian
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
CLEAN OUT the WELL
The Board of Asylum Trustees
Conclude to Invest 81, ,OOO in
The Well.
Some Matters Acted Upon by
the City Council. Advancing
Land Prices.
A State Convention of PrOhibi.
tiOnists Called at This Place
August 21.
win nave the Well Cleaned Out.

Will nave the Well Cleaned Out.
A regular meeting of the board Of
asy lum trustees occurred Tuesday at the
institution. There were present Messrs.
Smith, OF Wheatland. Auld, of Dickin-
son, and Faucher and Lieber, of James
town. The usual current expenses of
the institution were audited and con.
siderable other business transacted. The
chief matter considered was in connec-
tion with the artesian we'll. The offer of
firm at Aurora, Ills, to clean out the
we'll and put in filter for the sum of
$4,000, was accepted. The firm writes
that this may seem big price but when
the cost ofputtlng up machinery, railroad
transportation ETC., is counted, it is not
After the we'll is in good shape once
more the board may decide to sink it
lower and pay for same by the day. The
institution is to furnish steam for the
work. There we're no other satisfactory
propositions received by the board, and
much correspondence has been had upon
the subject.
It will be remembered that Col. Nettle-
ton the chief engineer of the government
irrigation inquiry gives It as his opinion
that the well is not deep enough, that
the present flow comes from the upper
stratum of water bearing sand and that
the main stratum which is penetrated by
the city we'll, has not been reached
at the asylum. The we'll there conse-
auently does not get the full pressure and
this Is why. in Col. Nettleton's 8 opinion,
there IS not enough force IN the How to
throw out the sand and of course the
we'll is gradually filing up.
There are others also who are conf
dent that the old contractors, the Gray
Bros. of Milwaukee, did not put down
piping to the bottom of the we'll, but left
a space Of considerable length not piped.
The friction of the water naturally wears
on this exposed part and causes the
muddy appearance Of the water as re-
ceived at the surface.
This we'll which the state has attempt.
ed to put down and has been number
of years doing, has cost a large sum of
money already, more than twice the cost
Of the jamestown well, and the prospect
is it will cost good deal more yet.
Every contractor seems to have fixed 1t
80 that something additional would have
to be done, that would increase the ex-
pense, acting on the principle that as
the state was to foot the hill such was
the right thing to do. It is the earnest
intention of the present hoard to do the
best they can in the matter and with the
present appropriation OF $500 to get a
permanently satisfactory we'll and if
possible not expend all Of that amount.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
Death of Mrs. M. s. Wells.

For several days Mrs. MeliesaS. Wells,
mother Of E. P. Walls and Mrs. Jno. s.
Watson, and sister of Postmaster Smith
has been quite sick, but it was not
known that her condition was
considered so dangerous until
Friday. That afternoon che grew
much worse and sank rapidly.
Postmaster Smith was summoned from
the Office at about 2:3O p. m. Death &C.
CURED at 3:45 p. N. Mrs. Wells has long
resided in jamestown and is we'll known
to all to whom her sudden death
will cause great surprise and sincere re-
gret. Deceased was aged "a years. The
body will be taken to Minneapolis for
interment. Services will be held at her
late residence at 3 o'clock Saturday after
noon.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
How the Mortsagec was Notified

How the MortSagec was Notified.
There is a growing competition be.
tween North Dakota's two great railway
systems, the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern, for business. In grain
and stock shipments, from competing
territory, this hustling for the business
is always observed and from appearances
1t is getting sharper each year. Every
car load of freight that Is to be sent out
of the state, is looked after by the agents
of the roads, particularly if the freight
is at a point where it could go by one
line as we'll as another. This rivalry
does not exist alone in this state but ex.
tends into all the western states and ter
ritories and is sharper even at the termi-
nal stations of the road than in the in.
terror. In some favored points the anx-
iety has been SO great to get the freight
that farmers have received few cents
higher prices for their grain, than they
otherwise whould have obtained, had not
the roads been hungry fo1 the transpor-
tation fees. The iron-clad pooling sys.
tenn of the grain buyers alone prevents
more of this competition, and it is the
wheat buyers intention to prevent it in
every case it possible.
An instance of how closely the freight
business is watched comes from Churchs
Ferry, a station the Great Northern. It
was announced that shipment of stock
from the Northern Pacific territory was
going to be made over the Great North.
ern line. Prompt steps were taken by
the agents of the former road, who traced
the information to it's source and learned
it is said, that small bunch of stock
which were covered by chattel mort
gage had been driven from the Sioux
reservation to Churchs, in order to avoid
the mortgage, who learning of the at
tempt sent the sheriff after the property
and recovered it.
The natural shipping point for the
country above named is Mlnnewaukan
where tho facilities are excellent, 40 they
are in fact. at other points on the James.
town & Northern.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
Notice..


Sealed bids will be received up to
August %, 1891, for the removal of the
school house and out houses in district
No l, Lees school township from the
NV. corner Of sec. % to the Sc. corner
Of the NE. quarter of sec. q township
142 f. GA.
The school house is about 22x32, IL
foot post and ceiled.
The house to be leveled up in good
shape and put on stone and otherwise
repaired If necessary. The board re-
serves the right to reject any and all bids.
Bids to be opened at Pingree, August %,
1891, at four o'clock All bids to be sent
to the district clerk.
F. NICHOLS, Mrs. HELEN SMITH,
Chairman OF Board District Clerk.
Pingree, July q, 1891.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06

contln0ee IN the CarrlngtOn Independent
his practical and sensible remarks on
holding wheat. Hls former letter showed
pretty clearly how, under the marketing
System in vogue in this state, the farmers
themselves were largely responsible for
the low prices Of wheat that have always
prevailed here shortly after theshing be.
gan, because every farmer rushed his
crop to the elevator just as soon as he
could haul it there. This tremendous
influx Of grain chokes up each warehouse.
calls every car Of the railroads into sud
den use, and furnishes the pretext of
arbitrarily reducing prices at stations
where there is pool OF buyers.
In speaking of the cost of marketing
grain, after this fashion, Mr.. Barlow says
that IN 1890 the commissioner of agricul-
ture reported that North Dakota raised
25,61,98S, bushels of wheat on 2,41O,892
acres of land. Reserving ~ bushels per
acre for seed, 36l6 1893 bushels,also 1,2OO,-
600 bushels for consumption. being a
trit1e over 51 bushels per head of popu-
lation, big average, it leaves 2O,S3S,65O
bushels to sell. From the best figures
obtainable, the producer shipped en- his
own account, not to exceed one-fourth Of
the amount sold leaving l5,62S,9SS
bushels handled by elevators. Allowing
al average of cents bushel profit
5 cents is nearer-and after deducting
terminal charges which the farmer would
have to pay-there is left the sum of
$625, Isl. paid for elevator privileges,
which as Mr.. Barlow says would not cost
a cent if wheat was stored at home until
it was convinent or desirable to ship it.
Last year was a short crop year. In a
full crop year as this seems likely to be,
the ditterance against the farmer on the
same basis will be fully million of dol
lars, nearly three times the cost OF run
ming the state government.
The farmers alone bear the burden of
elevator taxation. There are 251 eeva-
tors in the state handling an average of
62,266 bushels in 1890, which with cents
margin gives each house $3.50 for Its
season S work, a big price COR facilities
offered. That system cost Foster county
last year S5,693. Mr.. Barlow concludes
his article by saying now the question is
not whether the elevator companies can
afford to do business for that sum, or
any other sum, but it is, can the farmer
afford to pay them that sum or any other
sum for doing what he can do as we'll for
himself when he is once prepared to do
it? Five thousand eight hundred and
sixty three dollars would build so pas
sable granaries."
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
Prohibition Convention.

A circular received from Samuel
Dickie chairman of the national execu-
tive committee, states that arrangements
have been made for conference of pro.
hibltionists to be held in jamestown,
Friday, August q. The special object is
to decide upon plan whereby the pro-
hibitlonista OF the state shall secure
representation in the next national con.
vention Of the prohibition party and to
arrange other preliminary matters in
organizing for the national election in
1892.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
Gorgeous Mountain Views.

gorgeous Mountain Views.
Writing from the western country j.
w. Connella now at Seattle says, in a
recent letter to the Alert:
II hear with pleasure that the crop
prospects are good in Dakota this year
and suppose you are fixing to reap the
biggest harvest Stutsman county ever
had. hope you will collect million
weekly subs, from the flush farmers. AZ
is ever my luck, my farm IN Ransom
county is not in crop this season.
This country Is very qniet. The
next big boom will be in mines, gold and
silver. I was up in the Cascade noun
tains, Silver Creek district, week before
last. There is no wagon road into the
mines and the ore can't be hauled out
nor machinery hauled in. Thirty miles
Of the trip is over the poorest excuse for
q mountain trail that there is in the
world. Nine out of ten walk this dis
tanoe, but J. made it on Siwash cayuse,
taking two days, travelling u hours q
day. It is the most fatiguing and dan
gerous trip ever attempted and would
not do it again for 800. From this
statement trust you are able to I'M
agine the hardships indured. A horse
that can't walk over house. climb q
ladder and do the slack rope act, posit-
lively wouldn't be in 1t at any stage Of the
game. Though I saw no accident N.Y.
self, I was told that pack animals fall q
few hundred feet from the trail and are
killed every week and the statement is
easily believed. And then the appalling
gloom of the great dark, endless, sun.
proof forests. One travles for hours and
hours without seeing a sunbeam, and
rarely glimpse of the sky. OF course
the scenery is grand, If one were in q
position to see 1t, but only while crossing
one of the numerous streams is the range
Of vision extended beyond few rods.
Even then the gorgeous picture is viewed
only in exasperatingly limited sections.
There was one place, however, where
when I reached it felt repaid for all the
hardships endured. Very near the sum
nit OF one of the highest peaks there is
q lake covering about 40 or so acres, the
waters of which are literally as clear as
crystal, and positively swarming with
mountainsand salmon trout. saw them
by the thousands and caught them with
the most primative angling outfit until I
felt like murderer.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
Will Handle Grain in Car Lots.

Llndbloom Il Co., the we'll known grain
and provision commission firm in the
Chicago Board of Trade building, have
concluded to open department for re-
ceivlng and selling grain and seeds 10
car lots. They will honor drafts made
on them with railroad receipts attached
to the drafts aad will exercise same care
in handling consignments that has char
acterized their business in the psst. The
growing demand of the country for COM
petitive effort in the sales of wheat is in
ducing leading firms to solicit more of
that branch of their business.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
Advertised Letters.

Advertised Letters.
List Of uncalled for letters in the post
Office at jamestown. North Dakota. for
the week ending August 8, 1891:
LADIES.
White, Mrs. E. G. Nelson, Miss Nellie
Herrick, Mrs. DR.. A. B.
GENTLEMEN.
Bishop, w. J. Cleyman, D. s.
Gogins, John Goodman, W. II.
Jovine, Sig Antonio Lee, Robert E.
Robertson, Geo. w. Smith, G. w.
FOREIGN.
Tone, James
II not called for within IA days, will
be sent to the dead letter Office. In call
ing for these letters, please say adver.
tised, and give date of this list.
G. P. Smith, p. NJ.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
City Council.

The meeting was called to order by
Mayor Fuller. Present Adams, Enger,
Hotchkiss and Steel. Absent: Altschul,
Buckley. Fletcher and Hayes.
Petition Of A. Klaus IN regard to
sewerage was read and referred to street
and bridge committee.
Petition of E. s. Lawrence asking per.
mission to build an addition to his prop
erty on Fifth avenue was granted.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06

two large camping parties at the lake,
who will have spent two weeks when
their limit expires. There 10 always q
retinue Of visitors there at different
points and no one need fear OF dying
from ennul who is at all sociably dis
posed.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06
GENTLEMEN
Tone, James

Special prices on machine oils in and
10 gallon and barrel lots, at Strong &
Chase's.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06

Machine oil, like everything else, il
cheap at Strong & Chase's.
Boiler and engine repairing done by j
T. Eager.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06

Moved and carried that street and
bridge committee prepare a pound for
the impoundin9 of cattle.
The committee on assessment and
taxes recommended that the tax levy for
the city OF jamestown for the year 1891.
be as follows: General fund mills;
street and bridge fund l mill; interest
fund 2 mills; total 10 mills.
Moved and carried that city attorney
bring in an ordinance in relation to side
walks.
Moved and carried that city attorney
bring in an ordinance relating to stock
running at large.
Council adjourned on motion Of Alder
man Steel for one week.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-08-06

4uo 1OlV5WIU& OIII5 WeT6 HIIUW6U.
James Kieman, labor on streets 8 ] so
w. s: kahler, ...." ...." 80. 5 rs
Joe Mason. g.. 100
police. ce............ 300
Chas Kinney, special police. ..... 100
J X Wilbur labor on streets. -. l so
Josiah Pearson. ."..". -" S51
Q Klaus light for July ........ 1872 90
NJ NJ Crep labor on Streets. 5 90
A Esler. .". .".. 4 50
Will Bell, .". 500
VIM Gleason. .". .".... 3 90
James Shades .". s.. ."...... 50
j Il Winslow lumber. ............ l 73
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05

Inc "Argonauts" had several routes
among which to select. By those from the
New England and the middle states the
Cape Horn route was generally preferred:
those from the southern states chose the
lsthmus of Panama or Nicaragua or Next
co; While the hardy pioneers of the west,
who had become accustomed to prairie
travel, started in their covered wagons
and following buffalo trails. broke the
paths which in few months were plainly
outlined by the bleaching bones of their
beas IS and the mounds of dead companions
who had succumbed 10 the hardships of the
desert.
Mlny who could not leave their homes
sought to invest their capital in the seduc-
tive venture, and a cooperative plan was
generally adopted in the New England
states by which the services of working
members were Offset by a fixed amount OF
money contributed by others. Hundreds
OF companies were organized on this plan.
each of them with physician, and in many
instances with chaplain also-Century,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05
Growth of the English Language.

4 takes child several years to ACQUIRE
l,0oo words. The average illiterate person
never uses more than from 1000 to . o0O
words. Intelligent persons, even those en-,
gagged in the learned professions. do mot
ma le use OF more than from 1000 to GOA
words all told, although there are properly
belonging TO the English language over
20, 0o0. OF course this is exclusive of the
Latin technical words, which are not. pron-
erly speaking, English, although they are
osed as a part of the language.
Inere Is large number of words which
until recently have escaped the attention
Oh photographers. In the text of the En-
eye opedia Britannica there are 10, 900 words
wnlch nave never been formally entered
and defined in any dictionary. In the Cent
ury Dictionary there are 20, 600 words found
IN u other. This fact shows the unrealized
wea lth OF the English language. And, by
the by, here is statement which is not
without interest. There is not TODAY any
man living who is sufficiently learned to
wire one average page of the 1000 pages
Oh the Century Dictionary. DIR. Cones in
Chicago Post.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05
Disease IL Punishment for s,n2

The following advertisement, published
by prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as punishment for sin:
do you wish to know the ouickes,
way to cure a severe cold2 We will tell
you. To cure a cold quickly. it must be
treai ed before the cold has become set.
tied in the system. This can always be
done If you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in natures wav,
that as punishment for some indiscre
ton, you are to be afflicted with q cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold IN most cases, is a dry. loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon fol,
lowed by profuse watery expectoration
and the sneezing by profuse watery dis
charge from the nose. In severe cases
there is thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? 1t is only neces-
sary to take Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy in double doses every hour. That
will greatly lessen the severity of the cold
and IN most cases will effectually counter.
act Il, and cure what would have been a
severe cold within one or two days time.
Try it and be convinced" so cent bot
ties for sale by Hsr,z s. Bahnsen. drug
pists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05
BirthdaY Kings.

lnger rings are worn in larger numbers
Jhan before in some years. \ new
Iure IN these ornaments are the birth
rings set with an appropriate stone
the month in which the anniversary
chances so fall. For instance, if ones
|hday occurs in April, the stone is a
bond, the emblem of innocence; if one
beheld the light of day in May, then
wears an emerald in token that she
be loved and happy wife; the pearl,
lcativc, according to gem lore, of health,
ll.h and long life, is the stone for June,
so on through the twelve months OF
year. These birthday rings are set in
eral ways, there being four styles for
b month. These are to be seen at the
elers, in trays containing forty-eight
:, with the sentiment of each months
b written in gilt letters, which arrange
ut lnsures the purchasers securing the
roprIate stone for the month of his or
birth.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05
Fashion Notes.

Hurah is still the mode.
Iantiet gloves are coming into use
gain
a new glove for riding or driving has the
'hJ'et grained in imitation of crocodile.
Inc fancy for gold trimmings and for
Iii!tatlon jewels is greater than at any pre-
Flous season
There is sufficient variety in round hats
= please all tastes.
soft Sicilienne and Bengaline are used
or bridesmaids
small boys who assist at weddings are
ifeSsed as pages, or else they wear the
Continental suit and three cornered hat.
Court trains are square-cornered, and are
lFlWn far back to display the sides of the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05
Saved NV Her Pony.

little girl playing one day in her ia
lers grounds fell into a stream which
assed through the estate. No human be-
Ihg wSs5 near to save her from drowning.
Put small pony, says School and Home,
Which had become pet in the family and
which the children, who had often rode
/ h him, were especially fond, was grazing
pear hy. The cries of his little mistress
len on his ear, and, plunging into the
Iream, he quickly seized her clothing and
tSok her ashore with such gentleness that
k me was unhurt except by her fright. In
/ MS act the horse showed both affection
fnd sagacity.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-05-05
LaEGrippe Again

During the epidemic of la grippe las
season DR.. Kings New Discovery fol
consumption. coughs and colds, proved
to be the best remedy. Reports from the
many who used it confirm this statement
They were not only quickly relieved, ou
the disease left no bad results. We ash
you 20 give this remedy trial and we
guarantee that you will be satisfied witt
results. or the purchase price will be re-
funded. 1t has no equal in la grippe, OF
any throat or lung trouble. Trial bottle:
free at Hartz s. Bahnsens drug store
Large bottles. SOC and 81.