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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
The City Council.

Only five aldermen we're present at the
meeting of the city council, Monday
night-Messrs. Adams, AItschul, Eager,
Hotchkiss and Steel-put considerable
business was done. Mayor Fuller pre-
sided.
Ordinance No. 102, relating to the erec-
ton of telegraph poles and the franchise
of the Western Union company, was read
the first time, and read by title the
second time. No final action was taken
The bond of A. M. Clough, as city
plumber, was approved and license ls-
sued.
A communication from A. Klaus in re,
gard to his contract for lighting the city
was read and filed. Petition was refer,
red to the electric light committee.
The regular resolution to pay the in
debtedness of the city. s2S5.O2, was
adopted. This amount includes all No
vember bills, as follows:
Neil Bell, labor on streets. ......S l 5t
DR.. Baldwin, surgical services
rendered tramp, by order Of
mayor. = "
A w Kelley l. Son, wood. d........ 5 d
] T. Eager, repairing hydrants. :. q 81
Josiah Pearson, labor on sidewalks 4 81
| Gull River Lumber Co., coal. :. 19 &
hauling so OF
James River Lumber Co., lumber Is 81
The Alert. printing ordinance. 81.
J r Winslow. lumber. Is 9;
r Eaper. supplies. ...... lO(
A Klaus. light for November. ). 1872 OK
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
Paying Hail Losses.

The Alliance Hail associa ton d,strib-
uted $4,000 on the 1st inst, to their pol
icy holders who sustained loss this year.
This is 60 per cent of the amount Of
their losses for 1891. The exceedingly
backward weather, and the consequent
inability of the farmers to market their
grain, has made collections somewhat
slow, particularly in the northern part
of the state. Their collections will be
vigorously pushed from this Gate, and
balances of unpaid losses closed up
promptly. The company has had fine
business, and with the changes contem-
plated in their bylaws, at the annual
meeting next month, feel confident that
their business for 1892 will be much the
largest IN their history. The headquar-
ters of this company being at James
town is in many ways of great benefit to
this city. Another payment to those
who sustained losses in 1890 will be
made on the first of next month.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
1t Pays to Ship Wheat.

Foster County Independent: Edward
Halaas shipped car Of wheat to Duluth
and made a clear gain of $l48 over what
he could have got from the elevators at
this place.
=. H. Holcomb shipped car of wheat,
and after he got returns found out that
he had made $102 above what he could
have got for 1t here.
John Llndahl sold some good wheat
TO the elevators, but had some poor
wheat that they would not buy at all. He
shipped the poor wheat and when he got
the returns for it was surprised to find
out that it netted him II cents more on
the bnshel than the good wheat he sold
to the elevators.
There are great many kicks coming
against the elevator companies for not
paying better prices for the lower grades
OF grain. There is no doubt that the ele-
vator companies are trying to buy this
grain at an outrageous profit. No blame
can be attached to the local agents, Who
are simply acting under orders from
their companies, and to bold their posi-
tion must obey instructions.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
Narrow Escape of Eight Men.

Mr.. E. s. Lawrence of Eckelson. states
that there were eight men in the wagon
which broke through the ice in lake
Eckelson, Tuesday night, and that all
but one of the men were carried under
the water. The man who was not car
ried under fortunately succeeded in
pulling out one of the others, and then
these two pulled all the men out, and
all escaped drowning. They were from
near Sanborn, and had been indulging,
it is said, too freely in prohibition whis-
ky. The place where the Ice gave way
was in eight feet OF water. One of the
parties. thinking he could save his team
pulled off his coat and shoes to 60 IN
after the horses. The team OF young
horses, worth $500, was drowned, and
the farmer walked TO Sanborn, about
three miles, barefooted in the snow, be-
ing too boozy to remember that he had
taken off his shoes.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
They Can Afford to Travel.

New Rockford Transcript: Hundreds
of people are leaving North Dakota. But
they are not walking out, neither are
they looking for work. They are Just
gong back east in palace car to see old
friends and give them a taste of high
life. They can do it, for big wad of
money reposes in their inside pocket, and
not in their minds as heretofore.
T. Swanson, one of our foremost farm
ers and hustlers, departed Wednesday
for Sweden, to enjoy few months visit
with friends and relatives in that far of
country. Mr.. Swanson had 200 acres OF
wheat that averaged 25 bushels to the
acre, and received in good hard cash
5000, and thought he could we'll afford
the trip.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
Prosperity in Griggs.

I'VE haye shipped more grain so far
this fall from Cooperstown than we did
altogether last year," said David Bart
lett of Griggs county, Monday. Il should
think there was about quarter OF the
crop yet to be threshed. aud not over a
quarter of 1t marketed, that is threshed.
l hear that r. c. Cooper has said he
would as soon have his grain standing in
the shock as in the stack. Some farmers
think the wheat IN the shock will not be
worth anything and some believe it will
not be injured. 1t is bard to tell which
IS right. although it would seem that
grain we'll stacked and insured was the
safest way. The Northern Pacific has
given the farmers all the cars asked for.
There are no kicks on that point this
year. We hardly appreciate this as the
complaints that come from Hope and
other stations on the Great Northern
show that farmers are not getting cars
along that line.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
About the Only One.

A. B. Guptill is about the only sitter
ary fellow" in North Dakota, says the
Casselton Republican. He spends most
of his time writing descriptive articles
on the northwest for prominent maga
zines in the east. He has more letters
from the publishers Of the big monthly
magazines, requesting articles for publ
cation, than any other man in the north
west. The Judge is an able and fluent
descriptive writer, and is making money
ont Of his work-which his friends every.
where in North Dakota will rejoice to
learn. Mr.. Guptill has pleasant home
in Fargo.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
The Recent Dakota Tax Case.

To The Alert:-I suppose that the
North Dakota land owners know ever
since last August that they cannot be
compelled to pay taxes on their land as
sessments, made up to this time by Da-
kota officers. according to the decision OF
the supreme court of North Dakota IN
the case Roeders VS.. Larabee. The court
holds that every thing connected with the
no tax can ba collected. It may be
very conscientious and learned court,
and the effect of the decision, while it
may be meant for the good of Dakota,
will do it infinite harm. Nobody IN Da-
kota will be required to pay acy taxes for
this nor any past year. The people in
side or outside of the state, who helped
to pay into the county treasures the
revenue by buying in lands where
owners were delinquent, will Of
course cease to do SO; for state
that will not only declare absolutely
void all the action of defacto officers and,
compel every man who paid out his
money on the good faith of the revenue
laus, to lose both interest and principal.
and the land he bought, ls likely to be-
shy Of any future investments. The firm
of which I am a member have been
speaking good words for Stutsman coun-
ty, and North Dakota generally, and
have paid several hundred dollars into
its treasury. and tried to induce settle
ments and direct emigrants in that di-
rection, would not likely be caught in
the same business again. 1t is to be
hoped that North Dakota will redeem
herself from such reputation of honest
indebtedness, for its own sake. 1t is not
very likely that the farmers of North Da-
kota will walk up and pay the taxes on
their lands when the assessments are
declared null and void. Goodbye.
| AMOS STECKEL.
Bloomfield, Iowa, Dec. 1891.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
What q Woman can 40.

A few days ago the Fargo Forum pub
lished what two old gentlemen, one
Charles Blowers OF Cass county, 60 years
of age. and one from Stutsman county,
Casper NJ. Shear, SO years of age, accom-
plished this season on their farms. The
statements were remarkable ones, show
ing as they did the strength and vlgor Of
the farmers of North Dakota, and what
can be done by one man when he tries
But The Alert has case that will
beat both the instances named and is
proud to be able to relate It, Mrs
Margaret Weber, who lives one mile
west of Splritwood lake, is one of the
practical farmers of Stutsman county.
She and her two young daughters raised
over two Thousand bushels of grain this
year, and they did all of the work them
selves, except the help of one hired man
in seeding time when one of the girls was
sick. They plowed their own land. drag
ged 1t and seeded it. They bought
harvester and cut the grain and stacked
1t themselves, without any help, and they
are hauling it to town and selling it. all
without any male help. Their wheat
went over 30 bushels per acre. They are
hustlers and any man, old or young, who
beats them at farming has got to
take off his coat ana so to work.
The Forum article referred to con-
tained an account Of how Mr.. Blowers of
Tower City, has a team that he has
driven for 20 years, and that this season
he put IN one hundred and forty acres
OF wheat, summer fallowed fifty acres,
raised two thousand bushels of wheat
and sixteen hundred bushels of oats,
and bired no work done except thresh
ing. The Stutsman county case referred
to was that of Casper M. Shear, on 5-l3s-
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10

60, two miles from Ypsilanti station.
who will be sixty-nine January 10th
next-his wife was seventy-one years old
last June. This old couple live alone,
and Mr.. Shear put IN this
year two hundred and ten acres
of wheat, thirty acres of oats and five
acres of barley and cut and put up forty
tons of hay, pitching every load and
stacking it; he summer fallowed twenty
acres and broke ten acres more and hired
no help whatever, except during haying
and harvesting, and he, himself, stacked
ffty-nine stacks Of wheat; as result Of
this seasons work he has,
SOFA bushels of wheat worth $3,761.OO
652 bushels of oats worth 1880
55 bushels of barley worth 27.5O
Total moneyed value of crop $3,956.5O
In addition to this he had fine garden,
$50 bushels Of potatoes, ETC., also, thirty
three turkeys and one hundred chickens.
The actual cash disbursements were as
follows:
Cutting 21O acres of wheat at
fifty cents per acre, 5 1O5.OO
One man during haying and
and harvesting 5000
Three extra men for ten days
durir & harvest 6O.OO
Cne man during threshing 5000
Th:eshing bill 536.35
Twine 4.4O
Wheat cut with header.)
Total income $3,951.5O
Total disbursements 815.75
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
BAD BLOOD At BISMARCK.
Trouble Over Back Taxes on
Lodge Furniture Causes
an Assault.
The First Blizzard of Winter
BlOcka(les Railroads in
North Dakota.
A YaMktOn Paper Relates How
Prohibition Works Down
There,
Struck with u Sledge-Hammer.

DIR. A. B. Herrick of Lisbon, grand
master of North Dakota Odd Fellows,
was assaulted at Bismarck, Saturday, by
E. Tibbils, deputy treasurer of Burleigh
county. Herrlck was not seriously in
jured, however, and finished the work
which called him to the capital. The
trouble was over the property Of the de-
funct 1. o. o. F. lodge and encampment
at Bismarck, which Herrick took possess
sion OF in the name of the grand bodies
of the state. Grand Patriarch Perry OF
Wahpeton, accompanied him to that
place Thursday, for this purpose, but
was not present when Tibbils came to
the hall and claimed the paraphernalia
for taxes, amounting to $3.50. Herrick
denied the right Of the county to collect
taxes upon the personal property or fra
ternal societies, and, while proceeding
to pack the records and regalia. was at
tackled by Tibblls with sledge hammer.
After the encounter, Tibbils locked Her-
rick in the hall. where be remained until
Perry returned with an order from Judge
Winchester to release him. 1t was ex-
pected Tibbils would be arrested, but
Herrick refused to make complaint.
Grand Representative Nugent of
Fargo, end Grand Treasurer Nierling of
jamestown, went to Bismarck Monday,
and dispatch says they succeeded in
settling the difficulty. States Attorney
Register served an injunction on the per-
sonal property. and the grand lodge Off
GERS replevined and gave bonds.and have
taken the property, in accordance with
the laws of the order.
1t has been over a year since a meeting
was held at Bismarck, Mandan having
largely absorbed the membership, and it
was necessary that the affairs of the
order there be closed up, IN proper form
DR.. Herrick's friends over the state will
be glad to hear that he accomplished
this duty without receiving serious in.
juries.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
How Colonel Steele's Handsome
Grove of Trees May be
Lost to Him.
A Stutslnan County Woman
Takes Il Hand at Farming
with Great Success.
An Iowa Man Writes About
II Recent Tax Decision of
Importance.
Must Fight for His Claim.

w. F. Steele, the Kidder county pio-
neer, has had his fine tree claim near
Steele dumped" and the right to owner.
ship contested on an alleged technicallty.
Steele was one of the first settlers in the
county, he came there before there were
any values to land; he did much to de-
velop and settle up that part Of the
state. He spent hundreds of dollars in
getting trees growing on his CLAIM and
succeeded to an unusual degree. He
went through the privations and hard.
ships of pioneers life and public senti
ment is strongly IN sympathy with him
in his contest. It is hoped that the
United States government will not lend
it's approval to any attempt to wrest Mr..
Steele's land from him by claim jumper
who has no legal or moral right to it
from any point of view.
There are numbers of similar cases in
North Dakota where the early settlers
have taken claims, fulfilled the require
ments for years, cultivated the land and
made it valuable and helped to increase
the value Of surrounding property; went
through all the struggles of pioneer life
and, being compelled to go elsewhere by
crop reverses, to make living, have had
their property taken from them by
some stranger in the community, or
worthless adventurer whose right to the
title Is absolutely worthless from every
stand point of justice or fair play.
In case the settler defends his rights and
reslsts the attempt 10 steal his land, he is
saddled with costs of law suits and sub
jected to losses and annoyances of every
description, as we'll as long delays in again
getting bis claim in absolute possession.
Of course there are many cases where
land vas taken up by the same kind of
speculators who will jump the we'll estab-
ished claim of the oldest settler. This
class as rule are men who merely filed
on the land for speculative purposes, in
tending to sell or use the right for some
unworthy object and who never meant to
cultivate the land or become taxpayers
and citizens in the community. The
rights of such are always to be ques.
toned, aud generally ale disputed by
son resident who lives in the locality
and who is doing what he can to make a
living and develop the country. As the
land in North Dakota becomes more val
liable, the temptation to attempt to wrest
the old established claims from the set
tiers will become greater. Every effort
to do this where the contestant has no le-
gal or moral right to the land, should be
discouraged by the land department and
the intruder sat down upon by the peo-
pie Of the community where he is trying
to get something for nothing.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10

Guc uulSduCc OIuluduCo, WAL uoVo =" Puy
up on Monday or close their doors. SO
say the authorities, and they say it in a
tone OF voice which indicates that they
mean business.
"The city must enforce this nuisance
regulation" SAID an alderman last night.
"There are number Of places IN the city
which might we'll be dispensed with, and
the men who operate them have posi-.
lively refused to pay the nuisance fine.
1t has been plainly shown that the pro-
hibitory law cannot be enforced, and
that when an effort is made to en-
force it to the letter, the city becomes
infested with holes in -the-wall and a
class of people to patronize them who
are not wanted in the city, and whose
presence creates and maintains constant
disorder, and offensive conditions which
the police force cannot control. The
mayor Is expected to keep order, and he
can only do it by knowing where these
places are located. Therefore the council
decided to impose fine on these drink.
ing places, and now that fine must be
paid. Some of the places pay promptly
and regularly, others pay iu part, and
only after being reminded of their obi
cation, while some will not pay, but try
to dodge the issue. Such attempts Will
not work out salvation. People who will
not pay must stop business, and that on
Monday"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS.

old World Eviction Methods
Brought Against Red River Valley
Settlers.
The usual process Of railroad compa-
nies gobbling the public land is now be-
ING witnessed in North Dakota on an OK
tensive and important scale. The Great
Northern road under a late decision OF
the supreme court OF the United States
10 claiming every odd section OF land in
. strip of country said to be six miles
wide and in all about 200 miles long.
Much Of the land lies along the west side
Of the Red river, which land has been
settled upon by homesteaders and pre-
emptors, many Of whom have lived on
their farms for 20 years. A portion OF
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
A Bad Storm,

For nearly AZ hours the heaviest snow
and wind storm since January, 1883,
was raging in the James river valley.
1t began Wednesday night, at O'Clock,
and continued without any let up
whatever until Friday afternoon. The
barometer had been falling for two days
before the beginning of the storm, and
old timers in the country were expect
ing the very thing that has occurred.
The storm was severest in the James river
valley, between the Missouri river and
the Sheyenne. Thursday morning it
was raining IN the Red river valley
while showing here. The rain there
has also changed into great blizzard,
and trains were delayed in all directions.
The railroad situation on the Dakota
division of the Northern Pacific appears
to be as follows: The regular No. l
from the east arrived Friday morning
about o'clock, some three hours late.
The train remained here until IL a. M,
when it left for the west with two en-
gines attached, and snow plow ahead.
The east bound through train on the
main line, due here at 4:4O a. M, had
reached Mandan and was there waiting
further orders. The regular south
bound tram on the jamestown & North
ern branch, pulled in to Oberon station
Thursday, and is there waiting the
abatement of the storm and the clearing
OF the road.
On the James River valley the road
will not be blocked long as the worst
storm has little effect in drifting snow
on this branch. The road from James
town to LaMoure will he kept open. On
the Fargo d Southwestern branch the
line west Of Lisbon will be closed for the
winter, in all probability, as the snow is
at present on level with the cuts. East
OF Lisbon the road will be kept open if
possible.
Much danger Is feared for stock IN the
country, although farmers are pretty
generally prepared to care for it. Sheep
especially are liable to be lost il they
have not warm and protected quarters.
Later Information at Superintendent
McCabe's Office states that the snow
plow and two pushers forced their way
through the snow to Bismarck. although
they were stuck twice between this point
and Windsor.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
District School Reports.

As the time for the receipt of the annual
reports Of school district clerks and
treasurers is near at hand, Supt. Wads.
worth suggests that all such reports be
made and forwarded promptly, and that
care be taken that they are correctly
prepared as we'll.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-12-10
The Yankton Saloon Plan.

The YanktOn Saloon Plan,
Press and Dakotan: The men who are
operating saloons in Yankton, and who
have failed to pay the monthly stipend
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-07
RAILWAY POSTAL SERVICE.
A Report Which Shows Vast and In
Creasing Work

The annual report OF the Railway Mail
Service in the Second Division, which in-
cludes the States of New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the
Peninsula of Maryls nd and Virginia,
shows large increase in work
and improvement in methods and
efficiency of service. The distribution of
mail to 9534 postoffices in the district is done
by 726 railway clerks. During the year they
handled 995, 173 $50 pieces of mail, eight per
cent more than last year. Errors reported
show a decrease Of eight per cent In five
years the working force has been increased
thirteen per cent and the mail distributed
has increased thirty-six per cent.
The New York City mail separated on
the cars for direct delivery from the
branches of the New York Postoftice thus
avoiding detention at the general post
office was 103, 354, 950 as compared with
SO, 632, $50 for last year, an increase of
over fifteen per cent. AT the present time
the amount of New York City mail thus sep
arated daily is not far from 400 900 letters.
The railway postal clerks are now compel
ing for gold medal offered by General SUI
perintendent White of Washington and five
gold medals offered by Division Superintend-
ent jackson of New York City. The deliv
cry this year to summer resorts shows
especially expeditions handling.