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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
What Citizens Are Saying
About the Issues of the
Coming City Election.
Money Raised by High Taxa
ton for Schools and
Other Expenses.
Yesterdays Storm Caused
Much Damage in the East
and South.

"Along with nearly everyone should
like to see the streets lighted up." said
H. N. Shaw today. ''Even if we have tc
pay little more I would rather do it fol-
my part than keep the streets dark
Fl. W. Kelley: The city not only needs
lights, but new sidewalks and better
drainage. 1 think common sense should
be used in providing the improvements
however, and don't believe in concedine
everything to those who have purely
personal interest at stake. Let's have
good sidewalks Grst; if we can have lights
a!so will be pleased.
L. I. Hamilton: Yes, 1 believe the
electric lights good thing, and am in
favor Of having them, providing they
can be had at contract price. The city is
not IN position to pay fancy prices for
anything. As to the council, they ought
to do the city's business as they would
their own, exercising economy where
possible and still making necessary i'm
provements when demanded.
H.J. Warner: I think it is time that
the city officials should put stop to the
depositlng of the manure and filth of the
city wherever COZ pvenient. Every spring
comes this same old fight. If we have
any laws wish the council would en-
force them.
Jack Gray: The city doesn't deserve
TO get the trade of the farmers in the
northern part of the county, on account
of the poor roads leading in from the
north. The road under the bridge by
the college has been covered with ice all
winter. or ever since the water from the
college main was turned into the street.
Horses shod sharp can scarcely get along,
to say nothing of teams not shod at all.
The road leading north, east Of the river,
which is now mainly used, is near the
north side school house and that is 80
steep team can not pull a load up. I
hear that good deal of trade is going
to Spiritwood because farmers can't get
into jamestown and out, with a heavy
load.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
Returns for City Taxation.

From City Treasurer Webster it is
learned that if the land tax is paid as it IS
expected, the outstanding city warrants
will all be paid by the middle Of June.
The city tax Is % mills on the dollar,
divided as follows: General fund 6 mills,
street and bridge l, interest 2, and school
tax 13 mills.
1t will be SEEN that a little over half
the amount derived from the city tax is
spent for the public schools. No CON-
plant as to the character of the schools
is heard because they are very gener.
ally considered satisfactory. But what
the taxpayers and residents are now get
ting for the remainder OF the amount
raised by this % mill tax, sum equal to
$20,43O is a matter Of speculation with a
good many.
In Fargo the rate IS said to be . mills,
but there is something to show for the
money in the way of water privileges and
drainage, good sidewalks end we'll
lighted, we'll cleaned and we'll policed
streets. For several months jamestown
got along without even police officer
last year. She is now dong without
lights and several low portions of the city
are under water. to the great inconveni-
ence of residents and teams, for lack of
drainage. Besides, there is steady
complaint of travelers at the hotels on
the foul condition OF closets caused by
the total absence of drainage. Strangers
do not confine their opinions or remarks
to an expression here, but spread the un-
unenviable reputation wherever they 60.
Besides these matters snow-banks OBJ
struct the streets and sidewalks on the
principal street and remain piles of dirt
and unsiehtliness for months at time.
The sidewalks have become old and rot
ten, needing new walks and many re-
pairs, while there has been a general
complaint from farmers about the diff
Guilty of getting IN and ont of the city
with heavy loads. The people hope with
a return of better times these matters
can be regulated and the work begun
this spring. jamestown taxpayers do
not all believe in parsimony for economy,
nor s8ddling on to one year the legiti-
mate EXPENSES Of two,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
A GOVERNMENT CLAIM.
Ex- Postmaster Kelley has Big
Bill Against Uncle Sam


Senator Hansbrough has introduced
bill 10 reimburse A. W. Kelley of this
city for clerk hire paid out for several
years when Mr.. Kelley was postmaster
here, and never allowed by the govern
ment, although recommended by special
agents. Senator Casey Is also assisting
Mr. Kelley in getting the amount of his
claim, which the bill proposes to pay in
amount of s5,s238O. Mr.. Kelley was
postmaster here for about II years.
During that period the country was
rapidly settled up, there was an immense
amount of mail matter handled at this
office which was the distributing Office
for some Ii points, including Fort Tot
ten, Fort Seward, and other Offices south
and north of this point. At no time did
the government furnish sufficient clerk
hire and most of the time, especially re-
tween the years 1878 to 1883, the post
master furnished from two to three clerks
and paid them himself, taking vouchers
for their services. Afidavits of citizens
who were residents here at the time, are
being secured concerning the heavy
mails and the inadequate office force fur
nished to handle them. Mr.. Kelley's
claim is just one, and ali his friends
trust he may recover the amount from
the government.
A similar claim was allowed the post
master at Grand Forks where the con-
dltions were nearly the same as here, OK.
cept that the Grand Forks postmaster
kept the money-some S5,OOO-out of
the postof1ice funds for his pay, and had
some trouble to escape prosecution for
his illegal act.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
INTERESTING LECTURE
BY London Lady Of Repute on the
Causes Of lntemperance.

BY London Lady Of Repute on the
Causes Of lntemperance.
DR.. Kate Mitchell of London, Eng
lectured on temperance Thursday at the
Presbyterian church. DIR. Mitchell
was sent last year to the Worlds w. 9.
L. U. convention at Boston as delegate
from the Womep's British Temperance
union. Since then she has been lectur-
ing in various parts OF the country in
company with Lady Somerset. After
graduating at the Queens college, Dub
lln,and years medical study in Paris, she
is we'll qualified to discuss the evil effects
of alcohol on the human system. In her
lecture she entered into a very
mastery inquiry of the causes of intern
perance. These were shown to be poverty,
and the idleness that springs from ex-
cessive wealth, and the dlsease which is
so deeply rooted and hereditary in the hu
man race She remarked that no coercive
Legislation of congress or parliament can
eradicate druukeness so long as thousands
of our population were surrounded with
conditions of grinding poverty. She was
skeptical as to some of the systems of
curing dipsomania, objecting to them on
the grounds that it was introducing one
poison to displace the evil effects of
another Considering the situation, the
temperance problem must be viewed in
light of those luna,ic conditions
which are SO hostile to the physical we'll
being of man.
DR.. Mitchell is fluent speaker and has
a strong dramatic force of expression.
She will remain here for day or more,
the guest of DR.. DePuy. President and
Mrs. Baskerville with the college
quartette sang some beautiful and I'M
pressive pieces which were highly ap-
preciated by the audience. ...
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
At His Old Tricks Again.

Read this. 1t costs money to get it
here and We want to get even with the
printer. We want you to know that we
are agents for the Dowsgiac Drills, Solid
Comfort Plow, Drader Spade Harrow.
Star Wagons, Cullumbis Buggies, The
Boss, Scotch and Leaver harrows. Can
fit you out with steam, sweep or tread
power thresher, the best in the market.
Full line Of coal, wood and feed. Feed
grinding on the side. Come and see us.
buy or no buy. T. J. JONES, Manager.
Hughes Implement Fuel and Feed Co
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
BIG STORM IN THE EAST.
.
Snow, Sleet and Ice Covering the
Country-.Damage to Shipping.

country Damage to Shipping.
The snow storm which began IN this
city about 2 o'clock Monday was gen.
eral throughout the northwest, though it
was more severe in other sections than
here. Dispatches from cities
both west and south and along the At.
)antic coast report heavy snow storms
and in some places raging blizzards. In
Omaha the storm set in early IN the day,
and by 9 O'Clock street car traffic was
suspended, the company giving up all
hope to even keep the tracks reasonably
clear. All trains entering the city were
delayed from one to four hours, and
toward night the city was blockaded.
Here the snow was unaccompanied by
severe wind as IN other cities. At Burl-
iDgton severe sleet storm prevailed all
day; the sleet freezlng as soon as it fell.
The city IS regular crystal palace,
houses are coated with ice and trees
and wires are encased in ice and
are dropping. At Cedar Rapids raging
blizzard is keeping everyone within
doors and suspending traffic. The snow
is falling fast, and with the strong wind
that is blowing the storm is binding
and one of the most severe for some
time.
The Black hills are covered with
white blanket, eight inches thick, and at
midnight it was still showing hard.
Along the Atlantic coast the storm has
been raging for some days. The snow
has been falling rapidly at intervals and
has been accompanied by severe winds.
Much damage has been done and many
vessels have been compelled to remain
in the harbor.
From Milwaukee comes the report of
a wild storm, which swept Lake Michi-
gan. The vessels lying up for the win
ter IN the harbors suffered severely IN
the wild wind, which blew at the rata of
fifty miles an hour the greater portion
of the day. The storm is passing over
the great lakes. through Canada to the
coast. North Dakota was on the out
skirts and escaped the severity of the
storm
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
The Modern Woodmen of America.

The Modern Woodmen of America.
The cheapest and best insurance order
because it takes the cream of insurance,
both as to territory and character of
membership. pays its certificates
promptly and in full, taking our mem
bers in the healthiest region of the
United States.
OUR GRADED ASSESSMENT RATES.
The following will show the highest
cost per $1,000, in any year, at the age of
%, $40; 80, 1896; As, $3.50.
d. F. CRABBE,
Deputy Head Consul for North Dakota.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
The New Election System.

The Australian ballot system was tried
for the first time Tuesday in Moorhead
in the city election and it is said to have
worked we'll. All Of the saloons we're
closed, and no disturbance or disorderly
conduct was observed during the day.
Each Of the three polling places had four
booths, containing three sides, the front
being open and having a curtain hanging.
The new system seem to facilitate the
counting OF the ballots, for the result
was announced by six O'Clock in the
evening. All the voters were much
pleased and pronounce it an entire sue
cess decided improvement over the
old plan. The crowd Of idlers around
the polls were not there. A policeman
stands at the door TO prevent any annoy
snce. The voter enters. Two inspest-
ors and q clerk are at the desk-one OF
the inspectors passes the voter ballot
containing the names Of the candidates
20 be voted for, the voter steps into q
booth erected behind the inspectors,
marks an X opposite each candidates.
nsme for whom he wishes to vote, folds
his ballot, hands 1t to the inspector who
places it IN metal box. The voter
walks quietly out. No electioneering is
allowed within 100 feet OF the voting
place.
The News, in speaking Of the merits
Of the Australian voting system, says
that it has done away with the de.
moralizing and obnoxious features of
the old system, but that many Of the
voters lost their ballots by being lgno-
rant Of how to mark the blanks. It says:
The manner Of spelling the ballots
may be Of interest. In the First ward
one ballot showed every name scratched
and new names or the same ones a.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24

honor Of the position, and the necessity
of protecting property interests by
good business policy. No one who values
h,s time would take the Office for the
simple salary attached. Even doing his
best citizen taking the place Of mayor
or alderman must expect full share Of
adverse criticism for what he does do, or
what he does not do.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
AT GRAND FORKS, MAY 4.
The Republican Committee
Fixes Time and Place for
the Convention.
Moorhead Reports a Satisfac-
tory Trial of the Austria
lian System.
The Bismarck Weather Bu-
reau to be Removed to the
Red River Valley.

GRAND Forks, March 1S.-The repub.
lican state central committee, with a
large attendance, met in this city yester
day. The committee consists of Hon. B.
F. SpaldinR, Fargo, chairman, and the
following gentlemen:
Judson LaMoure, r. S. Aslackson, W.
H. Fellows, p J. Lander, B. F.
Spalding. $. G. More. D. F. Ellsworth, g.
E. Heldel, A: NJ: Tofthagen, c. E.. vii.
bur, E. H. Woodward, L. G. Harris, u.
K. Streeter, E. Il; Thursby, r. N.
Futile, E. G. Gearey. Grant s..
Hager. F. H. Sprague, William Bulge,
r. T. Kingnan, r. D. Glasgow, Fred
Falley, George F. Goodwin, r. G. Cooper,
w. F. Winter, E. Torrenson, Il. E. Wal
lace, D. p. Kuhn, M H. jewell, E. H.
Skies, H. l.. Dickinson.
After the meeting was called to order
Chairman Spalding rendered to the
committee verbal report of the work he
had accomplished in the way of sending
out literature, polling the state, etc. He
was authorized to, continue and extend
the work, and also to retain Secretary
Sanford, who is at present in Fargo
assisting the chairman in the work.
The date for the state convention to
elect delegates to the national conven.
tion at Minneapolis was fixed to he held
at Grand Forks on May 4, without much
argument, it beng generally admitted
that 1t would be better late than if set
at a time when everyone would be busy
with spring work. The state convention
has to be held thirty days before the
national convention.
The fight of the day was on the appor-
tionment of delegates. But for this the
meeting was harmonious. Chairman
Spalding, Committeeman Goodwin, Wal
lace, Plnkham and others wanted to
make the apportionment upon the aver
age vote cast for the first ten officers on
the ticket at the last election, they argu-
ing that this would be fair to all counties.
Grand Forks, Trail and Walsh county
delegates wanted the apportionment to
be made upon the vote cast for johnson
for congress and their proposition was
carried. Cass county then tried to get
four extra delegates conceded, and made
. plea that it was not right to
make Cass county suffer when other
counties were not made to suffer for cut
ting others on the ticket. Their
efforts were, however, uuavailing. Will
liams, new county, was given one vote.
The committee decided to name q
chairman for the next convention and to
make q roll Of delegates prlma facie en-
titled to seats contest papers to be sent
70 the committee before May 2. The con-
mittee will meet in Grand Forks on May
8, the day before the convention,to name
chairman, etc.
The county committees were requested
to call primaries and county conventions
at the time most convenient for the re-
spective counties.
Chairman Spalding remained IN Grand
Forks to prepare call.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
For Sale.

Four hundred head of good sheep, 8
head OF COWS and steers, head of young
horses, and all kinds OF farm machinery.
Will meet anyone at Crystal Spring
or ~ miles from station on the farm.
y. A. SCHwE1TzER.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
Will Lose Her Weather Sharp

Will Lose Her Weather Sharp.
Bismarck Tribune: About eight
months ago the North Dakota state
weather bureau, in cooperation with
United States agricultural department..
was established at Bismarck, and since
that time Observer w. H. Fallon of the
Bismarck signal Office, has devoted a great
deal of time and attention in extend.
ing the work over the state and securing
observers. After getting the bureau
thoroughly established, crop and weather
correspondents stationed in every county
and the work mapped out for the coming
year an order comes from Uncle Jerry
Rusk to move headquarters to Grand
Forks, where Secretary McGinnis of the
Chamber of commerce in that city will
have charge" According to the :ele-
grams McGinnls who was once in the
signal service, went down to Washing
ton, saw the senators, told 'em what he
the proper place for the headquarters Of
this service cannot be questioned Here
is the office Of the commissioner of agri
culture and labor in the same line of
business collecting crop reports and
sending the information broadcast
throughout the land. the telegraph "a
cilities are unexcelled. It would not
seem quite 50 extraordinary il the state
service had been established at Fargo IN
connection with agricultural college and
experimental station, but to take it from
Bismarck to Grand Forks is entirely un.
justifiable.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-24
CHAIRMAN SPALDING'S CALL
County Representation in the Re-
publican State Convention.

publican State Convention.
In the state convention to be held at
Grand Forks May to nominate six del
egates and SIX alternates to the national
republican convention at Minneapolis,
June 2, the following number of dele
0atoa ia allowed IN zach cOnntv.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-11-26
WHITE PINE NEWS
Published every Saturday morning "
w. L. DAVIS.
Terms OF subscription:

0le copy. one year, by maD ..........$S oU 0U
Gne copy, six mopths, by mail. ::......" -" u"
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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-11-26

VOTING PLACES, INSPECTORS AND CLERKS
Hamilton, No. AT Pramenko's
Building. Inspectors-Ed. McEllen,
Frank Paul. 1. G. Moon. Clerks
Chas. Wray and j. B. Mathewson.
White River; No. 2-School House:
nspectors-Steve Williams, Andrew
Lee, G.. r. Hayden. Clerks-W. M.
Moorman, James Rosevear.
Taylor, No. 4-Opera House. In
spectors-John Verzan, Chas. Peck,
Geo. Newman. Clerks-Wm. Ersk-
inc, Frank Jeanney.
Osceola, No. 5-Marriott's Hall.
Inspectors-J. A. Skinner. T. B.. Til
ford, R. Y. Van Vanlk enbnrg. Clerks
John G. Marriott, Dan Simonson.
Aurum, No. 6--Mill Office. In
spectors-J. Cameron, G. Fl. Odgers,
Pat Keegan. Clerks-James Nc
Nulty, B. G. Sanford.
Cherry Creek, No. 8-Nevada Hall
Building. Dspectors--Wm. Sbeek;
J. F. Miles, M. MacAuley. Clerks
G. F. Stockle, George Taylor.
Ely, No. 10-Peaslee's Building!
Inspectors = Thos. Johnson, 8. g.
Tucker, J. B. Simpson. Clerks-A.
D. Campton, A. G. House.
Newark, No. II = Mill Office.
Inspectors Thomas Robinson, H. L.
Curran, VIM. Wainwright. Clerks
r. McMenomy, A. A. Conover.
Glencoe, No. 14-Well Annie Co.'s
Office. Inspectors-H. A. Leach, NJ.
Fitzgerald, j. E. Gibbs. Clerks-R.
A. Nuckols, w. @. Thomas.
Which Election shall be opened at
8 o'clock A. M. and continue open
until 6 o'clock p. Nj.
And that aid ballot or tickets at
said General Election In the County
of White Pine, State of Nevada, be
the official ballot printed on tinted
and water marked paper and furnish,
ed to each voter by the Clerks of
Election. ,gslis
by order of the Board of County
Commissioners.
WV. LAURENSON,
| Clerk of said Board.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-11-26
POINTS OF INTEREST.

Only one person in 10, 900 lives to
be a centenarian.
The fur seal and fur otter trade of
Alaska is worth $3OO,O a year.
In every minute sixty-seven people
die in the world and seventy are
born.
One half of the wealth of England
is in the possession of 1000 individu-
ais.
Yeddo, the capital of the Japenese
Empire, contains 100000 inhabit-
ants and has a greater area than Lon
don.
A Paris bird dealer has recently re-
ceived 5000 birds of paradise, 3OO,-
900 Indian birds of various species and
400, 900 humming birds.
Rather more than SO persons in
every 100 in London are living in
comfort, while rather more than 80 in
every 100 are living in poverty.
Women require one hour of sleep
more a day than men. Fewer of the
latter reach the age of 80 than the for
mer, but afterward the sterner sex has
the best of it.
A curious circumstance in connec-
ton with the recent epidemic of chol-
era at Hamburg was the departure of
all the birds from the city only few
days prior to the outbreak.
A ten pound cannon ball was re-
Gently dug up at Lakeside, Ind. 1t
has been identified as a relic of the
times when Mad Anthony Wayne was
in command thereabouts.
Recent experiment has proved that
if delicate piece of lace be placed be-
tween an iron plate and disk of gun
powder, and the latter be detonated,
the lace will be clearly stamped on the
the iron.
The largest valcano in the world is
at Mauna Loa in the Sandwich Islands.
The crater is twenty miles in diameter
and the stream of lava flowing from it
is fifty miles long and in places four
miles wide.
In Bellavista, near Porticl, Italy, a
small colony includes more than twen-
ty people who are over ninety years
old, headed by farmer aged, 1O5,
who still works in the fields. They
are all natives, and have lived with
hardly any meat in their diet and
drinking only rainwater from cis-
tern.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-11-26

The Tyrant Cigarette.

The real cigarette is a pinch of to-
bacco rolled by the smoker in little
leaf of rice paper. When the tobacco
is placed and equally distributed on
the leaf it is rolled gracefully, and
with rhythmic harmony. The cigar
cite is not glued; it is never finished.
1t must be constantly unrolled, re-
touched, rolled again, it must be varied,
diversified; it is sensitive, lively, ex-
pressive of the particulars temperament
of the person by whom it is smoked
A cigarettes being bought ready made
is paper cigar.
The man who smokes cigarettes be-
cause he is not rich enough to buy
good cigars, or the man who may be
satisfied with pipe or cigar, is not
cigarette smoker.
The tyrant cigarette DEGREES that
your hands aud lips shall be at its SER
vice every instant. Therefore cigar
cite smoker is never a worklng-man,
an artist or an ambitious man. Nor
is the cigarette smoker ever member
of any four hundred, for there are at
least five minutes before dinner among
the four hundred when it is impossible
to smoke, and they are precisely the
minutes when a cigarette smoker is
most anxious to smoke.
The tyrant cigarette gives in ex-
change for mans liberty, resignation;
in exchange for a mans exile from
good society, the mystic joys of dream
ers. New York Times
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-11-26
Anew York Mystery

A young lady belonging to one of
the first families of New York return
ed from walk. Her mother, who
is very strict with her, asked:
"Where have you been9'
'1 have just been taking a little
fresh air in Central Park"
"Alone.
"Alone."
care you sure of itP'
s'Of course I am. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, nothing at all, except when
you went out you took with you a
parasol, and you came home with a
gentleman's cane in your hand. -
Texas Siftings.