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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
Terminal Elevator.

North Dakota Independent: We are
pleased to note that President Short.
ridge and Commissioner Walsh have
been received by the people Of West
Superior in very friendly spirit, and
that the business men offer to take one.
half the stock necessary to secure 2,O0O,-
600 bushel elevators there where North
Dakota No. hard wheat can be stored
and shipped in its purity to any part of
the world. Let the elevators be built
and our North Dakota wheat will at
once establish for itself grade and a
price commensurate with It's true value
in the markets Of the world, and the
farmers will have cut their way through
to the sea, and with help Of the McDou-
gals whaleback steel steamship, will be
able to reach any port in the world with
our pure No. hard wheat, and realize
its true value, which is at least 25 cents
per bushel more than we have been paid
for it the laet six years.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
DECREASE IN SHEEP.
The Policy OF Letting Other COun.
tries Furnish us Sheep has been
Detrimental to Wool Growers.

The Policy Of Letting Other COun.
tries Furnish us Sheep has been
Detrimental to Wool Growers.
The farmers of the western states, in.
cluding Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania. and all New England, can bear
testimony to the effect Of reducing the
tariff on wool. Some Of the finest flocka
ever known in the history OF American
wool growing have entirely disappeared,
and the lands which we're thus devoted
to the production OF sheep are now grain
raising farms, being competitors in the
larger field of agriculture. Who has
been benefited by the tariff reduction on
wooll IN the last thirty years? The de-
crease IN the Hocks in the foregoing
states wss, from 1875 to 1891:
1875. 1891. Decrease.
New Eng. States 1,44O,OoO 11O5 600 $4,000
Middle States. 3,959,2OO 2,3SO,90O 1,57s,3OO
Western States. 15,3Ol,30o 14,120,63s 1,1sO676
Being an absolute decrease of 3,O93, ,97S
sheep.
During the same period We imported
wool from foreign countries to the
amount of SlS6,O0O,OOO, or an annual
amount of nearly $l2,OO0,O 600 sent out of
the United States for raw wool alone.
Now, with the price declining gradual
ly from IS cents per pound IN 1875, to 33
cents in 1890, we find that in five years,
1885 to ioJi. the total decrease in the
number of heep in the United States to
be over 9,OOOOOO, and during the same
five years there was imported into this
country more than 2OOOOOO head, pay
ing duty of 80 cents each.
The backward state of sheep husband
ry is wholly chargeable to tariff tinker
ing. What Is the remedy? Suppose
the farmers of the United States should
undertake to raise all the sheep we need
for wool and mutton. What would be
required? The United States Wool
Growers Association estimate that it
would require 6O,OOO,OOO more
sheep in this country. Now to
feed and care for this number, bas-
ing our estimate on what is
it would take 40,OOO,0OO acres of land,
aud would give employment to some
100000 hands in caring for the sheep and
in the manufacturing of the woolen
goods we now import. which in 1888 were
lnvoiced in the custom houses at $63, ,OO0,-
OO0, this sum, too, representing an under.
valuation of at least one-half. With this
idea in view the Mckinley bill placed
duty of s1.5O per head on sheep instead
of 80 cents, the old law. This will cut off
half million a year and give some en-
to sheep raising. Let the
wool tariff of 1883 be restored and the
hopeful things Indicated IN the foregoing
will be consummated. l...
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
Deeds for 81.

Il is learned that agents Of the Zoo
road have been in Foster county this
week getting deeds for the right of way
for the extension OF the line from Valley
City, northwest. Many Of the farmers
are said to be giving the right Of way for
the consideration of one dollar. All are
anxious to get the ROAD through. as it
will save hauling grain 18 TO 20 miles for
many settlers and greatly increase mar
keting facilities for large area of fertile
country.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
on a most expensive and metropolitan
scale, and in excess Of the legitimate
profits of the investments in 80 limited a
field.
BETTER OFF HERE.

Canadian Farmers Condition Worse
Than Their American Cousins.
County Commissioner Graham. of
Ramsey county, has just returned from a
six weeks visit in Ontario. The Devils
Lake Inter. Ocean says: He describes
the condition of the farmers in that
country as verv bad, compared with
their lot here. Half of the farmers live
on rented farms. paying 81 to $3. 30 an
acre cash rental, and Of those who own
their land many are in debt and with no
immediate prospect of working out. Few
of the farmers make more than q scanty
living. Labor is low, the wages of a
farm hand being from Sl4 to $lS month
in the summer, while in the winter "a a
month and board is considered fair
remuneration for an able bodied mans
time. In one town he visited, Lindsay,
the highest wages paid skilled mechanics
in a binder and plow factory was 81 q
day. The cry OF hard times is heard on
every hand. Farm lands have deprecated
in value 40 per cent. IN the past
ten years, fine farms that formerly
would sell for $50 an acre
now hardly finding purchasers at $50 an
acre. All kinds of farm produce is low,
good horse, for instance, being only
worth $50. Nearly everything the farm
ers have to buy IN that country costs rs
much as it does here. Ready made
clothing and boots and shoes are no
cheaper on the Canadian side of the line
than they are here Binders are worth
from 1925 to $140. but it is lighter and
a smaller machine than is used in this
country. Wagons cost more there than
here and machinery in general costs the
Canadian farmers fully as much as it
does tie farmers Of this state"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
A district Epworth League convention

A district Epworth League convention
will be held IN Fargo, March LIST and End.
Introductory services Monday evening.
The young people of the NJ. E. church
throughout the district are cordially in
vited to attend whether members Of the
league or not. Prominent speakers are
engaged and grand gathering is ex-
pected. Those who intend going should
notify Rev. Eugene May, Fargo, N. D.,
at once. 60 that entertainment may be
provided.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
Advertised Letters.

List of uncalled for letters in the post
Office at jamestown. North Dakota. for
the week ending February @, 1892:
Allen, Miss Ma Miller, Miss Ahem
Dick. Mrs D F Moffat, Mrs Robert
Lee, Miss Mamie Qoncle, Mrs
GENTLEMEN.
Bancroft, John Oneil, Tim
Daley, Thos Olsan, N D
Griffin, Henry Robinson. D L
Heyer, Frank Snyder, Fred
Heab,k, Henry Ihemegen, P
Rildenbrand, Emanuel
Wheelon, N
II not called for within IA days, will
be sent to the dead letter Office. In call
ng for these letters, please say sdver-
tised, and give date of this list.
@. p. SIXTH. p. NJ.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
The w. II. C. Entertainment.

The w. II. G. Entertainment.
An immense crowd patronized the
supper given by the Women's Relief
Corps Monday afternoon and evening,
and enjoyed the literary and musical
program which followed. The exercises
we're held IN the Masonic nall; the sup
per being served in the banquet room
under the direction Of the Corps ladies,
who provided an elegant spread. The
tables we're almost constantly thronged
from $3.50 until 8 o'clock, and hattering
sum was realized from this feature of the
entertainment.
At 8 o'clock, Rev. E. H. Teall delivered
the invocation, and one Of the best pro-
grams of the kind yet arranged in the
city was creditably carried out. A
quartette composed of Misses Nellie
Hodge and Vesta Moxon, Ralph Davidson
and Mr.. Fowler, delighted the large
assemblage with two selections, and
the same ladies rendered a
very taking duet. Miss Lulu La Foliett,
Miss Moxon and the Misses Hodge evoked
much enthusiasm by their beautiful and
spirited rendition Of popular G. A. r.
song. Ralph Davidson cleverly executed
a oornet colo, accompanied on the organ
by Miss Alice Hodge. Miss Nellie Len.
hart also entertained the company with
instrumental music. Appropriate recita-
tlons, patriotic, pathetic and humorous,
were given by Miss Mary Woodbury.,
Miss Nellie Lenhart, Miss Lulu La Fol-
lett and Mr.. W. l.. Bennett. Suitable
remarks followed by Mr.. B. S. Russell
and Mr.. l. G. Wade. and the benediction
was pronounced by Rev. j. d. Whitelaw.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
EARLY Day Prices.

Mr.. W. E. Greene, who was one of the
early timers 10 California, has the follow
ing specimen bill of fare, which has
peculiar interest to all relic searchers
for pioneer mementoes. The bill was
from the Eldorado Hotel at Hangtown,
CAL, 1850.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-02-25
GENTLEMEN.

A telegram from Supt. McCabe says
that he finds George very sick, but
chances favorable for recovery.
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closed. Closely adherlng to the rulings
of the higher court, Judge Rose instruct.
ed the jury that while the facts might
show negligence upon the part of the
company, the contributory negligence of
plaintiff was also clearly established. and
debarred him from recovering damages.
It was upon this point, Judge Rose says,
that the matter was decided. A number
Of other fine points are involved, which
will afford ample room for legal dis
cussion in the event that another appeal
is taken, which is understood to be prob.
able. The decision makes the plaintiff
liable for accured costs, and ends, for
the present at least, a case that has at
tracted more than usual interest, and one
which has been ably conducted on both
sides.
Many Polanders living in the northern
part of the county were in attendance at
court Tuesday expecting that case of
local interest would come before the
court. This was recent suit brought
by farmer named Rudolph, living near
Spiritwood lake, against another farmer
of that vicinity, for alleged slander in
connection with plaintiffs wife. All
Polanders take great interest IN court
matters, and the case which was put over
to another term. seemed to excite good
deal of comment among them. The de-
tails promised to develop sensation Of
some magnitude.
This morning the case Of Geo. A. Ben.
nett against the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company, was called for trial.
Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for
injuries received in the employ of the
company, as switchman. His case is
being conducted by Attorney Glaspel.
Messrs. Ball of Fargo, and John s. Wat
son are looking after tie defense. Mr..
Bennett was atill on the stand, undergo
ing croas-examination by Attorney Wat
son, when court adjourned for dinner.
Wednesday the burglary case was
called and is still in progress. The three
men charged with breaking into Good
mans clothing store, a few weeks ago,
are being tired together for the offense.
Attorney Baldwin appears as their coun-
sci, States Attorney Conklin conducting
the prosecution. A large number of
! witnesses are in attendance.
The case of the State vs.. D. l.. Gray
was argued and submitted late Thursday
afternoon. The jury returned verdic:
that night, finding the defendant guilty
of petit larceny, and fixing the value of
the wheat stolen at $18. Sentence has
not yet been passed, the usual stay of
proceedings for three days being granted
by Judge Rose.
When court opened Thursday, the
case of the State vs.. George Purchase,
charged with selling liquor, was called.
Since Wednesday continuance, Purchase
has left the city, and no appearance be-
| ing entered, the defendants bond of $500
was declared forfeited. Thomas Driscoll
was surety.
The stenographer's force is augmented
by the arrival of Harry Edwards of
Fargo, who Is one of the experts of the
state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21

neither bread nor money Many of
them eat clay mixed with grass. but two
have have died of this food. A number
of them have not tasted bread for two
or three days. In one cottage, where
there is no fire, there is a woman who
has just been confied. She is dying
Her husband is dead already. The new
born child is nesting half frozen to it's
mother. Five Older children are CRYING
with hunger close by. In another fam
lily they have had nothing to eat for three
days. The father, who went to look for
work in neIghboring village, found
the man who was to have given him
employment dead from cold and hunger.
In third village the whole population
were preparing for death. They went
to confession and were taking the Sacra-
ment.
''rhe fact that the peasants have
largely sold their horses and oxen in
order to obtain food, and that the few
they may still possess are too weak from
want of food to convey the grain from
the railway station, greatly complexities
and increases the difficulties of supply
ing these villages. Yet, notwithstand-
ing this difficulty, we were assured that
there was still a sufficient number of
horses, and, in the case of the more
southern provinces on the Asiatic side
of the Tolga, of camels as well as horses,
owned by the more well-to-do people, to
cope with the conveyance of the requiS-
ite quantities of grain. We were in
formed that one of the causes of the
difficulty which the government had in
connection with the transit of grain on
the railways was the inadequate supply
of rolling stock, but, on the day of
leaving st. Petersburg for England,
| was told by a well-known Russian
officer that great efforts had been
and were being made to hurry UP
the grain trains; that the emperor had
decided to place the southern railways
on basis similar to that in time of war.
and that all passenger and other traffic
had been ordered to give way to the
grain trains; that an energetic officer of
the engineer corps had been specially
dispatched by the emperor to superin-
tend the speedy forwarding of the grain
trains, and that now. owing to these en-
ergetic measures, the trains of grain
from the south were following each
other up in quick succession at very
short intervals apart. We arc glad to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21
Peasants Give Over the Struggle Existence Children Die
by the Hundreds While the Scourge Of Ty-
plus Is Added to Hunger.

by sledge. ''As we got into the gov
ernmentS of Samara and SaratOtf." says
Mr.. Brooks. 1--WE saw with ouI own eyes
that none of the horrors of which we
had read had been exaggerated. Where
ever we made inquiries we heard of
actual deaths by starvation, and while
some had died an enormous multitude
were gradually, but surely. dying. In
some villages the people had nothing to
eat at all; in others they had little rye
bread, and in others again not even
bread, but just enough rye to make a
kind of watery soup for morning and
evening. In the middle of the day they
had cabbage. but of none of these things
mad they enough to appeaSe their hun
ger. 1 was told that many of the able
bodied men had gone away to the eau
casuS. They could bear no longer to
see their wives and children slowly dy-
ing before their very eyes and to stand
beside them unable to help.
"a disease is breaking out among the
children called the swelling disease, the
result of starvation. We saw one little
mite, dressed only in short shirt, with
its body swollen to all enormous size.
1t was horrible. pitiful to see. Then the
suffering from the cold is so terrible.
We went into one room about twelve
feet square, where nineteen people had
crowded together to keep warm. You
see, in the famine districts, there being
neither wood nor coal, the only fuel is
straw. The dung OF the cattle is beaten
up with straw, dried and used as fuel.
Now, last year there was no harvest at
all, and consequently no straw. In
many parts not drop of rain fell from
May to September. The crops were all
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21

peat that language is too poor to de-
scribe the actual state of things"
Mr.. Brooks says in conclusion: Eng
land ought. without moments delay,
to raise ambition of money and send it
out to the famine districts. If this thing
is done; if we can succeed in bringing
help to these millions who are literally
dying of hunger. a bond will have been
formed between England and Russia
stronger than any that has existed be-
tween them for the last fifty years."
The Russian newspaper Nedelya
gives heartrending account of the
state of affairs in. the government of
Orenburg. 1t says: MANY peasants are
fOrsaking their farms so as not to see
their families die OF hunger. at the
farm gates groups OF squalid children
hang about to beg aims of the passerby.
On the roads one sees carloads OF fuel
which the famished village horse was
not able to drag any further. Else
where one comes across the carcasSeS
of horses dead from hunger. Fur
ther on YOU find the corpse of a child
which had not the strength to walk any
further. In one village many
of the houses are nailed up. Their oc-
cupants are dispersed in all directions.
Those who have remained behind have
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21

find wherever we visited that great
, deal of voluntary work was being done,
that committees were being formed in
| every town and group of villages, and
soup kitchens were being largely
| opened. The distribution of food i'm the
! form of soup once or twice day seems
! likely to be the most useful and prac-
tical method Of keeping the people alive
| during the next few months, as it has
| been proved this method on an extern
| sive scale can be worked by voluntary
| aid at the extremely small cost of about
| I'd per head per day."
| "In the government of Kostroma,"
| writes special correspondent of the
| chief agricultural journal in Russia. 81
was everywhere met by men, women
| and children looking haggard and wan.
their faces feshless and drawn, their
| eyes red. their clothing composed of
mere rags. and the lower parts of their
bodies swollen TO enormous dimensions.
The doctors of the district reported
hunger typhus. Specimens of the bread
consumed by these wretched people
whenever they have any to eat-were
forwarded to the Zemstvo, which estab-
lished the fact that it was made of oat-
meal mixed with tree bark and other
analogous Ingredients" The misery
suffered by peasant families is terrible.
Nv S0hiN wi tNoPOiiNOht tCllO VI q CdSO
where the father and mother were in
hospital with hunger typhus, while
their five children were left wholly
without supervision, shelter or
food. All classes are affected, from
the highest to the lowest. In Kazan,
among the INDECENT persons who re-
ceived tickets for free dinners during
one week were 146 noblemen and sew
enty-siX eeclasiastics. In many parts
OF Penza the peasants have seen moth
ing but the horrible compound known
as famine bread'' for months. Heart
rending stories are daily received from
hundreds of towns and villages in the
stricken area. The full extent of the
misery has, however, still to be ascer-
tanned. 1t is not unlikely that the fam
inc may result in political troubles.
The peasants have already organized
more than one pillaging expedition
against the wealthy farmers, while the
| inability of the government to offer
them effectual relief has caused much
dlsaffection. This lawless tendency is
being stimulated aud nursed by revolu-
tionary agitators, and there is every
prospect of serious trouble before the
next harvest brings relief.
But it is quite impossible i'm a single
article to give space to all the terrible
pictures of the misery. Let it suffice to
say that the Russian peasants are dying
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21
Dunning Letters That Came.

Dunning Letters That Came.
Philadelphia Record. go s9
The charming blonde who presides at
the registered letter window of the post
Office threw up her dainty hands
with surprise few days ago when a
gentleman walked up to the window,
and, upturning big grip, dumped its
contents before her. There were 40
letters to be registered. Such a task
had never before fallen to her lot. Her
appeal for help brought the chief of the
division, who provided help in the shape
of three assistants for her, and the pile
was soon disposed of. The man stood
by until the receipts were given him.
The fact is" he explained, II am
secretary of fashionable club, and it's
the most difficult matter in the world to
make them pay up, / send hundreds of
bills. and when l speak to members
about it. it's always the same story. Il
never got the bill. old fel; certainly Phi
pay up. just send me bill and I'll see
that you get IT. There are 40 delin-
quents in the club, and I'll be sure they
all get their bills this quarter"
The responses have already begun to
come in in a way that fortells the entire
success of the scheme.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21

steam whistles. AT last, we say, be-
cause for over two months the gener-
0Sty of the people has been thwarted
and nullified by the action of Demo-
cratic majority in congress, which is so
evidently out of touch with the broad
pulSations of the national spirit. Not
that Russia ever begged of us for money
or aid to meet the vastness of her fam
Inc. The gifts are the spontaneous
offering of the great Western heart, big
to overlooking in thankfulness for the
splendid harvest of the year that has
closed. Minnesota, Iowa. Indiana, Ne
braska-State after state fell into line
with contributions of grain. and then
congress was asked to provide for the
transportation of the grain to Russia.
The Democratic majority of congress,
TO its eternal disgrace. refused. Other
questions were wickedly mixed up in
that of the famine. The cable dis
patches, fed from polluted English
sources, told, indeed, that there was
famine in Russia that extended over a
third of the country, but of the vastness
of the distress, of the work of the dread
Scytheman. of the fading out of exist
ence of thousands upon thousands of
women and children and strong men, we
were told little or nothing. The &C
counts were all of the prosecutions of
the Hebrews, of the depleted state of
The cZar'S treasury. of the frauds perpe-
trated by the officials connected with
the famine relief, and of the callousness
of the Russian people in general to the
misery of their own people. England
has committed many sins against
humanity, but EngIlshmen have
never done greater iniquity
than in Withholding the truth
about the Russian famine. And We
well, we ale to blame for allowing our
selves to be fed and fooled with cable
pabulum from a tainted source. Only
the true American spirit of the West, of
the merchants of Philadelphia and New
York and of Miss Clara Barton, as rep
reSentatlve of the Red Cross society,
has saved Us from disgrace and in
gratitude and neglect of duty as human
itarlans.
Fortunately, the Society of Friends of
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An Erratic Genius.

Youths Companion.
Chopin's personal appearance was the
last thing to which he gave thought, and
yet the public" made certain demands
upon performer which he Reluctantly
conceded.
The way in which he reconciled his
Incidence i'll regard to one matter of his
toilet with his regard for the audience
he never failed to charm, he tells in a
letter sent to hisparents from Vienna in
1881. He says, in writing of some fam
lily friends:
when they saw me at Nine. Scha-
shek's their establishment knew no
bounds at my looking such proper
fellow. have left my whiskers only
on the right cheek. They grew very
we'll there, and there is really no occa-
sion to have them on my left cheek,
as | always sit with the right one to-
ward the audience!'