Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-01-28
North Dakota News Notes.
A new bank has bcen opened at Ellen

"A new Dank mas Dcen opened at Ellen
dale.
@. e. johnson of the Lisbon Star, was
married last week to Miss LILLIAN Stuart
OF Champion, New York.
The Bismarck Tribune reports quite a
number of the inmates Of the peniten
tlary suffering with the lagrippa.
Williston is to have new hall this
spring, the Odd Fellows having arranged
to expend $1,000 for that purpose.
ANelson county farmer says that uone
of his chickens have froze to death, but
that some of them have died from cold
feet.
Stock is reported to be wintering we'll
on the ranches in Mercer and Mclean
counties, and the cattle are said to be in
prime condition.
The Estate Bank of Morton county"
opened its doors at Mandan Monday.
w. A. Lanterman is president and
G. A. Kinney, cashier.
st. Thomas is to have school library.
The citizens of the town have subscribed
$4OO towards purchasing books, and the
school board will furnish proper cases.
The Grand Forks News says Grand
Secretary Purcell has received an appli-
cation for charter for an Odd Fellows
lodge at Cooperstown. to begin with
fourteen charter members.
Mollie Gunderson, the little girl who
had both her feet cut of by locomotive
at Mandan last summer, and who has
been in the railroad hospital at Brainerd
since the accident, has returned home.
The assignee of the Formers and
Merchants State bank at Glendale,
made the first accounting to the depoei-
tors yesterday. The depositors get 25
per cent of the original deposits aad
seven per cent interest.
A merchant in one of the smaller
towns in the northern part Of the state
was robbed in st. Paul, Thursday, by Il
hackman who got over 500 in cash from
the unxary visitor. The victim was cele-
brating q recovery from the grip, and
was "rolled" in covered hack.
Register Creel, Of Ramsey county,
states that 561 chattel mortgages have
been released of record between Sept. 8,
1891, and Jan. 18. It the mortgages
averaged $3.50 each, which is believed to
be about the proper average, the de-
crease of debts amounts to about $85,OOO.
During the first hard storm of the
winter which occurred in the early part
Of November, a large herd Of cattle in the
Mouse river country became stampeded,
and some 40 head ran into lake. They
mired in the mud and water, and now
the carcases Of all can be seen about
two-thirds the way across the lake. The
cattle followed each other into the water
IN narrow track, and were 60 badly
frightened by the storm that nothing
could turn them aside. Stock men will
have to wait until the ice thaws IN order
to tell whose stock has perished, as the
cattle in most cases have only their
heads above the ice.
Referring to the delay in bringing
Chilcott, the man indicted for selling
whiskey at the militia encampment at
Devils Lake last summer, to trial,
the Grand Forks News Gays:
''The question arises naturally, Why is
Chilcott not to be tried? The grand jury
found bill. This Is an alleged prohibi-
tion state in which the following good
prohibition oracles say ''prohibltion pro-
hibits:" The jamestown Capital, Grand
Forks Herald, Fargo Republican, Fargo
Argus and q few others. Now,
If there is any law for Chllcott's
case, why not try it on? Is it because
the evidence would disclose what state
officials and military diRnitaries drank
the whiskey, brandy, etc., for the sale Of
which Chilcott is to be punished? The
News don't believe that ChilGott in sell
ing was one whit worse than certain
members of the governors staff, in
drinking. But, let the law be enforced. -