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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-08-31
GOHGECUSLY DECORATED.

Indianapolis Ready to Welcome the
G. \. Il. Veterans.
INDIANAPoL1s, Aug. 3O-Four days
before the great naval parade, preced-
ing G. A. r. encamplnent week, the
city bears decidedly patriotic aspect.
The closing up of the gaps has COM
menced, and little now remains to be
done preparatory to welcoming the
veterans Of the late war. Many decora-
tions have already been put into place
both on residence and business streets.
Many Of these are of very elaborate
and beautiful design. Heroic sizsd
equestrian pictures of famous generals
are to be seen, while some of the war
scenes take the form of transparencies,
and at night
Will Be Illuminated.
Large forces of men have been re-
pairing the asphalt thoroughfares along
the line of march, filing up the little
holes, smoothing over the rough places
and removing all curb distractions.
The immense reviewing stand on Wash
ington street, extending from Delaware
to Alabama street. is nearly completed.
This structure occupies all of Court
House square and will have seating
capacity of nearly 10000 people. It is
built in the form of an ampitheater,
and tickets will be sold to its fullest
capacity. The executive board expects
to derive sum from this piece of
enterprise that will aid materially in
defrayiug the weeks expenses The
lines Of march for the
Three Great Parales,
namely, naval on Monday, G. A r. on
Tuesday and war pageant on Thurs
day, have all been selected, and the
parade committees are now devoting
most of their time to the placing of
new applications The great soldiers
monument on Monument square will
be one of the many attractions to visit
ors. Miss Indiana. in bronze, has been
elevated to the top, distance of
800 feet. The scafolding has been re-
moved from about her and she will be
ready to greet the old soldiers from
every quarter. Decorations on Monu-
ment square were commenced several
days ago. Massive columns have been
placed at regular distances around the
entire circle. These will be covered
with vari-colored bunting and flags
and each column will represent an
army corps. The shaft will he covered
with electric lights and search light
will be placed on top of the crowning
figure. The effect of this electrical dis
play will be dazzling and beautiful.
Quite number of veterans are al
ready here, many of them being dele
gates who have preceded their posts to
prepare quarters for those bodies on
their arrival.
Adams of Massachusetts and Hurst
of Ohio are thus far most talked of
locally for commander chief. Many
other candidates, however, are expected
to enter the race. It is also said by
many of the advance forces that good
portion of the business and executive
meetings will be given over to the dis
cussion of the much agitated pension
question.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-08-31
Prisoners Escape.

Twelve Of the twenty-five convicts en-
gagged in the brickyard adjoining Bis
marck made break for liberty Mon
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-08-31
Train Robbers 60 Through
Passenger Train No. 4
in Montana.
Green Hands at the Business
Total Loss Not Thought
Large. +,
Interesting Information in Re-
gard to Frosts in This
State.

couple OF miles west OF Merrill, Mon.
tana, 80 miles west of Billings, and the
passengers relieved Of their valusbles..
There were Eve men IN the gang and
apparently fresh in the business as they
secured but q email amount Of money,
from tho express car. The passengers
lost gol1 watches and small amounts Of
money. The train was held an hour.
The story a. told by the passengers on
the train sunday night il, that about 9:l5
p. M, ct . point about midway between
Merrill and Rsedpoint quarry tho train
was suddsnly pulled mp By the robbers.
who had boarded the train at some point
west Shots we're fred along the sides
OF the cars and through the windows Of
one or two coaches as warning and the
fireman and engineer captured. AZ the
train slowed up the express messenger
stuck his head out OF the car to see
what was the matter and was warned by
q shot to keep in, which he did. Going
to the safe he pulled out about 5000 in
paper and coin, threw it in corner and
tossed mail sack over it. When the
car was entered by the robbers but $50
was secured in the safe. No effort was
made to harm passengers and ladies
were unmolested. For some time the
passengers would not believe that q
genuine hold up was in progress, but the
appearance Of the engineer, fireman and
express messenger marching up the isle of
a coach covered by revolvers and gruff
request by their captors to the passen
gers to "dig up dlspelled all doubts.
An ordinary grain sack was used to hold
the ''swag." In this recepticle was de-
posted what gold watches they could
secure-silv watches were not taken
and valuables Of miscellaneous char
acter. The conductor Of the train was
relieved of his chronometer. A travelling
man carrying bigroll Of billie, hid them
on bin person, leaving pocket book
containing S25 dollars IN his vest pocket.
Tho e25 and his watch were taken and no
further search made BY the gang who
did not make systematic search. One
passenger said last night that it was
worth IS to see the way and the expe-
dition With which some people hld their
valuables. Every Car in the train was
gone through and at the end Of an hours
search it was suggested by the gang that
the process be repeated as the haul was
unsatisfactory. The arrival of q freight
train at this juncture scared them of
and they took for the hills. The total
lossof money and valuables is not thought
to oe very extensive. The Yellowstone
county sheriff, it is reported, was on the
train but succumbed to the gaze Of six
shooter. At Saltwater q posse was
organized, got an early start and hoped
to bag the entire outfit.
The place where the hold up occurred
is very favorable to such operations az it
is all but impossible to capture the
thieves after they get five miles back
from the river. The surrounding coun-
try is broken, rough and sparsely IN
habited.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-08-31

The mother Of Mrs. E. NJ. Chase il
reported quite i'll.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-08-31
STATE BOARD OF AUDITORS.
Money Allotted to Banks for
Deposit.

Saturday at Bismarck and continued the
investigation Of the bonds OF the banks
bidding for state funds under the new
law providing for the designation OF state
repositories. The following banks have
been designated as repositories
for amounts as indicated. The bonds
are subject to the approval of the COVER
nor:
Merchants National Bank, Devils
Lake ...............$ 5,OOO
State Bank, Page. ge................ 5000
First National Bank, Grafton. $4,000
Farmers State Bank, st. Thomas 5000
First National Bank, Drayton.. 5000
Union National Bank, Grand
Forks Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Cummings State Bank, Cum nings 5000
Park River Bank, Park River. 5000
First National Bank, Dickinson. 10000
Peoples Bank. Wahpeton. ....... 1000
Forks. ............ 10000
Citizens National Bank, Wahpeton 5000
Stale Bank. Lisbon on........ 10000
North Dakota Bank, Churches
First National Bank, Mayvilie..:. 1000
NVaVo O0uA VI HuS0AOy1 HO8oAcy CsOOO
State Bank OF Hunter, Hunter. 1900
A dozen other banks have been agreed
upon when they shall have presented
proper and sufficient bonds to the board.
In some instances no bond whatever &C.
companied the bid and in other cases
the bonds are irregular or insufficient
The state treasurer will ask that the
supreme court pass upon the constitu-
tionality of the act creating the board of
state auditors. The question of phrase
ology of the law will doubtless be raised,
and the state treasurer will or may hold
that the state board simply designates
the repositories in which the treasurer
may deposit certain sums, leaving the
treasurer the option of selecting all or
only portion Of them for that purpose.
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my remark. could have gone on my
knees to ask her pardon if | had only
known in what words to phrase the en-
treaty. The scene was 50 embarrassing
that / cut it short by pressing the coin
into her hand and telling her that we
would make it all right if she would
come for more work on Monday. Very
likely she would have said something in
reply, but not feeling inclined to test
my conversational powers further, after
such an unlucky beginning, | hastily
babe her good night and opened the
door.
When her back was fairly turned |
took my candle and held it at the stair
head till she bad reached the bottom of
the last long flight, and then going back
to my armchair wondered what Mrs.
Quidan would say to cold Sunday din
ner.
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had conceived hope while telling
the story of interesting Mr.. Flourish
sufficiently in the case to induce him to
undertake the management of the de-
Tense. For that task | felt myself dis
qualified by other causes beside my want
of experience in criminal law. | was
liable to be called as a witness for the
prosecution and was a most important
one for the defense, and above all | felt
that my own personal sympathies were
too strongly excited for the prisoner to
manage tho affair with requisite cool
ness and skill. Flourish, however. who
saw in the case nothing but a very COM
monplace incident of criminal practice,
was not easily to be persuaded. The
sensibilities of an elderly lawyer in
large practice lie very far down and are
covered by thick rind of worldly wis
dom.
Consider, my dear sir said he,
chow many cases Of this kind are oc-
curing every day, and how precious
my time is to me. Pom my word, my
clients would be in pretty mess if
spent my time on petty affairs like this"
Guy h4ldll W NNll, MI Il lOuIlSL, 1
know, but not to that young girl, the
fate Of whose whole life here, and per-
haps hereafter, hangs on that trial. One
hour of such assistance as yours may
save her"
Really, Quidam"-
'lf such fee as could offer ont of
my own pocket would tempt you'--
1T would tempt me, sir, if you offered
it. 1t would tempt me to kick you out
of your own Office, and then go home,
feeling that | had broken friendship
with the softest hearted, simplest headed
fool at the bar. Why, man, you would
turn the whole fraternity into gang of
knights erant, roaming up and down
Wall street seeking to set this crooked
world straight again"
And SO they ought to be, Mr.. Flour
ish"
Hum! can't say I'm ready to give
an opinion ON that matter. But the girl,
| see, is fairly on my hands. I'll just
step down and tell my young men to put
one or two things off till next day and
come back to go over the case again with
YOU"
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CIIAPTER Ill

The course Of retributive Justice a.
administered here on earth has more
different PAGES than Rosalind has attrib
uted to time, but those with whom il
lass withal' are not often the poor and
friendless. A few days only elapsed
before | was summoned as a witness tc
attend the trial Of Alice Sumner. Ii
the meantime both Mr.. Bullion and
myself made great but fruitless efforts
to obtain further insight into the true
facts of the case.
The prisoner herself made no coufes
sion, but constantly asserted her limo.
cence, to the great discontinue of the
broker and the unutterable perplexity
Of myself. sought in vain for a flaw
III the chain Of evidence against her OF
Il chance to establish her innocence by
other facts Even the general testimony
of good character-the last frail reed on
which she leaued-seemed TO bend oe-
meath her. She and her mother had but
lately come to the city, and to all our in
Quiries as to their former home and
friends we received only courteous but
evasive answers. 1t was evident that
some dark cloud Of sorrow, if not of
crime, hung over their past history, and
this, while it did not diminish the in
tere,t | felt in her. sadly weak ened my
confidence in her defense.
1t was the day before the trial. and
sat Ill my Office musing painfully on the
dark feature Of the case, when "A stranger
entered. The first glance assured me
that lie was one Of class of clients with
which most of our city lawyers are ia
miliar, \ secdy, decrepit old man,
humble yet querulous, detected and yet
visionary, bearing about tattered and
worn collection Of papers and pitifully
urging his tale of wrong and suffering
from which the patient listener CLEANS
at the same time a belief that the sad
tale is true and melancholy conviction
that knavery has 50 cunpingly hidden
or time 50 long Obliterated the evidences
Of the wrong that no court save that Of
the Omuiscient can ever set it right.
turned from the man more pettishly
than ! should have done but for the sub.
1ect that engrOssed my thoughts. The
poor old mans spirits were too much
broken TO take otlense at my rudeness
BeseechiLgly he added;
Il did not mean to give You trouble
for nothing, sir, | have but little TO
offer You now, but will pay you liber-
ally when | gain my case. You shall
have-you see mean to be generous
let me see-I cannot recover less than
twenty thousand dollars-itm may be thjr.
ty, or even torty-and you shall have
quarter of it all, Think of that, sir!
Ten thousand dollars for one easel
And my client threw himself back in
his chair feeling for the thoussndth
time, poor fellow, that his troubles were
almost over and the phantom in pur-
suit Of which his life had been wasted
al least within his grasp. But / had
had many such clients before, and when
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wsd very young at the bar had be
dazzled more than once in the same way
Glow much can you afford me as /
retainer
Now He seemed to be engaged il
an abstruse calculation as if over the
resources of nation. "Ten thousand
dollars when the case is finished, say sia
months or a year hence. Suppose we say
hve dollars, sir, on account"
There was something so painfully eager
in the look that accompanied these words
that | suppressed the smile which had
been prompted by the pathos in his Offer
ana signlfied my acceptance. My client
drew from his pocket lank purse, and
from the purse solitary coin. Poor
dreamer, he was paying his all for this
one more ticket in the lottery
L had opened my lips to bid him leave
his papers and take back the coin when
my eye fell on it. One scrutinizing
glance, and jumped from my seat as if
electrified by the little piece of gold.
"Where did you get this money, sir?'
A transient CLEAN of former fire shon.
in the old mans eye.
81 do not see, sir what that has to dc
with my case
by heavens!" | shouted, collaring the
old man and fairly lifting him out OF
his seat, 'if you do not tell me this il
stant"-
just at this moment my office doc,
opened to admit my learned and eloquent
friend Flourish. What that eminent
.n sal =.
care to guess. The personal appearance
of my client was not suggestive Of anv
temptation to a felonious assault, nor
did his manner indicate any provocation
which could have called for chastise
lnent; and these two suppositions being
impossible, Mr. Flourish stared with I'M
disguised amazement at my unprofes-
sional conduct. His presence brought
me to myself, and with many apologies
explained that this coin, which, as my
hearers would notice, was peculiarly
marked, had formerly been in my pos
session, and that | was anxious, for par
tlcular reasons, to trace its subsequent
history.
The old man hesitated and stammered
and cast SO many side chances at the
door that | began to think we had fallen
upon one Of the chief conspirators. Here
Mr.. Flourish came to my assistance
with his flandest smile and most mel
lifluous tone, and in five minutes had
drawn from my client all that he knew
about it. Assuring myself that he would
attend and testify to the same facts on
the following day l dismissed him. and
then rapidly recounted to Flourish the
facts of the case. The hard old lawyer
listened complacently, and when had
finished dryly expressed an opinion that
the young woman should be acquitted.
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the girl should be detained and no time
lost in extracting from her onfession
rs to the persons whose tool she undoubt-
tdly was We accordingly repaired to-
gcther to my Office, where we found her
patiently waiting. I'm answer to nv
questions she repeated her story with
much apparent frankness, until asked
the name of the person to whom she had
offered the coin. After some hesitation
she named q very respectable pawn.
broker in C street, to whom, as well
as to the police Office, messenger was
Immediately dispatched.
Mr.. Forceps soon came, and we re-
reived him in another apartment His
answers to the inquiries we made com
pletely confirmed our suspicious. Such
Il coin as we showed him (the counter
feit had been offered to him on the pre-
eious Saturday night by young wom-
m and on being confronted with our
1risoner-for such we now considered
her-he at once recognized her as the
same. Her own frightened, pallid face
would have satisfied us Of tho fact.
Half rising. as if TO speak, she caught
sight of police officer just entering the
door, and she tainted.
| went home that night i'll pleased
with my days work. That the girl was
guilty seemed but too clear. But |
could not believe that she was anything
more than an instrument, and my ex-
perience in criminal law, slight as it
was, taught me how slender the chances
were of arresting the guilty parties.
Had we obtained u confession before
she tainted something might have been
done but now the matter had gone into
the hands of the police such shrewd
Iascals as they evidently were would
pretty surely get wind OF it in time to
escape.
and SO the whole upshot of the mat
ter" said l. to myself, "will be the ruin
of the young woman and an article in
tomorrows paper, which, for the effect
it will have, might as well be inserted
under the head personal" and read
thus:
eff the gentlemen who have been in
the habit Of employing young person
in faded mourning to disseminate falla-
cious half eagles in this community do
not find it convenient to remove their
business for the present to some other
place they will incur the danger of being
involved in the unfortunate disaster
which has befallen her"
"And this, Mr.. Leguleius Quidam,"
concluded, lis the great service to the
community which You and Mrs. Quidam
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CHAPTER ".

| was busy with the police authorities
that evening and had no time to com
municate with Alice, but the next morn
ing when saw her brought into court,
looking 50 broken hearted and helpless
! blamed myself for having left her thus
TO drink the cup of bitterness to the very
dregs. In few whispered words | babe
her be OF good cheer, but she scarcely
seemed to heed me at all, so oppressed
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off that rascally boy of mine has not
made good fire, said to myself as l
walked down town the Monday morn
ing following, Il shall certainly give
him the thrashing in which have stood
indebted to him so long"
From this novel species of accord and
satisfaction, however, the much-thereof-
deserving youth was saved by IN unex-
pected incident. Seated by the Cheer
less and neglected CRATE as entered
beheld my visitor of the preceding Sat
urday night. Her pale, sad face was
even paler and sadder than before, and
| thought there We're tears in her eyes
and traces Of many that had preceded
them. But perhaps this was owing TO
the smoke now pouring from the mass
Of paper and wet wood with which Tom,
as usual, greeted my arrival.
IL am sorry to tell you, sir" she said,
after answering my salutation, that
the coin you gave me was bad one"
\ bad one-ny beautiful half eagle a
counterfeit! In what of earth can con
iidence then be placed? | took it in my
hand it certainly had every appearance
Of being genuine.
positively, you must be mistaken
my dear. | could not be deceived so
easily" And feeling that | undoubtedly
appeared to her as a gentleman. whom
the daily inspection Of unlimited gold
coin had made a perfect Sir Oracle upon
the subject, drew myself up before the
fire
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As who should say.
Let no dog bark"
Her lip 1uivered as she replied:

Her lip quivered as she replied;
Indeed sir, | am very, very sorry
but it must be so, for-for you know
had no other but that"
and pray how did you learn it to be
counterfeitt'
when left here, sir, went directly
up to-to place where some of oul
things We're; | went to pay the little
sum we had borrowed ON them wher
my mother was taken sick, and the man
took the half eagle and said it was g
counterfeit and gave it back TO me-
Nonsense, child, the man was mis-
taken"
She did not argue the point, but made
a brief apology for the trouble she had
given me, and hesitated.
Il trust said |, still somewhat gran.
eloquent and coudescending, as man
whose resources have unjustly been sus
pected, that the fellows stupidity ha.
caused you no Inconvenience
y bright hectio flush crossed her pale
cheek as an instructive denial rose to her
lips, Farther than that the falsehood
could not come; her head sunk between
her hands, and the poor girl, weak and
cold and starving, as | afterward knew,
sobbed violently.
Little by little | learned her sad story.
1t need not be repeated here; 1t lacks.
alas, the charm of novelty. Years of
still deepening poverty, and yesterday,
when Mrs. Quidam and l were grum.
bling at our leg Of cold mutton this pool
child and her sick mother passed the
long cold day without food or fire. even
the warm clothes and bedding, which
this money was to have redeemed from
the paWnbroker's, denied to their shiv.
ering limbs
| put on my hat and stepped over to
Billions TO get change for the half
eagle. The clerk threw it carelesslv on
a balance, and had already handed lue
the change, when he saw that the deli
cate arm after vibrating d little did not
decline with the weight. He took it M
and handed it to the head of the firm,
and after short consultation between
them | was asked into the inner Office.
y chemical test soon proved the worth
less character of the coin. Bullion asked
me if knew where had received it.
"Certaiuly,"
Il have seen two or three of late pre-
risely like it. The counterfeit is a
deXtrOu' one, and we have in vain tried
TO trace its origin. If you can assist rs
in this it will be IA great service to the
community"
took Up the deceptive coin and scru-
tinted it curiously. The workmanship
was perfect; the thought at once flashed
across my mind, too perfect; where was
the knife mark myself had made?
could not be deceived--tho coin had
certainly been changed, And this was
the end of all my fine sentiment about
the interesting young girl!
In few words l communicated the
circumstances connected with it to Mr..
Bullion, who jumped at once to the con-
clusion.
II thought So" said he, Il thought
so! knew that some fresh ana uusus-
pected parties must be made Use of in
this business The old hands we know
too web, he added with chuckle.
1t was soon agreed between us that
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She stood on the other side Of the tire
place.
The scarlet blood rushed TO her face
as she shook her head, and mine was
already on its way there, when | tried
to mend the matter by hurlylng out.
mo, no, Of course You haven't"
And there | stuck, and if ever u
middle aged counselor atlaw felt like a
fool in his own Office did,
Her eyes were filled with tears nj
what must have seemed the rudeness.of