Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-02-22
OF STATE INTEREST,
Cactus Legislation Materially
Assisted by Governor
ShOrtridge.
Teachers Attention Drawn to
Needed Moral and SAM
tary Reform.
Dull Times in and Around the
St. Paul HotelS.-Future
Horse Business,

Gov. Snortridge, who is in Washing.
ton In the interests Of cactus legislation,
had q hearing before the house commit
tee on agriculture. Saturday, the com
mittee having under consideration
Boens Russian thistle bill. The governor
detailed the history of the agitation in
North Dakota to suppress the thistle.
He told of several conventions held and
said the state would do all it could, but
| 1t needed help on account of the large
amount of government land and untax-
able railroad lands. He read letters
| from the governors of Minnesota, South
Dakota and Nebraska ndorsing the
moye.Dent. Gov. Shortridge made an
| excellent impression, says a Washington
| dispatch, by his evident sincerity and
| knowledge of the subject.
Mayor Buttz of Buttzyille, Ransom
| county, also spoke of the destruction
| wrought by the weed in the northwest
aud fully substantiated the statements
Of the governor. His personal expert
ences with the weed on his own farm
were also gwen.
Both congressman Boen and johnson
look for favorable report to the house
of the bill, thongh members of the com.
| mittee state that they find more in the
! measure than they expected and believe
that few changes will be necessary. It
| will probably be amended by reducing
the amount OF the appropriation and
providing that the money shall be ex-
pended only on the government land, as
Senator George, Of the senate committee
on agriculture. proposed weeks ago
The state pernteudent of public in
| struction has just issued manual Of the
elementary course of study for the
| common district schools Of the state and
in paragraph urgently calls the atten-
tion OF the teachers. to growing evil
that is abroad in the land-the filthy
and vile condition Of tho school out.
houses. The state superintendent says:
know OF and have made complaint Of
| school houses in this state where the
out houses were showed full in winter,
and too vile to enter in summer, leaving
the pupils without the proper means to
| obey the calls OF nature the whole day.
No wonder that their brains are inactive
their digestion impaired and their cir
culation sluggish. And not only are
they pest houses where disease ls germ-
mated, but they are immoral influences
| that burn and blacken the pure young
souls OF innocent childreo, and perretu-
ate and strengthen the evil in evil. This
is no place for false modesty to prevent
action. The law provides for these build
lngs, and 1t is your duty as teachers to
| see that the school where you teach has
comfortable and convenient buildings,
and that they are kept clean and free
from all kinds Of drawings and writings.
All over the land is going up cry
against these moral and physical abom-
nations. Let North Dakota lead the
van IN purging and purifying them, and
through them the health and morals OF
our children. This is call to duty.
request county superintendants in visit
ing schools in their counties to make in
spectlou, not only Of the outhouses, but
Of the school walls, and make note Of
their condition to use IN granting GER
titicates where the fault is the teachers
or reporting to the school boards for
| Improvement.
Banker Whipple OF Devils Lake, Is not
going to remain inactive IN the money
making line II wheat is only 40 cents a
bushel and little of it to be had at that
price. He is looking after the sale Of
North Dakota securities. county war
rants, ETC., for eastern money lenders
and says there will be no trouble in dis
posing OF every county warrant in the
state, with possibly the exception of one
county. that has exceeded it's debt limit,
at a good figure il the paper only ran
longer. Most OF it is short time and not
desirable on that account to the eastern
investor. Mr.. Whipple is learning to do
what his hands find to do and IN the past
year, or so, has disposed of a large num-
Der OF better grade OF horses to the
farmers around Devils Lake. He says
the horse importing business, however,
will not be as profitable again. rs nearly
every farmer has colt or two about
ready for the market, There have been
great many home bred colts raised In
North Dakota within the past two years.
A number Of experiments with the So
called Christian science treatment having