Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-17
STATE TOPICS.

STATE TOPICS.
Bottlneau's county fair opens the
10Th.
A large wild cat was killed near
Crystal.
Dunkards in the vicinity of Hope are
buying farms.
Ardoch has $4,000 FIRE Friday-only
$1,000 insurance.
Rober. Ewing of Pembina, was killed
while watering bull.
The Congregational church at Willis.
ton burned. No insurance.
James Miller of Minto, had one eye
badly torn, accidentally, by pitchfork.
James Sperry Of Burle,eh county lost
thirty-four stacks of hay by prairie fire.
The State Teachers association will be
held in Grand Forks Dec. 26, q and %.
At recent special election Coopers-
town voted to build new school house.
The Fessenden News 10 bright and full
Of news and information about Wells
county.
The Dickey County Creamery asso-
clation at Glendale has paid dividend
to patrons.
A threshing machine and several hun
dred bushels of grain burned at Coggs
we'll. No insurance.
Rev. J. Fl. Baldwin of Tower City,
who is over eighty years of age, is learn
ing to ride bicycle.
Dentist Rawlings Of Bismarck set the
fractured jaw of tramp who came to
him with supposed aching. tooth.
Peter Fredericks of Dickinson is
bound to the district court in the sum
of $1,000 charged with cattle stealing.
Axel johnson, harvest hand was
cremated in q straw stack on the Nc
Mahon farm near Fargo. He was drunk
Fargo has a scrap on between the
draymen and the policemen as to the
right to stand teams in certain local
ity.
Wm. Locke, an old timer on the Ms
souri, slope, pulled shot gun out of q
wagon muzzle frst-and they buried
him.
Ex-Oficer Berg of Fargo's police has
been arrested for trying to work the
gateway citizens on bunco mining
scheme.
Fargo will vote next month on issuing
six per cent bonds to the amount OF
$4,000. The Commonwealth opposes
the proposition.
The citizens of Dickey raided it's blind
pigs and house was warned If irregu-
lar proceedings were seen legal investl-
CATION would follow.
The lady editor OF North Dakota ex-
change wants to know the difference
in the method of herding men by bosses
and cattle by cowboys
1t is now stated that the new codes
will be ready for the binder within 30
days and for the governors proclama-
tion about the holidays
Grain in Walsh and Pembina counties
will waste unless additional threshing
machines can be secured. Much shock
threshing yet remains to be done.
Miss Minnie Nillson, working tor
Attorney Libby;s family, Park River,
cut her throat with q carving knife.
Cause of attempted suicide not stated.
The largest yield OF wheat 80 far re-
ported in Ransom county is that of
James Conboy on the Sheyenne who
threshed 2lS2 bushels OF No. hard from
60 acres.
IA. May of Dickey, lost 1000 bushels
of grain, pasturage and fence posts in q
fire; second burned threshing ma
chine on his place, and a third fire the
same week destroyed header and stack
of b ay.
Rev. F. NJ. Wood, synodical missionary
and Rev. r. J. Cresswell of Rolla, were
cleared at the Presbyterian synod in ses-
sion at Fargo OF certain charges which
had been preferred against them. There
was a stormy fight.
Quite sensation was created in Kuhn
by Roadmsster O'Conner and gang Of
men who proceeded to demolish the
the storage house recently put up by
Johns & Mix. The building contained
considerable wheat and fax, which was
left lying on the floor, the rest of the
building beng entirely torn away. This
action on the part Of the railroad officials
was brought about by misunderstsnd-
ing, and theywill n axe restitution, it is
said.