Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-10-31
STATE TOPICS.

STATE VO6lCS.
Lisbon voted for water works-only II
against it.
Forty head of stock were killed by Q
prairie fire near Dickinson.
The Washburp Leader enumerates
six pet deer in Mclean county.
Dawson is receiving wheat from
Logan, Mcintosh and Emmons counties.
Ex-Gov Burke is building fiat house
at Dlckey for the accommodation OF
farmers.
The subscription price of The Walsh
Counry Record has been reduced from
81 to $3.50.
The last issue Of tho LaMoure Chroni-
Gle 10 q hummer. Warren is . hustler
from way back.
Bishop Stanley dedicated the new
hospital st. Vincent de Paul at Devils
Lake this week.
Gov. Allin has appointed Private
Secretary Cochrsne one of the aid de-
camp on bis staff.
A number OF marriages are scheduled
to occur at Sheyenne in the near future,
says the Transcript.
The Valley City Alliance gives the
Normal send Oh in two page write
up-profusely illustrated.
A citizen of Wshpeton has invented
cactus burner which is said to be an i'm.
provement over all others.
The Grand Forks city council is in Q
razzle dazzle with the Great Northern
railroad over rates for water for loco
motives.
The quarterly statement of the JUS
tices Of the peace in Cass county show
a fees allowance to one constable of
s4399S. ...
| The Norwegian Lutheran church
building just completed at Abercrombie
is the finest ediice OF the kind in Rich
land county.
The A. o. q. W. at Cavalier is expect
ing visit from Grand Master Blewett
next month and is making preparations
to give him reception.
A special agent has been up in the
Turtle mountain country looking after
trespasses on the government lands in
the way Of cutting timber.
A Pembina county farmer is feeding
his 5000 bushels of potatoes to his $50
hogs and is not worrying himself about
the market price of tubers.
Andrew Sandager who. as state sena-
tor, introduced the lottery bill in the
first state legislature, has just been
elected president of the State Bank of
Lisbon.
A judgment of $26,54l.45 in favor of
the Harrington company was obtained
yesterday in the Grand Forks district
court against the North Dakota Milling
association.
The Grafton Record quotes Gov. Allln
as saying that he has no more idea of
running for senator than he has that
Carruth or Davis of the Plaindealer will
60 to heaven.
The case of sleeping with a stranger
and waking up in the morning and find
ing money and bed fellow gone is an
item which appears almost daily in the
Fargo papers.
The Milton Globe says the only rea-
son every person in Cavalier county does
not wear broadcloth and diamonds is be-
cause they do not get fair price for
their products.
A Northern Pacific adjuster has been
in K,dder and Logan counties looking
up losses oocasloned by an engine re-
Gently. The losses are quite numerous
though none individually large.
On the Goth of this month Fargo will
vote on the proposition to issue s3O,0OO
in six per cent bonds, portion of the
proceeds to be used in taking up old
bonds and balance for sewer extensions.
The Steele Ozone claims to have it
from private sources that exGov. Short
ridge Is soon to succeed Maj. Clapp as
Indian agent at Ft. Berthold, the latter
to be transferred to post in Nebraska.
Grafton has purchased and now. owns
its own electric light plant. The price
paid was $1,000 to be paid in $1,000
warrants annually, interest 7 per cent.
The dynamo and engine are new and
there is $500 worth of supplies on hand.
| The commissioners OF Burleigh county
have instructed the district attorney to
apply to the United States court for an
order compelling the receivers of the
Northern Pacific to pay taxes on It's
lands in that county for the years 1898
and 1894.
Harry Greene, who was employed to
watch threshing machine belonging to
Robert Cook OF Grafton, was terribly