Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-06-20
STATE TOPICS.

Cooperstown is putting in cement SIDE
walks.
The State Medical association is in
session at Fargo.
Gov. Allin and staff paraded with the
firemen at the tournament in Fargo.
The bearing Of the motion for new
trial of Kent, Of Mandan, occurs July 9.
The D6 convention of North Dakota
Epworth Leagues will be held in Valley
City.
The work of building the telephone
line between Fargo and Grand Forks
has begun.
Many OF the cities, towns and villages
in the state are gong to have rousing
celebrations July 4th.
Andrews & Gage have leased the
Northern Pacific elevator system in Min.
nesota and North Dakota for term of
years.
Wellss county is about to erect a
$1,000 court house at Fessenden, the 500
line HAVING donated site 200 feet
square,.
Ellendale's creamery is doing q -four
ishing business. Eleven thousand
pounds Of milk we're taken in Monday,
the product of 300 COWS.
The J. E. Phelan- Carnahan sheep at
Dickinson, $500, purchased in Washing
ton this season, are shearing on an aver
age IA pounds to the fleece The aver
age price paid for wool is nine cents per
pound.
Colored soldiers at Ft. Buford got into
"scrap" with the result that one now
lies at the point of death with bullet
wound in the back of his mead His
would be- murderer is chained in the
guard house.
A change has been made in the date
and place of holding the seventh annual
meeting Of the North Dakota Press
association. It will be held at the
Chautanqua grounds, Devils Lake,
Tuesday, July 10th, instead of at Fargo
June 18th, as announced. Some inter-
esting papers are being prepared, and
the meeting promises to be an important
one to the fraternity.
While Hans P. Sorenson, section fore
man at Iugby junction, was going from
Rugby the hand car with his crew
they came in collision with a freight.
It was SO foggy they could not see the
tram. The Grew jumped and saved
themselves but Mr.. Sorenson, who tried
to throw off the car, was killed He
had only been there six weeks and leaves
wife and five children.
A summer school will be held at the
state y. at Grand Forks, from July 22nd
to Aug. 17th. Courses of II lessons will
be offered in the common school
branches; other courses are also offered
The trustees have granted the use of
the buildings. library, laboratories and
apparatus to the teachers in attendance
free OF charge. President Merrifeld is
manager.
Warden Wilson of the state penlten-
tiary is contemplating constructing a
driveway from Bismarck to the peniten-
tiary. The road will be bordeced by two
lines of trees. The work will be done
by the convicts and give them needed
employment. At the last session of the
legislature law was passed authorizing
the trustees of the penltentiary to en-
ploy convict labor, and not to exceed
$1,000 out Of any money received from
contracts for convict labor now in force,
to improve by macadamizing or other
wise, any Of the roads or approaches to
the state capitol or penltentiary Some
work of this nature has already been
done at the capitol, and the direct ap-
proach to that building has been hanked
on either side with rows of trees, and by
plats of grass along the driveway.