Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-05-21
STATE TOPICS.

Grand Forks intends to pave.
Larlmore's band has been reorganized.
Devils Lake ls sgitating the subject of
electric lights.
John Simmer of Meckinock committed
suicide by hanging.
The Larimore P,oneer got out good
immigration edition.
"Gllpin's X-Rays" is the name of
new paper at Hamilton.
1t Is said the waters OF Devils Lake
have risen twenty inches this spring.
Deputy Postmaster Jensen Of Harvey
found tarantula in bunch of bananas.
Geo. Rand, the Dickinson adulterer,
confessed and got four years in the pen.
The Methodist church people at Leeds
put in a crop of flax to pay off the church
debt.
MCKINLEY Bill" is the name of
small steamer that floats on Stump lake.
Nelson county.
A Page farmer ate wheat treated with
blue vitrol to kill smut-and regretted it.
He will probably recover.
A twelve year old boy at Hankinson
played with al empty gun-the funeral
occurred the following day.
Tho Northern Pacific puts in 500 It.
OF extra track at the Steele stock yards
to accommodate increasing shipments.
"Sagebrush," or Nels Larson, was too
handy with horse branding iron and
now boards with the Mclean county
sheriff.
The steamer Rosebud sunk in the Mis-
souri, at Bismarck-a total wreck. Loss
$1,000 though the original cost of the
boat was S20,O0O
Section Foreman Anderson used re-
volver to prevent tramps running OF
with his hand car. He overlook them
after two mile chase on horseback.
A rainfall of five inches in one day is
reported from Mayvllle. The park lake
rose about seven inches during the
night, lacking but three inches of reach
ing the level Of the overflow.
Devils Lake City has been sued for
$4,000 by Conductor Carnathan of the
Great Northern. Two weeks ago bis
little daughter fell into public artesian
water trough and was drowned.
Miss Florence Krusel of Tower City
was attacked by VICIOUS bull She
was thrown from the horse and severely
but not fatally bruised and lacerated
about the head, shoulders and legs.
1t is stated that Washington paper
publishes delinquent tax list of 1O2
columns each % inches long. The tsx
lists IN North Dakota are getting shorter
each year and page of tax list even in
the largest counties IS a novelty.
Mrs. Lucinda Wadsworth, informed
against for the alleged murder of Ed
Severson at Medora in December '94 has
been discharged. Her husband. Marcus,
was tried and acquitted Fred Roehm,
who fred the fatal shot, is now serving
four year tern in the Plankinton re.
form school.
The United States fish commissioner
has sent, on the application Of Commits
sioner Barrett, more fish for propagation
in Devils Lake. They arrived Friday
10000 lake trout fry-and we're placed at
once in the lake. The fish were IN first
class order, sent from the USited States
fish station at Duluth.
Lake Irvine, north of Churchs Ferry,
according to the Sun, has raised over
four feet this spring and is about to
overflow into the Big coulee. This
coulee is the main feeder IF Devils Lake,
draining nearly all of the country be-
tween Rolla and Langdon. One year
this lake bed was seeded without plow-
lug to barley. two car loads of seed used,
and a large crop harvested.
The third annual convention of the
Tenth District Union of Allied Printing
Trades Will be held in Fargo, June 8,
The organization is chartered by the
International Typographical Union to
establish and maintain true and per-
feet system in the organization of the
craft throughout this district, and to
defend the rights aud advance the inter
ests of it's members. June ii is special
visitors day.