Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-06-24
Those N. r. Back Taxes.

EDITOR ALERT:-A0e0t t00 payment
Of railroad taxes, I wish to observe: 1t
10 strange government We live under
and strange people to allow such things
to take place. For years when farmer
came to North Dakota and bought land
Of the railroad company. - the writsf
did, the land while III possession of the
company paid no taxes on the grounds
that the railroad had not yet acquired
title from the government; yet they
would sell you land with what they
claimed was perfect title and no sooner
was the land owned BY private indivl-
dual than it was subject to state and
county tsxes-govsrnment title or not.
In other words the title was good
enough to tax when vested in the lndi.
vidusl but not good enough when IN
possession OF the railroad company.
Thousands Of acres Of land in this coun-
ty and elsewhere, was thus unjustly
taxed for many years to parties who held
these imperfect titles:
Later, when the railroad company had
disposed OF most Of their of land, and
had acquired an unquestioned title to
the remainder, they still refuse to pay
their taxes, which inger along under
various pretenees for eight or ten years,
the state in the meantime, in debt, the
farmer bearing annually his share Of the
burden OF government. through drouth
and all sorts Of misfortunee, and now we
are cOolly told the company will pay
twenty-6v per cent Of the sum due with.
out interest or penalties.
BY the same token the last legislature
said to the farmer who was one or two
years in arrears, pay up at once, the
state needs the money, no further delay
will be tolerated, these taxes are now
due, with penalties, and must be paid.
BY sll OF whlch it is easy to see that 1t
is better to be rich corporation than q
private citizen
Bismarck is pleased over the $500 raise
in the postmsster's salary. For the past
few years the business has been increas.
ing. Aeide from the work done in the
local Office, and that ls all the office IS
given credit for in the fixing of it's grade,
there are about ,torty-six star route
offices that get their mail through Bis
marck Office and all of the mail matter
for those offices has to be handled there.
This largely increases the work OF the
office, 60 that it is one Of the busiest in
the state.
Here is 9 diamond, here piece Of
charcoal. Both carbon; yet between
them stands the mightiest Of magiclans
Mature. The food on your table, and
your own body; elementally the same;
vet between the two stands the diRee tion,
the arbiter Of growth or decline, life or
death.
We cannot make diamond; we cannot
mske flesh, blood and bono. No. But
BY means OF the Shaker Digestive Cor
diral We can enable the stomach 10 di-
gest food which would otherwise Torment
and poison the system. In al forms OF
dyspepsia and incipient consumption,
With weakness, loss OF tlesh. thin blood.
nervous prostratlou the Cordial 10 the
successful remedy. Taken with food 1t
rolloyes at once IL pourlshes. and @.
sists nature 20 nourish. A trial bottle
enough 70 chow IL merlt-lO cents.
Laxol 10 tho hest medicine for children.
Doctors rsconmsnd It in place Of Castor
Oil.
Oats, barley and ground feed Tor sale.
J. a. Buchanan.