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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
Times ir New Hampshire.

Times ii. New HAMPSHIRE.
Jerry Collins Of this county recent
ly received letter from lifelong friend
in Westmoreland. New Hampshire.
This letter is of interest % it regards
farming conditions and times IN New
England. The writer ssys:
I'VE have completed our sugarlng. It
has been an unprecedented good year
for this industry. We are busy now
with our spring work. The river will
hardly reach its banks this year and the
winter has been mild yet with enough
sleddlnR.
1--WE are despondent over no markets
end ruinously low prices. There is
nothing more grown on the farm that
will sell but milk and this goes to Bos-
ton. It SCENE strange that the Boston
ian should collect his milk here and for
fifty miles north of here. Such is the
fact Hard times have not hindered
Boston's growth.
'Great problems are before us for 90.
luton: Mckinley is hardly allowed to
make his bow before elections seem con-
demnatory. The American public is
very tickle in these times and STRAW
will turn the current first this way aud
then that. I am not in favor of pro-
tective tariff laws that exclude the farm
ers' interests. The trouble With farming
ls that farmers will not organize. With
out organz!ation there is no protection
or safety. Tariff laws will help but can
not affect the main trouble. We have
grange organizations here that aro num-
erous; 10000 members IN New Hsmp-
shire alone, and yet as member 1
frankly say that the grange falls short
OF the mark as weighed by my own
ideal.
"Savings banks here are having hard
time, as many have suspended and de-
posltors' loss will be great. Western
investments have been their ruin. placed
without judgment by cut -throsts. We
have many old, feeble folks. especially
women, dependent upon their dividends
from savings, who are compelled to get
along without them. l know of one man
who once owned farm who has $4,000,
all be has In The world, in different
suspended savings banks.
"Our finances need correcting and re-
forming. Money gluts New York, Chica-
go, St. Louis and San Francisco banks,
and the rural district have no safe place
for the people to deposit their funds
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06

out what the line would be extended,
within short time, from Valley City, it's
present western terminus in this state
to jamestown. The board OF trade
ought to act on the matter at once as
the long distance phone connecting us
with North and South Dakota towns,
the Twin Cities and hundreds OF other
points would be q good thing for this
city. jamestown can't afford to be
behind the times.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06

Seeding Progressing FavOrably.
The state crop service bulletins farm.
ing operations in the state as follows, for
the week ending May 81
/ Although the first part Of the week
IVES unusually cold and in many places
tho ground froze. yet 1t was excellent for
farm work, 40 the latter part was warm
and pleasant and wheat seeding has pro-
atessed rapidly. A very fair estimate
shows that nearly one-h half OF the wheat
hes been sown and 10 many places that
first sown is up, and was not damaged
any by frosts. High winds prevailed
most Of tie week and IN some sections did
. little damage by blowing the seed out
Of the ground. but as general thing the
soil is 90 we'll saturated with moisture
that this was only possible on high,
sandy ground. The high winds were Of
great benefit in drying out the low lands,
and at the present time. except in the
immediate vicinity OF the rivers where
the bottoms have been overhowed, most
OF the low lands will be in condition to
be worked the last OF this week. All re.
ports agree that the ground was never in
better condition than now.
f Plngree-Past week cool and windy
Seeding is about one half done.
Kensal-Seeding In full blast; weather
too cold for anything to grow.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
STATE NEWS,

The new wolf bounty law IS having
effect. In Billings county in one day
certificates were issued for the bounty
on seventy prairie wolf scalps and on an.
other day for the scalps Of forty two
gray wolves.
G.. A. Birdseye, one OF the largest
farmers in Dickey county, lost his entire
last years crop of grain by prairie fire.
The grain was still in the stack, he being
unable to get it threshed on account of
the early winter.
Rev. Van Ornum of Cakes disappeared
Wednesday. His coat and vest were
discoverd on the shore of Bear creek
and his body found at the Northern Pa
clic railroad bridge. He leaves wife
and three small children
Chas. Richardson, formerly editor of
the Valley City Times, has published
story of his personal experiences in the
war under the title of "a Story of
Private" He was confined year and
half in southern prisons.
E. 9. Tourtlelott, receiver of the Grand
Forks National bank, married his old
Chicago typewriter this week. He re-
Gently secured divorce from his wife in
Illinois. They had five children und
the property interests we're adjusted
amicably.
A gang working with the gravel train
on the Fargo Il Southwestern at Lisbon.
struck for higher wages Tuesday. They
we're getting ST. 25 and wanted $3.50,
which was refused. Some returned to
work, but the most OF the strikers are
still dissatisfied.
The Washburn Leader tells of three
persons up the river who caught num-
ber OF deer on an ice foe and knocked
seventeen Of them in the head and cut
their throats, leaving their bodies where
they fell as the flesh was unfit for food.
The killing was done out OF pure cussed-
ness.
A torpid liver means bad complex
ion. bad breath, indigestion and fre-
quent headaches. To avoid such COM
psnons take DeWltt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills. u. Bald
win.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06

with more patients to warm, in about
the same climate, can be run on $1,000
less for fuel than the jamestown asylum
for the same length OF time or, that the
figures which Gov. Lee based his veto
on must be way out of reasonable cost.
The plan Of heating detached buildings
here may or may not require more fuel
than in South Dakota, but outside of
that, it is stated that the Yank-
ton contractors can make S2,5OO or
$4,000 on $4,000 appropriation.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
An Insane Man at Montpelier.

The residents OF Montpelier and vicln.
ity have been troubled for several days
by an insane man who has been wander
ing about at will. He is tall, heavy
set laboring man, carries guilt, wears
two overcoats and fears reincarceration
in the asylum where he was once, be SAID.
He was at Montpelier Tuesday and then
went east to the farm Of Henry Manns,
four miles distant, where he alarmed the
women by his actions. He sat down at
the supper table, while the women
waited fearfully outside, and ate eight
eggs, some with the peel and some
without. Afterward he poured syrup
on the shells and ate them. He poured
little sugar into cup OF bot water ard
said be could make the finest alcohol out
that way. The man was captured and
taken TO Montpelier where he was kept
in the depot over night, intending to
bring him to jamestown on the train.
But his captors oversight and the next
morning he was released. The last re-
ported OF him he gong south Friday
morning. Who be is is not known.
Supt. Moore of the asylum, in answer to
a telephone message, said the man is not
a patient escaped from the institution
and knew nothing Of him.
The insane man who created consid-
cable disturbance at Montpelier and
elsewhere in the southern part OF the
county. was discovered IN caboose in
the railroad yards Sunday night. When
found he had few buns, several days
old, and was sleeping cedar chips and
lark IN tin can, for medicine.
When brought before the insanity
hoard, he said his name was Wal
ter A. Wood, son of the machinery
manufacturer.
Sheriff Severn spent Sunday in the
vicinity OF Montpelier tracing the man
and finally learned he had come to
jamestown. 1t Is said he has been
seen in Sargent, LaMoure and other
counties in the south part of the state.
Nobody knows his name, where he came
from or any particulars regarding him.
He was placed in the asylum for treat>
ment and safe keeping.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
COUNTY FINANCES
The Quarterly Report Of Aud
itor Vennum-Taxes and
Expenses.
Insane Man Wandering at
Large Sent to the
Hospital.
Opportunity For jamestown
to Get a Long Distance
Telephone.

The sworn, quarterly, detailed stste'
ment OF the finances OF Stutsman county
for the quarter enGing March 31st, has
been published by Auditor Vennum.
There is credit balance IN the james
River National bank to the various
funds, including school district funds, OF
81, AZ. There is no money in the
county and sinking funds and there are
outstanding county warrants to the
amount of $14,784 20, beside 81 ,033. Is,
seed grain warrants and $2O3.71 road and
bridge warrants The road fund con.
tsins at present $2,273.s9 and the bridge
fund $l,342.29.
Since Jan. 4th. last, payments OF the
general funds have been made to the
amount of sl6,O22 O5 and collections
have been made to the amount OF 49,.
CSC. Is which, together with the credit
balance on hand Jan. 4th, makes total
collections in the last three months OF
$23,359.47
Among the largest items OF expense.
outside of county officers salaries. has
been the district court expense,
which, Including sheriff's deputies, bail
ifs, stenographer's and witnesses fees,
amounts to S1.179.91 The county rorr
in the same period have cost s6So4s; of-
foe supplies 1878 .6S; printing and adj
vertlsing 1924 80; repairs to county
buildings 1892 Il; lights and fuel $780,
81; miscellaneous S49i.99
Among the assets of the county out
side of the court house and fixtures is an
item listed as county bridges, road and
bridge improvements, $4,000" and "cash
assets 1876. 50. The total liabilities OF
the county are $79,521 &c.
The county anticipates large revenue
by June 1st. and shortly after from the
payment of '96 taxes.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
Where Government Aid Would Be
Accepted.

Fargo Argus: The flood is over, but
its traces are omnipresent. A trip
through Shantytown, where the little
homes are today to be found in almost
every conceivable positlon-soms stand
ing on their roofs, others with their
front door turned toward terra firma-
and others having "moved upward with
the hood," is a picture not soon to be
forgotten. While the loss may be small,
it was their all, as much as though it
had been millions.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
Long Distance Telephone.

A little effort on the part of business
men and others in this city will secure
for jamestown the long distance tele-
phone line now operating all over the
eastern part of the state. @. r. Mere
dith Of Casselton, who is agent Of the
company there, states that it petitions
are forwarded him from here to the CON-
pany requesting the service and state
ment made showing the probable bust
ness to he derived, there is little doubt
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
Must Keep on the Reservation.

Thirty.fve families of Cannon Ball
Yanktonai Indians wanted to become
citizens and take up claims at Pointed
Woods. Their leader, Red Fish, worked
up the matter in Bismarck last winter.
Two weeks ago they moved across the
river their stoves, implements and stuff
and even tore the flooring out OF their
houses and took it across;their cattB and
horses they expected to oroes later.
MAJOR Cramsie got wind Of it, however.
snd promptly got the police out and
made the Indians bring their stuff back.
The following day two hundred unfor.
tunate Ssntess from Fort Totten were
fired across the river to find their way
homo through swollen rivers ana lmpas-
sable roads, with hardly any provisions,
and with halfdsad ponies, journey Of
go miles or more.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
The Demand Sufficient.

The state supreme court has rendered
decision in which it is held that the
demand Of an owner of chattle mort
gage on grain sold to an elevator COM
psny, 10 sufficient as against the COM
pany, when vuade to the local agent OF
the elevator for the return OF the gram .
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
Telegraph Company Liable For Mis-
takes.

taxes.
An item of interest to the public is tie
recovery from the Western Union Tele
graph Co., by Capt. Baker Of Bismarck
of the amount Of claim for loss Of some
$500 including interest by mistake of
the company in sending a message. In
1891 Baker was bidder for supplying
the government with corn, etc, and the
telegraph company by the mistake of a
figure one for the figure nine caused
Baker to lose &c bushel on an amount
of CORP. He brought suit to recover and
Judge Winchester sustained the claim
The company has settled for the same,
although it set up as a defense the usual
contract on It's printed blanks that un-
repeated messages were at sender's risk.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
want to Run With Uncle sam.

want TO Hun with Uncle sam.
Clerk of Court Proctor has assisted
numerous aliens to rights as citizens Of
the United States recently. John A.
Cysewski has renounced all allegiance
to the king OF Prussia and is now full
citizen. The following have declared
their intention to become citizens, after
i've years continuous residence in the
land Of the free:
Jno. Wozny, who came from Germany
10 ~;
Gottlieb Wolff, who landed at New
York IN '94 says he is going to throw
.Svsr the emperors OF sll Germany aud
Russia;
Jacob Neumsnn, who has been here
since '93 and doesn't care much for the
emperor Of Russia anyway compared to
the president Of the United States;
Frederick Blaskowski, is another ex-
Russian subject who landed in '93;
Karl Wiktor Ericsson landed at New
York IN February last and declares bis
intention to renounce all allegiance to
the king Of Sweden and Norway;and
Michael Potter, SO years old and q resi-
dent of Valley City, wants to become q
citizen of the United States rather than
subject of the emperor of Germany
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06

Or IN other words the asylum fuel
appropriation alone is 800 more than
that Of all the other state institu-
tious for fuel and lights CON-
bined, and the combined fuel, elec.
trio light and machinery bill for 1878
for the hospital alone will cost, If ex.
pended $3.50 more than the fuel and
light bills for ell the other institutions
in the state put together.
The figures are suggestive. They
show that either the Yankton asylum,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06
Merchand,se Likely to Advaace.

Pierre correspondence South Dakota
Reform Press Association:-G Governor
Lee returned from Chicago last Thurs
day, where he went to buy the spring
stock of goods for bis Vernlllion house.
He left hurriedly Monday morning to at
tend the funeral of brother at Slough.
ton, Wis, who died last Friday. While
in Chicago he was bana aueted by Chlca-
go Scandinavian club, which has pre-
viously honored in the saue way Senator
Knute Nelson Of Minneapolis, and Con-
gressman NJ. N. johnson of North
Dakota. He declares the wholesalers in
Chicago are confidently expecting to
mark everything in the line OF manufse-
lures up from 20 to 40 per cent in the
event the Dingley tariff law goes into
effect in it's present form or anything sp-
preaching the duties OF the present bill.
Being 9 large farmer as we'll as one of
the heaviest merchants Of the state the
governor Is anxious to know how the
agrlculturalists are to be benefited by
being compelled to pay more for all they
buy when there is no hope whatever for
a corresponding advance in the price Of
farm products. In such contingency
merchants will sell fewer goods at the
arbitrarily advanced prices than they
are selling now and the advance in tariff
rates will prove positive hardship to
verybody except the trust protected
manufacturers.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06

The Dunkards are fore handed settler Q
Who will not be ION the county" Many
Of them are we'll OF in property and are
buying farms ont right, throughout the
james River valley.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1897-05-06

has received description Of Norman,
who is Swede, about feet 8 inches
high, light complexion, scar on forehead,
is about % years old, and when he loft
the farm house Is said to have had on
Salvation Army coat and cap. 1t
seems impossible that he can escape,
and also it is believed that il caught he
will be fixed plenty, at short notice.
The victims of Norman were buried
Sunday afternoon and the funeral was
attended by the entire neighborhood'
The two boys we're taken to the Arvilla
hospital Saturday afternoon and are
still alive, but tho recovery Of Thomas,
who was struck with the hammer, ID
hardly probable.
It 10 reported that Norman was seen
three miles east OF Courtensy Sunday,
st ten O'Clock. Norman 10 SAID to have
lived at Dickey. in LaMoure county,
and to have relatives near Cakes.
OK HUNDRED DOLLAR REWARD
Deputy Sheriff 8. Samberg OF Grand
Forks county was in jamestown yester-
day in search of the murderer of the
Hiilstead children, it beng surmised he
is making bis way back to LsMoure
county, where his wife resides. The de-
putty secured team and left for Dickey
at p. m. He arrived there this morn
ing and with others left at once for the
farm where Mrs. Norman is living.
A report, not we'll authenticated SO far
az known, stated that Norman was seen
q short distance from Courtenay Sunday
morning, aud that be was headed south.
Today q rumor was current in the city
that the murderer appeared at the Sal.
vstion Army barracks that evening, but
stayed bot q few minutes.
There are q number OF people in the
city aud the James River valley who
know man by the name Of August
Norman, whose description corresponds
With that of the murderer. He used to
live at Dickey couple Of years ago
There he married young glrl said to
be hardly out Of her teens, daughter
OF Mrs. Deltcher. Later the couple
lived st LsMoure, bat not very happily,
reports ssy, as this August Norman waa
reputed to be mot much Of provider'
aud entertained q disinclination to
labor. Norman had an intatustion to
work On the railroad and the traintnen
Conductor and Brakeman Hunter,
Postal Clerk Dwight Donnelly. Engineer
James McCabs and others on the Valley
run, are said to know the man and
would be able to spot him on sight
This man and the murderer sre believed
to be one and the came.
Gov. Briegs has offered $500 for the
arrest Of Murderer Norman.
The sheriff OF Grand Forks county has
offered 500 reward also.
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follows: /:

Total -.....................,s 1890
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-12
uaroun-aI- Raschid's Koran.

For exhibition at the congress OF
orientalists it is said that the French
minister Of public instruction offered
the sultan e3, 600 for the loan of the
Koran Ct Haroun al -Raschid, to parade
at the reception and then to have il
copied. He refused. This unique vol
ume stands in the tombhouse of the
sultans at Constantinople at the foot OF
Mahmoud ii coffin. It's margins are
illuminated in the Persian style, and il
is kept with jealous care by the weareI
Of green turban.
Artists curious about decoration
would be repaid in seeing it for max
ing journey to Constantinople. M.
Cambon goes often to feast his eyes Oh
it. He was first authorized to offer
60, 900 for a loan of it for two years,
and then $4,000, the French govern
ment paying heavy premium of insur.
ance, but the sultan holds it to be in
valuable, which it is. He also thought
that, if lent, the faithful would miss il
from the tombhouse, where it is treated
as venerable relic. Had it been brought
to Paris under the proposed conditions,
a new departure in decorative art might
have been the consequence. London
Truth
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-12
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

n
James u. Spaulding. president OF The
spaulding Nursery and Orchard com
pany. at Riverton. Ills. died of paralvs-
is. aged 70 years.
Ex-Empress Eugene is II vears old
she Is the daughter of Count Cyprien de
MontiJo, Spanish grandee.
Mrs Bridget Flannery died at indie
pehuence. Ia, aged los years. She was
porn In County Glare. Ireland.
Bangor (Me.) man drove ont into
the country to look for deer. He tied
MS morse to tree in the woods. and
rine In hand, sailed into the forest
where he circled about for an hour
Then. after firing at what he thought
was pull moose. he came up TO find
that ne had killed his horse.
The Illinois chiefs of police. in session
al Elgin, voted to meet next at Spring :
neld. In November. 1898 HE. Demmer
OF Aurora was reelected president and
w. h. Owen of Paris. secretary.
Elwood. Ind, has taken the first stems
toward holding gas belt exposition
next fall.
James Baker and High Warden. both
coiiored. got into quarrel at Dunkirk.
o., over load Of wood, and Warden
killed Baker.
The average yield of corn per acre
THIS year is 2S7; last year, 27.3
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-12
They All Knew That.

II am quite willing to contribute to
the-er-amusement of the evening, !"
interposed the amateur poet, who was
bursting to read his latest and couldn t
get anybody to take the hints he con-
tinually threw out
There was sound like groan from
corner of the room and guest went
out The others prepared for the worst,
except one elderly man who pulled
show of determination.
1.-THE title of this little effort" the
poet went on, drawing roll from an
unsupported pocket. sis The Raindrops
on the Roof. -
well, of course it does" exclaimed
the elderly man. Where would you
expect it to drop? When the rain drops
ON any well regulated house, it natu-
rally chooses the roof Perhaps you
expect people to take the roof off when
it rains, or you think that we imagine
that it drops on the foundation or in
the umbrella stand? Everybody else
knows that rain drops ON the roof,
young man, and they don't want you
to write poem to tell 'em. If you can
write one that will explain why it al
ways rains when man goes out in q
new hat and without an umbrella we re
open to hear it. 7" saI "a %.
The poet did not contribute any fur
Their to the amusement Of the evening
Strand Magazine. ~
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-12
Among the Chins. Upper Burma.

The most common illnesses among
the Chips are cholera and other bowel
complaints, as is not unnatural, consid-
ering the climate, their filthy habits
and their voraciousness, for if the Chins
have one quality which may be counted
as virtue it is hospitality No pretext
for a feast is allowed to pass unused,
whether it be birth, death, mar
rage, sacrifice, the payment Of a
debt, the making of an agreement, the
slaughter of an enemy, the shooting of
q deer" and a feast implies a drink
ing bout, sometimes of many days
duration" They drink liquor named
zu, which is made from rice, millet or
Indian corn. IL is described as "a most
refreshing drink after hot march"
and is said to pull one together more
quickly than any other stimulant in
times of great fatigue. +" Its effects do
mos appear to be very deleterious, for
the Chin usually lives to good age,
though a habitual drunkard from child
hood. Chambers Journal