Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-08-23

feet from it's foundation and turned it
right about. No injury to the build
ing, and fortunately no one was hurt.
Larimore is stirred up over a Chi
nese outbreak. Lii Peng Sing, the
Chinese laundryman there, shot at
Dean Carter with evident intent to
kill. The aim was poor and before a
second shot could be fired by the Celes-
tial Mr.. Carter disappeared through
the door. Ii was taken into custody
and is now in jail. The cause of the
difficulty is not definitely known. The
Chinaman is said to have secured in
some mysterious way enough fire wat
er to make him reckless. 1t is possi-
BILE that he was trying to avenge the
insult heaped upon his native city by
the allied troops who entered it the
other day, the news of which had just
arrived.
W. II. Sheppard of Casselton had a
gobbler who wanted to assume duties
generally conceded to the other sex
and set. He was given some eggs and
stuck to his job faithfully for three
weeks. Matching six chickens. His
clumsy efforts in caring for his young
brood resulted in their early death.
The reported death by suicide Of
Geo. Hibbard of Argusville seems to
have been unfounded.
Wells County News: 1t is very
quiet in town these bummy-hic-
balmy, summer days. A very reckless
farmer drove down street Monday at
ternoon and woke everybody up-darn
it!
The resolutions adopted by the
druggists surprised the people of the
state, the most of whom supposed the
druggists were tickled to sell booze.
Some of the state papers regard the
resolution as a great bluff.
Coggswell Nicholson and Towanda,
on the 500 line in Sargent county,
were visited by a severe storm Satur-
day night which developed into a cy-
clone. At Coggswell the depot was
moved from its foundation. At Mich
olson Is box cars were blown from the
tracks, and two at Towanda were up
set. Thirty telegraph poles between
Nicholson and Towanda were wrecked
by lightning. Rain fell in torrents
and considerable other damage was
done through that section Of the
state.
The Great Northern agent at
Thompson has been enjoined from
selling any more liquor. 1t is under
strod that he has been acting as agent
for the Hamm Brewing Co., and COM
plaint to this effect was lodged with
The authorities with the result stated.
The financial secretary eff frater-
nal order at Grand Forks is short S400.
a warrant has been issued for his ar
rest. Poker is the cause.
A Fargo policeman told Attorney
Reese to move on when the latter was
talking to Waldorf waitress. TO
this the attorney demurred. The po-
liceman threatened to use his club and
has been arrested for exceeding his
authority.
John Sanders is in jail at Mandan
for making murderous assault on
Sheriff Weeks. Sanders claimed he
had an unsatisfactory horse deal with
Weeks and after threatening that he
would kill him shot three times at
short range and the fourth time his
revolver would not 60 off. The bullets
grazed Weeks neck. Weeks then
knocked Sanders down. Sanders has
recently been employed by the en-
forcement league officials to make
complaints against alleged violations
of the prohi law. .
Mrs. Bruce Scott of Harvey suicided
by shooting, while temporarily insane.
1t is claimed that the intense desire
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made two unsuccessful attempts-is
due to the fact that he is wanted in
Illinois for murder, and will be turned
over to the officials at the expiration
of his term. He was sent up from
Ramsey county for burglarzing a
store.
A Lisbon blind pig was raided and
lots of evidence found. The proprie-
tors had been conducting an alleged
grocery business stock consisting Of
abont $40 worth of canned fruit, a
little chewing tobacco and some rain
water
A gang of swindlers are travelling
around the country claiming author
ity to examine wells. They examine
the water through microscope and
lind all kinds of bacteria, cholera and
typhoid germs, and permits the farm
er and his wife to look through the
microscope, where, of course, they see
the menagerie that will always be in a
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