Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-06-14
North Dakota News.

has gone to Glendive after Chalmers,
who beat the Sheridan hotel out of a
$3.50 board bill. Chalmers secured a
lawyer and is lighting the eXtradition
proceedings. Chalmers is also wanted
for grand larceny having stolen a
bicycle. Landlord Patterson offered
a reward of $50 for Chalmers cap
ture and says he will spend $500 to get
him back-for the good effect it will
have on boarders generally.
James Ross, post trader at Sisseton
Indian reservation, formerly u prom
inent and well known citizen and poll
tician of Sargent county has filed an
assignment in bankruptcy at Aber-
deem, S. d.. with liabilities of $50, 200,
and assets not stated. a few years
ago Ross was the republican nominee
for state senator from Sargent county
A year ago he was rated by Bradstreet
as worth $4,000.
An Indian who had just been paid
off on the Sisseton reservation bought
a parasol and then paid ten dollars
for trunk to take it home in. He
got trunk big enough to take the
varmint in without closing it. There's
no denying the fact that the noble
wards of the nation are fast becoming
civilized and metropolitan.
Migratory sheepmen in the western
part of this state and the eastern part
of Montana will cause some OF the
cattlemen to seek new range for their
cattle. The sheep are unlOaded and
feed the grass down closely SO that
there is little left for stock.
New papers keep coming along
every week. At Velva, Stafford &
Son have started the McHenry County
Journal, to boom the COW counties.
The paper is a newsy sheet, and pre-
sents good appearance.
The Optic states that since July
l, 1899, to June 3, 1900, the books show
that 1868 claims were filed on in the
Minot land district. Something over
80 per cent of the lands filed on are in
Ward county.
About thirty Minot boys treated a
fresh young eye doctor from Duluth
to volley of aged eggs, for his alleged
treatment of several young ladies OF
MinCt. The doctor attempted to eS-
cape but was caught by the party at
the depot. He was sorry looking
Sight when the G. n. train pulled out
for the west. "A G.. n. detective is
looking up the case.
George b. Stitzel, farmer, New
Rockford, n. D., has been discharged
from bankruptcy,
The two year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Hagberg Of Fargo fell into
an old well which is sixteen feet deep.
The well was of the tubular variety
and was about a foot in diameter.
The child was not old enough to grasp
rope or anything that might be
thrown to him. Finally a lad of thir-
teen was lowered into the well head
foremost. The boy grasped the baby
and the pair were drawn to the top
none the worse for the experience.
DR. E. II. Belyea, of Devils Lake,
who was tried, found guilty and SEN
fenced to three years in the state peni-
tentiary for performing an abortion
on Julia SOlberg of ChurchS Ferry,
has been granted new trial, the
supreme court having reversed the
decision of the lower court.
Fargo will build $4,000 high
school building. IT,.
Alb Murray of South Heart, Starke
county, was the victim OF a rattle
snake while getting out cedar posts in
| the Bad Lands, having received bad
bite in the shin. He will recover.
A fire at Hickson, siNeen miles
south of Fargo on the G. NJ. & st. p.
destroyed the Crown elevator, the de-
pot. Western Union Telegraph office
and United States Express office.