Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-06-28
Europeans are preparing to leave WI
Chau, as the natives are conducting
onti-toreign demonstrations.
North Dakota News.

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A telephone girl connected Tower
City minister with saloonkeeper at
Tower, MINI, and the latter ordered
a dozen barrels of booze before he dis
covered his mistake.
j. G. Birch of Forman, who was sus-
pected of numbering his partner,
Hagen, two years ago had sequel to
his trouble recently. He had mar
ried New Rockford lady and when
the father Of the bride heard the
story Of the alleged murder, he made
his daughter return home pending an
investigation. The Sargent county
authorities had cleared Birch of all
suspicion long before, as it afterwards
developed Hagen had returned to his
former home in Norway-after
mysteriously disappearing from For
man.
Some time Tuesday morning after
one o'clock burglars broke into Baker
& Co. s billiard room, at Darlington,
by taking out pane of glass from one
of the side windows, broke into one
of the slot machines and secured be-
tween three and four dollars in nick
els. Nothing else in the place was
taken. There is no clue to the bur-
glars.
What is great scientific problem
now before the eyes of the people is
ice in the well owned by L. j. Kline,
Michigan City. This well is only II
feet deep, the water being drawn by
an old oaken bucket He has for years
cut washtub full Of ice ever Fourth
Of July from this well to freeze his ice
cream. The well has been inexhaust-
ible in supply. Nine feet below is
where the ice starts to be solid.
On their recent tour the Coopers-
town ball team lost only one game
out of thirteen played.
A. c. J. Arenson, the engineer at
the Darlington flour mill that burned
Saturday. was badly burned on the
hands and arms before he got out of
the building.
A Fargo lad named Stevens became
involved in controversy with a Gent
ry show monkey. His monkeyship
carried off d good sized chunk of the
youths leg as trophy.
Madame Melvina Massey. Fargo
colored woman was found guilty of
selling intoxicating liquors yesterday
and was sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary. Notice was given that
the case will be appealed to the su-
preme court. This is her second
offense and accounts for the severity
of the sentence. January 6, 1898. her
house in the ''hollow' was closed by
an order of the court, and she was
sentenced later to ninety days in the
county jail and to pay fine of 5000
for violating this order.
Judge Bowen of Bismarck has been
granted pension of S. a month with
back pension from March 1899. The
penSion| was secured by Adjutant
General Miller.
MaDdan-Pioneer: The problem of
destroying wolves in the bad lands of
Billings county is very important
one for the stOckmen of that region,
and there is no immediate prospect of
eXterminating them. Mr.. A. J. Coils
Of Billings county was in town last
Saturday and he was telling of hunt
for some wolves that he and Schuyler
Lebo hadIfrecently.E. They tracked
their prey to the den, and after some
little difficulty they caught three old
wolves and - young ones. The en-
trance to the den was through a hole
in solid rock that man could not get
through. They caught the young
ones in traps as they came out of the
hole, and the old ones they shot. 1t
is estimated that the old wolves in
this one catch had last season killed
at least d carload Of cattle.
Robert Walker was kicked and
killed by horse while going to the:
Pioneers picnic in Emmons county.
In going GOWN hill about two miles
from the place where the picnic was
held. one Of the lines caught in the
horses tail, and in reaching forward
to loosen it. Walker was kicked in the
head by the horse the flow fracturing
his skull and resulting in almost in
stant death. Walker was - years of
age and leaves wife and five or six