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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
CARS ARE SCARCE ON n. P.
Heavy Traffic on the Northern Pa
ciflc Causes a Scarcity Of
Cars.

Cars are hard to obtain on the
Northern Pacific now owing to the
heavy through traffic and the great
number that are needed to handle the
grain crop of the northwest. One
Dickinson coal mine is one hundred
carloads behind in orders owing to
the fact that shipments cannot be
made until cars are secured. The car
famine is one indication of the i'm.
mense business being done on the
Northern Pacific. The traffic on the
Dakota division this season has been
record-breaking and indications seem
to be that it will keep up for some
time. The through traffic has grown
to such an extent that there is not
likely to be much Of falling of at
any time during the year. The pas
senger business is also good.
Locally the principal difficulty seems
to be to secure fuel and cars for the
purpose Of shipping grain. This con-
ulV1Ou 10 uOU VAkVSVCA w NVAO4AAV AVA
any great length Of time, however.
All the available engines on the
division have been worked overtime
for some months past and cabooses
have been rather scarce. A number
of small cabooses were secured from
an eastern road to use during the
rush.
Owing to the possibility Of the Mar
ion branch of the n. p. becoming
blockaded during the winter, Supt.
Wilson has given notice to agents
along the line to advise merchants
and others to lay in good supply Of
fuel. Should the winter be severe it
would be rather difficult to keep the
branch open on account of the heavy
cuts on the west end.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Alone in q haymow.

Fargo Call: A widow lady up near
Kensal, belated on her return to the
farm, according to an exchange, "had
to sleep alone in a haymOw.' In
haymow? And alone? II that item
gets back to Massachusetts, good bye
to old maid immigration.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Great Chance to Use Your Wits.

The Minneapolis Tribune company,
which is everlastingly devising new
and successful schemes to advertise
its unquestioned merit as great
newspaper, is about to offer q, 500 in
a dot-counting contest on larger
scale than ever before attempted.
The first prize will be 81, 900 and every
man, woman and child in the north
west not connected with The Tribune
has a chance to win the money.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Trouble For The Teacher.

The Dickinson Recorder prints the
following which it claims is from the
original:
Oct. 22nd 1901.
Miss, Teacher:
/ understand you are teaching
Drawing and Picture making, now 1
would great deal rather yon would
learn my boy something than to teach
such Trash as that to small Boy like
him. want him to learn [Arithme-
tic and figures that is the most essen.
till Of all studdies] next Reading,
Spelling s. Writeing would like for
you to take special pains with his
writeing and see that he uses Pen:
instead OF Pencil do not approve of
Pencil work at all especially in his
Copy Book also l do not approve Of the
Vertical hand. I think the Spencer
ian much nicer and wish you would
give him Is minutes exercise every
day in Writeing as he is horrible
Writer neither has he advanced a
single new idea Of any kind this term
of School so far.if there is anything
that he needs write me about it. I
have told him to ask you several times
II he needed any more Books of any
Kind and l have never heard a word
either way now if he needs anything
I want to know it, as I said before I
want him to learn something or !
shall be compelled ~ take him QUITO
School ana send him of where he vii
have to learn, have always heard the
best Teacher say that any one, that IL
a scholar used a Lead Pencil for
Writeing they would never be a good
Writer and it is a fact. There is
some Of the worst writers around here
that ever saw do not claim to be
professional myself but il take time
and try it can be read,
respectfully
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
ICE gorge ON the hlISSOUR RI
Cosditlea Is Oae Heretofore On.
kaewa At This Season Aud
Bismarck Is Dry.

Bismarck Tribune: Householders
who awakened this morning and went
out to draw water for culinary and
ablutionary purposes discovered that
the city supply had been shut of.
Breakfasts were cooked dry and thirst
went unquenched. The peculiar con-
ditions existing on the Missouri river
are responsible. The ice which has
formed in the river in the past few
days gorged about five miles up the
river at the government works at Rock
Haven, and held back the volume Of
water in the river. Last night Sup
erintendent Wilcox sent for Engineer
Kelly who is in charge Of the COVER
ment works and they made an invest
igation Of conditions which disclosed
the fact that the stage Of water at the
water works company's pumping plant
was three feet lower than at the gov
erment works up the river. This con-
dition left the intake pipe Of the vat
er company high and dry, and no
pumping could be done.
The supply for the city was imme-
diately shut of, to preserve what
water remained in the reservoirs for
fire protection. Steps were taken at
once to add temporary intake pipe,
to reach the water in the river. The
conditions in the river are peculiar,
an ice gorge which would hold back
water never having been known be-
fore at this time Of year.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
kURTz EXPLAINS the MATTER.
Alderman kurtz Explains Why the
Detention Hospital Was 10.
Gated Where It Is.

Alderman CIV. Kurtz: People in
general do not seem to understand the
detention or pest house matter. 1t is
the intention to make the:lbuilding a
first class detention house, one in
which the best of our citizens, should
they be compelled to 60 there, would
feel comfortable. All precautions
possible will be taken to keep anyone
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Acquitted.

After being out twenty hours jury
at Fargo brought in verdict of not
guilty in the case against Guy Hill of
Leonard, accused of robbing guest in
his fathers hotel. Hills defense was
that the fellow was drunk and he took
care Of the money for him until he
was sober enough to look after it him.
self.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Son Heard From.

Valley City is having some trouble
over its library site. The will of Dan
Marsh who left the property, has
been contested by his son, Clarence,
now resident Of Chicago. Clarence
was supposed to be dead. The pro-
perty is worth from 1900 to $1,000.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
EARLY Moeninl Services.

An NJ. E. social was given in Ypsi
lanti Saturday evening. The social
was concluded at about midnight and
one OF the members of the church
suggested that inasmuch as the Min
lister, Rev. Morrison was present and
it was Sunday morning they might
as we'll hold services right there and
then instead of waiting until later in
the day. The suggestion was favor
ably received and services were duly
held.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
BuncOed.

A Grand Forks county farmer came
to town to ''buy Mandy dress" and
ran up against the fellow who used
to live IN the same town. Before
the farmer knew he was being buncoed
he was minus $500.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Evans Located.

DR.. Evans, who mysteriously disap-
peard from Fargo leaving his bride Of
two weeks, has been located in Cleve-
land, Ohio. Belle Quackenbush, din
ming room glrl who was a chum of the
doctor and was very angry when he
married, is also in Cleveland. She
disappeared from Fargo the same
time as the doctor.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Touched.

A. VanCamp was bound over to the
district court at Valley City charged
with having robbed Marshall Demo
wells Of SIS. Both are transientS.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14
Several Quarter Sections of Suits
man County Land Sold at
Auction.
Quarter Section Near Wimbledon
Sold to r. ClendenninQ at
SLIPS Per Acre.
Sales Here and Other Places Evidence
That Land is in
Demand.

about 25 descriptions OF school land
situated mostly in the eastern part Of
Stutsman county, and sold about half
the number. This was the first
school land offered for sale in this
county. The appraisements were
higher than it was deemed the lands
we're now worth and this accounted
for the lack of bidding. Another rea-
son is given that the state can not
give clear title for twenty years, and
the interest at six per cent has to be
all the time, although the crops from
the land will easily pay for the same
in twenty years.
Mr.. Merrick says that the failure to
sell all the lands offered was found in
Barnes, LaMoure, Sargent and other
counties in the southern part Of the
state. In Barnes county only p out
Of It's descriptions offered were sold,
and in LaMoure only about 400 acres
out Of the whole number Of descript-
ions were disposed Of. "Not until the
land in the immediate vicinity of the
school land sells for from sl2 to SIS an
acre will there be active bidding for
the school lands" says Mr.. Merrick.
Sales in the northern part Of the
state have been good owing to the
large fax crops Of the last two years.
Farmers, believing that it will pay to
raise fax instead Of wheat, have bid
up the lands in Benson, Cavalier,
Towner and other counties to more
than the lands in the same locality
are held at. In Benson county 100
out Of the ITO descriptions offered
were sold last week. The highest
price was s25 per acre for one 4O-acre
tract, and one section near Leeds
brought sls per acre.
Mr.. Merrick says that the school
land sales in the state this year will
bring in nearly two million dollars on
which six per cent is to be paid for
twenty years. The school fund will
reach over three and ahalf millions OF
which Clio, 900 are invested in farm
loans, and the remainder in school
district bonds, which fund brings
magnificent revenue to the public
schools Of the state.
The sale Thursday the highest price
received was for the ne / of sec. 36-143-
62 located near Wimbledon. The
quarter section sold to r. Clendenning
of Wimbledon for el7.25 per acre.
Other sales were:
Nw} 36-142- "a, Jas. G. Lees, $1,000.
Ne / 38 IA SO, Lars Nelson, $1,000.
Sw 36-l43 50, John Kaspar, $1,000.
Nv 36-143 SO, John Kaspar, sl,6oo.
Sc / 36-143 g. r. Clendennin.,
81, 76O.
sw / 3e-l43 g., R. Clendenning,
900.
Nv / 36-143-6 81, r. Clendenning,
81, $50.
Ne and Sc ! 16-143-62, Sigur Berg,
50, 200.
Nv and Sw / 16-l43-62, lRollef Berg,
SO, 200.
The land brought total of S2O,6OO,
and "a, 118 was paid on the same to
Treasurer Flint. The remainder is to
be paid in installments.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-11-14

The Dickinson Recorder prints the
following which it claims is from the
original:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
THE SEPTEMBER BULLETIN.

The North Carolina Agricultural
Department Bulletin for Septem
Der is an unusually valuable number.
''The Value of Cotton Seed and Meal
For Feed and Fertilizer" by State
Chemist Klg IRE, and 1.-The Poison.
Gus Plants of North Carolina" by
Botanist Mccarthy, T papers of
permanent value, and most farmers
will do we'll to file them away for
future reference. Sportsmen will
find the game calendar very useful.
We are glad to note also that the
Bulletin is now hammering away in
behalf of agricultural education at
our A. and NJ. College it can do no
better work. This paragraph is note
worthy
"As sur as the sun rises and sets,
that sureit is that about 1850 young
men in North Carolina will take
up agriculture each year as their
work in life, regardless of mills, or
professions, or business enterprises.
Forty three hundred and fifty young
men each year begin for the first
time their work as farmers! What
a work before the State to educate
as many of these young men as pos
sihle. Therefore, we say no apology
is necessary for agricultural eduoa
ton. The State will be benefited in
a thousand ways by the edu"ation of
q large number Of the 1850 young
men who each year begin their career
of farmers. To this end, then, we
all must work not in a lukewarm
way, but with energy and enthusi-
asm, and believing with a satisfied
faith in the future of agriculture,
whose past has been honored, and
whose future will be glorious"
In several counties, however, in
terest in other articles will be
dwarfed by the eagerness with which
State Veterinarian Buffers "'Stag-
gers Among Horses in the Northeast
ern Counties" will be read. This re-
port is an exhaustive one.
Last, but hardly least in i'm
p~ortanoe, is the plea, "Spare the
Birds" There is hardly any subject
regarding which our people stand so
sorely in need of information as the
value of birds as insect ~destroyers.
We do not recall an issue of the
Bulletin with more matter of value
to our people. If you are not on the
Bulletin mailing list, you have only
TO write Commissioner Patterson,
asking that it be sent you regularly
hereafter, commencing with the
september number. 1t is free.
Address S L. Patterson, Commits
sloner of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION"


This is the title of q new North
Carolina magazine, and the title in
dictates it's character. The place of
publication is West Raleigh, N. O.,
and the editor is Charles W. Burkett,
Professor of Agriculture in u A.
and M. College. Heretofore "Agri,
cultural Education" has been issued
in New Hampshire, but the removal
of Editor Burkett causes a change in
place of publication. We expect
this monthly TO accomplish much
good in encouraging agricultural
education in this State. a
We IRE especially gratifed to find
Professor Burkett demanding the
establishment of an Agricultural
Building at the College. He says:
"One of the greatest needs at the
A.'and N. College to-day is a building
for instruction in agriculture, where
all the subjects pertaining to educa-
ton in agriculture can be taught in
the best manner and with the best
facilities. Such a building would
contain live stock and judging rooms,
butter, cheese and pa%steurizing rooms
~oheese-cUring rooms, lecture rooms,
laboratory for the study of soils and
seed testing, laboratory for, the study
of all farm crops and the equipping
of farms, dairy baoteriolOgy, and an
agricultural museum for the exhibit
and study of all modern farm imple-
ments and machinery. Such rooms
and laboratories are as necessary for
the study of agriculture as rooms
and laboratories for any of the other
arts and sciences. Shades of Sena-
tor Morrill, An agricultural college
without a single laboratory or class
room, or equipment for the study of
agriculture 1t is evident that no
time should be lost in providing the
means for this important function
of the college,"
We repeat that we T glad indeed
that the new professor of agrlcul-
ture has the courage to make this
plain statement of facts, and we
that he will keep up the fight
until this shameful state of affairs is
changed. He should be able to raj,
ly every North Carolina friend of
Agricultural education in a demand
for an Agricultural Building at the
only institution in the State devoted
TO the teaching of scientific agricul-
ture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
IN THIS NUMBER-sOME RANDOM COM
MENT.

The report of the winter wheat
experiments at the Tennessee Sta
ton, as given on page l, should be
of special interest at this time, and
farmers will do we'll TO study il
Harry Farmers Talk this week is
an unusually thoughtful one, just as
the subject he discusses is an unusu-
ally important one. We hope that
what he says will give our people a
clearer idea of the value of the sweet
potato crop.
One of the most striking figures as
the Winston-Salem educational Con
ference last spring was it's President,
Robert G. Ogden. He is one of the
country's best business men, and his
explanation of "Why Yong Men
Fail" as given on page 4, makes
a very valuable and suggestive
paper.
On page 6 we r printing the first
section of President Theodore Roose-
velt's owfamous Minneapolis speech
We hope that it is understood that
its publication in our columns is not
because of any opinion of ours as to
the sOundness or unsoundness of his
argument, but solely to give our peo-
pie his views upon the great ques-
tiuns of the time. So unexpectedly
and suddenly was he elevated to his
high office that only d small per cent
age of our population has yet a clear
idea as to his views and opinions.
Samuel Archer's letter was re-
Oeived too late to appear in it's accus-
toned place, bat will be found on
page z.
Fruit growers should not overlook
the call By Secretary Sherman, nor
cotton growers the appeal of Secre-
tary Parker, published on page z.
These notices were received Just be-
fore going to press, and the lateness
of the hour prevents a more extended
notice. Read them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
a EVIL.

For some weeks we have been
noticing the proportion of different
kinds of news in the daily papers.
In the leading DALI 8 in North Caro-
lima, and it is to be presumed shat
they are not worse than other dailies
nearly fifty per cent. of the matter in
the news columns is about thievirg.
robbery, rape lynohing, murder and
such like. If we keep on at this
lively rate, with the daily press as a
willing mouthpiece heralding to the
world our deeds in all these things,
it seems we might get up a pretty
fair reputation after a while as a PEG
pie of general wickedness. We in.
vite u readers to take the pains to
note' for a few weeks at least, the
number of detailed accounts of crime
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH.

Two events of recent occurrence
show both a more alert interest in
educational matters in the South at
the present time, and a much older
interest than is generally appre-
ciated.
One is an act of the General As
sembly Of North Carolina "To en-
courage the establishment of libra
ries in the public schools Of the rural
districts" Tt provides that when
any country school district shall
have raised ten dollars for the estab-
lishment of a library, the county and
State boards of education shall each
contribute ten dollars more for the
purchase of books. The libraries
thus gathered are placed free Of
charge at the disposal both of the
school children and their parents,
and provision is made for the inter
change of the libraries from school
to school, SO that each may have the
benefit of all.
The other event is the recent pre-.
sentation of a portrait of Calvin Il.
Wiley to the Wiley School of Ral-
eigh, North Carolinn, and the xer-
discs which accompanied both the
presentation and the raising of a
schooIfag.
Calvin Fl. Wiley may fairly be
called an educational circuit rider.
He did for the schools of North Caro-
lima what Horace Mann did for those
of Massachusetts, and other Northern
States.
In his day-the forties and ffties-
neither the need of general eduoa-
tional facilities nor their value was
understood. He had therefore both
to arouse interest and to combat
prejudice, and he did a great work
with unselfsh devotion and untiring
energy. AS State Superintendent of
Public instruction, he rode on horse
back from one little hamlet to an
other, preaching the gospel of edu
cation now to the fishermen of Cur
Ntuck Sound, now to the Chero-
kee mountaineers. Three thousand
schools were established during his
term of Office, and before his death
his native State had become the
leader of the South in the matter OF
free public education.
The presentation of this mans
portrait to the school which bears
his name was a recognition on the
part of, the city OF Raleigh of a debt
which the whole State owes to his
memory.-Boston Youths Compan.
ion. !
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Letters arriving too late to appear
in their proper departments this
week have been received from the
following correspondence: R. R.
Moore, A. NJ. Hunter, Zeb. B. Pyatt,
Herbert Shearer, Gerald Mccarthy,
and W. F. Massey. Several especially
valuable letters are among these,
and the reader will do we'll to look
for them in our next issue.
The Convention of Cotton States
Commissioners of Agriculture, which
held such an interesting session in
this city last year, met last week in
Hot Springs, Ark, and, it appears
from the press reports, did much
valuable work. One of it's most note
worthy features was the strong SEN
timent ~favOring the teaching of the
principles of agriculture in U
Southern public schools. The con.
vention also honOred two deserving
North Carolinians, electing Commits
sioner S. L. Patterson President, and
DIR. B. W. Kllgore Secretary, of the
body for the ensuing year. We con-
graduate these gentlemen, and we
also congratulate the Convention
upon the wisdom displayed in their
selection. The next session will be
held in Nashville, Tenn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15

to be found in any reputable daily
Draw your own conclusions as to tho
signs of the time.
The dailies are not entirely r.
blame. IF we eat without murmDr.
ing the worst food our host can get
on the market, we need not be sur
prised that we meet the same Old
dish every day. We have not vet
come to the point where we would
endure half the books in our privara.
or public libraries to be filed with
the most minute descriptions Of
these thing, and yet the daily papers
are read far more than our library
books.
What say you of welcoming into
your home company whose talk haIf
the time is about murder, robbery,
rape, lynching and such like? "a
this the best the news market
affords? Hardly. Let us have 8
better dish in the daily press Or
change our boarding place.
Feeding the minds of the youths
on crime daily means vast boards
to be spent in another generation for
courts, jails and schools of correo-
tion.-Christian Sun.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
: THE AND EDUCATION

AL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
MoUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
OF STATE POLICY, is the motto of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
platform it shall rise or fall. Serving
no master, ruled by no faction, cir
oumscribed by no selfish or narrow
policy, it's aim will be to foster and
promote the best interests of the
whole people of the State. 1t will be
rue to the instincts, traditions and
history of the Anglo-SaxOn C On
all matters relating specially to the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
viii fearlessly the right defend and
tmpartiaIly the wrong condemn" =
From. Col. Folks ~Salutatory, Feb.
10, 1886
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15

The uncertainty Of human life and
happiness was most forcibly illus
trated in the death of President Mo,
Kinley. When the assassin fred
shat fatal shot Mr.. Mckinley was CO.
oupying the highest earthly position
that any mortal's ambition might
crave. He was in the vigor of ma
ture manhood and in perfect health
In every res piect he was as happy as
any man could reasonably expect TO
be. So far as anyone knew he dld
not have an enemy in the world,
The day before he had made a great
speech, a most optimistic speech,
full Of hope and encouragement 70
his countymen, little thinking tnab
it would DO his last. One sentence
from that speech deserves especial
notice and should I'VE be reIae4.
bered by the American people. Ii
Is this:
"Let US ever remember thab our
interest is in concord, not in coDllcL
ana that our real eminen,0 rests VI
the victories of peace, not those
war. Chatham Record.