Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-11-24
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES.

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A case of smallpox, is reported at
LaMoure.
The Catholic fair at New Rockford
netted over $1,000.
A grand jury has been called to
meet next month in Ward county.
A new Catholic church has been
completed at Weiland, Barnes county.
A cheese making outfit has been
added to the creamery plant at Sykes
ton.
Over $4,000 bushels of wheat we're
recently marketed in one day at Nc
Henry, Foster county.
A new Methodist church was dedi-
Gated at Washburn, last Sunday. 1t
cost 81, 400 and is free Of debt.
A couple of Valley City butchers
were fined for selling sausage that
did not come within the requirements
Of the law.
Paddock, a Fargo wife beater, got
only 27a days in the county jail. Is
Fargo bidding for more of that class
of citizens?
A Djckey county bridge collapsed
with threshing rig, and the con-
struction company has effected a set
tlement for $3.50.
The majorities in Kidder county for
county officials ranged as follows: ],
4, 8, AZ, 2l, 80, 40. Too close for COM
fort-until the official count is made
but it will ultimately get the salary.
Geo. Goodyear, a North Dakota
visitor at the Worlds fair from
Casselton, went against bunch of
"three card monte" sharks and was
relieved Of S45. "Suckers are born
every minute"
G.. B. Kolsrud and daughter, Maria
of Flora, we're badly burned by the
explosion of the reservoir of gasoline
stoye in Mr.. Kolsrud's Office. in which
a fire was started, Tuesday morning
about O'Clock.
The Great Northern railroad COM
pany has built new extension from
Mohall to Sherwood, North Dakota,
which taps what is said to be the fin.
est section of agricultural country in
the United States.
The Daily Optic says that despite
the fact that one hundred or more
tenement houses have been erected in
Minot during the past sixty days
there is not an empty house in
the city and families are daily COM
ing in who must be provided with
homes.
John MolmQuist of New Rockford
was killed while repairing sol COW
cred hen house. The roof fell in in.
juring his spine and he was dead be.
fore help reached him. His little
girl was present when the accident
happened and summoned his wife,
but Mclmquist was dead when they
arrived.
Mrs. NJ. F. Vande Bogart Of Fargo,
a prominent w. G. T. U. woman Of
the state, and editress Of the White
Ribbon Bulletin, died at her home a
day or so ago, after long illness. She
had many friends through the state
who will mourn the loss OF an ener-
getic temperance worker and good
conscientious woman.
The Great Northern railway has
awarded a contract for the erection
Of q new depot 4Ox240 feet to be built
at Minot at once. The location will
be on the site Of the one recently des-
troyed by fire. 1t is said that $50,
600 will be expended on the structure,
which will be a combination passen-
ger and freight depot.
Tuwner News and Stockman: A
crew Of Great Northern surveyors
have been at work for the past two
weeks surveying for proposed branch
road through the Deep river country.
AS near as can BE- learned the plan is
to connect the terminus of the Great
Northern at Westhope with the main
line, thus completing the loop Of the
Bottineau branch
Denhof Voice: Early on Tuesday
morning the section men found the
dead body Of John Holper on the
track near the round house. The
body was horribly mangled, one foot
partly cut off and the top of the head
entirely torn off, leaving the brains
exposed. The coroner's jury found
that deceased was run over by the
train, while in an intoxicated condi-
tiOn.
A young man at Grand Forks
brought grief and trouble upon him
self at the Metropolitan theatre by
the too free use Of profane language
in the house. He was taken in charge
by an officer, and next morning before