Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-09-21

The plowman begins operations on it's
broad acres for another crop which
requires years adventure, and plows
and seeds and reaps and threshes and
leaves it stubble again ready for an
other series Of operations ending in a
crop-the fascinating annual goal of
the farmers inspiring ambition.
The husbandman's round of yearly
labor and repetition recalls to mind
the poets lines we have somewhere
met: ....
''Over and over again the brook
through the meadows flows,
Over and over again the ponderous
mill-wheel goes"
His duties are strung on an endless
chain which every twelvemonth
reaches the same point and drops off
it's cumulative reward greatly to his
rejoicing and financial betterment If
industry and wisdom have character
lied all his efforts.
The golden promises Of North Da-
kota have presented splendid aspect
in this year of our Lord 1905-never
more so. While the yield Of the grain
crop is not proving quite so large as
their appearance recently promised,
still it is excellent; and the not bad
prices conspire with the extensive
acreage to make it a mine Of wealth
which will reveal it's potent influence
as a mortage litter and as the erecter
of fine farm building and the protector
of advanced improvements on the
farms of the state. The 1905 crop Of
North Dakota will stimulate land val
ues and give unprecedented stimulus
to her prosperity.
Our thriving village is witnessing
the erection Of a very complete and
handsome residence by druggist Muir
ply, on Fifth avenue south.
William Jones, very successful
pioneer farmer few miles north of
Courtenay, is driving his separator by
Hart Paar gasoline engine of %
horse power which promises to fill the
bill.
The 500 road is impotent or ugly.
Notwithstanding the most urgent re-
quests for cars to move the crops
with plenty of them on her side tracks
she has failed to spot them for load
ing and suffered every elevator-four
in snumber-in Courtenay to fill up to
roofs greatly to the chagrin and dis
oomtiture Of the farmers who usually
haul their crops from the machines to
the elevators and therefore have little
If any granary room.
Courtenay is in suffering need Of
two addenda; rural telephone and a
highway along the railroad east and
west of town. The first has received
considerable attention in talk but
fails to materalize into fact and &C
tion. The second is emphasized in
Importance by the fencing Of lands up
to the railroad right of way from half
a mile to a mile on either side Of the
village, forcing passing teams upon
the right Of way which is rendered
practically impossible by irrigation
cuts and hills and close proximity to
the track and laundering trains. AS
we do not know of the fencing across
the trails along the railroads Of the
state elsewhere we take it that land
is scarce Immediately around Courte-
nay.
Some racy developments are being
uncovered to the public eye by the
committee appointed by the New
York legislature to investigate the
managements Of life insurance com
panies. The committee is in session
now in New York city and is disclos-
ing a high-handed graft in the use Of
policy holders money which must re-
suit in marked reform in life insur-
ance methods and arrangements and
probably in federal control, greatly to
the financial relief Of policy holders
who furnish the money on which the
directors and officials and clerks spec
ulate themselves into millionaires.
Millions Of dollars Of dubious trans.
actions which would show bad on
books subject to iespection are kept
on cards perhaps lying around loose, 4
The premiums Of policy holders
should be largely reduced by cutting
down the abnormal surpluses Of insur-
,ance companies to : safe minimum
and thereby choke on 4 the official
grafters who are enriching themselves
|in the questio nable may criminal use
Of money they have extorted from the
policy holders who have condded in
them and insured with them This
investiRation now going on will prob
ably result "a the reduction Of the
tlOO, 600 salaries some Of the compan-