Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1906-11-01
GOVERNMENT PAID BILLS
Gov. .Sd'lps and State of North Dd-
kota had N,thing TO DO With Pdy-
inc EnCdmpment Accounts.

In his speech at the opera house
Honest John Burke,as his snpuorle RS
refer to him, gave tine impression to
many ny his reu,arKs thlt NJ,lh Dl-
kOta mad to foot the bills for Trans
portation Of troops to lie Wion'ng
encampmenl, and that Col. Crerl, the
edjutan' genc,al. had favored the
Great Northern road by St nding
troops out Of their wa, to ST. Paul,
and that Gov. Sa'lrs stood IN With
the deal and the state tdXp'yrls had
to paw the oils.
AnoIher demOcra &c speaker. .named
TOT ten, in a recent spe' ch al New
Rockford W. Mt SO lar a> TO name the
sun of S23 900 which he said The rail-
Road referred to go.
De 'ucral c speakers are hard up
for material to attack I" repuhIlcan
admiuistr%, ion when they Ir>o1l 10
such gross NJ miStaIe emf MS of facts,
ei her on purpose OF Il nIuh lack of
i knowledge.
a trw d,vs ago he Alert quo'rd a
memh I of Stat" militia ia ',lIar
| will The acco,u is Of lie rncampn"it
! Which had just been aunien, and
who stated the SUI, pain 10 lIanss,u1-
tatIou was $40, 400 and tlIat III" state
ii ves paid one cent o. IL. the bulls
for he en- ire e,caMpn eat b. ing
paid by the general gov"rnm n.
Adj. Gen. Gre. ], in letter from Bis
malck % the Fargo Forum cuncern-
ing ti'i> mailer says:
Bl>malck. N. H., Oct. 30.-To tt e
Forum: / noticed in The Grand
Forks Times hat young atl o' nev
namcG Iott, Stated in Il pr'cll t
New Rockford, that |, as aoj"'ant
ceue,al, paid the railroad COMPANIES
$23. 900 Tor tlansDnrtlng The national
guard to Camp l>lay. Ii reply | de-
sire to -a, that the war department.
PAID for this transportation at rl'es
fixed by the sovernmeD!. .GInat lie
VIA eaSdia not .3ay or ilar y" ] 2ef!,
Col F.ank p. Allen was distributing
officer for tn war department mot
the state) and paid tie command as
provided by U. S. army regulatl MS,
said disbursement being arprov'd o'
the secretary Of war,and matter With
which the governor or myself had
nothing 10 do.
The war depart ment also paid tile
command per diem allowance rs nlo-
vided py law, and tie slale old noI
contribute l cent to his trip.
When Governor Sarles became gov
ernor there was deficit OF son.e ST.
QUO In the militia funn created by
Governor White, which hp, White,
was lot 10 blame for, as he had TO
erect buildings on the military en-
campment ground, absolutely need
ed.
Governor Sarles has wiped out this
deficit of $1,000, and there is now to
the credit Of The militia fund some
S8, 900, not witIstand,ng the fact that
the nal innal guard have received Ne"
hats and caps ard Khaki UNI o. ms
costing some $4,000, so that since
Governor SArles has been in Office he
has partially equipped the guard with
extensive clothing lncluC ing cham
, bray shirts and ha'f new blue dltss
uniform and also has ON hand large
amount of ammuni ion, no snail item
in military maintenance.
TOtten'S statement must make a
soldiprly lair minded man like Colonel
H iId,eth of your CITY, blush. The ma
,ional guard n,v yer in he history OF
this state was as well off financially
as tod y.
Il. NJ. Crecl, Adjutant General.