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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-25
Morr Than One

The average woman said Grum. bell. has but one Idea. and that's dress" -Huh." snorted Marryat, Thy wife usually has at least a dozen ideas. and they're dressez.--Ths Catholic Standard aud Tines.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Chose an Official Paper-At the
meeting Of the council Monday night
the ::Daily Alert was selected as the
official paper Of the city. For the last
IL years continuously, the privilege
fof..representing.the city in an official
newspaper capacity has been enjoyed
by Others. The Alert has tried to do
its share towards spreading the ad-
vantages of the city, and has added
considerably to the taxable property
in the way of business improvements
on its own account. The council
seemed to consider that a passing
around OF the city privileges in this
matter, was fair proposition, and
we naturally think so too,-and will
endeavor to fll the bill with satisfac-
tion to the council and the citizens
generally.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

The Backward Springs of 1897
19O7-Reports last week from all
parts of the county were that farm
ers had been engaged in farming af-
ternOons. The ground was frozen too
stiff in the morning to make any
headway. About half time was all
that the weather permitted in way
Of field work. It is interesting to
note the general . similarity Of the
spring of 1897 and this season. Ten
years ago at this time in May part
only of the wheat was seeded. Snow
still fingered on the north side OF
Spiritwood lake and the ice had just
gone out. A party of boys who spent
the day at the lake took swim, but
it vas very brief. The Alert noted
a strange anomaly, May 5, 1896,
there we're to be seen some rem
nants OF snow banks northwest OF
town, and the mercury that day went
to 80 deg. The spring was very back
ward in Illinois, Wisconsin and Min
nesota also, and the weather cold and
rainy. Trees were just beginning to
show their leaves, both there and in
North Dakota were the first warm
weather was seen. At the lake few
pickerel we're trying to get through
the narrows.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Campaign of Pub1icity-It will
cost the counties of North Dakota q
cent a..word for information relative
to the government liquor licenses.
The lists of those..holding the licen-
ses, whicb must be published accord
ing to law enacted..at the last ses-
sion of the legislature, must ibe pro-
cured from the internal revenue
collector, who is located at Aberdeen
S. d. The county auditor of each
county must see to it that names
are published. However, it has been
learned that the revenue collector
can not give the information desired
to any but peace .ofticers, and under
the ruling the states attorneys Of
tbe various counties will have to pro-
cure the lists. Fargo Forum.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
Want Sewer on 9th Ave. South

Want Sewer on 9th Ave. South
Property owners and residents on 9Th
ave. south desire the benefits of a
sewer on that street for numerous
pressing reasons. The street has been
built up with some fine houses and
tile needs of modern improvements
in way of sewer combined with water
facilities are apparent. A petition
was presented to the council Monday
night asking that a sewer be con-
structed from a point in the Street
opposite the alley south of the old
Alert office in block 33 to the corner
OF block 6l,::Klaus addition,a distance
OF AZ blocks south thence east to 5th
ave. A majority of property owners
on the street where the proposed new
sewer is to be, built, petitioned for
the same. 1t IS desired that the
work be done this summer.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
Uncovered Large Bow1der

OACOfC1OO AdASC oO"AuSA "A
large bowlder was uncovered in tht
excavation OF the basement Of the
new addition to the Orlady building.
The stone.lies about six feet under
The surface and was firmly imbedded
in the compact shale and sand for
nation. 1t is somewhat unusual to
find so.large a bowlder so far beneath
the surface in this locality, although
in other parts OF the valley large
stones of granite have been found at
much. greater depths. The different
depths at which these cratic bowld-
ers are found beneath the surface in
both river beds and on the upland
indicate the vast periods Of time
that have elapsed.during which the
different STRATA have been deposited
which underlie the surface of this
region.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Death of Mrs. George FAIRIES
Mrs. George FAIRIES, wife Of the edi-
tor.of The Courtenay, Gazette, died
at 1920 "a 10. Monday morning at
St. Johns hospital, Fargo, following
an illness dating back for nearly a
year. The deceased was brought to
Fargo last Friday. The funeral vas
held Tuesday at Sheldon. The de-
ceased was IS years of age and had
resided with her husband at Courte-
nay for the past seven.years. Besides
her husband and four SONS, ranging
In age from 4 to years, the deceased
is survived by five sisters and two
brothers. They are Mrs. G. E. Ward,
Miss Clara Piper and John Piper, all
OF Sheldon, N. D.; Mrs. James Nc
Connell and Henry Piper, both of
Fillmore, Sask, and the Misses Jennie
and Emma Piper of Oakes, N. D.,
Mrs. FAIRIES had resided in North
Dakota for the past. twenty six years.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
May Weather II Years Ago

Speaking OF the present cold back
waIxl spring Wm.5'Y. Riddell of this
CITY says: "Seventeen.:years. ago this
spring in North Dakota grain was
sowed early. in April on dry ground,
the weather was cold and for a month
it was very dusty, there was not a
blade of grass nor a kernel Of wheat
green till the first week in June.
Then came a warm rain which start
ed everything growing.'
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

District Court at Carrington-A
regular May term of the district
court was opened Monday at Caring
ton. There is no jury called and the
calendar is lfght,as there was recent.
" a long special term held in the
county by Judge Burke.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
STRAYED

From my farm four miles southeast
of Newhome, one gray horse, one
crop cared ba;; horse, one black mare
and one Jearling colt. .
S...R. Taylor, NeWhome, N. d.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
Counties Liable for Expense o

Counties Liable for Expense Of
Insane-Under the new law which
provides that counties must defray
the expenses of the maintenance OF
their insane charges at the state
asylum for the insane, passed by the
legislature last winter, Cass county
which 1las some fifty-two patients In
the institution will have to pay some-
thing like S52O a month for their
maintenance. Such law will place
the burden of maintenance directly
upon the counties, and will prevent
the.sending to the asylum of persons
by counties, merely for the purpose
of getting rid of them as county
charges.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Hettinger Adams Co. will have a
new paper. the Headlight that shines
for all with A..A..: .Brundage Of Bis
marck chief electrician.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
Expensive Feeding-The

Expensive Feeding-The back
ward spring has prevented the growth
of grass usual at this time, and a
good deal Of extra expense is being
incurred In feed for stock. One of
the largest sheep owners of the coun-
ty states he is having hard time to
pull his stock through to grass.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Greeted by Admirers-Gen. Kuro.
XII, and party Of Japanese nota ables,
Gen. Macarthur, and others went east
Monday night on No.4. They we're the
object of interest to large crowd
who assembled at the depot to see
the distinguished visitors..and as the
train pulled out after a short stop,
cheers and waving OF handkerchief
followed. The general appeared at
the rear of the train and bowed and
smiled at the friendly demonstration
of American admirers.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Stone and sand delivered. Team
work OF all kinds. Satisfaction guar
anteed. Also two mich cows for
sale. J. T. Nowlin, Phone "a B.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
COLLEGE NOTES.
Weekly Letter From the North
Dakota State Agricultural
College.

President Worst has made arrange
ments whereby he will obtain for cx-
peri mental purpose several bushels OF
seed potatoes of the kind that is used
extensively in Germany for the man.
ufacture Of alcohol. The object is to
see if North Dakota soil and climatic
conditions favor the development OF
a potato specially bred for the pro-
duction OF alcohol. The..seed of these
potatoes will be distributed an,ong
the experiment stations SO that a
greater. range Of condition may be
tested.
The work OF planting the pedigreed
seeds in the plant breeding expert
ments, conducted-by the--Department
of'BOtany is now under way and six
or eight students Of the department
are engaged in the work each after.
nooD. 1t is quite tedious and exact
ing work, demanding great care on
| the part Of the students and in this
sense is one of the finest tpyes Of ed
ucation. Seldom any plot is planted
| of more than five hundred or six
hundred seeds. For this the mother
| plants have. first been selected in the
field because Of the special character
istics shown by The entire individual
plants as to character Of straw, char
acter of seed, carliness, yield, disease
resistance, etc. Next they have been
selected in the head and there the
individual grains have been selected,
their color, milling value ETC., being
considered. They are then weighed
in groups and registered in record
books. They are now being planted
by hand and IN most cases each indi-
vjdusl seed is being handled. 1t is
certainly test Of patience but the
students seem to enjov It.
Some of these strains have been
running FIVE and ak years ard D0w
show many features Of marked inter-
est. While the studies ore made pri~
b1H-.ir to gain plants ]hat are .osis-
tant to the various tiiseases 4 uhich.
the crops are subject, many other
matters of marked Interest are made
plain by these studies, inasmucb as
a careful; record is also made with
reference to the ground and soil con-
ditions, the character Of the parasites
which persist In the soil, etc.
The college has assumed direct con-
troll Of the dormitory building and is
having the place thoroughly remod-
eled and modernized. Hereafter it
will be the home of the young ladies
OF the college and as such will tenn
porarily satisfy one of the most
pressing needs that the school feels
Only young ladies will be allowed to
room in the building and they will
be under the direct supervision of
two lady members OF the college fac
ulty, who will also reside in the
building.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
I. Opinion by Morgan, c. j.
Judgment affirmed.

The two cases Of McLain VS.. Nurn-
berg, brought to settle a contention
regarding house rent. appealed to the
supreme court from this county, have
after nearly four years been decided.
The plaintiff wins one OF the cases,
the defendant the other. The
amount involved in either case is. not
large but the legal principles are of
considerable Importance. Both cases
we're on appeals from the district
court Judge Fisk presiding by re-
quest. Attorney Ellsworth repre-
sented the appellant in both cases,
and Attorneys Murphy, Glaspell,
Campbell and Thorpe we're represent
ing respondent in both cases.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

mittee in company with Commission
er Past view such roads and decide
on what is necessary or what can be
done. 1t is possible that the city
may pay the county for doing the
formers share of such work, the coun-
ty road contractors having the neces
sary teams and machines for expedi-
tions work, and having contracted to
do.said county work at price per
yard. All concede the Importance Of
this work and many farmers who
would like to come to the city with
grain do not now do so on account OF
the heavy grades entering the city
from the south and northwest.
Judge Conklin having plated an
addition to the north side of the
city, near the north side school and
extending east to the road leading
up the north hill is 0esirious OF pre-
senting portion of the high ground
near the stand pipe to the city for a
little park provided small amount
Of road work is done ..leading up to
the rear OF the addition. Work to
the amount of about S75 or 500
would be sufficient for the purpose.
The matter will be looked into by
the council.
The city water commissioner re-
ported collection of water rents for
the last quarter and turned into the
cisy treasury 1854. IA. All water rents
have been paid except by one consum
er, amounting to 81. so: Bond Of Com
missioner Ringuette for $4,000 was
presented and approved as to form by
the city attorney and accepted. The
auditors monthly report was pre-
sented and placed on file. The audi
tor reported collections OF licenses Of
Sl30. The treasurers reports for
March and April we're presented
which included a payment Of $50
earnest money BY j. E. Anderson on
lot on 5th ave. bought from the city.
The Jamestown Daily Alert was
designated the official paper of the
city for the ensuing year.
A canvass of the votes for the city
hall bond issue was made and the
majority for the proposition was
found to be 245. An ordinance was
introduced which looks to. securing
the proposed loan from the state as
soon as possible, and before work is
begun. The necessary legal steps
having been complied with it is an
ticipated that prompt decision of
the school land board in regard to
the money will be had, but on..Alder.
man McElroy's suggestion it was
deemed better to get the money be-
fore incurring any liability on the
project.
The mayor appointed J. J. Latta
to succeed himself as member of the
special assessment comm ittee his
term having expired. Appointment
was confirmed.
A resolution was passed to pay the
city band $3.50 from the brass band
fund also to pay the reading room
800 from the reading room fund also,
resolution to transfer the present
balance and the accruing balances in
the Pyke judgment fund to the sink
ing fund.
BILLS ALLOWED
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09
A e Walsh, burying dead animal 7 90

Total S73S 81
In addition to the above the elec-
tion bills for the bona issue election
were allowed in the amount of S55.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

Recent Supreme Court Decisions
The supreme court decided another
OF the ". H. Beck tax cases that of
State Finance Co. VS. Bowdle, Beck
and Meyers. The syllabus of the
court is as follows:
l. An assessment Of one tract of
land comprising two smaller tracts
Owned by different persons whose
titles are of record is nullity.
2. Each tract OF land owned by
different parties whose titles are OF
record must be separately assessed.
3. Where tract of land COM
prised of smaller tracts owned by
different parties whose titles are OF
record is assessed in body in the
name of one..of the separate owners,
only the assessment is inherently de-
fective and no tender of the taxes
justly due is essential to the mainte-
nance Of an action to quiet title.
. I. A deed is not void or ..champer-
tous under section S733, r. G. 1905,
where an attorney for the grantee
examines the records before the deed
is given and discovers defects in tax
deeds of record on which title is
claimed.
). \ clause in a quitclaim deed tC
the effect that the grantOr makes nc
representations as to his title is no,
a disclaimer of title nor does it show
prior abandonment of the land.
6. Sec. 96 of Chapter 1926, Laws o.
1897, and Sec. 81, Chapter 1872, Law:
Of 1890, do not apply to division O.
valuations where no transfer Of tht
land has been made after assessment
of taxes.
:. Chapter l66, Laws OF 1903, doe
not apply to jurisdictional defects il
assessments OF real property.
(Syl)abus by the Court.)
Appeal from the District Court o
Stutsman county; Hon. S. L. Glas
pell Judge.
NJ. Conklin, for appellants.
Wicks Paige and Lamb, for respond
ents. 1
'Opinion by Morgan, CsJ:
l
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-05-09

BILLS ALLOWED
Eddy, Proctor Fur. Co. Fumi-
eating $l3 20
Western Electric Co., lights 200 90
Western Electric Co., pump
ing afr 30 90
Western Electric Co., pump
ing water 1O6 %
A A Clemens, teams to tie 5 90
A J Jackson, team to FIRE go
Scotford Stamp and Station
ary Co., dog checks 2 40
Phil Mason, repairs on grader II As
II e White Co, electric supplies 20
Fred " Sappen6eld. repairs
on water mains 4S IS
Calvert Cooper, draying dead
dog SO
r L Scott and Co, hardware $50
r E Geise, repairing meters 500
National Meter Co, repairing
meters 26 90
A J Jackson, labor on streets 1l8 SO
Pat Burke, labor on streets IS 90
G NJ Jackson labor on streets 5 90
NJ L Mclaughlin, labor on
streets 8 90
Geo. Goings, labor on streets $50
VIM Ringuette, livery 10 90
James Rae Carley, premiums
on bond 10 90
NJ P Morris and Co, printing $50
Jesse Burgster, printing 80 80
Henry Bensch, returning bal
lot box 800
E F Kelly, returning ballot box 200
John Tunstall, returning bal
lot box 200
Arthur Dewey, returning bal
lot box 2 90
McCulloch and Mudgett, fuel s so
81 A Wasser, board prisoners IL 60
Alex Esler, draying 3 IS
p
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-08-15


sleeve Of iae miner ana GENT escorted
him through the entrance to the side
walk, while the crowd smiled,
As they cleared the threshold, how
ever, he cInched his fist without d
word and, raising il. strurk the sot
fully and cruelty upon the jaw. His
victim fell silently, the back of his
head striking the boards with a hollow
tilump; then, without even observing
how he lay, Mcnamara re-entered the
saloon and took up his conversation
where he had been interrupted. His
voice was as evenly regulated as his
movements, betraying not sign of
anger, excitement or bravado. He lit
cigarette. extracted a notebook and
jotted down certain memoranda sup
piled him by Mexico Mullins.
All this time the body lay across the
threshold without sign of life. The
buzz of the roulette wheel was re-
sumed, and the crap dealer began bis
monotonous routine. Every eye was
fixed on the nonchalant man at the
bar but the unconscious creature out
side the threshold lay unheeded, for
in these mems code it behooyes the
most humane to practice a certain
aloofness in the matter OF private
brawls.
Having completed his notes, McNa-
mara shook hands gravely with bis
companions and strobe cut through the
door, past the bulk that sprawled
across his path and without pause OF
glance disappeared.
A dozen willing, though unsympa.
thetic, hands laid the drunkard on the
roulette table, where the bartender
poured pitcher upon pitcher Of water
over him.
HE amt hurt none to speak or, z
said bystander; then added, with en-
thusiasm:
"But, say, there's man in this here
campr'
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-08-15
CHAPTER VI.


M partner few days later,
indicating man in the cut
below, busted in setting line of
sluices.
That's old Slapjack Simms, friend
of mine from up Dawson way"
Glenister laughed immoderately, for
the object was unusually tall and loose
jointed and wore a soiled suit of yellow
mackinaw. He had laid off his coat,
and now the baggy, bilious trousers
hung precariously from his angular
shoulders by suspenders of alarming
frailty. His legs were lost n gum
boots, also loose and cavernous, and
his entire costume looked relaxed and
tapping, so that he gave the impress
sion of being able to shake himself out
of his raiment and to rise like bur-
1esque Aphrodife. His face was over
grown with a grizzled tangIe that
looked as though it had been trimmed
with buttonhole scissors, while above
the brush heap grandly scared a shiny,
domelike head.
HAS he always been baId?''
Nav! He amt bald at all. He
shaves his mob. In the early days he
wore a long fiowin' name which was
inhabited by criekets, tree toads and
such fauna. 1t got to be a hobby with
him finally, so that he growed supersti-
tious about goin' uncurried and would
back into a corner with both guns
drawed if a barber came near him.
But once Hank-that's his real name
undertook to fry some sIapjacks and in
givin' the skillet heave, the dough lit
among his forest primeval, jest back
of his ears, soft side down. Hank pol
luted the gulch with langwidge which
no man had ought to keep in himself
without it was fumigated. Disreppita-
bleness oozed out through him like
sweat through an ice pitcher, an since
then he's been known as Slapjack
Simms an has kept bis head shingled
smooth as a gun bar'l He's good
miner, though. Amt none better-an'
square as a die"
Sluicing had begun on the Midas
Long sinuous lengths of canvas hose
wound down the creek bottom from
the dam, like gigantic serpents, while
the roll of gravel through the fumes
mingled unsteady with the rush of
waters, the tinkle of tools and the song
of steel on rock There were four
strings" Of boxes abreast, and the
heaving line of shovelers ate rapidly
into the creek bed, while teams with
SaYsa rnpes Ia she'd ~, ,rois Ar, n, II no s
q an atmosphere of softened profanity
In the big white tents which sat back
from the bluffs, fifty men of the night
shift were asleep, for there is no re-
spite here-no night. no Sunday, no
halt, during the hundred days In which
the northland lends herself to pillage
The mine lay Graded between won
derful, messy, willow mottled noun
tains, while above and below the gulch
was dotted with tents and huts, and
everywhere, from basin to hill crest,
men dug and blasted, puniiy, patiently,
while their tracks grew daily palmer
over the face of this inscrutable will
derness
A great contentment filed the two
partners as they looked on this scene.
To wrest from reluctant earth her
richest treasures, to add to the wealth
of the world, to create-here was sat
isfaetion.
1--WE amt robbin' no widders an
orphans dom it, neither" Dextry sud
denly remarked, expressing his part
ner's feelings closely. They looked at
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-01
lakewood PLEASES
LARGE AUDIENCES

With the pretty weather of yester-
day afternoon and evening. large
crowds took advantage of the oppor-
tunity 10 visit tho j, Frank Hatch at
fractions at ldewood
Many new amusement features are
being constantly added 10 those al
ready here.
The katzeniammrr Kastc, with it's
mysterious halls and its quaking steps.
with the floors that jump from under
YOU, keep those who enter this house
of mirth in suspense every minute
they are within its walls. Buster
Brown continues to rival Captain Jack
the handsome educated horse, for the
patronage of the Young folks. with
honors about evenly divided.
The Japanese Theatre where a troupe
Of male and female japanese artists
perform such feats as only these little
Oyientals can perform; Happyland, with
the moving pictures, depicting one OF
the most recent sensational trials:
Dreamland with it's bill of attractive
numbers. and the autograph parlors--all
add their fun quota to an evening of
enjoyment.