Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-01-02
OF STATE INTEREST.

An electric lighting plant is being
installed at the Massingham ranch
near MandaD. A ten horse power
gasoline engine will furnish the
power and one hundred lighrs will be
placed through the big cattle and
feed barns. The engine will be used
during tile day time for -cboppiog
feed. This will make the Massing-
ham ranch fitted with the most mod
ern Of conveniences as vel as a
money saver in insurance rates.
S. D. Gregg of Gladstone was in
Dickinson with a ton Of dressed pork
which he sold to local markets at q
fraction over &c per pound. Mr.. Gregg
dressed 26 May pigs last week, the
average weight being about 140
pounds. They we're pastured during
the summer in bronze grass and bar
ley fields and we're fed grain the past
three months. He sells some grain
but keeps the greater part for his
own use. Mr.. Paulson is wintering
100 sheep and 80 horses. lie has 1850
acres of land that he bought 10 years
ago at 81 81 per acre and for which
go per acre has been declined. 1t is
fenced, also q school section leased
from the state. The bottom lands,
where he has an irrigating plant,
afford 6ne tillage land. Two reservoir
claims also afford grazing and water
ing places for the Paulson stock
Dickinson Press.
Senator Hansbrough has introduced
bill creating a grazing district con-
ststing of what is known of he"Bad
Lands'' in western North Dakota.
The administration Of the property
of the grazing district was placed in
the hands of the secretary of agricul-
ture, who is authorized to charge
not less than. cent nor more than S
cents gear for grazing purposes.
The secretary is also authorized to
fix the boundaries of the "Bad
lands'' and apportion them among
the stockmen in accordance with
their necessities. The small stock
men are given.the preference rights.
Homestead privileges are reserved,
but as there is very little available
land for agriculture in the ''Bad
Lands" it is not at all likely that
there would be many homestead en-
tries. Bismarck Tribune.
N. ". Braz1a. of Fort Clark, N.
Dak., struck an oak plank under the
ground with plow, and on investi-
cation found that In cavity under
the plank was a full sized skeleton of
an Indian chief in good state of
preservation, with tomahawks, pipes,
and other articles usually buried with
an Indian chief who was jnst start
ing on his long journey to the Chap
py hunting grounds .-'"
The Mandan Pioneer refers to an
abandoned hunters camp found near
Livona by Will Baker: The outfit
consists OF two good blankets, sack
containing provisions and some
crockery utensils. The appearance
of the camp indicated that the OWL
er was temporarily absent. but some
days later he again went tothe place
and found that there was no change
in condition and came to the conclu-
sion that the. owner of the outfit mad
either abandoned 1t hurriedly or else
had met with an accident which pre-
vented his return to camp, he there
fore took charge OF the outfit and
holds them for the owner. The the
ory is advanced that either some
hunter had camped there and met
with an accident on the river or else
an escaped convict had secured the
blankets and other stuff and being
frightened away was forced to aban-
don them.
Library Beneft-The concert
given by the Oberlin Glee club at the
hirI, echon1 auditorium MOndav for