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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24
FURNITURE
For New City Library Has Ar
rived. Officials Take
Possession.

LaQleS OF Cne fuDllc Library are
busy with preparations for moving
into the city hall. The new library
chairs and tables, finished in dark
stain, known as ..the Early English
style. have arrived. There are two
round tables and three oblong in
shape, twelve large, solid chairs and
twelve smaller chairs all in the same
finish. The shelving for the books is
being placed on the walls. The H.
brarian's desk is large and conven-
lent, having two sets Of drawers on
either side. One of the library tables
and dozen chairs have been placed
in the reading room off from the
main library room.
In addition to the library the city
Offices which will be hereafter opened
for the public in the new building
are, the mayors office in the north
west corner of the main floor, consist
ing of front and rear room; the au-
ditOr's Office in the northeast corner,
which will also be used by the water
commissioner, and which has large
vault. The rear room of this office
has been rented for a recitation room
for the school. The city engineer also
has an Office on the first floor, and
the city police headquarters will be
in large room in the basement in
the northwest corner. The:city attor-
ney, when that official has use for an
Office in the city hall will be located
in the room with the city engineer.
All the city officials have now moved
into the new building. Window
shades are being placed in the win
dows, and telephones and lights will
soon be in readiness.
With the concentration of the
city's business offices in one building
the safe keeping of the books and re-,
cords will be one great advantage.
The library and the school rooms will
add much to the frequenting of the
building by both young and old. The
tiremen will also take possession Of
their new quarters at an early date,
the finest in the state.
The walls and ceilings have not
been decorated and will not be for
the present, as the architect desires
time given to have them well sea-
soned. All the woodwork and wood
finish in the hall is a rich oak, the
floors are maple, and the building is
one of the most handsome and con-
venient in any city in the northwest.
The plumbing and steam heating is
well along and by time that heat is
required the boiler will be ready to
fire.
l.. New cement walks around the
building will be laid as soon as posi-
BILE and the parking and grounds fin
ished for seeding the grass around
the building. The old council room
will be the weighmaster's office and
the tables and chairs will be distri-
buted among the other Offices in the
city hall, which promises to become
a busy corner in the life of the city.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24
INCORPORATED

A certificate of incorporation has
been received for the James River
Valley Creamery Company, of James
town. C. E. McElroy is president,
G. d. Bacon, secretary, and A.. E.
McElroy is among the incorporators.
The capital stock Of the company is
$40, 600. Improvements Of perma-
nent and valuable nature are contem-
plated and the business of the cream
cry is expected to be enlarged in the
near future.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24
SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT

The Alliance Hail association Of
Jamestown, which has been in busi-
ness for a number of years, seems to
have solved the question of mutual
insurance successfully and to have
administered its affairs we'll. This
year the company carried some three
millions of risks and incurred about
800. 600 Of losses. s.-Bismarck Tri-
bune.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24
MINNIE EAPOLIS PL ant
Russell Miller Mill One Of the
Most Complete in World.
Capacity $500 Per Day

Considerable attention has been at
tracted among milling men to the
Russell Miller Milling company's new
flour mill on Marshall avenue and
Twenty-ffth street, which COM
menced operations last week. The
plant is the fifth and latest addition
to the chain Of mills owned by the
same company, and located at James
town, Valley City, Grand Forks, and
Minot, N. d. It has been in process
of construction for the last IA months
and as it..now stands completed at a
cost Of $3.50, 900, it is the most mod
ern and up-to-date plant of the kind
in the world.
The building is thoroughly fire
proof, being built entirely Of cream
colored brick, steel, and concrete.
The building is six stories high, 344
feet in length over all, and varies
from SO to ITO feet in width.
The interior of the mill is as strik-
ing as the exterior. The immaculate
whiteness of the tiled floors in the
grinding room, the large, airy high
ceiled rooms, and dustless machinery
give it more the appearance of a san
itary ward than a manufacturing
plant. Coming into the grinding
rooms the visitor is at once struck
with the cleanliness of the place.
Here are battery Of go double roll
lers, yet there is no dust and almost
no noise.
Going from the grinding room to
the rooms where the wheat is re-,
ceived and fed into the grinders, and
from there to the warehouse, where
the flour is stored, the idea OF cleanli-
ness, perfect sanitation and modefni-
ty is more and more impressed upon
the visitor. It is carried out to the
smallest detail in everything.
The grinding machinery embodies
the best and latest ideas in construc-
tion and part Of the machines used
are Of special design. The machine
rooms are remarkably free Of exposed
belts, wheels and other working
parts. Even the wheat is conveyed
in an overheard covered tramway
some 600 feet from the Electric Steel
Elevator company IS elevator to the
top floor Of the new mill.
All parts Of the mill are equipped
with electric light service, and the
elevator service is most complete in
Guiding even one-man belt hoist for
the convenience Of the workmen.
Selt-closing sliding doors are used
exclusively throughout the building.
The power plant adjacent to I'm
mill is pronounced by engineers and
men who know, as the best, most
modern and most efficient power
plant west Of Chicago. The engine
and boiler rooms are large, light and
airy, and thoroughly tire-proof. Pow
er is furnished by 1900 horse pow
{ r.oes oono,o,,nd cnndoninr on
e ..ss sgn. s5sar,;sa 49, = h,,;,+ H. t,,a ~
Minneanolis Steel and Machinery
comnany 81 m which is said .to be the most
% ef,lciant i steam mower engine vet, de-
ualorad Res;la q Il J smaller ao
,,orse .nower engine directly connect
al e =. ! 5n sL,lo. watt, att oanaratnr' which.
I u 'nsad - q al G.,e .amaruencv Z engine Elec.
trtc,tv s e. tor The liuhtine S and elevator
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24

stenographer (his nephew) at the
meetings of that board, who took
down in shorthand the statements of
himself and the other members. We
had an official stenographer whose
duty it waste take down the official
proceedings Why did the governor
have his nephew at the expense of
the state attending these meetings?
Clearly this was done for political
purposes. The nephew could prepare
a better political document for his
uncle than the official stenographer.
I predict that the people will hear
the governor reading this document
in the campaign this fall. The gov
ernor has the happy faculty of pre-
pairing everything for political use.
From what the governor says about
removing public officers, and his cra-
wing for law to authorize him,
when he concludes that an officer is
neglecting his duty to summarily re-
move such officer from office, one
would think that he wants to be a
czar and depose the officers the peo-
pie elect. Such a law would be per-
fectly sane while John Burke is gov
ernor, because my personal expert
ence with him convinces me that he
would not assume the responsibility
to remove anybody. His strong forte
consists in shifting a responsibility
on his brother officers. To illustrate
He appointed Mr.. Burr, judge of the
new Ninth district. The supreme
court held the governors act in max
ing this appointment illegal. During
the time :Mr~ss5 Hurry acted as Judge,
his salary was held up on account of
his right to the Office being in litiga-
tion. The supreme court decided
that he was defacto judge, which
made his judicial acts legal. The.
claim for salary amounted to about
$1,000. The governor asked me for an
official opinion. I held that defacto
officer could not enforce payment of
salary, but that he earned it and in
good conscience the state ought to
pay him for his service. The govern
or as chairman of the auditing board
has not assumed the responsibility to
allow or disallow this claim; it has
been continued from one meeting to-
another.
The governor is good talker and
lie has talked great deal about
what ought to be done for the state.
But aside from talking do not call
to mind any official act of his which
is of any Importance. He tries to
shirk the responsibility by saying he
could not prosecute personally any
officer for malfeasance in Office, but.
the fact is he never charged an indi-
vidual officer with malfeasance. If
he knew that any officer was violat-
ing his duty as an officer, he could
have filed charge with the attorney
general who ..would have prosecuted
the individual. It was his duty as a
citizen and as the executive Of the
state to make a charge against any
officer, whom he knew to be violating
his official duty.
I have four months yet of my term
and stand ready to prosecute any off1-
Ger whom the governor will charge
with violation Of official duty.
5.s T. #. McCue.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24
REPLY TO GOVERNOR
Attorney General McCue Replies to
Governor Burke's Recently
Published Letter.

When Bryan was in Fargo he said
the people of North Dakota ought
to be proud OF what Gov. Burke had
done for them. Mr.. Bryan evidently
was not as well posted as some who
resided in the state about what Gov.
Burk has actually done, for the peo-
pie Of North Dakota. Gov. Burke has
talked a great deal about his official
position. and if the people have not
received the impression that he has
done great deal for the state, it is
not the governors fault.
In recent letter to the Forum,
Gov. Burke attempts to excuse his
failure to accomplish some things,
by laying the blame on other fellow
officials. In the matter of the en-
forcement of the prohibition law, the
attorney general was specially criti.
clzed by. the governor. This attempt
to shift responsibility appears to be
indication of weakness on the part of
the governor and Attorney General
McCue calls attention to these in
the following pointed reply:
Bismarck, N. D., Sept. ll.-To the
Forum: The article by Governor
Burke in your issue Of Sept. Z, is
couched in language which portrays
the character of the man. In his
public utterances he has always
made it point in his own peculiar
sarcastic, insinuating manner to be-
little some official and at the same
time never misses an opportunity to
laud himself. In other words he
wishes to impress upon the public
mind that he is the only honest COM
petent official at the capital in fact
the only ''Simon pure" individual
that has ever been there.
I had hoped to close my term of
Office and hand over the keys to my
successor without being compelled to
60 into the press and defend myself
against a malignant attack by the ex-
ecntfye Of this state. What I say here
is not with any hope Of political re-
ward for I shall never be an .aspirant
for any public office.
The governor conveys the impress
sion that he was the person who
caused the first raid on the saloons
at Dickinson, which is absolutely un-
true. On Aug. 10. 1907 I relieved
Mr.. Miller from the routine work of
the Office and put him In. charge of
enforcing the prohibition law. He and
I arranged the attack on Dickinson;
/ personally interviewed Judge Win
chester on the subject SO that there
would be no delay. After the papers
were issued the governor accom-
panied Mr.. Miller to Dickinson as
sort of brass band attachment. The
result was, on account either of the
echmaking or some other delay,
the cause of which I have never been
able to learn, the papers were not
served until after 10 O'Clock at night
and the sheriff found no evidence.
The liquor which the governor says
he caused to be secured, was gotten
long after these first injunctions were
issued. As soon as we can get term
o. courC ~ tne olHerent ,l11 connties
shall see 70 " tnat az every case Will De
prosecuted. i have personally prose-
cuted ,.'' 9 large number q LIQUOR cases
! ana secured 9 convic tfon IN s..l All OF
tnem. Ille'nl.s
B The letter which the governor
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-09-24
! THE TAFT TRAIN

Arrangements have been completed
for a special train to run from Dick
inson to Fargo Monday next, on the
occasion OF the address 70 w. 81.
Taft, Monday evening. All arrange
ments have been completed by the
committee which has engaged the
train and the Alert is authorized to
announce that the fare for the round
trip will be one fare one way orr 80:
The train will leave Jamestown
about 4 o' clock in the afternoon,
reach Fargo in. time to spend several
hours before the arrival Of Mr.. Taft
and the train viii return the same
night.
s Il It is hoped that the Jamestown
band can be secured for the trip and
the committee desire it stated that
the band will be taken. free. There
willTb q big barbecue given on the
occasion BY western North Dakota.
There will be four bands Of music
and plenty Of room on the train.
Tickets can be obtained on the train
from sThos. Hughes Of Bismarck, who
isspushing the preparations for the
special. Mott ickets sold at the sta
:tion but to be- had upon the train.
This is q fine chance toSsee and
hear Nj. Taft one Of the most noted
men Of the country and the repIbli-
~ =, ~ IA ~ tIo0 49, AsSd II Einf fr1n1 ono q
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
The Farmers Institute.

The State Farmers Institute held at
Groom Hall. January 9Th, was not very
we'll attended owing to a postponed en-
gagement at an overdue SALE, The
meeting was opened by DR.. r. Early
Baden, local representative, who intro
duced tn conductor, Mr.. Edward Van
Alstyne. After few pleasant remarks
BY the conductor, Mr.. John Jeannin
was introduced, giving very instruc-
tive lecture on Potato Growing with
the Result of Spraying See Stocks and
Their Selection. The lecture on THE
subject was interrupted that we might
enjoy delightful dinner prepared by
the Ladies of st. Thomas Parish.
DR.. R. 8. Hill was unable to attend
and We had Mr.. John H. Drury as sub
stitute. Everybody sat up and took
notice. when he offered himself - q
mark to be shot at as if he did not know
th.t Southern Maryland only loaded
her gun with sugar coated pellets when
he was tho target.
Mr.. Van Alstyne lectured on Fertility.
What constitutes Fertility was full of
hard facts that was understood because
it came SO close home. Poultry Keep
ing by the Farmer, by Mr.. Jeaning was
much enjoyed by the ladies, in fact they
showed marked interest in all the sub
jscts. We hope the Institute will give
US meeting at Marlboro, if they do
Brother Farmer. Attend!
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
An Old Company.

The Sixtieth annual report of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company Of
Montgomery Co., for the year ending
December 31st, 1907, has been issued
and shows the Company to be on the
same sound financial basis which it has
maintained for SO many years.
Especially has the reliable condition
of this Company been realized by the
people of this county, where it carries
a majority of the risks on insured prop
erty and the people have ever found it
ready to make adjustments in all fair
ness to the insured, paying literally in
.omo cases where there has been q
breach Of the conditions contained in
the policy Of insurance.
The statement shows the assets to be
1856, 957 rs, and the liabilities, reported
losses by fire, adjusted or awaiting set
Element, $e.s1053 showing a balance
of 1924, 1873. 1t is alse shown that
there was during the past year an in
crease in the risks held by the company
with . proportionate gain in premium
notes, showing that the company is
steadily growing and is in most
healthy and prosperous condition.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
May Effect Compromise.

At the adjournment of two hour
session of the Democratic suffrage
amendment committee Monday night,
held in the Office of its chairman, At
terney General Isaac Lobe Straus, in
the Calvert Building, it was said that
there is strong probability of a com
promise measure being unanimously
recommended by the two elements who
have csntended. respectively, for a
property qualification and an educatio-
nal qualification. The nature of the
compromise could not be learned and
will, doubtless, be tho subject of much
speculation.
A the meeting Monday night there
were present Chairman Straus, Mr..
Bernard Carter, former Attorney Gen
eral William Shepherd Bryan, Mr..
John ?. Poe, Mr.. Leigh Bonsal, Col
Buchanan Schley and Mr.. Marion De.
Kalb Smith. The only absentees were
Senator Rayner, who is suffering with
the grip, and Mr.. William L. Marbury,
who was said to be in New York.
1t was said by Chairman Straus tina,
the committee occupied itself with a
consideration of number of letters re-
ceived in response to a request fol
Statistics as to illiteracy and property
holding among negroes in the severa
counties of the state.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
Maryland Tobacco Market.

Week ending January 9Th, 1908.
Reported by Richard s. Hill, State To
bacco Agent.
Receipts for week 132 hhds. Net re
eeipts to date, 10s hhds. Same date
1906, SOS hhds.
Deliveries this week-Domestic, /
hid. Foreign. 312 hhds. Domestic to
date, hid. Foreign to date, s12 hhds
Total deliveries, 313 hh ds.
Sales this week, 14i hhds. Total
sales to date, 14i hhds.
Stock in Warehouses-Jan. 1, 1908,
8O7S hhds. Receipts since, 100 hhds
Deliveries since, 313 hhds. On hand
today, 1878 hhds.
Condition of Observation-Disclosures
to date 1O7Qahhds. Same date last las
years 1928 hhds. Market continues duly
yet we will call your attention to thf
fact that sales are greater that receipts.
You will not find the receipts are much
greater than the sales in the CORES
ponding weeks of 1906 1907.
While the sales Of new tobacco are
very good We continue to advise the
farmers not to be too hasty In their
shipments.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
&oeal ano 4ersomal.
Birds and Weather.

Wild creatures Of the fields and
forests can DO so many things impossi-
BILE to men and women, in seeing, hear
ing, smelling. especially in finding
their way home by the aid, it appears
of some thsr sense or. source OF guild
ance that 1t is easy to credit them with
foreknowledge Of nature which is Who'll
" beyond human powers. The belief
that this so-called instinct Of beasts
and birds is sufficient to read the secrets
of the season, far in advance is quite
common among men. 1t will lead
many who hear that robins and blue
birds have been seen in Northern Ohio
in the last few days to cherish conf
dent hopes of very mild winter
throughout, and an early spring.
But the birds do not know what the
weather is going to be. Over and over
that has been proved in sessions of alb
normal warmth. changing later to in
tense cold. The song birds of early
spring have come far north in very OPP
en- Januaries, only to be killed by bliz-
yards in February or March. The birds
follow the weather, instead of foretell
ing the weather. They move with the
season or the seeming changes of the
year. They 60 where there Is food,
where the weather is mild eneug b to
permit them to,get enough to eat. In
localities where there are special stores
of cedar berries or animal life all win
ter, robins sometimes remain through
the fiercest cold Of Maine or Canada.
Many birds go south in the autumn not
to escape cold, but to find food.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
As . matter Of fact, however, not more
than half of the ppropriation has ever

As . matter Of fact, however, not more
than half of the a ppropriation has ever
been sed in any one year.
"We provide specifications for the
proved 70 ads built under this act,
and furnish an inspector to see that the
specifications are lived up to. Some
idea Of the progress made is indicated
by the number Of steam rollers in use
in the State to-day. When we first be-
gan 10 work there were only four. To-
day.there sre..forty or fifty.
Another indication is the number of
counties which have county engineers
to supervise the work of 70 ad- building.
No comprehensive improvement can be
made in any county as long IS the work
is in charge of great number Of road
supervisors. Four countie s-Balti-
more, Allegany, Prince Georges and
Caroline-have created county eLgi-
neers, and two more have the matter
new under consideration.
$50 tho progress made has not been
uncomfortable, but great step forward
will be taken II this project of con.
structing main arteries, the whole e1-
pense to be borne by the State, is car
ried out"
The Baltimore to Washington boule-
yard, to which DR.. Clark alluded, and
,1b;oh ba 4 such q heneficia1 affact on
the property mentioned, is only one
third completed, and further apprepri-
atoms will be necessary before it can
be completed. The work was begun at
Laurel and was carried in both direc-
tions-toward the cities Of Baltimore
and Washington. Ex-Speaker Benson
of the House Of Delegates has been very
much interested in the matter of good
reads, and has been working actively
in behalf Of the main-artery idea.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17
For New Tobacco Warehouse.

The new directors of tho Maryland
Tobacco Gro wers' Association, to-
gether with the recently appointed
legislative committee, met last week at
Warehouse No 5, Light and Conway
streets, to consider and draft bills rela-
tive to the tobacco industry to be pre-
sented to the Legislature.
They agreed upon drafts of two bills.
One was for the erection Of a six-story
fireproof tobacco warehouse on one or
more sites of similar buildings now ex-
istin G. to be paid tor out of money now
in the State Treasury to the credit of
she tobacco warehouse fund.
The second refers to the organization
and management Of the warehouse for
the purpose of adjusting expenses and
bringing inspection of the leaf entirely
under one roof.