Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-02-11
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lUM APPROPRIATION
State Institution Cared For
Senate Passes Initiative and
Referendum Bill.

Of Cavalier county passed the senate
today by q vote Of q to 20.
In the court martial trial the pro-
ceedings continued today. The tes-
timony Of Capt. Armstrong and Col.
Peake was completed and Major
Frame placed upon the, stand. In
his testimony Col. Peake stated that
he had never asked Gen. Poole for
the keys of the adjutant generals
Office nor for the combination OF the
safe.
There is = strong contention In the
legislature over the proposed bills
about drainage in the Red river val
ley. Some Of the members from dis
tricts located near the Red river are
desirious of controlling or having an
equal voice in the direction of drain
age affairs with the residents of the
drier parts of the valley farther west
from the river. The near the river
farmers claim they are overflowed by
the accumulation of water run on
their land from bitches further away
from the stream. The rights of the
conflicting land owners were pre-
sented in the house in long debate
Monday, and a bill fair to all inter-
ests was claimed to be the thing de-
sired. The expense of drainage is
looming up as heavy tax en- the Red
river valley lands affected by surplus
water.
An increased amount Of material
for the state capitol, has been re-
ceived, and the state museum now
contains many implements, decor
ations, relics, views and other objects
of interest, showing the customs of
the: early inhabitants Of the state
and the primitive life Of the Indian
tribes. The society is now located
in small room, without sufficient
space to properly display all its ma
terial, and the purpose of the work
is to some extent lost. The society
is anxious to have more room as
signed to it in the capitol building
for a better display of the material
that has been gathered.
The settlers on the Missouri slope
and western part of the state hope
that the efforts of Senator McCumber
to prevent the holding up Of their
patents on account of coal deposits
will be successful. There are pecu-
liar conditions in North Dakota
where the coal veins lie close to the
surface of the ground. A memorial
has been introduced in the legisla-
ture asking congress to give full title
to both the surface and the under
lying deposits of coal in the Ignite
coal belt of the state. In the regular
mining and mountainous districts
where coal lies hundreds of feet be-
low the surface the same conditions
do not exist.
The appropriation committees Of
both houses have practically decided
that the state hospital for the insane
will be entitled to and will recon-
mend the appropriation for mainten-
ance asked for, and which has been
practically agreed upon as necessary
for the next two years. In the mat
ter of building extension there will
be handsome appropriation but not
as much as asked, as the revenues of
the state will not permit it. The
hospital Is becoming more generally
recognized as an institution which is
of equal and necessary Importance to
every county in the state, and there
is a liberal disposition manifested In
the manner of it's maintenance and
it's extension, as demands on it in
crease from year to year. One of the
necessary improvements which can
be expected In the near future, will
be the construction Of spur track
to connect with the valley railroad
tracks for the economical handling Of
fuel and other supplies. 1t is posi-
BILE that at another session of the
legislature this can be secured.
Kidder county has appealed from
the decision which gave Burlefgh
county "a, ,073. o. as the share Of Kid
der county's indebtedness which was
held to apply on the eastern tier Of
townships taken from Burleigh coun-
ty and added to Kidder. The case
will go to the supreme court on an
appeal from the district court. Kid
der county wants both the land and
Burleigh county to pay tho share ..of
the Indebtedness incurred prior to
the transfer.
s Hettinssr county has n active
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