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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-08-19
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Present Companies Need all the
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the militia Of the state, that four
new companies are to be organized,
one at Grand Forks, one ct Kenmare,
and two at other points to be named.
Under the new code which went into
effect July: 1st last 1t appears that
the governor has no power to create
any militia organizations not pro.
vided by the statute, and until such
power is given the executive bY law,
it is claimed that the present estab-
;lishment Of the militia cannot be In
creased. The militia establishment
Is created by statute which defines
what the national guard shall consist
of, and provides that the companies
cannot be increased in number except
by an act of the legislature. This
provision, it is stated, was adopted
In the code to prevent the organiza-
stion of other than existing companies
until such time as the state appro-
priation would warrant. The appr0-
priations at present are claimed to
be inadequate to properly aid all the
present companies Of state militia.
There are now five companies In
the state, which have laken advan-
tage of the armory law, namely,
Hilisboro, Valley City, Dickinson,
Lisbon and Bismarck and several
other companies have been designated
to receive benefits from this law, In
icluding the jamestown company.
These companies have assumed bur-
dens, An addition to what will be
cared for by the state funds, which
indebtedness has to be taken care OF.
All the money that can be raised for
militia purposes will be needed BY
the present companies.
It seems that the law made q wise
provision to limit the number Of
companies until such time as the ap-
tpropriations;M M0uld warrant the crea,
'tion Of new ones. This also means q!
greater ef1ciency.in the organizations
now existing. 4
The state militia favor the organ
eization OF new companies, in any
town where there Is sufficient num-
ber of men, whenever the finances
for maintenance permit, and Capt.
Frazier, president of the state militia
association has compiled figures
showing it would cost the state mill
tia association sl9, 067.96 to equip
and sl2, 6s3. 80 to maintain annually
the four additional companies pro-
posed. Capt. Frazier has sent to the
officers Of the regiment an itemized
statement showing the expenses in-
svolved In the above figures.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-08-19
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BILE for slight injuries to 200 work.
men. Cortland Field Bishop, foreign:
representative Of the Aero club of
America, denied that the Wright
brothers purpose suing Mr.. Curtiss
for alleged violation Of their rights.
He added that the relations between
the Wrights and Mr.. Curtiss were
most cordial. n. {
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-08-19

The Mandan Pioneer takes the re-
cent election, as city commissioner,
of A. NJ. Packard for an omen to
warrant tha suggestion Of his name
as q candidate for governor Of the
state. The Pioneer gives Mr.. Pack
ard : fine send of, recalling his long
residence In the state, his republican
record and other qualifications and
makes out . good case for endorse.
ment for the man from Mandan.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-08-19
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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-08-19
JAMEsroWN NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY AUGUST 1g 1909
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The e IS 16key county.
Journal Gently had the following
Item concerning s well known James
town resident:
81. Friends Of William Kavanagh of
jamestown are anxious to see him
IN the race for governor in 1910. Mr..
Kavanagh came to this state from
Minnesota years ago, and has been
very successful ever since. He has q
host Of friends In both states who
would aid him materially, and he
would IN all probability be acceptable
to both wings Of the republican
party. y
The Spring Valley, Mimi, Mer-
cury-V Vidette commenting on the
above extract says:
1.-THE republican party of North
Dakota could not do better than
make William Kavanagh st James
town governor Of that state. We
have known him for thirty years,
and he was always q hustler, q man
you could depend on, and since he
moved to North Dakota he has full
filed the expectations Of all his
friends. and made a sound conserva-
tive business man who has achieved
success in the real estate business
and has likely done as much to adj
vance the interests Of his adopted
state 81. any man within its borders
today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19

be enforced, that is an admission that popular opininon would be opposed to the law; but if be true that juries could not be empanelled who would convict so degraded criminal as a drunkard, it nec- essarily follows that a statutory prohi- tion against the sale and use of intoXi- cants would be a dead letter.
 The next branch of the inquiry is as to the present necessity. I might appeal to men not as old as myself to sustain the assertion that the convival use of in- toxicants and the occurrence of drunken ness has become less frequent within the last twenty years than 1t was before The refining influence of education and Christianity may be credited with this result. Why not allow these blessed handmaidens of virtue and morality to continue. unembarrassed, their civilizing work. The parties to this discussion in this state have no doubt brought forward the statistical facts in regard to the ef- feet produced in other states by this to control morals by legislation, and l will not cucumber this letter by any refer ence to those facts.
 You have already provisions for local prohibition. If 1t has proven the wooden horse in which a disguised enemy to state sovereignty as the guardian of in- diyidual liberty was introduced, let 1t be a warning that the progressive march would probably be from villages to states and from states to United States; governmental supervision and paternity instead of the liberty the heroes of 1776 left as a legacy to their posterity. Im- pelled by the affection and gratitude I feel for the people of Texas, and the be- lief that a great question of American policy is involved in the issue you have before you. the silence that had hoped to observe has been broken. If the utter ance shall avail anything for good 1t will compensate me for the objurgations with which I shall doubtless be persued by the followers of the populism of the day. l hope that many who have addressed me letters of inquiry on the same sub ject will accept this answer, though somewhat long delayed.
 Faithfully yours,
 JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
CLYDE FITCH AT COLLEGE.
One of Dramatists' Amherst Chums
 Chats of His Characteristics.

From the Washington Herald.
 "IN knew Clyde Fitch at Amherst college when he was graduated in 1886, and l the year following" said Barry Bulkley, the lecturer last night. His death will be a shock to hund- reds of alumni of Amherst, who es- of mind and genius.
 "He entered Amherst at the age of IS and pursued the full course nee. essary for the A B. degree with a distinct dislike for the sciences. His bent was literary.
 We were together as editors of the weekly paper in college, Fitch doing the poetical work. His verses then were in demand by Life and oth- CT weel1lies, and he earned a hand some livelihood from his pen-enough. should say, to defray his expenses through college.
 'As a female impersonator in anna teur theatricals he. was unsurpassed. We, as college boys, went all through the New England circuit with The Country Girl MT. Augustin Daily giv. ing us permission to use his adapta- I dress, manner, and conception of the part, outrivaled Ada Renan, whose Peggy will long be remembered by theatregoers and stage historians.
 ''1n college he was very popular, despite certain efficiency of manner and speech which were marked, but were unnoticed entirely when one knew the man. No one was more keen in his interest in manly sports than Fitch, and he enjoyed the affec- tion of the entire college.
 "He had penchant for decorative work, whether embellishing the walls and furnishings of his quarters at col lege, or in preparing the stage for the amateur theatricals given by the students. At Smith college, located not far away from the Amherst col lege, no private theatricals or enter. tainments were considered complete unless Fitch was called in to give them the finishing touches. He simp ly had to develop these talents, as they were inborn. In later years, when his plays were eagerly sought for by the biggest managers in the country he always insisted upon a clause in the contract which permitted him per sonally to supervise and conduct the rehearsals. Many a unique piece of business or tasteful stage setting was directly conceived by Fitch and put into execution by the managers, who were astute enough to recognize that his was the touch of genius"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19

be taken to pieces and carried upstairs on our backs in burlap bags. Or, better still, one that can be divided into sections about as big as a bootjack and that the cook can carry up in her disphan.
 Tone? If there is anything ilalhouss piano doesn't want it's tone. Every one has too much tone. Nine out of ten own CTS of 1athouse pianos are afraid to touch them for fear the neighbors will hear how they play.
 They never touch the things except when they run dusting rag over the keyboard to let the other tenants know they've got a piano. That's what flat house pianos are for.
 Yes" the boss of the crew went on, 'the sort of detachable piano I have been talking about would make less employ ment for us, but there Is something easier and more profitable coming for us. It Is already here in a small and growing way"
 In answer to a question as to the new branch of the moving business the cap tain of the crew said:
 Funerals They are not likely to make hathouse halls so narrow and crooked that you can't go up and down thro Ugh them while you are alive. But suppose you happen to die there? Some of us die at home in spite of automobile, trolley, and other accidents
 Now, in modern, up-to-date flat or a toy apartment house with an elevator there is only one way of getting you out if you die there-fall and tackle When you are deceased you can't be up-ended and juggled with like piano. You must come down on an even keel, so to speak. It can't be done through the halls or in the little elevator cages, and they come to us.
 Honest? Of course, I'm talking hon est. All piano-movers have calls to offi- ciate at flat and apartment house funer- als.
 And it pays well; it's easy money. All
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
JEFFERSON DA VZS' TIE Us ON
 lADIENDNENZ PROPOSI7IOA

for not replying was my unw1llingness to enter into a controversy in which my friends in Texas stood arrayed against each other. In departing from the rule heretofore observed, l trust 1t will be an unwarrantable intrusion.
 Reared in the creed of democracy, my faith in its tenets has grown with it's growth and I adhere to the maxim that the world Is governed too much"
 When our fathers achieved their inde- pendence, the corner stone they con- structed was individual liberty, and the social organization they established was not for the surrender but for the pro- lection of the natural rights. For this governments were established, derived their just powers from the con- sent of the governed. This was not to subject themselves to the will of the ma- jority, that appears from the fact that each community insisted in its fundamen- tai law a bill of rights to guard the in alienable privileges of the individual.
 There was then a two-fold purpose in government-protectio and prevention against trespass by the strong upon the weak the many on the few. The world had long suffered from the expressions of government under the pretext of rul- ing by divine right. and excusing the in VdSlOn lnIO pTlNdtt HDQ uOiICobiC diIoAi on the plea of paternal care for the nor als and good order of the people.
 Our sires rejected all such pretensions. their system being. government for the people, by the people and resting on the basis of natural, inalienable rights. Upon the basis of the general proposi- tions I will briefly answer the inquiry in regard to the prohibition amendment issue.
 Be ye temperate in all things" was a wise injunction and would apply to in- tolerance as well as drunkenness. That the incorporate use of intoxicating liq- uor is an evil, few, if any, would deny. That 1t is at the root of many social disorders Is conceded; but then the ques- ton arises, what Is the appropriate rem edy, and what the present necessity? To destroy individual liberty and moral responsibility would be to eradicate one evil by the substitution of another, which, 1t Is admitted would be more fatal than that for which 1t wss offered as a rem edy The abuse, and not the use of stimulants, 1t must be confessed, Is the evil to be remedied. Then, 1t clearly fol- lows. that action should be directed to the abuse rather than the use. If drunk enness be the cause of disorder and crime, why not pronounce drunkenness itself to be crime and attach to 1t proper and adequate penalties. If 1t be objected that the penalties could not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
PIANO MOVERS AT FUNERALS.
New Departure Is Made To Answer
 Modern FIathouse Demand.

From the Boston Herald.
 Sorry to be in your way, sir" said the able-bodied captain of piano-moving crew, but we'll move along in min ute."
 He was holding on his sh11lder a cor wedged between newel post and door casing.
 How is she up there?" he asked one Of tic men on the landing above.
 Well, let her come down and we'll end for end her. said the captain. One of you crawl under and get down here with me-"
 The man from above slid down under the piano, and it was dislodged from It's squeeze and lowered. Then the two men took it seemingly on the tips of their fin- gers, as a millinery salesgirl holds an Easter hat turned it over endwise, and faced 1t about, and then showed it up into the space they were trying to put t through.
 How is she pow?" the captain asked the one man left above. Lacks about a thirty-Sscond or an inch of going through" was the reply. Put your shoulder against the newel
 post. and see if 1t won't give that much, v said the boss There was a cracking of wood and a voice came back: .aSiyty-fourth of an inch scant yet "Hing the bell in the flat there and ask for a dab of vaseline," commanded the captain. His helpers laughed, and he said: .Wen, we'll have to let her down and l turn her once more' This time the piano went through. anu while the men were taking preatn the | captain of the crew talked. s"The plano manufacturers are not Keep | ing pace with the nathouse builders, ne said. Some piano foundries turn out in struments that can be taken up In sec tions through almost any hall. But wha' the demand calls for is . plano that can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19

Several years ago the democrats of Texas defeated a constitutional amend ment prohibiting the sale of liquor The contest was the most exciting md heated ever known In that state. One of the most effective documents in the cam paign was a letter from Jefferson Davis, who had been the beloved President of the Confederacy. No man since Calhoun more thoroughly understood the true theo- ", limitations and principles of govern ment. Jefferson Davis was not only patriot, but man who saw with pro- phetic vision the defects as well as beau- ties of our complex system of govern ment. No clearer more powerful and compact statement of the purpose of all free government was ever made than is contained in this celebrated letter. The warning which he gave to the people of Texas might well be needed by the leg islature of Alabama. Mark these words: "The world had long suffered from the oppression of government under the pre- text of ruling by divine right and ex- cusing the invasion into private and do- mestic affairs on the plea of paternal care for the morals and good order of the people. Our sires rejected all such pretensions." The letter fin full is as follows:
 Beauvoir, Miss, July 20. 1ss7 Col. F. R. Lubbock
 My Dear Friend.-Yours of the 12th inst, with its inclosures has been re- ceived I have heretofore declined to answer any of the inquiries made for my opinion on the constitutional amend ment now pending in Texas. My reason
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
Fan Hat Styles

No other Birmingham store ever sold as good $2 hat as Saks "Dixie," nor one with such good style-also Birming- alas $3, Saks Specials $3.5O, Saks Empire Derby" $4 and Dunlap $5, the style leaders. Fall shapes are ready and they look good. Seen those 1y- rolenas-imported? At Saks' only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
.Fa11 Shoe Styles

We're ready now to show about as snappy a lot of Mems Shoes as any mer- chant ever got together-those Saks Hess shoes of quality, $5.5O, $6 and $6.5O and Saks' $3.5O and $4 Specials which we guarantee best ever at the price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19

we have to do is to put a couple of slngs around the box and swing it out of the window with the old piano fall and tac- lxle And the body comes down from any height right side up and with care.
 '.It suits me. We don't have to get in a sweat the way we are now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
Didn't Hit Her.

From Judge. .
 My ma makes me wheel this ba- around all afternoon and I don't like it declared the poorly dressed little cal taker to the inquisitive lady who acco ed her in the park
 T gues see where the shoe pinchei said the lady, observing a group | other little girls playing games liq way off.
 shOes!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
Operating for the Musical Touch.

OPCF dtfITI TUT cfTC NTuSTSdt VOS''' From Everybody's Ma Razine.
 A baseball player had two fingers of his right hand pretty badly bunged up in practice, and on his way home from tho grounds he dropped into doctors office to have them attended to-
 Doctor" he asked anxously as he was leaving when this paw of mine heals will I be able to play a piano?"
 Certainly you will" the doctor assured him.
 well. then, you're a wonder, Doc. never could before."
The Washington times., 1909-09-26

as memory Of his boyhood," as an
other phrases II, he had even then a
heart for hard work and a passion for
reading. Napoleon was his hero and
the child wilfully shaped himself after
the Corsicans model.
RestIessness was I'm the air these
years. The story Of Lewis and Clark
was only IN the telling, the days Of
the voyageurs was not yet done, and
the ffties We're fun of talk of
Nicollet and Fremont. while gold-hunt-
ers streamed TO California. a less ac-
tive boy would have caught the fever.
II took young Hill first to work on
a farm near Syracuse, then to Maine,
and then forever shaped his life and
slanted the future Of the Northwest by
starting him toward India and the
Ganges. with a dream or organizing
for that artery OF water trade a far
reaching system Of transportation. b.
train. horseback. and steamer he made
his way 70 Chicago and pressed on
to St. Paul. But he reached this last
named city, proud I'm the 5000 inhab-
ftants. Just too late TO join the last
caravan for the Pacific.
The Washington times., 1909-09-26
The Nan in the Making

THERE was no marking time for
1 the young traveller. He went
after A Job with a hustle. The firm
of Bass & Co. agents for the Du-
buque and ST. Paul Packet Line, need
ed a mud clerk" sort of shipping
clerl, and Ievee boss in one. Hill
asked fl he could have the Job. Could
he handle il? Yes. Had he had any
experience?' He had "been A clerk four
years"
AR HU did not tell me Of his life
at that time. Probably he has not told
any one else. But IL IS said that old
settlers stiIl remember the broad
backed, bIack-haired youth who strobe
about the levee with his trousers
stuffed into his boots, rushing his
worlzmcn 10 the last minute He was.
they say. leader Of the skylarking, the
loudest laughter the holdest joker, and
his minicry and French Canadian
stories gave Joy to the life Of me
pioneer Guards.
But fun did not occupy him TO the eN-
cIusion Of other things. He studied TIE
freight so constantly that even today
as ne walks from the Minnesota Club
70 his Offices he viii cock his head on
enc side TO read the trademarks on the
barrels Of q passing dray. At that time
Fhe was making regular deposits to a
furd OF Information on new farming
( for Minnesota. the Indians and the FUR
trade. and the voyages of the eXplOr-
ers Of the Northwest. 10 was he who
set up the first threshing machine in
I tnat locality, VINO cut the stencil FOR
I the first barrel of -four, and brought
! together the first cargo OF wheat ship
ned from the valley of the Minnesota.
some accident brought to his hand
/ Iryiug's astoria and gave him the
/ rar-seeing John Jacob Aston TO dream
! upon This thrifty old trader would
I have had chain Of depOts over the
! Rockies TO the coast. Beyond the Pa
/ cffc. even. they were TO reach 20 Ha-
+ waH and China After the sun he would
! troop, carrying civilization and flndinf
pro6t. Astor bad failed. But Hill still
Z clerk and striving dollar by dollar 10
ward salary of 800 month, believed
/ ne would not fail
The Washington times., 1909-09-26
A Success From Digging of
Dirt and Laying of Rails,
Not of Ticker's Whirr.
MASTER WHO CAME
UP FROM THE RANKS
One Who h>>z5feiePed Great North
west foe Good OF The
Peopls.

ern Offices. With a purpose To nat.s
himself secure against similar attack IN
the future he organized a holding cor
poration to make his control OF his
railroads permanent beyond attack in
the market or change OF allies The
Northern Securities Company Was -
result and II is well within the truth
to say that every other operator in rail-
roads on a large scaie-Morgan. Harrf-
man. Vanderbilt. Gould. tire Pennsyl-
vania interests and NE Rock Island
grOUD--looked on at the test OF this
corporation in the courts with plans
ready to create like corporations il tho
law should permit. II old not so per
nit. And now the roads are legally
separate. the stock Is printed in differ
ent colOrs. and Mr.. Hill, as chairman OF
the board Of the Great Northern, Is
content with having his son president
of that road. and meeting Howard El-
lott. president Of the Northern Pacific.
at luncheon one day and George T.
Harrih. president Of the Burlington, al
dinner the; next
The ltJrthern Securities Company was
officially destroyed But the decision Of
/ the linked States Supreme Court did
not and probably could not destroy Mr.
ldnrs control over 23OOo miles OF railway
track
II was TO this man / went this past
week for an interview. Mr.. Hill is not
accustomed to state his opinions through
interviews. He told me he had granted
but two or three in all lis business life
ana none in recert years. For this one
lie was unwilling i should take notes
as he talked. and he required that when
had transcribed my recollection OF
what he had said I should bring IN,
notes 10 him for revision. I did 80. o..
course. What is credited TO him in this
article, therefore, is not only what an
interviewer remembers MIN 10 have said
but what he has himself gone over and
in places. altered in his own hand
writing.
Ny plan was that he should talk ga
the future Of railroad management IN
this country. He objeeSed that the sub
jet was TOO large. Then came his dec
laration that the systems as now Or
ganized have reached the limit deter
mined by the law, the markets, and the
capabilities Of the men who must run
them. From which he went on to say