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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-04-07

NEW PAMPHLET FOR HOME
rs SEEKERS.

The Northern Pacific has issued g
new publication entitled. Honl1e- on
seekers Pamphlet No. ,.:s which
quotes the Home seekers fares to the
northwest. giving full details withsre-
gard to limits, stop poyers. etc. and
containing an excellent map Of the
system, together with g brief digest
Of the cond ditions as they exist from
the homsteaders' stand point in the
several states 4 trayersed, namely,
Minnesota North Dakota, n ontana,
Idaho, washington and Oregon. Cop
les OF this pamphlet may be obtained.
supon applic tion TO 4A N. Cleland, j a
General Passenger Agent, Northern
Pacific Railway, ST: Paul: Il,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-04-07
R. R. CONTRACT let
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE PIN
GREE-WILToN BRANCH OF
NORTHERN PACIFIC.

All doubt about the construction of
the Pingree-W Wilton line this year, ap-
pears to be over as contractors were
here last Saturday making arrange
ments to begin grading work the
11th of April.
The general contract was let to
Guthrie & Co., st. Paul and rs miles
of that contract has already been SUBJ
let to two contractors, Edward Swer-
ingen of New Salem and James To-
bin of Seattle. Both contractors ar
rived Friday and registered at the
Gladstone hotel. Mr.. Tobin has
force of 48 teams and las been work.
ing on Great Northern contracts near
Culbertson, Mont. Contractor Swer-
ington has force Of IS teams which
have been wintering at New Salem
and were engaged in grading on the
N. P. extension west of the river last
year.
The new work will be rushed for
ward as rapidly as possible and any
farmer or anyone else who desires to
do any part of the work, can ar
range for the same by seeing the
contractors. 1t is said that little
better price per cubic yard will be
paid this year than last.
There are all kinds of work for
men and teams on this extension this
summer. The contracts with the
railroad company calls for the COM
pletion of the line October LIST, next.
The laying of rails and the con-
struction of bridges, culverts, ETC.,
will be done following the grades as
closely as possible. Mr.. Tobin was
looking up the purchase of oats for
his horses, and expects to buy about
10000 bushels. The bridge over the
Pipestem will be an iron pipe sup
port bridge. It is said that some of
the grades on the new line as left
by the engineers will be pretty steep
as high as per cent grades, but these
may be reduced before the rails are
finally laid. Engineer Boston has
charge of the east half Of the work. Z
The contractors went to Pingree
today to make some preliminary ar
rangements for the starting of the
big railroad camp.
It is said that G. X. Wing of Car
rington is the townsite agent for the
new towns expected to be started on
the new line. Mr.. Wing is at pres
ent sick in the hospital in St. Paul.
It was reported that Contractor
Whittier, who had contract on the
Midland Continental, but who is not,
to complete that line, has taken
large contract for grading on the G.
N. The report was that Mr.. Whit
tier had taken contract on the Pin
gree-Wilton extension, but this is
said to-. be incorrect.
The railroad building in the county
and the farm work to be done this
spring, summer and fall will keep
every man and team busy until it
freezes up. Good wages can be
made between seeding and harvest
by any one who has equipment for
railroad work.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-04-07
DINING CAR INSTRUCTORS


a circular IL out announcing that
the Northern Pacidc. April list, ap-
pointed two dining car Instructors
.to give Instructions from time to
time al Will make the servics 90 near
II perfect as possible. To quote the
circular, these instructors while on
duty will wear uniform cap showing
their title Their duties win be to
teach ana to show. and also TO e.
plain Ii person, the different bulle-s
tins issued from time TO time In order
that the service viii be the same
On all sof the cars, and ito help the
crews of dining cars become more
expert with their duties.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-04-07
pen l.NYlE! |: | S'TIG'IA r';ss:';;ss
IEXANIINATIO ADE MONTHS
AGO, N or YET .5$
r REPORTED

$500 The last t$legtSlatuT0 Il authorized a.
continuance of the Investigation. Of
stha Biam arck penitentiary and 4 COM
smtttee was appoi dl led consisting 81
sthe govern 81. secretary, of state and
The state auditor IA ss,,peryise the ex-.
4 e ina +tnn ~ stha inati itnt I'm ri Thev =.
were em noweref to3 ira exnerts Is
exam ine ina hooks accounts ana rec
or91a and tn "a Z oroi II, investi-
pati i'm y ftta3 =, = ora and allegations
regard - ~ institn,tion. This vas
done = March e I, bv; the legisl e
tnres5 Along n Anp,,st t,,a renort
dated IN tha s7t 81 that month, and
f,led ! few diava later anneared, At-
F+antion had beenf called s. Is m The long
DELAY 81 nearly EIGHT months ~ nal
eng the finding % ofs that Investigation
5n,mhl;c Nothing Il has heen heard
from the result of that expensiye and d
careful inveati at m rha srenort
was = have - .1, 1heen ~ rIwarded to5 mam- %
hars :, : - y the ~ ',ee,s,stn,,a I'm. a. far.i
( i is not known that thew have r Re.
/ ,ceived Il.
IS i 4, 81 derstood Il. the investigation
baa cost .oma s460O ali told to. to
1 datp wb,ch = nrnha h,v MT ali sof the
cost Tha 1neonle Who were lead Is
s 8bal,ave =, at there we're grave offenges
- connected with the management Of
+ba43 inst ;t.tinns ,wonld IKE Ia know
58,,; what the aid regime IS responsible!
md a whether the, the investigation
= g con ilucted +, erely for campaign
nurnos oses g, a. not: AMI, il not what was
the n ale 3fnr t,,., q men nditnre g state
5sfnrnf,s The legislature demanded;
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-04-07
UNLIMITED SUPPLY
Of Pure WATER.
gAMEsTOWN's NEW WATER sYs-
TEN "a GREAT SUCCESS.
FINE, CLEAR WATER


Congratulated over the unlimited sup
ply OF pure, wholesome water which
the new water works system now
provides. The preliminary test
made of the four wells Thursday,
and which showed a large supply Of
the very best water was continued
Friday. The pump hoisted water
from the battery Of four big wells,
the machinery running steadily for
three hours The results showed an
unlimited supply of water for all
city purposes. The standpipe on the
hill was filed in a short time to the
top and water ran over the sides.
The big pump worked on all four
wells but it is believed that two, or
even one well would answer the pur-
pose for ordinary uses of the city,
SO great is the supply from our sub
terranean reservoir. a portion Of the
city hydrants and the dead ends of
some Of the water mains were flush
ed out. All water mains of the city
will be cleaned and thoroughly flush
e't ed with the water from the new
plant. .Ss3 81.
The chief difficulty found at the
pumping house was to measure ac-
curately the quantity Of water pump
ed from the we'll. The !. big water
meter did not measure all of the wa
ter 80 great was the amount forced
through the pipes. Part Of the sup
ply went directly from the pump into
the mains, and parts was registered
by the meter, which showed a supply
Of 1900 gallons minute. It is prob
able that 1000 gallons minute, II
not more, can be pumped from the
battery of wells. The, necessary
pumping service to. furnish the city
with abundant supply Of water will
require hut + short time each day.
The expert who installed the pump
and plant for the manufacturers, is
highly pleased over the results, and
Mayor Blewett and the city council
are equally delighted with the first
showing from the the new water sup
ply. 1t is said that the water Is
softer, than the old water and can
be used for laundry purposes with
much greater satisfaction. When the
water first comes from the well it is
slightly discolored on account Of the
presence of air particles. These
soon disappear and the water be-
comes Of beautiful crystal clear
ness, and is fine drinking water, as
the analysis taken sometime ago
shows. The guage indicates that the
water can be lowered in the pipes on
" about ten feet by the pump work
ing its full capacity. This shows
that there are still 65 feet Of water
out of the total Of Is feet standing
in; the four wells. It was impossi-
bile to lower the water further, and
the rush into the wells lis SO great
that over two million gallons day
could be pumped from the wells at
the rate which the guage indicated
yesterday afternoon in the three
hours Of steady pumping. This is
an enormous supply, greater than g
city OF twice this size would need.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
THE DARLING OF BROADWAY.

Emma Trentini is one of those
fashionable squee-squaw opera sing
ers. She is known as "The Darling of
Broadway" and she gets $1,000 a
week for tearing her sole-leather
goozle in a New York theatre
'Tother day Emma took a notion to
play trick on the public and see
how much they really knew about
music. So she went out incognito
and became a street singer. What
happened? Why. the fool public did
not know it was the great Trentini
whom they had often paid three or
four dollars to hear in New York
theatre, and so they flung her few
old pennies and nickels and told her
to hush up. Think of that! And
the dear thing was giving them the
very best she had in her shop, too
the very same quality of warble that
they had often paid high to hear.
What does the fool public know a.
bout music, anyhow? Nothing. They
just pay these fancy prices to make
other fools think they are cultured"
but they don't know their classical
squealing without the label on it,
I'll bet my old hat you could put
up a long-eared jackass in a New
York theatre, tell the gang it was a
great prima donna, and you could
pack the house at two dollars ahead
And after the jackass had brayed for
a couple of hours the suckers would
go home and tell the other folks what
| fine music they heard. Such con-
founded classical ignorance makes
me want to spew, and I don't claim
to know B from bulls foot about
I music.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

w.. That is great dope that Jim Pear
son hands out in that "gol-darn" pa
per of his, "The Fool-Killer" And
he doesn't hesitate to lambast anyone
from little Johnny Jones and up the
toboggan to good old John Dee. And
he does it in such way that the
homely truth of his statements sorter
sinks into your soul and sticks there
like LePage's. We all dote on that
kind of stuff as a mental recreation
after hard days chase after the root
of all evil, and Jim's being an anna
teur journalist makes it all the more
precious to us. Go ahead, Jim, and
give 'em f1ts-"de bunch is wild ye,"
even unto John w. Smith, the Phil
istine.-Paul Colborn Oliphant, War
rem, Ohio.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
Correspondence.

for you. Claw, yes, brother, l reck-
on l do know Jefferson. It was at
Jefferson, in the year 1900, that I
took my first lesson in printing. I
went there broke, and came away
still broker" but / had got printers
ink on my fingers, as We say, and
my first little taste of newspaper life,
and I kept on adding to that exper-
ience until it finally blossomed out
into The Fool-Killer. Let me hear
from you again, Mr.. McClure.-Ed)
ELIJAH HORNER, Potosi, Wis.,
Editor Fool-Killer, Dear Sir:-I
think l am the first man that sub
scribed for The Fool-Killer | sent in
my subscription before it was born.
will renew now, so | will be sure
not to miss copy of your paper.
want copy of every issue as long
as [ am able to dig up the price.
Would like to see your picture in
The Fool-Killer, SO I could see how
you look. | am not much of a writer,
but when I get a little time to spare
[ am going to write letter to my
friend, The Fool-Killer. This time l
send money order and the names of
| four of my neighbors. The order
| looks small for so much fun. Please
do not send me the premium. 1t is
no trouble to get subscribers to The
Fool-Killer You may send me some
samples and I will send a larger club
soon.
l.. L. STRASBURGER, 1913 South
Broadway, Baltimore, Md.-Editor o1
The Fool-Killer, Dear Sir:-You will
no doubt remember the writer, as
met you some time ago in NeAtf
Wilkesboro, in Absher & Blackburn
store, and subscribed to your paper
| also told you at that time that upol
some more subscriptions. l do no
wish you to send me a premium, a:
l am doing this purely out of friend
ship, and I am very desirous of see
ing your subscription list doubled
You will find enclosed the list o
subscribers, also a check for SAB
to cover same Best wishes for
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year. (Yes, Bro. Strasburger, l re
call very pleasantly our meeting il
North Wilkesboro, and i hope to Sc
you again next time you swim
around to this side of the circle
Many thanks for the nice club. Hop
you can get up several more like il
-Editor)
; Answer to Correspondent:
c.. S.-Yes. God keeps books
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

The trouble is, when you get
lot Of advice, you have to go
around and get a lot more advice
about which advice you had bet
ter take.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

al shame and disgrace, and the
peanut statesmen who are re-
sponsible for it ought to be wrap
ped in a polecat hide and buried
head down ards in an ash-hoppsr.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

The Fool-Killer is just as indie
pendent as a niger at a corn
shucking or an old setting hen
in the barn loft. If you don't
like it, you'll have to lump it.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

saw copy Of The Fool-Killer and
liked it. If you will send me bunch
of sample copies 1 think l can get
you some subscribers, and if l can't,
l am going to take it myself, anyway.
J. B. LEACH, Hiddenite, N. c.
Editor Fool-Killer, Dear Sir:--Please
send your paper one year to the en-
closed names. l will send you some
more subscribers soon. | will do all
I can for you and your paper. Happy
Christmas to you.
GEO. D. POOL, Elizabeth City, N.
c. Editor Fool-Killer, Dear Sir
I write for a sample copy of The
Fool-Killer. I am very much taken
with it. You deserve credit. I can't
find the copy you sent me some time
ago, so please send me another copy
and I'll get you some subscribers.
Send it at once, please, and [ will
make up club.
B. F. VANCE, Bristol, Tenn.-Dear
Friend: THE Fool-Killer arrived O.
K, and it is replete with humor. The
eulOgy on the Calf" is worth $500.
(Mr. Vance is himself gifted writer
and the editor of The Baptist Red
Light, published at Bristol. Some of
his editorial hits are nearly as hard
as The FOol-Killer hands out, only
they are mostly along a different
line.-Editor.)
G. w. HOWE, Campton, Ky.-Ed-
itor Fool-Killer, Dear Sir:-You will
find enclosed Is cents for one years
subscription to The Fool-Killer. re-
ceived a copy yesterday, and it i'm
pressed me very much. It beats any
thing l have ever seen. I am not so
much after the fun of it, but you hit
them so sensibly that I enjoy read
ing it. You beat the world. I hope
I will be able to send you some sub
scribers some time. (Why, sure,
Mr.. Howe, you can get just "oodlins"
of subscribers and not half try. Tell
your friends it never will do for them
to miss getting The Fool-Killer.-
EditOr)
GEO. SEARCY, Proximity, N. c.
Editor Fool-Killer, Dear Sir:-I have
just read an ad in the paper that
made me acquainted with you to a
r ~, r RI
write you and try to get familiar
with you as much as possible. ]
have always heard of a man of your
name, but not until now did [ know
where he lived, and l believe there
are a good many people here in the
same fix, and my writing this letter
know you better, and | want my
friends to learn of you and be wise
and at the same ti1e try to help yor
by getting your paper started here
So I want several sample copies, one
for myself, and one apiece for a:
many of my friends as you will send
1 will be glad to pass them arount
and ask my friends to subscribe.
r. F. MCCLURE, Hallsville, w. Va
-Editor Fool-Killer, Dear Sir:-En
closed find Is cents for which pleas
send your paper one year to the en-
closed names. Mr.. Pearson, I woul'
like to meet you. My home is a
Jefferson, N. c. I guess you knov
the place. I love your paper. May
be I can get some more subscriber
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

Every day is bargain day
with The Fool-Killer. One dollar
value for Is cents-or for Is
cents if you come five in bunch.
Come across, gentlemen, come a.
cross.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

President Lowell, of Har-
ward, has shown his pitiful ignor-
ance. He recently stated that the
object of going to college was to
study and learn. Isn't that
corker? Why, everybody knows
that the object Of going to college
is to play football and get hazed.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01

I wish somebody would invent
me some right plum nice-sound-
ing words that would mean some
thing awful nasty. I want to
write another piece about the
girl who dips snuff and the boy
who makes calf of himself and
mistakes an old cigarette for a
cow.
The fool-killer., 1910-12-01
TOM, DICK, HARRY AND THE
DEVIL.


piece of graft, fraud and humbug
in the world than the pension
business Of the United States as
at present conducted.
IT. all right and proper to
fork over a moderate allowance
to the old one-legged Johnnies
who fought, bled and were NOR
tally scared on the field of battle.
It's perfectly right to pension the
widows of those same Johnnies.
But doggon my ily-white hide if
there isn't something devilish rot
ten up Pension Creek these days.
It has been long enough since
the Civil War for nearly all the
old soldiers and their widows to
be gone on home, and naturally
the pension list would have dwin-
died down considerably. But in
stead Of that, the blamed thing
grows larger every year.
1t seems that when an old SOL
dier dies they put all his broth
ers, sisters, umcles and aunts on
the pension roll. And then when
they are called up higher (o1
down lower, as the case may be)
all their children and grand
children are put on in their stead
And now, nearly fifty years af
ter the conflict, we have five
times as many pensioners as we
had at the close Of the war.
It's getting so here Of late that
if a man s dog runs a rabbit
through an old battlefield, tht
man can have the rabbit, the dos
and himself put on the pension
roll. And if a rooster scratches
worms in a barn-lot where Sher
man s men stole a horse, it en-
titles that rooster to a pension
A recent issue Of the World :
, Work gives some pension fgurei
that are enough to knock a hors'
= down. It shows that in 1866, on
year after the war closed, tn
pension appropriations amounte<
to fifteen million dollars, while il
e. the year Of Graft 1910, nearly
= half-century after the close Of tn
war, the pension swindle calls fo
y one hundred and sixty million
dollars.
n The devil and Tom Walker
q Any person with half the sense o
q a last years fool knows tha
there is only one way to explain
q it. Several million grand rascal
are on the pension rolls who hav
no more right there than ho
has in paradise.
Oh, if we just had a few me
with something sitter than
yarn ravelling for backbone w
: might hope to get rid Of some 0
J. this Internal graft. But ou
d hired gang are all such blame
e towards that they are afraid t
q say boo to a calf without a nigge
d to hold it, and so we must g
e right on handing out fat rolls G
n greenback to a million or so c
e unprincipled thugs who neve
It saw a musket nor smelled gur
n powder In all their WORTHLESS
1t lives.
a- It has been proven that one bi
e rusty niger has for years bee
ID drawing five different pensions
," and every last one Of them fraut
l. ulent And there are Thousand
r Of others doing the same thing
This state of 2 ffa i1,s is q raatin1
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-24
RAILROADS MAY COMBINE
ON CHICAGO SWITCHING
Cooperative Plan Is Expected to
Save Millions Annually to
Commercial Interests

CHICAGO, May 23.-Millions of dol
lars wasted annually through made
quate and unscientific methods of in
terchanging freight cars between the
different railways in congested ter
minals of Chicago will be saved to
commercial interests and railroads, 1t
is claimed, if plans of Encouragement
and joint ownership of the terminal
tracks now under consideration by
some of the leading railroad executives
become a reality.
The latest schemes for placing the
freight interchange traffic of the Chi
cago switching district on a co-opera-
tive basis provides for the construc-
tion of all, or as many as possible, of
the switching and terminal roads of
the city under the joint ownership of
the trunk lines, with the Belt railway
as a nucleus.
1t is understood this plan contem-
plates the possible consolidation into
a $100000,000 corporation of the belt
read, owned by the Western Indiana,
which in turn is owned by the five
trunk lines mentioned: The Indiana
Harbor Belt railroad, owned by the
New York Central; the Baltimore &
Ohio. Chicago Terminal railway, for
merly the Chicago Terminal Transfer,
which was purchased in January this
year by the Baltimore & Ohio, and the
Chicago Union Transfer company.
AS at present constituted these COM
panies have an aggregate mileage of
573 miles and total capitalization in
stocks and bonds of nearly $50, ,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-24
CALIFORNIA H0STLER HEIR
TO AN EASTERN ESTATE
Long Lost Brother Proves Iden-
tity and Gets $4,000

WORCESTER, Mass, May 23-Al-
though he had not seen his sister,
who supposed him dead, for thirty
eight years, William VIENNA, hostler
of San Mateo, Cal, was able to prove
himself to be the only heir to her $685.
900 estate and today Judge William T.
Forbes of the probate court allowed
his claim.
The estate involved was that OF Mrs.
Jennie S. Miller of Athol, who died
on July 2, 1908, leaving no known
heirs. The court appointed a public
administrator to take charge of the
estate at the time, but recently a
stranger appeared and entered a claim
to the property. In his petition he de-
scribed himself as William VIENNA,
otherwise known as William McVenna
and William McIlvaine. Vienna and
his sister were born in Ireland and
both came to this country before the
Civil War Vienna worked as a hostler
in Boston until the war, when he en-
listed and his sister removed to New
York, where he last saw her in 1872
VIENNA removed to California and the
sister later married an iAthol man.
She told her friends in Athol that as
her brother had not been heard from
for many years she supposed he was
dead
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-24
FOUR MORE |ND|CTED0N
BUCKET SHOP CHARGES
Department of Justice Opens New
Line of Prosecution on
Alleged Gamblers

WASHINGTON, May 23.-The de-
partment of justice took a new tack
coday in the crusade against bucket
shops. In addition to the conspiracy
charge made against twentynine men
in the cities of New York, Jersey City,
Baltimore and washington last April,
the department today lodged a com
plant of a direct violation Of section
S65 of the district code, which forbids
bucketing or setting up gaming table
in the district.
This direct charge of operating a
bucket shop in the district is made
against the persons who are said to
constitute the Standard Stock and Ex-
change company of Jersey City.
Four additional persons, who were
not mentioned in previous indictments
are now named. These are Samuel w.
Adler and c. A. Tillis, known among
his associates as "Cat" Tillis of New
York, and William Fox and e. M.
Browning of Baltimore.
Two indictments were returned to-
day, charging conspiracy and the set
ting of a gaming table against these
four men, in addition to nine east
ern men.
All are charged not only with enter
ing into conspiracy to violate the dis
trict law against bucket shops, but
also with being actually engaged In
the conduct of the brokerage business
run here in the name of Duryee q CO.