Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-02-16

H. jewell should be imbued with the
same spirit of adventure and he was
an early resident of the Territory of
Dakota.
Mr.. jewell was born at Hector, on
the banks of Seneca lake, in New
York state, April 20, 1857. The
banks of this lake were then covered
with heavy growth of pine and
hardwood timber and those who now
revel in the vineyards that have TAX
en- the place of the former pine for
ests can have but faint conception
Of the primitiveness of central New
York back in the fifties. Mr.. Jewell's
father was newspaper man and at
the breaking out of the Civil war
was conducting paper called the
Bee at Ovid, N. Y. Later he went to
the Yates County Chronicle at Penn
Yam, N. Y, but not until he had made
a trip to Grand Rapids, Mich, with
his wife and the subject of this
sketch in arms, to file on a piece of
government land-to reach which it
was necessary to blaze trail twenty
five miles into virgin forest. Refused
enlistment in the army on account
of disability, Mr.. Jewell, Sr., pro-
ceeded to clear a farm in the pine
woods. 1t was amidst such, surround
ings that the younger Jewell obtained
the lessons in hard knocks that have
served him fairly well in after years.
His early schooling was such as
could be obtained in log building
with equal primitive teachers. The
building of a railroad brought town
within three miles of the Jewell "op-
ening" and for a couple of years Mr.
Jewell walked to town to attend
school in Cedar Springs. Not a sue
cess as a farmer the elder Jewell
went to Chicago in the latter sixties
to work Eat his trade" leaving the
family on the farm, and was an en-
ploye of the Chicago Tribune before
and after the great fire in 1871. Hav-
ing learned something of the printers
trade On the Clipper at Cedar Springs,
Mr.. Jewell went to Chicago to join his
father and later the family moved to
Wheaton. ILL.,, where.sfor q brief per-
iod Mr.. Jewell attended the Wheaton
college.
In 1876. after working on several
Chicago papers, Mr.. Jewell was made
foreman of the Daily Courier. later
was assistant telegraph editor of the
Telegram, on whose presses the first
issue of the Chicago Daily News
were printed.
The Telegram died after something
of struggle and, with Stanley Hunt
ley, later of "Spoopendyke" fame,
who was then on the Chicago Times,
Jewell came to st. Paul, and on west
in 1878 to Bismarck, then the end of
the track of the Northern Pacific.
Huntley and Jewell had been in
duced to come to the territory by
Major Edwards, who had just located
at Fargo in the newspaper business
and saw a hot political campaign
ahead. The result was a purchase
largely with notes endorsed by mis-
cellaneous number of Bismarckers in
in the campaign, of the Bis
marck Tribune, founded and then
owned by Col. c.. A. Lounsberry.
remained little over year,
made meteoric newspaper and social
record, married the sister of Lieut..
Josiah Chance Of Fort Abraham Lin
coin, and went to Brooklyn, N. Y,
TO add more fame by the writing Of
The Spoopendyke letters for the
Eagle.
Mr.. jewell remained with the Tri-
oune, Col. Lounsberry again taking
charge editorially and Mr.. Jewell con-
Quoting the job department, until
hree years later when Mr.. Jewell sue
,eeded to Col. Lounsberry's interest
md has ever since been its publisher.
The Weekly Tribune was establish
ID in 1873 and the Daily in 1881.
In 1882 Mr.. Jewell was married to
Kate T. Woods of Indianapolis, Ind,
whose grandfather was Hoffner, one
# the leading and oldest families in
Ohio, and they have two
,oys, Paul, age Is, and Ralph, age
u.
Mr.. Jewell was secretary of the
'epublican state committee in 1898,
lfter statehood and held that posi-
ion during several campaigns. Now !
,mber 12, 1903, he was appointed
'egister of the United States land
flee at Bismarck by President Roose-
'elt, which Office he held until death.
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