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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
NORTH DAKOTA DEER
PROTECTED TIL 101d

u =
Minot. Aug. 25.-Chief Game War
den e. B. McCutcheon is laying 9
tran for deer hunters along the
boundary line. between Montana ana
North Dakota and expects to land 9
number more Of the game law vio-
lators. .3s.
The deer season u open in Mon
tana from Oct. 1 TO Nov. I, and the
deer season will not open In North
Dakota untit 1916. The country
near the boundary Of the two states
abounds with the feet footed crea-
lures and when the hunters get busy
in Montana they will frighten the
deer into the protected North Da-
skota territory. It is believed many
of the hunters will follow the deer
into the Flickertail state and Game
Warden McC Cutcheon is preparing lor
inst such "a invasion.
a special force Of deputies VIII De
stationed near the boundary and IN
doubtedly many of the hunters vii ili.
walk into the trap. Those caught
hunting or Staying deer n North pa T
kota viii Get heavy mes and sen sen
tsnces.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
WESTERN ELECTRIC CO.
SELLS cARRlNGT0N PLANT
TO . Local Company in That Town.
Jamestown Owners Disposed
of Plant.

Darlington Record: The secretary
of state has granted a charter to the
Darlington Light, Heat & Power Co.,
capital stock $4,000. incorporators
G. B. Aasness, Anna F. Aasness and
]. e. Galehouse. Jr., all Of Caring
ton, fled Aug. 8. 1913.
Some few weeks ago G. B. Aasness
made contract Of purchase Of the
Darlington electric light plant. own
ed by John Canham of Jamestown.
and operated under the name Of the
Western Electric Co. Since the 1st
Of July the plant has been under the
control Of G. B. Aasness, who for
some time past has been the manag-
or Of the plant. And now Mr.. Aas-
ness has organised q corporation
and has associated with him ]. p.
Galehouse. Jr.
The plant will continue to be un-
der the personal management Of Mr..
Aasness, who 10 an expert electrician
and splendid business man. When
the water supply Of the city is am
pie and suficient, and this vexed
question now seems to be about solv-
ed, the only thing that 10 now both
ering this light plant. there will be
no Institution In the city that will
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
FARM HAND RUN
over and killed.
MAN WORKING ON THE NEWTON
BROWN FARM FALLS FROM
WAGON.

A man who is known by the name
Of John Smith, met his death Sunday
noon by falling from a farm wagon
south of the city. He was working
for Newton Brown of Sharlow, and
was riding along the road, sitting on
keg for a. seat. In some manner
the wagon jolted the keg, which roll
ed over, and the unfortunate man
fell out Of the wagon and was run
over by the wheels. He was severely
injured in the abdomen, and died
while being brought in an automobile
to the city for treatment. He suf-
fered greatly before his death.
He was the same man who was held
up August 18th, during the carnival,
by two men who are now in Jail
awaiting trial. He gave his name as
John Smith to the police, but that
was not his name, according to those
who met him. He was Polander,
and signed the register at the Stock
holm hotel as Jan Smiht" pronounc-
ing it like Smoot. He was 50 years
of age, and heavily built, dark COM
plexioned man. He had been work
ing through Missouri and Nebraska
in harvest, and was getting further
north, following the harvest through
South Dakota. He said he had been
at Columbia, Missouri. He had about
IS when killed and had about $12
when he left jamestown after the
robbery, which money he had saved
by having it hid in drinking cup
which was thrown aside during the
scuffle with the robbers. He had
been in Wisconsin, but whether that
state was his residence is not known.
He has a son living, according to the
police with whom he talked. He was
a clever hearted man, and said he was
making his first trip to the west. look
ing over the country. He was with'
out much education, and his history
is little known here. He is report
ed by Mr.. Brown as a good steady
worker, and only got. into trouble
here by becoming too familiar with q
pair Of strangers and taking too much
of their booze. Efforts are being
made to gather more information re-
gardfng Smith, whose body was
brought to the city for interment in
one OF the local cemeteries.
What effect the death Of Smith
will have on the charge against his
assailants now held for q judicial
hearing in the district court, is not
known. The principal witness against
them being dead. the testimony of
the young lad, Jesse Harper, will be
Of special impo..ance, as q witness
Of the crime. All of the parties were
strangers IN the city. J.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
CONTRACT LET FOR
new power HOUSE
BOARD OF CONTROL AWARDED
w. j. CURREN, VALLEY CITY,
AN ADDITIONAL BUILD
ING CONTRACT.

In pursuance of advertisements
for bids, the state board of control
met at the insane hospital Aug. 21
and opened proposals for the con-
struction of the new boiler house to
be erected at the state hospital
grounds. Thee bids were received as
follows: Thomas Powers of Fargo,
$62,300; Johnston, Fargo, $6O,999;
w. J. Curren, Valley City, $5S,S21.
The contract was let to w. J. Cur
rem. There will be a few modifica-
tions in order to get the wok done
within the appropriation. Changes
will be made by omitting certain
specifications, originally intended.
The new power house will be almost
twice as large as the old one, and the
walls will be erected and the build
,ing practically finished. without tear
ing down the old boiler house. This
old building will be retained until
the new one is completed, for use in
an emergency.
Work of excavating for the new
reception ward building begun last
week in earnest, and the contractor
has secured number of teams from
AL. Jackson, which are now moving
earth. The large amount of earth
to be taken from the basement of the
new building will be used for filling
in and leveling off the grounds around
the building and the top soil or black
earth used in the work of rounding
of the hillside on the approach to
the asylum grounds.
Contractor Curren was In the city
Friday looking after the work at the
grounds.
Thomas Powers of Fargo has re-
moved his cement mixer, hoist and
other tools which have been stored
at the asylum grounds since the COM
pletion of his last contract there,
and has sold the old frame sheds used
for storing material, and some of the
material. to Mr.. Curren.
The board of control is consider
ing favorably the plans proposed by
Supt. Hotchkiss to remodel the pres
ent administration building for the
use of a mems tubercular hospital.
In the event this is done, the next
legislature will be asked to provide
a new administration and Office build
ing, the present one being too small
for the increasing needs Of the hospi-
tai. There are now sS5 patients at
the institution and the number is
increasing constantly. This is $50
more than the average number cared
for at the hospital during the last
two years.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
HARRY (. THAW
wins FIRST ROUND
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEYS
FAIL TO GET COURT
HEARING.

sherbrooke, Que, Aug. 27.-New
York state was ruled out Of court
here today in dramatic preliminary
skirmish with lawyers for Harry
K. Thaw. Superior Judge Glaben-
sky, hearing arguments of Thaw's
counsel on motion to discontinue
the writ of habeas corpus, absolutely
refused to entertain objections of
Hector Vera, representing New York.
Adjournment of court resulted.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
TWO BARNS BURN
AT CORW|N FARM
LOSS OF TWO BIG FARM STRUC-
TURES, ALSO MUCH GRAIN
AND OTHER PROPERTY.
Second Loss of Farm Buildings by
Fire in Three Years.

Monday afternoon about o'clock
men near the barn at the S. F. Cor
win farm eight miles south of the
city noticed smoke rising from the
west side of the building, and in a
very short time the whole barn was
in flames and burned to the ground.
There were two buildings in the
shape of a letter L, one running
north and south and the other east
and west. The barn where the fire
was first noticed was the building
that ran north and south. Mr.. Cor
win himself had just been through
the barn, and had left the building
not fifteen minutes before, going to-
wards the blacksmith shop. Dur
ing the morning quantity of hay
had been placed in the barn, about
II tons. The fire broke out over the
basement part of the barn, but some
of the hay which had been thrown
into the barn during the day had
fallen down the hay holes into the
basement, and both the lower and
upper parts of the barn were in
flames at practically the same time.
The origin of the fire is still mys-
terry, and Mr.. Corwin thinks he was
the last man in the barn before the
fire was discovered. He saw no
signs of any fire while there.
A good deal of property was lost,
including two work horses, a colt, a
small calf, several harnesses, two
buggies, and about 1900 bushels of
rye, oats and barley. Some of the
farm men had been sleeping in the
barn, but none of them smoked or
used matches, according to all in
formation possible to get. No one
was in the barn during the afternoon
at work. Feed grinding had been
done in the other part of the barn,
getting ready for threshing, and a
gasoline engine was used, but that
wing of the barn did not catch fire
except from the other part of the
barn!
Luckily a granary at the west side
which contained over 1000 bushels
of oats was saved, although had the
wind been in the right direction that
building might have also been burn
ed. The insurance on the barns
burned was carried in the Alfred
Steel agency, and amounted to $2,-
400 on the two large buildings.
Other farm buildings and farm prop
erty was also insured.
This is the second loss Of the barn
on the Corwin farm, as three years
ago in July the large barn was burn
ed with heavy loss of property.
The Lenz Land & Loan Co. have
contracts for the sale of the property
to parties outside the state, and
member of the firm stated Tuesday
it would be decided at once whether
the barn would be rebuilt or wheth-
er an equivalent allowance would be
accepted on the sale Of the property.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
PRIZES FOR BEST
EXHIBITS OF GRAIN
BY CoUNTIF OR INDIVIDUALS.
OFFERS Z RAILROAD
COS PANIEs.

r.
The North ~ 'ota Industrial ex-
position, which 9il be held in Bis
.marck from octos s.s 7th to 10th, has
announced the fo owing list Of coun-
ty prizes: es
For the best an Smost artistically
arranged county ibit of grains,
<grasses, seeds and, !her farm pro-
ducts through which these different
railroads pass in North Dakota, the
railroad companies from their offices
in st. Paul and Minneapolis have Of
fered prizes as follows:
Special Prizes.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way Company.
$500 In gold.)
Frist prze. $50; second prize,
800; third prize, $50.
winning exhibits to become the
property of the Milwaukee road to
be exhibited in eastern cities.
Great Northern Railway Company.
($300.0O.)
First prize, $50; second prize,
500; third prize, $50.
Northern Pacific Railway Company.
($3O0.O0.)
First prize, $3.50; second prize,
500; third prize, $50.
Minneapolis, St. Paul s s. s. Marie
Railway Company.
I$s00.OO.)
First prize, $3.50; second prize,
800; third prize, $50.
Corn Prize.
For the best ten ears of Northwest
ern Dent corn, grown In field of at
least ten acres, in any of the follow
ing counties: Billings, Burleigh,
Dunn, Emmons, Hettinger, Morton,
Stark, prizes will be donated by the
Goodridge-Call lumber company as
follows: First prize. $50; second
prize, $35; third prize $25.
III For the best and greatest variety
of corn exhibited by any one hdiyid-
ual, elegant gold watch valued at
$50. Works donated by the Walt
sham watch company and the case by
E. B. Woodward Of Bismarck.
General County Prizes.
For the best and most artistically
arranged county exhibit consisting
of grasses, grains, seeds. and other
farm products:
First prize, donated by the lumber
men of Minneapolis. $500.
Second prize. donated by the Twin
City elevator men, $500.
Third prize, donated by the ASSOC
citation of commerce Of st. Paul,
5000.
!. Fourth prize. donated by the ex-
position, $500.
Fifth prize, donated by the exposi-
ton. 500.
sixth prize. donated by the exposi-
ton, $50.
Seventh prize. donated by the ex-
position, $40.
Eighth prize, donated by the expo
sttion. $50. s
Ninth prize. donated by the expo
sition, $40.
While a county cannot compete for
more than one railroad prize, 1t is
not preyented from entering the con-
test for the general county prizes.
There are $4,000 offered for coun-
ty prizes. and Will give the farmers
Of the state an excellent opportunity
to display It.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
MANY CHILDREN VISIT
PUBLIC PLAY GROUND
FIND WHOLESOME RECREATION
IN THE GAMES AND
EXERCISES.

livery pl0dSduI Udy Luo JdueSIOWu IL
public playground is the scene of a
gathering of many children, who
flock there from all parts of the city
for play and recreation. The grounds
under the charge of Mr.. K. X. King
are proving popular resort for
children. The Klaus park is de-
stined to become one Of the pleas
antest resorts near the city and the
location of the public Fairgrounds
there has brought many people to
the park who have learned to ad-
mire the surroundings, and to find
pleasure in resting on the benches
under the big elm trees.
The equipment Tor the public play
ground is greatly appreciated by the
children. large and small, The boys
can go swimming In the river. and
up to the present time the water has
been clear but with the advance OF
the season the surface of the stream
is not now as free from seeds and
grass as earlier. A clearer stream is
to be found on the west side of the
park where the Pipestem enters the
James river.
The driveway around the park is
being finished and cinders have been
placed on a portion of the drive.
Sand and gravel are also being used
to complete the roadway around the
park. The drive follows the river
bank and is shaded by large trees.
There are convenient spaces for pass
ing Of autos and rigs at short inter-
walls, and by driving In one direction
from the city entrance there should
be no confusion or delay in passage.
The playground equipment COM
prises everything that is dear to the
heart Of playing boys and girls.
There are to be found q tennis court,
basketball. croquet. swings, merry
go-rouads, slides, teeters, sand-pits
for the little ones to dig in the sand,
giant stride. horizontal bars. all
free for childrens' use. A boys bath
house is located south of the bridge.
One of the objects o Interest in
the park are the two old mill stones
used for grinding -four 33 years ago,
in the flour mill built by Anton Klaus.
Those who have promoted the play
ground express satisfaction over the
success the first year. and expect to
have even larger attendance next
summer. Up to the first week in
August the average attendance was
1875 children each day, though the
number has dropped to about so or
60 each day at present. The swim
ming lessons have been valuable, as
nearly s5 boys have learned to swim,
and about 18 girls. The boys use
the bath house on Mondays, We'd
nesdays and Fridays. and the girls on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The little tots. In charge Of Miss
Smiley, 60 wading and perform other
stunts in the mornings. Next year
more apparatus may be secured. and
a larger and better located bath
house. The tennis court has been
very popular
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-08-28
WEASEL KILLED
MANY CHICKENS.

Peter Albrecht suffered loss Of
126 spring chickens out Of . flock Of
500 which he had raised this spring
on his farm north of the city. Al
weasel, skunk Or some animal. got
amongst the chickens . short time
ago and killed 1876 by simply cutting
the throats and sucking the blood.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
TO OPEN UP FERTILE REGION
Railroad Along Northeastern Coast Of
Africa Means Much to the CON-
n,erce Of That Section.

A railroad is now building along the
northeastern coast OF Africa that will
insure the agricultural and CONNER
cial development of Z fertile but hang
neglected region, and at the same
time greatly reduce the length Of the
Journey from Europe to Egypt. Stat.
ing at Alexandria, the new railroad
crosses Lake Marecfis, and follows
the ceast line of ferthern Egypt %
the west, az :. distance c1 9. few milSB
from the Mediterranean sea. the
track has been completed for about
145 miles. The TERMINUS Of the line
will be the port OF Mersa-Matruh,
about 200 miles from Alexandria. It
is predicted that the railroad will
eventually be continued to Benghazi,
in Tripoli. The journey from London
to Alexandria can then be made in
three days by the following route:
London to Messina, 40 hours; Messina
to Benghazi, by steamer, 20 hours;
Benghazi to Alexandria, by the Mariut
railway, II hours. She new railway
will traverse a region that was crowd
ed and prosperous centuries ago. It
is believed that it will create new and
rich markets where the ancient cities
of Ptolemais and Apollonia once
stood.-Youth's Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
Puritan Verse,

Among the offenses of the Puritans,
for the most part left behind them
when they came to this country, was
that of turning bits of the Bible and
parts of the New Testament into Eng
lish verse. They were much given to
the printing of objurgatory and de-
famatory pamphlets, for which from
time to time scribbling offender
would not find repose at mine 1nn,"
but In the stocks to the amusement
Of all the .:13}e-s of the town.
1t was soon after the Reformation
that this spirit of yersifying the
Psalms and other parts of Scripture
began, and most of the collections
published with quaint titles are DOW
worth several times their weight in
gold to gatherers of curios. Allitera-
TONS artful aid was much in evidence
in such titles as "Seven Sobs of a
Sorrowful Soul for Sin," which COM
prised the seven penitential Psalms
in meter, and a Handful of Honey
suckles," in which were collated vari-
GUS blessings out of the book of Deu-
teronomy. William Hunnis. chapel
master to Queen Elizabeth. turned the
entire book of Genesis into rhyme I'M
der the title of "A Hiveful OF Honey"
and christopher Tye, contemporary
Of Hunnis, rendered the Acts of the
Apostles in English verse. But these
were before the Puritans, the chief
offenders, especially in pamphlets, had
arrived.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
I IvAa Without Air

While the snail has lungs, heart and
general circulation and Is In every
respect an air breathing creature. it
can nevertheless exist indefinitely
without inhaling the least breath Of
air, the element that is usually c6nsid-
cred the essential to existence in all
creatures supplied with lungs.
ITO all organized creatures" said
Leppe-t, "tha removal of oxygen, wa
ter, pourishment and heat causes
death to eocxa." When that state
ment was made Leppert did not ap-
pear to consider the snail as one
among the great hest Of "organized be-
ings," for experiments by Spallanzant
have proved that any or all the usual
life conditions can be removed in the
case of the snail without terminating
its existence or In any way impair
ing its functions.
The common snail retreats into his
shell on the approach of frosty wealth
er, and the opening or mouth of its
shell Is Theoretically sealed by a Sc
erection which is Of silky texture and
absolutely impervious to air and wa
ter. In this condition it is plain that
it is deprived of three of the four
elements of life mentioned above
air, water and nourishment.-Harp q
Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
Whv He Was a "Sucker."

William E. Mason of Chicago, at a
banquet given to lawyers and poll
ticians, was called upon for a story
and told the following:
"A well-known Illinois politician
was speaking at the same banquet
with a governor of New Jersey some
years ago. The Jersey governor went
into exhaustive figures as to the
wealth, agricultural and manufacture
ing resources of his own state. In
fact, he seemed to lack terminal facil-
tiles, for he talked about forty min
utes.
Before he sat down he said: I arr
to be followed by silver-tonszed Or
ator from Illinois, and hope before
be sits down he will tell US why they
are called "Suckers."'
Our friend from Illinois said:
Mr.. Toastmaster, when l heard the
description of the agricultural prod
ucts of New Jersey l was almost
ashamed to come from the corn belt of
Illinois, and when he told us of his
look small, but I noticed, Mr.. Toast
master, that you and the gentlemen
about you seemed ihcredulous-in
fact, I could tell by your expression
that you did not believe a word he
said. want to say to the governor
Of New Jersey that I believe every
word he said, and that is the reason
I am called a sucker"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
HAVE BIGGEST FAMILY

The Dickey family, of Canaan, Me-,
last fall established the worlds rec.
ord, they assert, Tor big family when
there were born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Dickey their twenty-second
child. Mr.. and Mr.. Dickey live on a
cross road in Canaan with fifteen of
their twenty-five children. Here they
have sixty-acre farm surrounded by
fence to keep the babies in safety
without constant watching to see II
they are going to get run over by
passing teams. Nowhere else would
it have been possible for a young
couple unaided to bring up with their
own hands such large family and
supply them with all the necessities of
life. But Mr.. Dickey, working on this
farm and another one which he owns
free and clear of debt, has been able
to do this and today doesn't owe a
dollar to anybody. He says he and
Mrs. Dickey were put here to be an ex.
ample to the world of what other. fam
tiles should do. Mrs. Dickey is q young
looking woman Of about forty-hve and
Mr.. Dickey is Z happy. oonteatsd maa=
VI 04Lyeto Ell
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
Short-ChanQe Doq.

Charley Ellison is up on horses, but
was not up on dogs. At one time in
Hot Springs - paid for a bird dog,
partly through a fanciful notion and
partly because the dog was hand
some animal. He sought the seller
the next day and said:
Il thought you claimed this was a
bird dog. He was gone Tor three
hours yesterday and didn't bring back
a single Bird
Passing up the hunters and going
in for trick animals. Ellison had a
dog to which he would give smell
of IS bill and later send it to bring
the money home. A visiting horseman
located the plant before the dog did
and substituted 81 bill. When the
retriever showed up, Ellison said:
Prince, what have you done with
the other $4?"-Chicago Evening Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-01-31
GIANT LOBSTER IN MAINE

The distinction of being the big
gest lobster in Maine," II not in the
entire country, falls to the mammoth
crustacean owned by Deputy MarEhal
Frank Rutherford Of Eastport, Me-,
which is the most easterly city on the
Maine coast The big lobster was cap
tured by a Canadian boatman in the
Bay Of Fundy and brought to East
port, with other shellfsh, and 1t was
purchased by Rutherford, who had the
meat extracted and the crustacean
mounted on board 50 that It could
be exhibited. When caught it weighed
about 26 pounds, and with the follow
ing dimensions: Length Of lobster
from end of tail to tip of claws, "a
inches; length Of tail. 121x inches;
width Of end of tail, inches; length
of large claw. 20 inches; width of
largest claw, Z inches; circumference
of large claw, IA inches; length of the
smah claws flour on side), 1917
inches; circumference of body in cen
ter, II inches; length of thumb" on
largest claw, inches; width of spread
of both claws and body before mount
ing, AZ inches.