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Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27

Chickens like oats in winter.
Keep a record of your COWS.
Time to dust off the incubator.
Plan the garden and order seeds
nov.
Prune in winter for wood and in
June sor fruit.
Encourage the farmer to keep bet
ter poultry and more OF 1t.
On cold evenings the hens must be
sent to roost with full crops.
Winter comfort in the COW stable
does not imply an air tight room.
Pollen is a most essential factor in
the production OF all fruits and grains.
Many a poor and Improbable dairy
herd can be traced to nondescript
sire.
The good dairy COW will pay more
for farm crops than any market in this
country.
Foliage and fruit diseases are US
ually controlled with little difficulty
by spraying.
Keeping two cows to do the work of
one constitutes the biggest leak in the
dairy business.
Whatever your scheme of ventila-
ton in the poultry house, let no drafts
reach the roosts.
All laying and growing chickens
must have some kind of meat food in
order to do their best.
The dairyman who does not keep an
individual record of his cows is not
an up-to-date dairyman.
The young trees should be banked
with earth, which will keep water
from settling about them.
Eggs ought to weigh a pound and a
half to the dozen or forty-fve pounds
net TO the thirty dozen eggs.
good plan is to make the hog lots
long and narrow, and SOW them to
pasture, blowing up alternately.
For washing a separator nothing
beats brush and scalding water con-
tanning some washing powder.
It is important that sheep intended
for slaughter should be kept off feed
from twenty-four to thirty-six hours.
While considerable Is known about
the value and use of alfalfa for graz
ing, much remains to be determined.
An income of 800 per COW per year
is no longer an unusual occurrence
but what other farm animal can equal
1t:
Regular, careful, quiet milking will
permanently improve an animal as a
milk producer and will increase her
flow.
Young trees heeled in over winter
should be in a location where water
cannot collect and stand about the
roots.
Experiments have proven the aver
age milk COW requires about an ounce
of salt per day. Heavy mixers should
have more.
Silage is very nearly as cheap as
pasture and in composition is prac
tically the same, pound for pound. as
timothy pasture.
Wrapping young trees with corn
Sinks, building paper, etc, as pro-
lection against rabits is better than
to apply a wash.
OF almost, II not quite, as much i'm
portance as their food is plenty OF ex
ercise. Exercise and sunshine are
great sheep tones.
DO not think because a sheep has
heavy coat of wool he will be able
TO endure cold rains and sleep with
out warm shelter.
Quiet. gentle handling of the ewei
during the winter makes II muct
easier work to care for the flock dur
ing the Landing period,
Collect the eggs regularly at leas
snee, better twice. day in moderate
weather and more frequently in very
warm and very cold weather.
In the case where cow-pea hay and
silage are fed together. there is nc
question but that better results woulC
ensue were alfalfa hay used instead
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27

LEWIS Single Binder straight Sc cigar.
You pay l0c for cigars not 80 good. Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27

Pay compliments IL you will, but
pay your bills first.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27

II some men were compelled to pay
as they go they would never get start.
ed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27
plans for a garden.


When shipping eggs pack carefully
X strong, clean cases and filters.
A coat of whitewash in the poultry
house adds both to beauty and profit.
There is n decided difference be-
tween a COW keeper and a dairyman.
The salvation of poor soils and the
preserver of good soils-dairy farm
ing
Mulch the strawberries and fruit
trees and shrubs if this has not been
done.
Keeping rabbits from damaging
fruit trees is sometimes a difficult
task.
Just because the calf is large and
thrifty is no sign it will be a wonder
full COW.
Exercise is a better laying stimulant
for the hens than heat-producing con-
diments.
A rigid system of selection OF brood
sows should be practiced by all swine
breeders.
There is nothing the matter with
the hen that shows bright eye and a
red comb.
A shed of crotches and poles. COW
cred with straw. is cheap, warm and
businesslike.
Warming the cream to about sc de-
grees for winter churning will make
less work of it.
No stock grower can afford to have
his animals burn grain for fuel to keep
themselves warm.
Establish. if possible, brand OF
eggs which will in itself be a guar
antee of good quality.
If the soil is still open. better half
days work can't be done right now
than to plow the garden.
Green food OF some kind is neces-
sary to make hens do their best in
the line of egg production.
| Let 'ho dairy heifer have plenty of
growth before breeding-two years
old is better than is months.
Foul odors in the sheep barn will
bring pneumonia. Keep your mind
on having them well ventilated.
| The care of animals previous to
slaughter has considerable effect on
the keeping qualities of the meat
The dairy farm that is stocked to
its full capacity without being over
stocked is a pretty safe Investment
The pedigreed sire has been the
power in building up size and draft
form in our American stool. or horses.
In pasturing alfalfa it must never
be overstocked, as the animals will
injure the crowns and the plants will
die.
The cellar, even though 1t is
thought to be well ventilated, is not
a desirable place to keep the milk or
cream.
Experiments show that chickens
with strong vitality and plenty of mas
culine characteristics make the larg-
est gains.
Heroic pruning measures are need
ed to bring many old trees into bear
ing; but it need not all be done the
first year.
The man who dubbed the hog a
mortgage litter" was posted; he
knew something of the possibilities OF
the animal.
A score or more years ago eight-cent
lambs and six-cent yearlings we're not
sought by the trade, as is frequently
the case now.
Trees and small fruits generally like
application of ashes and bone dust.
by fertilizlng literally. good crops
may be assured.
To lessen the chances for milk fe-
yer and other troubles after calving
feed the COW a laxative ration ten
days before she is due.
One of the most important items in
managing a fruit farm, and especially
small fruits, is to prepare the soil in
equal hills before planting.
For best results the alfalfa pasture
must be moved at least three times
a wear. because at certain times II be
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Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27
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CANCER and GOITRE Gu red. No cutting. Greco
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WrtO Tor booklet. Dr, D. H. kslly Green valley. Illinois
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
KANSASFARMER INVESTS
IN NORTH DAKOTA LAND
Tired of Drought and Other Kansas
Drawbacks.

The we'll known farm of Beck and
Niemeyer, known as the Ottinger
farm, eight miles north of James
town, has been sold to Thomas Cut
ter, resident of Kansas. The farm
comprises some 500 acres of good
land, and the buildings are included
in the sale. Mr.. Cutter has lived in
Kansas for a number of years, and
has grown tired of the losses and UNI
certainties caused by drought and
other drawbacks in that state. He
decided to invest in North Dakota
where more favorable farming con-
ditions prevail. This is an indica-
ton of the standing that North Da-
kota has attained in the estimation
of farmers in other states.
Messrs. Beck and Niemeyer retain
from the farm of 1880 acres, 4S0
acres of land east of the public high
way. This farm will be improved by
them next spring, when new farm
buildings consisting of house, barn
and granaries, will be erected on the
land.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
MIDLAND C0NTIN ENT-
AL CONNECTION
VI w1u 000 Dv
RAIL CONNECTION AT WIMBLE.
DON BETWEEN TWO ROADS
COMPLETED TUESDAY.

The work of joining the rails of
the 500 railroad at Wimbledon, and
the Midland Continental, whose track
was completed to that point Monday,
was finished Thursday in the pres
ence of number of officials Of the
road. President H. S. Duncombe of
Chicago is in the city, and Right of
Way Agent Small, is at work secur-
ing right of way for the further ex-
tension of the line northeast from
Wimbledon, the next objective point
being Cooperstown.
Few residents of jamestown real
ize the ultimate benefit that is posi-
BILE by this connection with the 500
railroad, which practically gives to
this city three competing lines of
railroad, the 500 at Wimbledon, the
Milwaukee at Edgeley-both connect
ed by the Midland Continental-and
the N. P.
The 500 connection is one that may
develop into something of much
greater Importance than now appears
on the surface, and it is possible that
certain advantages in the way OF
shipments of coal and lumber, both
from the Twin Cities and Duluth
can be secured for jamestown ovel
the Soo The distance from VIM
bledon junction to this city is tri'
fling, and with traffic agreements be-
tween the Midland and 500, another
through line is thus added with pos
sihilities of direct shipments to ant
from the city. The Milwaukee roat
at Edgeley also offers direct connec
tions with the Twin Cities and Chi
cago.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
FIREsxT WEST LYNN So,
APARTMENTS.


BY the accidental overturning of a
lamp about 1 a. m. Wednesday by a
roomer at the West Lynn room
ing house on Main street, fire was
started which came near to being
more disastrous than it was. The
blaze was extinguished by throwing
on number of quilts and bed cloth
ing and smothering the flames, which
had burned a portion of the base
board, window frame and a COM
mode. Smoke was dense, and for a
few moments it was uncertain to
what extent the fire had progressed.
An alarm was sent in by the owner
of the building, Mrs. Anna Campbell,
and the fire department responded,
but the fire was extinguished before
it was necessary to turn on any wat
er. There was no insurance.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
STATE RESoAg'ES
CO. y'ERvED.
WISE MANAGEMENT o. OVERN-
MENT LANDS IN MIN 1,ESOTA
AND THE DAKOTAs.

The Minneapolis Journal recently
reviewed the manner in which num-
Der of states have handled the funds
derived from the sale or rental of
the government lands given such
states for public purposes. Mime
Sofa and the two Dakotas have been
specially fortunate in the manner in
which these great gifts have been
cared for and turned into interest
bearing funds for the permanent use
of schools and other institutions of
the states. The Journal observes:
Before Minnesota's constitution
was adopted, the idea in all the young
western states was to encourage set
tiers to come in. Liberal prices and
terms were made on the lands do
mated to the states by congress, put
ting state lands on practically the
same basis as government lands open
for homestead entry. The timber
went with the land, and there was no
such thing as a mineral reservation
dreamed of. Under this system most
of the state land in Michigan, Wis
consin, Illinois and Iowa was taken
up at an early day, at almost nomi-
nal prices. State lands in Wisconsin
passing into private hands before
their value was realized laid the
foundation for great private profits.
From the lands granted Minnesota
it is now estimated by State Auditor
S. G. Iverson, the states permanent
funds will have $200,O00,000 in cash
assets, bringing an annual revenue
Of $S,000,000, mostly for use Of the
public schools of the state. The state
university alone will have perma-
nent endowment from its iron lands
Of $25,OOO,0O0, and an annual in
come Of 81, 100000 from this source
alone.
Minnesota is. the pioneer Of the
conservation movement. The faith
ers who safeguarded the trust funds
on the state for posterity had little
idea Of the vast income that was to
be received from timber on state
lands, or the fabulous wealth that
was to be developed on the iron
ranges.
In all s,153,623 acres of land have
been granted by the nation to the
state Of Minnesota at various times,
and some swamp land selections are
yet to be made. The school lands
amounted to 2,955,902 acres.
The first ore was found on the
shore of vermillion lake in the ear
il seventies, and in 1875 grant Of
land was made to what became the
Duluth & Iron Range railroad, to aid
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
SIS, 600 FIRE
DEvAsTATEs YORK
Benson County Town Visited by Big
Blaze-Leeds Fire Depart
ment Called.

York, N. D., Oct. 4.-Six buildings
were destroyed by fire that started
at II o'clock last night when the pat
ent lighting system in the Odd Eel
lows hall exploded, dancing party
being in progress at the time. Dane
ers were 10 wild panic for q few mo-
ments, but all escaped from the struc-
ture without injuries.
The total loss il approximately
100000 to $4,000.
1t was the arrival Of the Leeds fire
department about midnight that saw.
ed the remainder Of the city from de-
struction. The fire fighters Of that
city, summoned q few minutes after
the explosion, made the trip by au-
tomobile, while Chris Granrud at
tached the Leeds fire engine to his
automobile and dragged It to the
fire stricken city. Fire had leaped
across the street and had gained good
headway in one building, but the
Leeds and York departments combin-
ed were able to extinguish it.
The burned buildings include all
along the east side Of the
main business block Of the city.
The buildings destroyed include
the York state bank, J. L. johnson
mercantiles, store. York Hardware
York butcher shop. owned
by John Baker, postomce and Odd
Fellows hall. owned by Andy Coch-
rane, and Asberry Abel confection-
cry store. All were frame struc-
lures. Much Of the contents Of sew
6 al stores were saved.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
OCT, MEETING OF
COUNTY BOARD
WILL CONTRACT FOR COLLEC-
TON OF DELINQUENT PER-
= sONAL TAXES. ,~

All mem bers of the county board
were present at the October meeting
held Monday and Tuesday of this
week, it being the first board meet
ing since the July session.
Register of Deeds reported fees
collected as follows I For July,
$3s2.35; August, $344.s0; Septem-
Der, s3S2.50. Clerk of court fees,
three months, $3.50; county audit
or's fees, three months $sO.50; sher-
i'll, collections, fees, July, $153.75;
August, $3.50; September, 1865.
Collections of delinquent personal
property taxes-July, $3.03; August,
$17.95; September $1O.10. Auto
fund, $123.4O.
Received from superintendent of
poor farm for grain and produce sold
$2,9S5.23.
A hearing was set by the board for
Nov. 4, for a road petition in twp.
137-68. -
=, A resolution to lay out q public
highway in 1885, was adopted.
The board appointed Philip Range
as superintendent of the poor Of the
county for one year, beginning Oct.
9Th, 1913, and bond Of $500 was ap-
proved. - ,..... ,.
Com. Dennison moved that the
name of Burke township be changed
to Sydney, as the name Burke town.
ship prevails in another county in
the state. Motion carried.
Mr.. Kasper moved that the county
auditor send bills to the United States
Marshall for the board and keep Of
United States prisoners confined in
the county jail. Carried.
The coroner's report of the deaths
Of John Liska and Alva Sharp was
approved by states attor-
ney. Report accepted and fees al
lowed.
The commissioners visited the
county jail, inspected same and re-
ported the jail in good sanitary con-
dition and ordered a few minor
changes made.
The auditor was instructed to ad-
vertise for bids for portable gas
engine, 6 h. p, for use at the county
poor farm.
Bid of George Game was received
Tor coal.
Delinquent tax list ordered pub
|fshed in the Capital.
Chairman Of the county board.
county treasurer and county auditor
we're authorized to enter into q con-
tract with some suitable person to
collect delinquent personal property
taxes prior to 1912. An opinion was
rendered. by States Attorney Chase
that the board could contract with
some person and was not required to
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
TO
EIGHT YEARS IN
PENITENTiARY
GEORGE HARRINGTON, AssAII-
ANT OF WIN. PAULSON, GETS
LONG TERN,

George harrington, alias Ed Will
liams, was in district court Monday
to receive sentence for the crime of
shooting with an intent to kill, VIM.
Paulson, N. P. brakeman Of this city,
on freight train near Eldridge.
Darlington, who at first gave his
name as Ed Williams, pied guilty
and received his sentence without
apparently being disconnected. He
says that he has never been in jail
before, and now greatly regrets the
shooting, although at first he was
defiant in the matter. Darlington
fired five shots in all from a revolver,
three at Paulson and two at Brake
man Schmitt, and went back to the
caboose after others Of the crew.
The two cartridges which he put in
his revolver after emptying the gun,
were found in the revolver when he
was captured by the sheriff later.
harrington is cigarette fiend and
a whiskey boozer, and told the court
that he was on his way to Montana
for cigarettes and whiskey, as he
was unable to get either in James,
town. He could buy smoking to-
bacco here but could not get cigar
cite papers. This apparently was
his only object in going west from
this place. He is an Englishman, 46
years of age, and will now be given
an opportunity to reform his habits
which have led him into trouble. He
claimed at the time to have fired at
Paulson because he thought that
Paulson was pulling gun on him,
but he afterwards admitted that
when Paulson took hold Of him to
put him from the train he had no
weapon. ., ..-.s..
| The other two men arrested at the
| time of the shooting and held as wit
| nesses were given six hours to leave
the town, by the court. They gave
their names as Earl Dorman and
Floyd Pitts. a
| Two Prisoners Discharged.
M. Tutello and Oscar Wallace, who
have been held since Aug. 16 for
robbery in the first degree, were dis
missed Monday and started out look
ing for threshing job. They were
bound over to the district court for a
holdup Of stranger, John Smith,
during the carnival in jamestown.
Smith was afterwards run over and
killed by farm wagon, and no one
appearing against the men they were
ordered released by the court.
Divorce Granted.
| A divorce was granted to the
plaintiff in the case of Jessie Fuller
against George A. Fuller, both par
ties being from Valley City. Attor-
ney Richie of the firm of Combs &
Richie, was present in behalf of the
plaintiff, and there was no defense
offered on the part Of the defendant.
The grounds were desertion and nom
support.
An Appeal Case.
The case Of Wendell Huston vs..
Olaf Johnson, was before the court
and statement of the case agreed
upon pending an appeal to the su-
preme court. This was suit for
land commissions claimed by plaint-
i'll in the amount of some $4,000, for
the sale of land, and verdict was
ootained by plaintiff In district court
at the last term.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
DEATH OF RIA.
KIRK OF ST. PAUL
WELL KNOWN ST. PAUL AND
JAMESTOWN BUSINESS MAN
PASSES AWAY.

H. B. Allen of this city received q
telegram Sunday stating that his old
partner and lifelong friend, Mr.. R.
A. Kirk Of St. Paul died in that city,
death following prolonged attack Of
nervous prostration. Mr.. Kirk has
been more or less an invalid for two
years, and had not been actively en-
gagged in business, owing to i'll health
and his advancing age. He was 76
years old, and was born in the state
of Ohio. He was a member of the
jamestown firm of Kirk & Allen, the
we'll known pioneer hardware and
machinery men of this city, also mem
Der of the large Wholesale house of
Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company of
Paul. .#
Mr.. Kirk and Mr.. Allen have been
associated in business together for
over 40 years, beginning their first
partnership in the town Of Salem.
Ohio, where they remained in busi-
ness for about eight or ten years.
Both removed to the west. Mr.. Kirk
stopped at st. Paul and became as
sociated with the st. Paul Harvester
Co., as president and general man
ager. Retiring from that concern, he
became interested in the Wholesale
hardware firm of Farwell, OEman &
Jackson, which later was incorporated
into the firm Of Farwell- -Osmun-Kirk
Co. Mr.. Kirk has been interested n
the Jamestown house until last year,
when he gave his interests in the firm
to his son and wife, who now retain
the Kirk interest. Mr.. Kirk has
made an annual visit to jamestown
for the. last thirty years, and was &C.
quainted with q number Of business
men and residents here. although
never having actively participated in
the management Of the Jamestown
house. He was one Of the most high
ly esteemed and influential business
men of st. Paul. and his name il
known all over the northwest in bus
mess circles.
The. funeral was held Wadnes-
day. and was attended BY H. B..
Allen and wife and Paul Allen OF this
city. Burial was IN 81. Paul.
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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-10-09
n. P. WRECK NEAR
GRAND FORKS
Fireman Killed and Engineer Badly
Scalded by Escaping Steam.

Grand Forks, Oct. 7.-One man
was instantly killed, another seri-
ously injured and a third less seri-
ously hurt when the Northern Paci-
fic passenger train, No. 13, which
passed through Grand Forks at z
O'Clock last evening, was wrecked at
Letellier, siding on the Canadian
Northern, twenty-eight miles north
of Pembina
Fireman William Balm Of Emerson
and Pembina, was the death victim,
being pinned under the engine and
his body scalded almost from head
to foot with escaping steam.
Engineer Leek of Winnipeg had
both legs scalded and one broken,
and was badly bruised.
Express Messenger G. q. Gilbert
of St. Paul was bruised about the
shoulders and head.
The engine and three cars were de-
rallied when the engine ran afoul a
bad switch just at the entrance of the
Letellier yard. The engine was turn
ed over on it's side and almost end
for end, to the direction in which it
was travelling.
The mail coach, baggage coach and
smoking car all turned over. Though
there were quite few passengers in
the smoker, only few of them were
slightly cut by flying glass.
Minot, Oct. IA G. N. passenger
train including two coaches and com.
bination mail and baggage car, was
completely destroyed by fire at Cros.
by Sunday, while in the yards. No
one was injured. Cause of fire II
unknown.
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