Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-04-02
Law ENFORCEMENT
IN JAMESTOWN
Reply to Inquiry as to Existing
Conditions Here.
Text of Correspondence Between
Mayor BleWett and Attorney
e. ID. EIDE of Huron,
South Dakota

The following letters, in regard to
the enforcement of the prohibition
Law in Jamestown, and the social,
moral and business conditions of
the city, recently passed between
Mayor Blewett and Attorney E. D.
EIDE, of Huron, S. D. The letters
are self explanatory and are of in
terest to every resident here who
takes a natural pride in having the
good reputation of his home town
spread broadcast throughout the
country.
Huron, S. Dak., Mar. 10, 1914.
Mayor of jamestown,
jamestown, North Dakota.
Dear Sir
l am interested in the temperance
question and the actual condition
existing in Jamestown concerning
the use of intoxicating liquors. I
never have been in jamestown and
accordingly cannot judge for myself.
Reports have been circulated that
more intoxicating liquors are sold
in North Dakota and in jamestown
than in any other state or city of the
same size in the union. On the
other hand Governor Hanna and al
so Judge Pollock at the convention
held in Columbus, Ohio last Novem-
ber declared emphatically that the
conditions as to temperance in
North Dakota were excellent.
1t is very possible that this spring
1 will make several addresses in
this state on the temperance ques-
Ftion s.nd I wish to be equipped with
the most accurate data obtainable.
wish you to present to me the cold
facts and I shall use your letter, re-
gardless of it's contents, in my ad-
dresses. With courteous thanks for
your favor, I am,
Very truly yours.
ERNEST D. EDE.
Questions Answered.
jamestown, N. D., Mar. 13, 1914
Ernest D. EIDE, Esqr.,
Huron, S, Dak.,
Dear SIR
Your valued inquiry of March
10th reached me this a. m. and I
am more than pleased to furnish
you the information asked for.
jamestown has a population of
about 5000. There isn't an empty
dwelling or business house in the
town and if we had fifty modern
houses for rent today they would be
taken in fifty minutes, and speaking
honestly, every business in the city
is prospecting as we'll as the sur
rounding country. Our bonded in
debtedness is only $4,000; our
city has a beautiful White Way 1 II
miles long, besides the outlying dis
tricts are lighted by electric lights
at every corner, thus giving all the
the residents in our town splendid
service at very small cost. We have
gas, a water and sewer system that
is perfection. We have an mex
haustible supply of splendid water
perfectly pure. You can secure
your drinking water from the taps
in your house with perfect safety.
We have a college under the su-
pervision Of the Presbyterian Synod
of North Dakota. We have an Aca-
DENY under the supervision of the
Catholic Sisters besides our Public
Schools, and there are none better,
and along with this we have the fin
est lot Of boys and girls that ever
grew up in any community. We have
all this without a saloon or a red
light district, and there isn't sa-
loon town on earth that is as clean
and fit for clean people to live in,
as the City Of jamestown.
mean by this that in our city we
enforce the prohibition law abso-
lutely. We have no blind pigs or
permanent boot leggers. We do
however haye to fight continually to
maintain our position, as transient
booze peddlers drop in on night
trains, dispose of suit case or two
of whiskey, and are gone; but we
finally land them. and no man can