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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
DAKOTA LAND IS JUST As
PRODUCTIVE As ILLINOIS

Bismarck, MarV 5-.-'sI claim
that man can take 100 acres of this
good land and put it in good state
of cultivation and make just as many
dollars year after year, as he can on
160 acres in Illinois. If anyone
doubts this come to me and l will
prove it to him.
This is the closing paragraph of a
letter written by George w. Ashbury,
a Grand Forks farmer, to Commis-
sioner Flint of the agricultural de-
partment. The letter is interesting
and shows what can be accomplished
by attending to business and staying
on the job in North Dakota. After a
few Introductory remarks, Mr.. AS
bury says:
Came Here in 1910.
II came here in the spring of 1910,
and made failure that year, sowed
100 acres of clover and got nothing.
OF course they all gave me the laugh,
but I went ahead the next year and
sowed 40 acres of clover and got a
good stand, and have been successful
with clover ever since. I found my
mistake the first year.
I'm 1911 had 800 acres of rye and
100 acres of wheat. They gave me
the laugh at that, but l threshed out
Is bushels to the acre, just the same.
I have had good success with alfalfa,
o1o ho1 o. AK
head of hogs in the last four years.
I claim that hogs will do better right
here than in Illinois, where l fed hogs
for 20 years before I came here. I
made 81 head of hogs weigh 260
pounds each last year. When nine
months old I sold them for So per
The last 90 days I
fed these hogs they paid me $1.27
per bushel for the corn they ate.
Kept Record Of All.
II have stock scales on my farm
and weigh my hogs every two weeks.
I also weigh every bushel of feed
they eat. That is my only way to
know what they are doing. I have
104 hogs and "a head Of cattle on
feed at the present time. raised
5000 bushels of matured corn on the
80 acres Of the poorest land I have
this year. hired this corn husked
and weighed it over the scales.
have 40 acres of clover and alfalfa
on my farm now and am going to SOW
more next spring.
II raise horses, cattle, hogs, poul-
try, wheat, rye, oats, barley, fax, clo-
yer, alfalfa, potatoes and corn. I
aim to have something to sell any
time of the year.
II just got back from Illinois.
think that one has five times the op-
portunity for making money here
that he has in Illinois, and also
think it a much better climate to live
in.
"As to my success in North Dakota
I have no kick coming, in fact none of
any kind to make. All there il to it
is to keep a stiff upper lip and go
ahead.
II claim that man can take 100
acres Of this good land and put 1t in.
. good state Of cultivation and make
Just ~ many dollars year after year.
% he can on 100 acres IN Illinois.
If anyone doubts this, lot him come
TO- ne and will prove It 70 him."
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
ASYLUM APPROPRIATION BILL
Items Included in the Appropriation
for 1O15.1016.

The new Session Laws contain Sen
ate Bill 143 introduced by Senator
Steel, making appropriations for new
buildings, equipment, improvements
and repairs at the State Insane hos
pital, as follows:
New Buildings.
Office building and dOrmi-
tory ..........s $50, 10000
New ward building funds
available in the year
1916 .............. lis, 100000
Additions to receiving
ward 100000
Contagious hospital ..... 100000
Two hog houses ....... 100000
Barn and silo for young
stock 5000. 90
Superintendent residence 100000
Equipment.
Steam pipe to kitchen and
laundry and under CEN
trail corridor ........ 100000
Main electric power cable. 100000
Machinery and tools. go. 100000
Engine and dynamo. 100000
Hot water heater with
tank ........ 10000
haust heater ....... 10000
Remodeling economizer :. 100000
Water pipe line to kitchen
and laundry ......... 10000
Bedding and furniture, re-
ceiving ward ......... 100000
Bedding and furniture, in
dustrial building ..... 100000
Bedding and furniture. tu-
berculosis building.... 10000
Improvements and Repairs.
Grading sidewalks, trees,
etc. 10000
Rebuild farm barn. ...... 100000
Completing water system. 100000
Repairing and rebuilding
corridors ...... 10000
General repairing, paint
ing, plastering, founda-
tion, repair, c ment
floors, paint for barns
and silos, moving feed
barn, window glass, bed
springs, machinery re-
pair, fire department.,
underground cable, new
roofs, and garden house
addition 100000
Dining room and bakery. 100000
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
ARRESTED, he TAKES POISON

Alleged Fugitive Swallows Drug Rath.
er Than Face Charges.
Boston, March 31.-Willard c. Wal.
lace, known also as G. X. Hitchcock.
charged with the larceny Of money
from banks at New Orleans, San
Francisco and Portland, Ore, who
was arrested as fugitive from JUS
tice, swallowed poison at the city
prison.
He was taken to the relief hospital,
where it is said death is but a Ques-
tion OF a few hours.
He had concealed the poison in his
clothing.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
LESSEN LAKE PERILS
sreak~S to Cost 100000 Is As
q ed Duluth.

Duluth, M&s< 31.-Duluth is as
sured a $4,o00,h ',reakwater off tht
harbor entry, acc s.ng to Congress
man Clarence B. Miller. The loss OF
the steamer Benjamin F. Noble las,
fall had an effect on the decision.
Survey will be made and its find
hgs reported to congress in Decem
ber. Work on the survey is expected
to begin In May.
Improvements to the lighting sys
tenn at the lighthouse also will be
made. The foghorn and light on the
south pier will be electrically operat
ed from the shore if necessary.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
STILL TRAILING KARLSRUHE

Australian Cruiser Sydney in Quest ot
German Ship.
Montevideo, Uruguay, March 81
The Australian cruiser Sydney,
which destroyed the German cruiser
Emden in the Indian ocean last No.
vember, spent few hours here.
Since it's exploit in the Indian
ocean five. months ago the Sydney
has hean zep0gtelk sflRu .EoloEaho in
November, Bermuda in January, cruts-
ing in the Atlantic in February
searching for the German cruiser
Karlsruhe, and as going up the ANA
Zon river on the same errand.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
GERMANS CLAIM
GAINS IN POLAND
Succession of Teuton Yicto=
ries Reported.
Big GUNS BUSY In WEST

fantry Advances Are Attempted.
Death GrappIe in the carpathian
Mountains Continues.
London, March 31.-Battles in
Northern Poland are said in Berlin
to have resulted in succession OF
German victories. The official Ger
man statement asserts that 1000
Russians were killed and 5000 cap
tured in an engagement at Krasnopol.
In the German occupation of Taurog-
gen it is claimed that 1000 prisoners
we're taken.
Russian attacks at other points are
said to have been repulsed. The lat
est statement from Petrograd war
Office is that the German offensive
movement in this region has been
checked.
Along the Franco-Belgian front
there was spirited artillery fighting.
hut no infantry advances were at
tempted. The French official com.
munication says the Germans were
forced to retire at one point near st.
Mihiel on account of heavy artillery
fire to which they were subjected.
Prohibition, as drastic as that pre-
vailing in Russia, faces the United
Kingdom. Press discussions of tho
letter sent by David Loyd-George,
the chancellor of exchequer, to the
Ship Owners federation competes,
successfully in point of interest with
the news of the sinking of the British
liner Falaba by German submarine
with the loss Of more than 100 lives
Severe Action Necessary.
The chancellor, in his letter, said
he had a growing conviction that only
the seysssst41 41nskhod would be of sayaA
in dealing with the drink evil.
The employers are backing what
Mr.. Lloyd-George terms root and
branch action" even to the extent OF
prc missing to seal their own wine cel-
lars and to prohibit the use of intox--
icants at their clubs, while labor lead
ers are equally anxious for the insti-
tuition of some prohibitory measure.
Great Britain is smoldering in,
anger over the torpedoing by the
German submarine of the steamers
Falaba and Aguila, but confidence is
expressed that the latest outbursts OF
undersea activity will have no effect
OF the movements of British ships.
Reports from Petrograd say the
capture of German documents show
that Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
attached great importance to the Ger
man offensive movement in the re-.
gi0n OF the Niemen river. At present
neither army in Poland seems to be-
displaying any great activity.
Other sections Of the extended
eastern battlefront seem to be wait
Ing the outcome of the death grapple.
| In the Carpathian mountains.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
OFFERS LAND TO BULGARIK
Turkey Would Purchase continuecs
Neutrality.

Paris, March 31.-The Athens corr
respondent of the Havas agency de-
clares he has received from diplo-
matte sources confirmation of the re-
port that Field Marshal Won Der
Goltx: has. been authorized By Turkey
to offer Bulgaria the EnOs-M line
as q new boundary in exchange for
her continued neutrality In the war.
The Arst intimatiOn that territorial
concessions had been offered to Bul-
garia by Turkey was contained in
q dispatch from Sofia to the Exchange
Telegraph company at London on
March ~. The territory involved in
cludes Adrianople. Kirk-Kilisseh and
other important towns.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
YOUNG BOXER IS KILLED
Pittsburo Lightweight Dies From Ef
fects Of Blow.

Steubenville, O., March 31.-Special
Delivery Tully. Pittsburg lightweight
boxer, is dead. a. result of injuries
sustained when he was Knocked out
by Banty Sharp in the first round of
their bout here Monday night.
Tully was pronounced in good con.
dition before the scrap started. He
went down when q right was planted
above his heart.
Sharp was freed on $500 bail after
q coroner's jury hsd decided Tully's
death was due to q weak heart. The
promoters also were released.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
House mot Up to Anything"

Washington, March 3l.-President
Wilson told callers that his friend
Colonel E. NJ. House, now in Europe
is mot up to anything" It has been
variously reported that the colonel
is making reports on prospects OF
peace. The president said the colo
mel merely is observing conditions.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
STATE TO SELL IS, 900 ACRES
Land to Be Offered in South Dakota
Next Month.

Pierre, S. D., March 31.-Approxi.
mately $4,000 acres of state land, with
a valuation. of more than $4,000, 900,
will be offered for sale by the state
land department in April at sales
prices running from $40 an acre for a
few tracts to $240 an acre for one
tract In Codington county, with sew
eral other tracts In that county at
1925 an acre.
There will be more than 2,10O
tracts offered, which will run general
ly forty acres to the tract.
The sales will begin April in Davi.
son county.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
JAPAN REPLIES TO CHINA
Answer Said to Be Most Unsatisfac
tory to Peking Government.

New York, March 31.-A cable to
the New York Herald from London
says that Japan, in answer to China's
inquiries as to why Japanese garri-
SONS in China have recently been in
creased, has made q most unsatisfac-
tory reply.
Japan claims it originally sent the
troops to relieve those already sta
toned in China, but decided to keep
all Of them there because of the grow
ing anti-Japanese sentiment.
Chinese belief is that the feeling
has been caused by the very act of
flooding the country with Japanese
troops and that this feeling would die
out If part of the troops were with
drawn.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
TpE Fl. RICE POST OFFICE CASE
Money Orders Issued for Checks in
Lieu of Cash.

against Fred w. Schmidt, assistant
postmaster and merchant at Fort
Rice, was heard in the Federal court
The postmistress, Mrs. Lottie B
.Soles - WAS t11dt.ted ioi1tly witt
Schmidt, the charge being a conspir.
acy to defraud the government
through the issuance of money orders
for which no cash was deposited
The shortage as shown by the post.
office inspectors, aggregated about
$1,000, which, since the charge was
made against the Fort Rice mer.
chant has been made good.
Mrs. Soles testified and pointed
out the dates and amounts of money
orders issued at the request OF
Schmidt, for which he paid in per.
sonal checks drawn on the First Ma.
tional bank of Mandan. These
checks were never presented for pay
ment but carried as cash items in the
post office. Mrs. Soles was not tried
on the conspiracy charge although
being indicted jointly with Schmidt
on several counts. Senator w. E,
Purcell of Wahpeton appeared foI
Mrs. Soles and ex-Judge Nichols OF
Mandan defended Schmidt.
Mrs. Soles testified that she had
been employed by Mr.. Schmidt as a
clerk, at $50 a month. She was ap-
pointed postmistress and then she ap'
pointed him assistant postmaster.
The Fort Rice post Office being a
fourth-class Office, salary is upon a
commission basis, determined by the
volume of business done. She testi-
fed that the salary amounted to
about $500 year, but that Schmidt
deposited the commissions each
month to the credit of the business
and that she received no remunera-
tion as postmistress.
Secured Money Orders.
From time to time she testified
Mr.. Schmidt made applications for
money orders. Sometimes he &C
these applications with
checks. At other times there was NO
tender of money or checks. Upon
several occasions, she testified, Mr..
himself as ass
Schmidt made out applications to
himself as assistant postmaster.
Practically all these money orders,
aggregating at times as high as 3d.
900, were sent to jobbers and other
with whom Mr.. Schmidt
had business dealings. One of the
highest was to a plow concern in
Minneapolis. This money order
to $735.
Pressed Him to Make Good.
Mrs. Soles testified that she fre-
quently pressed Schmidt to make
good on the checks and that he told
her he would.
It was not, however, until the
shortage was discovered that Mr..
Schmidt deposited at the First Ma
tional bank Of Mandan q sum to take
up the money orders fraudulently n
sued. ss,s,;Sei ,s}..e;i
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01

Governor Hanna has also an
nounced the appointment of DR.. A.
M. Call of Rugby as vice-president of
the state board of health for term
of two years.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
A Case For Tact,

4 Case For Tact.
There are IAtiles OD the jury.
They ought 10 favor iady DE-
fendHDt-"
I'VE shall bave to he exceedingly
careful / dUnt think II would De
good policy for our fair cIleDt to dre+s
better than they du."-hansan City
Journal.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
Author Fatally Stricken

Washington, March 31.-George W.
Folsom of New York, Boston and
Lenox, Mass, author, churchman and
art connoisseur, died suddenly here
In his sixty-eighth year. He arrived
here from New Orleans at Saturday
with his wife and daughter for short
visit.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
SAYS STRAITS
WILL NOT FALL
German Field Marshal Dis
CuSSeS DardanelleS.
SULTAN STAYS IN PALACE

Declares constantinopte Remain
Quiet and That Turkish Officials
Are Confident Of vietory-Teuton
Commander on Way to Berlin.
Bucharest, March 31.-Field Mar.
shall Won Der Goltz, the military com.
mander of Constantinople, interview.
ed by the Adeverul, declared the de-
fenses of the Dardanelles had proved
more effective than had been expect.
ed and that he now would affirm that
the allied feet would not force a pas.
sage.
I'VE await a new attack without
fear" the field marshal is reported to
have said. "The more ships there
are the better satisfied we shall be.
We do not lack ammunition, for Turk.
tsh factories supply US all we want.
Turkish industry has been sufficient.
ly developed to equip a fresh army
of 100000 which it will be easy to
mobilize.
"Constantiupole is calm and the
sultan still is in his Bosporus palace.
Enver Bey. minister of war, is most
optimistic and we are convinced we
shall win"
Field Marshal Won Der Goltz has
left Bucharest for Berlin.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
"a Moved Shorevxard.

Washington. March 31.-SubmarfBs
E.4, sunk ut the entrance to Honolulu
harbor, has been moved 800 feet to-
ward shore by vessels with cables,
according to . message resolved BY
Secretary Daniels.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
Holds up German Ammunition.

Geneva, March s1.-D.patches re-
ceived here from Sofia state that Bull
9aris 10 holding up shipmants of Ger.
man artillery and large Quantities Of
ammunition destined fo1 Constants
1oplo.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
ARMIES BATTLE on the ICE
Encounter on Frozen Lake Between
Russians and Germans.

London, March 31.-An official Rus
sian statement is as follows:
"Across the Niemen river the Ger.
man Thirty-frst division was defeat.
ed in an attempt to envelope our right
wing. The action was marked by
fighting on a lake frozen solid near
Lcdzie. In q counter attack upon the
Germans, who had penetrated to the
rear of our army, the Germans wero
forced back"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01

True liberty cOnsists In the enjoy.
destruction OF the rights ot others
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
A. Our Boarding House.

The Star Boarder-What is this
thread in the steakf The Waitress
You asked for steak two inches thick.
and We had to sew three regular steaks
together. sir.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01
JAMESTOWN MARKET.

FOR SALE-Cheap; Ford touring
car; good as new. Apply g. T. Nc
Donald or H. T. Graves.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01

FOR sALE-About 20 head Of
horses. AL. jackson, sol 4th Ave. 8.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1915-04-01

Dining room and bakery. 20,00O.O
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-14

fostered by the association there will
be a gratifying change in Vermont in
the next few years.
Frederick J. Hillman of Springfield,
president of the Western New England
chamber of commerce., gave an excel
lent address on the supplanting of in
dividuaism by cooperation 1t is Of
ten said that the country does not pro
duce such characters as formerly, but
the fact is that the individual PLAYS q
smaller part in the community than
in days of old. In certain lines of man
.ufacture there is process known as
tumbhng, various articles being placed
in a barrel and rolled until the rough
edges are worn off. The friction with
our fellow men removes the rough
edges of our character. Instead of in
dividualism there is corporation. We
think alike today because we think
together. Working independently ac-
Icomplishes nothing. BY binding our
selves together we can lay the founda-
tion for civic and agricultural develop
ment that will last for all time The
problems of one state are generally the
problems of other states and in ap
preaching these problems New Eng.
/ land should be regarded as unit Co
operation by the farmer and bushes.
man is developing scientific agriculture
Cooperation is the watchword and key
note of goth century development.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-14
One of the Speakers at the Banquet
Last Evening.

man who has been so royalty received
I'll try to say few words myself. y
Address by Governor Gates.
There was more Iong-eontinued APP
plause when Mr.. Greene presented .4our
Governor, and Mr.. Gates was touch
ed by the remarkable demonstration
He thoroughly endorsed the work of
the association and suggested one or
two things which he said Vermont
really needs. Some think the state is
too small to receive serious considera
ton, but it stands first in the amount
of corn produced per acre, first in the
value of dairy products per COW, and
first in the production of marble and
granite, and the production is increas-
ing. The need of Vermont is men
who believe in Vermont and who will
grasp the opportunities which the state
offers. An institution which will hip
meet the crying need of the state is
the agricultural school at Lyndonville,
gift to the state by Theodore n,
Vail.
We are on the Threshold of a new
development There has been much
few years and the Greater Vermont as
ISOLATION has been of material assist
ance in that work There will be
greater improvement in the next two
years than in any previous similar pc
rod. The new educational law will
bring Vermont little more to the
front BY putting our shoulders to the
wheel and helping along the things
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-14
Presided at Business Session of Greater
| Vermont Association

a Greater Vermont could only be done by
a united and continuing pull in the right
all working for the common
good and looking at everything from the
broad standpoint of the commonwealth
and not from the narrow standpoint of
either an individual or a single communl
ity The interests of this state as of the
world are too broad, too big, too diversi-
fed, to be treated in any other than a
broad, big way.
Zone of the most important things to
the welfare of our state, the condition of
our highways and of those which lead into
our state from the outside, has been well
met and well worked out. and is in an adj
vanced position. This city Is practically
the gateway from the south and south
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-14

The various speakers thus far had
made highly complimentary reference
to the secretary, James P. Taylor Of
Burlington and at this point Nj
Greene introduced Mr.. Taylor who was
received with repetition Of the heart
mess accorded the others. He had only
a brief announcement to make how
ever, with reference TO today's meet
ing.
Ex-Mayor James B. Estee Of Mont
pelier was presented. He spoke but {
moment extending an invitation to th'
association to hold its next annua
meeting in Montpelier.
d. Sidney Rollins OF Newport, NtrH.
president of the Manufacturers Asso
citation of New Hampshire, also SPOKE
briefly, urging the formation of a man
lufacturers association in this state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-14

men left Mr.. Chapman apparently as
well as ever, standing on the lot while
they went to look at a monument in
another part of the cemetery. When
they came back he was lying on the
ground dead.
His brother, Fred, Of Montpelier
came yesterday TO take charge of the
body. His wife and daughter also
reached Tunbridge from Lawrence.
Tunbridge was Mr.. Chapman IS native
town. He was about So years old
Sweden has stopped the exportat on
of horses and wool.