Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-08-31, p.4

# THE JAMESTOWN ALERT. DAILY AND WEEKLY. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY EVENING. BY MARSHALL McCLURE. --- TERMS—Payable in Advance. WEEKLY EDITION. ONE COPY, one year,...............$1.00 ONE COPY, six months,...............50 FRIDAY, AUGUST 04, 1893. --- JAMESTOWN LODGE A. F. & A. M. Regular communication first and third Wednesday evenings of each month. All Master Masons are cordially invited to attend. W. M. A. HOWELL, Sec'y. W. M. --- I. O. O. F. Jamestown Lodge, No. 19. Meets every Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. All brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. H. F. FRAZEE, N. G. J. E. RILEY, V. G. --- ST. VITUS ENCAMPMENT, August offer — We will make applications for to Eastern parties and other associations. Applications to eastern parties, but fees can be reduced to six months payments on one year. R. E. WELLS, Office with James River Elevator Co. --- **Two Thousand Dollars to Loan,** for a term of four or five years at ten per cent., on improved farm property in Stutsman county. Applications to eastern parties, but fees can be reduced to six months payments on one year. R. E. WELLS, Office with James River Elevator Co. --- ## LOCAL AFFAIRS FROM FRIDAY'S DAILY. T. S. White, of St. Paul, was in the city yesterday. Woodward, the telephonographer, is over at Valley City, stringing wires. J. W. Woodson has just located a cord and wood-yard near the planing mill. Dr. Halvor's residence, which was recently occupied by W. W. Dudley, yesterday received a new coat of paint. He was in this morning to look after his 'claims.' O. H. Cowles, the cigar maker and printer, is now acting as clerk at the Grand Central hotel. The days are becoming very perceptibly shorter and in a few weeks more it will only be twelve hours of daylight. Yesterday was a magnificent one in the way of fine weather. The very elements seem to smile on the harvest in this county. We call attention to the full report of the North Dakota conference held on Wednesday in our telegrams in this morning's Alert. The harvesters are reported running in full time in all directions gathering in the golden grain that was the joy of the hearts of the granger. W. J. Field, the Northwestern railroad accompanied by Anton Klaus, made a tour of [illegible] call yesterday afternoon. The Barnes County Record says Jamestown trains between Valley City and Jamestown, Dakota, have been ordered to carry delegates. Frank Coolray the telephone benefactor is adding to the telephone exchanges, very gratifying to the subscribers of the exchange within a short time. The Valley City Times says the Eclipse base ball club of that city has accepted the proposition of the Red Caps of St. Paul to play a match game at Valley City Sept. 5th. Frank Tronhauer came down from his farm near Gackle yesterday and seemed to see the boys. Frank has a nice claim and is well fixed for a new-comer and is holding it down by staying with it. After several days absence Stacy is heartly looking into about town now who would not also be glad to be back harvesting wheat if the farmers would bring it in from their farms into town at their shade. There are quite a number of able bodied snow shovelers in town now wanting something to do, and in the fall and storm that comes they will begin to indicate on the walks and streets that the kind of work they desire is always out of season. T. S. White, of the stationary firm of T. S. White & Co., of St. Paul, accompanied by Jack Wells, manager of New York, arrived in the city last evening. They left again yesterday for the southeast. Fargo is proud of the fact that a thirty thousand bushel elevator is being erected in that city. The basement of the general store is about to be opened. Progress will make a great little town, the country around it being the very last. Attorney Afton took supper and paid notice to the Alert of yesterday. His office is in Barnes' building, formerly, but is now very well lodged at the rear of the Hause south of the new court house. The millions of visitors to the alert who will visit the Columbian Exposition are requested to take notice of the fact that the North Dakota exhibit that will be displayed there for the benefit of the visitors might learn something from a fair specimen of the wonderful production. Yesterday, Stacy Pomeroy bought out Aberman's cigar and confectionery stand at the front of the Grand Central Hotel, monies yesterday evening. Tom is going to run the place on a business basis and will make it one of the most profitable little concerns in town. W. H. Nowell, lawyer and attorney of Minnesota for the Chicago & Milwaukee railroad, was through our city and in this city, the guest of Anton Klaus. Mr. Nowell had just returned from an eastern and western trip, having taken in the Yellowstone country and the sights of the east. The greatest keenest competitor, Charles McHugh, whose keen voice makes the glass in the east rattle, was before the board for another which seems to come from the foundation of the mountains, is doing night work with the general circulation of the city in a way that makes most people wish for that kind of thing, is now often distinguished in the chorus of what is to be distinguished in the Grand Central hotel parties. --- Suchera has just completed a nice Memorial hall and the lodge will be in running order there in about a month. O. A. Stenboe arrived in Jamestown at the Dakota house this morning about two o'clock. She and his wife come down from Carrington last Saturday. A new room being built back of Lloyds bank is to be used by Mr. Kelley as an annex for the use of the post-office, and it will add greatly to the convenience of the business of that office. The cyclone that visited Rochestor, Minnesota was reported from the high border of the new Northwest, that place where the cyclone originates last Saturday. It was two hundred and fifty miles long and a hundred miles wide at the cyclone belt. The eastern papers will do to saddle it upon North Dakota we doubt. A whole of a fine ball at the postoffice by W. H. Frye is a fine specimen of the No. 1 band which has toured North Dakota tornados the world over. It does not look much like anything of the kind we read of in our eastern exchanges. North Dakota needs men who will stay and not crops for themselves and then proceed to remark and go on in the broad judgment and give it to the world and the farming interests and quit finding fault with the management of the postoffice. In the long run wheat does a great deal more than advertising to make the papers and the country prosper. If it is anything crooked or any disregard of the proper duties and public management of that office as long as Col. Lounsbury is editor of the Tribune he will be a man and a genuine gentleman in the history, that man is Col. Canterbury. The Fargo-Argus is getting along fine in good shape. It is now moving along sharply enhanced in its great and forward publishing more general news from Dakota in advance of the time of other papers in the Northwest except, perhaps, the Alert. The Argus has always had better counties who have used experience in their editor to kill it, but the shrewd business ability of the Major just proved too much for such tactics. He has to say some things about the Argus and the whole country at large for its late go. A gentleman who has traveled through every part of the Northwest in advanced of passenger trainmen told the Alert and remarked to the Alert yesterday that the largest crowds of people waiting at every station in the country along the Northern Pacific railroad from Fargo to Bismarck, he ever saw before; and the farmers in this city Fargo on the 10th, and Bismarck were to run the country in line here and but that the goddess of beauty has taken up her residence and settled well upon the James. At Jamestown had no representative at the Fargo conference, we have no just and equal distribution of things, and he was called to meet at that place instead of Jamestown. Valley City Times has urged that immediate steps be taken to select an opportunity for thirty prominent citizens of Stutsman county for delegates to that convention. By bringing thirty more people in town from the country at the day the "Billion Dollar scheme," through would it not be a good plan to appoint some committees to tour of that day to select these delegates? Yesterday afternoon while some heavy grey-colored clouds were dropping down and sitting on the walk against and in the north and northeast, and the weather of water was turned on from them an assorted supply of hard rains were striking among them minutes. They seemed to think a promise from nature would result as the deluge of its water went down the streets of the city. The small squads have met with like accident before — notwithstanding—and of yesterday knows who did it. The way their umbrella to the amusement was for the spectators. Says the Toledo Telegram: There is probably no newspaper man of experience in this country who does not have events of importance in his own mind which, if they were published, would be interesting, but would stamp him as being unreliable, unjust and a reporter of his own rumor. The great task for providence in his paper is not what many people think it is; to meet to satisfying his contemporaries; but to stand perfectly straight every day and keep sacred the trusts reposed. For instance people will make the personal acquaintanceship of a certain matter published in our columns, and try to blame the party pumping the managing editor or the going reporter or the individual fancy compositor on a paper, as a rule, we can look any man square in the eye, and of any other person thinks they can turn it just about sixty degrees around. --- FROM THURSDAY'S DAILY. Afterson contemplating in engaging in the laundry business again. Afterson also returned from Fargo yesterday and will proceed to Carrington this evening. R. S. Reeves has moved into a house below the new Court house on the west side of the track. County Commissioner Piers started out about 6 o'clock yesterday evening in an easy toward Brandon. Nothing new has been heard in reference to the organization of Foster county. Major efforts will go in this direction in course of time. "Ponderous bodies move slowly." Yesterday was perhaps the airiest day through out the Northwest in a long time. There was a general concentration of excitement about the Grand Central and a staying there until the shades of evening came on. A young man with both legs off at the knee arrived in Jamestown yesterday and ages to get over town with his stump and crutches. By the fall there are millions of boot black and does will cost of their crippled condition. A team came rushing up Fifth avenue yesterday evening which created some considerable commotion in the vicinity of Grand Central avenue. The only observation of the occasion was a neck-yew of wheat and oats samples. Mayor Flint, while busy with his farming operations yesterday evidently got a small piece of steel in his eye. He was obliged to go to Dr. McCabe to attend the injury to be not very serious although likely to cause the mayor considerable pain for a day or two. Peace and quite reigns supreme both day and night in town now. There is not a more orderly city in the Northwest than Jamestown. Occasionally a few roughs come along, fill up with booze and create a disturbance but a few days in the cooler puts them all down. O. A. Stenboe, who died in this city at the Dakota House, stated in the Alert yesterday morning, had started from Northville, South Dakota, his former home, for medical treatment of a chronic stomach trouble. He being very ill and growing worse had to stop here on the way. His parents will be here to bring him on the train this morning for interment. W. I. Closmer, principal of our public schools, took his departure yesterday for the Black Hills country with the second regiment of the North Dakota exhibit where he will be on duty as a soldier and other matters pertaining to the interests of the new Northwest. He will not return until the 5th of September, when school teachers will commence in the morning of the 10th, the day our public schools open. A hunting party consisting of John Galloway, James McCarty, Tony Klaus, Charlie Hatzinger and perhaps two or three more companions left the city and motif on a few days hunt yesterday. The Alert wishes this merry company of sharpshoots will let it a slough up about several thousand ducks and perhaps a good squad agreed the Morpho pledge and aware these indefatigable hunters will bring a golden dump-bin of snake bits medicine to the long shoot. For artistic arrangement there were some surprise for the Cincinnati exhibit at D. L. Willow's office yesterday afternoon which would be hard to beat for fine specimens of the very fine samples, from which they are made. Messr. McHugh and Stacy have collected and arranged the specimens in the window. There was 112 bushels of wheat, oats and barley in the bunch, which was about 34 inches in height and very tastily composed. This is a very fine specimen through the heart of trade, and the specimens of wheat were about to be 52 feet in length, and will serve to open the eyes of the Eastern world to see what productive qualities at the James River soil as shown in the samples shown before. --- FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY. Several leaders for harvesting grain are coming in from the country daily. Quite a caravan of wagons loaded with various articles were also coming in over the river bank for several days. According to the Dakota Globe, and C. H. Cook, the land commissioner, was in Carrington yesterday afternoon. Attorney Simpson, who has been ill for a few days was better yesterday, and will resume his duties forthwith. County Attorney Watson has returned from Carroll, and papers now report is the railroad land assessment. The management of the base ball was played by the Fort Seward club on their grounds yesterday and the score was even. The James River Elevator company will commence the erection of elevators in a number of their stations in the near future. A passenger depot has been thoroughly reconstructed and put in condition for the numerous grain and other country men to arrive. Two gentlemen came from Carrington yesterday to worship in Jamestown yesterday to find the stock of wood which Stenboe is telling on Mack. Mr. McClennan was in the neighborhood of Carrington yesterday to look after some land assessment. His strong boldness is that vitalife—apparently. We learn the jail is to be reconstructed soon. There is no better opening in North Dakota for a county jail that's fine when the projector is sure to meet with financial success. The drop in Northern Pacific preferred and common stock yesterday caused a lot of men to dress in their jeans and make wise investments in stocks. The story goes of employees veneering the superintendent and train masters of the N. P. Railroad who should have enthusiastically pointed and practiced which would have made the story good. Mr. Richter, the night operator at the N. P. depot, had about five days ago urged his position to accept a better one at Bismarck. He has done so and his successor is a good operator and thorough railroad man in the course of their time in the county. The elevator 420-feet hotel at Carrington is about completed and will soon be open to the accommodation. Two depots therefore are being put on the new school house which are going finely along and that wide awake town and they will soon be a leading railroad and elevator centre in North Dakota. We learn quite a number of the contributors to the stock of the James River Elevator are on a tour. They will get a point in paying their assessment recently called. If the collection would be more rapidly carried out they should come up to the mark. The management is doing everything possible toward assisting the stockholders in this valuable regard of theirs. The Madison Treasury is informing us we obtained the item about the Mandan flour sellers selling and refusing to pay greater than the Globe, that told of the Minneapolis Journal, and we have now just heard the news in advance of all of our exchanges. That's all we knew about it. That no more just arrived at the Capital of this city in territorial days during last evening by correspondence. In listening to call our attention to this fact and reading an observation of the great that Governor Lindsay was in town and in the streets nearly all afternoon yesterday. --- The Black Hills Journal remarks that a Mandan paper states that Jamestown is rapidly gaining ground in favor of a division of the territory at that point. We don't expect any division of the territory if the territory as it is be divided at all and kind of a project is one in which the people of the Black Hills could be readily enlisted. They might be able to get the matter down. The station agents on the Dakota division of Jamestown there inform us that week. Each agent and baggage master has been able to take it so that a map designating the department he represents. Some of the boys report that Mr. E. R. Melvir was a sword with his uniform. Baggage master March has recently purchased a gun and will be armed in case of necessity. Two old Pennsylvania friends of Mr. Bowman, of the firm of Bowman & Stacy, arrived yesterday in Jamestown in the person of Theo. Wigton, cashier of the Conner House and H. C. Derry, editor of the daily Tribune of that place. They stopped in the city at the object of their journey, which is the Yellowstone Park country. They will be here for a short time and then return. The boys were well received by Justice McHugh at the court house yesterday and brought word that Miss Moses Kapelson. The boys say Mack is working very rapidly at the throttle in single blessedness and prophesy that he will be making a bargain of the kind kind before many moons. It was enough for him to be red and blackened and mentioned the scheme as an economic condition. Valley City Times: An an evidence that the Valley City terminal telephone exchange will be connected and better extension of means to Fargo, Bismarck, Woodward states in the Fargo reporter yesterday that the material from which the poles are already being dried. All the smaller towns on the line will be taken in including Fargo toward Eckelson, Hobart and Orman. Evidently Jamestown is taken in as part of the thorough system of telephonic communication between north Manitoba, Minneapolis and Bismarck, although the connection of the Jamestown and Eckelson part cannot be made until spring. Evidently the regular passenger trains on the J. & N. will take place soon. The cars are running well on the J. & N. afternoon and have for Carrington and the delegates are expected in order to be put on running between Carrington and Jamestown. One more N. P. division by breech. This train is to do the work on the line of the main and the independent branches and will make Carrington do the necessary accommodation running in J. & N. It is rumored that a round house of about 3000 feet is to be immediately erected and other improvements in the way of side tracks made. --- FROM TUESDAY'S DAILY. The mayor wants all back yard rubbage cleaned up. The Jamestown Building association will convene soon. The division head quarters building is ready for plastering. The passengers are at the Alert office at 50c. a hundred. Mr. T. Thorpe has some friends from Chicago visiting him. The morning papers on the early train march yesterday on the early morning train. The iron pillars for the east and north fronts of Curtin's new truck block are placed. The railroad spur down to Klaus' mill by end of the month placed directly about 200 yards. The "Harmonista party" will probably arrive here a week from to-day. Just at present there is no city ordinance making it a penalty against selling liquor in town after midnight, and this one seems to have one. Mr. J. Gunn, who had some old friends from Coldwater, Michigan, visiting Minneapolis and Fargo reported they are on a tour of the Northwest. A railroad car will be given a half a months of Mr. Weissand, with Orman, Banta, Hunter & Co., are stopping at the residence to-day at 2 o'clock. J. G. Mann, of West Randolph, Vermont, who has some property in Valley Flat, is in the city having come out to look after his property with a view to selling. The building of the James River Elevator Company is moving very rapidly. The settlers bring along its course as it will do and seems to occupy a place with good prices. A subscription to raise $15,000 to build a court house at Grand Rapids for county purposes—the election carried last Saturday by two votes, the vote being 180 for and 178 against. The hotel registers show full houses all around. The large rush of proprietors is beginning again, and from the papers is the inflow begins to waft from Montana through the whole range of progress. The Fort towards of this place go to Valley City to play the return game of base ball with the Eclipse of that city this morning. They will play again this morning and return on the passenger evening. The Argus says David Curtin of this city is now a member of the firm. We wonder if Maj. Edwards saw him there? Captain Christian was the recipient of prayer on Sundays—that is most always—of a delegation of friends, Messrs. Moore, Wells, Wallace and Lloyd are frequently seen gathered on each other grounds. Mr. Dickey was with them but whether going to the Black Hills or Grand Rapids was located in the northwest part of the city. The party was going to go between that place and LaMoure. James Ferguson has just completed a large harvest field going this morning for which is one of the points in view for the leading delegate this morning and taking the Chicago & Northwestern, in another, it is to be decided on by the Milwaukee & St. Paul. --- Grading on the James River Valley Railroad will begin Monday next at Grand Rapids and one week later at this end of the line. The whole entire line of will be graded within the next ninety days. For the benefit of our dearest brother, we rise to remark that there is not a gambling place in Jamestown, they having been closed up under the best management some time ago. It may also be of interest for the greatest country of every citizens to hear all the houses of ill repute have been closed in the same authority. Here we left handed advice in the Capital of last year found these methods could not be advised at once as entirely uncalled for. If the average man would only keep its forces until needed it might bring a much higher price. There is a Mr. Young as doing the market with a good thing. --- FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY. Ex-Governor G. E. Blanchard, of Minnesota, is in the city, the guest of W. W. Dudley. Mary Goodman returned to Jamestown from Valley City yesterday morning carrying chances of goods. Geo. J. Stacy went up to Carrington yesterday on a visit of a few days with the family of E. D. Strong. A. A. Howell is in receiving a visit from his father and mother, who he invited here to spend the summer. Markets from all points last night reported unchanged, except as railroad stocks, the quotations of which are given in the dispatches. Mike Murphy is reading up A. A. Allison's character in good shape and he could build a town himself in a few weeks. A new switch board is being placed in the exchange, which cuts off "Hello" and the present Central Junction switchboard change would be completed last night. R. E. Wells, the newly appointed director of, the Jamestown Elevator Co., will proceed to order this morning a fair gang of carpenters to begin the erection of the new elevator at once in advance of that point. O. P. Frederick, who has proved himself to be one of the best farmers in Stutsman county and who has thrashed his wheat crop fully as good this year as last, was bringing it up in about eighty-to eighteen bushels per acre. O. H. Cowles has bought a treat yesterday and a special of 2,000 words about items of the city are due to come out tonight, which cut our press report short for the special telegraphic news. Very encouraging to the thought that winter will soon break up that treat doing good. The business place of the estate of Thos. Lloyd of this city, and residents of the house in many days of the county at the Gas City. Mr. S. Bodleman, of the Union Block, has moved out, in no hurry. The gentleman prosperous downtown the streets of the area northwest. Then the moon shone brightly the street lamps were kept curning nicely, not much wind. The Gem City made a flicker out about midnight. Last night, like the ordinary run of things the street lamps were all out on Main street by our time. Mr. McCormack, editor and proprietor of the McIntosh Co. Gazette, called at our office a call last night. He came down on the No. 4 train and yesterday was carried at the Grand Central until two o'clock in the morning on his way to Canvilton. He speaks highly of Lisbon and will settle in Jamestown. The proprietor of the Alert takes pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of a very friendly letter from our old friend E. B. Porter. Mr. Porter says that he has been attending the State Fair and is in healthy condition. The bee industry is a very pleasant one, and deserves encouragement. Mr. Clifford C. Waters accompanied by E. D. Stacy, the general manager and cashier, of the firm of Wells, Durfey & Co., left this morning for the Northwest Northern with a gang of surveyors for the examination of the James River from the point where the road crosses the river South of Jamestown. This survey will be one of importance as it is the upper fording surrounded by an excellent farming country. The display of productions to be made by the James River Elevator at the request of Mr. Villard and his party have been arrived now in full and the county farmers and gardeners will bring in good products to their building. The general committee, of which D. L. Willar is chairman, meets and will have some good hands they can be aided very much by having the people bring in their choicest grain call at his office and he will tell them what is to be done. Stoney & Thomas have sold their tire repair shop at the Jamestown Elevator. The Alert understands that Mr. Thomas will return to McHugh to assist his large amount of business, and we understand that Mr. Stoney will remain in Jamestown. We consider both these gentlemen from the business circles of our city as men who by their character and manner prove themselves to be men worthy of the patronage of the public. The firm came well recommended and properly equipped for their trade, and Jamestown will no doubt enjoy all the patronage they can attend to. The Alert wishes them every success. Curtis, the treasurer of the country, S. K. Landon and J. H. Moore, were brought, have read the papers, and have driven over the country for forty miles around Jamestown. The papers and reports they had been published in eastern papers and have reached us, and have listened to see for themselves before starting away from the city. They have not yet sent over the crip, for many miles around as it will not keep the papers in front of them and like to look and inspect and not to crop, being satisfied to see the whole concern. It is not the best paying investment they know of, but a great deal of the kind of condition that words. --- Congressman Donnell made the Alert office a pleasant call this evening. Mr. Donnell thinks Dakota is destined to be one of the richest states in the Union but is of the opinion that neither division or admission will enter into the fall or next presidential election. He says there is so good thing in the life and show and a still greater thing to get one into the nation. He thinks that Mr. Putt from all any man could do under the circumstances, and doubts if Dakota had any better man to-day that could economically do the work and the talent of Mr. Gillespie. In speaking of the governor he says he makes a man that know how to make money and that he helped a great deal to bring a business probability. Mr. Donnell is a gentlemen of the most thorough business character and impresses one with the tell of what he is getting and believes in and does for the world. The great report from the misfortune which Mrs. Gardiner sustained in the loss of her valuable collection of clothing on the occasion of a fire that destroyed a large house slowly furnished with furniture from the east. She is a most worthy and charitable woman. We desire to be kind, to encourage and invite some of the more charitable friends and persons to join a fair with the benefits of the city and ask for her capital and a worthy woman. She is engaged in the market for her occupation, who also claims bidders and the best of books. She has two daughters, and they are very kind help her out by remodeling her claims entirely and if the charitable society would go on and improve it, Mrs. Gardiner would have a sufficient support to keep and make in the west and east, and from others. Three more case excellent ways of business and she is well placed in aid when misfortune and disaster have been at her door and with her children. We desire very close examination one is there anything small about the people of Jamestown? We know an old person of straight jacket note as a model Christian of community and we wonder if the most religious could learn something of generosity of the natural cause. To mention vitties, charity, from the Fargo paper says the meeting of the Alliance, pointed out that there would be a meeting held to get up the Alliance, a subscription purpose for the relief of the Eckelson school disaster, and that several hundred dollars from those miles away with Minneapolis and Bismarck. At night for Sparta contribution was held for the same purpose. Yet by Calumet praise, produced from the same distance. These large towns discounted some for the subscribers far away from a small matter. At night for Sparta real meeting Major Victor telegraphed was organized and they with twenty-five addition to former individual subscriptions paid in already, had raised more than three thousand dollars, for which I wonder after all that Sparta is not a wicked city but has the fine charity record for the district so far. --- From Tuesday's daily. Murray & Malfy-paur just receiving a car load of Kansas winter wheat. R. S. Scatesm came down from his Denver Creek Valley, etc., yesterday afternoon. Fields & Co., have in their employ a French jeweler of thirty years' experience. T. H. Bovadich went down to Grand Forks farm, nine miles Northwest of Seathorn. Four car loads of creosotous have been received with which to creosote for the new building. The time appointed for the Villard party to arrive here is 2 o'clock next Saturday evening. W. W. Dudley did not accompany the survey of Clifford D. Waters over the James river crossing yesterday. The day proved a fine and a favorable environment for those who have the proper thing to attend and then on the proper place. Fargo is making extensive arrangements for a display of agricultural products at the World's Columbian Exposition. Some commenced hauling beets for the Kelly block yesterday. The work of raising is something very active day by day or two. Messrs. Watts, Wallace and Lloyd ran to the rear around last evening for the city council meeting to the lower end of the town, where they are then located at arranging depot grounds. Major Flint and the city council have received a letter from Mr. Villard, dated as an invitation to attend the Villard dinner on Saturday next at 8 o'clock at the N. P. dining room. Last night was the warmest night we have had this summer in Jamestown. The heat gathers around the lamps were too hot for the ladies fortunate to [illegible] with a moonrise. Yesterday was warm enough to make it an active subject of interest. It was a splendid weather for gathering the trade of the county, and everybody availing themselves of it. The water was shut off by the city for cutting away without notice from the [illegible] of the fire. A single piece of large wood began to take notice of the same and went on this morning, and people were beginning to have their fill of the subject. The first party to leave the Northwest for the trip on the Northern Pacific freight tariff to LaMoure as a comfortable and convenient party for all very popularly taken away with them. They were out at the station waiting to depart, they came home next week with a few weeks ago, and got a good deal of what the trouble came out to have time to have the next party in the next quarter of a station to go to the north. The testimony as to token when M. J. Dowd was in the city that he had sold the claim of Ladabette Birkee, in the city of Jamestown, to Leary Bros., for the sum of $1,700 at about 4 o'clock p. m. It entered and recorded, recorded as coming into the city, with the intention to have the settlement on it. He did not want to dispute with the party in question to sign the deed with. --- HENRY SUMNER GALE. [illegible] --- ## Column 2 (Right column — Advertisements and Notices) # TO THE PUBLIC! Investigating Lottery Swindles. Owing to the numerous letters published in regard to the character of the Louisiana State Lottery Company's advertisements, and their agents in the public press, that they are engaged in a most infamous fraud upon the people, and a still greater thing to get one into the station. He thinks that Mr. Putt from all any man could do under the circumstances, and doubts if he has any better man to-day that could economically do the work and the talent of Mr. Gillespie. In speaking of the governor he says he makes a man that know how to make money... --- ## Peripheral items - **Masthead and subscription rates**: The Jamestown Alert, Daily and Weekly, issued every Friday evening by Marshall McClure; subscription terms listed. - **Jamestown Lodge A.F. & A.M. notice**: Regular communication first and third Wednesday evenings; A. Howell, Sec'y W.M. - **I.O.O.F. Jamestown Lodge No. 19 notice**: Meets every Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock; H. F. Frazee N.G., J. E. Riley V.G. - **St. Vitus Encampment August offer notice**: R. E. Wells, office with James River Elevator Co. - **"Two Thousand Dollars to Loan" advertisement**: R. E. Wells, James River Elevator Co., improved farm property loans. - **Louisiana State Lottery Company advertisement**: Right-column advertisement with large capital figures and lottery draw details, including prize amounts ($300,000, $100,000, etc.) and instructions for sending money orders. - **L.S.L. (Louisiana State Lottery) large display ad**: Lists prizes and solicits participation; address M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. - **Capital Prize $75,000 lottery notice**: Similar lottery advertisement appearing in right column. - **"Capital Prize, $75,000" second lottery ad block**: With dollar amounts listed ($30,000, $20,000, $10,000, etc.). - **Notice of Final Proof**: Legal notice regarding land claim, Jamestown, N.D. - **SUMMONS legal notice**: Court summons, right column lower section. - **Tree Seed advertisement**: Right column, sale of Elder and White Willow seeds at $1.00 per hundred. - **Lippitt, Leak & Co. advertisement**: Manufacturers of some product, Valley City address. - **Murray & Malfy-paur**: Short notice of Kansas winter wheat carload received (also appears in local affairs column).