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Tue jamestown Alert OOlclitl Paper of StutHiuan County. W K. KBLLOGG. E S The Daily Alert i» delivered In the city by car rier at 60 cent# a month. one year.. IT, iix months j)J three months JO .oneyear., \$jj «tX I ate Til 12 MERCKK OKC1SIOX. The decision of the U. S. supreme court in the merger ease is no great surprise to the country as it was anti cipated both by the railroad men and the leading men of all parties. The decision however was by a very narrow margin, and shows that the vote of an other judge, thrown in the scale would have turned the tide the other way and made the Securities company ac tion in conformity with the law of the land. Five judges voted one way, four another, and the narrow margin Sot ween the decisions of two opposite finds, was so narrow that the vote of &he fifth judge who turned the scale in favor of the government was based an. grounds different from that of the ,ther four idges with whom he voted. The decision is a victory for ['resident Roosevelt, who has been active in pushing the case, and is a good thing to have known as the established policy of the land. The inferior courts will take their cue from the decision, and all interests will govern them selves accordingly. The anti-trust law must be sustain ed according to the decision of the highest tribunal. It will be satis factory to know that a lot of criminal trusts, handling the necessities of the public can not now legally combine and make the public pay extortionate prices for commodities that must be furnished. It will also be a damper an watered stock schemes that have Nourished of late. As to the Securities company Mr. Hill announced sometime since that She company was only waiting the decision to enable it to inteligently proceed within the established law. As far as making any difference in the operation of the roads in the Securi ties company, no important change can be expected over the policy that hits prevailed for years. As far as the public is concerned there was in effect a merger on rates long before the Securities company was organized All the roads have the same rates in common now as before and will no doubt continue to have. The decision shows that honest efforts to enforce the national anti-trust law will meet with support not only from the peo ple but from the supreme court ACTS NOT JSOSC WORDS. The last issue of our esteemed ex ahange the War Cry has a cut of a •ady with her masculine friends around her, seated at the piano in a luxurious room, all singing "Rescue the Perishing." Editorial comment on. the illustration from the .War Cry is.as follows: Sentiments are right and proper: without the fountains of sympathy the crop of good actions would wither and die. But senti mentality is to be shunned, for it is fruitless sentiment—a plant that Mowers but bears no fruit. One half of humanity, in affluent circumstances sings about Christian duty, the other half does it. Let us be on the doing side, for the danger of falling into mere sentimentality is always with us. The taking up of the cross is insepar able from duty: life is rough and real, and many an action glorified in song, and eulogized in print, looks different at the moment of real doing, and is more often the target for jeers and tests than for applause. But the faster is with us and urges us to lift che fallen, to save the drunkard, to seek for the unloved, uncared for, and despised, and bring them to Him whose grace can perform wonders of transformation. Lieut. Col. Gardiner inspected H" iompany last night assisted by Col. Peake of Valley City. Captain Bald win had not expected an inspection this time owing to the fact that the jompany was without an armory and they had not in any manner prepared for what is ordinarily a severe ordeal. Likewise most of the members did not expect an inspection and there -»as not time enough to notify all. There was, however, a remarkably good attendance owing to the short notice and the colonel complimented the captain and the company .on that fact and their general appearance un der the difficulties under which they were laboring. He said that there were companies that had armories that had not done so well. After the inspection of the company which con sisted only in the examination of the arms, a consideration of the general appearance and a little manual the inspecting win officers and Captain Bald retired to review the company records. Col. Gardiner and Col. Peake left this morning tor the east. Bismarck Tribune: North Dakota will endorse the national administra lion and instruct for Roosevelt. There is not tho remotest doubt of this and never has been. Our nation al committeeman, Hon. Alex McKen zie, is not only an enthusiastic and outspoken advocate of Mr. Roosevelt, but he is a warm personal friend ol' the president as well. The state or ganization, every faction, no matter what 'ocal differences may exist, are united for the endorsement of the splendid administration President Roosevelt has given us and North Da kota would have been in the Roosevelt column no matter what opposition may have arisen in the east. It is now conceded that his nomination is assured, that his election is certain, and that the unparalled prosperity of the United States will continue indefinitely. The Grand Forks Plaindealer is no more, the paper having changed hands and the name changed to the Evening Press. A dispatch states the Plain dealer was recently sold to Editor Rogers of the Bismarck Settler, W. W. Park, formerly a traveling man for a, paper house, and Professor Mc Cann of the East Grand Forks schools. Mr. McCann will write the editorials and will assume an active part.in the other work as soon as the school closes in June. Mr. Rogers is to be business manager of the paper and Mr. Park will have control of the job end of the institution. The paper announces its suDport of the demo cratic city ticket and will be demo cratic in state politics. The department of agricultnre at Washington, has discovered that North Dakota has a silo farmer, who raises feed for four hoises and thirty five head [of cattle on twenty acres of ground. The famer is John Daniel and be is said to reside a few miles from Fargo. A special agent of the department has been sent to the farm to see how Mr. Daniels does it, and a stenographer came along to take down questions and answers. Mr. Daniels is said ,to be making a large income from the place, feeding every thing he raises to the stock. He has only the labor of himself and boy, spreads man ure on the soil and has built large silos to hold the green feed of a suc cession of crops. For a third time William Barry will get a trial, and a change of venue to Walsh county has been secured on the grounds that Barry can not get a fair hearing in Cavalier county. It is said that a third judge, Judge Fislc may be called in to preside in the case, two judges having already presided, Judge Cowan and Kneeshaw. A great many believe this man is in reality insane and, having been in the asylum once should be again, instead of being tried for murder after failure to con vict in three attempts. The expense of the trials, as has been stated, runs into the thousands for the taxpayers, and still justice is in default of a de cision. The work of the Pure food commis sioner Ladd in enforcing the law is approved by everybody including the retail grocers. The consumers of family groceries are said to have observed the benefits bf the law and its coura geous enforcement. The state of North Dakota has been for a long time a good place to get rid of diseased horses, and other stock doc tored up for sale to farmers. All kinds of spurious goods have found their way into the state in past years and the pure food law is a beginning in the work of self protection that should have been taken long since. The department of Agriculture, Washington has reprinted a bulletin, No. 141, on poultry raising on the farm. It can be had on application to the secretary of agriculture. From the high prices paid for poultry, it would seem that a greater interest in raising fowls should be taken in North Dakota, than there is. It is a natural chicken country. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale druggists, Toledo. O. Walding. Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale druggists, Toledo Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials rent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE TO MEET. President Bartlett of the republican judicial committee of the 5th judicial district has called a meeting of the members of the committee for Satur day March 19, at Valley City. At this meeting the time and place for the judicial convention will be set and the apportionment of delegates de cided upon. What They Will Secure for the Present and Puture. Good Reasons for Same. The plans for the new sheriff's residence and jail and for a separate boiler house at the court house, when carried into effect, will provide room at the county building for the officers and for the same transaction of the public business for ten or fifteen years to come. Unless something of this sort is done it will be necessary before long, to build an addition to the build ing, and at a cost largely in excess of what the present improvements con template. The plans provide for the use by the court house officials of the entire basement. The register of deeds' oflice is now crowded and the vault room taxed to its capacity. This office will be moved into the two rooms now occupied by the treasurer and superintendent of schools. The treasurer's office will be removed to the one nrrvv occupied by the register. The probate judge will probably be left in the present quarters and the clerk of court will nut be disturbed in his location. The space in the south east corner of the basement can be utilized for an oflice, and on the north side of the basement there will be room for a storage room for old books and documents and for closets. The superintendent of schools will have a nicely fitted up office in the south end of the basement with a room for the examination of teachers. There may also be an office for the county attor ney in the building. The improve ments are calculated to make the court house convenient and of suffi cient room to do the increasing coun ty business. The sale of the two dwelling houses on the lots bought by the county on the south side of the block was at a good figure, which makes the price paid for the lots very reasonable con sidering the location and value of the same to the county for the future. If the purchase had been deferred until some future time the owners of the property would have been in position to demand and get much more for the lots, the purchase of which gives the county an entire block of land very valuable. The separate boiler house will be a great improvement in many ways, in lessening the dangers of fire and giving the capacity to properly heat the county buildings. Another reason for the removal of the prisoners from the court house to separate quarters is that the base ment is no place for the confinement of a number of dangerous and criminal characters who are living directly underneath the occupants of the court house. The odors, the moral hazard, the general objections tolthe proximity of prisonerslare alone 'sufff cient reasons to remove them to an other building, as is done in| most of the counties. MILES CITY UNDERWATER. The Tongue river at Miles City has broken and the ice has gorged in the Yellowstone below the city. The city was about all under water Saturday and there was but a small portion of one of the streets where a horse could be used. The Yellowstone ice had at that time not moved outand dynamite was ineffectually used to break the gorge of the ice in the Yellowstone channel that had come from the Tongue river. Half the people have been driven out of their homes and business is at a complete stand still. The water is standing afoot or more in the houses. The ice on the Missouri where the N. P. crosses is as yet quite solid and men were cutting ice there Saturday. REMAINS A MYSTERY. With the discharge of the Syrians accused of attempting to wreck the N. P. Coast Limited near Medina all legal proceedings to find out the par ties who did the work have ceased. The affair remains a mystery as to who really did the deed. The attor neys for the Syrians may bring a dam' age case against Hansen, but Hansen who accused them as oeing, in his opinion, the parties he encountered on the night of the attempted wreck, is working as usual for the company. NOMINATIONS FILED. The following nomination for city offices have been filed with the city auditor. For Mayor, J. II. Severn, C. D.Shur lock and G. W. Kurtz for Treasurer, Chester Hodges: Police Magistrate, Peter Pearson Alderman for the First Ward: A. W. Dtwey and J. II. Brad way Second ward, Con Buckley, O, F. Bergquist Third ward, S. E. Ells worth, J. W. Sifton, R. B. Moses Fourth ward, Geo. Kurtz, J. T. Now lin. IO*OX1 TIm Bwntb Hgutm •f Kind YoniHawAlwg ATTEMPTED BURNING. For several days it has been known that an attempt was made last Wed nesday night to burn the residence occupied by Clerk of Court Weber on Fourth avenue south near the court house, but that a clue might be better assured, no publicity has been given the matter up to this date. The facts of the case are pretty well explained by the contents of a letter that Mr. Webber received through the mail the following day a copy of which follows: "I try to pizen vouridogNasholds git pizen All wrong I owe you grudge I watch woman leave house I steal key I wait I see man and woman leave house I take little shovel I throw coals No burn I try again." The letter would lead one to believe on first sight that the writer was pretty much of an Illiterate but after consideration it was decided that it was merely a blind as there are many words of more difficult spelling than others that are correctly spelled. Mr. Charless Webber, Jim town Court House The coals that were used are still in Mr. Weber's possession and are not of the kind that he uses in his stoves. The first used was wood coals and was laid in the center of the floor of a closet that issituated under the stairs. It did not ignite and another attempt was made by placing hot lumps of stove coal under the dining table. The latter ones did not ignite and the attempt proved a failure. Mr. Weber offers a personal reward of $30 for the indenity of the person that wrote the letter. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS Reveals That "Pe-ru-na is Calculated to Tone up the System, Restore the Func tions and Procure Health." SO SAYS PROF. L. J. MILLER, CHEMIST. Prof. L. J. Miller, late Professor of Chemistry and Botany of the High School of Ypsilanti, Mich., writes from 3327 N. Clark Street, Chicago, 111., as follow?: "As several of my friends have spoken to me of the favorable results obtained through the use of Peruna, especially in case.- of catarrh, I examined it most thoroughly to learn its contents. "I found it composed of extracts of herbs and barks of most valuable medicinal qualities combined with other ingredients delicately balanced, calculated to tone ui the system, restore the functions and procure health. "I consider Peruna one of the most skillfully and scientifically prepared medicines, wblcb the public can use with safety and success."—PROF. L. J. MILLER. The letter was dropped in the post office without a stamp on iI and cost Mr, Weber two cents for his infor mation. A copy of the exterior in scription: N. D. HOSPITAL ADDITION. Governor White arrived in the city last night from Valley City and spent the night here. He says that he thinks there will be available for the improvements at the state hospital, this summer, the sum of $50,000. It will complete the building already started by the contractors last spring and which is greatly needed. ADVERTISE IN THE ALERT. I "y PROF. LJ. MILLER. ANOTHER^STREET FAIR. It is probable that there will be another street fair in Jamestown the coming summer and business men are considering the engagement of the same company that gave such a satis factory entertainment last summer. The fair here was a successs in draw ing large numbers of people and pleas ing all who came. Many had never attended a similar street show and liked the novelty of it. The company allowed nothing but what |was re spectable to be presented, and carried out their part of the agreement to the latter. The fair is being arranged for the week beginning Friday July 1. It will run over the4th and be the means of getting up arousing holiday on that occasion. An entirely new list of attractions will be presented and the week promises Jto be the busiest one of the summer, and the town full of people from all over the James river valley. CALLED COMMITTEE MEETING. Secretary of State Porter has re turned from his fishing trip to Florida also L. B. Hanna of Fargo, who as chairman oi the republican state cen tral committee, has called a meeting of the committee at Fargo for the 15tb inst. to fix the apportionment and call a state convention for elect ing delegates to the national conven tion to nominate presidential candi dates. Tin FREE Homestead Lands of W "Build* up ikt artfrab" Hon. .loscpli II. Ridgeway, Secretary of ihti American Anti-Treat SooMft write* the fallowing letter from tha Grand Central Hotel, St. Paul, Minn.: It is with an honest ever located. great pleasure that I en dorse Peruna as medi- cine, competent to do all it claims. I have used it several times and know of nothing that cures so com pletely, and at the same time builds up tho system. I have rec pletely cured, as I used to do, Joseph Ridgeway. ommended it to a number of my friends and always feel that I do them a service for I know hbw satisfactory the results invariably are. I only wish every family had a bottle—it would save much sickness and doctor bills."—Joseph II. Ridgeway. "Fed Hotter Than for Five Years." Mr. James ]}. Taylor, Roberts, Ind., writes: I am at the present time entirely well. 1 can eat. anything I ever could. I took five bottles of I'cvuna, and feel better now than I liavo for five years. I have doetorecl with other doctors off and on for fifteen years, so I can recom mend your medicino very highly for stomach troubles. I take great pleasure in thanking you for your free advice and Peruna."—James B. Taylor. I Enjoy my Meals as I Used to." Mr. J. W. Pritcliard, Wolf Lake, Ttid., •writes: I am pleased to say that I have been cured of catarrh of the runa. I could hardly permanent cure stomach the Western Cainlt SBf ate the Star Attraotlwii for 1904. Motions of acres ol magnificent Grain and Grazing Lands to be bad as a free gift, or by pur chase from Railway Compan ies, Land Corporations, etc. The Gnat Attractions gee* crepe, dellaMfM ell* esate.epleadM aeheel eyaten, perfect eeetel (ralltlni, •seeptleeal railway Mm tepee. a»4 wealth aal aPi. •aee ae*alred eaelly. The population of Weatera Ciseli Increased 128,000 by Im migration during tbe past year, over SO,000 being Americans. Write to the nearest author Iced Canadian Government Agent lor Canadian Atlas and other information or address Superintendent Immigrat*/.* Ottawa, Canada— PlilM, 8nM Fata, I, D. stomach by Pe eat anything that agreed with me. Before I would get. half through my meal my stomach •would fill with gas causing me much distress and unpleasant feelings for an hour or two after each thanks to your meal. But, Peruna, I am now com and can eat want to without anything I any of the symptoms. I distressing can now enjoy my meala and it is all due llartman and his to Dr. wonderful medicine, Peruna. "Ft lias been one year since I waa cured, and I am all O. K. yet, so I know I am cured."—J. W. Pritchard. Dyspepsia is a very common phase of summer catarrh. cure catarrh of A remedy that will one location will cure anywhere. Peruna it cures catarrh wher That it is a prompt and for catarrh of the above letters testify. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of vonr case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The llartman Sauitarium, Columhua. Ohio. N O A O A The Bismarck Tribune man reports the appearance of (a few wild geese pickets on the Misscuri river last week but the snow turned |the early birds back south again. A mountain lion, measuring seven feet from Inose to tip of tail, was caught in a trap near Ft. Buford on the Missouri river recently. A creamery company has been organized at Steele. Kidder county is getting in line with the other counties in the central and western parts of the state. The Barlow .Record has died—cause, no necessity for its publication. Devils Lake (Inter-Ocean)—Devils Lake has the least indebtedness per capita, by half, of any seven of the largest cities in the state which is $8.21. The next smallest is Bismarck with a per capita indebtedness of $14.53. That is a good showing but how about Dickinson with its per capita indebtedness of $00.00? "DOIT TO-DAY," The time-worn injuuetion, "Never put otl 'til to-morrow what you'ean do to-day,"is now generally presented in this form: "Do it to-day!" That is the terse advice we want to give you about that hacking cough or demoral izing cold with which you have been struggling for several days, perhaps weeks. Take some reliable remedy for it to-day- -and let that remedy be Dr, Boschee's German Syrup, which has been in use for over thirty-five years. A few doses of it will undoubt edly relieve your cough or cold, and its continued use for a few dayswhl cure you completely. No matter how deep-seated your cough, even if dread consumption has attacked your lungs, German Syrup will surely effect a enre—as it has done before in thous ands of apparently hopeless cases of lung trouble. New trial bottles, 25c regular size, 75c. At all druggists. Lynching Threatened by Citizens of Georgia Town. Americus, Ga., March 16.—Tbe Americus Light infantry, ordered to proceed to Preston, county Beat of WebBter county, rescued two white men, Henry Morgan and Sidney Har rell, from lynching at the hands of in furiated citizens. Morgan was arrested charged with burning the town of Preston. It is said he has confessed and has impli cated Harret), his cousin. The loss from the fire amounted to $30,000.