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1 ia ,4 fcl. S 4 ip* VOL. 3. .TV*. J. C. ..•Si-?.,' 1{ 1l"i .••.-•L. Ji. I Mli '.J .tl. Gre:r3Lexa,l ,, .{ i* JAMES TL WHTSLOW, Wholesale and Retail Building uppUes Punished to Contractors. D. CURTI2T, JAMESTOWN, rBBPSTKB Largest, Best and Only Complete Stock of l^£exolou In Stutsman county, which he will sell at the lowest cash price. To baccos Drug's, ledums, W, RAYMOND, President. •. It. MeGINNIS, V. Preetfleat. R. B- WALLACE, Cufcltr Bank of Jamestown, JAMESTOWN, DAKOTA. —"GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED."- BUT *nd Sell Exchange on all Principal ities. Will Alton-i to Puroluie and Sale of Real Esla'e, ay Tajes, Exchange, And Perfect Titles. Fartioular Attention Civsa To Colleotions Y. Correspondent, Donnell, Lawson ft Co.. St. Paul Correspondent, First National Bank, Toui BvLsiaa.es© Solllcted.. WM C. WHITE, Notary Public. JOHNSON C. NICIvEUS. WHITE A XTXCKET7S, -A.tt0xaa.e3rs at Ija/w, U. S. LAND OFFICE ATTORNEYS. LEGAL BUSINESS AND COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Land Office and Real Estate Business. Money Loaned on Good Security. Office Ground Floor. Froat, Masonic Temple. N1CKEUS. J. NICKEVS & MILLS, tSucretsors to Henry Vessey) dealer ia Groceries asi Meats of all ills. Flair ail Fsd, Basts ail Sloes, 3-e.rrts' FuLxnlsli lr.g Q-oocis, Crockery Stone and China Ware, A And in fact, everything usually ^bund in a store of I General Merchandise. t*fK-»• Cm1«in LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES, 8ash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Building Paper, &c. axtd-lse BIL-CJ, ^L.. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, £ZTD NOTARY FT7BLXCJ. Legal Business Promptly Attended Contested Land Claims-before the Local and General Land Offices made a Specialty. Jamestown, Dakota. ID, O I S Teas, Coffees, Sugars and Syrups, Canned Goods and woodenware. FLOUR. PORK AND HAMS. qjclGl mans* Cigars 3?a,iza.ts a.rid. Oils, School and BM Boob, stater/, Lamp as! Climeys. CHURCHILL & WEBSTER'S Klaus's Block, JAliESTOWlT, 3D. T. MILL& D. Washington newspaper reporters are trying to get up a little sensation in Dakota by insinuating that Gov Ordway wants to be ei-rgwwt at arms of the senate." The probabili ties are that the governor, does not want any such position. It becomes iv and more appar ent that Governor Onlw has a level head. On close observation it is plain to be seen that the majority of the bills vetoed by hiin were not only unconstitutional, but void «f an aver age degree «'f common sense. We received a tter from a gentle man in which he states that a number of them would ftart for Jamestown to-day, hoping to get here in a week's time. If our citizens would only in vest a little more money in "printer's ink," it would be but a few years be. fore our Valley would be thickly set tled, and the advance in laud would well pay the cost. A recent Ottawa dispatch says that the Marquis of Lome, accompan ied by the Princess Louise, expects to make a tour of the great Northwest next summer. Tiiey will visit Fargo, Valley City, Jamestown, Bismarck, the extension and the Yellowstone Park. The governor general and princess will bu accompanied by a considerable suite. The legislature uf Minnesota passed a law limiting the pay of County Commissioners to 20 days at $3 per day, and those in Hennepin county receive a salary of §100 a year, lienuepin county Las a population of 75,000. Th. records of our county show that our Commissioners re quired 119 liays to attet.tl to the wants of 1,400 pe'-ple. It would seem that it was a pretty good thing to be a Commissioner of Stutsman county. Many have prophesied that the millers of Minneapolis would overdo the thing in the erection of such lar^e mills, and so many of them. But it appears as if the croakers were doomed to disappointment, for not withstanding the fact that the capac ity of the mills of that town has been increased some 12.000 barrels the past year, two mills alone, turning out 3,200 barrels each day, the orders now on hand will keep the mills run ning for six months. The report oi the Board of Trade for the past six months show that more grain has been handled in that city than in either Chicago or Milwaukee, It may not generally be known, but it is nevertheless a fact, that no member of a County Board of Commissioners O VI lawfully draw one cent of pay for services as member of such board, unless he be an actual bona fide resident of the district he represents. It is said that the bill incorporating this law originated in Hughes county, where much trouble had been experienced on account of one member of the board living in one district, and as a commissioner, representing another. JtncBtoHn In Luck. The most important enterprise we have heard of, as likely to be inaug urated in our town, is the building of a large malt house. We underst nd that some gentlemen are contemplat ing the erection of one as soon as the weather will permit. The building will be of stone tlnee stories high 60x110, with walls tlnee feet thick, and is to be substantial throughout, the principal timbers being 16 inches square. It will have, at go6d FWWil1 W".v. .'w first, one large kiln, with a capacity of consum ing about 800 bushels of barley each day in the year. Great precautions will be used to make it fire proof, and the gentlemen connected with the enterprise believe that they will meet with success. In conversation w.th one ot the parties lie gave several reasons why he thought a better quality of malt cou be mmuftct ured here than ea-t of this point among the many was the eo 1 wat.-r that can be secured in abundance during the summer, and t'u- •1 nights would lc- an a vrntig«-, en-' abliug theiu manufaaiiie the while year through. Then again, our barley is of a ,-uperi. quality, and he thinks it wouid make the be't malt in the country. It these gentle men proceed in the erection of tnis building, it will ace. .-ibout $ 15,000 in circulation in Jamestown for the building alone, besides giving em ployment to several men. And that is only a fraction of the benefit we will derive from the establishment of such an enterprise. Our farmers will secure a home market for aH the barley they can rais», and will receive eastern prices for it at home. The mill* in Minneapolis make a market for the grain tribu tarv to that town as as Chicago, and there is no, reason why the establishing of a large malt house at Jam^towu should have a tendency in the same direc tion. *L-_ JAJIFUTOWSI J.airB'GUii AH and Vicinity. The sKetch from which the above view of Jam stnvvn originated was to Ken in the spring of 1879, two years ago the first of next month, ami only rpr seats Jumes tnwn as it was at that tiino. Since then great changes have taken place, changes which have an Hie still clearly demon strating the fact that Jamestown is des tined to be noted for its commercial,social and moral qua ideations. Could our readers have the privilege of looking up on Jamestown as it is now, they would see instead of a small collection of houses asiepresented in our illustration of to-clxy, a beautiful village comprised of more than treble the number of structures rep resenting from fine to twenty-live thou sand dollars each. No freer. m-Te joyous or independent life cau be imagined nor one promising greater pr»fits, than is experienced here in this village '1 he :-chools, chur he* and the society of Jamisto- *iii iv-a:|»are favorably with the beot oi be »«n I lie i-xsteni, cen tial, cr older Ae»tei" .tates, aixi why not? Our population hfu. all been drawn from 11 ess localities within the past twelve to twenty months, and generally from ihe nnue favored classes at that. Railr.tds bring to our doors all the comforts and most ol the 'luxuries w'.-ich weie to be I.ad in our old homes and after a residence ot three months we forget that we are near the frontier ai:d rather come to believe that this is the centre and our friends east quite unfortunate in living so far ftoin it. Oar people us a class are much ni'iiv prosperous than those further east, and verv few if any won id leturn to their old homes, were tney to-day placed in possession of the fortunes they have coune here to find. I3oth our county and village is almost entirely void of that mixed foreign element ilut character'JMS-H many new countries. The Oeruvni ele ment, whii.li has a larger representation in this locality than any clasn other than Americans, is chit-fly cmpest-d of ttie better clasw, and sanoug tliem a*e some of our st talented aad enterprising busi ness men. During the last session of our territori al legislature, which only adjourned a tew days since, and to which Jamestown had the honor of sending one of her citizens as representative, -I bill WHS hitrouuctd and successfully passed through both houses, incot rating the village of James town also, providing for five trustees, conn Oied of the following named gentle men, whom we do not Instate to -ay, represent ihe better eknieut both com mercially and Socially, and i"e the im plicit confidence of the entire community Anton Klaus, tormeily mayor oF the city of Green bay, W»s Major Lyon, a in ha a is pi Flint, proprietor of the Dakota House James Lees, one of our heaviest si- ck raisers and farmers, and H. Biish, propri etor of the Jamestown grain elevutor. It. is with such men us mentioned in the lb egoiu tint the destinies of our rising metropolis is placed, and it is needless for The Alert to add that her in« tete^ts will be uioperly cared for For the bent fit of our hundreds of ont :-ide subscribers and otheis, we give below a list of the different kinds of enterprises now engaged in here together with the nauies nf their heads, nd as a proof of the truthfulness of our statements we would most, resptciftiily refer our readers to our advertising columns JAMESTOWN BAKK, soon to be conducted as a national bank, is a reliable neern and is represented by J. W. Raymond, president S K. McGin nis, vice president Ji E. WaLace, cash ier. LAND Busts ESS E is represented by fIon Gp», Wells, W Yennum nr.d YHIJ Cleve & Wadsworth. All of If .r r«:'lr piepared to fund.*!) people t.r a d:.-''\t ce with reliable infor mation anice: rong tne great James Rive Wiley. HE BAB is conspicuously and aOly represented by Allen & Di.dge, White & Nickeus and R. A. Bill. LUMBER BUStS ESS by Anton Klaus, James It. Winslow and Porter & Roper. And TiiC Alert will add right here for the benefit of paities thinking of coming to Jaaiestn-wn to lo t-ate, that, they cannot save a single penny by buying lumber outside of Jamestown, unless they buy fn very large quantities. FARM MACHINERY is admirab'y looked after by Henry Dorn, L. Lvon, Porter Roper and J. W. Johnson. GEN ERAL MFRCnAXPI-E is represented by L. Lt on, Ditvi.i furtin, Nickus A Miils ani Lambert. DKCOS ASU ».( CElUSti, Churchill & Webster. -'.i r". I JAMESTOWN, STFTSMAN COUNTY, D. T., MARCH 25, 1881. NO. 35 IT APPEARED IS 1870.-vOXE-FOl'RTHITSPftKSKKTH1ZE HARDWARE by Learned Bro's and Grimm, Geiseler & Mueller. DRTTOS AND TOILET GOODS, Will Elmer. JEWEt,ER8, T. W. Fi'-lds and W. Campbell. BUEWKRY, H. Danner. FLoncn NO inLi.8 Anton Klaus owns and runs the James town flouring mills. They are new and coinplets in every respect, have five run of stones and a capacity of a hundred bar rels ptr day. GRAIN BUSINESS, Bnsh & Corwin, who by the wry own a $10,000 elevator at this place, which con tains at the time of this writing twenty five thousand bushels of imestowu ({rain. GOVERNMENT FREIGHTING, S. F. Lambert, Ward Bill, manager. MASONS, McLean & Son and Plattenburg & Ploster iieum CONTRACT' I8 ANP BUILDERS, Gasal & Kindschis, Peter Aubertin, La throp & Smith, Schomburg & Clausen and M. Murphy BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURERS, Henry Flohr aud Peter Rhignctte. IIOTELS, Dakota House, J. J. Flint, proprietor Jamestowh Hotel, D. M. Kelleher, pro lit-t or. REST AU HANTH, the Eagle Restauiant, Bennett & Watkins, proprietors. MISCELLANEOUS. The lauDdry business is manipulated by R. Jordan. We have two barber shops which are pre.vded over with marked artistic ability by Messrs. Poole and Hoffman. We have seven saloons, which are run with all due respect for the law aud are seldom found open after twelve o'clock. The Alert occupies the newspaper field with two editions—a daily and weekly, sample copies of which will be sent v* free to any address in the United States and Canada. The millinery business is now carried on by Mrs. Davis. Mrs. Tisdale Jb Co. will also open out a complete stock, Doctors we have three, ?lz: Drs Thor old, Baldwin and Hall. These gentlemen are regarded as being first-class physi cians. S. L. Knapp & Son represent the paint brush fraternity, and are looked upon by every one as No, 1 workmen. B. W. Fuller carries on the loan and brokerage business and is extensively en« gaged iu his line. J. A. Moore & Co. have the li*ery bus iness and ktep land lookers outfits con stantly on baud. •/Edward Decker directs a neat confec tionery store. STUTSMAN COUNTY cannot be more truthfully described than it is iu the following which we clip from the columns of the Northwestern Land Journal: A million three hundred thousand acres is the amount of land within Stutsman county, Dakota, and it is made up of prairie, timber, meadow and river bottom lands, about nine-tenths of the area being well adapted to cultivation. Thus we have within the limits of a single county an area greater than the state of Rlio-ic Island. Allowing to each settler a farm of 320 acres, and we have in this county over 4000 farms, each capabl* supporting at least ten persons' Ot these 4,000 farms only about 250 are tak en, so that that there is room here for about 3,000 farmers at once. Our pr-iries have a rich, black loam soil from eighteen inches to three feet in depth, under «hich we find a retentive yellow clay subsoil extending to a great dep! It The meadows produce in great abund ap.ee, a quality of hay said by experienced *tock mea to be superior to timothy and ctover— the yield being Irom one to three tons per acre. In the bottoms along the streams the soil is composed of a vegetable mold from thres to five feet deep, with a clay subsoil similar to that on the prairies. Timber is chiefly ash, elm and box el der, with a little oak. Water, clear, pure and cold, is found everywhere at a depth of frm twenty to thirty feet. The supe riority of our water alone is bringing to us many settlers who are unable to accus tom themselves to the brackish foul wa ter of the Red River valley. Graiu and live stock do equally well in this country. Bo'.h have been thoroughly tried. Our taxes are merely nominal, being alout nine mills on the dollar actual value. The couuty has no debt and DO expensive imp'ovements in contemplation. Nature hits given us highways on which money and labor ne unnecessary. Our court ,rrr,*T- -"n ?JgStH?n.. r.-T.H home and jail are built and paid for. Jamestowu has already completed the fineatschool building along the line. Our population is mote largely of Amer ican birth thau that of any other county in the Northwest. The Jauies River Valley, in which we ire located, is attracting more attention to-day than any other locality, and is pronounced by competent and disinterest ed judges "superior in extent and quality to the famous Red Itiver Valley," fifty miles to the east of us. With two or three hundred dollars, a reasonable amount of economy and thrift and the free gift of 330 acres of land each ore should and will became independent in five years. HAVE WIS A REGISTRY LAW*2 We are under the impression that the"late lamented legislature"enacted a registry law. Mr. Wells, of Stuts man, if we recollect aright, introduced a carefully prepared bill, providing for the proper registration of voters and an abstract of that bill was pub lished in these columns a few weeks ago. The judges of election in each voting precinct were constituted by that bill aboard of registration, and for the purposes of the act the several wards of the cities were considered voting precincts. The boards ofreg. istry were required to meet at a fix time prior to each election, and pre pare a list of voters, which lists were to be posted at certain specified time. Before the day of election these lists were to be corrected by ihe board, aad on the day of election only those whose names appeared on that list were entitled to vote. We have a faint impression of seeing the state ment somewhere that this bill passed both houses of the legislature, was approved by the governor and is therefore one of the legal statutes of this territory, to be obeyed as such. If such a law was enacted, does it apply to municipal elections iu cities and towns, aud was it made operative from the date of its passage and ap proval If so, how will it effect a city election if its provisions are dis regarded Under such a law, if there is Mich, can an election be leaglly held and its results legally binding, with out a duly and and properly certi fied list of legal voters in each ward or voting precient being made accord ing to law, and used according to law on the day of election at each polling place? If not, why not?—Fargo Re publican. The registry bill referred to in the above applies to all counties in the Black Hills, and all counties border ing on the Missouri river, except the counties of Bon Homme, Yankton, Clay and Union. To all cities and towns of thue thousand inhabitants and upplies to all general and special elections after passage of the meas ure. The bill also provides that the judges of election in each voting pre cinct as now, or hereafter establish ed, constitute a board of registra tion, and are to hold their first meet ing on Tuesday, two weeks before the election, and the next meeting on the Tuesday preceding the election. Persons not registered can swear in their votes by depositing their affi davits, supplemented by those of a freeholder known to "reside in the district. The bill passed both hous es, was signed by the governor and became a law. Mr. Wells, the framer of the bill, informs The Alert that in his opinion,and not as a legal decis ion. that if Fargo has a population of 3,000, a failure on their part to com ply with act would invalidate its city election. The L.lttle Daily la LM4M. OFFICE THUNDER, OF THE 2, 1881. ONDON, March No. 1, Vol 1, of the Daily Aler has been received, and nothing has created such a sensation since the announcement that the Prjncess Alic«: was in an interesting con dition Gladstone and Beaconsfield are delighted nnd request that you mail a copy regularly to Her Ryal Highness Victoria, Queen of England. Ireland and Wales, and Empress of the Indies, and that jon draw through tha First Lord of the Treasury f«r the subscription price. Will you exchange regularly with «Kir daily edition With cupreme respect, u^x *«L ,2/ ¥j&*) $ %/^t Special to The Daily Alert. OBAST'S SrtfCESSOR. New York, March 24 -The executive committee has unanimously named H. J. Jewett president of the worid's fair com mission, vice Geo. Graat, who baa re* signed. FIRST THAI f. Kansas City, irch 24—The first train from San Francisco over the Banana line arrived here this morning The traiov^|S| consisted of twelve coaches, well illui^«^ and was on time at every station.. TOUAVEPBACE. SRF OX RF London, March 24—Telegrams from*?-1 be Transvaal state that the represents tives of the Boers wera all at Heidelberg, '&> and that all but one of the British c»m missioners had arrived. The sentiment tne country is favorable to the Bntiah terms, aud there is little doubt that they will be accepted. DAKOTA OFFICES Washington, March 24—Nobody has been uamed for the Indian commissioner ship as yet. Judge Bennett, of Dakota, is being pushed by old friends but the chancer are said to be against him. As Indiana man will probably be appointed. Surveyor General Esperson's chances for reappointment are small. Gen. John A. McDowell, of Chicago, is believed t» have the best show. S. R. Hudson, of Wisconsin, has been confirmed by the senate as United states district judge at Fargo. Congress will be convened in extra session not later than May. It will be the first session of the forty-seventh congress. BAD MEN. London, March 24—An attempt hm just been made to take the life of Sir William Tlarcourt. A package contain' ing a loaded pistol was sent him. It was arranged to go off wliem the package was opened. Born, to the wife of D. A. Harris, on Friday, March 25, a daughter. Father doitg well. Miss Neirling returned to Jamestown yesterday after a sojuru among friends in the cold bleak east. Fifteen parties have engaged Dr. Bald win to vaccinate them as soon as his vac cine virus comes from the cast. Charley Frey and wife returned to the •ity yesterday, after a few weeks visit the east, together with John Frey. O. A. Boynton sold his bay team for |325. A great many more could sold without difficulty among tha farmers here abouts. Two teams left for Columbia, 120 miles below here, today with a complete stock of general merchandise for a new store at that plaee. All kinds of township plats, large nnd small, printed at The Alert office. Ais lull stock of the best land contract blanks iu the ten itory. Dr. Baldwin was called down to San born yesterday to attend a little child of A. Pease, who. had,, swallowed a five ceut piuce. He reports the child as all right. Messrs Miller and Hayt, lately of Min neapolis. are in the city looking up a location for a general merchandise store. They are gentlemen of pleasing peisonal address. A broken rail wrecked a freight train just east of Edridge yesterday, throwing six 1 aded cars from the track. The ac ci dent will probably cause some delay to regular trains for a time. 4 Henry Vessey, the live merchant of El dridge, who has been cast for a short visit, is expected in the city this wetk with a car load of horses aud mules for the Stutsman county market. Jamestowu Lodge A. F. A. M. special communication on Mouday evening, the 28tti. Work in the first derte. All Ma son's in good standing are cordially in vited to attend. By order of the W.^M. VV. H. Campbell, Stc'y. The superintendent of the Northern Pacific was in town yesterday to negotiate with a member of purity hall for a danger signal to snoie cattle off the track. It i« expected that his snore will reach all points between Fargo tod Bismarck. Johnson is making preparations to ercct a grocery store aud restaurant. He wiil depend largely for his suppoit on ex pected colonists from his old home in Michigan, who will be here in a few weeks. General Manager Sargent while in town the other day expressed much doubt about bis reappointment. He is of the opinion that the stockholders of the road desire to confine its management to New York parties. The Northern Pacific has staked out a liberal portion ot the old Fort Seward Reservation, with a view of appropriat ing the same to shop, round house, vatd aud other purposes. The company's ar rangement wilt not probably maet the ap proval of some who now claim a right to he portions referred to. It is said by those who are acquainted with the two ladies who arc contemplat ing starting a millinery and dressmaking shop iu Jamestown, that they are I rst class in a professional point of view, and it is beped that they will succeed in se curing a desirable locatien for the busi ness. The following gentlemen were appoint ed last evening as a committee to secure a charter for the Jamestown building as sociation A. Klaus, D. M. Kelleher, J. THE TIKES. Round trip tickets are now on pale at all ints on the N. P. lines, at greatly reduced ratea. Du'uth baa anew paper called the Du luth Weekly It is the same size as the daily Alert, and is edited by Miss Susie W. Russall. Sasie gets up a very readable paper and is entitled to a liberal amount of public patronage. T- r- £n' ~rw- Forks is in ttie city for the purpt^se uf K. ||0 u: tf I i11 •$u-m iJci IE J. C. Nickeus, J. T. Bash, E. P. Wells, L. Lyon, R. E Wallace, J. J. Flint, A. Mc Kechnie, Winslow, D. Curtin. A meat market is at latt to be sta:fed in our town. A genthman frun GtaLd es tablishing one as soon as possi&e. Such an institution has been needed for a long tiire and the new one will doubt lew* prosper. We also understand that Mc Kectinie will open a meat market in Ma new building. -e "Yes," said that wise ^edagogtie, "J like these rooms very mich, Pearly, li seems so good to have some pleasant place to go evenings." Ob, Mr F, Mam ma says she should tbiak yeu would come and stav all the time. Why ifoat yon bring yuar trunk Aa born later «s the waning mown siaks slowly into its oo livicn behind the western hilla, aad the gentle breexe wafts its cnot treath Umtogk the darkened streets of the atj, "v a meftt 4 form emerges from the only lighted MMI is all that town, and •niasera aa he •((§. den tort aid Ids a*, -I will, I %tiL"