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VOL. VI.
LATEST CITY ITEMS
R. D. Gibbons, of Devil's Lake is in the
city.
S. G. Wright, of Fargo, was in the city
last night.
The Northern Pacific passenger trains
were all on time yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. McClure started to St.
Paul on the train yesterday afternoon.
The James river baa flushed up a little
since the rains and is now in a good
stage.
F. H. Hodges, of Champaign, III., was
registered at the Dakota House last
night.
Between the strikers and the lightning
last night our telegraphic report did not
materialize
M. E. Foley, proprietor of the Grand
Central, returned from his Rocky moun
tain trip yesterday.
It is expected that nil the arrangements
will soon be perfected to commence
work on the street railway,
The Bismarck Tribune publishes in
full the Alert's report*ot the railroad
meeting last Saturday night.
Fishing parties to Spiritwood are al
most A daily occurrence now. Nearly all
•re rewarded with all the flsli they want.
The St. James hotel has become quite
favorite place with boarders and the
traveling public. Mrs. Pierce is an ex
cellent hostess.
The Northwestern liouse is crowded
With patrons every day. Messrs. Nichols
& Fl-nt are making a success of their
hotel enterprise.
James Lees the bonanza farmer of Jim
Lake was in town yesterday. Mr. Lee*
has the distinction of being the best far
mer in the valley.
C. V. Brown, who came down from
Sykeston yesterday, reports the crops up
in that country looking line, and the
town growing rapidly.
Street commissioner Redfield com
menced filling up Main street yesterday
morning, one of the places being that in
front of the Alert office.
The clouds got somewhat tangled up
yesterday evening which produced a
racket up above in the way of lightning
and thunder and ended with a grand
tableaux of rain.
J. J. Nichols brought in a very fine
Specimen of wheat and oats from the vi
cinity of Melville yesterday, from the
Chambers farm. In the vacmity of Sykes
.ton be says it is even better yet.
TKt *--ui.Edwards who was arrested at
taken on that night by an Iowa sheriff.
"Edwards is reported as saying he was not
attended by 'ar«e
nu
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if
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After people had I
I L.v Umi IIKUX
they were greeted by a
UrM num^Coi,epc°P,e «kdmire
Urge
number
ceived here from Wisconsin
inouiring after friends and property
were
4UO papers.
It seems the man who brought the «e*
mnt that Rev. Spoor, the Methodist min
SSSCbom wa, UUed Mo»d*,
lightning
are not quite sure
•tall was killed there nor
anvthunder storm. Am
make such a mistake as that might
to mistake about a sterna.
Everybody speaks with
craMenceof the new railroad scheme.
MM and energetic prosecution of the en
terorite and It is expected that before the
.MWifo'neit winter whiten .be
larce .««•»
completed, aad
by this time next rear
the train* will be running.
Tb. ga-e K»e *•''I"*'**'
to! ttttweeu lb. t*~l« ""J"
V^h Sums of this city, resu
aoore £f thirty to fourteen in favor of
8teete..oe. The I— «j-jjjjjj
fifth iMMBg UI order that the S
night return
train, bar boys
luck. If the two rival etotas W
«o«ld combine and form
from the best mateaial ia both
cet away with anything that aught come
£»g They play**
fht Steele club played better
The ladies of the M. E. church are
maturing plans for a novel sociable and
festival, that of a carpet i-ag ball festival,
each ball to contain in tlie center a piece
of the dress to be worn by the maker.
The carpet rag balls are to be sold and
the buyer is to catch on to the lady who
wears a dress like the piece contained
within the ball and expend his cash in
entertaining her with ice cream and such
etlftr luxuries of the occasion as may be
on the bill of fare. The buyer is re
quired* to Immediately unwind it. It will
no doubt furnish a great deal of amuse
ment.
A case reported in the Fargn Republi
can may serve as a warning to the young
men of Jan.cstown who steal around the
doors and windows of our hotels IJ buzz
the pretty waiter girls. This ease was
one where a young fellow was slyly prom
enading to and fro past a back window
waiting for his divinity to appear when a
policeman mistook him for burglar and
gathered him in and locked him up in
the bastile over night. The next morning
when the good justice who knows how it
is himself was convinced that his error
was of he heart and not of the liead he
promptly dismissed the prisoner, who
hastened to his ownest one to tell her
all about it.
A young man staying about the shoot
ing gallery was yesterday arrested as the
party who burglariously broke into the
boarding house down on south Fifth ay
enue a few nights ago. He gave the
name of J. A. Shields and had an exami
nation before Justice Hamilton yesterday
afternoon where he was identified by three
persons who saw him in the house at
that time. He was held to bail in the
sum of #500 and committed to the county
jail. The crime charged is a very grave
ene under the territorial code and if con
victed in the district court he will prob
ably get along term in the penitentiary.
We hope no effort will^be spared by either
our officers or citizens to bring such char
acters to justice, and we think there is a
disposition on the part of both to clean
them out effectually.
SUCH anniversary as the one which is
to be held the 10th of August at Spring
field, Mo., in commemoration of the bat
tle of Wilson's Creek, August 10th 1861,
will certainly do no harm but will be a
source of much interest to all who re
member the event, and especially those
who took apart in that desperate and
bloody strife. The blue and the gray are
alike to take part in celebrating the
twenty-second anniversary of the first
battle of any consequence in the west,
and the first battle of the war in which
a
tlie energetic
boomer
Bugbes land and improvement enter
prise, received a
visit from his father and
mother who live in Minneapolis yester
day and the day before.
The Mesa Minstrels with Bessie Louise
King as the leading prim* donna will en
.tertain the people of this city in en
gagement of two nights at Klaus hall on
{Saturday and Monday nights,
for reserved seats can be had at
ill ft Webster's.
Tickets
Church-
Charlie Hettinger who came
lbro"«h
on the train from Bismarck y««terday
afternoon reports that the
freight depot at Dawson burned down
-and was about consumed when the
Jrain
^passed that station. The cause of lU
taking fire is not yet known.
The rain coming on so late yesterday
«rsning
earlier than usual.
darkness came on about an hour I
struggle in which the soldiers of either
8ide met
'oemen worthy of their steel,
h#n(J |n band
the bonds of peace and
of good will to commemorate the event and
the life blood of so many of their com
rades upon that day of dreadful carnage
grand and pre-eminent among whom was
the chivalrous and heroic Gen. Lyon who
fell while leading as well as commanding
the union forces. Geri. Lyon was a sol
dicr of the heroic kind, and the courage
his own dauntless bravery inspired in the
won made of every one of them a hero
His command to the soldiers was not
••Go'" but "Cornel" and wherever the
thickest of the fight and the most danger
Gen. Lyon was there, His soldiers swear
by the name of Gen. Lyon to this day and
his adversaries in that struggle honor and
revere him as a soldier to be dreaded in
and esteemed in peace. Although
Gen, Ly«n
war
feI1 on t,ia balt,c fleld Wlt
in two months aftejr the struggle
menced in deaaly earnest, aqd
hBd reached
the records of the war that
of a higher place in. the galaxy
he
been working by lamp light for some I .v. rH. of the war that is deserving
beautiful
the
*lgA number of telegrams have been re-
A number of teiegra qu
lived, there is not a name
the rtcep
batt]c 0
We
now that any person
TW?
TIIE trade dollar must go.
NEW HAMPSHIUE
Chandler must go.
com
before he
as high a rank as he would
its
of
than that of
I Gen Lyon, the hero of Wilson Creek
This
was the first Rattle of any coi
uenca
|n the west and the 8r«t qf the
tion of the disastrous
gist of the pre
wlio
Bull Run the
ciXirt'iU* cedt»gm.»tb, »d «l.o» -to .Id
ftft- a II #affl renort oi I in mmembei
OMDIA The union forces were com
manded bf Uc». fcvop and those of the
confederates by Gens. Price and
loch. Of the the union forces
eluding Gen. Lyon, were killed
»MJ J— I eiuuiug billxl and
that there was
woun
A ma* who would 11317 wounded
233 m
and 721
ded, tbe rebels losing 421 killed
courts have compelled Mr. Oken-
berc of Vev V«r^
t0
Ouba
Inane on the one ©cloc«
SHIPS
were eut of
this city
Pay
neero $250 for 2*0 drops of
Bank8»
trau8"
negro,* Airpnh«rc to save
fused from Banks to
the latter's life.
berg be socially
18 lu
n«?ro blood in his veins!" If he has
a good cause ef action against Banks for
That
may
be a nice qusstion
for the WW Iff split hairs abou
at Havftus,
O O
ot yellow fever on
the
HewastaMn .11 en
eut
2'M
Vfr*
Cn.r,Me.u»...
landed at Havana where be
Orf .» °V»-1
retired liat of tbe army as a Major Ue°_
oral He served in the Mexican war wi
iSantryandm.de a most brilliant and
Lh/r honorable record in the lateicml
H. of brains, a soldier
or aad***1^ chF^Ur
republicans say
THE strikers are still hammering away.
It is a question of resistence.
THE Minnesota editors have been
joying an excursion to Devtl's Lake.
en-
RAIN storms, tornadoes, and cyclones
seems to vie with the strikers in bringing
confusion upon the land.
THE lotterv men will sue the post
master general for damages fer excluding
their letters from the mails.
JUDGE EDMUNDS, the great Vermont
senator parsed a few days ago from the
Pacific coasi whither he went in April.
BETWEEN excessive rains, excessive
drought, and excessive cyclones, the
crops of the country are having a trying
time.
TIIE government now proposes to sue
the star route contractors to recover back
$10,000,000 of their stealings. If the suit
prevails Dorsey will howl.
ST PAUL has increased her banking
capital $2,400,000, in a year and now has
over $5,000,000 of It. Nothing small
about St. Paul but her death rate.
AFFIDAVITS sent by telegraph are being
admitted as evideace in court. There is
a heap of swearing at the telegraph but as
yet only a little swearing by it.
THE property of St. Paul increased
over $3,650,000, this year, jumping up
from $10,150,000 to $13,800,000. This is
one of the effects of this great goldea
Northwest.
NEARLY twice as many silver dollars
ware issued from the mint last week as in
the corresponding week of last year. Why
wont Uncle Sam issue a sack of them to
needy editors?
CINCINNATI has $8,600,000 of banking
capital whi]e St. Paul alone has $5,000,
000 and Minneapolis perhaps as much
more. Another indication that the great
Northwest is coming to the front in this
nation.
THE prohibition question is raising hob
with loWa politics, and strange results
are not impossible. If the Ohio defeat
last fall failed to knoclc any KDM into
the nf iha renuhlif.an«
nAr|„n,
mat purpns'
THE public.is becoming restive under
the exasperating inconvenience of the
the strike. Both sides are playing bluff.
Public sentiment is with the operators
who were forced by the grasping greed of
Jay Gould's gigantic monopoly to strike
or starve.
AFTEK extinguishing a hundred thous
and doliar fire at Miles «ity, Montana,
the other day, the crowd went to the jail,
took on a desperado win had threatr
ened to commit an outrage upon two
respectable young ladies in that vicinity
and hung him, after which they cut the
body down and threw it into the river
from which it wac afterwards fished out
by the sheriff. They also served public
notice on other desperadoes that unless
they made themselves conspicuously ab
sent prevention of like kind would
administered.
RRV. HOFFMAN, of Blooming ton, 111
who was recently deposed from the min
istry in the Methodist church on account
of a" fatherless kid that his hired girl
took to raise, and is now editor of the
which ha
Ptna .. a a Thl*
streets the pther day by a ™manhchad marks.
dubbed a "dudess." He will probably boardin
h.„d of applying -or U» pu,p« I -T
Universalis! church o». of tb«. lb. «"»d. the,
bems convinced by actual
u^icd........ Hcmnot b. fully
initiated in journalism until b# W
THOMPSON, the Kentucky congressman
who had a propensity to commit homi-,
Okenberg to save may, whea jooo cowardly opportunity
Vnw will Mr. Oken- offers, shoot him in self-defense, as they
Now wm I The other
ostracised for having I call it down in that state, The other
day he called uuon tbe president with an
inveterate office-seeker of the Bourbon
state, named McGee, and upon introduc
ing him the president explained
he already knew him, in
word?: ?'It is no use to introduce
JAMESTOWN. STUTSMAN COUNTY, D. T.. FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1883.
subject. It is probable, however, that a
man who has gall enough allow' him
self to be introduced untiln called forth
such an expression of feeling will not con
aider himself insulted nVtil the president
orders his porter to kick hftii out doors.
It does not appear whet .office McGee
wanted.
THE metropolitan papers that have
"special wires" for their use in obtaining
news are still able to fill up considerable
•pace, but the reports they publish plain
ly show that their resources are badly
crippled. These special wires are very
good resources to have but as they only
communicate with news centers and
there is no way of gathering the news
into these centers their reports are want
ing very materially in generality. The
strike i& harder on the newspapers that
publish the telegraphic reports than on
any other business perhaps/but still, with
few exceptions, they havev kind words
for and feelings of sympathy with the
strikers. This indicates. tjfcf't there is a
settled conviction that the strikers have
real grounds of grievance, /or news
oapers, though perhaps *s just as any
other business and much more so than
many others, would not be likely to give
the benefit of a doubt againtt^tfiemselves.
As general rule strikers hall no consid
eration for any other interest than their
own, and they are also generally accom
panied by a spirit and exhibition of law
lessness and violence that at once arouses
the antagonism of all goed people. But
the telegraphers have been governed by
more manly and considerate means. They
have obstained from violence and law
lessness, and have been considerate of
tlie puqlic convenience so fa&as possible
and still be effective in their means, and
so long as they do this, even if they re
sort to the more extreme measure of
calling off the railroad operators, they
will still maintain a strong hold upon the
sympathy of the public.
THE preservation of the section corners
established by the government surveyors
is a matter that should be attended to in
every county in the territory. It is a
matter of apparently small moment now
while these corners are plainly marked
and land is cheap but the time will come
when land will be so valuable that the
boundary lines will be contested to the
exactness of a toot,and unless the corners
are preserved there will in the next gen
eration be many and bitter contests in
law ovor boundary lines. The state of
Illinois is a good illustration, especially
in the central and northern parts which
area prairie country was sur-
marked by mounds in which were set
posts very much as they are marked here
now. Theae land marks were plain for
twenty-five years or more on the prairies
where they were undisturbed, but in
breaking the sod the mounds were plow
ed down, the stakes having already
rotted off, and thus the old land marks
were gradually and thoughtlessly effaced.
The land being cheap the owners did not
consider it worth while to contend oyer
a few feet or even rods. But these lands
eipenenc.|«pend,.or..t
Ia'
«im hinds of
have fa en in
°ri*
laid aside his ministerial forbearance of I down.
when thine enemy smite thee on one
cheek turn to him the other also," as to
knock the top of his assailant's head off
before he smites him on the one cheek.
When Mr, Hoffman lays aside his puritaa
meekness enough to equip himself with
a pocket arsenal and wear a bowe knife
in each boot leg be will 0«n»maRd rpspect
as a journalist such as people will be
careful to regard.
that
McGee. I know Idm- I*'? ft
miliar as tho front of the capttol. He
has been introduced to me about sixty
tinges. Ife hffi bpen presented to *»J
eyery Kentuckian )fhQ 9F ftW r£®R
here since the matter w»» broached.
There Is no use talking any more a'*lt
a matter that is settled." The Hon-t?)
Phil. Thompson whose chief notoriety is
in shooting his fellowmen, considers him
self insulted by the above remarks, but
I HcGee
has
not expressed himself on the
N,
Cftll 06 00116 OT lUtJ tVUUM I euurv, #uu a
This can be done by the county
roper stej
gpeak.
lb.
that there is boil on earth. But ii« sbonW interminable and ej
no, be discouraged £1,. Iba. a»
THa New York Tribune says that
Blaine peremptorily refuses to be con
a candidate for the presidency.
sidered
That is what the Louisville Courier-Jour
nal says of Tilden. Whether the asser
tion means the same in'Maine that it
does in New York or not remaip? to be
the seen. The Tribune has Insisted that
Tilden's disclaimer was a trump in his
sleeve, and now it seems to be playing
the same thing with Blaine, and it looks
as if that journal was modeling a cam-
tfa
clined
:'iV
Tilden style.
did so to remind the people that he could
be a candidate if he wished. In other
words, they are men whe believe the
office should seek the
means
man
and not the
man the office, and indicate by this
where the man can be found. If
tho"" following either convention should hit upon the
Mr. I man thus indicated their patriotism
would probably overcome their private
personal feeliugf sufficiently to induce
them to make the sacrifice. There never
to look upen with lew faith than
we did before we noticed the universal
use of the expression on such occasions
and the undeviating rule of making the
sacnAce. This personal sacrifice com
menced with Washington and has con
tinued down to the present time. There
is a striking sameness about this thing,
and we have come to the conclusion that
they all lie like ward politicians when
they say it. If we ever vote Tor a presi
dent again and there is a candidate in the
field who does not accept the nomina
tion at a sacrifice of his personal feelings
he will get our vote. We are not dis
posed to demand such a sacrifice on the
part of any man.
DAKOTA is beginning to feel the infln
ence of her envious rivals whom she is
outstripping in tlie race for prosperity,
wealth and power. It is the fate of suc
cess to be decried by failure. The strides
of Dakota in the grand march of pro
gress has excited the envy of less favored
regions and the stream of detraction has
begun its slimy work. We are no longer
on the frontier that has passed on to
wards the summit of the Rockies Our
people must accommodate themselves to
the situation. The fever and novelty of
frontier life is measurably departed. We
must coma down to the solid, everyday
life of building up a great state. We
must learn self-reliance and self-poise.
Good fortune must not be allowed to
turn our heads, and a slight taste of mis
fortune must not discourage. We have
got the grandest wheat fields in America
and the granaries of the country will be
erected on our broad, beautiful and pro
ductive territory, which will become a
state in the net distant future. Nowhere
else will the labor of the husbandman be
so bounteously rewarded. Droughts may
come, rains may come, grasshoppers may
come but Dakota is bound to push her
self to the front in spite of any possible
temporary set-backs. Seed time and har
vest are promised upon immutable au
thority. Dakota will have her share,
probably no more, probioly no less, than
fall to to the lot of other people. But tlie
envy of rival communities will bear our
misfortunes to the ends of the earth on
electric wings, while their own equal or
or greater misfortunes will not even rise
to the dignity of neighborhood gossip.
This is the penalty we must pay for our
native wealth, our prosperity and our
certain future greatness. The drought
has injured the crops of Dakota some
what this present season, in some
localiities more in some less. But
in the east this Dakota
drought is a household word to fright
the children in the nursery withal. But.
linois tiian we nave
aum.au
drought. But these reports pass through
those states like the idle wind which they
respect not. The obvious fact is that
people in Dakota ought to exercise care
and judgment in sending out reports and
allow a somewhat common impulse to
create a sensation, to cause them to do an
actual Injustice by thoughtless exaggera
tion Carrmgton is a wrecked and
ruined
another
thiny and That first
generation now.
forty years ago were bought at $J.?5 per
acre are now worth from $50 to $100 per
acre, and the question of boundary lires
has become an important one. We ven
ture there has been more money expend
ed in
re-surveys
and law suits over boun
dary lines in that state, within the last
ten years than the original survey
cost, and still the question is undecided.
The original corners being forever lost
the boundary lines of the farms will for
ever remain in dispute and subject tq
change, This might nearly all have
been avoided by preserving the original
corners. This will be the case in Dakota
Dakota town all over the east,
while everybody here knows that the in-
I jury done there is absolutely insignificant.
hysterical telegram did the bus
iness. Dakota will survive all her dilh
culties, surmount all opposing obstacles,
and will rapidly develop into a great,
rich and prosperous state. Her endless
prairies will be dotted with happy and
prosperous homes. Her grain fields will
vie with the golden streets of the
New Jerusalem in beauty and wealth.
Railroads in all sections will be vexed
with the perpetual motion of the eyer
unquiet car and train in transporting her
commerce. Fortunes will be made,
homes will be made elegant, beauty will
smile in the land, wealth will accumulate,
and a happy people will enjoy unrivaled
prosperity.
All
Q0W vith
this will be the result of
earnest labor, steady self-poise, persistent
effort, and a brave contest with whatever
uibiv -WW-
^culty
rea
impede her grand march
States are not mads in a
progress
sea-
year fortunes are not gathered in a
sen. But every year and every
counts in the great undertaking.
dence has abundantly dowered Dakota
with raw material for wealth and great
ness. It only remains for human skill,
|Pte}]igeqce and energy to manufacture
these grand materials into the gorgeous
fabric.
season
Provi-
IT looks now as if the telegraphers
would "carry the war into Africa," call
ing
off their men In the employ of the
railroad companies, and in the dispatch
frrm Chicago the railroad companies that
are to receive Immediate attention are
named. If they do this the running
trains
will be seriously interfered with if
not stopped entirely. The condition is
certainly a very unpleasant one and may
lead to other strikes that will make the
situation very grave indeed. It is to be
hoped, however that Uia,t \b,a worst may
be averted by a settlement of the diffi
culty
The Henry Eagle, Codington County,
says: A heavy rain storm visited this
section Wednesday afternoon. Quite a
considerable hail accompanied the rain,
being the first hail ever known to fall in
this immediate y^cinity at this season of
the year. No damage is reported.
Fargo
b« been «Wi».fd I? *b« Mg of the open-
SSK2S15SS -a. "sur-1 ing of tbe road S*. t,
nrised" a* the selection, aad accepted at
a gveat sacrifice at personal feeling. The
surprise may be genuine though agree
able, but the sacrifice of personal feeling
in accepting the nomination we are in
Republican: The North Pacific
has addressed a circular *Q aU conaect
jqg liqa^t ^iieciing them to prepare and
rea^ns from St. .Minneapolis and
Dqlqth to all points on the.JS orthcrn Pa
cific, Oregon Railway & Navigation com
pany's lines, Oregon & California and
the Olympia & Chehali Valley rail
roads.
Railroad Meeting.
The stockholders of the James River
Valley railway met at the efllce of Wells,
Dudley & Co., Tuesday evening, pursuant
to notice by the president.
President Rose called the meeting to
order and on motion Marshall McClure
was appointed secretary of the meeting
After hearing the report of the com
mittee on permanent organization the
following gentlemen were put in nomi
nation for directors: R. £. Wallace, B»
P. Wells, David Curtin, D. McK. Lloyd,
J. W. Goodrich. R. M. Wlnslow, 8. K.
McGinnis, Jeff. Smith. L. Lyon, R. Rose,
and Anton Klaus.
The nominations being declared closed,
Mr. Wells moved that they proceed to
elect seven directors by ballet, which
carried.
The ballot for the election of directors
resulted in the election of the following:
U. McK. Lloyd, E. P. Wells, R. E. Wal
lace, A. Klaus, D. uurtin, Jeff. Smith
and J. W. Goodrich.
The finance committee reported that
they had sccured subscriptions to the
capital stock amounting to $65,050, five
per cent, of which was paid in.
Mr. Klaus moved that Mayor Flint, L.
Lyon, R. M. Winslow, J. A. Atkinson,
Alfred Dickey, J. W. Goodrich, L. B.
Durstme. S. K. McGinnis and W. W.
Dudley be added to the finance committee
which was carried.
Tho articles of incorporation were then
read, adopted and signed after which the
meeting adjourned.
The board of directois is composed of
men whose names and standing in busi
ness and financial circles guarantees the
success of the enterprise, and it is the
duty and to the interest of every stock
holder and citizen to aid them by all
means in their power, as the benefits of
the road will be alike to all proportionate
to their business and property interests.
D. McK. Lloyd is a capitalist of large
wealth and extensive property interests
Jamestown and the James river val
ley.
E. P. Wells, president of the James
River National bank and also of the
North Dakota Loan and Trust company
is a man of pushing enterprise and of
extensive property interests.
R. E. Wallace, president of fhe First
National bank, is one of our most enter
prising men, and has large property in
terests here.
Anton Klaus, the father of Jamestown,
and one of its most energetic boomers,
has the greater part of his wealth in
vested in this city.
David Curtin likewise is a man of
Jeff. Smith, of La Mourccoun!y?*,ffli
large property interests in that direction
on the proposed line of this road and will
do his whole duty in advancing the
scheme.
away
J. W.Goodrich agricultural implement
dealer and extensive farmer, is a man of. 1r Kt
enterprise and good business ability and that will shoot straight.
has large property interests in the town I Valley City Tunes: A new switch
and country immediately around, I board and other material for the Valley
taken identity by Peoria policeman a
few
though the fact that Beecher was passing I the Northwest, under the supervision of
through that country at that Uws might I Supt. Whitfield and Elder Hartsough in
have aroused n^o^e vigilance than usual. 1 announced to be held on the west shore
The police department had received a I of Big Stone lake, two miles from Kg
elegraw from down the road to arrest a Stone City, Dak., July Site 30,1883k
young lady with blue dress on wlio was I Prominent speakers from Dakota, Min
running
tempt at explanation was answered by
the police with the rejoinder "you can't
play that on me," and the only way out
of the difficulty was to seek identification
by some responsible resident of the city
of Peoria which was not found until the
tram had departed fer Chioago, on
which the parties really wanted pro
ceeded
unmolested, that young ladyia
blue having thoughtlessly changed the
hue of her outward apparel. We publish
this for the purpose of pointing a moral,
which is, never travel with a girl who
wears a blue dress, it's a dead give awav
Grand Forks News In Dakota pion
eering there are some queer experiences
of people from nearly all climes and of
diverse avocations in their first essays in
agriculture, A. London cockney, trying
to drive an ox team from the off side,
despairingly ejaculated, "To 'ell with the
bloody hoxenl" An old sault, plowing
his potatoes with a mule, gives the order,
"Starboard yer helium, ye morphodite
jackass, or ye'll run afoul o' the cab
bages!" And a Vassar graduate, on her
first visit to farm house, wonders at the
scarcity of milk when she seas sq many
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'cows'' hitched to the plow.
NO. i:
GENERAL NEWS.
Fifty miles more of the Northern Pa
cific railroad, in Montana, has just been
accepted by the government. The com
pleted section is that extending west-'
ward from the 625th to 675th mile pest.
Three million acres of land now held,
by the Indians west of Chamberlain and
Pierre on the west bank of the Missouri
river Dakota, are to be surveyed and.
thrown open to settlement.
The Sunday Argus soys that the real
estate transfers in Cass county fer tlw*
paat week were three times as large as
those recorded in the coresponding week
last year.- This is an item whereby^jC'^?^^
hangs a tale, for the edification of croak-po
era, if any of this genus homo exist in#
Fargo.
Fargo Republican: Work upon thejgf/l
Northern Pacific is rapidly progressing.^
It is expected that the track layers wiu|*/%s§@|
cross the Big Blackfeot sometime thug^^^i
week. Beyond that, track will be laid afc'-? Vj, p|3|
the rate of too and one half miles a day.
The junction will be made between 8ept.^^J"
1 and 3 at the mouth of the Little Black-C'
foot river, where the Utah Northern inter
sects the Northern Pacific.
The Billings, Montana, Herald says
that in the Jiittlc THankfoot Imini1] (,hg
earth has had away of falling, and at~
one time it was thought necessary to
Wow tbe whole top off and make a big
cut of it, but after making an inspection.'
Engineer Chesbrough thought it best to
timber the tunnel thus making a good
job, which also acts as a snow shed.
Fargo Argus: Manager Inman reports'
that the commercial telegraph office is
doing about the regular business: com*
mercial messages are coming in at the
rate of seventy-five per cent, of the reg
ular rate, and sent off promptly. The'
Western Union has Issued a circular no
tifying all operators that those who are
at work on July 30 will receive pay from
July 16,and get extra pay from that time,
besides, at the rate of sesen hours per
day.
The Mandan Pioneer says there is a
growing demand for more houses in Man
dan. Two ladies were in town yester
day looking for a house. They had
brought their furniture and were unable
to find a house or rooms. The Boston
syndicate's houses are no sooner com
pleted than tney are rented. It would
be a fine thing for Mandan if someboby
would put up at once twent y-five houses.
They would all be taken before they
were finished.
not sufficient to guard the resifl
the inhabitants and to keep the city clear
of these bad men, the force should be en-1
larged at once. It is better to save the.
property even at the expense of the life of
a few thieves. Let the mayor hire some-
With aboard of directors composed of City Telephone exchange has arrived,
men of such financial standing and busi-1 and the improvementa the system
ness capacity as the above, and with the I promised by Mr. Conehay will be com
whole people with like interests to sup-1 menced as soon as the material for the
port them in providing an outlet to the I construction of connecting lines is all re
south there will be no failure of the en- I ceived. Some of this material has al
terprise but it will be pushed through to I ready been received at Jamestown, and
completion both certainly and rapidly. some will be shipped to Valley City and
intermediate points. An office for the
The circuit clerk,of Mason County, III., I transaction of commercial business will
H.. A. Wright by name and Gus. Wright I be fitted up in this city.
by fame, was made the victim of mis-
days ago, by being collared by the'
municipal minion of the law as a
masher." Being struck with a sport
ing spirit Wright started to Chicago to
blow in" a little "dust" on the races,
and being a married man of old ac
quaintance in the town and of discreet
habits with the damsels, a young lady of
his place who was going to Chicago on
a
visit was committed to his charge. The
young lady was dressed in blue which
proved to be the source of all the trouble,
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Postmaster Col. Tyner,
j^t^umedfrom a trip through
Richland county, says the Drops in that
section are looking finely, especially
early sown grain, which stands high with
heavy stalk. The late runs,he says,have
helped the crop wonderfully, and the
farmers generally feel confident that they
will reap a good harvest. He seems to
think that there is no doubt of there be
ing an average crop if nothing interferes
with it hereafter.
The great Methodist camp meeting of
with a "masher," and as a I neseta, Iowa aad the east will be In at-
consequence the innocent couple in ques- tendance. Persons attending the camp
tion were spotted by the "cops" as the 1 meeting from abroad will l»e returned to
ones wanted and gathered iu as soon as I any point in Minnesota or Dakota an the
they stepped off tho tram. Every at-{Chicago, Milwaukee & Paul
one-fifth fare.
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railroad for
Sioux Falls Press: C. K. Howard
brought in some sample wheat from
Plainview farm that according to com
petent judges, was ahead of anything
ever seen in this region. The heads,
which by the way, were not selected from
different parts of tbe fleld, hut gathered
in a bunch at one grab, averaged five
inches In length and were proportionate
ly plump. With a few more days of di
vine favor thts section will come to the
front as the banner crop region for
1SS3.
Valley City Times: The greatest feat
in the way of long distance communica
tion ever aaown, was accomplished over
the Western Union Telegraph company
line a Tew days since, when President W
B.
Strong
tarn
of the Atchison, Topeka and
Sante Fe Railway talked by telegraph,
trom Boston with C. C. Wheeler, general
manager of the company at Guaymas em
the Gulf ef California, a distance of 3,500
miles. The time lost in transmission waa
five seconds. Such an occurrence seema
marvelous, hat iea«y no mora se than
that we ve able to use the subtle force of
nature called electricity fer oommunka-^
over the aborteet
distance*.
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