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VOL. VII—NO. 51.
KAH8HALX HoCLUKE.
4. O. WAKMOCK.
Froprietoi
Editor
THE UAV WE DECORATE.
"TO live in heaits we leave behind, is not
to die."
The annual recmrence of the 30th of
May calls up memories of the past tliat
are sacred in every heait anil home in
our nation, .Millions yet live who "well
and sadly remember the parting pangs of
18C1 wht,n father commended wife and
children to the care of the God in whom
above all he put his trust when son just
entering upon his early manhood with
all of life's hopes and ambitions before him
took leave of his clinging mother, whose
anguish only a mother and her God can
ever know when the young man renew­
ed the pledge of fidelity to his affianced
and received hers in return, went forth
in answer to their country's call to brave
the storm of battle and delend the old
flag under who.°e protection they were
liorn and reared.
Millions yet living recall, as if but yes­
terday, the anxiety with which the tcrri
ble conflict of arms between those who
fought as only American soldiers 'cap
fight, was watched when one by one the
officeis, and thousands by thousands the
phalanx of soldiers, were mown down by
the terrific tornndo of shot and shell that1
resisted every step of advance when from
the little skirmishes in Missouri and Vir­
ginia the struggle grew into the great
battles of Jiull Run, Pea Kidge, Fort
Donaldson, Shi'ob, Gettysburg, Chica
inauga, Chattanooga, Petersburg, Cedar
Creek and the hundreds of others of less
but still appalling mortality that make
up the four years epoch in our natio
t'a
history, neatly every line of which is
crimson with the hloo-l of the slain.
These scenes and times are indcllibly
stamped upon the memory of countless
thousands and are being impressed upon
the minds of the younger generation by
fathers and mothers whose sons and
brothers were among the unreturning he­
roes whose patriotism and self-sacrifice
the ceremonies of ihis day are designed
lo commemorate.
Today tlie veteran who is growing grey
with the flight of years will recall to
memory with special vividness the com­
rades who fell upon his right und upon
tiis left upon the field of battle or have
since in peace sunk into the grave by the
attack-of that fell destroyer whose powei
is omnipotent, whose alin is unerring and
whose order is irrevocable.
The vast army of two million seven
hundred thousand men that responded to
the different calls of President Lincoln to
meet upon the battle liclds nearly an
equal Dumber of equally brave men Irom
the south was decimated neaily three
hundred 'thousand, the bones of most of
whom now lie burled in the Sunny South,
while every cemetery in the north from
Maine to California mtains the remains
•of some of the veterans who have since
ifallen a prey to disease and accident
\wluch are yearly diminishing their mini.
Iter by the thousand.
has come to oe considered a patriotic
duty to hold this day sacred to the mem­
ory of the soldier deai', and it is
a
custom
which is happily growing rather than di­
minishing in interest ar.d observance. It
is at a time when the fust blooming and
most fragrant flowers of the year are In
their glory and are fitting emblems with
which to commemorate the patriotic vir­
tues of our nation's defenders as well as
to represent the noblest emotions and
purest sentiments of gratitude for their
services.
tt is also one the perpetuating vir­
tues of the observance ol this dny that it
.softens the asperities and sweetens the
bitterness that stimulated the contending
armies to deadly strife before the war and
nerved them lo heroic deeds of valor dur­
ing its progress.- Those soldier foes in
an ended strife now lie side by side in
peaceful slumbets upon the field where
the ground drank up their life blood.
The fair hand of lovely woman makes no
distinction in the bestowal of these beau
tiful and fragrant mementoes whether
they fall on the grave of a soldier who
wore the blue or the grey, and the mag­
nanimous surviving veterans of both sii!es
look approvingly upon the tribute of res­
pect paid alike to each.
While treason is odious and the leaders
wbo precipitated the South int rebellion
should forever hear the odium, the
soldier
whether now dean or alive, fought as the
good soldier fights, obeying his comman­
der Without question as to the right or
wiong at issue, and a magnanimous na­
tion can well allord lo respect them for
their bravery even though it cannot com­
mend them for their cause.
THE official tenure of Hen. Ilti J.
Campbell as United States district at­
torney for Dakota having terminated he
la receiving the parting blessings of the
press in a way that represents nearly all
kinds of feeling whiih can lie entertained
by otto person toward another. In an­
cient times when the heads of govern­
ments thought Ibeir philosophers and
sages bad done enougn for their fellow
men they were magnanimously permitted
to resign by drinking the deadly hemlock
or by falling on their own swords. In
this a.?eof higher civilization when the
head of the administration changcs the
appointees of the preceding administra­
tion are permitted to resign by written
relinquishment to all the rights, title and
emoluments of the office belt1 by them
through tbe grace of the preceding ad­
ministration.
Soon after the accession of a democratic
president Mr. Campbell availed himself
of the modern manner of co milling of­
ficial suicide by placing his resignation
at tte disposal of the administration.
The sacrifice was accepted and Mr. Camp­
bell has been reli ved without prejudice
from tbe responsible duties which devolv­
ed upon# bim, and the newspapers are
suspending him in political purgatory
until the verdict is made up which will
designate the climate to which he shall
... tie assigned.
The official career oft Mr. Campbell in
Dakota has been in many respects an un­
pleasant one and his pal li through the
latter part of it has been I horny, for
which he himself boa partially at least
been responsible. He came to the tern-
V5 -4 nadcr a cloud of connect ion with
wisssv
the "counting out" process in Louisiana
in 187G-7, which cloud was rendered the
more dense by the fact that he came with
a commission from president Hayes in
bis pocket, But by his ability and effi­
ciency he soon overcame this objection
and was known and honored throughout
the length and breadth of the territory.
In an evil moment, however, he en­
gaged in a personal and factional strife
with Gov. Ordway, in whom he caught a
tartar, in which they both succeeded in
lowering themselves in the estimation of
the people and hastening their own re­
tirement to the shades of private life.
Uiit for this Gov. Ordway would have
been re-appomted as executive and Mr.
Campbell would have served out his term
as district attorney. Gov. Ordway was
indicted by the United States court grand
jury at Yankton, lo secure which Mr.
Campbell was charged by the governor
and his friends with exerting special ef­
forts not born alone of a desire to enforce
the laws. This was followed by charges
against Mr. Campbell being filed with
the attorney general at Washington .re
Itlectinghie.
official and
personal ftSegrif^Iftpwi when these two
factional chiefs look upon the political
Wreck they ba# made of each other they
will realize from experimental knowledge
tbat ,. j.
'"The mills of tlie gods grind slow,
liut they grind exceeding small."
Rf.oknt reliable reports in regard to
the wheat crop kring the matter down
almost within the realm of mathematical
demonstration. That the crop iii the
states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Ken­
tucky will he less than half, perhaps not
more than one-third, of last year, has
been ascertained by thorough and reliable
investigation. Owing to the drought in
the early part of the season in California,
Oregon and Washington territory, there
will be a shortage of over one-third or
20,000,000. Michigan is the only western
wheat producing state that comes up to
the average. The. total wheat crop of
the country will be about 135,000,000
bushels short of that of last year, or a fall­
ing of a little over 25 per cent.
The same collection of reports made by
the Farmers' lteview, of Chief go, puts
the acreage in Dakota at ight percent,
less than that of last year and the total
prospective yiel of the terriuuy at 130,
000,000 bushels,- These reports are espec­
ially encouraging to the farmers of Da­
kota as they point to prosperity beyond
all expectations of a lew months ago.
TitKiiR is one federal officeholder in
this territory who, if not "offensively par­
tisan," is at least offensively stubborn, in
defying propriety if not piecedent by re­
fusing to keep his office in the capitol
building at Bismarck, a place of almost
absolute safety provided for the territorial
offices and other purposes. That officer
is Hon. J. II. Teller, territorial secretary,
who refused to obey the order of Gov.
Ordway to remove his office irom ¥«.u
ton to Bismarck and maintained it at the
ex-capital to the groat disadvantage of
the executive, lo whose official documents
tlie secretary was required to attest and
affix the seal, causing annoying and un­
necessary delays until the meeting of the
1 ate session of the legislature when his
presence at the capital could no longer be
withheld. President Cleveland may not
be able to see that simplicity and econo­
my which he advised in his inaugural in
paying rent for a territorial office when
the officer refuses to occupy elegant and
suitable apartments provided free of cost
to the government by the people of the
territory, and when his executive eye
falls upon the needless expenditure he
wili probably turn the office over to some
one who will not harbor a senseless prej
udtee at the expense of economy.
The Illinois legislature has put itsell
on record among the nations of ilieeiirtli
That august body of solons felt it their
duty to let the world see and know that
tbey had learned of the death of Vic
lor Hugo, the venerable and illustrious
French author. Many of them had nev­
er beard of him before. In their speech­
es some of them paid a glowing tribute
tu him as the inventor of tbe Victor sew­
ing machine, and one old fellow who
liyed in Gen. Jackson's time panegyrized
him as the author of "To the victors belong
the spoils," and thought he lived down
in Tennessee somewhere but had not
heard of him for a long time. Another
member whose father was a hardshell
Baptist preacher declared with much
feeling of reverence that Victor Hugo was
tlie founder of the sect called Huguenots
to which every member of the legislature
owed a debt of gratitude for having car­
ried on the Reformation from the point
where Martin Luther and John Calvin
left it. The mention of tlie term teforma
tion by the last speaker brought both tbe
republican and democratic members to
their feet, each party claiming that Vic­
tor Hugo was the author of the civil ser­
vice reform plnnk in its platform After
tumult in which tobacco quids and
cigar stubs were exchanged between the
disputants with the vigor of base ball
pitchers tbe Speaker decided that the res­
olutions of condolence were carried unan­
imously and the house adjourned out of
rcspect for the deceased benefaclor.
Tim retirement of Judge Hudson liom
the high and honorable posiiton ol judge
of the district court and associate justice
of the territorial supreme court is under
circiim8tanccs of the most pleasing char­
acter lo his friends. The change in the
national administration brings such chan­
ges of officers who hold their positions by
appointment of the president without
casting any reflection upon the retiring
officer. Judge Hudson's t«rm of appoint­
ment had expired and he had neither ex
pectation nor desire of re appointment,
lie tecogntzed the peculiarly of our sys
Um of government which demanded a
change and most cheerfully submitted to
it. As he was not in accord with the ad
ministration he expected and conceded
the right of tbe administration to cboose
bis successor from among those wbo are
in accord with it. Tbe constantly accu
mulating duties the position put upon
Judge Hudson made it a laborious one.
Until quite recently his district embraced
thavhoile of North Dakota, with setllcis
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and more or less litigation in all parts of
the area of 75,000 square milts. Judge
Hudson retires from the bench not only
with the highest esteem «tf the people and
compliments and confidence of the bar,
but without a taint of corruption to mar
the mantle he has so ably worn or blem­
ish his name and^standing among men.
The Alert most heartily concurs in the
sentiments of good will, high esteem and
sincere confidence tendered Judge Hud­
son at the banquet given him at Fargo
Tuesday night.
Delec.ate Giflord is quoted as express­
ing the opinion that if division and state­
hood are presented in congress together
as one question it will never reach even
the light of discussion. He thinks the
better plan would be to present the di­
vision question alone to the house and let
the senate take care of the South Dakota
constitution afterwards. He says all tbey
can reasonably hope for the next congress
is division, but he is willing to act in ac­
cordance with the wislns of the people
in the premises whether his own judg­
ment approves it or not. This is the
right kind of spirit but he will lind in the
end that if he f*(is to accomplish the re­
sults expected of him, however unreason­
able the expectation, that he wili be con­
demned for inefficiency and be compared
to a bull in a china i-torc. If he under­
takes to follow all the ways directed by
southern Dakota politicians, each one of
whom ifetrying to score a point for him­
self, he will go as many different ways
as a horse with the blind staggers. 11
there is anything for which South Dakota
politicians are peculiar it is "ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain."
The plight in which the patients that
were brought to the insane hospital at
this place were sent out from tlie Yankton
asylum suggests the need of an old lien.
Duller in tlio territory, and we do not be­
lieve that Oov. Pierce will let this dis­
grace to the territory and one of its
charitable institutions pass unnoticed.
Tbe institution at Yankton evidently
needs investigation and needs it badly.
These patients must be taken as a sample
of the manner in which all the inmates
of that institution are clad. The pre­
sumption would" be that they were dres­
sed in their best, going out on such a
journey. To suppose that they were clad
woise than those that remained would be
lo Suppose a discrimination where none
could either justly or decently be made.
There is no appareiil excuse for the (lis
graceful condition of apparel in which
these patients were sent ut. There is no
excuse for keeping tliem in such condi­
tion of apparel in that institution even
though they might be hidden Irom the
observation of the outsiuc world. These
patients were made the unconscious and
involuntary exposers of gross negligence
and incompetency somewhere in that in­
stitution and a thorough weeding out
process cannot too soon be inaugurated
nor be too vigoiously prosecuted.
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to fix dates, especially the date of their
downfall. Such a date is very much like
that of the changes of the moon, purely
arbitrary. The moon does not change
mere rapidly at one lime than at another,
and guessing at changcs In the weather
at stated changes of the moon is all moon­
shine. So it is with those who fix an ar­
bitrary dale of their downfall, with per­
haps a few exceptions. The exhorter in
a distant state wbo, on bciog detected
stealing money from a till, fixed the date
of his downfall at the time when he join­
ed a progressive euchre club, is proba­
bly one of those wbo look for a change of
weather when the moon chames. Pco
pie have been accustomed to charge
their downfall to the devil, but it seems
now that progressive euchre is to take
the placc of that old tempter as a scape­
goat and satan .is to be given a rest. 11
seems a little strange that people rarely
if ever ascertain this date until they are
caught in tbe fall. It is not the fall
fr man elevation that bruises the body
and breaks tbe bones, but the stopping
so suddenly. So it seems that it is not
the downfall in morals that hurts, but the
shock of being caught in it.
When the inan in the garden ol Eden
was confronted with tbe discovery of his
disobedience he fixed the date at the
time when the woman gave to him the
fruit, and the woman fixed the data of
her downfall at the lime when the ser­
pent beguiled her. After all there is
more virtue in keeping out of the way of
temptation than in resisting it. If you
know the date of the commencement of
your downfall now you knew it at the
time, and if you knew it at the time you
have been little less than an idiot for pur­
suing the course that you knew would
end in ruin.
from injudicious zeal or for
some sinister purpose Yankton seems to
be the "fool friend" of the South Dakota
cause. Just now as the people are about
lo select their delegates to the •jonstitu
tional convention, to assemble at Sjoux
Falld next September, the new paper,
called the Telegram, in Yankton, revives
the revolutionary Hugh Campbellite doc­
trine of two years ago of organizing a
state oirt of tbe union and in conflict with
the territorial government established
and now being maintained by federal an
thority.
The Sioux Falls Press well says that
such "revolutionary literature" will not
gain friends for the purpose contemplated
in the constitutional convention. That
the whole people of Yankton who take
active part in the politics of the territory
approye this revolutionary scheme either
by open avowal or negative silence is not
an unfair inference in the light of the
fact that none ot the papers of that city
disapprove of it. The further Tact that
Mr. Campbell is still in Yankton and sus
tains a relation quite near the sanctum of
the Telegram gives rise to the presump­
tion that it is from his massive brain that
these sentiments emanate, which, stand­
ing unrepudiated by the press of that
city, must stand as representing the ten
liments of the people of that locality on
the subject. Mr. Campbell's experience
in tbe state government of Louisiana
would pre bably qualify him foi the office
of governor of a similar chaotic state in
South Dakota, but wo do not believe his
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following of revolutionists would extend
beyond the insignificant squad of office
seekers and public plunderers when the
lest should come, however unanimously
tbey might fall into it now.
This preposterous and revolutionary
idea was strangled in the constitutional
convention of two years ago, and for the
general reputation of Dakota territory it
is to be hoped that alike fate awaits it at
the eoming convention. There are in­
harmonious and distracting elements
enough among tbe people of $outh Da­
kota already without injecting into the
constitutional convention scheme tbe ele­
ment of crankiness.
Judge Shannon two years ago, to tbe
minds of all candid thinking people, an­
nihilated this proposition on every point
offered in its support, and tbe same points
thut are now being revamped as argu­
ments in its favor. It is a proposition as
absurd and inconsistent with our govern­
ment as the doctrine of secession, and
would be dealt with by the federal gov­
ernment in the same way.
Some weeks ago the Steele Herald as­
serted that "Prtsident Clevelaud could
with as much propriety revoke Lincoln's
proclamation and remand the negroes
into slavery as revoke Arthur's procla­
mation opening the Winnebago reserva­
tion."
Wi: tried to show the Herald its error
at the lime but it seems to be not only
not convinced of its error but confirmed
in the correctness of its position. The
Herald does not seem to perceive any
distinction between emancipation ot
slaves and abolition of slavery. It says
"if we accept tlie Alert's statement
that Lincoln's proclamation only applied
to those states and parts of states that
were in armed rebellion against tbe gev
ernment on the first day of January 1SC3,
then from that date to the ratification of
the thirteenth amendment to the United
Stales constitution, what was the condi­
tion of the negroes in those states? Were
they slaves Did slavery exist at all with­
in the states and parts of states designs-,
ted by Lincoln's proclamation? Surelyj
not."
What the Herald pleases to call the
"Alert's statement" is the statement of
the emancipation proclamation ilsell.
After designating the slates ami parts of
states to which the proclamation should
apply, it says "And which excepted1
parts are, for the present, left precisely as
as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the
purpose aforesaid, 1 do order and declare,
that all persons held as slaves within said
designated states, and parts of states, are
and henceforward shall.be free."
The "condition of the negroes" from
the date of this proclamation eman­
cipating them as slaves to tbe ratification
of the thirteenth amendment forever pro­
hibiting slavery is better expressed than
any more elegant words would express
it by the quaint old saying brought up to
the new version, viz: "lfetween sheol
and a powder beuse," and especiallysoun
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JAMESTOWN. DAK., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1885.
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when the fa-iious anl infamous "block
codes" were enacted by those states while
under provisional government. The name
'freedmen" was comparatively speaking,
but a mockery until slavery was root and
branch forever abolished and prohibited
by constitutional amendmeut.
This was tbe rock upon whnh president
Johnson and the republican party split,
which finally culminated in his impeach­
ment. The system of reconstruction in­
augurated by Johnson would have nulli­
fied Lincoln's proclamation. Within two
months after his accession he appointed
provisional governors for the purpose of
r»organizing the southern states in which
the ex-slaves were excluded and pardon­
ed rebels were given the power Into their
own hands so far as the executive could
control the subject to reinstate ihemselve
into tlie union with slavery as one of
their institutions, but this scheme was
thwarted by congress which refused to
admit the representatives of those reor­
ganized states. President Johnson had
the power to revoke Lincoln's proclama­
tion, but he dared not do it in the face of
public sentiment. He souuht to nullify
it by circumvention through "my policy,"
and would have successfully accomplish­
edit had not his plans been frustrated
by congress as ber re slated.
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation
has been abrogated and swallowsd up in
the constitutional amendment. Then is
not a single point of vitality left in it any
more than there is in the Articles of Con­
federation which preceded the federal
constitution. Its revocation ly president
Cleveland or any other power would not
in the least affect the condition of a sin
gle former slave or colored pcrsen within
the bounds of the United States, nor of
any other country for that matter.
Too Cute fur Anything.
A few days ago Gen. J. Black, com­
missioner of pensions, received a letter
from a little girl of 14 year*, whose fa­
ther. a republican, is president of the
board af surgeons in a western town, and
she was afraid he would be removed. She
said her father was in tbe army that he
brought home with him from the war a
disease which would ultimately prove
fatal to him, and asked Gen. Black not to
discbarge him. She enclosed a postal
card addressed to herself, and saui: "My
pa does not know that 1 am writing llm
letter. If he did he m'ght not like it, so
if you grant this request please mark a
big on the back of this postal. No
bo'Jy but me will know what it means,
but I will know my pa will not be dis­
charged." The letter received Gen.
Black's attention and he wrote in reply:
"I have received your little letter and
have read it with interest. 1 will file it
carefully away and when 1 come lo take
up for action the matter of the reorgani­
zation of the board of examining sur
geons at I will give it just as care
fulxonsideration as I would like to have
given io a letter from my own little girl,
written under the same circumstances.
If your pa is a good man, a good sur­
geon, and a faithful officer of the gov­
ernment, I will try to keep him."
Mr. Chas. D. Ellis and Mrs. Ada Fos­
ter, both of this city, were marned Sun­
day by Kev. N. D. Fanning.
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Proceedings of (he Board of Education
The board of education held an ad­
journed meeting last evening at the office
of the president, Roderick Rose, at which
all the members were present except Mr.
Chambers whose absence was due to his
family affliction Us wife having died dur­
ing the afternoon.
The resignation of Mr. O. 11. Culver,
teacher of the high school, to take effect
at tbe end of the present term was read
by secretary McMillan and on motion was
accepted.
The committee on teachers made re­
port, which, after being discussed and
amended in a few minor points was read
and adopted seriatim and as a whole as
follows:
JAMESTOWN, Dak., June 1, 1885.
We as teachers' committee respectfully
submit the following partial report:
First—We recommend that Prof. Clem
mer be re-elected at a salary of $1,550 as
superintendent and principal of schools.
Second—That the tcacher of the high
school be a lady and that the salary be
flxed at$800.
Third—That Mrs. Peck be re elected
at a salary of $700 as teacher of the gram­
mar room.
Fourth—That Mrs. Porter be re-elected
at a salary of $050 as teacher of room A.
Fifth—That Miss Littlelield lie re­
elected at a salary ol ijsUfiO as teacher in
tic primaiy north
Sixth—That Miss Sadie Davidson be
re elected at a salary of $C50 as tcacher
in the primary south.
Seventh—That a salary of $000 be paid
to each of four intermediate teachers,
and that Miss M. Kinney be rc-electcd
and be assigned to a room by the super
'ntenJent and this committee
Eighth—That an extra ungraded school
be organized when it may be deemed nec­
essary by the superintendent and this
committee.
All the above recommendations are
subject to the rules governing tlie exam­
ination of such teachers.
N. D. Fanninu, I
J. A. Atkinson, C0111.
L. B. Dijustink,
The finance committee reported In fa­
vor of allowing a number of bills previ­
ously referred to tliem and leport was
adoptid.
The matter of purchasing a book case
for the school library was referred to the
committee on buildings, supplies, &c.
Mr. Rose informtd the board that he
had negotiated and consummated a loan of
$5,000 and had received a draft for the
amount made payable to the order of the
treasurer
of
the board.
Mr. Kellcy moved that, out of respect
to Mr. Chambers, the election of treas­
urer be postponed until the next meeting,
which was unanimously adopted.
It was afterwards learned that Mr.
Chambers would start next day to accom­
pany the lemains of his wife to Pennsyl­
vania and would be away an indefinite
length of lime, and thereupon Mr. Atkin­
son moved to reconsider the vote just
takeu on deferring the election of a treas
Iy""- ~iicli was also carried unanimous
This action was taken in older to meet'
the immediate pressing necsssity for
available funds which cou'd not be done
without a treasurer.
Mr. Atkinson stated that rs he had
nominated and supported Mr. Klaus for
tbe office of treasurer he would pair with
Mr. Chambers and not vote on the elec­
tion of treasurer.
A ballot was taken for treasurer which
resulted as follows Anton Klaus 3, A.
G. Chambers 2, A. W. Kelley 1. There
being no choice a second ballot was taken
which resulted as follows Mr. Klaus 4,
Mr Chambers 2. Mr. Klaus having re­
ceived a majority of all the votes cast was
declared elected.
On approval of Mr. Klaus' bond by the
finance committee and filing same ac­
cording to law he is entitled to receive all
money, books and papers belonging to
the office.
It was moved and carried that after
paying an order personally guaranteed by
members of the board amounting to
something ovei $700, held by the James­
town National bank,and interest on bonds
the remainder ol the money amounting to
about $3,600 be place to the teachers'
fund and that only orders for the month
of May should be paid from it as discount
had been allowed on all previous orders.
The subject of the secretary's salary
was referred to tlie fiuancc committee.
On motion board adjourned to meet
again next Tuesday night at which time
the committee on teachers will probably
be able to recommend others to complete
the list for the next term.
Valley City seems only linppy when an
unhappy strife is going on among her
people. There is now a war of words in
progress over the case of Walter F. Jones
whose commission as lir-it. lieutenant of
the militia company on objection of Col.
Richardson because of a telegram sent
tbe Pioneer Press staling that Richardson
was received with unmerchantable eggs
by the-people of Valley City on his re­
turn from the legislature wbere he officia­
ted as a member of the territorial council,
being withheld by the gevernor The
sensational altair is now being sifted
by investigation authorized by the gover­
nor and as usual the people have taken
sides.
The patients recently brought up from
Yankton to the insane hospital at this
place are all comfortably ensconced In
their new quarters and everything is run­
ning smoothly at that institution. Tbe
successful and excellent manner in which
the asylum has been put in operation
shows that Dr. Archibald, tlie superin­
tendent, is tbe right man in the right
place and that the board of trustees were
fortunate in his selection. We believe
that the North Dakota Insane Hospital
will be tbe model charitable institution
of the territory when the new buildings
contracted are completed.
Mr. Chambers started yi sterday after­
noon on the sad mission of accompanying
the remains of his wife to Pennsylvania
for burial, in which he was accompanied
by his sister and Charles S. Wallace,
brother of ibe deceased. Funeral servl
oaa were had at tbe residence by Rev. N.
D. Faaning.
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An,Impressive.Little Decoration Scene.
"He lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around, him."
It is not the pomp and splendor of glit­
tering pageantry that make the deep and
lasting impressions upon the soul. There
is more eloquence in tbe silor.t tear that
welU up unbidden from the sealed foun­
tains of the heai t, than in any language
which tongue or pen can command. Mill­
ions of peop'c assembled yesterday all
over the land to pay the anniversary trib­
ute of respect and honor to the soldieK
dead. That millions of these dul so more
to magnify themselves before men than
to honor the names and slumbering dust
of the fallen heroes who sleep the sleep
that will know no waking until the bu­
gle sound at the Resurrection Morn shall
call them forth, is probably true, too
true, indeed, to bear close investigation
But in the main the good motive predom­
inates and leavens the whole. Different
peoples have different manners of ex­
pressing their feelings on s.icii occasions,
and in those instances where self-landa
tion is the motive tbey express them only
too well.
But the scene cf unostentatious ob­
servance of the day to which we wish to
direct attention as a beautiful and impres­
sive model is} that of Saturday in this
city. It shows that not even one soldier
of the vast myriad who fought for their
country can fall into the grave in even
the remote part of the country and civ­
ilization, but what some of his faithful
comrades will seek his final resting place
amldicoralc liis grave with the artistic
handiwork of nature. As the morning
sun was rising toward the zenith, shed­
ding his effulgent rays of brilliant splen­
dor alike upon the homes of the rich and
the poor and the abiding places of the
quick and the dead, a little cortege of
seven teams was seen wending its way to­
ward Highland Home cemetery. The
members of this company, though few in
number, represented the whole army of
the United States in the war of the rebell­
ion, from the soldier wbo carried his'
musket through the wilderness in the
army of the Potomac to the veteran who
endured the hardships of "Sherman's
March to the Sea." Accompanying them
oirlhis mission of veneration an'l honor
were tlicir wives and the widow and lit­
tle child of the solitary veteran whose
grave they went to decorate. Among the
little band of veterans who went on tins
mission was Mr. E. V. Smallcy, a man of
national reputation anil honor as a jour
nalist, who was fortunately sojourning in
the city and who tliougat it not beneath
his dignity to join in paying this tribute
of respect to a solitary soldier anil com­
rade away out in the boundless prairie of
Dakota.
This grave was that of Mr. Stetson,
who was buried last summer in Highland
Homo cemetery, the only veteran of the
war of the rebellion, known to be buried
there. He enlisted in the 12th regiment
Illinois volunteers, served faithfully his
time and held an honorable discharge.
Most of the comrades of the G. A. li.
Post had gone to Bismarck but the fol
lmmj.c.gained and were present on
tol, James McKenzie, Wm. Walton, Jolin"
F. Vennum, Horace H. Ward, of Ibis
city, JU. V. Smalley, of St. Paul, and Wm.
B. Coyle, of Yankton.
On assembling at the grave veteran I(.
S. Reeves, of this city, chairican of the
committee on decoration, made some ap­
propriate remarks upon the occasion and
the duties of the survivors towards their
fallen comradcs, after which he intro­
duced Mr. Smalley, who made a beauti­
ful and touching address to the little
groupe assembled in the presence of the
dead, after which the ladies proceeded to
beautifully decoratc the grave with (low­
ers kindly furnished by Mrs. 11. C.
Hotchkiss and other wild floral tributes
gathered from the prairie.
The following is a short synopsis of Mr.
Smalley's address:
"In the great National Cemetery in Ar­
lington Heights near Washington, where
the dead of the war lie in seried ranks of
green mounds, almost countless in num­
ber, there is an inscription on a tablet,
which remains in the memory of every
visitor. It reads:
"On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their snow-wliitc tents are spread,
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead."
We have faitli that those who he be­
neath these mounds and beneath many
other mounds scattered all over tins
broad land, are not in reality dead. They
live, not alone our memories and in
the honor which a grateful country ac­
cords them they live, as we (irmly be­
lieve, a conscious life, in the better coun­
try. May we not also believe that, on
this anniversary day, when we meet to­
gether to pay tribute to their memory,
they look down upon us, as unseen wit­
nesses of our ceremony. Dakota, my
friends, is not a land of the dead,
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a peculiar sense a land of the living, full
•f earnest, vita! people, whose thoughts
seldom turn towards the grave. Yet,
now and then, an old soldier drops by the
way, in the march of life, out on these
verdant prairies and passes on to answer
to his name at the great roll-call. They
will be more numerous as the years go
by, an more numerous will be the an­
nual procession on Decoration day, that
go out from the cities and towns, to visit
their graves. The day will then become
more sacred and more observed as the
years roll on, until finally there will be
but few left of the Grand Army of the
Republic, who saved the Union, to par­
ticipate in the proceedings. To us old
soldiers this day brings solemn memories.
Memories of toilsome marchcs and dreary
bivouacs and fierce conflicts, memories
too, sf loved comrades who have passed
away from our sight, widely separated by
distance or death. More than all tho
hardships and dangers of the war, do we
now recall, at this distance, tbe loving
comradeship of those absent friends. Old
scenes come back to us, old facos start to
life again, out of the obscurity of the
past. To us in a special decree is this
day symbolic and memorable. That it
should be preserved with tender thought
fulness by the younger generation, to
whom our great civil war is only history
and tradition, is very gratifying to us.
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Surely the dead have not died in vain,
when all over this great Republic proces­
sions go forth with lloweis and banners
as each reluming spring-time leaps into
summer, to honor their graves. On many
thousands of green mounds today, na­
ture's most beautiful symbols of life,
fresh flowers, will be strewn, and the
flags which typify our national unity and
strength, preserved through blood and
fire will be reverently planted.
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The Fourth of July Meeting.
As per notice given in yesterday morn
lag's Alert a large number of prominent
citizens met in one of the vacant stores in
the Klaus block last evening for the pur­
pose ef laying tbe foundation for a rous­
ing Fourth of July celebration.
Hon. D. M. Kellcher called the meet­
ing to order and moved that Mayor Flint
act as chairman. Carried.
Mr. Frank Heals was then chosen sec­
retary.
Mr. Flint then stated briefly the object
of the meeting, calling attention to tbe
liberal donation the coi^pcil had offered
lo make providing the citizens would
raise an equal amount. He believed tbe
celebration, if pripcrly conducted, would
be of great benefit lo the city and hoped
all would unite in helping the affair
along,
Mr. Kellelier, I. C. Wade and T. F.
Branch was appointed a committee of
three to place in nomination tin executive
commiltcc of five.
Tlie following ccmmittee was presented
and unanimously confirmed by the au
diencc: W. E. Dodge, A. Klaus, Jr., M.
E. Foley, J. M. Graham, and James It
Winslow.
Upon motion of Mr. McClure, Mr. A.
A. Allen was chosen treasurer of all
Fourth of July fuads until alter the cele
bration.
Upon motion of M. E. Folev, J. A. Frye
was choscn permanent secretary.
A committee of three on finance was
appointed, consisting of E. S. Miller, 1).
E Hughes and Clarence Selvidge.
On motion Mayor Flint was made chair­
man of the executive committee.
Just before adjournment W. E. Dodge
made a few appropriate remarks in which
lie expressed a hope that every possible
effort would be made by both the com­
mittee and the citizens to make the cele­
bration a grand success. He believed
that all personal feeling, it any existed,
should be laid aside and all work together
to the end that the celebration might be a
grand success and Jamestown be benefit­
ted.
Upon motion of Mr. Kellelier the meet­
ing adjourned.
What our Fourth of July Celebration
Should lie.
Generally speaking tlie proposed Fourth
of July celebration should be one in
which all our people could take equal
part and equally enjoy and the money
appropriated from the people's fund and
contributed by the people should be ex­
pended with that purpose prominently
and pre-eminently in view. As little re­
straint, red tapeism and fixed programme-
iB—nccrasaiy "ot"'
course but nothing of the straight jacket
order.
The Fourth of July is the people's day.
"Peace hath her victories no less re­
nowned than war," and tlie Fourth of
July is the anniversary of a renowned
victory ol peace. When the old liberty
bell in the city of Philadelphia rang out
the glad tidings to the people that tbe
Declaration of Independence bad been
adopted the people with one accord united
in a grand jubilee. Every one of the
fifty-six signers of that immortal docu­
ment had signed his own death warrant
if it failed. The people, men, women
and children, responded in one united
voice to its declarations and sentiments
pledging their "lives, fortunes and sacred
honor" that it should not fail. As we
have said, the Fouilh of July is the peo­
ple's day.
Good, soul-stirring music is an indis­
pensable requisite to a successful Fourth
of July celebration and money spent for
that essential within a degree of reason­
able bounds will be well spent. Fargo
has a band that is famous tluoughout the
northwest and we believe Bismarck has
au excellent one. We can afford to have
good music on this occasion and plenty of
it. We believe that either or both the
bands referred to can be had at a reason-"
able expenditure.
There should be no spectators on this
occasion, but the arrangements should be
such that all will or can be participants
and that will enlist the interest of all.
Without enlisting the interest of all the
celebration will in like proportion come
short of success. It is better to discuss
plainly and freely plans for making the
celebration a success before it takes place
than to criminate and recriminate for
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High OMrlals ef the Reek
It is not only possible but highly prob
able that these gentlemen will cast an eye
about as to the location of a depot and
other grounds. However that may be
we suggest tbat our prominent citizens
furnish them with an abundance of in­
formation in regard to tbe productiveness
and development of tbe country and show
them around the prettiest city on tbe
continent. These gentlemen will want
no taffy but solid facts and we have an
abundance of the latter in favor of our
country and city.
That the James River Valley road*will
be completed at an early day is only a
problem of the demand of commerce. It
is not probable tbat the syndicate which
put $75,000 into it with tbe idea of mak­
ing the investment a haphazard one to be
loss or profit as chance might determine.
Whenever the development of tbe coun­
try shall create a demand for this road as
a thoroughfare of commerce it will bo.
built and that time is near at band.
The Jamestown Militia Abroad and Cem
meiits Complimentary and Otherwise.
The following are extracts from differ­
ent articles in the Sunday morning Bis­
marck Tribune relating particularly to
the Jamestown Light Guards and other
citizens who patticipated in tbe various
TIIE JAMESTOWN MILITIA.
A model company, handsome uniforms,
well disciplined, and splendidly balanced.
As soon as tbe Jamestown guard alighted
from tbe train and formed in line along
the platform, tne fact that they were a
superior company was apparent. The
company was under command of Captain
Hicks, an excellent drill master, airiflinl
ts
failure afterwards.
No organisation, society, specialty or
feature should be permitted to monopolize
any portion of the day for that makes all
others spectators and spectators are al­
ways severe and exacting critics. It is a
free-for-all day and a go-as-you-please
race for the most enjoyment. We have
money enough, people enough, energy
enough to make it a boomer and if we do
not make it such tlie fault will be with
ourselves. We cannot l»y the blame of
failure or partial failure to the Northern
Pacific railroad nor to tbe city council.
The celebration will be just what we our­
selves individually and collectively make
it, no more, no less.
Of course we must have the Star Spang­
led Banner and other national songs and
aits we must have the Declaration of
Independence reid we must have an
eagle soaring oration at the stand, but
that is enough of systematic restraint.
Reuben Winslow took bis friend Smith
out to the farm yesterday and fallowed
him bis flocks and berds. Smith- claims
tbat be bad to walk all tba way out and
was compelled to wade or swim the river
to get to the mansion. Reuben says tbat
Smith would not have thought of kick­
ing if be had not had so many corns. It
must be unpleasant to get a sock over a
wet foot when each toe has from 3 to S
corns upon it.
Lieut. E. S. Miller. Thegreat feature
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ly uniformed, proud breasted youngmu-'
sicians—under Drum Major Klaus. This
company including the drum corps, num­
bers over seventy, and presents a com­
manding appearance. It was tbe largest
company in tbe parade, and won tbe en­
thusiastic applause of tbe throng, as well
as tbe compliments (and hearts) of the
ladies.
Intlieeyening the people were enter­
tained by the Jamestown talent in "The
Spy of Atlanta." The immense hall—the
Athemcum—was filled, and that means
that at least 600 people were in attend­
ance. The play is a story of tbe war In
six acts. To compliment either tbe play
or the acting on a par with legitimate
theatrical performances would be an in­
justice to tbe intelligence of the large Mi
audience aa well as the reading public.
Tbe first thing to be considered is that the
play was presented by amateurs. This
understood, and the roars of laughter by
tbe audience at a death scene are ex­
plained. Tbe name of the author of the
play is not known, but be was a blood
and thunder artist of tbe most carmine
hue. He throws death and angnish,
pain and misery, heart ache and stomach
ache, poverty and squalor into one dra
mitic threshing machine, puts on steam,
and throws "grubs" and stumps into the
cylinder to stop it. But leaving the play/
and returning to the actors, it must be!
said, considering the material tbey bad trf
worn on, they did very nicely. During
the evening tbe Jamestown guard were
brought on the stage and put through a
drill, which showed them to be one ot the
best, if not tbe best, drilled companies in
the territory. Tbey made a good ap­
pearance on the stage, and executed tbe
orders with extraordinary precision. But
the most enjoyable, as well as the most
refined feature of th2 evening's enter­
tainment was tbe readings of Mrs. J. M.'
Graham, ot Jamestown. Mrs. Grab
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President Cable of the Rock r»i|.
road and a number of high officials of
that corporation arrived in Jamestown
last Friday on a tour of inspection br
car through North Dakota on the line ot
the Northern Pacific railroad, it is sup­
posed that- they are taking notes of cMp
prospects upon which to make an esti­
mate of freight traffic for next fall.
It is not improbable that this tour has
some connection with the James River
Valley Railroad, as this company basall
along through tbe negotiations for the
purchase of tbe grade of the Valley road
been supposed to be behind the enter­
prise. Jamestown being tbe njrtbern
terminus of that projected and almost
wholly graded line they would especially
desire to obtain reliable information as to
the probable traffic tributary to this point
as well as other probable stations down
the line,
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ceremonies and entertainments of
ration day:
1 be members of the Jamestown Light
Guards and their friends who participated
in yesterday's festivities constitute a true
picture of Jamestown. No city on tbe
line ot the Northern Pacific has had a'
Detter growth tban Jamestown, which
fact may be attributed, not so much to
the fivorable location of tbe town, as to
tbe liTe and enterprise of tbe citizens. It
is an open secret that at Jamestown is
found a higher order of society than at
any point in the northweat.
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read Barbara Fritchie in such a splendid
style that a hearty encore was given, and,
in response, tbe accomplished lady gave
acute and coinic imitation of baby talk.
As an elocutionist Mrs. Graham haa no
superior in the northwest. The James*
town people made many warm and ad­
miring friends by their visit in the city.
While in the main tbe above quotations
are highly complimentary the Alert is
both pained and shocked at the want of
fine discrimination on tbe part of the
Tribune critic in points of artistic excel­
lence in the presentation ef the drama,"
tbe "Spy of Atlanta." Almost a total
eclipse must have come over bis percep0J!
live faculties at tbat hour. Under or
dinary circumstances "roars of laughter
at a deatb scene" would either show bftd
taste on the part of tbe audience or ridic
ulcus presentation on tbe partof tbecom
pany, but in this nase it shows neither,
but tbe very reverse. The Tribune Is
hereby admonished that it requine a very
high order of artistic skill amLairamallc.
ability to bring out tbe ludicromCsaturea
of a death scene, and this is the lint
stance in the history of the stage, either,
in Europe or America, in which it has
been successfully accomplished.
fore the "roars of laughter" by
marck audience at this scene was eel es|ly'
not in ridicule of the company pnaaaMfcf
it as tbe Tribune critic tookltiwtwae a
mark of appreciation an
that amounted ntaMft toe*ewsete.
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of town Isrty Mies ot eat*
tfcieks will make a crap and agaal