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)10,000
K. Topliff, I'rt'i.
ZE=a,icL
Amarket
SHOENBERG'S
—. OF
WORTH
First-Class Clothing
-IF O X3
MEN AND BOYS
AT PUBLIC AUCTION, to be sold WITHOUT
RESERVE to the HIGHEST BIDDER.
For the want of room, I have decided to give
up the sale of clothing, and will open
WEDNESDAY EVE'G, OCT. 14,
on 5th Avenue, under the Klaus' Hotel, with my
entire stock of men's youths' and boys'
CLOTHING
Everyone who has ever inspected our Cloth­
ing knows that we always kept first-class cloth­
ing only. I shall also offer at public and private
sale certain lines of other goods that I am over­
stocked in, such as certain lines of Dry Goods,
Ladies' Cloaks, Newmarkets, Men's Buffalo
Over-coats, Shirts and Drawers, Sox, Women's
Dress Goods, etc. All will be sold at private
or puljlic auction, under the management of
MR. MAX. ZIMMERMAN, of Davenport, Iowa,
Auctioneer. Auction sale every afternoon and
evening.
J. £. SHOENBERG.
BIGGEST BARGAIN
EVER OFFERED!
We Have Just Received 10 Pieces of
TWILLED
Scarlet Flannel,
ALL WOOL,
WHICH WE WILL SELL FOR
25 Cts. PER YARD
Compare it with Anything at 30c to 35c.
C. E. DICKINSON.
Wjh. C. White,
JAMES RIVER NATIONAL RANK.
JAMESTOWN, DAKOTA.
Vicc Pre». E. J. i.otsrn, «'rkIi
~&.TP Caopitdl $50,000
SURPLUS $5,000
General Banking and Exchange Business Done
THE NORTH DAKO LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY
I.WAY8 ho money oil hand to lend on He*l EMate or Chattel Mortgage*. Al*o hny» at highest
price County WarranW, Bind* and School Bonds.
(James Rlrer National Bank Building.)
MARSHALL McCLURE, Proprietor. OFFICIAL ^iPER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY.
VOJ- VIII. JAMESTOWN. DAK., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1885.
J- C. WABNOOK. Editor
Tiik state election in Ohio on Tuesday
seems from the reports obtained up to
this writing to have gone republican by
about 15,000, which will probably be in­
creased or diminished by the full returns
but the general result will remain the
same. This will insure the return of Hon.
John Sherman to the United States sen­
ate if he desires it. The prohibition vote
was light.
Tiie idea prevailing to some extent that
(he whole territory of Dakota will be ad­
mitted into the union as state this win­
ter is simply preposterous, as no consti­
tution has been formed for that purpose
and no territory can he admitted as a
state without a constitution. The com­
ing session of congress will be frittered
away in this particular by the contentions
and wrangles of Dakota delegations over
the scheme of division and statehood for
the southern part of the territory, to end
with the adjournment of the session and
nothing gained but making public what
the wrangling factions think of each
other. The status ot Dakota in a year
from this time will very likely be the
same it is now, with the exception that
some who are now uncompromising divi­
sion ists may be convinced of the utter
hopelessness of the scheme. Admission
as a whole will not lie accepted by the
people as long as there is any hope of
securing division, and then a convention
will have to be held to form a constitu­
tion and the document be submitted to
the people in some lorm or other for their
ratification or rejection. This, if done
at all, will not be done in time tor the
coming session of congress to act upon it.
The whole territory of Dakota will be
represented in the next legislature, which
will be a territorial body, and that body
will meet in the capital at liismarck.
While South Dakota is playing state and
waiting for congress to breathe into their
imaginary state officers and legislature
the breath of life, let North Dakota see
to it that she selects her best timber tor
the next territorial legislature. South
Dakota will be more bitterly divided the
next session than ever before, on accouut
of the bad blood stirred up between her
contending factions over imaginary state
officers and the location of the capitol of
the proposed state, and if North Dakota
is judicious in the selection other mem
bers she can control the next legislature.
Tup. war that is being wjged upon
Qov. Pierce by the South Dakota malcon­
tents who want the earth as well as the
capi*al of the territory, is not likely I*
effect the object sought, but will rathoi
delay it, and possibly defeat it altogether.
So long as the pressure for the removal
of Gov. Pierce was solely political he had
no defense to make, nor did he have any
disposition to palliate the charge that he
was anil is a republican, but now that
charges arc mode affecting his integrity
as an officer he and his friends, whose
name is legion and include many demo
crats, must and will resist them. In such
cases the president has shown that he
wi.'l not be governed by the exparte evi­
dence and findings of a star chamber po­
litical examination but will hear the ac­
cused for his cause and in his defense
This is all that Gov. Pierce and his
friends desire and it is the very thing his
accusers do not desire. It must now be
conspicuously prominent before the eyes
of even those democrats of this territory
who have Arrogated to themselves the
selection of its federal officer-', that the
president is running his own machine and
running it in his own way. M. 11. Day,
the heretofore accredited Jumbo of the
democratic paitj for this territory, was
flattened out as thin as a shad by the ad­
ministration in the appointment of Capt.
Maratta to the marshalship, after Mr.
Day had canvassed nearly the whole ter­
ritory for months in the interest of Mc
Corninck, of Grand Forks, for the posi­
tion. The president gives little weight
to recommendations lor office. When a
candidate is brought to nis notice he
seeks reliable and unbiased information
in regard to the man's capabilities and
personal integrity in his own way, and
that deue he makes up his own decision
as to whom he will appoint and puts his
foot down to stay. This is what he will
do in the ease of the charges against Gov.
Pierce, and when he finds, as he surely
will, that the charges affecting the gov­
ernor's •fficial integrity and competency
are "baseless as the fabric of a vision"
be will condemn the assailants rather
than the assailed.
Nr. Ilurke Canvicts Hluwir of Square
tcatl Lying.
The ordinary liar docs not attract much
attention in a neighborhood, but the man
ISutkc who publishes a paper in this city
called the Capital is ail extraordinary liar.
Not so because it is an uncommon thing
for him to falsify facts but because he
does it under covcr of the Christianity
dodge. When he committed perjury a
few years ago by swearing to a contin­
uous residence for six months on a claim
upon which he bad not spent a week all
told he easily satisfied his conscience by
saying some others did the same thing.
Up to that time Mr. Burke was probably
a fairly truthful mas, but he let down
the bars then so wide that he now falsi­
fies often when the truth would answer
his purpose better. The Alert lias sev­
eral times within the last year pinned the
lie onto bim, and r.ow in his recklessness
he does it himself. The "sour grapes"
he has been eating ever since he failed to
get the city printing last spring has dis
ordered his brain so that he makes false
statements that any sane man could see
he would get caught in just to make a
point against the Alert which he hates
as only a hypocritical christian can hate.
His last exploit of this kind was in
placing Mr. Nickeus in a false and ridic­
ulous position as an attorney in order to
give out to the public a false impression
against the Alert's' printing bill, and
when called upon afterwards by Mr.
Nickeus with a demand* to correct the
statement he whimpered through a half
column to admit that he lied about it but
didn't expect to be caught in it. That is
the kind of information he is giving the
public on current events of the city. He
is willfully and knowingly deceiving his
readers by false statements and misrepre­
sentations to raise himself up by pulling
his competitor in business down, and the
people are getting onto'it.
Last Friday evening he quoted from
the report of the council meeting pub­
lished in the Alert the day before the fol­
lowing garbled extract from the report of
the opinion given by Mr. Nickeus at the
council meeting on the Alert bill for
printing the delinquent city tax list:
He said the law for the collection of
taxes was created by the same power that
created the city council and the council
had no power to change or vary itsterma
and provisions: that tbe'eity had no right
to speculate off the delinquents by col­
lecting more costa than was to be paid
that the duty of the treasurer to pay the
costs collected for publication of the de­
linquent list was plain, and if be refused
he could be compelled by mandamus to
do his duty in the premises.
After quoting the above Mr. Burke
sailed into the legal realm and pronounc­
ed the legal opinion of Mr. Nickeus con­
tained in the above as a "ridiculous,
flimsey argument."
Now wc will give a little incident which
occured in connection with this subject
which does not appear in the Capital.
On the way heme at noon Mr. Burke met
Mr. XMickeus at the foot of the stairway
to the latter's office when the following
colloquy ensued:
Mr. Burke—Mr. Nickeus, the Alert
misrepresented yoAr opinion on McClure'a
bill for printing Ibe city tax list, did it
not?
Mr. Nickeus—1 don't-kuow 1 have not
read it yet an.l don't know what it did
say about it.
Mr. Burke passed on and Mr. Nickeus
went up to his office and rend the Alert
report of his opinion as given to the city
council.
It so happened that on Air. Burke's re­
turn down town from dinner they again
met at the foot or-tlic" siarrwsv wnen the
following second colloquy ensued on the
sa'ie subject:
Mr. Nickeus—Mr. iinrke, 1 have rand
the Alert ana it reported what 1 saul
exactly right.
Mr. Burke—Well, but McClure told the
council that his bid included everything
and that what was not ordinances and
notices to be charged by the folio was to
be counted job work, and it was so un­
derstood.
Mr. Nickeus—1 don't know what was
said or understood ou'.side. All 1 know
anything about is the contract as re­
member to have seen it published. If
there was any other contract that 1 know
nothing about, that is a different thing.
This was all that was said about the
matter and Mr. Burke went to Lis office
and wrote the following additional to his
article on the subject:
Since writing the above, we have seen
Mr. Nickeus, who disclaims the utter­
ances attributed to him by the Alert, as
to the authontv of the council to change
or vary the provision regulating the com­
pensation for printing the delinquent tax
list. Moreover, be sayes he was not aware
that the contract with the Alert for doing
the city printing was made with the un­
derstanding that it should include all
printing and publications of. any kind
whatsoever, required to be done by the
city.
For unadulterated lying the a Wove
would take a wholesale bakery, and it
was written, too, only a few minutes af­
ter Mr. Nickeus had told the sanctified
liar who wrote it that the Alert had re­
ported him "exactly right." While these
words were still ringing in his ears Mr.
Burke wrote and afterwards published
as information to his readers that Mr.
Nickeus "disclaims the utterances attrib­
uted to him by the Alert."
Last Monday an Alert representative
called upon Mr. Nickeus to ascertain the
facts in relation to the apparent incon­
sistent position be had taken on the ques­
tion, when he emphatically and with just
indignation disavowed the sentiments
ascribed to him by the Capital and forth­
with proceeded down to that office to
have the misrepresentation corrected,
which accounts for the whimpering con­
glomeration of words on the subject in
that sheet Monday evening under the
head of "An Explanation," which Air.
Burke, with the humility of a whipped
cur, commences as follows: "Wc tear
(fear is good) that we have unintention­
ally (unintentionally is better) caused Mr.
Nickeus some annoyance. In giving his
opinion oa the matter of McClure's bill
he based that opinion upon the written
proposition of McClurc to the council.
We based our criticism upon what we
knew to be a fact—that it was understood
by the committee" etc. Farther on the
explanation says: "Taking Mr. Nick­
eus' view of it, be knowing nothing about
this clear understanding, the opinion was
doubtless correct," etc. This makes the
matter worse. What difference would it
have made in Mr. Nickeus' opinion if he
had known what was "understood" out­
side of the written contract, as he and
every other lawyer knows that the terras
of a written contract cannot be changed
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by any outside "understanding" of it?
The whole sum aad substance of the mat­
ter is that our saintly competitor tried to
crawl out of one lie by telling another
and is caught in both.
The Haps aud Mishaps iif limiting
Party.
Last Saturday forenoon, after consid­
erable skirmishing about town for the
members of the hunting party, equip­
ments, etcetera—etcetera in such cases is
susceptible of various difinitions, owing
to who compose the party. In this case
the party being composed of John McGee,
Henry Griffin, J. J. Nierling and the
editor of the Alert, there will be no diffi­
culty in arriving at the correct definition
of the term etcetera.
This party, armed and equipped with
wild geese paralyzers, wended its way
through a continuous cloud of dust about
eighteen miles toward the north pole
where a chain of lakes signaled the end
of the journey and a commencement of
a war of extermination upon the thous­
ands of wild geese that abound iu and
about those lakes. Tbe orslaught was,
not perhaps as triumphant to tnc party
nor as distressing to the geese as it was
gratifying to those who keep ammunition
to sell, for tbe earth over an area of about
a section was filled so lull of lead that
some sappers and miners are liable to
stake it off in mineral claims. The grand
picket line onslaught was made on the
banks of a lake about sundown as the
round-up of the geese into the lake for
the night was made, and so intent were
the members of the party in this amuse
ment that they heeded not the porten­
tous cloiu', which was heralding its
coming from the south with lightning
and thunder, until tbe drops of rain began
to fall thicker and faster—and here is
where a trouble that had not been antici­
pated commenced.
Who ever heard ot it raiuina on the
night of the 10th of October, and as it
had not rained for a month how could
this party have anticipated it? But there
is a decidedly unanimous impression
among the members of the party that it
did rain that night and any effort to make
them believe it was only the precipitation
of Dakota ozone in the farm of dew will
be futile. Their minds are mad up and
made up to stay. The party didn't go to
camp out, didn't want to camp out, but,
being creatures of circumstances, they
did camp out, as the sequel will show.
After the first shower was over a coun­
cil was-held and it was decided to bitch
up I he team and bead for some friendly
shack where shelter for the night could
be obtained, and accordingly the break
was made. The prairie having recently
burned over it was pathless to human
vision, and the heavens being overhung
with clouds presented an aspcct of ebony
hue. Under these circumstances the par­
ty started on the lookout for a flickering
light in some rural shack, and after pro­
ceeding perhaps a mile, two of the buggy
springs snapped—who ever knew a bug­
gy spring to break at any other time than
when you didn't want it to break? This
mishap, which was borne with as much
christian fortitude as could reasonably
be expected, necessitated a change of
programme, that of immediately deciding
upon a camping ground, which, after
some reconnoitering, was found on the
borders of a lake.
Just a? the team had been anchored to
the buggy the raiu began to fall and the
party who bad not eaten a mouthful since
early morn peremptorily dismissed the
idea of supper and sought shelter by
crawling under the buggy which gathered
the rain drops and sent them down
through the crevices in elongated streams
about wide enough apart so that when
we dodged them at one place they would
strike us in another, usually in the ear or
on tbe neck just above the collar and
then slowly m»ander along the inside
of our nether garments to our boots where
not a drop was lost by leakage.
Under these felicitous cir.-umstanccs
the party turned in for repose. The lay
out under that buggy was not in accord­
ance with any fixed rules of bedroom
etiquette, but was
altogether promiscuous.
A painting of that groupe would at least
be unique. The fore part ef the evening
was passed without anything more serious
than the little annoyances described
above, but about midnight a deluge of
rain set in which not only gave the party
a shower bath from above but flooded the
ground, which was their led for the
night, to the depth of about two inches,
the wind in the meantime veering to the
northwest, increasing in velocity and let­
ting down several degrees in temperature.
To remain in this position for the tire or
six hours till daylight, or get up and have
the water with which our clothes were
saturated driven into the bone by the cold
night wind, were tbe alternatives pre­
sented and we bad the privilege of mak­
ing choice. The former was almost un­
bearable but the latter absolutely unen­
durable.
Things had become serious. Tnc pos­
sibility that tbe shifting wind would de­
velop into a blizzard before morning ad­
ded solemnity to the situation. The
question whether the coroner would make
any effort to find our bodies until the
thaw next spring was considered, and
many conjectures were offered as to how
the jury would word '.heir verdict to avoid
giving the country away and discourag­
ing immigration. It was decided that,
as a matter of policy and in justice to our
surviving friend?, each member should
writedown "pointers" of his good traits
of character for the use of the obituary
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After standing oa our heads to empty
the water out of our boots and engaging
in violent exrrcise to revive a circulation
of the blood we discovered several shacks
only a short distance from where we
%lte«t'buii'*klfigfct of TeiiSK''*"a
it was now Sunday and of course no
hunting was to be done. One
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writers of the press as these points might
be overlooked by the
scribes in their eager­
ness to explain away the bad traits which
would be freely furnished them by out­
side parties. As our matches had ah
sorbed the prevailing dampness these
notes had to be written in the dark, and
they will probably sometime be gathered
into the archaeological department of the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington as
specimen hieroglyphics of a prehistoric
race.
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After all these preliminary arrange­
ments for an unreturmng excursion over
Jordan had been made, a thoughtful
member of the party called attention to
an empty quart bottle that would snow
up in the coroner's invoice of our outfit
and be a "dead give away" to tbe party
as circumstantial evidence to which the
jury might incidentally refer in their ver­
dict. The bottle bad been inadvertently
picked up by one of our party during the
day as a relic while ou the trail of another
Jamestown bunting party, consisting of
McKechnie, McClure and Lewis, who
bad been up there the week before, but as
we had no means of communicating these
facts it would be credited to us because
found in our possession and the real own­
ers would never claim it. This was a
sticker which exhausted the ingenuity of
the whole party. But "it is an ill wind
that blows no one any good," and the
same rain that brought us face to face
with death loosened the label on a bottle
of chow chow which was ai tistically re­
moved and placed on the empty bottle,
not for tbe purpose of deception but as a
precautionary measure.
During all this time the water with
which our clothing and improvised bed
were soaked had seemingly become wet­
ter and the night wind colder and fiercer.
In this extremity of distress tiie Lord's
prayer would have been recited in concert
but none of the party happened to know
it and that exercise had to be dispensed
with.
About this time the groy streaks of
dawn began to show up in the east and
were bailed with as much delight as the
sight of a sail by wrecked mariners. The
party clutched these signs of approaching
day as anew lease of life and it was unan­
imously agreed that in case the hope
should be realized all the proceedings that
had taken place should be declared "off."
TERMS: $2.00 PER YEAR IV ADVAMGB
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was
shot, however, as a matter of self-defense,
which is the first law of nature, the water
fowl being killed while sitting in a pond
meditating a ferocious attack upon one
of the party. We came heme on Sun lav,
not as a scheme for saving a day, but to
relieve the anxiety of our friends about
our safety at the earliest possible moment.
(iv. Pierce's Address at Use Torrite
rial Fair.
Gov. Pierce delivered an address at the
territorial fair recently held at Huron
which abounds with so many good, prac­
tical, sensible hits and suggestions that
many of them will bear publication and
republication all over the territory and
not come amiss with our readers back in
the states. The governor has a peculiar
faculty for saying tbe right thing at the
right time and place. He can accommo
date himselt to nearly all circumstance8
from a bout with the members of the leg­
islature, a ramble with the farmers, to tbe
laying of the corner stone of a church at
which he officiated a few days ago with
all the solemnity of a bishop. Passing
from
an eloquent dissertation on the po­
litical and moral duties of the people of
Dakota as citizens, his address at Hu­
ron, be launched out upon the dignity of
agriculture in Dakota as follows:
I want to say a word about the respect­
ability
and dignity of agriculture as a
pursuit. 1 think we have a higher res­
pect for the occupation of farming out
here in Dakota than exists in any other
section in tbe Union. Whatever the bus­
iness of any citizen, he does not feel con­
tented and happy unless in some way or
other he is associated with farming. And,
while there are many restless fanners in
the east, mea and boys who tliink some
profession highly preferable to tilling the
soil, they have very little regard for tbe
person hailing from Dakota, if that per­
son is not engaged in agriculture. They
have heard of all these big truths concern­
ing the enormous enterprise and enor­
mous farms ot Dakota until they fancy
that everybody engaged in the business
up here docs it by wholesale—that it takes
him days to ride around his farm and
hours to count the reapers which are cut­
ting down the golden grain. If you want
attention in the east, just go there and
announce that you are engaged in wheat
and cattle raising in Dakota. But farm­
ing is not considered so aristocratic down
there and, as said, eastern young men
want to go into banking or law or mer­
chandising. It may co-ne to be so here
after a while. The desire for fine clothes
and a shady place on worK days as well
as Sundays and on public occasions like
this is not confined to the ladies, though
we often assume to think so. The clerk
and the doctor and the lawyer and the
preacher do not need to soil their clothes
or burn their hands. The consequence is
that many foolish young men yearn for a
professional life and many fond mothers
and fathers sympathize with this desire.
1 know of nothing more absolutely en­
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couraging than the practical absence of
this maudlin sentiment in this territory.
Tbe men with brawny arms and sun­
burned faces, with broad acres and lowing
flocks, are tbe recognized aristocracy of
this new empire. And they have their
parents of nobility from tbe oldest fam­
ilies of the globe. Abe), as well aa his
brother, was an agriculturist and Noah
was a husbandman and plaated a vine­
yard. The richest patriarchs of early
lewish history were cultivators of the
soil and had great faith in tbe stock busi­
ness.
Abraham was very rich£in cattle aad so
was Lot, and between them they had so
msny cattle the countiy could not sup
port them. Jacob had immense flocks
(he gave Esau 580 head). Shamgar at
the time of his appointment as Judge in
Israel was a herder. Gideon: was found
threshing his grain, and Saul, though a
King, received the news of an attack up­
on one of his towns while driving ia his
cattle from a field. When Elijah weat
to look for Elisha, to put upon him the
mantle of is prophet, he found him break­
ing prairie. At least we may infer that
for he was "plowing with 12 yoke of
oxen." Cincinnatus as we all know was
called from bis plow to save his couatry.
Washington bad bis plantation and Clay
and Webster both delighted in farming
and its kindred occupations. Greece at­
tained tbe height of her glory as farming
became best understood, and the Romans
took great pride in the cultivation of land.
Each citizen was allotted a few acres by
the state. The quantity was small, Cu
rius the orator declaring that be was a
dangerous msn who could not content
himself with 7 acres, but careful cultiva­
tion made these small tracts yield enor­
mously. People smile st the marvelous
stories told about tbe yield of crops in
Dakota, but Pliny says that 400 atalks of
wheat all grown from one seed were sent
to the Emperor Augustus. Bnt he as
cii bed the productiveness of this soil to
tbe fact that tbe earth "took' delight In
being tilled by the hands of men crowned
with laurels and decorated with triumphal
honors." If this is so the soil of Dakota
ought to yield fabulous crops when culti­
vated bv the 7000 old soldiers who have
made the territory tbeir home.
The governor then draws the following
picture of what the future farm home is
to be and what it used to be:
An educated agricultural class is the
best safeguard of-the republic, and the
time has come within my own recollec­
tion when it is not deemed necessary that
a boy sbould set up a law office aad leave
the farm simply because be has been
given a liberal education. Tbe homes of
our farmers are becoming what they al­
ways should have been, the abodes of the
educated and refined. Let them be made
so, more and irore. And to accomplish
this, do not be too careful of spending a
few dollars about the home. If the choice
lies between buying 20 more head of cat­
tle and making the home pleasant and
tbe wife happy, choose the latter and it
will pay you abetter dividend than the
other investment. We used to see, and
tbe sight has not yet disappeared, farmers'
wives dragged out with work, the wife
slaving herself to death in the bouse
while her husband slaved himself to death
in the field. And about the time they
thought themselves able to get help they
discovered they were old, broken down,
rheumstic, and began spending as much
for doctors as would have paid for extra
help for many a year. 1 saw the other
day what was called "A Tired Woman's
Epitaph," and this is the way it read:
Here lies a poor woman
Who always was tired,
Who lived in a house
Where help was not hired.
Her last words on earth were,
"Dear friends 1 am going
Where washing ain't done
Nor sweeping nor sewing.
And everything there
Is exact, to my wishes,
For where tbey don't eat,
There's no washing of diolics.
I'll be where loud anthems
Will ever be ringing.
But having no voice
I'll be clear of the singing.
Djn't mourn for me now,
Don't mourn for me ever,
I'm going to do nothing
Forever and ever,"
The Barnes County Record says: Fore­
most among the questions that is likely
yet to concern the people of this, aad
some sdjoining counties, is tho taxation
of Northern Pacific railroad lands. The
policy of this county in tbe matter has
been based upon the opinion that lands
over which a corporate body exercise ex­
clusive control, which are sold and other­
wise managed as though individual-hold­
ings, were subject to taxation. Acting
upon this belief the lands of the North­
ern Pacific liailroad company, ever since
the organization of the county, in 1879,
have been assessed and had taxes levied
against them.
As a preventive of smut in wheat the
Sterling Farmer gives the following ex­
periments: "One of our subocribers, Mr.
John Bead, of Glencoe, informs, us that
he has been regularly successful in pre­
venting smut in his wheat by the vitriol
process. Mr. Beal has a crop of Mo. 1
hard this season, clear of smut except
some four acres sowed with seed that had
not been prepared by vitriol. This woaM
seem to settle the queatton, but —other
subscriber, Ed. Field, who data aay
one to find a grain of smut in his Me. 1
hard, oontends that hie freedom from
smut is due to proper cultivation of the
ground."
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