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The Jamestown Alert. OA L((EXCEPT SUNDAYTA WEEKLY THURSDAY. JANUARY 27, 189K 07SIRXi.CS: The Datty Alort is ileltvcred in thoclty by car riers, at 50 ccDts a month. Daily, one year $6 00 Daily,six months 3 00 Dallv. three months 1 50 Weekly, ouo year 1 50 Weekly, six months W. R. KKLLOGG. THE KLONDYKE MAMA. ABOUT every town of any size iu the north v» eat, east, south and west is organ lzing a Klondike company and many business men and industrious people with some capital are joining in a hazardous and unoertain trip to distant Alaska and to a climate whose rigor is well known. Evidently the United States do not, in the view of these pil grims, present the opportunities for get ting a satisfactory livelihood and making money that so many were led to believe would be ere this, or this frantic rush to such a region would not be seen. About one in a hundred now going to the Klondyke may be repaid, for it is seen tbat thousands from all over the country are on the same mission of un certainty of reward. It is more than likely that more money will be spent in going to and in the Klondyke oraze than will be taken out of the frozen river beds of the region. The men going there are mostly seeking to better their con dition in an industrious and legitimate way. The majority are not adventurers or speculators, but citizens whose de parture will be felt in every community. A few politioal leaders and trusted law makers in past years have seoured cer tain legislation that has deprived this country of the use of one of the two money metals of the world. This metal that is now refused ooinage lies in a hospitable region, iu accessible places, and its production has been for ages a source of wealth and employment. It is in our own fair and pleasant land, near at bund, and exists in greater quantities an this favored nation than in any other -country on earth. Yet its use is forbid the people who inherited this country as an abiding place. In the hope of get ting some of the only metal which our law coins as money, men leave families, home, relations, seourity and comfort to become campers and subjected to priva tions and dangers. They go as uncer tain wanderers in a frozen and distant land risking life, health and happiuess in A slim chanoe for adequate returns. Not until the Klondyke mania bas worn out its thousands of viotims and people again let com mon sense rule their financial legis lation, will this country's naturally great opportunities for making a living «nd getting a competency be of much "use to the majority of the residents of the country and expeditions to frozen •and distant regions looking for a "barren breed of metal" will still show bow far this nation is behind in its methods of making exchangee by means of the one general thing created by law called money. DISTRICT LAW v». STATE LAW. ACCORDING to the Dickinson Recorder 'there is a bitch in the re-opening of the ealoona recently closed there by injunc tion, and it may be possible tbat some of the smaller places which have not the funds necessary will not open at all. At present the law is not enforced in the judicial district which includes Bis marck, Mandan and Dickinson, because as the Wabpeton Globe says, the people do not elect officers to enforce it there. This state of affairs is thus referred to by the Valley City Patriot (rep.): The trouble with the anti-prohibition ists of the Sixth judicial district and in some other portions of the state is, that tbat they assume to regard the consti tutional prohibitory law as a sort ot "local option" affair, or, rather that there exists a principle of "district sover eignty," with a right to nullify a consti tutional law whenever a majority of the electors of suoh districts will refuse to enforoe the law. Aboutfthirty years ago the United States government was called upon to "shoot to pieces" just such a principle. Prohibition is a law of our state constitution, and our gov ernors, judges, and all stale, district and county officers are sworn to support it. SOME SUICIDES. THE United States supreme court holds that a suicide who is of sound mind, cannot collect an insurance policy. Estimates on the value of human life are changing rapidly under the present con ditions where men have rated property and money interests to a place superior to human life and happiness. A few 'years ago it would have been strenuously held tbat any person who bad fairly good health, and who oommitted suicide for a few hundred or thousand dollars was insane or partly so at least. Now the supreme court makes a decision that there are insane suicides and suicides in sound mind.* The more am in suioidee of persons in good bodily health, in the United States in tbe past tiro or three years is some thing serious. Tbe chief cause is well understood to be tbe greatly restricted opportunities of making a living snd of supporting dependants, or of obtaining freedom froa present debts and future mm ALWAYS A NAHKOW MAKGIN. THE scarcity of young oattle in North Dakota is seen everywhere. Buyers are offering good prioes and going to Mam toba, paying duty to get young stock The Lioeds Review says: "The county has been cleaned up of marketable oattle and they will besoarce for a year or two. Had Benson county farmers paid more attention to oattle than to wheat in the past tbey would now be in much better condition gener ally. More oattle and less wheat, has beeu the cry of WHrning all along, and those farmers are fortunate who heeded it." A few years ago cattle were scarcely worth raising to maturity, and farmers naturally let their stock run down to the lowest point in numbers it bas ever been The turn came suddenly and prioes are likely to be good for several years, but the short time that has intervened be tween low prioes and high shows the narrow margin on whioh food pro ducts in this county are carried from year to year. DROSTE'S TREACHERY. TUB man who is given the unenviable reputation of electing Mark Hanna is Droste the Cincinnati fusion member. He was plaoed on the legislative tioket by silver republicans and made early and frequent statements of his position on the money question and of hisopposition to Hanna. He was elected on that issue and ended in voting for Hanna, at a time when his vote was needed to elect. The inference of what it was that changed Droste's views is plain. In Ohio Droste'e name is a by-word for contempt. The entire democratic forces in the Ohio tight subordinated all efforts to make party capital out of the situation and voted for the higher interests of the state. THE: much discussed decision in the Nebraska case whioh will test the right of the people of a soverign state to es tablish maximum and reasonable trans portation rates, will not be decided by the United States supreme court until the fate of Justice McKenna's appointment is known. In the mean time the press has been confidently predicting what the decision will be when McKenna gets on the bench. He has been a railroad law yer all his life and the decision looked for is tbat the state of Nebraska will be denied the right to establish a maximum rate for transportation within the state on the grounds of interfering with inter state commerce. There is a strong fight being made against MoKenna's confirma tion, and the grounds, as far as the peo ple are concerned, are evidently well taken for it. IN HIS opposition to the president's post office appointees in North Da kota, Oong. Johneon has another job of some considerable magnitude iu defeat ing H. S. Oliver's confirmation as post master of Lisbon. Charges, not sup ported by affidavits, were tiled against Oliver some of them of a serious nature it is said. It is another caee of party as sociates at once arising like "a cloud of witnesses" and declaring against the propriety .justice, harmony, etc. of Hans brough's selection—all of whioh haa heratofore been to no purpose. A SUGGESTION comes from a Dickey county farmer worth more than a passing notice. That ie tbat the ooucty com missioners use all or apart of certain taxes for making adequate tire breaks, and not spend so muob money on lm proving roads, that are naturally good enough. Efforts to prevent tbe losses by fires each year ought to be made in a more systematic and thorough way than they have been in the past. What ap plies to one county applies to all in the oeutral and western parts of the state. GROVEK CLEVELAND has projected himself from tbe obscurity of bis Prince ton retreat and filed a statement with his old ally, the associated prees, that bis Hawaiian views have been misrepre sented by Senator Morgan. Cleveland says he was opposed to annexation. It matters little to tbe country what Cleve land's views were. He is left to himself to "enjoy" tbe spoils of bis administra tion iu profound silence, and get what satisfaction he cad in bis political ban ishment in New Jersey. CONSIDERABLE time of tbe district court in Wells county was taken up with proving to a jury that a blind pig com monly known as in fact a blind pig was a blind pig. Many witnesses were called, the evidence seemed to be conclusive, yet the jury disagreed and anew trial with addition al cost will be bad. Tbe expense of convicting will be considerable but tbe court and the county officials seem de termined to enforoe tbe law whioh the publio wants done. HON. JUDSON LA MOUSE secured what he went to Washington for—the appoint ment of a receiver, selected by him, for tbe national bank at Pembina in which LaMoure WAS personally interested, Tbe receiver was a resident of the state and depositors will no doubt fare better in the deal than if an outside politician of little experience and no desire but to draw salary bad been plaoed in charge. IT IS time for dessert, for tbe passing of tbe pie, snd Major Edwards has gone to Washington where they servs good dinners and to renew acquaintances. There is one thing certain in this weary vale, that the major will have no such trouble at the Johnson House as did United Skates Senator Billy Mason. The major is well known in Washington if Mason isn't. REPUBLICAN editors of the state are not content with selecting state onudi dates for their parly tioket, but have commenced to pick out a tioket for the silver republicans, democrats and inde pendents also. Any list of candidates whioh the gold men select for their silver brethren to vote for can be justly regarded with a grave and reverened suspicion. THE next movement of people for new homes, that promises to attract general attention, wilt be for the oheap lands of central North Dakota. All the elements are here for a profit on the investment, and for a rapid settling up of farm land tbat low prices have kept vacant for sev eral years. Now is the time to get •lice of productive soil. THE state banks of North Dakota working under the state laws in the smaller towns and villagee, as well as the larger places, seem to be doing a good business from the dividends reported the papers. THE story of a long orevasse in. the earth in Sargent county, whioh extended for miles and was of unknown depth came from a crack in the bead of some veraoious newspaper correspondent. THE Minneapolis Trust company ought to be anxious to let go of its libel suit against the Times if it does'nt prove any more cause for libel than it bas the last two weeks. BECAY OF BRITISH LORDS Relics of a Famous Aristocracy Still Allowed to Oppose Home Rule. THE British bouse of lords, to the number of some 400, recently met 10 ses sion in tbe historic chamber which has been oocupied by the most famous lead era of the English aristocracy, for cen turies. Writing of the scene during a recent division on the home rule bill a British journalist says: To those who looked down from tbe galleries tbe sight can only be described as appalling. I have seen assemblies that compared with it, but nowhere out side of jails, almshouses or hospitals for the insane. The issue of the hour, the formalities of the debate,the impressions made by the brilliant setting of tbp memorable scene, all were -lost in tbe shook whioh the personality of the aot ore made upon their observer. It was to be expected that the feeble Dess of age would be prominent in such a bouse. It was not that. It was tbo senility of youth, the wreok of middle life,tbe tottering imbecility of dissipated age, that stood out all over the picture. Tbe presence of suoh intelleotuat giants as Salisbury, Rosebery and Playfair served but to furnisti tbe contrast be tween hope and despair. The great majority of the puppets of inherited greatness would excite no emotions be yond pity and disgust if encountered anywhere save in suoh grotebque mas querading as this. English and American readers are familiar with tbe current caricaturing of the average British peer as a repulsive creature, with a sloping forehead and retreating chin. No general opportunity was ever afforded for putting tbe indict ment to tbe test until this week. It must stand. It is abundantly proved tbat a composite photograph of those members of the house of lords who hold their seats by inheritance, not by appoint ment, would be tbe personfication of weakness, mental, moral and physical, self-indulgence, selfishness, bigotry, and intolerance. I have sometimes expressed the opini on that the English people are too firm ty attached to the existing institutions of aristocracy to sweep away tbe house of lords if it opposed the popular will persistently. I must add tbe new con viction that the only safety for tbe great prerogatives enjoyed by the 400 peers who rejeoted tbe home rule bill liee In tbe mysterious seclusion from which tbey emerged this week. If tbe faces and forms should once be depicted be fore tbe English people their political doom would besenled. BardMB Will Succeed N«winni). RACINE, Wis., Jau. *0. Governor Scofield, who is here attending a camp fire given by the local G. A. post, announced that he had decided to ap point Judge Bardeen of Wausau to tne supreme bench to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Justice Newman. Htctnm L*ITH Victoria. VICTORIA, B. C., Jau. 26 —The steam ers Tees and Willapa sailed during the evening for Alaskan ports, crowded with men bound for the Kloudike and fall of freight. The city is full of meu getting outfits ready to sail on steamers this week. Ez-froidins^'der Head. MANKATO, Minn., Jan. 2«.—Ex-Pre siding Elder Hair of the Maukato Methodist district, died of peritonitis, at the age of 62. He had been sick two weeks. He was formerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city. Mrs. Miry Bird, Hsrrisbnrg, Pa., says: "My child is worth millions to me jet I would have lost her by oroup bad I not invested twenty-five cents in a bottls of One Minute Cough Cure." It on res coughs, oolds snd all throat and long troubles. Wonnenberg Avis. LIBERTIES ENDANGERED. Judge Aiuirion's Intimation In Markuson Ciiae.—May go to U, S. Supremo Court. Fargo, Jan, 26: The Markuson case involving tbe constitutional right of man charged with criminal offense to a jury trial was argued on habeas corpus proceedings before Judge Amidon in the U. S. supreme court ^yesterday. Atty. O'Brien of St. Paul appeared for Marku son and Atty. Oen. Cowan for tbe state Markuson was a Valley City blind pig ger, who had been oonvioted and en joined by the court. He was brought before the court on au alleged charge of continuing to maintain a publio nuisance against tbe injunotional order ot tbe oourt. He demanded a jury trial Tbe oourt refused it and sen tenoed him to a year in tbe stste pent tentiary. Tbe state supreme court af firmed the decision on the appeal. Atyy Cjwan held that it was due process law. He cited authorities along that line and held that the state itself, not the federal judiciary, was the judge of what should be due process of law under the constitution ot tbe United States Judge Amidon asked him to submit some authorities on the unequal punish ment meted out under tbe present state laws to a man who violated theinjunc tion of the court in maintaining a nuis anoe, in violation of tbe prohibitory law ratber than some other form of nuisance, The court without indicating what his decision would be, plainly Btated some facts in connection with the case. He remarked that as his jurisdiction was over the same territory as the state courts it would require a strong case to cause bim to reverse the decision of the highest tribunal of the state, but he thought there was some new matter in this aotion tbat had never beeu sub mitted to the supreme court of the United States, but was of suoh import ance that it should be. He said tbat there was no use in making a secret of the reason of tbiB law and of its being upheld by the courts of the state.jlt wits simply an evasion, reaching indirectly what it could not directly by enjoining publio nuisances to avoid jury trials. He contended that it was treading on dan gerous ground and tbat tbe libertiesof tbe people were being affected. This, with other reasons, being why he was anxious to have this case oarried up to tbe United States supreme court. NEW INDIAN AGENT G, H. Biiigenlieinier Named to Succeed Crauisie at Stand ing Rock. President MoKinley has nominated Geo. H. Bingenheimer of Mandan to be Indian agent at Standing Rock. Very strong pressure was brought to bear upou the administration to retain Major Cramsie to the end of his term, and it was tbe desire of the president that Cramsie should remain. The charges filed against bim, however, were of 6uch character as to make it impossible tbat he could be retained. It is stated at tbe interior department tbat it has been clearly shown that tbe Indians on the reservation are retrograd ing, and also that not a few of the em ployes on the reservation, all of them relatives of Major Cramsie, were in tbe habit of violating tbe rules of tbe de partment in various ways, especially in regard to sobriety. Tbe charge covered tbe period of tbe present management of tbe agency. It ie understood that Archbishop Ireland interceded for Major Cramsie, and President McKinley wns anxious to grant his request, both on account of personal friendship and be cause of tbe letter's service to tbe party tbe last campaign. There is no doubt that if these charges had not been so serious, Crnmsie would have been permitted to serve out his term. Sena tor Hansbrough filed all the papers sent to him, but did not request Cramsie's removal. When notified that he would be removed be recommended Mr. Bing enheimer. MO LACK OF MATERIAL. HT»rtl Who Would Like to Fill Secre tary Hart'* Plae«. ST. PAUL, Jan. 26. —The state board of corrections and charities is holding its quarterly meeting at the capitoL the most important business of the meeting is the consideration of a suc cessor to Secretary Hart, who has resigned. Among the names men tioned in connection with this position are those of Dr. Merrill of Minneapolis, James F. Jackson of St. Paul, Rev. A. D. Stowe of Stillwater, Professor A. O. Wright of Madison, Wis., J. M. Rogers of St. Peter and W. H. Knapp of Rochester. STRIKERS IN POSSESSION. PaM«ng*r Train Held Dp in the Yards at Lebanon. lad. LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 20.—Strikers of the Chicago and Southeastern railroad seized and sidetracked the westbound express train when it arrived here. Forty passengers aboard the train are tied ap here. Strikers have complete possession of the railway yards here. Passengers are given the hospitality of private home* in the city, as public sentiment ia unanimously in favor of the strikers. The men are striking for back pay, and they say eight months' pay is dne to most of them. AVegetablePrcparationforAs ula liqg the stomachs andBowcls of lilLI)KKN ftomotesDigestion,Cheerful ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. No: OT NARCOTIC. tfaum-smaunoKM. Smd Atx.Jmn* AMbMi 4MM JM# 9sal HinmSttd- Aperfect Remedy for C^n?!ipa tion. Sour Stomach.Diajrhoea, Worms,Convulsions, Feverish mess and LOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT copy OF WRAPPEB. THINK THEY ARE CHEATED. Minnesota Indian* Not Satisfied With the Disposal of fine. WALKER, Minn., Jan. 26.—The de lay and expense attending the disposi tion of the standing timber on the sev eral reservations has caused widespread dissatisfaction amoug the Indians, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of these 6ales. The manner in which the timber on the Red Lake reservation was sold has not been satisfactory to anyone except the purchasers. The method of lump* ing off large tracts of timber to the highest bidder gives rise to the grave apprehension that a powerful syndicate controls the bidding, thereby keeping the prices below what they should be. Now that the Leech lake pine is soon to come into market the Indians are awakening to the fact that if the same methods are pursued as in the sale of the Red lake timber they will receive no benefit from it whatsoever, hence they are properly bestiring themselves for the adoption of a more equitable mauner of disposing of their timber. The plan most favored by them is to allow them to cut i# own timber, or contract with white men to do so, and the timber, when so cut, to be sold at the bank scale at market values. Iu order to bring this about they are now circulating a petition addressed to Congressman Eddy, asking him to se cure the necessary legislation to carry out their views. DR. HARTMAN SAYS Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh Wherever Located. All classes and conditions of people have chronic catarrh. It Bpares neither strong or weak, old or young healthy or sickly. All ranks of people have chronio catarrh. Rich men, poor men, beggar mem thieves, lawyers, doctors, merchants priests. Not only catarrh of the bead but catarrh of tbe throat, oatarrb of the lungs, catarrh of the stomach, oatarrb of tbe liver, oatarrb of tbe kidneys, oatarrb of tbe bowels and a multitude of women are afflicted with oatarrb of tbe pelvic organs. When it is said, therefore, tbat Pe-ru na cures catarrh wherever located, a muob larger fact is stated than at first appears. Who is it tbat says Pe-ru-na will cure oatarrb wherever located? Doc tors say it lawyers say it, preachers say it, a vast army of men and women say it, who have tried it. The old and tbe young say it. Tbey say it in tbe east aad in the. west tbey say it in tbe north and tbe sontb. All these say tbat Pe ru-na will cure catarrh wherever located. Send for a free copy of an illustrated book of testimonials, entitled "Faots and Faces," sent by tbe Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The steamer La Champagne, which arrived Monday from Havre, brought 5,260,000 franca in transit to Cuba. At Yiroqua, Wis., Judge Wyman sentenced George Sullivan to 14 years at Waupun for the murder of Asa Ges ham whioh occurred a year ago in Vernon oounty. Bispo, who assassinated General Mar* cado Bittencourt, tbe minister of war, last November at the time of the at* tempt upon the life of President Moraes of Brasil, has committed sui oide in prisdn. THAT THE Ifac-simile SIGNATURE OF IS ON THE WRAPPER OF EVEBY BOTTLE OF CUSTOM Osstoris is put up in ras-sbs bottks adj. II lis not sold la balk. Don't altar anyone to I •(situe -..MM sdl yon anything else on the plea or promise that it Is "jut as good" and "will answer every jmi pose." See that yon get G-A-8-T-0-E-1-A. Too fao- vnppsc. THE WORM TURNS Republicans iu [North Dakota Beginning to Squirm Under Johnson's Rule. The Bismarck Tribune of tbe 15th, goes over the reoord of Congress man Johnson, and shows up our "30 oent wheat at a profit" con gressman in a brisk style. The Tribune amoog other tbingesays: By "the present republican ring" Mr. Johneon doubtless wishes to be under stood as meaning tbe party organization to which be has persistently refused to pay his campaign assessments, because, as he onoe wrote to tbe committee chair man, "the party needs me more than I need the party." Mr. Johnson meant by this tbat it was enough if he delivered the Norwegian vote to the party. It is true the Norwegians have done a good deal for Johnson, but what did Johnson do for the Norwegians? Did be ever put any of tnem into office? Yes at least be is now trying to put one—hie brother—into office. But how will this help the many Norwegians who have kept Mr. Johnson id office? Now as to opposition of tbe railroads, Jobnson says tbey are against bim. ioee be furnish any evidence in this regard? None, but tnis is invariably tbe way demagogues begin a oampaign—by al leging tuat tbe corporations are fighting tbem. What are tne (aots? The only North Dakota measure mat Mr. Jobnson bas interested himself in bis entire ser vice in tbe bouse was tbe "lieu" land Dili, which gave Jim .Hill's road 60,000 acres o( valuable timber lands in lieu of certain Red river valley lands which good lawyers say Hill never bad a shadow of title to. W. A. Anderson of Grand Forks went to Washington at tbe expense of Mr. Hill to help secure this legislation. He got Johnson to make a speech favoring the bill. Both Jobnson and Anderson are eminent attorneys, and eminent at torney seldom work for glory. This is the manner of Johnson's hostility to rail road. is it likely tbat tbe roads will fight Jobnson, when, sbould they want bis serviced, they oan send Jim Ander son to Washington? Again Jobnson says tbe "McKenzie Hansbrough ring is already at work se lecting eandidatee for tbe legislature." Where and when? In what county, in what distriot? Speak out Mr. Johnson —give ns names snd localities. Is there a republican anywhere who knows of such work being done? No, Mr. Johnson, tbe people of North Dakota have bad quite enough of your martyrdom campaigns tbey will not be fooled by your cry of corporation or ring, or, gang, or by any other of your hypocritical expedients. If you run for the senate you must do so upon your merit, upon worth. Ton must convince the people that you have been of some servioe to tbe state, whioh you have not.. You must show that you are neoessary to republican suooees, which you have not been, as you have run far behind the tioket—especially in tbe eleotion of 1896. There are stronger and abler men in the state tban you are, Mr. Johnson, and another test of your party fealty will oome when the republicans through tbe regular ohannels select a suoceesor to 8enator Roaob. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.. Land Office Fareo, N. D., I Jan. 20th, 1898. Notice la hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of her Intention to make Altai proof ln.supportof her.claim and that said proof will be made before John Knauf, county judge of Stutsman county, North Dakota, at his office in Jamestown, N. I)., on March Bth, 1808, viz: FLORENCE E TUT HILL, nee Poughty, for T. C. E. No. 12,165 for the Nw!i of section M, in township 189, N.. range8 w. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon, and cultivation of. said land, her planting, cultivation and care of trees, tree seeds, cuttings, shrubs and shrubbery. thereon, viz: William H. Doughty. Charles H. Massey. Albert Brouichton, Edwin M. Doughty all Ypsllanti, N. D. of A. E. HUNDBBHACr. Register. First Pub. Jan. 17,1807.