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The Jamestown Alert THURSDAY. MAY 8, 1S»02. Otliciul Paper of, Stutsman County. E S t'Vr !Hi'y VI rt t« delivered in themy by tar nor*. ut M) cent" a month. i'r'.y nue 0 UO H."ily,Mix. Month* tuifi' month* V* CJiily, ouoyear TtwfAlv.ffix months There is a scarcity of feed and "feeders" and it is certain that the big packers are able to advance retail prices of meat. In some localities this advance has been so great as to cause people to abandon meat for the present and at Bloomington, 111., 2,000 employes of the Alton railway have signed an agreement to quit buying fresh meat for 30 days. It is reported that the western roads are making contracts to ship a large number of beef cattle to the big packing plants in the next few weeks to take advan tage of the present high priceslof cat tle on the hoof. It is expected that these shipments will result in a fall in both the prices of cattle on the hoof and at retail but the opponents of the trust predict that the stock raiser alone will feel the decrease and the consumer will not. Michael Cudahy maintains that there is no beef trust and that com petition among the packers has raised the prices of beef. The high prices, whatever the cause, will drive many people to eating vegetables more free ly, and may operate as it did when flour prices, during the Leiter wheat corner, soared above the ability of the consumer to purchase as before. As a pointer to the stock raisers of this county and this part of the state attention can be called to the high prices that local butchers are paying for dressed meat shipped in from the Twin cities. There is no regular sup ply of home fattened beef that can be obtained here. Instead of allowing the profits for finished beef to go elsewhere the farmers could have taken the profits on cattle fattened and ready for market, had they raised the feed themselves and fattened the stock as home. This spring is a good time to begin a aew deal in the stock growing business and raise feed for stock and keep the profits at home, in stead of raising so much wheat for lit tle or nothing. Any North Dakota farmer who fattens steers, raises cows, pigs and chickens, makes butter and sells eggs, will have a fine living as sured, and make money whether he has a grain crop or not. Sad Wedding Trip. Bismarck Tribvno: Mr. and Mra. F. Voucher were called to Xumbrota. Minn., last night, by a telegram from W. G. Matchan, announcing that jhis wife,formerly Miss Edith Boucher, had been taken ill withdiphtheria.and was in a serious condition. Dr. and Mrs. Matchan were in Zumbrota on their wedding trip, and this termina tion of their trip is sad indeed. WOMB'S lile is hard enough as it is. It is to her -.hat we owe our wor^d. and everything should be made as easy as possible for her at the time of childbirth. This is just what MOTHER'S FRIEND will do. Itwillmake baby's coming easy and painless, and that without tak ing dangerous drugs into the sys tem. It is simply to be applied to the muscles of the abdomen. It penetrates through the skin carry ing strength and elasticity with it. It strengthens the v.-hole system and prevents all of the discomforts of pregnancy. Tbe mother of a plumb babe in Panama, Mo., says: I have used Mother's Friend and can praise it highly." Get Mother's Friend at the Drug Store, SI per bottle. The Bradfield Regulator Co., ATLANTA, GA. Write for ourfree illustrated book, "Before Baby is Bora." That a 00 1 50 1 .',0 W. K. KKLLOGU. Hlfill I'KICES KOI! MK.VT. There is considerable agitation us to whether there is or is not a beef trust. In Illinois and New York it is stoutly maintained that such a trust exists and the high prices of meat are point ed out as proving the fact of the power of the trust. The packers have a press agent bureau scattering con tradictory articles around the country denying that there is a trust. Tired Feeling Is a Common Spring Trouble. It's a sign that Ihe blood is deficient in vitality, just us pimples and other eruptions are signs that the blood is impure. It's a warning, too, which only the hazardous fail to heed. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Remove it, give new life, new cour age, strength and animation. Tliey cleanse the blood and clear the complexion. Accept no substitute. "I felt tired all the time and could not sleep. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla a while I could sleep well and the tired feeling had gone. This great medicine has also cured me of scrofula." MRS. C. M. ROOT, Gilead, Conn. Hood's Sarsaparilla promises to cure and keeps the premise. ENGAGED TWO NEW TEACHERS. Board Reengaged all Teachers Except Misses Mason and Carlson Who Resigned. The board of education met Tues day evening and engaged teachers for the next school year as recommended by the teachers' committee at salaries as given below per month. SOUTH SIDE. Anna M. Morrow, principal... $90 00 M. Ida Crawford, assistant 75 00 Anna M. Wanner, assistant 65 00 Katherine E. Martin, 8tli grade 05 00 Minnie Kramer. 7th grade 55 00 Grace Larkin, 4th grade 50 00 Mildred Nashold,3rd grade— 50 00 Grace B. Sabin, 2rd grade 50 00 Lydia Larkin, 1st grade 65 00 WALLACE BLOCK. J. M. Johnson, 6th grade 55 00 E. Egbert, 6th grade 55 00 NORTH SIDE. Elizabeth Wood, 4th and 5th.. 50 00 Alice Vessey, 3rd grade 45 00 Frances Merrill, 2rd grade 50 00 Mazie Clemens, 1st grade 60 00 Miss Lela Lovell was also engaged at a salary of $45 per month. She will be assigned a place later. The committee recommended that the school year consist of 9 months in stead of months, that High school graduation exercises be held in the opera house June 13, and the grammer school exercises in court house June The petition of teachers in regard to pay for week school was closed in March was laid on the table. The following bills were allowed: W llall, taxidermist $ 3 00 Caxton company, supplies 4 4!t E Peterson, supplies 3 CM) Boyd Bros, fuel 7 .") 1) Sluirlock. fuel ti4 00 II 10 White, supplies 4 (50 Wood, repairs S 80 Jamestown Machine Shops, re pairs 3 00 KNIDSON'S STRANGE DELI SI ON Thinks tie is God at Times and Insan ity Board Sends Him to Asylum. Nels Knudson, residing 15 miles northwest of Jamestown, was examin ed as to his sanity by the board and ordered committed to the asylum. Knudson is afflicted with the delusion that he is God at times and told his mother and others so. He received an injury on the head about two years ago and has been acting queer at times since. He was brought before the board about six months ago but his family thought they could take care of him and he was discharged. Since then he visited in Illinois, re trrning about three months ago. While at home he walked through sloughs, as though attempting to walk on the water. Knudson was taken to the asylum by Sheriff Eddy Wednesday afternoon. Death of Major Loop. The Belvidere, 111. papers contain long accounts of the recent death of Major C. B. Loop of that place togeth er with sketches of his war services and honorable career as a citizen. For a short time Major Loop was a resident of Stutsman county, and was interested in land north of this city. The Belvidere Republican relates how Gen. Grant spied the Major in James town on the day that the Villard ex cursion went west at the opening of the completed N. P. road, and how Grant cordially greeted his old friend and comrade in the Vicksburg cam paign. The major made a short en trance into the troubled waters of local politics in those days. He was postmaster of Belvidere and a highly esteemed citizen. Depot Burned. The Northern Pacific depot at Bow don was badly scorched by lire, it be ing necessary to tear down one end of it in order that tbe rest might be isaved. RICE GROWING Something About a Comparatively New Crop in the South. Land Once full of Crawfish Holes Mow Cultivated With Profit. Rice is planted in April and the first crop, or head rice, is cut off in August. Within a week a second crop, or volunteer' rice, springs from the stock and is sometimes har vested in October or November. It is inferior in quality to the first crop and smaller in grain. It is called the Creole or Red rice. The rice crop is handled like wheat and cultivated like it. Seeders or drills sow the seed, bin ders cut the straw, threshing rigs separate the seeds from the stalk and big mills hull and polish the seed for use. The straw is burned as it gives stock colic and a last year's rice Seld looks like wheat stubble on a North Dakota farm. Mills buy the rice di rect from-farmers and it is claimed to be the most profitable crop in the south as its consumption is increasing in the United States. Most northern people do not know the value of rice as food. We use it chiefly in deserts but there are said to be 200 ways of preparing it. It is very nutritious and a large per cent of the world's hardest working and most en during people live on little else be sides rice. The southern people know how to prepare it. It is used as a! vegetable, in curries, deserts and in many other ways. A rice kitchen was kept running at the Bullalo Exposi tion and railroad companies and others are going to start a campaign of edu cation in the north to show the value of the cereal for food. The country between Texas and New Orleans in southern Louisiana seems to be developing into a rice plantation and all the improvements are due to rice culture. It is such a cheap ahd very wholesome food that it must come into more general use as an article of diet. A great deal of money has been made by companies buying rice lands, digging canals and selling the lands and water. Rental of two hairs to the acre for the land is the general price and lands bought at $10 to $20 an acre, after the canal is tinished sell for $35 to $40 an acre. A few years ago,rice growing here was new business. Salt water kills the plant, and its greatest dangers are an oc casional big wind storm or tornado from the gulf like the one which de vastated Galveston. Otherwise the crop is a safe one. with water, and is, at the present prices the most profit able agricultural crop in the south. There is a bounty of 2c on imported rice, and it is claimed that not enough rice land exists in the United States were it all in cultivation to ellect the supply for home use. An acre of rice will average about 10 bags, which sells for $3 each at the mill. Many fields give a much greater yield and 20 bags have been raised to the acre. It is not feared that, a trust will, get control of this product as it has oth ers, although congress may take off the duty some day. The flat prairie lands in the south ern part of the state of Louisiana and South eastern Texas will not. raise any other crop than rice, not even cow peas, or sugar cane or cotton, it is said will grow on these lands. The land Is rich, but some ingredient in the soil prevents the growth of the usual crops. Until it was found that rice could be successfully and profit ably grown the lands were thought to be worthless, but many of them now are held at $100 to $150 an acre. All this has been learned in the last dozen years or so* When an acre of land will yield from $20 to $40 and even more profit, the value of tbe same is seen at once, and is a proposi tion like the flax crop profits of North Dakota, which happened last year. The canals are from one mile or less to 20 and 25 miles in length. Excava ting is at the usual depth of 3 or 4 feet and from 12 to 25 feet wide. Excava I ting costs 15c a square yard and the work is easy to do, in a flat country. 11 is related on good authority that a party of Illinois men, 5 years agoin vested a small amount in a rice farm 1 The Southern Pacific Railway Com pany a Promoter of New En terprises. Crowley, La., April 10th (Special Correspondence)—Southern Louisiana from New Orleans to Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, is very like the lied river valley of North Dakota. The rice crop of this section is com paratively a new crop in a newly set tled region and there are no old houses and plantations seen as in the sugarcane growing portions of the state. The towns are new and the houses and stores like other western buildings. Ten years ago and less this "region was considered worthless and lands now growing fine crops of rice were covered with grass or timber or partly so. Canals have been built from the swamps and streams and run across the flat country from 10 to 20 miles and ditches are dug that tap the canals to let the water on fields. Rice has to have water flooded on the growing plant for 70 days and the canal companies charge farmers rent for the water. and dag a canal and pumped the water I from one of the streams. They got I in 1000 acres and last year had in creased the acreage to 3000 acres, and they have sent more money home from the crops than they ever putin and have the canal and land left. Kice land area is limited, and those who get it now are expecting great ad vances in values soon. Many compan ies are being organized to dig canals and, next to the wonderful profits of the Beaumont'oil field it is regarded as the best paying enterprise in the south in a farming way, and promises to remain so. Rice mills that simply hull the rice, polish it and sack it for market are found at all the towns here, and at Crowley, La. there are 8 or 10 immense mills, the owners of which are also making money, or at least are so reported by those who ought to know. Last years rice crop in Louisiana amounted to 2,750,000 bags and the whole crop of the Uuited States to 3,500,000 bags. One tenth of the crop was marketed at New Or leans. The Southern Pacific road supplies the southern part of Louisiana with transportation service, has a good road bed, gives a tine service and lias done great things in developing the country. It has practically killed the steamer trade on the bayous wherever its lines compete. It runs over 7,000 miles of steamer lines on the gulf and ocean and has nearly 7.000 miles of railway lines in the south. It is a progressive road in every respect. The Southern Pacific is settling up the new rice country that extends in to Texas. Most of the new lands are without any timber but some are cov ered with hard wood and pine. The company is developing the ex treme southern part of the United States the same as the Northern Paci fic and Great Northern are the north ern part. It is a liberal system in its expenditures aud does many things to help its patrons. It has cost a great deal of money to build through some parts of Louisiana but the Southern Pacific is equal to any demand upon it, and is a practical leader in the work of assisting and teaching the people. LaFayette, La., is 40 feet above sea level and is the highest point batween New Orleans and Beaumont,272 miles. All the country is flat prairie or tim ber with occasional swamps and streams. The Bayou Teche (pronounced Tasli) country is a beautiful and highly pro ductive part of the state and extends as far as sugar lands go to Lafayette about half way across the state. There are many old plantations and negro quarters and line groves of live oak, gum and China trees to be seen. The land is very rich. The young cane is just sprouting into a waving leaf, and negro men and women are giving it its first hoeing. The heat of the sum mer is not excessive and is readily withstood, but the extreme length of the season is debilitating—the same as the length of winter is monotonous in the extreme north. Sunstrokes are seldom heard of here. Yellow fever is not feared and since 1878 there has been no great epidemic. Everything grows so easily that people don't have to work and the negroes do about all of that. Twenty years ago some oranges were raised here but are no longer found prolitable. Fruits and vegetables can be raised for the plant ing but farmers are too indifferent to put the soil to uses it is best adapted to. Like in the north, tl:e second lot or farmers will show the first how to farm and get rich. Poultry is not rnised here to any extern and little garden truck for home use is to be found. Dagoes are selling the fruit and doing most of the small shop busi ness in southern Louisiana and some prospecting for oil wells is going on. Farm land in the older settled parts of this region are worth $40 to $60 an acre. The old farmers are not willing to sell and are slow to adopt new me thinls that new comers bring in. The country will never advance under yie old pioneers as it will under the new. European Tourists and others de stined to eastern points, will tind the low rates applying over the Nickel Plate Road to New York, New Eng land and other eastern destinations, specially attractive. The eastern ter minals via this line are only from three to ten minutes from all ocean steamship docks, and the service af forded is tirsL-class. Three trains daily from Chicago. Uniformed col ored porters are in charge of ayd coaches, whose duties require that proper care shall always be given to keeping cars clean and attending to the wants of passengers enroute. Meals served in dining cars at prices that are reasonable and within reach of all- Details cheerfully furnished on application to John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 Adams Street Chi cago. Chicago city ticket office, 111 Adams Street. OLD SOLDIER 10ST $20. Claims he was frisked and Accused Another Man of Doing the Job. There was a torrirl session in a James town cigar store Saturday afternoon. An old man, who claimed he was a war veteran, accused a younger man of having taken his money the night before. The younger man resented the aconsation. The veteran kept re repeating again and again that the money had been taken by the party he was talking to. Finally the accused squared oil' in front of the old soldier and declared himself. "If you say 1 stole your mon ey again I'll hand you one," he said. "No you won't", the old man replied quietly. The accused spit on his hands, squared off in front of the old timer and was about to land on him when a friend persuaded him to let the matter drop. The oldtimer left on a train Satur day. He claims to have lost $20 but made no complaint to the police. It is said he was drunk when the alleg ed loss of money occurred. How Cheap Baking Powder is Made. The Health Department of New York has seized a quantity of so-called cheap baking powder, which it found in that city. Attention was attracted to it by the low price at which it was being sold in the department stores. Samples were taken and the chemist of the Health Department reported the stuff to be "an alum bakinir pow der," which analysis showed to be com posed chiefly of alum and pulverized rock. The powder was declared to be dan gerous to health and several thousand pounds were carted to the offal dock and destroyed. It is unsafe to experiment with these so called "cheap" articles of food. They are sure to be made from alum rock or other injurious matter. In baking rooms, the high class,cream of tartar brands are the most economi cal, because they go farther in use and are healthful beyond question. Pranz J. Clemens Dead. Franz J. Clemens died at 7:15 Sun day morning at his residence in the Second ward, aged 67 years. Deceased was afflicted with dropsy since about Christmas and death was not unex pected. Four'years ago he had an at tack of dropsy but recovered fully. Mr. Clemens was born in Germany and came to Stutsman county twenty years ago this month. He resided for a number of years on a farm, later re moving to Jamestown. Two brothers residing in Stutsman county and a brother residing in Wisconsin survive him. He was a member of the Ger man Lutheran church. His wife died a. year ago. The funeral was held Tuesday af ternoon at 2 p. m. from the Lutheran church. Inspection Trip. President Mellen and other high officials of the Northern Pacific ar rived in mestown Wednesday morn ing from the east on a special train and inspected the company's buildings £^nd yards in Jamestown. They left for a trip over the Jamestown-Leeds branch and the Esmond and Bowdon branches. They returned in the after noon and left for the west. It is unders£bod that they will in spect all the branches as well as the miiin line of the entire system. Sunt. C. J. Wilson accompanied the party on the trip over the Dakota division. Startled the Storekeeper. Not long ago a man from north of Kensal went into a store in that town and while talking to the man the storekeeper noticed that the boy's face was covered with eruptions. He asked what was the matter and the man re plied that the little fellow had a touch of the smallpox. The dealer nearly collapsed. He was informed that small pox had been very common in the neighborhood and it was so mild that it was not considered necessary to call a physician. Two Murder Cases. There is a term of court set for Bur leigh county for May 20. There are two murder cases set for trial, the case against Jell May for the murder of Harry Hibbs and that against Ulic Chilkoff for the murder of Siinon Lion Welch. Judge Winchester is reported improving at St. Paul, but it is not believed he will be able to, preside at the May term of court, in which event it will probably be postponed until a later date. Narrow Escape. J. Peterson of Kensal arid family narrowly escaped death from asphyxia tion recently. They were found by neighbors unconscious and it took several hours of hard work to bring them around all right. Card of Thanks. 1 wish to take this opportunity of thanking all those who so liberally assisted in rebuilding my house after our recent loss by tire. Benj. Hornby. Body hound. The body of Bengstrom, the farmer who was drowned a month ago while going home from Valley City, was found in the Sheyenne river. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Jamestown had live good hotels and still the accomadations for visitors was not sufficient. E. M. Sanford and a number of friends of Jacksonville, 111. had arriv ed on a prospecting tour and were re gestered at the Dakota House. There was a great scarcity of school teachers, only three beiner available for the eight organized districts. Everything was on the boom, build ing, land sales, lot sales, prairie break ing and wheat sowing booms. R. Rose of Davenport, Iowa, hagl ar rived and intended to locate here. J. C. War nock had arrived from Mason City, 111. and was managing editor of tbe Morning Alert. There was talk of a Straw Board factory and a Board of Trade being organized. The foundation was being laid for the new Catholic church on Fifth ave nue south. 120 pupils were in attendance at the public school and anew school house and court house was contemplated. Arrangements were being made to increase the size of the Daily Alert to an eight column folio. Parties returned from Fargo report a fine opening for someone with means to put on a line of steamers between that town and Casselton,and run in opposition to the N. P. A. W. Kelley was raising a fund to start a library for Jamestown. Mrs. E. D. Strong arrived from Vermont. SjMSriiJEMSMSIBISiajDiOfilSiSJSJSOISMSISISffl JAMES RIVER VALLEY NOTES. ^JSIIffiJMSJ3lD]13ISJS!iSI3M 3raM3®I3I3iSf@SIBI® A number of farmers are moving from Foster county into Mercer coun ty where they can obtain more range land for stock. A sale of land in LaMoure county is reporter at $20 an acre, the best price of the season, The land was in the eastern part of the country. Tuesday of last week was a dull week in Fessenden according to the Eree Press, the sports having hied themselves out of town lest they be subpeoned in the bawdy house cases. Fessenden has another row over a street being fenced up. Fessenden druggists still continue to scrap over the quality of the form aldehyde they sell. In some towns the quality of another liquid cuts more figure, being more profitable. The Wells County Free Press says R. R. Commissioner Youngblood will not be a candidate for anything this year. Banker Davidson of Carrington will build a magnificent residence in Car rington. The supreme court decision in the Eddy county contest cases pleases the Provost. Fessenden authorities raided the red light district again and arrested the women who were so boisterous as to cause complaint from neighbors. 1 he contract for the new bank in Courtenay has been let. Bert Marks of Courtenay and Miss Jennie Steele of Kensal were married" in Valley City. Bare township in Dickey county is paying a bounty of 2 cents per gopher tail. CROWNED KINO— Edward, King of England Alphonso, King of Spain Lion, King off Coffees, Fit for any king fit for you. Not giaied with any cheap, noxious coating never told in bulk. Coffee