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The Jamestown Alert TU US DAY, A I'G L'ST l»02. *x'lioial Paper of Stutsman Counlj'c E S .iiiy Alert i« i. riers, liwred in the city by car at f0 ci'iit" ii month. Daily,orv year Daily,six mouth* Daily, throe, months Weekly, otto tr Wi^kly, six months \V. K. KELLOGG. Tin-: growth of population of "orth Dakota is shewn by the iucieasiny local passenger buiness of the rail ways in the state as well as bj anj other indication. The Northern I a citic trains have been running with a crowded passenger list all the spiing and summer Frequently extia coaches are needed to accommodate the rush of travel, both on the through and on local trains. The Great Nor thern has also been doing its shaie of carrying an increased passengei trallic, and has put on an additional local train west of Grand I orks mak ing the second locil train for that ser vice this year. At the present time the road is operating 8 passenger trains a day on its Dakota division and the Northern Pacific lias (5 trains a day over its main line on this divi sion, 3 each way over the main line. This is owing to the wonderful growth and developement of the state. ith the present prospects for a bountiful crop the "boom" in the state's lands and the increasejn settlement seems only commencing. North Dakota is destined to be about the greatest food producing bate in the nation. Its area of pro ductive land and grass wealth is only just being really understood in the crowded agricultural portions of the country. tf TWtNTY YEARS AGO. j* »i* ».*w Dr. Baldwin's team ran away and the furious ride enjoyed by the doc tor, who escaped unhurt, was .the sen sation of a day. Farmer O. A. Boynton told the boys that he expected thirty bushels per acre on his land. The Jamestown city marshal was collecting dog licenses principally by slaying tlie canines. A. M. White succeeded the real •estate firm of Van Cleve and Wads worth. Captain Foster was re-surveying Spirit wood, the "Id survey having been set aside bv the county commis sioners. Elmer K. Hive* arrived from Jack sjnville. 111. and invested in a section of land. The territorial republicans were busy. The Alert reported that Mr. Marsh had found the spring that Ponce de Leon had been looking for two hun dred years before. The spring was located northwest of Jamestown. The survey of the Grand Forks and Missouri Valley railway was to be ex tended south to Ordwav. Bismarck people raised *20,000 of a 'sonus for the N. P. to locate its shops /there. Katie Putnam and troupe was the attraction at Klaus hall. Bob Ingersoll went broke on a silver mine down in Mexico. The Alert-claimed to be the oldest daily in the state except the Argus. !Now that the Argus is dead the Alert must be the oldest. P. II. Foley returned from a,trip to Chicago. Mrs. .J. Pv. stores Winslow returned from a visit in Williamsport, Pa. Cole on Resubmission. I-'argo Forum: E. E. Cole of Fargo made a starring speech in favor of re submission and contrasted the work of the spotters in ignoring Fargo drug stores. sending Madame Massey to the pen and closing Dutch Lena joint. .Tie stated tiiat a resubmission resolu tion would have passed the legislature had it not been for the bribery by an East, Grand Forks saloonkeeper who hobnobljed with ministers and W. C. '/T. U. women. The speaker asserted the prohibition party was merely working in the interests of the drug and claimed that whisky could be obtained at many Fargo drug es tablishments by the glass. He created a sensation by declaring that the great mogul of the prohibition party, the father of the law, knew^t he actual conditions. The statement was more remarkable from the fact that Judge lollock happened to be present in the opera house. It was reported the judge might issue a subpoena for the speaker dence. to obtain some real live evi WHEAT OVERESTIMATED. Present View of Crop John lngalis, of Chicago. Expert, The well known wheat expert, John Inglis. of Chicago, who has been re markably successful in giving prelimi nary estimates of the yield and proba ble results of the wheat crop of the Cr.inlryforthelast.lt years, was in aniestown 'Wednesday, lie is on his annual tour of inspection of thespring wheat of Minnesota and the Dakotas, and has been through southern Min nesota and South Dakota. He drove out to some of the Holds near this point yesterday and gathered samples of the wheat heads and inspected the straw and the stand, the condition of the berry, and the various details that go to make up an expert opinion that is used by men of wealth for purposes of their own in discounting the future of the wheat yield in this country. Mr. Inglis has been through the win ter wheat belt also this year and his opinion on the results of that crop is being borne cut by the receipts of off grade wheat at Chicago. In regard to the wheat crop in the Dakotas, as far as he has examined it, Mr. Inglis's opinion will be consider able of a surprise. The general view is that we are with favorable weather, booked for a big yield of wheat in this state, and the South Dakota reports have been made very rosy in the twin city papers. Mr. Inglis says in few words that the heads are not well tilled and there is a good deal of smut in every field when the heads are care fully examined. Two or three per cent of smut is enough to knock off a grade. He attributes the presence of smut to the wet weather, more than to any spore that is found on the seed at germination. He says that seed wheat with smut placed in it at seed ing time will not give a smutty crop unless the weather is favorable for smut, and on the contrary, that per fectly clean seed will show smut in quantities with unfavorable weather. lie is not a scientific man in the collegiate sense but will place his ex perience against any theory on the smut question. One of the remark able features of the present wheat crop, says Mr. Inglis, is the length of the head and the smutty heads are as long as the others, while usual ly they are the shorter stools. The same condition in winter wheat as regards cheat is found. It is a weather product and more prevalent in some seasons than others. Treat ing seed is valuable preventative how ever and is believed to prevent much of the smut in seasons when it is most to be expected. The crop is also from ten days two weeks late and will have to have very favorable weather to mature properly. The straw in most of the South Dakota fields and those in the southern part of this state, is not green from the ground to the tirst joint, but there is enough strength in the upper part of the stalk to mature the head if we have the right weather for the next two weeks. At present much of the wheat is only in blossom, some in the milk and some in the dough. While the heads are long the other conditions of the plant, says Mr. Inglis do not warrant the view that there will be the Unusually large yield as indicated by the heads. He went to the northern part of the state to day. II. V. Jones, the Minneapolis wheat reporter left for South Dakota Wednesday and hisreportsiof thesitua tion there may be expected in a few days. Another thing that Mr. Inglis says is that the acreage of wheat in both Dakotas has been overestimated. In South Dakota corn, rye, barley and oats have taken the place of tha wheat crop to a very large degree, and in this state flax and the other grains have taken the place of wheat. In riding from Sioux Falls to Canton, S. D., he made the following count of lields in a distance, of about 20 miles: Wheat 21, corn W. oats 20, barley 24, flax 3. In another count of lields in a distance of O.j miles he found the following: Wheat 180, corn 204, oats 10(3, barley 102. This decrease in the acreage of wheat in that state has come about in the last three or four years and is owing to the low price and small crops. The acreage of corn has largely in creased and the fields are as large as the wheat fields once were. In North Dakota the decrease hi wheat acreage is also very noticeable and has been underestimated as in South Dakota. Here flax lias taken the place of wheat instead of corn, al though patches of corn are to be seen everywhere, which will in time, as flax land wears out, increase in acre age. It is believed that fully 50 per cent of the land in this state, once de voted to wheat, is in flax this year. Whatftffect this will have on the price of wheat remains to be seen. Winter wheat is poor in quality owing to excessive rains. Out of 500 cars re ceive! in Chicago Tuesday, only eight were contract grade. The spring wheat situation in this state is yet uncertain as to yield and quality ac cording to Mr. Inglis. Still there will be a large crop owing to the new land broken up and the excellent weather that has prevailed, but not the imj mense yield that the twin city papers have predicted. From his extensive travels, Mr. Inglis believes that North Dakota is the best all around state in the na tion lor tlie raising of food supplies. It is better stock state than South Dakota as the grass is heavier in the central and western parts. He says there is more money in the cultivated crops if all the grass land was used for the raising of cattle, sheep and horses. In most parts of western South Da kota it requires 8 acres for the graz ing of one head ol'stock and the lais ing of feed in the central and western parts is uncertain in results. Mr. Inglis says that the cultivation of the soil in the last 25 years in western Kansas and Nebraska' has had the effect of reducing the severity of the winters and modifying the heat of the summers and former long dry spells. It was once impossible to raise wheat west of Ellsworth, Kan which is about the middle of the state now the crop is successfully grown many miles west of the center, and the same is true in Nebraska. They have hot winds but not as long continued or as severe. There is more moisture in the groiftd the year around. The same conditions are ap pearing in the Dakotas, in the milder winters and more moisture in sum mers. NORTH DAKOTA All RIGHT Experiences of Three Barnes County Men Looking for Better Locations. Sanborn Enterprise: Will Menke, Robt. Menke and Jesse Pickens, all of whom sold their lands recently to good advantage, started out a few weeks ago to tind a more desirable place to live and one where they could make a living easier. After looking over six states, they have returned ully convinced that everything they were looking for was right here in North Dakota where they have been living for the past twenty years. The land is immensely superior to any thing they saw while away, and it can be bought at one-fifth of the price asked for inferior lands in the middle west. They say corn is as far advan ced here as in Minnesota and Wiscon sin. They found lields in Wisconsin white with frost and vegetation great ly damaged. The lands they expected to buy they found to be old and worn out, although the prices asked where threj or four times greater than good land can be bought for here. Tb sum up, these young men had their eyes opened to the great possibilities and advantages of the ever glorious com monwealth of North Dakota. and are now quite willing to stay here and en joy life, and to advise others to do the same. Board of Education. The board of education held a meet ing Tuesday evening. Members Steel, Ingalls. DePuy. Jones and Chenery were present. Mr. Ingalls of the teachers'committee said that inas much as the rules had beell changed a great deal it would be advisable to have the same printed. On motion he was authorized to have the rules printed, cost not to exceed $40. Dr. DePuy reported that the con tract for doing carpenter work on the south side school had been let to II. G. Bensch at $3 [per day. The' contract for building a cement'sidewalk around the south side school had been let to G. S. Williams, who was the lowest bidder. Ed. Pearson was the lowest bidder on the contract to paint the south side building and he had accord ingly been awarded the contract. Plans and specifications for a plumb ing system had been secured. The old fence and outbuildings had been offered for sale. The action of Dr. DePuy and the building committee was approved. President Steel announced the same committees for this year as last. The following bills were allowed: Andre, draying 8 fj 50 Alert, publishing 31 20 Capital, publishing 46 80 Adam Furniture Co, supplies 3 00 II Flint, supplies 2 Cf Kirk & Allen, supplies 25 Strongs, supplies 2 56 Boyd Bros, work on grounds... 10 75 Jamestown Electric Light Co lights 8 70 Made a Nice Profit. C. J. Lee sold a section of land near Litchville, Barnes county, to an Iowa Investor this week for 921.50 per acre. Mr. Lee retains the crop. He bought the land three years ago for $8 an acre andthis sole shows the remarkable ^in crease inland values in the southern part of the county.—Times-Becord. PREMATURE RIPENING OF FIAX. Losses to Farmers from Inferior or diseased Seed. Sowing We are receiving a good many let ters at the college now-a-days asking for explanations concerning what ap pears to be a premature ripening of the liax crop. Generally the ilax crop of the state is the most beautiful one that any man ever looked upon. The state possesses thousands and thous ands of acres of Ilax growing upon either new breaking or on land whicn has only been cropped a few years, and perhaps little, if any of it, ever had previously Ilax crops upon it. This ac counts for the fact that the crop is tine. It is not tine because of any special care taken by the persons who have sowed the crop. I am writing this article now to call attention to all such persons that Ilax always has been anew land crop. We have found out at the college that the reason for this lies in the fact that it has always been attacked by a number of parasitic fungi which live in the soil and attack the roots of the plants. These fungi get into the soil by being seeded there with the seed. When once they are they stay there quite permanently. The cases of prema ture ripening referred to are, how ever, this year quite numerous. I have seen 160 acres in one lield upon new breaking, at which the plants are, at date of this writing in full ball, but to all appearances the Held is dead ripe. In this case there was so much of the fungus sowed with the poor scaly type of seed that practical ly every plant was attacked by the wilt disease the first year, the fungus being able to spread through the soil rapidly because of the abundant rain fall and moisture. As it was intro duced by the seed of comparatively a few plants evenly distributed in the drill rows, the rest of the plants have attacked in the root so late that they were not killed until the plants al most reached maturity. In such plants there will be no seed, or if there is a little, it will be shriveled, scaly seed. Such scaly seed will pro duce the disease another year if sowed upon good land. The fields in which such plants are growing are now ruined for the growth of flax, at least until a large number of years have in tervened. When the disease is once so thoroughly introduced, all ilax plants will die before they reach a height of three to four inches. It be hooves the farmers of this state to learn how to select their seed to avoid this disease. Go out into your own field or your neighbors lield and if you can lind an area which is free from wilted plants, have it saved for seed. Do not put it into an elevator "where it will all get mixed with diseased crops. 11. L. Bolley, Agricultural College, Aug. 4, 1902. Increase in Valuation. Bismarck Tribune: A healthy inj crease in the value of property through the state is shown by the re turns of county boards of equalization thisyeai'. Several counties'have not yet forwarded their abstracts to the state auditor, but the 33 counties that have reported show a total valuation nearly as great as the entire state re ported last year. With Logan, Mcllenry, McLean, Sargent, Stark and Ward counties still missing from the returns, the 33 counties reporting show a total as sessed valuation of real property of $75,585,513. The same counties last year reported a total real value of $38, 121,048, showing an increase in the as sessed valuation of $7,417,465. Some of the greatest increases in av erage value of land are shown as fol lows: County 1901 1902 Per A Per A Billings $0 30 $0 72 Dickey 2 94 3 76 Mercer 62 68 Morton 84 2 25 Ransom 3 34 4 19 Towner 2 93 3 37 Billings county lands have more than doubled in average value, and lands in Morton county are returned at over three times as much as last year. Other western counties show tl.e increase in value of lands west of the Missouri river. In the returns of personal property, 32 counties have made their reports, with Dickey, Emmons, Logan, Mc Henry, McLean, Stark and Ward miss ing from the returns. The 32 counties reported for 1902 show a total valuation of 924,669,167. The same counties in 1901 were re turned at $22,094,636, showing an in creased valuation over 1901 of 92,574, 531. The total valuation as returned by county auditors last year of ths entire state (39 counties) of personal property was $25,229,706—which is very little more than the valuation of the 32 counties for which the valuation is given above. Nearly all counties show a good In crease oirer last year. -1 '. ®^REraMMeM"aji:ojaia®a®ai'®3rcirtrsi0ffl I JAMES RIVER VALLEY NOTES. 1 SM!sie®®@Ma®aisarajai^i^®rsar(9jl Editor Palmer of Carrington, threatens to prosecute a man who tried to take his spite out on the In dependent editor by abusing his dog. "Beiney" of "Minced Meat" fame, has gone to Mi not to run McClure's typesetting machine. lleiney an nounces that the Antiboozerino club lias also been transferred from Har vey to Mi not. At the Carrington primaries the Cruoliett ticket won over the Gale house ticket by a vote of 53 to 51. The Cooke hotel at Harvey lias been opened up for business. Sheriff Sorum of Carrington, is lock ing for a fellow who eloped with a horse and buggy belonging to another. Hank Palmer wants to sell the Car rington Independent, a daily and weekly publication. Editor Stickney of the Fessenden News, is at the head of a new lar.d firm. Ole Haughland, residing near McJ Henry, was blind and partially para lyzed as a result of a shock from a bolt of lightning which struck] his house. The house was badly wrecked. Haugh land will recover. A. L. Lowden, the godly editor of the Foster County Tribune, is sad be cause there are unholy saloons in Mc Henry. The ball teams are disbanding now that harvest is near. Andrew Goehner, a Soo Jsection hand at Kulm, died as a result of sun stroke. Two Diakey county farmers met in Kulm and scrapped. They were lined and turned loose. The Maddux-MacLachlan faction was turned down in the primaries in Eddy county Saturday in one of the most bitter lights ever held in the county and the Mattson faction have forty six of the fifty six delegates. An anti-Hansbrougli legislative del egation is predicted. Dickey correspondence in the Edge ley Mail: It has been intimated that it is just possible that J. M. Devine may ignore the action of the state convention, which is certainly not binding on him in any manner, and announce himself as a candidate for the office of state superintendent of public instruction, leaving it to the people to do the rest. And it would not be much of a surprise to us if "Our Joe" got elected. He has a host of friends in the state, and his chances of re-election are certainly very favor able. Several complaints have been made out in Carrington under the provisions of the female slander law A warm time is expected when the cases come up in court. A hail storm struck Barlow and damaged two sections of grain. A colored aggregation gave a show o" the old variety order in Carrington and all the sports were pleased. Carrington defeated New Rockford 6 tO 4 Telephone wires between Harvey and Carrington were broken down by a severe storm. Geo. iSouthworth and Miss Bertha Stevenson of lvensal were married at Carrington. The Flickertail Flicker, the Dudley publication, refers to to the rival town as "Goodrich on the slough with the graveyard appearance." James Pollock of Dickey county was seriously injured by a horse kicking him on the head. The Ellendale Record reports that a young lady from Kulm afflicted witfc smallpox passed through Ellendale on her way to settlement about thirteen miles east but does not state how warmly she was welcomed Peter Lematta, residing near Ellen dale was seriously injured by falling from a haystack. The Record says holders of property in Ellendale have a craze for cement sidewalks. It is a good craze to have. AFTER AN ALLEGED FORGER Frank Page Alleged to Have Signed Henry Shadow's Name to Check for $15. Frank Page is charged with the for gery of a check for $15. Sunday morn ing Page presented a check for that amount to Mrs. Vessey, who has a store and postolHce at Eldridge. The name of Henry Sharlow was attached to the check and Mrs.. Yessey cashed it. Mr. Sharlow 6ays he did not sign the check and Page is missing. A warrant for his arrest was issued Mon day evening. Page has been in the penitentiary twice. Seven years ago Officer Dewey arrested him on a charge of forgery and he served a term. He was in Jamestowii Saturday and informed Officer Dewey when recognized that he was going to Eldridge. Trc?^ Mipyi tiiiygpiiiawpwptiiigi^ ,-i rh y^CT :i Vji CONGRESSMAN FITZPATRICK Says Pe-ru-na is a Splendid Ca« tarrhal Tonic. Congressman T. V. Fltzpatrlck Hon. T. Y. Fitzpatrick, Congressman from Kentucky, writes from the Na tional Hotel, Washington, D. C., as fol lows: "At the solicitation of a Mead I uned your Peruaa and can cheerfully recom• mend your remedy to anyone Muttering with catarrh or who need* a good tonic."—T. Y. FITZPATRICK. A Good Tonic. Pe-ru-na Is a natural and efficient nerve tonic. It strengthens and re stores the activity of every nerve in the body. Through the use of Pe-ru-na the weakened or overworked nerves resume their natural strength and the blood vessels begin at once to regulate the flow of blood according to nature's laws* Congestions inlmediately disappear. Catarrh Cared. All phases of catarrh, acute or chronic, are promptly and permanently cured. It is through its operation upon the nervous system that Pe-ru-na has at tained such a world-wide reputation as ft sure and reliable remedy for all phases of catarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a. full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad* •ice free. '"Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ob -)|f RAILROAD NEWS The Northern Pacific is making some extensive repairs in the Fargo round house and other buildings. Tne round house will be enlarged to ac comodate the large new engines re ceived. A sand house to cost $2,000 is to be put up and modern ma chinery will be placed in thecinder pit to elevate ashes and cinders into cars. The last item will cost $1,600. Accompanying letters of sincere thanks, from Mrs. Jennings, the be reaved widow, each member of the crew, which manned the special train carrying Mrs. Jennings to Valley City from Fargo on the X. P. on the Sun day E. J. Jennings was fatally injured, was a check for $5, a token of her ap preciation of their efforts, which made it possible for lier to see Mr. Jennings before he passed away. The men express tenderly their grateful ness for Mrs. Jennings' thoughtful ness and high estimate of their efforts which they term was after all only humane on their part and willingly exercised. High Water in Illinois. Local papers from Illinois tell about a large crop of wheat and grain and a goou corn crop but all record the dam age done to wheat and oats by wet weather. Most of the wheat is badly sprouted and farmers ar6 trying to keep the sprouted bundles separate for threshing. From tive'to ten cents a bushel dockage goes with sprouted wheat. A good deal of the wheat has been stacked. Wheat of good grade is selling from 60c to 65c a -bushel* The yield is larger, than for seferal years running from 20 to 30 bushels to the acre in wheat, the largest yield ih several years. In many parts of the, state the corn crop is ruined by high water. The Illinois river is out of its banks and from Peoria to the mouth many houses can be seen with, water at the second stories Families are still occupying the second stories with boats ready for a further rise. At the government locks the water last week was 12 feet over the dam, or "dam high" as it was called. Thou sands of acres of corn are submerged along the river bottom and the fields resemble great lakes with an occasion al tassel of sickly looking corn protrud ing above the water. Immense dam age lias been done to the corn crop in the state. Shooting Chickens* It is reported that prairie chickens are already being shot by alleged sports in some sections of the county and it is suggested that the game wardens begin to do business. The season does not open until Sept 1." It is believed that an example should be made of some of the offenders. Hunting permits are being issued from the auditor's oflpce already. The chicken crop is good and the birds are of a fair size. There are all kinds of ducks in the county and there wlli be plenty of good shooting this fall.* tj 4S W 4 5