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JAMLESTOWN
the metropolis of the
James River Valley
North Dakota
VOL. XXXIV
CITY COUNCIL
HELD REGULAR MONTHLY S*
SION MONDAY EVE. ROT
TINE BUSINESS. BILLS
After the minutes of the last meet
ing had been read and approved sev
eral communications were received,
the first a petition from residents
near the foot of Fourth and Fifth
avenues south that the sewer, cess
pool at the end of Fifth avenue be
sealed shut and that the sewer be
extended south on the James river
at least 800 feet, on account of the
disagreeable odor at times prevailing
near the cess pool. The matter was
referred to the sewer committee.
A petition by C. H. Breethorst to
operate a shooting gallery for three
months this summer at Jamestown,
was denied.
A petition was received from A. C.
Bolton of the round house restaurant
requesting the city to put in proper
drainage to carry off surplus surface
water along the front block 4, Kelley
and Fuller's second addition, be
tween Pearl street and River avenue,
on Main street and adjacent connec
tions, property and cellars in the
vicinity often being flooded. The
matter was referred to the street
and bridge committee.
The matter of improving the road
leading north from Jamestown to the
Geo. Birks place and east and north
towards the Goodrich place, the road
being at times almost impassible on
account of sand and water, was taken
up," and referred to the street and
bridge committee with authority to
act. It is intended to use the coun
ty grader in charge of Road Overseer
Will Dennison to improve this high
way.
There has been a request made by
many children on the north side for
a slide to be installed in Nickeus
park, similar to the one in Klaus
parka but the matter was lost on
roll call on account of lack of funds
in the park appropriation. The city
council appropriated $100 to help
defray expenses of the Are depart
ment delegates to the Wahpeton con
vention and tournament this month.
The report of Police Magistrate
A resolution introduced by Aid.
DeNault to purchase eight Btone
crossings of the Kettle River Co,
in the city streets, was carried.
.The report of City Treasurer C.
R. Hodge for April and May showed
the city financial condition ln
shape with the money to come
the county. A resolution to pay in-
s
£7
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$0
$"
The regular June meeting of the
JameBtown city council was held at
the city hall Monday evening, Mayor
Blewett presiding and Aldermen
Henderson, Hall, Koehn, DeNault,
Latta, Noel and Haas attending Al
derman Murphy absent. The other
members of the mayor's official fam
ily, City Auditor Thompson, City At
torney Seller, Street Commissioner
Cadieux, City Engineer Beach, Chief
of Police Obermueller and City Her
der Giese, were also present.
PRIZES FOR ELKS
Jnique Contests at Suite Meeting
of B. P. O. E. This Month
The Prizes
Preliminary arrangements for the
coming meeting of the North Dakota
ElkB association in Grand Forks June
21-22, are being pushed along rapid
ly by the committee in charge.
The program for events to take
place at the big picnic in Lincoln
park has been made public, being as
follows:
Backward race—First, Dutch pipe
second, one box of Aquilla cigars
third, one box of El Aquilla cigars.
Elk coming longest distance—Suit
case.
Fattest Elk—Pair of $5 shoes.
Tallest Elk—Collar, cuff and hand
kerchief case.
Tug of war, open to all Elk lodges
—Elk stein set.
Shortest Elk—Briar pipe.
Lady Elk coming longest distance
—Ladies' Elk broach.
Fat man's race—First, Stetson hat
second, box of La Fryate cigars
third, box of Royal Banner cigars.
Barrel race—First, fancy vest
second, one Manhattan shirt third,
box Royal Banner cigars.
Sack race—First, briar pipe in
case second, box of Lovera cigars
third, box of Robert Brown cigars.
Ball throwing contest, ladies—1st,
ladies' handbag second, electric flat
Iron third, box of stationery.
Nail driving contest, ladies—First,
ladies umbrella second, hand paint
ed China dish third, box of choco
lates. I
Hobble skirt race—First, cut glass
vase second, Crueby vase third, box
of chocolates.
Egg race—First, Knox straw hat
second, Yale safety razor third, box
of Originator cigars.
Barrel contest—Meerschaum pipe.
Hundred yard dash, one member
from each lodge—First Elks' button
second, smoking rack third, smoking
rack.
Large|:t delegation in attendance—
silk flag.
Elk with largest feet
gars.
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club
The park committee was instructed postponed date this gives Carrington
to confer with C. A. Klaus upon the
matter of setting up the mill stone
in the park and making a tablet giv
ing the history of the stone. Aid,
Noel brought up the matter of in- tee of that city are in receipt of a
stalling street signs on corners where letter from St. Henry saying that
needed, but the matter will be defer- he will attempt to break a world's
red until September. I record there and fully expects to give
Bonds of $1000 by the Jamestown the largest demonstration of his life
Plumbing and Heating company, in Carrington. chargj
Geo. Peterson manager, also for $6,- It will be remembered
600 and $10,500 from C. H. Porritt rington is St. Henry's old home and
for sewer and water work, were ac- he would naturally want to make the
cepted. A resolution accepting the best flights be possibly could at that
Porritt contract for sewer and water meet.
improvements was adopted. I St. Henry gave a mOst satisfactory
exhibition of flights in Saskatoon,
City Auditor A. R. Thompson gave
his report for May as follows: auto
licenses $47.50, dog licenses $41, A.
M. Halstead pool hall $40, Harry
Cooper pool hall $15, H. W. Kelley
pool hall $10, milk licenses $6.50, tacular of any exhibition given in
Anapolski Bros, peddlers $5, L. A. the state and every man, woman and
Barr street photographer $2, total child should make it a point to be
|167 able to attend that meet, as It is cer-
Weighmaster P. J. Corbett's report tain to be one that will be long re
for May for loads weighed and meas- membered.
ured was as follows: coal, 109 loads
wood, 223 hay, 72 grain, 60 ice,
20 miscellaneous, 14 total 448.
Murphy for May showed a total of were drowned and Lloyd Evanson
$12.50, fines and costs collected, just escaped the Bame fate when a
There were seven arrests for vagran-. canoe in which they were riding on
cy, drunkenness antf breach of the the Sheyenne river at this point cap
peace. .• .V,,..
sized.
be shipped August lBt, 1911, for use in the Missouri at Tren on, y-
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AVIATION MEETING
The citizens of Carrington have
just completed arrangements with the
Curtis representatives for the ap
pearance there on
"Lucky Bob" St. Henry or another
expert aviator in case of
dent to St. Henry before this date.
SinC^^LdJtah^t
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decided that it would not be the
best policy to hold the meet on the
a large territory to draw a crowd
from and that little city is preparing
to entertain the largest crowd in
their history. The aviation commit-
GOLD BRICK
ARTIST DROWNED?
Man Who Swindled Chaffee of A-
menia, Claimed to Have
Drowned Self
C. W. Caddegan, the man who was
alleged to have swindled H. F. Chaf
fee of Amenia, this state, out of $25,
000 by the old gold brick method
will never be tried for that offense.
His body was found in San Pedro
Harbor, near Los Angeles, Cal.
Wednesday.
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n°wouldCnotTerthae home in Amenia,
thatCar.
SaBk., on June 1st and 2nd and will
fly in Regina, Sask., before the Far
go meet. Without a doubt the meet
ln Carrington will be the most spec-
WATER CLAIMS VICTIMS
Harvey, N. D., June 3.—Bud Frost,
aged 17, and Ray Stafford, aged 22,
Willlston, N. D., June 2.—Ray
Higby, aged 19, whose
croBSingB to have straight edges and the roundhouse here, was drowned
-t.oota w«a carried. The body had not been re
k-
night. The body had
at last reports.
N. D.,
Price, the 14-year-old s
Price, of the. Methodist
church, was drowned in
JAMESTOWN WEEKLY ALERT.
JAMESTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY,
Caddegan, according to the author
ities, was masquerading in Califor
nia under the name of Armstrong.
The body was found in the bay last
Saturday and was afterwards identi
fied by Caddegan's wife and son and
by D. O'Donnell as that of Cadde
gan. Other evidences are said to be.
forthcoming that the noted "gold
brick" operator sought death rather
than a long term in the penitentiary.
Chaffee was swindled in Minneap
olis about eighteen months ago and
Driving golf ball for distance, for the entire country was talking about up through" the coke in one
ladies Brownie camera. the case. gen6rator tank and gas oil thrown
Immediately a man hunt began over ret hot checker bricks in the
which took the authorities over al
most every state in the Union. He'
was finally apprehended in California..
Caddegan failed to appear in court
week before last after extraditioni
papers had been granted by Governor
suit that the $7500 bond he had fur
nished was forfeited.
Caddegan was arrested in Los An
geles several weeks ago and was iden
tified by his victim's son as the man
who engineered and successfully car-
ried
out
fore last and extradition papers had
been honored the alleged swindler
failed to appear in court and the
flndlng Qf
,)ody
Qf the ldentiflcatlon
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2.—Paul
of Rev. the ten
Johnson of California, with the re- 'arated, thence to two purifying tanks
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the swindle that startled the ounces. The plant will make 125,
country from coast to coast by the 000 cubic feet in 24 hours :l\ inex
daring and cleverness with which
it
ln gan Pedro har.
bor was the next step in the tragedy.
Detectives Howard and Johnson of
t.he Minneapolis police force who were ing the many petitions for pardon
sent to Los Angeles to bring Cadde- before them and the following have
gan to Minneapolis, returned homo so far been acted upon favorably to
the petitioners:
Caddegan was about 70 years of
the
of age, and is said to have been one of with Dr. Thor Moeller, was convicted
Qf & Callfornia gold mino.,
N.
father
D.,
&nd induced him t0
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of the
there declare
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Caddegan, wanted in Minneapolis on
the charge of swindling H. F. Chaffee, natural distribution center for wes
a North Dakota millionaire out of tern North Dakota, landed the mam
$25000 by means of a "gold brick" moth North Dakota industrial ex
game. They say further that the position as a result of a decision
supposed identiflcatiop is a ruse to announced by Commissioner of Agri
restore to bondsmen the bond on culture and Labor W. C. Gilbreath
which Caddegan was released when late Monday afternoon. The Bis
Detectlves James Howard and Mel- marck Commercial club was the high
vin PaBsolt when to Los Angeles to est bidder for the fair and the con
get him I tracts were all signed and sealed be-
The head of the man itouftd in the fore 5 o'clock Monday evening. The
bay is said to be two inches smaller exposition will be held late enough
than that of Caddegan. The body in the fall so that it can be a repre
was identified as Caddegan's by Cad- sentative agricultural exhibit and it
degan's wife and son. will be one which should attract thou-
Chief of Police Michael Mealey, sands of people to the state capital
Minneapolis, refused to believe the from all parts of the country. The
body was Caddegan's and said he be- Northwest Hotel building has been se
lied the identification a ruse to pre- cured from the Northern Pacific rail
vent the Minneapolis police from way and will be remodeled and con
searching for the man. verted into the exposition building.
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BACHELOR GIRLS FORSAKE CLUB ODD FELLOWS AND REBEKAHS
Sheldon, N. D., June 5.—A solemn i Grand Forks, June 6.—Four hun
oath not to permit matrimonial ad- dred delegates and visitors here to
JUNE 8 1911
MAKING GAS
Jamestown Gas Go's New Plant is
Now in Operation
At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon
the first gas made by the new plant
of the Jamestown Gas Co., was light
ed and burned with a bright flame
this was the first gas that has been
seen since the big explosion and fire
Christmas eve. It was expected by
night that gas will be flowing through
the mains.
The new plant which is now re
ceiving the finishing touches, and is
in operation, is in a brick building
30x70 with 28 foot walls at the mid
dle, cement floors and fire proof.
There are three rooms, boiler room,
gas room and purifying room. The
water gas, so called, because steam is
used in its manufacture, is of a fine*!
quality and the plant and the gas
holder big enough to supply a city
with many times the number of con
sumers as at Jamestown.
The gas is made in a simple man
ner, from coke and oil. Steam is
carburator and from there goes into
the super-heater. From the super
heater the mixture is forced into a
scrubber tank and partially purified,
thence to a condenser tank and next
into a tar box where the tar is sep-
and from there into the gas holder,
a large tank floating in water in the
big red reservoir seen back of the
gas building. The gas holder con
tains 30,000 cubic feet and the pres
sure is kept automatically at four
haustible supply for Jamestown,
was carried out. Firmly denying that I The new plant cost approximately
he was John Armstrong, for whom $18,000. The stock holders and of
the police were looking, Caddegan fleers of the company are: J. J. Nierl
fought extradition, and was released ing, president Otto Wonnenberg,
from custody when he furnished the vice-president A. D. Grant, secre
requisite bonds. When the final tary and treasurer H. P. Taylor,
hearing of the case came up week be- superintendent. T. J. O'Hearn, Inde
pendence, la., and C. M. Klotzbach
of Madison, S. D., are also directors.
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PARDONS PRISONERS
Bismarck, June 5.—The pardoning
board is now busy at work consider-
Louis W. Dale, who, in connection
cleverest "gold brick" operators of causing the death of Gina Lien
in the country. Telling a p.ausible 'about a year ago and sentenced
an acci-
Cad- to ten years in the penitentiary, was
degan brought Mr. Chaffee from his pardoned today. He is suffering
to Minneap-1 from consumption and has only
advance $25,- short time to live, and this was the
000 on the surety of two "gold' reason for the board's action in this
bricks," which examination proved to case.
be copper. After putting the deal Another one liberated was Phillip
through, Caddegan invited Mr. Cliaf- A. Conroy, sentenced from Williams
fee and his son to dinner, and dis-! county in 1908, for an indeterminate
appeared when he saw that young sentence of from ten to twenty years,
Chaffee began to have suspicions a- for robbery.
bout the transaction that co&t hist Conrad Dahls petition was also
granted. He is a young man and
was sent up for burning an elevator
in Ward county to cover up a theft
of grain.
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Rns.
Detectiv®g q£ gan Pedro Cal., in
BISMARCK GETS EXPOSITION
Bismarck, the capital city and the
made by ten Sheldon girls attend the grand lodge of the Inde-
^n organized the Sheldon pendent Order of Odd Fellows and
Girls' club, was observed grand assembly of the North Dakota
for a time—until the right man came Rebekahs were given the keys of the
Dissolution of the club has city at the joint opening session of
brought about and nine of the two bodies at the commercial club
girls, it is understood, are For three days the city will entertain
to be led to the altar. The these two conventions and the city is
death of the dub was celebrated by well decorated ln honor of their pres-
PREFERS CHAMP CLARK
Gov. Bnrke of North Dakota Indi­
cates Clark is Logical Presi­
dential Candidate
St. Paul, June 2.—Previous to his
departure for his home today Gov
ernor John Burke of North Dakota,
by a process of elimination, indicated
that Champ Clark is the democrat's
logical candidate for president next
year.
At the same time he insisted that
no democrat could win without the
support of Col. Bryan and when ask
ed if the Bryan-Underwood fight on
free wool would not hurt Mr. Clark's
chances, he admitted it would.
The interview began when Gover
nor Burke depreciated the attempts
of his friends to boost him to the
national ticket. "I realize" he said,
"that no North Dakota man has a
ghost of a chance to be nominated
for the presidency. Therefore, the
only thing left for North Dakota on
the national ticket is the vice presi
dency. I feel that I do not want to
be a candidate for vice presidency
and yet I suppose that I would not re
fuse the honor were it offered me.
But I am really not a candidate for
any office."
The efforts to whip the northwest
ern democrats into line for any can
didate failed lamentably yesterday.
There was no dearth of attempts to
get them into the form of an organi
zation but the seasoned leaders of
the northwestern democracy refused
to be led. The North Dakota dele
gation was the first to feel out the
possibilities of the caucus. A little
Burke demonstration was organized
but it fell flat.
Bryan Praised Burke
"I only wish the people east of the
Alleghanies knew North Dakota is in
the union," said W. J. Bryan, at the
meeting. "If the people of the east
knew the west as well as we of the
west knew the east, it would not be
bard to nominate a man like Burke
for president. Among those who
are aspirants for the nomination
there is none in whom I would have
more confidence than in John Burke,
and if he is nominated I shall be glad
to travel all over the country to
peak in his behalf, as I have in North
Dakota when he has been running
for governor."
MACCABEES ASSEMBLE
Fargo, N. D., June 5.—At the
meeting of the Knights of the Macca
bees Monday, Russell L. LaRue was
elected state commander and the fol
lowing officers were chosen:
Past State Commander—E. Melan
der, Fargo.
State Commander—R. L. LaRne,
Fargo.
Guard Commander—G. W. Wick
ham, Mandan.
Chaplain George Farrington,
Jamestown.
Sergeant-at-Arms—Fred Bier, Car
rington.
Master—J. W. Derstad, Bisbee.
Master of Guard—A. H. Singleton,
Oakes.
Sentinel—J. Newtrader, Grand
Forks.
Record Keeper—B. H. Mullough,
Chaffee.
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ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY
Saturday afternoon the approach
ing marriage of Miss Edna Narrene
Danford, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
S. A. Danford of this city, and Mr.
Will S. Hartman of Bozeman, Mont.,
was announced at :i luncheon given
by Mrs. Danford. There were 20
guests. The tables were lighted by
candles and at the places were tiny
candles, cupid favors containing tiny
heart candies, and place cards decor
ated with brides, hearts and cupids,
and the names of the bride and groom
elect, with the date, June, 1911.
Little girls from the seventh and
eighth grades assisted in serving.
The out-of-town guests were Mrs.
William Simpson of Mandan and Miss
Effie Spense of Fargo. Miss Danford
has been teacher of the seventh and
eighth grade English in the public
schools during the past year.—Bis
marck Tribune.
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MITCHELL AT VALLEY CITY
jno. Mitchell will deliver his lec
ture at the Valley City Chautauqua,
July 7th, on the subject of "Phllos
phy, Purposes and Ideals of the
Trade Union Movement." Mr. Mit
chell Is a well known labor leader
'who Is ln demand as a platform
ln many parts of the country.
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SERIOUS EARTH
QUAKE IN MEXICO
BUILDINGS ROCKED AND TOP­
PLED OVER. MANY KILLED
AND INJURED
Mexico City, June 7.— (Special to
Alert)—A terrible earthquake rock
ed this city today and toppled over
several buildings, killing fifty to six
ty people. Among the buildings
raized was the military artillery
headquarters where 70 soldiers wera
buried in the ruins.
BACK TO NATURE
Minot Reporter.—Attorney Ed
Sinkler is shy on clothes this does
not mean that the genial Edward is
not presentable, but it does mean
that his variety of dress has been
materially reduced. It appears that
Ed carries a goodly portion of his
wardrobe in stock in his office, so as
to make it easy for his tailor to keep
the proper creases in his bow legged
trousers during the stilly hours of
last night some sneak thief forced
an entrance to the Sinkler suite of
offices in the Lee block and carried a
way the noted lawyers best Prince
Albert, a new seersucker summer suit
and divers and various other gar
ments, among them being several
pairs of fancy checked and striped
trousers. The fellow also took one
of Ed's broad-brimmed Stetson hats
and a cluster of flowing necties. A
pair of Ed's shoes found in the hall
way just outside the office, indicates
that the thief started with a complete
outfit, but was compelled to throw
off the ballast the fact that the po
lice have been unable to find any
trace of the culprit is good evidence
that he had little trouble in getting
away after dropping the shoes.
Ed offers a reward for return of any
of the garments he has figured out a
graduated scale running from $3 for
trousers to $25 for his clerical coat.
It is hoped that Ed will be able to
regain possession of his pants and
things.
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VALLEY'S VERSION'
"Playing baseball by lamp, candle,
electric and am light is a favorite di
version at the Asylum City. 'Glim,
Little Glow Worm, Glimmer,' is a
favorite song, and 'fly the Light of
the Silvery Moon' cornes next in popu
larity among the fans and ball play
ers of Jamestown.
"No doubt of it. Don't contradict
us. We know because we have beeu
there. In fact, we were there for 2
strenuous hours Monday evening, tak
ing the third degree in the 'Twilight
League,' at the Jimtown ball park.
It makes an interesting diversion. Al
most as good as croquet, or one old
cat. We lost four balls, got hit in
the veriform appendix by a hot fly,
and caught a black cat in the out
field, thinking it was the spberiod.
"But while it was hard on us, it
was fun for the Asylumites, and we
must remove our hats to the strongest
aggregation of night hawks, ever as
sembled in one ball park. And talk
about fans! The bleachers never fan
ned once. Our batters borrowed
head protectors, when they went
down to first and sixteen pop bottles,
27 rocks and thirteen bung starters
have been brought back as souvenirs
of the auspicious event."
The Normalites evidently looked
thru smoked glasses.
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EIGHTH GRADE COMMENCEMENT
The first commencement exercises
ever given by a county school were
held last night in the Pendray school
house south of Jamestown. The
members of the graduating class were
Mabel Pendray, Helen Blaisdell, Jean
Dunlop and Vera Williams. Mrs.
Pederson of Jamestown was the en
terprising teacher and much credit
is due her for her efficient manage
ment. A program was given by the
school. The class prophesy was read
by Jean Dunlop. Among those pres
ent and participating in the evening's
program were Supt. Crane, Mr. Wan
ner, Representative Pendray, Supt.
McGinnis, Miss Dunstan, Mr. McGlI
llvray, Thos. Pendray and Mr. Dun
lop. Mr. McGllllvray, president of
the Eldridge school board, presented
the diplomas. After the program de
licious refreshments were served by
the mothers and other ladieB of the
neighborhood.
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