Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1883-08-31, p.4

THE JAMESTOWN ALERT. FRIDAY, AUGUST [3?]0, 1883. [masthead block set in column 1; no page number printed] ## Column 1 # The Jamestown Alert. ## DAILY AND WEEKLY. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY EVENING. BY MARSHALL McCLURE. Terms:--Payable in Advance. WEEKLY EDITION. ONE COPY, one year, - - - - $2 00 ONE COPY, six months, - - - 1 00 FRIDAY, AUGUST [3?]0, 1883 ### JAMESTOWN LODGE A. [F.?] & A. M. [Masonic square-and-compass emblem] Regular communication first and third Wednesday evenings of each month. All Masons in good standing are cordially invited to attend. GEO. H. WOODBURY, W. M. R. A. BILL, Secretary. I. O. O. F. Jamestown Lodge, No. 31. Meets every Thursday evening, at 7.30 o'clock. All brethren in good standing cordially invited to visit us. JOHN VENNUM, N. G. L. LYON, R. S. L. B. MINER, V. G. ST. VITUS ENCAMPMENT, Ancient Order Knights of the Red Cross, meets in Masonic Temple. Sir Knights from other Encampments cordially invited to visit us. **Two Thousand Dollars to Loan,** for a term of years, on Real Estate Security. No red tape. No waiting to submit the application to eastern parties; but loan can be closed and money paid same day application is made. E. P. WELLS, Office with James River National Bank. # LOCAL AFFAIRS From Friday's Daily: T. S. White, of St. Paul, was in the city yesterday. Woodward, the telephonologist, is over at Valley City, stringing wires. J. W. Sheridan has just opened a coal and wood yard near the planing mill. Dr. Baldw[i?]n moved into the house lately occupied by W. W. Dudley, yesterday. Ernest Leaver goes up the road this morning to look after his "claim." G. H. Cowles, the cigar maker and printer, is now acting as clerk at the Grand Central hotel. The days are becoming very perceptibly shorter and in a few weeks more it will only be twelve hours from sun to sun. Yesterday was a magnificent one in the way of fine weather. The very heavens seem to smile on the harvest in this country. We call attention to the full report of the North Dakota conference held on Wednesday at Fargo, published in this morning's Alert. The harvesters are reported running on full time in all directions gathering in the golden grain which maketh glad the hearts of the granger. W. J. Fish of the Northwestern railroad accompanied by Anton Klaus, made the Alert a pleasant call yesterday afternoon. The Barnes County Record says local freight trains between Detroit, Minn., and Jamestown, Dakota, have been ordered to carry passengers. Frank Conehay the telephone benefactor is adding an improvement that will very gratifying [sic] to the subscribers of the exchange when completed. The Valley City Times says the Eclipse base ball club of that place have accepted the proposition of the Red Caps of St. Paul to play a match game at Valley City Sept. 5th. Frank Trubeshaw came down from his claim near Carrington yesterday evening to see the boys. Frank has a nice claim about three miles from Carrington and he is holding it down by staying with it. There are quite a number of stout and hearty looking men about town now who would no doubt be glad of a job of shocking wheat if the farmers would bring it into town so they could work in the shade. There are quite a number of able-bodied snow shovelers in town now wanting a job of that kind. The first snow storm that comes they will begin to inquire for harvest work. Somehow the kind of work they desire is always out of season. T. S. White, of the stationery firm of T. S. White & Co., of St. Paul, accompanied by John A. McQuillan, of New York, arrived in the city last evening. They left on the midnight train for the east. Pingree is proud of the fact that a thirty thousand bushel elevator is being erected at that point and that another general store is about to be opened. Pingree will make a lively little town, the country around it being the very best. Dr. C. A. Wilson desires to correct the notice in the Alert of yesterday. His office is in Barnes' block as formerly, but takes meals and lodging at the Tabor House south of the new court house. The millions of readers of the Alert who will visit the Cincinnati Exposition are requested to take particular notice o [sic] the North Dakota exhibit that will be displayed there. Even the cross roads editors might learn something from a visit to that department of the Exposition. Tom Foley yesterday bought out Albertson's cigar and confectionery stand near the Grand Central and took possession yesterday evening. Tom is going to add new features to the business that will make it one of the most profitable little concerns in town. W. H. Norris, solicitor and attorney of Minnesota for the Chicago & Milwaukee railroad company, spent yesterday in the city, the guest of Anton Klaus. Mr. Norris has just returned from an extended western trip, having taken in the Yellowstone Park and other portions of the west. Our somewhat corpulent compositor, Charlie McHugh, whose bass voice makes the glass in the windows jingle like the rumbling thunder which seems to come from the foundation of the mountains, is being sought after by the fair young lady singers of the city in a way that makes us feel uneasy for his safety. His voice is now often distinguished in the chorus of music that is frequently heard in the Grand Central hotel parlors, ## Column 2 Sanborn has just completed a fine Masonic hall and the lodge will be in running order there in about a month. O. A. Sleadman, of Foster county died at the Dakota house this morning about one o'clock. He and his wife came down from Carrington last Saturday. The new room being built back of Lloyds bank is to be used by Mr. Kelley as an extension for the use of the post-office, and it will add greatly to the convenience of the business of that office. The cyclone that visited Rochester, Minnesota, merely touched the southern border of the new Northwest, that place being in the southeastern part of the state. It is two hundred and fifty miles south of this latitude. It is in the Iowa cyclone belt. The eastern papers will try to saddle it upon North Dakota no doubt. A bundle of wheat left at the Alert office by W. R. Frye is a fine specimen of the No. 1 hard which has made North Dakota famous the world over. It does not look much like the failure of crops we read of in our eastern exchanges. North Dakota invites the world to come and see our crops for themselves and those who do come to make up their unbiased judgment and give it to the world. The Bismarck Advertiser has been finding fault with the management of the postoffice in that place. It will take a great deal more than assertions to make the people of North Dakota believe there is anything crooked or any disregard of the rights of the public in the management of that office as long as Col. Lounsberry is postmaster. If there is an honest man and a genuine gentleman in the territory, that man is Col. Lounsberry. The Fargo Argus is getting to the front in good shape. It is now setting about nineteen columns of solid Minion and publishing more general news from all parts of the territory than any one paper in the Northwest except,perhaps, the Alert. The Argus has always had bitter enemies who have used every means in their power to kill it, but the shrewd business ability of the Major has proved too much for them. The Alert has to say mean things about the Argus sometimes but it does it all for the Major's good. A gentleman who has traveled through every part of the Northwest traversed by railroads east of the Rocky mountains, remarked to the Alert yesterday that the pinnacle of glory of the whole vast domain is the country along the Northern Pacific railroad from Fargo to Bismarck, and that the prettiest city is Jamestown. He says Fargo on the Red, and Bismarck on the Missouri,are leviathans of strength but that the goddess of beauty has taken up her permanent abode at Jamestown on the James. As Jamestown had no representative at the Fargo conference, we have no just cause of complaint that the convention was called to meet at that place instead of Jamestown. The Alert would suggest that immediate steps be taken to select six substantial and representative citizens of Stutsman county for delegates to that convention. As there will be more people in town from the country on the day the Villard party is to pass through would it not be a good plan to appoint some convenient hour of that day to select these delegates? Yesterday afternoon while some loungers were enjoying a conclave standing and sitting on the walk against and in the shade of the Grand Central a sprinkler of water was turned on them from an upper window which created a stampede among them instanter. They seemed to think a cyclone had suddenly broke loose as the deluge of ice water went down their spinal columns. Two or three squads have met with like accident under the same circumstances, but nobody knows who did it. The way they tumbled to the raquet was amusing to the spectators. Says the Toledo Telegram: There is probably no newspaper man of experience in this country who does not hold secrets of importance in his own mind which, if made public, would create a sensation, but would stamp him as being unreliable, and consequently unfit for his profession. The great rush for precedence in the publication of news impels him to do his utmost to outstrip his contemporaries; but a higher feeling, the dictates of honor, keep sacred the trusts reposed. Frequently a person would like to know the authorship of a certain matter published, and, whether his efforts are directed to pumping the managing editor or the galley-boy, they are alike fruitless. Every compositor on a paper, as a rule, knows the handwriting he sets up, but if any other person thinks they can learn it from him, well, let them try. From Saturday's Daily. Albertson contemplates engaging in the laundry business again. Attorney Dodge returned from Fargo yesterday and will proceed to Carrington this morning. R. S. Reeves has moved into a house belonging to Mr. Hotchkiss on the north side of the track. County Superintendent Foley started out about 6 o'clock yesterday evening to make his usual 110 miles. Nothing new has been heard in reference to the organization of Foster county. Mahomet will go the mountain in the course of time. "Ponderous bodies move slowly." Yesterday was perhaps the sultriest though not the warmest of the season. There was a general concentration of our citizens in the shade of the buildings, and a staying there until the shades of evening came on. A young man with both legs off at the knee arrived in town yesterday. He manages to get over town with his stump legs quite well. He is pursuing the business of boot black and does well out of sympathy for his physical condition. A team came rushing up Fifth avenue yesterday evening which created something of a sensation down about the Grand Central corner. The only observable damage was in spilling a sack or two of wheat and oats samples. ## Column 3 Mayor Flint, while busy with his farming operations yesterday, accidently got a small piece of steel in his eye. He was attended by Dr. McCaskey who found the injury to be not very serious although likely to cause the mayor considerable pain for a day or two. Peace and quiet reigns supreme both day and night in town now. There is not a more orderly city on the continent than Jamestown. Occasionally a few roughs come along, fill up with booze and create a disturbance but a few days in the chain gang tempers them down. O. A. Stedman, who died in this city night before last as stated in the Alert yesterday morning, had started from Carrington to Minneapolis, his former home, for medical treatment of a chronic and incurable disease, and on account of growing worse had to stop here on the way. The remains will be taken to Carrington on the train this morning for interment. C. H. Clemmer, principal of our public schools, took his departure yesterday for Cincinnati where he will aid in the arrangement of the North Dakota exhibit at the exposition as well as to look after other matters pertaining to the interests of our public schools. He will remain there until the 7th of September, when he will start for home arriving here the morning of the 10th, the day our public schools open. A hunting party consisting of John Vennum, Marshall McClure, Tony Klaus, Charlie Rattinger and perhaps two or three others started out with a camping outfit on a few days hunt yesterday. The scene of their carnage of hell-divers and gophers will be at a slough up about seven miles north of Spiritwood lake. They all signed the Murphy pledge and swore off before starting, and only took a five gallon demijohn of snake bite medicine along to "kiver" accidents. For artistic arrangement there were some samples for the Cincinnati exhibit at D. L. Wilbur's office yesterday afternoon which would be hard to beat for taste as well as for quality of the product from which they are made. Messrs. Bryan and Anderson have collected and arranged the specimens which consists of 39 grasses and 125 bouquets of wheat, oats and barley, the chief and center of which is 36 inches in height and very tastily constructed. The exhibit is collected through the board of trade, and the specimens measured from one to nine feet in height, and will serve to open the eyes of the Buckeye farmer to the productive qualities of the James River soil as they were never opened before. From Sunday's Daily Several headers for harvesting grain have been taken out the past week. Quite a caravan of wagons loaded with camping outfits have been stopping over on the river bank for several days. H. J. Cook, of the Dawson Globe, and C. R. Cook, the boomer, were in the city yesterday afternoon. Dentist J. W. Cloes, who has been ill for a few days was better yeserday [sic], and will probably be around to-day. County Attorney Watson has returned from his visit to St. Paul to look after the railroad land assessment. A good practice game of base ball was played by the Fort Seward club on their grounds in this city yesterday afternoon. The James River Elevator company will commence the erection of elevators at Melville and Carrington in the near future. The passenger depot has been thoroughly renovated and put in condition for the reception of the distinguished party soon to arrive. J. H. McDermott came from Carrington yesterday to worship in Jamestown over Sunday. C. D. Smith's missionary work is telling on Mack. John Moore went up to the neighborhood of Carrington yesterday to look after the commissary stores of a claim holderess in that vicinity--supposedly. A roller mill is talked of at Carrington. There is no better opening in North Dakota for an enterprise of this kind and the projector is sure to meet with financial success. The drop in Northern Pacific preferred stocks has caused some of our capitalists to go down in their jeans and make some investments in stocks. The masons will commence veneering the superintendent and train master's office this week. The building will be handsomely painted and penciled which will add greatly to its aapearance [sic]. Mr. Kibbey, the night operator at the Northern Pacific ticket office, has resigned his position to accept a better one on the Rock Island road at Chicago. Mr K. is a good operator and thorough railroad man and worthy of the position offered him. The handsome $20,000 hotel at Carrington is about completed and will soon be ready for occupancy. The finishing touches are being put on the new school house which is a handsome structure for that wide awake town and they will soon have educational faculties hardly equaled in North Dakota, There are quite a number of the subscribers to the stock of the James River Valley Railroad company who are delinquent in paying their assessment recently called. If they wish to see the enterprise rapidly carried out they should come up promptly with their subscriptions and do everything possible toward assisting the company in completing the object desired. The Mandan Pioneer is informed that we obtained the item about the Mandan liquor sellers selling and refusing to pay license from the "Dakota Dots" in the Minneapolis Journal, and we have seen the same item in a half dozen or more of our exchanges, That's all we know about it. You will see the same item in the Capital of this city in its territorial items in the course of two or three weeks. In laboring to call our attention to this our contemporary overlooked the fact that Governor Ordway was in town and on the streets nearly all afternoon yesterday. ## Column 4 The Black Hills Journal remarks that a Mandan paper states that a sentiment is rapidly gaining ground in favor of a division of Dakota on the Missouri river. We don't expect any division of the territory but if the territory should be divided at all this kind of a project is one in which the people of the Black Hills could be readily enlisted. They might be able to see something in it. The station agents on the Dakota division will receive their uniforms this week. Each agent and baggage master will have in addition to his suit a cap designating the department he represents Some of the boys suggest that Agent Meloy wear a sword with his uniform. Baggage master Marsh has already purchased a gun and will be armed in case of emergency. Two old Pennsylvania friends of Mr. Bowman, of the firm of Bowman & Lyon, arrived in the city yesterday in the persons of Thos. Wigton, cashier of the Altoona bank and H. C. Dern, editor of the daily Tribune of that place. They will to-morrow proceed to the end of their journey, which is the Yellowstone, where they will enjoy the scenery for a short time and then return. The parties who were married by Justice McHugh at the court house yesterday were Rudolph Wiese and Miss Mena Kopelein. The boys say Mack is weakening very rapidly in his theories of single blessedness and prophesy that he will be making a break of that kind himself before many more moons. It would save coal and blankets, and we recommend the scheme as an economic measure. Valley City Times: As an evidence that the Valley City and Jamestown telephone exchange will be connected and further extensions be made to Fargo, Manager Woodward stated to a Times reporter yesterday that the material needed in the work had already been ordered. All the smaller towns on the line will be taken in, including Spirtwood, Eckelson, Hobart and Oriska. Evidently the company means business. and a thorough system of telephonic communication may be looked for between Fargo and Bismarck, although the connection between Jamestown and Bismarck may possibly not be made until spring. A change in the running time of trains on the J. & N. will take place soon. The passenger train will arrive here in the forenoon and leave for Carrington and remain there over night. A train is to be put on running between Currington and the end of the track on the Devil's Lake branch. This train is to do the work on the Mouse River and Devil's Lake branches and will make Carrington division headquarters for all trains on the J. & N. It is rumored that a round house is to be built at Carrington,large coal sheds erected and other improvements in the way of railroad buildings. From Tuesday's Daily The mayor wants all back yard rubbish gathered up. The Jamestown Building association met last evening. The division head quarters building is ready for plastering. Old papers for sale at the Alert office at 50c. a hundred. Mr. Van Wyck has some friends from Chicago visiting him. Gov. Ordway and wife returned to Bismarck yesterday on the early morning train. The iron pillars for the east and north fronts of Curtin's new brick block are being set. The railroad spur down to Klaus' mill is graded down along the river brink about 200 yards. The "golden spike party" will probably arrive here a week from to-day,but it is not definitely known yet, At present there is no city ordinance making it a penalty against selling liquor without a license. It would be a good scheme to have one. Banker Allen has had some old friends from Coldwater, Michigan, visiting him. They were Judge Shipman and wife who are on a tour of the Northwest. An infant child aged three and a half months of Mr. Weinand, with [Grimm?] Gieseler & Co., died yesterday. Funeral at the residence to-day at 2 o'clock. J. G. Mann, of West Randolph, Vermont, an old acquaintance of Mayor Flint, is in the city having come out to see the golden harvest of North Dakota. The building of the James River Valley railroad will be a great benefit to the settlers living along its course as it will furnish them and their teams work at good prices. The proposition to issue $15,000 to build a court house at Grand Rapids for La Moure county was lost at the election last Saturday by two votes, the vote standing 178 against and 176 for. The hotel registers show full houses all around. The fall influx of prospecters is beginning to boom, and from now on till the zephyrs begin to waft from Manitoba the city will be full of strangers. The Fort Sewards of this place go to Valley City to-day to play a match game of base ball with the Eclipses of that place. They will go over on the freight this morning and return on the passenger to-night. The Argus says David Curtin of this city attended church in Fargo Sunday. Wonder if Maj. Edwards saw him there? Curtin can always be found at the house of prayer on Sundays--that is most alalways [sic], when not otherwise engaged. Messrs. Wells, Wallace and Lloyd are down at LaMoure locating the depot grounds. Mr. Dickey was with them but came back Sunday. The depot at Grand Rapids was located in the northwest part of town and the grade stakes are being set between that place and LaMoure. Engineer Jones has just completed a view of a route from LaMoure to Ordway which is one of the points in view for the southern terminus. Columbia, also on the Chicago & Northwestern, is another, as is also Ellendale on the Milwaukee & St. Paul. ## Column 5 Grading on the James River Valley railroad will begin Monday next at Grand Rapids and one week later at this place. It is thought that the entire line will be graded within the next ninety days. For the benefit of our dearest brother, we rise to remark that there is not a gambling place in Jamestown,they having been closed by order of the mayor sometime ago. It may also be of interest for the great moral dispensatory to learn that all the houses of ill repute have been closed by the same authority. Hence the left handed advice in the Capital of last evening to the mayor to close these place at once was entirely uncalled for. If the Capital man would only keep its advise until needed it might bring a much higher price. There is such a thing as flooding the market with a good thing. From Wednesday's Daily Ex-Congressman Dunnell, of Minnesota, is in the city, the guest of W. W, Dudley. Davy Goodman returned to Jamestown yesterday from his trip east making purchases of goods. Mrs. J. J. Flint went up to Carrington yesterday on a visit of a few days with the family of E. D. Strong. Attorney Hewitt is receiving a visit from his father and mother, who we believe live in Pennsylvania. Markets from all points last night reported unchanged, except in railroad stocks, the quotations of which are given in the dispatches. Mike Murphy is rustling up A. A. Allen's new house in good shape. Mike could build a town himself in a few weeks. A new switch board is being placed in the exchange, which cuts off "Hello" communication. It was thought the change would be completed last night. It is understood that Manager Davidson, of the Jamestown Elevator Co., will leave this morning for Pingree with a gang of carpenters to begin the erection of a thirty thousand bushel elevator at that point. Billy Goodrich, who has proved himself to be one of the best farmers in Stutsman county, says that he thinks his wheat crop fully as good this year as last, which would bring it up to an average of eighteen bushels per acre. President Arthur caught a trout yesterday and a special of 2,500 words about the event was sent over the wire last night, which cut our press report short this morning. We thank God and take courage in the thought that winter will soon break up that trout fishing gang. Mr. E. H. Wilson and wife, friends of Thos. Lloyd of this city, and residents of Indiana, Pa., are spending a few days in the Gem City. Mr. S Bushman, of the same state and city, is with the party. The gentlemen pronounce Jamestown the queen city of the great northwest. When the moon shone brightly the street lamps were kept burning nicely, but now when there is no moon they flicker out about midnight. Last night, when it was dark as a Senegambian, the lamps were all out on Main street by one o'clock. Mr. McCormack, editor and proprietor of the Sykeston Advocate, made the Alert office a call last night. He came down on the J. & N. yesterday evening and tarried at the Grand Central until two o'clock this morning, when he proceeded on his way to Casselton. He speaks highly of the future prospects of Sykeston. The proprietor of the Alert takes pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of a very fine box of honey from the apiary of Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter says that he has about thirty swarms, all in a good, healthy condition. The bee industry is a very important one, and deserves encouragement. Mr. Clifford C. Waters accompanied by ex-Congressman Dunnell and W. W. Dudley, of the firm of Wells, Dudley & Co., leave this morning on the Jamestown & Northern with a gang of surveyors for the purpose of platting a new town at the point where the road crosses the James river. It is understood that the place will be one of importance as it is beautifully located and surrounded by an excellent farming country. The display of productions to be made in Villard park on the occasion of the visit of Mr. Villard and his party here next week will be a fine one,and we hope farmers and gardeners will bring in good specimens of these for that purpose. The committee, of which D. L. Wilbur is chairman, have a heavy task on their hands and they can be aided very much in this way. If you have anything to bring call at his office and he will tell you when to bring it in. Slowey & Thomas have sold their tin shop and fixtures to Pugh & Butterworth. The Alert understands that Mr. Thomas will return to Michigan to assist his father in carrying on business there, and that Mr. Slowey will remain in Jamestown, The retirement of these gentlemen from the business circles of our city will be generally regretted as they have ever proven themselves to be men worthy of the implicit confidence of all. The new firm came well recommended and possessing a practical knowledge of the business will no doubt enjoy all the patronage and prestige of the old concern. The Alert wishes them every success, Two gentlemen from Wellington, O., S. K. Laundon and J. H. Moore, were here all last week, and during the time drove over the country for forty miles south and north as many. From the reports they had seen published in eastern papers of the drouth, they came out determined to see for themselves before making any purchases. After looking over the crops for many miles around as before stated, they purchased fifteen sections of land, which they will proceed to improve and put to crop, being satisfied that agriculture in North Dakota is the best paying investment they know of. No comment is necessary. Actions speak louder than words, ## Column 6 Congressmen [sic] Dunnell made the Alert office a pleasant visit last evening. Mr. Dunnell thinks Dakota is destined to be one of the grandest states in the Union but is of the opinion that neither division or admission will occur this side of the next presidential election. He says that it is a great thing to devide a territory and a still greater thing to get one into the Union. He thinks that Mr. Pettigrew did all any man could do under the circumstances, and doubts if Dakota has any three men to-day that could accomplish more in Washington than R. F. Pettigrew. In speaking of the governor he said that he was wealthy and knew how to make money and that he lacked a great deal of being a man of small ability, Mr. Dunnell is a gentleman of pleasing address, and by his conversation impresses one with the belief that he is a shrewd politician and a man who knows the world. Further report from the misfortune which Mrs Gardner sustained in the loss of her house by fire last Saturday shows that she lost everything but the clothing she wore to town that day. She had her house nicely furnished with furniture which she brought from the east and was in every way very comfortably fixed. Her neighbors say she has worked hard to improve her claim and is in every way a good neighbor and a worthy woman. But unfortunately her neighbors, what few there are, are also claim holders and with perhaps one or two exceptions are unable to keep her. We would suggest that the people of Jamestown, with that generosity for which they are characteristic, come to her aid by a subscription and help her out by rebuilding her house so that she will be able to hold her claim and go on and improve it. Mrs. Gardner is a widow and without a relative in the world except a cousin in the east, and but for this misfortune would not need aid from others. There is no case on record where Dakota people have failed to respond in aid when misfortune and distress has come upon any of her worthy children. There is no close communion nor is there anything small about the people of Fargo. They are not regarded by the straight jacket sects as a model christian community, but the most devoted creed religionist could learn something of liberality and that greatest of all christian virtues, charity, from the Fargo people. Last Sunday morning it was given out that there would be a meeting held at the Opera house at night to make up a purse for the relief of the Rochester, Minn., cyclone sufferers a town two hundred miles away with Minneapolis and St. Paul between. At night the Opera house was crowded. The stage was occupied by Catholic priest, protestant clergyman, atheist and infidel while the variety band discoursed music for the occasion. As a result of the meeting the next morning Mayor Yerxa telegraphed the mayor of Rochester as follows: "In addition to former individual subscriptions, our city has raised upwards of three thousand dollars, for which I send you a draft to-day." Fargo may be a wicked city but she has that charity which covers a multitude of sins. From Thursday's Daily. Murray & Mehlhop are just receiving a large stock of goods in their line. S. S. Sessions came down from his Devil's Lake stage route yesterday evening. Fields & Co., have in their employ a French jeweler of thirty years experience. T. H. Bowditch went down to Grand Rapids yesterday on deputy sheriff business. Three carloads of evergreens have been received with which to decorate for the Villard party. The time appointed for the Villard party to arrive here is 5 o'clock next Tuesday evening. W. W. Dudley did not accompany the surveyors up to the new townsite at the James river crossing yesterday. Duck shooting is now a favorite amusement for those who have the time and taste for that kind of sport. Fargo is making extensive arrangements for a display of agricultural products when the Golden Spike party comes along. Teams commenced hauling brick for the Kelly block yesterday. The work of laying the walls will be commenced in a day or two. Messrs. Wells, Wallace and Lloyd have not returned from the lower end of the James River railroad yet. They are locating depot grounds. Mr. Murray, of the firm of Murray & Mehlhop, returned from the east yesterday, where he has been purchasing a large stock of goods. Mayor Flint and the city council have received from the city council of St. Paul an invitation to attend the Villard demonstration in that city next Monday. Last night was the warmest night we have had this summer, and the insects that gathered around the lamps were too thick for Christian fortitude to bear without a murmur. Yesterday was warm enough to make the men of leisure hunt the shade, but it is splendid weather for gathering the golden harvest, and the farmers are availing themselves of it. The wagon furnished by the city for carting away refuse matter from the fronts of residences and other houses will start out this morning, and people are requested to have their rubbish ready for it, LaMoure Progress: The Northern Pacific freight tariff to LaMoure is so low as to be a surprise to those who are acquainted with their Jamestown schedule. It is in some cases as low as the C., M. & St. P. rate to Ellendale. The low rate was probably given in deference to our position and exceedingly bright prospects of becoming the competing point in their territory, in which case they would like to be right on the record. We can stand a great deal of this kind of confession. ## Column 7 New Orleans, August 1, 1883. # TO THE PUBLIC! ### Investigate for Yourselves. Postmaster-General Gresham having published a wilful and malicious falsehood in regard to the character of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, the following facts are given to the public to prove his statement, that we are engaged in a fraudulent business, to be false and untrue: Amount of prizes paid by The Louisiana State Lottery Company from January 1, 1879, to present date: Paid to Southern Express Co., New Orleans, T. M. Wescoat, Manager.. $1,366,[3?]00 Paid to Louisiana National Bank, Jos. H. Oglesby. President.... ..., 463,9[?]0 Paid to Lou[i?]siana State National Ba[n?]k, S. H. Kennedy, President........ .. 125,100 Paid to New Orleans National Bank, A. Baldwin, President............. 88,500 Paid to Union National Bank, S Charlaron, Cashier.............. 64,4[5?]0 Paid to Citizens' Bank, E. L. Carriere. President.......... 57,000 Paid to Germania National Bank, Jules Cassard, President.......... 30,000 Paid to H[i?]bernia National Bank, Chas. Palfrey. Cashier............ 37,000 Paid to Canal Bank. Ed. Toby, Cashier 13,150 Paid to Mutual National Bank, Jos. Mitchel, Cashier.............. 8,2[5?]0 Total paid above.................. $2,25[3?],650 Paid in sums of under $1.000 at the various offices of the Company throughout the United States...... 2,627,410 Total pay by all.................. $4,881,060 For the truth of the above facts we refer the public to the officers of the above named corporations, and for our legality and standing to the Mayor and officers of the City of New Orleans, to the State authorities of Louisiana, and also to the U. S. Officials of Louisiana. We claim to be legal, honest and correct in all our transactions, as much so as any business in the country. Our standing is conceded by all who will investigate, and our stock has for years been sold at our Board of Brokers, and owned by many of our best known and respected citizens. M. A. DAUPHIN, President. [fist] CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. [fist] Tickets only $5 Shares in Proportion [illustration: boxed display lettering "L.S.L." with a small "La" above the first letter] **Louisiana State Lottery Company.** "We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with fac-similes of our signatures attached, in its advertisements." [signature: G. T. Beauregard] [signature: J. A. Early] COMMISSIONERS. Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legislature for Educational and Charitable purposes— with a capital of $1,000,000—to which a reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made a part of the present State Constitution adopted December 2d, A. D. 1879. The only lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the people of any State. It never scales or postpones. **Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly.** **A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE.** NINTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS I AT NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, September 11, 1883 — 160th Monthly Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. **100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.** **Fractions, in Fifth in proportion.** LIST OF PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE.................... $75,000 1 do do ............ ..... 25,000 1 do do ....................... 10,000 2 PRIZES OF $6.000 ................... 12,000 5 do 2,000........................ 10,000 10 do 1,000........................ 10,000 20 do 500.......... .. 10,000 100 do 200........................ 20,000 300 do 100........................ 30,000 500 do 50........................ 25,000 1000 do 25........................ 25,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 9 Approximation Prizes of $750........ 6,750 9 do do 500........ 4,500 9 do do 250........ 2,250 1967 Prices, amounting to..................$265,500 Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the office of the Company in New Orleans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. Make P. O. Money Orders and address Registered Letters to **NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,** New Orleans, La. Ordinary letters by Mail or Express to M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La. or M. A. DAUPHIN, 607 Seventh St. Washington, D. C. 3-[5?]2t ### Oxen for Sale. Twenty yoke good work oxen for sale at the Boardman farm, nine miles north of Sanborn. 5 4t. ### Tree Seed For sale at Valley City Seed Store after Sept. 1st, such as Box Elder and White Ash, 50c. per pound. Also Strawberry plants, at $1.50 per hundred. Address G. W. COWDREY, 6-1m Valley City. Lippitt, Leak & Co. are the manufacturers of the genuine California Buck glove and claim it is the best glove made in the world for harvest work. Every pair is branded "Lippitt, Leak & Co." For sale by all first-class merchants. ### NOTICE— U.S. Land Office Fargo, D. T., Aug. 21, 1883. Complaint having been entered at this office by Mary D. Matteson vs William Pitkin, Ad. Pitkin, Mary Bartlett (nee Pitkin), Ruth Dickenson (nee Pitkin), only surviving heirs at law of Lafayette Pitkin, deceased, who made T C entry No. 1836, and for his and their failure to comply with law as to said Timber Culture entry No. 1836, dated Nov. 12, 1878, upon the northeast quarter section 28, township 140, range 62, in Stutsman county, Dakota, with a view to the cancellation of said entry; contestant alleging that said Lafayette Pitkin during his life time failed to break or cause to be broken ten acres of said tract during the first and second years after the date of said entry; also alleging that neither of said heirs at law have broken or cause to be broken ten acres of said tract during the first and second years after the date of said entry, nor have they nor either of them cultivated or planted the trees, seedlings or cuttings any part or portion of said tract since the death of said Lafayette Pitkin to the day of the date hereof, the said parties are hereby summoned to appear at this office on the 23d day of October, 1883, at 10 o clock a. m., to respond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged failure. E. C. GEAREY, Receiver. S. B. Pinney, attorney for plaintiff. 6-4t ### NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF. Land Office at Fargo, D T Aug 27, 1883. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and secure final entry thereof on the 15th day of October, 1883, viz: HENRY RINGUTTE, H E No 5429, for the southeast quarter of sec 32, Tp 140, R 64. And names the following as his witnesses, viz; Peter Aubertin, Joseph Mason, Louis Robinson, Patrick Moran,all of Jamestown, Stutsman county, D. T. The testimony to be taken before Hon. H. J. Ott, judge of the probate court, at Jamestown, D T, on the 10th day of October, A D 1883, at his office. 6-6t HORACE AUSTIN, Register. # SUMMONS. Territory of Dakota, } District Court. County of Stutsman, } Third Judicial Dis't. Hattie M, Waring, } vs. } Summons. Edward A. Waring. } The Territory of Dakota to the above named defendant: You, Edward A Waring, are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in the above entitled action which was filed with the clerk of said court, on the 24th day of August A. D. 1883, and to serve a copy of your answer to said complainton the subscribers, at their office in Jamestown, in the county of Stutsman, and territory aforesaid, within thirty days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Aug. 24, 1883. McMILLAN & FRYE, Plaintiff's attorneys, Jamestown, D T.