First National Bank (Jamestown, ND)

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CARELESSNESS on the part of the cashier in negotiating loans caused the failure of the Wall Street Bank, New York, on the 11th inst. Losses $300,000. It is said depositers will be paid in full. SIR ERASMUS WILSON, the distinguished English medical writer, died, on the 9th, aged 75. SHIMER, PRETZ & Co., proprietors of the Home Woolen Mill, at Allentown, Pa., failed on the 9th. Liabilities $100,000. THE failure of the First National Bank of Jamestown, Dak., was announced on the 8th. JOHN B. HULLING & Co., lace dealers, Chi cago, assigned on the 8th. Liabilities, $50,000; assets about the same.

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BUSINESS COMPLICATIONS

Warner's Rascalities in the Burrows Estate Management. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 26.-It is stated on good authority at Albion that Warner has issued notes on the Burrows estate to an amount exceeding the value of the estate. It is now thought that depositors in the bank will realize nothing. County funds to an amount not divulged were on deposit in the bank. A. warrant has been issued for the arrest of Warner, who is thought to be in Canada. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS BEGUN. BOSTON, Aug. 26.-A special dispatch from Albion, N. Y., says: "W. R. Caulkins, of Boston, partner of W. R. Burrows, in the medicine business, IS here to-day for the purpose. as he states, of securing a warrant for the arrest of Albert S. Warner, the missing President of the First National Bank. District Attorney Knapp says that papers have been placed in his hands by Judge Burrows, of Buffalo, on which he will begin criminal proceedings against Warner. These are the first steps of this nature taken in the case." A RECEIVER FOR ALBION'S BANK. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed H. J. Anderson receiver of the First National Bank at Albion, N. Y., wrecked by its President, Warner. JUDGMENT CONFESSED. JAMESTOWN, DAKOTA, Aug. 26.-R. E. Wallace, President of the First National Bank of this city, has made a confession of judgment to his brother, Charles S. Wallace, of Newcastle, Pa., in the sum of $80,000, and the bank has suspended business. It is understood that depositors will be protected by securities.

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Confession of Judgment

JAMESTOWN, DAK., August 26.James E. Wallace, president of the First National bank of this city, made a confession of judgment to his brother, Charles S. Wallace, of Newcastle, Penn., for the sum of $80,000, and the bank has suspended business. It is understood depositors will be protected by the securities.

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Bank Shut Down

JAMESTOWN, D. T., Aug. 26.-R. E. Wallace, president of the First National bank of this city, has made a confession of judgment to his brother, Charles S. Wallace, of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, in the sum of $80,000, and the bank has suspended business. It is understood that the depositors will be protected by securities.

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To His Brother

R. E. Wallace, president of the First National bank of Jamestown, has made a confession of judgment to his brother. in Pennsylvania, in the sum of $80,000, and the bank has suspended business.

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Daily Press and Dakotaian Redfield Sun: The prospects for Redfield to become the capital of south Dakota are daily growing better. Elk Point Courier: We do not think our county could do better than to elect delegates to the Pierre convention favorable to Capt. Raymond. He has made a good delegate and his strongest opposition comes from the Bismarck and capital commission outfit. Jamestown (Dakota) telegram: R. E. Wallace, president of the First National bank of this city, made a confession of judgment to his brother, Chas. S. Wallace, of New Castle, Pa., in the sum of $80,000 and the bank suspended busi ness. It is understood the depositors will be protected by securities. Huron Times: That really nice man, Butler Cressey, dreads the approach of cold weather. During the frosty days it will not be comfortable for him to wear his linen duster when he goes to the Vermillion university for his meals. His enterprising and gifted stomach will be confined within the more circumscribed limits of a woolen vest. In the Blaine libel suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel the fifteen days' time allowed the defense in which to answer expired Friday, and the attorneys for Mr. Shoemaker entered an appearance. This action is necessary to escape default. The defense will not have its own time unless the plaintiff's attorney secures the rule requiring an immediate answer. In the latter case it is customary to grant ten days further time. The meeting of the prohibitionists of Kentucky, at Louisville, Saturday, to nominate state electors and ratify the nomination of St. John was slimly attended. Gen. Green Clay Smith called the meeting to order and submitted a prohibition address to the people of Kentucky, claiming that the prohibition party was the one looking to the interests of the workingmen. The address was adopted as the platform of the party in the state and electors selected. Since Capt. Howgate left Washing ton two years ago to escape prosecution for embezzlement as an officer of the United States signal service, after making his escape from the custody of the marshal, there have been frequent inquiries by detectives as to the amount of the reward offered for his recapture. Recently a detective reached Washington with information that be knew Howgate's whereabouts and could produce him if money enough was offered. He, however, could not find that any reward could be paid. The information was to the effect that Howgate has, since last spring, been in southern Maryland. The chief of the bureau of statistics, in a statement of the imports and exports of the United States, says the excess value of exports over imports, or imports over exports of merchandise was as follows: Month ended July 31, 1884, excess of imports, $532,646; seven months ended July 31, 1884, excess of exports, $10,223,189; twelve months ended July 31, 1884, excess of exports, $76,380,116; total value of imports of merchandise for the twelve months ended July 31, 1884, $665,830,002; preceding twelve months, $714,356,966; decrease, $48,526,964. Value of exports and merchandise for the twelve months ended July 31, 1884, $742,210,118; same time in 1883, $822,105,945; decrease, $79,895,827; twelve months ended July 31, 1884, exports of gold and silver, coin and bullion, $68,760,088; imports, $39,366,400; excess of exports, $29,392,688; preceding twelve months, exports, $26,802,989; imports, $29,454,300: excess of imports, $265,111.

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DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

At Deadwood, Bill Ray was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. He killed a man who stole his horses, and resisted arrest. At Fargo Mrs. Ed. Connell fired at the burglar who was trying to break into her house, and scared the fellow away. A rusty gun and the skeleton of a man were recently found near New Rockford. At Grafton, Annie Feldman WILS shot and killed by the accidental discharge of agun she found in the granary, placed there by her brother. Horse thieves attempted to take the stock of Thomas Nelson, near Grand Forks. They were fired at and one of them hit, but they all got away. At Caledonia, F. M. Bish was engaged in oiling a shaft, in the Goose River mills, when by accident, his foot slipped throwing Mr. Bish between two rapidly revolving cog-wheels, causing instant death. The G. H. Thomas post, G. A. R., at Redfield, have arranged for a reunion of veterans at that place on Sept. 10, 11 and 12. Preparation has been made for the accommodation of 3,000 soldiers. At Emerson, Manitoba, a stock company has been organized to build elevators and buy Minnesota and Dakota wheat and ship it via the Canadian Pacific to Port Arthur, and thence to England via the lakes. The labor of the Dakota penitentiary at Sioux Falls has been leased to McFarland & West of Chicago, and will be employed in the manufacture of boots and shoes. Judge Edgerton has made Sanborn county a judicial subdivision, and hereafter terms of court will be held at the county seat. A Huron, special The territorial normal institute began in the university at Vermillion yesterday morning in charge of Prof. McLowth of Michigan. The normal school will continue two weeks, and is free to all. Crops around Belfield are a totol loss from the recent A strange coincidence is the fact that just a year ago on the same day and at the same hour the remarkable tornado of 1883 swept over Belfield, demolishing nine houses and otherwise causing much damage. Dr. Pardee, while at Clear Lake last week, secured two additional $10,000 subcribtions to the endowment fund of the Mitchell university, one from Dr. Brush and the other from Elder Hartsough. This swells the total endowment pledged tonearly $100,000. The new directory of Fargo contains 3,332 names, and on that the local papers claim a population of 11,662. Ed Gardner, of Clay county, has 175 bearing apple trees. The first wheat brought to the Menoken elevator this year was by Miss Bell, who delivered bushels of No. 1 hard, the product of seven acres put in by herself last spring. Miss Bell formerly taught school at Sims, but believing farming more profitable, took a claim last spring with the above result. The Tyndall Tribune says N. M. McDuffie, the granger school master who rented the Dunlap farm near Bon Homme, skipped the country this week. He mortgaged about fifty head of stock belonging to Mr. Dunlap for $825 and left with his family for parts unknown. A Turner county justice of the peace recently granted a divorce and awarded alimony. The court agreed that as he had power to marry people, he had power to unmarry them. and would not hear to any monkey work about jurisdiction in such a plain case. The First National band at Larimore, the stockholders of which organized and established the Nelson County bank at Lakota, have sold the latter institution to R. J. Kane, George Martin and Mowbray 8. Northcote, who will increase the capital to $100,000. Charles Hughes and John Brown, indicted and convicted of participation in the robbery of a Germ " emigrant named Schramm, near Sturgis, months ago, have been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Their pal, Fiddler, was lynched at the time the crime was committed. Business of the Fargo land office for the week ending Ang. 22: Homesteads, 7 filings, 1,120 acres; tree claims, 5 filings, 800 acres; declaratory statements, 8 filings, 1,280 acres; soldiers declaratory statements, none; final proofs, 65 filings, 10,400 acres. Totals, 85 filings, 13,600 acres. Total cash receipts, $13,803.50. Contest cases 11. Orders have been issued by Gen. Terry for a survey of the military reservations at Forts Sully and Meade, the purpose being to settle disputes and to clearly define the boundary lines by appropriating posts and marks as to prevent any future encroachment on these lands by the neighboring settlers. The work will be done by Lient. John Biddle, chief engineer officer of the deThe territorial board of equalization has just finished its labors. The in creaso in the total assessment of the territory is this year $10,000,000 more than last, notwithstanding the fact that the assessors universally placeda lower valuation upon all property. At the same ratio of valuation the total assessment this year, instead of $80,000,000, would have been $100,000,000. R. E. Wallace, president of the First National bank of Jamestown has made a confession of judgment to his brother, Charles S. Wallace, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, in the sum of $80,000, and the bank has suspended business. It is understood, that the depositors will be protected by securities. Pillsbury & Hurlburt have been erecting an elevator at Caledonia, with a shipping capacity of 100,000 bushels. Sugar been raised

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Wallace, president of the First National bank of Jamestown has made confession of judgment to his brother, Charles S. Wallace, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, in the sum of $80,000, and the bank has suspended business. It is understood that the depositors will be protected by securities. Pillsbury & Hurlburt have been erecting an elevator at Caledonia, with a shipping capacity of 100,000 bushels. Sugar cane has been raised successfully in Dickey county this year. The recent pointed and vigorous speech of the superintendent of schools, Gen. Beadle in regard to the school lands, and his inability to secure the prosecution of the big farmers who are using them, is attracting a good deal of attention. The Sioux Falls Argus nays of it: "He sand Nebraska was holding hers for $50 per acre, and would sell none until she could realize a fund that would put the schools on a self-sustaining basis, realising an annual income of three millions of dollars. This exam. plo he hold up for Dakota. He had fears for her school lands. They were coveted by rich men and the sustenance of many sections extracted by the bonants farmers contrary to law, he could not get the

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South and West

MEMORIAL services were held throughout Utah in honor of the Mormon elders recently murdered in Tennessee. GEORGE JONES (colored) was hanged at Dawson, Ga., for assaulting a white woman. The presence of Statetroops with two cannon prevented anticipated trouble. THE Anti-Monopoly Greenback-Labor party of Illinois met in convention at Bloomington, delegates being present from most of the counties of the State. The Indianapolis National platform was indorsed and a resolution was passed favoring fusion with either of the leading parties, as the State committee should deem best, upon the basis of half the electoral ticket for Butler and West. A State ticket was nominated headed by Jesse Harper for governor. THE First National bank, of Xenia, Ohio, has suspended. Its cashier speculated in grain and left for the West owing $33,000 to the bank. AT the Nebraska Republican State convention in Omaha Governor Dawes was renominated by acclamation and the national ticket was indorsed. THE First National bank of Jamestown, Dakota, has failed. THE Adrian (Mich.) Savings bank has sus' pended. THIRTY-TWO negroes were taken seriously sick on a plantation near Eufaula. Ala., from eating of a pig that had been bitten by a mad dog. All the sick men had symptoms of hy. drophobia. Two THOUSAND Piegan Indians are dying from starvation in Montana owing to an insufficiency of rations. SEVERAL persons were killed and great damage was done to property by tornadoes in Dakota, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. A TRANSFER steamer was upset during a hurricane on the Ohio near Evansville, Ind., and from ten to fifteen persons were drowned. FIVE colored men were hanged the other day, as follows: John McKelsey, at Selma, Ala., for murdering his wife: Scip Holley. at Tuscaloosa, Ala., for murdering his em ployer, a young planter; Berry Johnson, at Shreveport, La., for wife murder: Josh Berryman, at Natchitoches, La., for the murder of another colored man, and Willie Williams, at Franklin, La., for murder.

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK Interesting News Compilation. DOMESTIC. R. E. WALLACE, President of the First National Bank of Jamestown, D. T., on the 26th confessed judgment to his brother in Newcastle, Pa., in the sum of $80,000, and the bank suspended. A FEW nights ago the Pacific Bank of St. Paul, Minn., was robbed of $10,000. The money was taken from the safe by some person who must have known the combination. A young book-keeper named Mason was suspected. A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt in Eastern Tennessee the other night. It lasted a minute and a half. A BOSTON dispatch of the 26th states that the most perfect counterfeit silver dollar since 1881 has made its appearance in that city. The only perceptible difference between it and a genuine dollar is that it does not weigh as muchas the standard dollar. It is also thicker, and will not enter a tester. It has about the same ring as a good dollar. THREE cases of leprosy exist within ten miles of Granite Falls, Minn. REV. CHARLES SHARP, a Catholic priest, shot himself dead a few days ago at Bloomfield, near Pittsburgh, Pa. He was crazed by sickness. THREE young women-Bridget Hayes, Annie Hayes and Mary McCabe-residents of New York City, were drowned at Catskill, N. Y., recently, while bathing in a creek. SAMUEL ROBERTS, late paymaster of Charles Parrish & Co., coal operators at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was on the 27th reported a defaulter to the amount of $50,000 or $75,000. He surrendered his property to his employers, and a settlement has been effected. THIS year's hop crop in this country is estimated to be about one-fourth short of the average. THE Second National Bank of Xenia, O., suspended on the 27th, owing to speculations by its cashier, J. S. Ankeney. The liabilities were placed at $400,000; assets, $600,000. DR. SALMON, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, said on the 27th that he found eight cases of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in the vicinity of Chicago, and ten cases in other parts of the State. NINE HUNDRED cigar-makers have been on a strike at Cincinnati for twenty-four weeks, during which time the union has paid out $130,000 in benefits. SEVERAL arrests have been made at Duck Hill, Miss., of parties who have on several occasions wrecked trains on the Illinois Central Railroad. Two CHILDREN of Judge Davidson, of Cleveland, O., a boy aged fourteen years, and a girl-aged eleven, were drowned at Dennison a few days ago by the upsetting of a boat. The bodies were recovered. A CYCLONE visited Forestburg and Diana, D. T., on the 28th. At the former place a farmer named Briggs lost his house, thirty head of cattle and three horses, and a man named McKillon was killed. At Diana a track eighty yards wide was swept over, several houses were destroyed, and a number of lives were lost. AN open switch the other night on the Wabash Road wrecked over twenty freight cars, killing Henry Nordeck, the engineer, and Thomas Devlin, the brakeman. THE business portion of the village of Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., was burned on the 28th, involving a loss of $200,000. GRAND DUCHESS 43d, an animal that cost about $3,000 in England, was burned to death in a railroad accident near Albany, N. Y., a few days ago. BANNISTER'S shoe factory at Newark, N. J., was burned the other morning. Loss, $100,000. DURING a recent fire in a tenement house in Minneapolis James Curran, one of the occupants, was fatally burned. He had rushed back tc rescue a child. MAGGIE JONES, of Baltimore, in filing a bill for divorce a few days ago alleged that she believed she was marrying a bachelor of sixty years, but discovered at his residence nine grown children, eight of whom were older than herself. S. W. TALLMADGE, the crop statistician of Milwaukee, on the 28th issued his final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884, as follows: Winter wheat, $30,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000, or 130,000,000 bushels more than the crop of 1883. AGENTS of the West Shore Road were selling tickets from New York to Chicago for $14 on the 29th. A RAILROAD-CAR attached to a circustrain caught fire near Greeley, Col., on the 29th, and of seventy-five men who were sleeping in the car at the time ten perished, and several others were badly scorched. WESLEY A. LUMM, while city engineer at Sandusky, O., was indicted for accepting bribes. He soon entered on a career of dissipation, which caused his wife to commit suicide, and he finished the sad chapter on the 29th by ending his own days with morphine. AN unknown sailor died of yellow fever in New York on the 29th, the first case there. EXECUTIONS for murder took place as follows on the 29th: Berry Johnson (colored). at Shreveport Ln. Schip Holly

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The private secretary of President Arthur states that the latter is as well as he ever was, notwithstanding alarming reports as to his health. The issue of silver dollars for the week ending September thirteenth was 403.996, the corresponding period last year was 480,998. Acting Secretary of the Treasury issued a warrant for $166,666 in favor of the Directors of the New Orleans Exposition, this being the secon nstallment. Judge Gresham authorizes the statement that he expects to remain Postmaster-General until March 4, notwithstanding the rumors that he has accepted the vacant judical bench in Chicago. Assistant Secretary Coon has been designated by the President as Acting Secretary of the Treasury for ten days from the 15th of this month. The designation of Coon as Assistant Secretary by the friends of French is considered somewhat significant. The commission appointed to visit Central and South America will leave on the 10th of October for the City of Mexico from which city they will go to Central America aud afterwards visit the principal countries in South America. The commission expects to be gone six months. In formation has been received that Morton, Minister to France, who intended to have sailed for New York, has concluded to defer his departure for two weeks. This fact seems to effectually dispose of the report that he was coming home to assume the duties of Secretary of the Treasury, as that office will have to be filled within seven days. It issaid by Morton's friends that he obtained leave of absence to come to this country before the death of Secretary Folger, and hisintention had no connection with the vacancy in the Cabinet. Morton's object in coming home just at this time is to attend to some private business in New York. It is stated positively now that General Sharpe would not accept the Treasury portfolio. Captain Healy, commanding the revenue steamer Corwin, made a report regarding the cruise of that vessel in Alaskan waters. He speaks of his efforts to prevent the smuggling of liquor and breech-loading arms to the natives at Point Hope in exchange for whalbone, and suggests that the Collector of Customs at San Francisco be instructed to limit the allowance of those articles to each whaler. Mr. Neal, Solicitor of the Treasury notified the directors of the Garfield Memorial Hospital that the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania, in distributing the estate of Jay Cooke, had awarded to the institution $11,500 being the amount deposited with Jay Cook & Co. on account of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home, of Washington, the property which was recently transferred to the directors of Garfield Hospital by act of Congress. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed J. B. Sturtevant Receiver of the First National Bank of Jamestown, Dakota. The Secretary of the Interior rendered the following decision in regard to the lands within the granted limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad, released from reservation for the Indians: First, that every section within this leased reservation should be sold at double the minimum price, $2.50 per acre. With regard to the odd sections it is held that although the legislative intent in this case may not be entirely free from doubt in that particular, it was one of the sole purposes of the agreement to afford an opportunity for the speedy location and construction of a railroad without trespassing upon the rights of the Indians, yet in view of the doubt of the fact 'that when a definite location was made, the release did not become such as to restore the land in to the public domain. I concur in the opinion of the Commissioner of the Land Office and affirm the decision, the law in the case having been substantially settled by numerous decisions of the Department in other cases. In regard to the price of the odd sections to be disposed of, where the grant a as made declares that the alternate and even sections reserved to the United States shall o not be sold for less than $2.50 per acre, the e Department is authorized to treat the odd sections in the same manner as the even sections are treated, and therefore they should bear the same prices. He says it e could not have been the intention of Conh gress to fix different prices for lands side by c side in common limits, and the Gov. D ernment by the same rules, is basing a difference on the nct that some of the sections bear odd and others even numbers in des0 ignating them, the description being merely l for the purpose of survey and identification. h This decision applies to all cases where the d disposals of lands within the railroadlimits, h when the statutes require a double minio mum rate to decide for the lands in alternate sections,

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cheir wheat rot before they will sell at 50 cents per bushel. The comptroller of the currency has appointed James B. Sturtevant receiver of the First National Bank of Jamestown. Brule county has & population of 6,000 people, a gain of 100 per cent the past year. The treasure coach which left Deadwood bore away gold bricks to the valne of a little more than $150,000. A traven T is said to have been robbed on a Manitoba train, near Wehpoton, of $40 sh and various articles worth $160. The run of the De Smet mines for the first half of August amounted to 1,172 ounces of gold. John McGee of Devil's Lake, and Miss Libbie Ryan of Wapella, III. were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents in Clinton, III. At Holabird, Adolph Werner Weller was killed by a stone falling into a well where he was at work. E. Bolly of Morton county has secured a cross between the Ree and Dent corn, which matures sixty-four days after planting, twelve to sixteen rows to the ear. Threshing is progressing on the Cooper farm, Cooperstown, 20,000 bushels being the result so far, with 100,000 more to thresh. The Huron Thespians, evidently without fear of the red eyed law or Louis Aldrich, threaten to produce "My Partner" at Watertown. An Illinois man offers to give Sioux Falls a sash and door factory and planing mill if the citizens will donate him $500 in cash and a five year lease of necessary grounds. An attempt was made to blow up the powder house at Split Tail Gulen by fring into it. The house contained 30,000 pounds of stout powder, and an explosion would have done immense damage. Thenew roller flouring mill at Howard, has started up. It is owned by I. C. Gould and L. C. Gould, the former of Morris and the latter of New Winsor, III., and has a capacity of 100 barrels per day. Rev. Alden B. Case, for the last two years pastor of the Union Congregational church of Howard, has resigned to enter the field of missionary labor in Mexico. The Prohibition alliance is about to establish a paper at Huron, to b. the special champion of that organization. The first number will appear Oct. 1. W. H. Headly, general agent of the alliance, and Asher F. Pay, will be publishers. Lightning struck the farm house of Jacob Zimmerman, situated about a quarter of a mile from Durbin, instanttly killing Ole Swanson, a young Swede in Zimmerman's employ, knocking the latter insensible, and severly shocking his wife and children. Mrs. W. B. Donglass of Fargo, while en route from that city to Chicago, two weeks ago, lost a package containing $2,000 worth of diamonds, which is thought to have been stolen somewhere between St. Paul and Milwaukee. The matter has been kept quiet till now, The Fargo-Republican has abandoned its morning edition and become an evening paper. The reason given is that the business for Fargo is not sufficient to warrant the publication of two morning papers in that city. Judge Smith held court at Redfield, Spink county. J. B. Thomas the elleged murderer of William Cullings was not indicted and the judge ordered his release from custody. Cases against liquor dealers for alleged violation of the law are now before the petit jury. Burglars entered the Star grocery at Fargo and drilled a hole in the safe door, but were unable to break the combination lock, and thus secured no booty. The job is said to have been done by professionals, and it is thought that the gang that have been working Duluth and Brainerd have reached Fargo. General Freight Agent Hannaford, of the Northern Pacific, announces that the following agencies have been opened for freight business: Tappan, on the Dakota division, 415 miles west of St. Paul, William Bartholemew, agent; Sterling on the Dakota division, 447 miles west of St. Paul, J. H. Smith, agent. arrevted Wood M. M.

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district, Hand county, Vonce of Wesington. Sanborn county, T. H. Brisbine of Alwilda Seventh district, Codington county, E. G. Wheelock, Smith; Burleigh, Johnson Nicheus; Cass, E. H. Velo, E. V. McKnight, E. Young and W. B. Locklin; Dickey, Dr. Wilkin of Ellendale; Griggs, Julius Stevens and H. G. Pickett of Cooperstown; Morton, Thomas J. Mitchell, E. C. Rice, L N. Casey, E. Boley, Maj. Boray; Ramsey, H. H. Ruger of Grand Harbor, H. M. Creel of Devil's Lake; Ransom, C. D. Austin; Stark, L N. Cary of Mandan; Steele, John Anderson of Newburg, and W. P. Miller of Hope; Walsh, C. H. Honey of Kensington; George Michic of Lamppon, W. D. Stewart of Forest River; Barnes, J. Stott; Dickey, Dr. 8. M. Williams. Watertown, is suffering the horrors of a brass band tournament. Northern Dakota farmers will let their wheat rot before they will sell at 50 cents per bushel. The comptroller of the currency has appointed James B. Sturtevant receiver of the First National Bank of Jamestown. Brule county has a population of 6,000 people, a gain of 100 per cent the past year. The treasure coach which left Deadwood bore away gold bricks to the valne of a little more than $150,000. A traveler is said to have been robbed on a Manitoba train, near Wahpeton, of $40 cash and various articles worth $160. The run of the De Smet mines for the first half of August amounted to 1,172 ounces of gold. John McGee of Devil's Lake, and Miss Libbie Ryan of Wapella, III. were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents in Clinton, III. At Holabird, Adolph Werner Weller was killed by a stone falling into a well where he was at work. E. Bolly of Morton county has secured a cross between the Ree and Dent corn, which matures sixty-four days after planting, twelve to sixteen rows to the ear. Threshing is progressing on the Cooper farm, Cooperstown, 20,000 bushels being the result so far, with 100,000 more to thresh. The Huron Thespians, evidently withAldrich, threaten to produce "My Partner" at Watertown. An Illinois man offers to give Sioux Falls a sash and door factory and planing mill if the citizens will donate him $500 in cash and a five year lease of necessary grounds. An attempt was made to blow up the powder house at Split Tail Gulch by flring into it. The house contained 30, 000 pounds of stout powder, and an explosion would have done immense damage. Thenew roller flouring mill at Howard, has started up. It is owned by I. C. Gould and L. C. Gould, the former of Morris and the latter of New Winsor, III., and has a capacity of 100 barrels per day. Rev. Alden B. Case, for the last two years pastor of the Union Congregational church of Howard, has resigned to enter the field of missionary labor in Mexico. The Prohibition alliance is about to establish a paper at Huron, to be the special champion of that organization. The first number will appear Oct. 1. W. H. Headly, general agent of the alliance, and Asher F. Pay, will be publishers. Lightning struck the farm house of Jacob Zimmerman, situated about a quarter of a mile from Durbin, instanttly killing Ole Swanson, a young Swede in Zimmerman's employ, knocking the latter insonsible, and severly shocking his wife and children. Mrs. W. B. Douglass of Fargo, while on route from that city to Chicago, two weeks ago, lost a package containing $2,000 worth of diamonds, which is thought to have been stolen somewhere between St. Paul and Milwaukee. The matter has been kept quiet till now. The Fargo Republican has abandoned its morning edition and become an evening paper. The reason given is that the business for Fargo is not sufficient to warrant the publication of two morning papers in that city. Judge Smith held court at Redfield, Spink county. J. B. Thomas the elleged murderer of William Cullings was not indicted and the judge ordered his release from custody. Cases against liquor dealers for alleged violation of the law are now before the netit in

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un SA Stott; Dickey, Dr. & M. Williams. Watertown, is suffering the horrors of a brass band tournament. Northern Dakota farmers will let their wheat rot before they will sell at 50 cents per bushel. The comptroller of the currency has appointed James B. Sturtevant receiver of the First National Bank of Jamestown. Brule county has a population of 6,000 people, a gain of 100 per cent the past year. The treasure coach which left Deadwood bore away gold bricks to the value of a little more than $150,000. A traveler is said to have been robbed on a Manitoba train, near Wahpeton, of $40 cash and various articles worth $160. The run of the De Smet mines for the first half of August amounted to 1,172 ounces of gold. John McGee of Devil's Lake, and Miss Libbie Ryan of Wapella, III. were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents in Clinton. III. At Holabird, Adolph Werner Weller was killed by a stone falling into a well where he was at work. E. Bolly of Morton county has secured a cross between the Ree and Dent corn, which matures sixty-four days after planting, twelve to sixteen rows to the ear. Threshing is progressing on the Cooper farm, Cooperstown, 20,000 bushels being the result so far, with 100,000 more to thresh. The Huron Thespians, evidently without fear of the red-eyed law or Louis Aldrich, threaten to produce "My Partner" at Watertown, An Illinois man offers to give Sioux Falls a sash and door factory and planing myll if the citizens will donate him $500 in cash and a five year lease of necessary grounds. An attempt was made to blow up the powder house at Split Tail Gulch by firing into it. The house contained 30,000 pounds of stout powder, and an explosion would have done immense damage. The new roller flouring mill at Howard, has started up. It is owned by I. C. Gould and L. C. Gould, the former of Morris and the latter of New Winsor, Ill., and has a capacity of 100 barrels per day. Rev. Alden B. Case, for the last two years pastor of the Union Congregational church of Howard, has resigned to enter the field of missionary labor in Mexico. The Prohibition alliance is about to establish a paper at Huron, to be the special champion of that organization. The first number will appear Oct. 1. W. H. Headly, general agent of the al liance, and Asher F. Pay, will be publishers. Lightning struck the farm house of a Jacob Zimmerman, situated about quarter of a mile from Durbin, instanttly killing Ole Swanson, a young Swede in Zimmerman's employ, knocking the latter insonsible, and severly shocking his wife and children. Mrs. W. B. Douglass of Fargo, while en route from that city to Chicago, two weeks ago, lost a package containing $2,000 worth of diamonds, which is thought to have been stolen somewhere between St. Paul and Milwaukee. The matter has been kept quiet till now. The Fargo Republican has abandoned its morning edition and become an evening paper. The reason given is that the business for Fargo is not sufficient to warrant the publication of two morning papers in that city. Judge Smith held court at Redfield, Spink county. J. B. Thomas the el leged murderer of William Cullings not indicted and the judge ordered his release from custody. Cases against liquor dealers for alleged violation of the law are now before the petit jury. Burglars entered the Star grocery at Fargo and drilled a hole in the safe door, but were unable to break the combination lock, and thus secured no booty. The job is said to have been done by professionals, and it is thought that the gang that have been working Duluth and Brainerd have reached Fargo. General Freight Agent Hannaford, of the Northern Pacific, announces that the following agencies have been opened for freight business: Tappan, on the Dakota division, 415 miles west of St. Paul, William Bartholemew, agent Sterling on the Dakota division, 447 miles west of St. Paul, J. H. Smith, agent. M. M. Wood, arrented on complaint of the Northern Pacific railway compa ay, charged with the robbery of the company's office at Oriska, broke jail at of Valley City, sawing the bars his window. Wood also telegraphed C forged order from the Security bank of Minneepolis to the First Tational bank

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ton county, E. G. Wheelock, Smith; Burleigh, Johnson Nicheus; Cass, E. H. Velo, E. V. Mc- Knight, E. Young and W. B. Locklin; Dickey, Dr. Wilkin of Ellendale; Griggs, Julius Stevens and H. G. Pickett of Cooperstown; Morton, Thomas J. Mitchell, E. C. Rice, L. N. Casey, E. Boley, Maj. Boray; Ramsey, H. H. Ruger of Grand Harbor, H. M. Creel of Devil's Lake; Ransom, C. D. Austin; Stark, L. N. Cary of Mandan; Steele, John Anderson of Newburg, and W. P. Miller of Hope; Walsh, C. H. Honey of Kensington; George Michic of Lamppon, D. Stewart of Forest River; Barnes, J. W. Stott; Dickey, Dr. 8. M. Williams.

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Watertown, is suffering the horrors of a brass band tournament.

Northern Dakota farmers will let their wheat rot before they will sell at 50 cents per bushel.

The comptroller of the currency has appointed James B. Sturtevant receiver of the First National Bank of James- town.

Brule county has a population of 6,000 people, a gain of 100 per cent the past year.

The treasure coach which left Dead- wood bore away gold bricks to the val- ue of a little more than $150,000.

A traveler is said to have been robbed on a Manitoba train, near Wahpeton, of $40 cash and various articles worth $160.

The run of the De Smet mines for the first half of August amounted to 1,- 172 ounces of gold.

John McGee of Devil's Lake, and Miss Libbie Ryan of Wapella, Ill. were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents in Clinton, Ill.

At Holabird, Adolph Werner Weller was killed by a stone falling into a well where he was at work.

E. Bolly of Morton county has se- cured a cross between the Ree and Dent corn, which matures sixty-four days after planting, twelve to sixteen rows to the ear.

Threshing is progressing on the Cooper farm, Cooperstown, 20,000 bushels being the result so far, with 100,000 more to thresh.

The Huron Thespians, evidently with- out fear of the red-eyed law or Louis Aldrich, threaten to produce "My Partner" at Watertown.

An Illinois man offers to give Sioux Falls a sash and door factory and plan- ing mill if the citizens will donate him $500 in cash and a five year lease of nec- essary grounds.

An attempt was made to blow up the powder house at Split Tail Gulch by firing into it. The house contained 30,- 000 pounds of stout powder, and an ex- plosion would have done immense dam- age.

The new roller flouring mill at How- ard, has started up. It is owned by I. C. Gould and L. C. Gould, the former of Morris and the latter of New Win- sor, Ill., and has a capacity of 100 bar- rels per day.

Rev. Alden B. Case, for the last two years pastor of the Union Congregation- al church of Howard, has resigned to enter the field of missionary labor in Mexico.

The Prohibition alliance is about to establish a paper at Huron, to be the special champion of that organization. The first number will appear Oct. 1. W. H. Headly, general agent of the al- liance, and Asher F. Pay, will be pub- lishers.

Lightning struck the farm house of Jacob Zimmerman, situated about a quarter of a mile from Durbin, instant- ly killing Ole Swanson, a young Swede in Zimmerman's employ, knocking the latter insonsible, and severly shocking his wife and children.

Mrs. W. B. Douglass of Fargo, while en route from that city to Chicago, two weeks ago, lost a package containing $2,000 worth of diamonds, which is thought to have been stolen somewhere between St. Paul and Milwaukee. The matter has been kept quiet till now.

The Fargo Republican has abandoned its morning edition and become an even- ing paper. The reason given is that the business for Fargo is not sufficient to warrant the publication of two morning papers in that city.

Judge Smith held court at Redfield, Spink county. J. B. Thomas the el- leged murderer of William Cullings was not indicted and the judge ordered his release from custody. Cases against liquor dealers for alleged violation of the law are now before the petit jury.

Burglars entered the Star grocery at Fargo and drilled a hole in the safe door, but were unable to break the com- bination lock, and thus secured no booty. The job is said to have been done by professionals, and it is thought that the gang that have been working Duluth and Brainerd have reached Far- go.

General Freight Agent Hannaford, of the Northern Pacife annonpass that

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Ransom, C. D. Austin; Stark, L N. Cary of Mandan; Steele, John Anderson of Newburg, and W. P. Miller of Hope: Walsh, C. H. Honey of Kensington; George Michic of Lamppon, D. Stewart of Forest River; Barnes, J. W. Stott; Dickey, Dr. S. M. Williams. Watertown, is suffering the horrors of a brass band tournament. Northern Dakota farmers will let their wheat rot before they will sell at 50 cents per bushel. The comptroller of the currency has appointed James B. Sturtevant receiver of the First National Bank of Jamestown. Brule county has a population of 6,000 people, a gain of 100 per cent the past year. The treasure coach which left Deadwood bore away gold bricks to the value of a little more than $150,000. A traveler is said to have been robbed on a Manitoba train, near Wahpeton, of $40 cash and various articles worth $160. The run of the De Smet mines for the first half of August amounted to 1,172 ounces of gold. John McGee of Devil's Lake, and Miss Libbie Ryan of Wapella, III. were united in marriage at the residence of the bride's parents in Clinton, Ill. At Holabird, Adolph Werner Weller was killed by a stone falling into a well where he was at work. E. Bolly of Morton county has secured a cross between the Ree and Dent corn, which matures sixty-four days after planting, twelve to sixteen rows to the ear. Threshing is progressing on the Cooper farm, Cooperstown, 20,000 bushels being the result so far, with 100,000 more to thresh. The Huron Thespians, evidently without fear of the red-eyed law or Louis Aldrich, threaten to produce "My Partner" at Watertown. An Illinois man offers to give Sioux Falls a sash and door factory and planing mill if the citizens will donate him $500 in cash and a five year lease of necessary grounds. An attempt was made to blow up the powder house at Split Tail Gulch by firing into it. The house contained 30,000 pounds of stout powder, and an explosion would have done immense damage. The new roller flouring mill at Howard, has started up. It is owned by I. C. Gould and L. C. Gould, the former of Morris and the latter of New Winsor, Ill., and has a capacity of 100 barrels per day. Rev. Alden B. Case, for the last two years pastor of the Union Congregational church of Howard, has resigned to enter the field of missionary labor in Mexico. The Prohibition alliance is about to establish a paper at Huron, to be the special champion of that organization. The first number will appear Oct. 1. W. H. Headly, general agent of the alliance, and Asher F. Pay, will be publishers. Lightning struck the farm house of Jacob Zimmerman, situated about a quarter of a mile from Durbin, instanttly killing Ole Swanson, a young Swede in Zimmerman's employ, knocking the latter insensible, and severly shocking his wife and children. Mrs. W. B. Douglass of Fargo, while en route from that city to Chicago, two weeks ago, lost a package containing $2,000 worth of diamonds, which is thought to have been stolen somewhere between St. Paul and Milwaukee. The matter has been kept quiet till now. The Fargo Republican has abandoned its morning edition and become an evening paper. The reason given is that the business for Fargo is not sufficient to warrant the publication of two morning papers in that city. Judge Smith held court at Redfield, Spink county. J. B. Thomas the elleged murderer of William Cullings was not indicted and the judge ordered his release from custody. Cases against liquor dealers for alleged violation of the law are now before the petit jury. Burglars entered the Star grocery at Fargo and drilled a hole in the safe door, but were unable to break the combination lock, and thus secured no booty. The job is said to have been done by professionals, and it is thought that the gang that have been working Duluth and Brainerd have reached Fargo. General Freight Agent Hannaford,

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"Where Ignorance is Bliss* 'Tis Folly to be Wise." Some self-appointed conservator of the interests of the "dear people" of this city and county airs bis iguorance and discloses his cloven hoof by assailing the ex-county treasurer, his successor, the city treasurer and board of county commissioners of this county in an article published in the Jamestown department of the Argus over the comprehensive nom de plume of "Taxpayer," on account of mismanagement of the county and city funds and manner of conducting the oflice of county treasurer. The article 18 such a conglomeration of misrepresentation, exaggeration and ignorance of the subject which the writer pretends to clucidate that the persons assailed and their friends feel justly indignant. The writer shows a lack of the "courage of conviction" by sneaking behind and hiding his identity in an anonymous signature. If he had possessed the manhood and had been near enough without sin to cast the first stone to sign his name to the article he might have secured its publication without sending it a hundred miles from home. The facts are that ex-treasurer Mans fie.d did make efforts to withdraw the county funds from the First National bank for some time before it suspended and suc ceeded in reducing the amount from $15,000 to less than $10,000; that our business men did not all withdraw their deposits; that one of the members of the board of county commissioners had of large amount of money in the bank when it suspended; that the government bank examiner reported the bank sound and all right in July, only a short time before it suspended, and that Mr. Mansfield used due diligence in trying to save and secure the county deposits. The confidence of the people in Mr. Mansfield's integrity and prudence was attested in his re-election by the people of this county without opposition and after these facts were well known to the public, and this confidence has been properly supplemented by Mr. Webster, the present treasurer, in the appointment of Mr. Mansfield as his deputy. It might be well to inform this reformer that the county commissioners have no authority whatever in the appointment or dismissal of a deputy in the treasurer's office. Mr. Webster is responsible to the board for the acts of his deputy and he is satisfied with his appointment to that position. Whether Mr. Webster pays a large or small tax has nothing to do with his official standing. His business capacity and personal integrity are attested by the financial standing and character of his bondsmen, one of whom has known him from youth up. Now if this "Taxpayer" will give his name to the public he can have the opportunity of comparing his own record for business capacity and integrity with that of any of the parties he has assailed.

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The Question of Purchasing the First National Bank Building. The subject of the city purchasing the First National bank building is now bcing discussed by the people of this city and as many erroneous ideas and opinions are being expressed and circulated both in favor and against the proposition we have taken pains to ascertain the correct status of the whole question. In the first place the corner room, known as the banking office, fronting 25 feet on Fourth avenue and 50 feet on Main street, was the property of the corporation known as the First National bank of Jamestown. This was recently sold by the receiver of the bank to Hon Johnson Nickeus whose title is absolute, and this part of the building together with that of the second and third stories of the same dimensions above it and the ground beneath it, 18 his individual property and cuts no figure in the other part of the building except as contiguous property. The store room on the south, and that on the cast each of same size as that now owned by Mr. Nickeus to the same height and depth including the wareroom to the south of the east room and the ground extending to the alley. was the individual property of R. E. Wallace. On this latter property F. M. Conebay holds the first mortgage which was foreclosed and the property bid in for the debt and costs last November. The time of redemption will expire next November when, unless the property is redeemed by some legal creditor, Conehay wil: take a complete and absolute title. Sometime after the first mortgage was executed Mr. Wallace gave a deed of trust on the same property together with what 18 known as the old court house and lots to Joe D. Mills to hold in trust for H.J. Ott city and exofficio school treasurer to secure the amount of $10,700 school funds which the treasurer had deposited in the First Na. tional bank of which Mr. Wallace was president. There is also an nucumbrance upon part of the same property held by a Mr. Alexander. These second and third incumbrances will cease in value and force if the property is not redeemed from sale under Mr. Conebay's mortgage before the end of the time of edemption next November, which now amounts to about $5,000, and which with the incumbrance by Alexander on part of this prop. erty together with back taxes would make an aggregate of about $5,600. There retwo alternatives presented the city council. First, to pay off this $5,600 and saye what the two buildings and grounds are worth oyer and above that amount on the $10,700 deficit of Mr. Ott as school treasurer. Secondly, let this go and prosecute Mr. Oil and his bondsmen for the $10,700 deficit, and take the chances of recovering the amount or any part of it. The three principal questions involved in the policy phase of this matter are : Fust, does the city need a building? Second, is this a suitable building for the required purposes? Third, can the city ?

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A Suit for $11,000. Special to the Globe. JAMESTOWN, Dak., March 16.-Roderick Rose of this city and D. H. Twoomey of Fargo, attorneys, have brought suit for the board of education of Jamestown against Henry J. Ott, ex-treasurer of the board, to recover the sum of about $11,000, lost by the failure of the First National bank of this city, whose affairs have since been closed up by J. B. Sturtevant of Stillwater, receiver. The bondsmen of Mr. Ott are five prominent citizens here, who are included in the complaint. Their attorneys are Glaspell & Dodge, this city. The case promises to be long and bitterly contested.