New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-03

from mail sent to the register of deeds of
Cass county, and also to numerous private
parties and the Argus printing company.
Decoy letters were sent and their contents
found on the person of Charles B. Youngman,
for six months past night clerk III the Fargo
postofice. Mr. Youngman was arrested
Mrs, J. R. Cook, who was SO badly frozen
in the storm Of Jan ~, 1887 and who sui
fered partial amputation of both Of her feet
and was at Lamborn hospital in Bismarck
for five months, is now po st-mistress at
Berthold agency. She can walk without
crutches and the loss ofpart other feet is not
noticeable
At Grafton a team belonging to an I'M
known farmer, becoming frightened, dashed
north on Hill avenue, throwing the driver
out and injuring him severely. Near the
Grafton hotel the team struck the ll.year.
old son OF Jscob knudson, proprietor of the
Norman house, killing him insanity; also
seriously injuring the lO-year-old boy OF
Knut r)lafson. a shoemaker
A serious mishap befell three sectionmen
in the vicinity of Northwood 1t seems that
six of them were moving along the track OF
the Great Northern on hand car, endeav-
oring to make a crossing before the passen-
ger train reached them, when the hand power
broke, precipitatine three of them on the
track ahead of the car The latter ran over
the trio, seriously fracturing the limb of one
John Mahony and bruised the other two con-
sderaby.
Thomas Selton, mayor of Glendale, was
made chairman OF the legislative committee
for North Dakota at the irrigation conven-
ton recently held at Aberdeen. He is now at
work drafting a memorial to Gov. Miller,
asking him to call a special session OF the
legislature. This memorial will be circu-
lated throughout the state for signatures.
lit is the intention to secure an expression of
sentiment on the question from every roun-
ty, and make the request stroug enough SO
that the governor will feel justified in issuing
| the call. .'
At meeting at Jamesto wn Of the railro ad
commissioners of the state and several rep.
resentatives of the elevator companies it is
said that practical agreement was reached.
The state license will be paid, no county license
or bond required, and the charge for stor-
age be the same as for the two years past,
instead of the two prices fixed in the law Of
last winter, which are claimed to be unrea,
sonably low. Under this compromise the
elevators of South Dakota will probably
soon become public warehouses, and will be
| conducted as heretofore.
DR.. NJ. F. Merchant, of Glendale, made a
contract to construct an artesian well at
Yorktown and furnish water for irrigation
purposes to four farmers Of that town. He
charges them 81 per acre per annum for ten
years. and guarantees them sufficient water
for the 800 acres which they have under cul.
| tivation. His total revenue will be 49, 900,
besides which he will use the we'll to irrigate
his own farm. The total cost O. sinking and
piping the well, including the purchase of a
drilling outfit, will be about $4,000. He al
ready has an engine which will furnish the
power for drilling. Experts estimate that a
good artesian we'll will irrigate from twelve
to fifteen hundred acres. .
Some of the loan companies doing bus
mess are making arrangements to test the
legality OF the seed wheat lien law of last
winter. which made the claim for seed grain
a tax upon the land ii not paid when DUE
and therefore gave it priority to other in
cumbrances which might be on the land
when the seed was bought. case will soon
be brought in Judge Templeton's district,
and probably another in Judge Morgan's
district at Devils Lake. Many who bought
wheat of the state commissioner have not
enough crop to repay the seed, to say moth.
ing of what they are to live on during the
winter, and the commission indicate that
the seed must be settled for before any aid
can be extended to these poor farmers and
nothing is then promised.
In an interview in Fargo, Gov. Miller says
the assessment Of the state is about SO, OOO,-
900, some $6,o00,0O0 of which being the
assessment of the Northern Pacific lands and
road bed, while the Great Northern has de-
cided to accept the gross earnings taxation
The valuation of the lands in Cass county is
at lightly increased rate and Cass and
Trail were made the same, and they are
the highest of any counties. The state levy
was placed at four mills, the limit allowed by
the constitution, with a half mill additional
for state debt. The governorst ates that the
tax commissioner Of the Northern Pacific
was present and agreed in writing to the as
sessment of the Northern Pacific property
and this rate of the levy