Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-02-13
Who G. f.. Spencer is.

The last issue Of the organ of the Phar-
isees, the Bismarck Settler, contained an
editorial headed, "Who is Spencer?"
Then the organ proceeded to paint what
it called the senator's record. The pic
ture was so black and false, that any one
could see at glance that the dauber
was rabid fanatic.
Fortunately, a gentleman who resides
at Bismarck, Captain Moorhouse, was
withGen. Spencer during several import
ant epochs IN this country's history and
he calls the liar down in this way, through
card in the Tribune:
The writer of this communication met
Captain Geo. E. Spencer in the summer
of 1862 at Corinth, Miss. At that time
Capt. Spencer was A. A. G. on the staff
of Gen. G. Nj. Dodge of Iowa. President
Lincoln always claimed that there we're
loyal men in the south, even in the cot
ton states, 60 Capt. Spencer was authori
zed to recruit q regiment of loyal Alaba
mians, at that time dangerous piece of
business, requiring plenty of nerve and
good Judgment. Capt. Spencer sue
ceeded and as natural consequence was
made colonel of the regiment. After a
short period of service in the field, he
was made brigadler general by President
Lincoln and was on duty in Sherman's
army of the Tennessee. On the march to
the sea, Gen. Fitzpatrick commanded the
cavalry with Gen. Spencer second in COM
mand. He marched with Sherman until
the surrender of Joe johnson. General
Spencer headed his loyal Alabamians in
the grand review in Washington. As a
natural result of his military connection
with Alabama Union soldiers, at the
close OF the war he settled in Alabama
and was elected United States senator
from that state, and at the end of his
term shared the same fate as all other
Union soldiers who located in "Dixie's
Land" / have never had the pleasure of
meeting Mrs. Spencer, but those who
have met her say that she is a charming
lady, christian and charitable almost to a
fault. She is the wife of a gallant ex
Union general and ought not to be at
tackled by the newspapers.
write this because I think that an
editorial published in the Settler the
other day does General Spencer great
injustice.
Raising the Corn-GrOwing Limit.
1t is generally supposed that the
northern half Of Minnesota and North
Dakota are out of the corn belt, and
that corn will never be a leading crop
here. This is perhaps true of corn as a
grain crop, says an agricultural exchange,
but, of late the value of corn as a forage
plant has come to be recognized in the
great corn belt, as we'll as further north,
and for forage it Is likely to become
quite as important a crop as wheat in
northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
Stock is as much necessity near the
international boundary as elsewhere if
farming is to be successful, and no feed
for stock can be grown in greater guam
titles and more cheaply than corn and,
whether cured in the field without husk-
ing. or cut up and stored in the silo, it
must be a main reliance as fodder crop
on all farms where stock is kept. The
appreciation OF the value of corn for fod-
der has extended the corn belt a long
way to the northwest of its old supposed
limit. In the corn states the feeding
value of corn has never been realized,
much of the fodder being wholly wasted.