Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-01-18
Better Seed Wheat Needed for
Many Portions of North
Dakota.
A South Dakota Beaver Pas.
ture.-Express Package
Complication.
B0mberger's Hanging to be in
Full View of All Spec
tatOrS.
How Congressman Johnson
Cot to Compensation
His Wife HELPED.

| lot TO COngreSS.--HO
His Wife Helped.
The board Of railroad commissioners
are in Minneapolis endeavoripg to get
the elevator companies to place pure
| seed wheat on the track at Minnesota
| points, at market price, so that farmers
Of this state can exchange their wheat
for it and pay small difference It is
expected that railroads will give half
rate back on tue seed so exchanged. The
! portions of the state where smut has got
in the grain to considerable extent, are
greatly in need Of pure seed. There is
no begging scheme of any kind connect
| ed with the attempt of the commission
ers to get improved seed, as some OF the
newspapers have inferred and stated.
While absent the railroad commissioners
| will also endeavor to get consent of the
Great Northern to construct a "Y' for
| transfer purposes between that com
pany's track and the tracks of the North
ern Pacific at Fargo. All transfers
heretofore have been made at Moorhead.
causing great Inconvenience to Shippers.
A peculiar case comes to light at Grand
| Harbor, says the Devils Lake Free Press.
On December 5th last Twin City bank
shipped an express package to Morgridge
& Merrick of that place. Merrlck was
sick at the time and Morgrldge receiving
no notice from the express agent and not
expecting shipment Of currency at that
time, did not know of the package until
the bank called for his receipt about
Decempe Goth. An investigation fol-
lowed and Morgridge confronted by the
express agent with receipt over wLat
purports to be his own signature He
claims that he never signed the receipt
and pever received the one Thousand
dollars, and the agent claims that be did
sign the receipt and did get the money.
Mr.. Morgridge is in St. Paul to present
bis case to the express company officials
A similar case is reported from Minot,
where Agent Kelly, OF the Great North
ern railroad, holds the receipt of W. J.
Carroll for 1900 which the latter claims
he never received.
| Lindbloom 4 Co., Chicago grain men
men say that, taking the government
crop report as authority, 5O,OOO,0O0
bushels of old wheat surplus have been
exported. II consumption remains the
same, the first Of July will see the bot
tom Of grain bins throughout the coun-
try, when the seed reserves have been
used. 1t Is reported in the current sta
tlstics OF the boards OF trade that the
acreage Of winter wheat sown last fall
was 20 per cent less than last year, in
this country, and IS per cent less in
England. In the face Of all these rea-
sons for higher prices, wheat spectators
are selling short, bearing markets, and
farmers are giving them material by
selling the actual grain for IS cents a
bushel. The real reason of low prices is
not in the quantity of wheat on hand, or
the prospect for the next crop, but the
inability Of men to invest large sums in
wheat for rise, and the necessity OF
farmers selling what they have, to live.
Sheriff McCune has selected as the To-.
cality for the execution OF Bombercer,
Friday next, small meadow near Caudo.
The elevated ground surrounding the
meadow will afford ample opportunity to
all who desire to witness the execution,
being OF sufficient altitude to afford a
good view above the top of the enclosure.
The sheriff will bs sure that Bomberger
will be there IN ample time to fill his ap
pointment; but Sheriff McCune has de-
clded he will not allow him to be inter.
viewed, 50 that any confession or revel-
alton he may have to make will be made
on the scaffold. The scafRold will be 20
feet high and the fence surrounding it 6
feet high. All can see the execution who
wish to do 80. The murderer takes
things coolly, joking and laughing about
the coming ordeal.
There will shortly be sale Of the hay
on school lands belonging to the state,
in the SIX Red river counties, AZ we'll as
in the counties Of Barnes, Ransom, Sar-
gent and LsMoure, while leases OF cult
vated lands running from one to five
years will be offered soon, also, by the
commissioner. Advertisements of the
same will shortly appear in the news
papers Of the counties wherein the lands