Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-07-30
NORTHERN PACIFIC SOLD.
Formal Transfer of Property
to:Northern Pacific Railway
Company.
President Winter, Officials and
Representatives Went
West Sunday.

President Winter of the "Northern Pa
oitic Railway Company" and party went
west Sunday afternoon in special train
to make the formal transfer of property
in the different states and formally end
the corporate existence Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad company.
The party consisted Of Edwin w. Win
ter, president Of the new organization ;
General Manager j. W. Kendrick; Gen
eral Traffic Manager j. M. Hannaford;
General Superintendent M. c. Kimberly,
Jno. Hickey, superintendent of motive
power, machinery and rolling stock; E.
H. McHenry, receiver; w. L. Dar-
ing, division engineer. eastern division !;
VIM. Nelson Cromwell, general counsel
New York city. and attorney for the
Adams reorganization committee; Fran
cis Lynde Stetson, attorney for, and g.
Fl. Coster, a member Of the firm OF, J..
Pierpont Morgan & Co.; Ed D. Adams,
chairman of the re. organization commit
Ice; and Alfred Carey, special master,
appointed by Judge Jenkins of the
United States circuit court for the east
ern district OF Wisconsin, to engineer
the sale of the property; and other off
cials and representatives of the various
interests. The special train consisted
of seven cars, one of which was the
special car "Dromio,' magnificently
equipped, which the Northern Pacific
had on exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
The party was bound west to the coast
only stopping at one place in each state
where the formality OF the transfer by
sale Of the company's interest in that
district would take place. At Mandan
the eale Of the company's land IN North
Dakota took place, and as fast as the party
can reach che several other states the
sales will be made-ln Missoula Mont. :;
Rathburn, Idaho; Seattle, Wash. and
Portland, Oregon. This will complete
ern Pacific railway company" will have
risen from the wreck of Northern the
Pacific railroad.
The entire railroad and telegraph lines
from Lake Superior to Portland, Ore. :,
together with the entire equip
ment, ETC., was sold in West Superior
Saturday for s1O,OOO,OOO to the "North-
ern Pacific railway company" The
same company also purchased the first
mortgage bonds Of other companies-the
branch lines-reeeived by the Farmers
Loan and Trust company as security
for the consolidated bonds of the North
ern Pacific, for S2,0OO,OOO. All the
estate, right sni title of the Northern
Pacific under leases or otherwise-the
contracts of the branch lines-was bid in
by Mr.. Winter also, for the reorgsnizs-
ton, for $5O0,00O.
A Campaign of Misrepresentation.
President James O'Connell Of the
International Association Of Machinists
has made statement regarding an al
legged interview with him in New York
that has been going the rounds Of the
gold standard press. he was quoted as
being IN favor Of the single gold stand
ard and that the association, OF which he
is executive, was strongly IN favor Of it.,
fearing that the adoption Of free silver
would mean the reduction of wages
throughout the country. 1t shows to
what ends the gold standard press will
20 and also how they are often times
hoisted by their own petsrd. Mr..
O'Connell denies the interview, has not
been in New York for months, has not
been interviewed, and adds:
"The supposed interview misrepresents
me and is a malicious falsehood from
beginning to end. The International
Association of Machinists at it's last con-
vention declared in favor OF the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver
Federation of Labor at the last three
COuV0ullOuS ueClOcu Ou Uuc Sdue lines.
and could not honestly represent either
organization if the supposed interview
we're true.
Il am in favor of the free and un-
limited coinage of gold and silver at the
ratio of l6 to l, Notwithstanding news
paper reports to the contrary. speak
my views on this question. I have no
right to speak for others. 1t is fight
between the masses and the classes, and
as have always been with the masses,
I shall continue to do battle in the
THE NORTH DAKoTAN WAS INDIGNANT.
At the caucus of the "middle of the
road" men Immediately after the ad-
journment of the St. Louis convention
Wednesday evening, the name of North
Dakota delegate, without his knowledge
or consent, was placed on the committee
Of organization to resist the abandon
ment OF partisan ties for the success of
the movement, so strongly urged by