Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-10-06

second train were slightly injured in
jumping from the train. The stock
men in the caboose of the second
train were shaken up to some extent,
but not hurt. Their stock was run
in here today and the men continued
on their way east. Some of the
stOckmen in the second train rend-
cred valuable assistance in clearing
the wreck, releasing cattle that were
penned up in the overturned cars and
in helping to chop away the wreck
age and get at the bodies Of the dead
men. 1t S said that two of the men
were stock owners and had their own
stock on the train
INCREASED JURISDICTION.
Many counties this year are asking
for an increase of the jurisdiction of
the county court, that the expense Of
litigation may be not only decreased,
but that property tied up by machin-
cry and other collections may be
more speedily returnd to the owner.
AS it is now, with two terms OF
court each year, a farmer often gets
his property seized by a cranky col
lector, who ought to be driven off
the farm with a shotgun, and the
same is withheld from him for
months and until the litigation is
terminated. With increased juris-
diction it will take just 25 days for
the rights of the parties to be ter
minated in court.
Any person arrested for a mis-
demeanor can be brought to final
trial before jury in 4S hours. Ar
rests have frequently been made in
this county charging petit larceny,
gambling. Or liquor selling, and the
prisoners have been held for more
than five months in jail at heavy
expense to the county. when the de-
fendant could have been put upon
his trial in "a hours and been a say-
ing of several hundred dollars to the
taxpayers
The expense of the county court
would be no more than it is now. At
present the salary of the count y
Judge is $500. with an additional $50
for each druggist permit-and there
are three-making $3.50, or within s22O
a year of what the salary is under
increased jurisdiction.
There is every reason and argument
in favor of increased jurisdiction.
and none against, and the county
will be twenty dollars ahead for every
additional dollar of expense. La the
counties in the southern part OF the
state where they have tried increased
jurisdiction for several years it gives
the best of satisfaction. In Nebraska
the county courts all have increased
Jurisdiction and in many other states
the same unless where the popula-
tion is heavy enough to have a dis
trict Judge for each county, and in
such case the district court is always
open and has the same advantage
conferred by increased Jurisdiction.
New Rockford Transcript.
MACARONI WHEAT GROWERS.
The growers of macaroni wheat in
this state will be interested in the
statement made by Congressman
Tom Marshall before the members Of
the Fargo Commercial club, upon
the necessity of establishing the
market and definite grade for
CuIum or Macaroni wheat. He has
taken the matter up in Minneapolis,
st. Paul, Duluth and Superior and
discussed it with the board Of trade
men and millers at these points. He
stated the greatest opposition to
establishing certain market grading
reg ulations was from millers. but
that millers in those cities had ...been
for sometime quietly buying, grind
ing and blending macaroni wheat
with the ordinary spring wheat.
He stated that the growing Of maca-
roni wheat had come to stay, and
some milleIE he met in Minnesota
informed him that if there was an
option market for Durum wheat it
would hold price within to s cents
of the regular grades, instead of 25
cents off. Eastern millers are being
instructed as to the matter of hand
ling and grinding macaroni wheat
and a better sentiment is being es-
tablished in favor Of that wheat in
the east. The production is row
only about 2.OOO,0 900 bushels and it is
only question OF a sholt time when
it will greaJly exceed that. The
bread from this flour IS nn1ing favor
in a great many localities and in
Duluth it was found tnat certain
bakers were using so per cent Of
durum -four in business at present.
The Washburn Crosby Co., Of Min
neapolts, last year used 400. 900 bushels
of this wheat, which he claimed they
mead RI hlond with other 3OnrS and