Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1885-07-31
Valley City Notes.

evening last week. The Valley City
band, in full uniform, enlivened the ex-
hibitlon with martial music. "Billy"
Dunlap, formerly with the COURIER,
now city editor OF the Times. is mem
ber of the band.
Hon. b. w. Benson, who is suffering
from diseased state Of the bones of
one of his feet, nearly bled to death,
Thursday night, by the rupture of an
artery. DR.. Vidal stopped the hemorrh-
age with great difficulty.
o. Paulson, one of the most success
full merchants in the capital of Barnes,
has moved into his new store. He has
lately purchased valuable business lots
of c. +. Kindred.
A potion of the Valley City base ball
club went to Fargo, Saturday, to meet
the hitherto invlnclble Wahpeton nine.
The score at the end of the game was Is
to 2, in favor of Valley City. With the
full strength OF the nine the boys would
be still running bases. The battery is a
terror this year.
This term of court promises to be an
expensive luxury for Barnes county-in
warrants, which. unfortunately for the
gentle tax payer, crystalize into money
after a while.
COURT NOTES.
l. NJ. Burr was convicted, Saturday,
of obtaining money: of Herbert Root un-
der false pretenses. Gen. Wilson ap-
peared for the territory, G. X. Andrus
for the prisoner. His defense was in
sanity. The general impression around
town.is that Burr is not of sound mind.
lie borrowed $500 of Banker Root OH
fictitious security, to make payment
to MIR. Richie for his confectionery
stand. This was od Saturday forenoon.
He straightway mortgaged the prop
erty to Richie to secure another pay
ment of $500 to be made Monday MORN
ing. He took as an equal partner in the
business, a man without capital and
without experienced crazy deal all
around.
Chris Snyder was found guilty of burg
larlZing Covey 4 brown S store at SAM
born. The presence III court Of the de-
PENDANTS s wife and baby created little
tlutter Of compassion.
V The editor of the Darlington News
says, i'll All account of his recent trip to
Cooperstown: Although there seems
| to be no settlers or improvements any
| where, as far as the eye could reach both
north and south, yet, from point some
four or five miles south Of Bowlnan's
ford, there was a clearly defined and
well travelled trail from the Jamestown
to the Fort Totten road. whichruns par
allel with the river and about a mile
east of it, right into Cooperstown. Who
could have originally made this trail, OF
who needs to travel it now, through
district so sparseiy populated, we failed
to ascertain. With the exception of
Bradford s. the only beings we saw in
twenty mile drive, other than birds and
gophers, were three antelopes and a cou
pie of gigantic white cranes. Crossing
into Griggs county. there is a percepta-
ble difference in the outlook. 1t is quite
easy to see that our heighbors have had
couple of years the start OF us and
have well improved their opportunities.
Many substantial farms, with fine build
lngs, abundance of machinery large areas
in crop. show how rapidly and surely is
the settler development and progress
towards stable prosperity in spite of a
season of 50-cent wheat like last
year. Settlements comparatively thick
all the way from the county line into
Cooperstown. and now that Western
Griggs is filling up. Eastern Foster will
be apt to get the overflow in this direc-
ton. This splendid section of the coun-
try ought certainly soon to invite the
construction of railroad from Caring
ton to Cooperstown. There do not ap-
pear to be any obstacles to rapid and
inexpensive railroad building. and the
waste land is only an inlinitesimal per-
centage. Cooperstown is not quite SO
large place as Darlington, but there
are more business houses, and the little
town wears an air of unmistakable pros
perity. Its public buildings give it a
very stylish appearance. The brick
court house. costing $4,000, is one of
the handsomest edifices in Dakota. The
public school, costing $4,000. and the
hotel, are also ornamental structures.
Crops in the county look well, and
promise one Of Dakota's very best har-
vests"