The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-12-28
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
SECRETARY SMITH APPROVES STATE
LISTS OF LANDS.

Lioyds Bank, ut Jamestown, Disposss
Of $50, 800 Of Assets For o2,970.
Board to Report on the Locations - .
Government Post Near Bismarck.
Quite number of Wolves are being
trapped in Stutsman county this winter.
Representative @. L. Lindstrom Of
Oberon says that the average wheat
yield for Benson county will be fully
thirty bushels to the acre.
A jail.bird at New Rockford over.
came the turnkey and made good his
escape. Several bullets were sent after
him, but no harm was done.
The franchise and property Of tho
Barnes county fair association will b
sold at auction to realize money with
which to pay the indebtedness.
M H. Sclmitz, one of the most prom
inent and successful business men Of
Jamestown, is dead of pneumonia. He
was prominent member Of several
fraternal secret societies.
Dickey county officials will not have
their court house for public entertain
ments-without pay for it. If used for
dances, it costs 81, for church a., for
shows So, concerts by home talent and
temperance addresses S..
John Boyle, agent of the 500 line at
Bordulac, has been sentenced to pay .
fine Of $50 costs and to be imprisoned
until the fine is paid Boyle, in COM
pany with other employees of the COM
pany, permitted passengers to ride ON
freight cars at less than schedule rates.
The trial Of the action brought BY
Robert Coulter against the Great
Northern road in Grand Forks for $780,
600 damages, came to an erd in district
court, Judge Temp eton directing yer.
dict for the road on the ground that
the plaintiff had been guilty Of con-
tributory negligence.
Richland county lays claim to the
champion baby of the state. being the
son of Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Rubish, Of
Paramount township. The infant is
just eleven months old and weighs .
trife over seventy-five pounds, and is
increasing in weight every day. His
parents are not above average size.
Representative johnson says that
since the repeal of the timber culture
and pre.emption laws there is no in
ducement for men to 60 to North Da-
kota and take up land for homes. He
a.; ;,,fr
that homestead entry for 500 acres
may be made for any public land in the
United States.
The last of the assets of Lloyd1
defunct bank, at Jamestown, have been
sold. Some Of these, aggregating
SISO,OOO, and consisting Of notes,
ella ms, debts and demands, have
finally been put up at public auction.
The total amount realized from this
worthless paper, which for years was
figured in assets of the bank, was
little more than ~ per cent. $2,27o.
Secretary Smith has approved Lists
No. % and % of the indemnity selee-
tions by the Northern Pacific Railresa
company of lands in the Fargo district.
The lists embrace 256, $40, 260 and $50
acres, respectively. They are the same
lists that were filed by the company -
indemnity for lands lost between Supe.
rior and Ashland, Wis, which the Sec
retary decided the company had no
right to select.
A board composed of Major General
Merritt, Colonel George H. Weeks, Of
the quartermaster's department. and
Lieutenant Colonel George Randall,
Eighth infantry, has been ordered to
meet at Bismarck, on call Of General
Merritt, to make thorough examine
ton Of all the sites for a military post
at or near B smarck which may be Of.
fered for donation to the United States
for that purpose. The board is to 10.
port to the cretaay of war.
| Three Persons Fatally Injured.
CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-Three persons
We're probably fatally injured in An
accident on the Metropolitan IL" road
at Forty-eighth street and West Har.
risol. Those injurel are: w. h.
Brady, motorman; William r. King.
conductor; John Schiller, passen ger.
The motorman lost control of his an
paratus and a combination motor and
passenger Car crashed over the bumpers
and down to the street, 20 feet below.
| Fox River Consoiidstion.
MENASHA, Wis, Dec. 2h.-It is almost
certain now that the plan Of w. z.
Stuart to consolidate the water poweg
interests of the Fox river valley will 70