The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-11-09
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
THE STATE VACCINE FARM A SUc-
CESS.

Mass Meeting to He Held at Grand
Forks to Express Sympathy for Gu
bans-Blind Pigs at Grandin Caught.
Supreme Court Decision Of Interest.
A postoffice has been established at
straub in Wallace county.
A turnip weighing 171a pounds was
raised this year near Hillsboro.
- .. Grand Forks business men have con-
oluded the organization Of their union.
The Great Western elevator at Coop.
erstown burned with 10000 bushels Of
wheat.
The Farmers State bank has been in
corporated at Cavalier with capital Of
$4,000.
Thirty-five freight crews are at work
on the Dakota division Of the Northern
Pacific.
w. J. Bryan the silver tonged silver
advocate Of Nebraska is soon to speak
at Grand Forks.
Fargo has voted in favor Of an issue
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tension of sewer and water mains.
An artesian well only 263 feet deep on
the farm of Michael Sencer in Grand
Forks county, flows 40 barrels Of water
daily.
The sheriff Of Cass county made a
raid on the blind pigs at Grandin last
week and caught one man for the Sec
ond offense.
The Nelson County Herald wants to
organize North Dakota Business Mems
union, taking in all the towns in the
state that will organize.
Thomas Harrison Of Trail county has
been appointed by Governor Allin as
delegate for the state at large to the
immigration convention to be held at
St. Paul.
3. L. Merritt, general appraiser of
abandoned military reservations for the
government, is at Bismarck preparing
to make apprisal of the abandoned Fort
Lincoln reserve, and probably that at
Fort Stevenson.
Judge Thomas has rendered a decis-
ion in the famous Bismarck waterworks
case, in which he refuses to grant the
application to remove it from the state
court to the United States court, hold
ing it not proper to be transferred on
the showing made.
State Auditor Briggs has paid to the
different counties $;48, 900, being the ap-
portionment Of gross earnings tax paid
by the railroads. This is the last pay
ment of tax which will be made under
the gross earnings law, which was re-
pealed by the last legislature.
A call was issued Saturday for
state mass meeting to be held at Grand
Forks Nov. IA and Is to organize
North Dakota Woman's Suffrage asso.
citation. The call is signed by Susan B.
Anthony and others, and is the result
Of state work being done by Mrs. Johns
of Kansas.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Fargo Thursday and resolutions were
adopted indorsing the Cuban revolution
lists in the fight for freedom being waged
by them against Span. The meeting
was presided over by Mayor Ball, and
stirring addresses were delivered by
Bishop Stanley and others.
George o. Goodwin & Sons of Han
kinson, recent purchasers Of the Han
kinson starch factory, are negotiating
with the citizens of Lisbon with the
view of establishing starch plant at
that place. The factory, as contempla-
ted, will have capacity for consuming
1900 bushels of potatoes daily.
North Dakota's vaccine farm is 10.
Gated near Valley City and is success
fully at work getting smallpox vaccine
points. 1t is now producing over II 600
points a week. They are used in Fargo
quite extensively among the doctors,
and thousands Of them are sent abroad,
Dr. Bertillon of Paris being one of the
regular purchasers.
Before Judge Mcconnell in Steele
county case of seduction was brought
by Norwegian girl against Gustav
Anderson. After hearing the evidence
the court advised the jury to bring in q
verdict for the defendant, because Of
the previous unchaste conduct of the
plaintiff. The jury couldn't see it that
way, and brought in verdict of guilty.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the case
Of Chacey vs.. The City Of Fargo. The
plaintiff is the woman who stepped into
hole in sidewalk occasioned by the
displacement of o loose plank by pass
ing bicycle. She secured verdict Of
,75O damages, and the city appealed
on the ground that the loose plank was
not the proximate cause of injury.
Governor Allin and party have re-
turned from trip through the coal
mining regions in the northern part of
Burleigh county, and are Of the opinion
that for some years to come there will
be no lack of a home supply Of excellent
fuel. While it is generally known that
there are liberal veins of coal in that
locality, the magnitude Of the supply
was not appreciated until after trip
through the several mines.
Sailor Gets Damages.
/ SEATTLE. Wash, Oct. S0.-Judgl