The Bottineau courant., 1895-11-30
NEWS
POPULISTS ARRANGE FO2 A STATE
CONVENTION.
Ihe Capitol Building Heated with Coal
Hauled In by Farmers - Celebrated
Cattle Stealing Case Concluded i Big
Farms Being Cut Up.

edness is wiped out.
Fargo is agitating the question of
building new city hall.
Twenty carloads of cattle were
shipped from LaMoure during October.
The Jamestown fair has arranged
matters SO the annual meetings will be
continued.
Oakwood is newly established post
office in Walsh county with Alex Gag
ner as postmaster.
1t is said that during the past month
Ex-Governor Burke handled over 81, ,OOO,.
600 worth Of grain.
Several townships in Sargent county,
have issued bonds for artesian wells
for irrigation purposes.
A party Of 10 farmers from Sargent
and Ransom counties have gone to the
Las Vegas valley, Nevada.
In roundup at Fargo, the police
secured Is cheap gamblers, the whole
gang having S5 cents among them.
Maud Paulson of Fargo has with
drawn her divorce case against her hus-
band, who killed her father Saturday.
The votes of one precinct in Burleigh
connty were returned to Bismarck 13
days after election, and too late to be
counted
E. Ashley Mears is still in Jail at
Fargo because he refuses to sign deeds
conveying back to the Minot bank GER
tain lands.
The North Dakota wheat crop for
1895 shows an average Of 218 bushels
per acre, of which not more than half
has been marketed.
Cadet Sam Magill, North Dakota's
| representative to Annapolis naval acad-
| emy, wins the gold medal in competi.
ton with 30 cadets.
| The Alert says that the dividends
from the L!oyd's estate at jamestown
will aggregate nearly GO per cent, in.
stead of IS per cent, as recently reported.
y Johu Parker was shot at Fessenden
and may die. His assailant was a res
taurant keeper named Paulson, whose
attentions to Parker's daughter were
objected to by the father.
Messrs. e. w. Blackwell and Crane
q johnson, Coopertown merchants,
recently presented the fire laddies of
that place with 800 as a mark of ap-
probation of their work.
DR.. G. P. Spottswood of Hankinson
went to sleep on q cot near red hot
stove. The cot overturned against the
stove and the doctors leg was so badly
burned that amputation may be neces-
sary.
The big farms in Grand Forks county
will, within the course of few years,
be cut up into some smaller ones. AS a
start in that direction the big farm of
Senator Arnold, in the western part of
the county, has been placed upon the
market for this purpose.
The celebrated cattle stealing case
against Peter Fredericks at Dickinson
has closed, defendant getting four and
one half years in the penitentiary and a
fine of $500. James Kelly and Jesse
Lindsey were each sentenced to three
and one-half years for horse stealing.
There are 5000 acres of land left
open to settlement in the Grand Forks
district, 10000 acres having been filed
upon during the past six months, and
with the big immigration which the
state is sure of, the land in this district
will be taken rapidly.
Anton Fons, q farmer living neal
Forman, was 50 badly cut in a stabbing
ARRAY that he will die. His assailant
was Ignast Pinnegoski, brother-in-
law, and the latter was defending his
sister against an assault by Fons. Pin.
negosh escaped after the cutting and
is still at large.
The Populist state central committee
met at Fargo and arranged for the call
ing of convention to select delegates
for the national convention and nomin.
ating state officers. Each county is en-
titled to one delegate, and one delegate
at large for each 200 votes cast for Pop
ulist state officers in 1894.
About 1876 tons of coal have been pur
chased up to date by the state capitol
from farmers, and it is coming In at the
rate of 10 to II tons daily. Ordinarily
the capitol uses about 1000 tons of Goa
during the winter season, but it is ex
pected to make quite saving this sea-
son, with storm windows all over the
building, and repairs and Improvement
to the heating apparatus.
George Ferguson and S. J. Hender.
son were arrested inside Northern Pa
cific freight car at Fargo, Of which they
had broken the seal. The former was
from Charles City, Ia, and had rur
away recently. The boys are boil
young and claimed to be attempting tt
steal ride and not goods, as the.
wanted to go to the Pacific coast. Th'
charge against them is apenitentiar!
offense in this state.