The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1896-01-11
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
NORE LISTS OF LANDS APPROVED
By SECRETARY SMITH.

4 Raid ON the Jamestown Blind Pigs
Yielded Two Carloads Of quors.
Divorce Made Easier-Early Closing
at Valley city.
It was so below at Pembina during
the recent cold spell.
Fargo has another wholesale grocery
house, making four in all.
The school census shows that Grand
Forks has 1858 children Of school age.
Grand Forks city water works cost
$9,S79. 10 for operating during the past
year.
G. A. Peterson, who killed DR.. Young
at Buffalo, has been sent to the James.
town asylum.
Valley City has adopted the early
closing movement, all business houses
closing at o'clock.
DR.. G. w. Hahler, veserinary sur
geon of Cavalier, suicided by taking
seven grains of morphine.
The pope Saturday received in an.
dience Archbishop Hennessy Of Du-
buque, and Bishop Stanley of North
Dakota.
The citizens of Medora, N. D., cele.
brated the departure Of Wadsworth,
who was acquitted Of murder, by hang
ing the jury in the case in effigy.
The state educational association met
at Grand Forks last week. 1t was one
Of the largest and most enthusiastic
gatherings of teachers in the history of
the state.
Scottish Rite bodies of Fargo have
been presented with an $500 oil paint.
ing Of the late General Albert Pike,
grand commander of the supreme coun.
Gil, Southern jurisdiction.
The Whipple cheese factory at Spirit
wood bought during the past season
212, 600 pounds of milk at about 30 cents
per 100 pounds. Over $4,000 pounds of
cheese were made, which sold at an
average price Of cents per pound.
Sheriff Eddy with five deputies made
raid upon Jamestown blind pigs Fri
day night. Six places where illicit sale
of Intoxicating liquors has been carried
on were locked up by the sheriff and
the liquors were hauled away for safe
keeping.
Heretofore 70 days notice has been
required in order to start divorce pro-
ceedings The new law is changed so
as to make the time necessary "a days.
South Dakota as divorce center must
now step aside and give the business to
North Dakota.
The North Dakota Editorial associa-
ton has presented Editor Miller of the
Minnewaukan Siftings with a hand.
some gold watch and chain to show
their appreciation of his untiring efforts
in arranging the Atlanta excursion and
looking after the details Of the trip.
In the United States court at Fargo
o. w. Kerr of Northwood was fined
$50 for sending illegal matter through
the mails, and J. G. Tucker, the EN-.
bezzling postmaster at Dunseitn, was
sentenced to 13 months in the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, and fined $S65, the
amount of his embezzlement.
Mrs. Louise Tyler Of New York city,
who has been member of the Grand
Forks divorce colony for three months,
has been granted divorce from her
husband, William Tyler, on the grounds
Of habitual drunkenness and willful
neglect. It is claimed that the husband
is New York club man of considerable
wealth.
The secretary Of the treasury has ap-
proved the selection Of 1900. 900 acres Of
land in the Bismarck district and $685..
600 acres in the Miles City district,
made by the Northern Pacific Railroad
company. These lands are within the
primary limits Of the grants to the com.
pany, the former list being largely made
up Of the cheap "bad lands" in North
Dakota.
In the recent raid upon the blind pigs
Of Jamestown by the state enforcement
league about two carloads of liquors
were captured. In the annex to the
Gladstone hotel over 81, 900 worth Of
liquors were conflscated, and in another
pig 500 worth. The liquor was taken
to the county court house and jailed
until by order Of the court they are
publicly destroyed.