The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1896-01-04
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
the JAMESTOWN ASYLUM TO BE
INVESTIGATED.
state Enforcement League Has Closed
Many Blind Pigs-Prominent Buffalo
Physician Murdered by Maniac.
lloyd Bank Liabilities.
Jamestown has 700 children

BANK A1aO1l1t1oSs
Jamestown has 700 children of school
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Bathgate is preparing to incorporate
asa city. = =:
North Dakota has IL lady superin-
tendents Of schools.
A lodge of Modern Woodmen was or
gahized at Leeds last week.
Potatoes are scarce and hard to get at
Glendale. The farmers would not dig
them last fall because the price was low.
The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Asa Sergeant of Caledonia swallowed a
number of pills and died within half an
hour from the effects. -,
An Emmons county man who started
a month ago for Ohio has not been
heard Of since, and his family fear that
he met with foul play.
The little son of Lisbon lawyer &C.
complished the feat of falling from the
topSof q 50-foot windmill the other day
and he was not hurt in the least, so the
report goes. 49,
The insane asylum investigation will
begin at Jamestown on Jan. z. The
present investigation will be confined to
charges of financial crookedness.
T. Charges of immortality will be aired
later.
Fire Of an incendiary origin burned
up Sharp & Purtz's elevator. at Kuhn.
Upwards Of 10000 bushels of wheat
and flax was destroyed. Sawyer and
Arnold's lumber yard was set on fire at
the same time.
The stockholders in the Jamestown
Hotel companies will ask the courts to
appoint receiver for the corporation.
s. K. McGinnis, owner of half the
stock, is the principal in this step. Mis-
management Of affairs is alleged
Attorney J.F. .Kinne of New Rockford
is dead of pneumonia. He had been res
ident of Eddy county for about eight
years and was the recognized head of
the Popuiist party there, and served two
terms as states attorney.
Mrs. A. II. Laughlin, wife Of the
commissioner of agriculture and labor,
has secured divorce on the grounds OF
cruelty. Mr.. Laughlin first brought
suit against his wife, alleging desertion,
but she brought a counter suit and won
Dr. A. A. yozng. os Baasls, was
murdered Saturday by A. G. Peterson,
a farmer residing near that place. The
doctor had been called to attend Peter.
son, who had become suddenly insane,
and was attacked by the maniac and
killed. @
Narcisse Grant died at Fargo after a
short illness, caused by blood poisoning
from the effects of wound received
while digging well q short time ago.
Deceased was the oldest resident of the
state that had been born in what is
now North Dakota. He was 6S years
old.
A member of the executive. commit.
tee Of The State Enforcement league
states that, beginning with June, the
league, with the aid Of detectives in its
employ, had secured evidence against
223 blind pigs in the state, and has
closed 158, principally in the valley
counties, though considerable work has
been done in the northern part Of the
state.
The total liabilities of Lloyds' James
town bank at the time Of its failure
were $25l, 900. Since then there has
been collected and paid to depositors
$l12, $50 and there is now on hand for
the last distribution about $27, 500. The
expense of the receivership has been
about $l3, 200 which added to the above
make the aggregate collections since
the failure about $3.50, 200.
Some weeks ago suit was commenced
in the district court of Grand Forks by
County Treasurer Holmes to compel
the authorities of st. Luke's hospital to
pay 10 years taxes on their hospital
property, for which the property had
been assessed in the usual way, but
Judge Templeton decided the case in
favor of the hospital holding that the
property was exempt from taxation.
SEIZED GAME BIRDS. y.
The Minnesota Executive Agent Makes