The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-17
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
F,nd.ns q way.

letters to every member of the state
legislature ,asking for m expression
OF opinion regarding the advisability
OF calling special session Of the leg-
islature relative to relieving some Of
the state institutions Of their finan-
cial troubles by making an appropri-
alton from the general fund.
The governors plan is to appropria-
ate for immediate availability the sum
OF 500. 600, another $4,000 to Be
available March /, 1904, and another
appropriation of $4,000 to $4,000 to
be available march /, 1905. This
would make total appropriation of
from $500, 900 to $325, 900, and the gov
ernor says that the general fund will
stand the amount. In event of spe-
cial session this will be the recomr
mendation of the governor to the
members.
,rrioatlnp.
w. C. McHugh and Guy Frank, who
each own a fine ranch out on Shell
creek, in Minot, are making prepare
tons to irrigate their land next
spring and are causing bitches to be
dug over their land now and the
ooulees to be damned. Mr.. McHugh
irrigated q few acres this season and
says the grass is great deal finer on
TINT strip Of land than ON that sur
rounding. He expects to break 100
acres next year and put the land in.
to crops of various kinds. His land ID
at the mouth of acoulee ten. miles
long and is located right id the val
ley. The water can easily be run up
the creek mile. This will make one
Of the most valuable farms in Ward
county.
Ole I. Reinstad, farmer living
several miles southeast of Reynolds,
and his son, aged seventeen, were
smothered by gas in a we'll on their
farm which they were about to clean
out.
s. p. Green of Winnebago was in.
stantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of gun carried by Frank
Wilds, son of farmer near Osna-
brook whom Green was visiting. The
two were out hunting and Wilds
stepped into a gopher hole and his
gun was discharged. The shot took
effect in the back of Green's head.
Green leaves a wife and two children,
Badly Burned. 80
Margaret, the three-year-old daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James O. Coffin,
of Grand Forks, was the victim of q
fearful accident. She was playing
about the yard, and crossed over into
q neighbours yard in which bonfire
was burning, and is supposed to have
deliberately walked into the flames.
Without doubt she would have been
fatally burned at once had it not
been for David Warren, who resides
next door, who noticed the little one
and rushing to her extinguished the
flames in the child's clothing with his
coat in which he rolled her.
Suicide.
Sebastian Hendricks of. Washburn
forty-four years old, and unmarried
committed suicide by cutting his
throat from ear to ear with o dull
knife in the Second National bank
at Minot. He was found unconscious
but Coroner Crokat revived him with
drugs and learned his name and ad.
dress. The man shortly before he
died said he had a brother Joe al
Washburn and said he took his own
life. His wrists were badly cut. He
had been drinking heavily and was
short of funds.
Raises Apples.
That apples can be successfully
raised is demonstrated by the fact
that II. Frise, of Hamilton, at the
present time has several trees full OF
fruit on his farm east of town. He
has trees of more different varieties
viz: Russian Emperor, and Western
Beauty, cooking apples, and the
Duchess of Oldenburg, an. eating ap.
pie of unusually fine flavor. The yield
this year is very good. Mr.. Frise
also has few trees of tame plums
which are loaded with fine fruit.
News Notes.
A Presbyterian church has been or.
ganized at Underwood, Ward county,