The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-13
WINCHESTER
HAS CLEAR FIELD.
SIXTH DISTRICT DEMOCRATS DO
NOT NOMINATE.
State Irrigation Congress to Meet at
Mandan Sept. ~, the First Day Of
the Fair, to Keep the People Inter
ested-Cattlemen Advised to Buy the
States Dipping Tanks.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. -
Bismarck, n. D.. Sept 13.-Judge Winchester
of the sixth judicial district will have ops
position for the judgeship this fall. He is the
republican candidate and has been on the bench
since statehood. Altho he has been, one of the
principal objects of assault by both democrats
and independents. this year the independent
democratic judicial convention did not make any
nomination against lin. A candidate may be
chosen by the executive committee, but there is
little likelihood of this being done.
General E. A. Williams of the state irrigation :
congress has issued the official call for meet
ing of the state congress at Mandan Sept.
p, the first day of the state fair. George
H. Maxwell, executive chairman of the national
irrigation congress, will Ike address on irri-
CATION on the first day of the fair The con.
gress will take steps to keep the matter of
irrigation to the front The officers are salts
fed with the progress of the work so far. The
| government has several engineering parties max
ing surveys in the state. One has been working
| along the Little Missouri river, with view to
determining whether dam can be built and the
waters stored for the adjacent lands. Another
party is working along the Missouri and severalL
| smaller parties on smaller projects. The repre-
sentation in the convention will consist of all
members of the first state irrigation congress.
all state and federal officials. members of boards
of county commissioners and mayors and alder
men of cities
| Judges Young and Engerud of the supreme
| court have returned to Fargo to prepare for thee
opening of term of the supreme court at Grand
Forks on Sept 20. Except for twenty five or
thirty cases. the court disposed of the work of.
| the spring term The court will return to the
city in October to begin the second session ofs
the fall term at Bismarck. - 49, 30. m
| 1t has been suggested to the cattlemen of thes
western part of ,the state that they form an Org
ganization and purchase the dipping tanks erect-s
ed by the state for the treatment of cattles
affected with scab. The tanks could be secured
at small cost and maintained by stocknians
association. in order. that prompt steps could
be taken to dip cattle in of another cpl
demic.
Among the to be tried at the term Of
court in Mercer county. beginning this week. is
that of Mrs. Good Roads Woman, a full-blooded
Indian who is charged with the murder Of her
husband, also Indian. The murdered man:
had taken land In severalty and hence the county,
of Mercer has jurisdiction over the case. He
was found buried short distance from the
house, with deep wound. evidently made with
the blade of Ratchet or ak, in his head. Mrs.
Good Roads Woman has been in Jail at Bis
marck pending trial, and recently made stateZ
ment In which she charged an Indian named
Crow Ghost with the crime. .. ?