The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-04-27

North Dakota bricklayers anticipate
a big business this year.
A fat iron vendor victimized num-
Der of people of Walhalla.
Board jumpers at Bismarck were
rounded up at jamestown.
Fifteen young men were recruited
at Wahpeton for the navy.
At Enderlin duck hunter was sue
cessful in shooting horse.
IaAfoure county is getting a large
number of splendid settlers.
The Aneta postmaster wants applf-
cants for rural mail carriers.
Thirty new towns in North Dakota
along the new line of the 500.
More fine horses are being secured
for the country around Towner.
Starkweather people are interested
in the organization of a creamery.
The Great Northern will put in q
siding between Bottineau and Souris.
Williston is to have waterworks and
other improvements of IN up-to-date
city.
Teachers are planning to have lot
of trees planted by the school chill
dren.
George Won Media lost seventy tons
of hay in prairie fire near Ken
mare.
Some Sanborn men are to break
prairie land this summer with a
steam plow.
The people of Rugby are very hope
full of securing the Norwegian Luth-
Gran hospital.
Hannaford will spend $500 to open
up q new road leading out of town
to the north.
Minot baseball fans have elected
officers and arranged plans for the
coming season.
f. w. Schletter of Fessenden has
been appointed game warden of the
northern district.
York expects an increased business
when the Great Northern branch is
built to Dunseith.
There has, been considerable &c"
tivity in preparing the race tracks for
the seasons sport.
the state university this year from
June &c. to Aug. 4.
Three rural routes are now oper~
ated from Bowbells, and the fourth
one is to be started.
In Ward county, between March l.,
1904, and March /, 1905, there were
LOO final proofs made.
A Great Northern roundhouse will
be built at Sharon because of the
good water supply there.
State Senator Kirkeide of Benson
county had leg badly broken in IN
accident at Churchs Ferry.
Glenburn has elected oil her old
officials, which is testamentary Of
their qualifications for Office.
North Dakota maps will need ex-
tensive revision if half the proposed
railroads are built this summer.
The proposed extension of the
Great Northern, forty miles north Of
Williston, will help a fertile section.
The artesian well Mt Stanley has
that tired feeling as result of the
hole in the bottom getting plugged
up.
The only change in the state game
laws was in connection with beavers
these animals being protected until
1920.
Fl. F. Chaffee of Armenia has added
this spring ten or more sections of
land to his large interests in the
state.
The demand in the west and south
for North Dakota potatoes for seed
is becoming more pronounced each
year.
A half-breed distracted bottle Of
formaldehyde in Walhalla while the
druggist wasn't looking. He supposed
that he had q bottle of whisky, but
when he sampled it literally he made
a hurry call for doctor.
The man Watson, arrested at Ed
more on complaint of a young girl,
disappeared as soon as he was re-
leased and the citizens of Edmore
didn't have an opportunity to give
him dose of tar and feathers.
Minot had no funds to carry out
the provisions of the proposed ordi-
nance regarding the Great Northern
viaducts and it was withdrawn.
The recent rains have placed the
central and western parts of the
state in good shape, but the Red
River valley counties appear to be q
trifle moist.
A. v. Schallern of Mandan was rid
ing horseback, when he lost control
Of hix steed, which ran into livery
barn, raking the rider off onto the
floor and rendering him unconscious.
John Rooney, convicted Jan. %,
1908, of the murder of Harold Sweet
Of Fargo, was finally sentenced by
Judge Pollock to be hanged at the
state penitentiary at Bismarck, N. D..
Oct IL, 1905.