The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-05


charges of blind pigging, one got
bonds and the other had to go to Jail.
Casselton-A loafer was offered Job
at S. so per day and refused it. Depu.
ty Sheriff Ross ordered him out OF
town.
Ellendale-S. Glover has been out
west, where he purchased $4,000 sheep
to be fed on his farm this fall for the
eastern markets
Casselton-The fire department had
three fire alarms in four days The
Niles packing house was one OF the
buildings destroyed.
Bathgate-Frank Myrick, Jr., well
known resident, had his leg broken by
the overturning of q water tank on
which he was riding.
Casselton-The city council has pas
sed on ordinances limiting the speed OF
trains to the main part of the city to
eight miles an hour.
Minot-The blind piggers Of Ward
county are getting their places on
wheels since States Attorney MCGEE
Wahpeton-Eugene Schiller grub
staked" Colorado prospector few
years ago and now has an. interest in
. fine piece of mining property.
Bismarck-The North Dakota lig-
mite coal is all right for producing
heating gas, though it is said not to be
particularly good for illuminat ting pur.
poses
Rugby - Threshing returns about
here are very satisfactory. Thirty
bushels per acre is not an unusual
yield here, and yields in the eos is
quite the rule.
Hannah-Some Of the people would
like to have village marshal appoint
ed to take care Of some Of the unruly
characters who infest the town during
the threshing season.
Rugby-The land in the northwest
ern part of the state is. advancing so
rapidly in price that the state school
lands are being withheld from the
market for another year.
Oberon-The section of the state
along the jamestown and Northern
branch of the Northern Pacific is said
to have about as fine crop as is being
threshedin any section of the state.
Fargo The Northwestern Tele-
phone company is putting in extra
wires between here and Jamestown.
The new line will be used entirely on
local business, leaving the old for
through business.
Fargo-Within fifty days forty-two
banks have been established in the
state. The organization Of practically
a new bank day for couple of
months is going some and there are
places still unoccupied.
Forman-It is said that the farmers
in the sander sections of Sergeant,
Dickey and other counties in the state
are planning to grow sugar cane as
stock feed. 1t is claimed to be the
cheapest fodder obtainable, but re-
quires sandy soil.
Minot-A special officer in citizens
clothes mistoolk farmer for crook
and batted him over the head 30 hard
that the man required treatment all
night. The officer apologized-andi is
ready to swat the next innocent man
that looks trifie odd.
Diclkinson-It is said that the buyers
who were contracting the 1905 wool
crop in the wester' part Of the state
have been called off since the termina-
ton Of hostilities between the Japs
and Russians as much of the wool to be
purchased was for the scrapperA
Devils Lake-The religious meeting
Of the Indians on the Fort Totten re-
servation was we'll attended, and the
proceedings were full Of interest
Bay-The conductor and another
brakeman on the Great Northern train
on which Brakeman Bennett was kill.
ed near here have heen discharged.
Pembina-Hon. n. E. Nelson while
trying to untangle . team Of horses
near his residence, which had wound
themselves up while hitched to q tree,
was thrown to the ground and was
stepped on by the horses, but for
tunate]y escaped with some slight
bruises, the worst being on the hand
Glenburn-The claim shanty of Miss
Minnie Prohl, was burned, and no one
seems to know how it took fire. As
there was no one in the place when
the young lady left, may have been
incendiary, or it may have been caused
by mice gnawing at matches
Bismarck-It is stated that the
North Dakota militia will not partici.
pate in the distribution of government
money for militia purposes, the cause
being the poor record made BY the
state troops on inspection. Out Of the
regiment it appears. that only two or