The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-12-21

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jury.
Minot.-A baseball league for next
year has been arranged along the
Great Northern between Minot and
Williston.
Bottineau.-Four homesteaders made
final proof here and it developed the
quartette had thirty-two children In
their families.
Jamestown.-Registe Of Deeds Nc
did not get shot he fell out of wagon
and broke rib.
Jamestown.-There was row be-
cause plumbers swiped some beer
stored in the court house for "evi-
dence" against blind piggers.
Pembina.-Early one morning, while
the train crew were switching and
making up the freight for the south,
the caboose caught fire and burned to
the track.
Balfour.-A Russian settler returned
to Balfour after trip to his old home
in Russia, where he had intended to
make his permanent residence. He IL
glad to return to America.
Bsmarck.-The capital removal idea
doesn't strike the enthusiastic chord
in the valley it once did. With the rapid
development of the state and the in
creased railroad building it seems but
fair that the center Of the government
should be somewhere near 1.-The center
Of the state.
A father in the northern part Of the
state is said to have given his consent
for 14-year-old daughter to be mar
ried, and. some of his neighbors felt
like providing both the father and the
groom with coat Of tar and feathers
for robbing the cradle.
Bismarck.-The census bureau has
just issued a bulletin on the illiteracy
ages OF 10 and IA years. and it is
there were 7.6 out of every thousand
who could not read and write.
Grand Forks.-The Judgment of the
district court of Grand Forks county
in the case of the state against C. H.
Foster has been affirmed. and SO far
as the court is concerned Foster will
spend seven and onehalf years in the
penitentiary at Bismarck.
It is now reported the 500 will ex-
tend the line which is to parallel the
Farmers road to point south In
Stutsman county and connect with the
other line about Kensal or Courte-
nay.
Fargo.-Samuel McManus and To-
bias Wilson failed to appear in the
district court and their bonds of $500
cd
They were charged with stealing
wheat from farm near Buffalo, in
Cassl county. McManus owns a farm
there and is said to have had three
confederates in stealing wheat that
was raised on rented land.
Mandan.-Morton county banks show
by their statements, which were called
this week, that there is on deposit in
the county nearly $1,500.000. dis
tributed among several banks. The
Mandan banks have about three
fourths Of this amount, and the farm
ers have but a little over half Of their
crop marketed.
Observation-Disclosures johnson, an in
mate of the insane asylum from Fair
mount, wandered away from the instt-
tuition, and his dead body was found
next morning in a field of flax OH the
farm of Bailey Fuller, south of the
city. The unfortunate man has APP
peared quite rational, and was allowed
a great deal of liberty, being en-
ployed in outdoor occupations. and
there was no apparent reason to sus-
pect him of entertaining desire to
escape.
Rugby.-The case of the state
against A. H. Jones. charged with the
embezzlement of $1,4OO from the
Northwestern Land company. which
was up for hearing before Justice
G. w. Frame at Rugby, was dismissed
on motion of States Attorney White
more after several witnesses had been
examined.
Grand Forks-Mrs. David Boobies
arrived from Chicago for the purpose
of compelling her husband to support
her. She alleges he deserted her in
Russia. She followed him to Chicago,
where he had applied for divorce.
and had him indicted on charge OF
perjury connected with the application.
Governor Sarles declined to grant the
reuuisition of Governor Deneen for the
return of Boobies to that state and
his wife was sent here. presumably by
the authorities.
Minot.--In the district court the jury
that was trying Mike Murphy for rob-
berry acquitted. and Judge Goss char
acterized the result as the worst mis-
carriage of justice that had ever oc-
Cured in his court. Murphy was inn
mediately rearrested on perjury
charge, and he is also wanted in Bot
tineau county on a charge of breaking
Jail.
Island I4ake.-Thieves stole a team
from ]. H. Hart. Hart had fed the
animals oats and the thief took them
away before the oats had been eaten.
Rolla.-Fred Kohlmeier. who was
charged with the murder of Louis
Clark on April %. 1905. has been found
guilty by the jury. who fixed the PEN
atty at 25 years in the state peniten-
tiary.
Fargo.-1n the case of Mrs. Eliza
Corliss VS.. the City of Fargo, in which
the plaintiff sued for $4,000 damages
for alleged injuries due to falling on
an icy sidewalk, Judge Pollock in
structed the jury to find for the de-
PENDANT.
Norwich-A prairie fire, started by
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