The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-07-21
TWENTY YEARS AGO

July 15.-The new receiver of the
Devils Lake land Office was the mayor
Of Manhattan, New York
At Devils Lake in district court
Judge Mcconnell sentenced William
Oswald, found guilty of manslaugh-
ter in the first degree in killing Pat
rick Weeney, to twelve years impris-
onment. He was later pardoned.
Two large Indian mounds, north of
Fort Abercrombie, were opened by T.
II. Lewis of st. Paul, who secured
many rare and peculiar looking dishes,
as the result of his excavations.
The Steamer Tompkins passed up
the river north of Bismarck with two
companies of the 7th Infantry and
the Steamer Terry was ordered to take
two companies from Fort Yates to
some point in Montana.
DR.. Burchard, the insane cousin of
Ex-President Hays, was sent back to
the asylum at jamestown to await the
arrival of friends from the east. When
arrested he was wearing ten suits of
underclothes, an overeoat and heavy
blanket, as he fancied that he was
liable to take cold, while the ther-
mometer was 95o in the shade
F. B. Job reached Fargo from Ann
Arbor, where he had graduated, and
was here to look after his fathers
large farm, north of the city Mr. Job
has become one of the prominent at
torneys of Chicago and is the COUNSEL
Ter for the Employers League of that
city.
A meeting was held at the office of
the Northern Pacific Elevator Co, to
see about rebuilding a hotel on the
Continental site, but Mayor Scott re-
fused to sell his interest in the prop
erty, unless he was given the manage
ment of the house, or that the Head
quarters and the new hotel were to be
under the same management.
The Northern Pacific elevator at
Glyndon was burned, with a loss of
about $4,000.
The firm of Boyesen & Phelps was
dissolved and Mr.. Phelps intended to
go to Duluth to settle.
Auditor Bray was chronicled as
sending a warrant to The Argus and
he said that it was from "the best
county in all of fair Dakota" Mr.. Bray
is now the American consul at Mel
bourne.
July 16.-Some Fargo attorneys were
trying case at Valley City before
Judge Francis and raised an objection. !
The judge responded, "objection
promptly overruled, put in promptly
overruled, Mr.. Stenographer." This
was in line with the official action of
Judge Francis in many cases, but at
the same time he had the general re-
spect of the bar and the community. |
The post Office at Caledonia was
robbed of $50 in money and some $500
in stamps.
Grover Cleveland issued his cele- ,
orated order against government off, !
eials taking any part in politics.
July ia McHench commenced
cutting barley on his farm south of /
Fargo. I
The county commissioners decided I
% rent the Windsor hotel of Egbert,
0'Neill and Haggart as county hos
oital.
There was great excitement at
New York, over the ar
est of John Phelps, superintendent of
he water works on the charge of big
my 1t seems that In the spring of
8S1 Phelps came to Fargo and COM
nenced suit for divorce, through his /,
ttorneys, Benton Il Mcconnell. The
ecree was granted upon order of
udge Hudson and the following day |
le was married at st. Paul to Miss |
annie Thayer. Later the first Mrs.
helps heard Of the decree and claim !
d that she was not party to it, and ]
mployed Spalding & Templeton, S. I'll
|. Roberts and Governor Austin and
ad the decree set aside. Meanwhile i
daughter had been born to the second u
Trs. Phelps. II
A meeting Of the citizens of Glyndon !