The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-10
JURY DELYES into
MINOT BANK CASE
ERICKSON, Ex-PREsIDENT, TAKEN
}~' FROM PRISON TO TESTIFY. = z
Receiver of the Bank Has Started Suits
Against Three Men Who Sold the
Property to Erickson, and Response
bility of the Failure May Be Shifted
in Whole or in Part. 49,, I'LL.
Special to The Journal.

Grand Forks, N. d., Dec. 1O.--A federal grand
Jury was convened In the government building
ness to be examined is ]. A. Erickson, former
president Of the defunct Minot National bank.
who Is now serving, five years at Sioux Falls,
having pleaded guilty to violation OF the
banking laws. D.. <: 1888.
Friends of Erickson have contended that lie
was innocent, and that the men who sold him
the bank stock were the responsible Ones G. w.
Swords, receiver Of the bank, recently started
suits against the three men who sold Erickson
the bank, and he Is also here witness
before the grand jury. 1t will not be surpris-
some sensational developments may result.
The last criminal case tried In the federal
court was that Of Peter and Joseph Meyers,
father and son. charged with perjury in con-
nection with witnessing a final proof for
neighbor an old woman so years old. They
were found guilty and were sentenced to fifteen
days each in the Stark county Jail and fined
IS each. ".e--5
]. NJ. Halvorson, who confessed to stealing
the gold taken from the Aneta station the
night it was destroyed by fire, pleaded guilty
sentenced to eighteen months in the peniten'
tiary.
stalwart Wing Working Hard.
With the converting of the state legislature
less than a month away, hard work Is being
done by the machine stalwart wing Of tie
republican party to organize both branches Ths
house delegation is a mixed one, with abous
| seventeen democrats and the remainder repub
| licans about evenly divided between insurgents
| and stalwarts. This indicates that the insur.
gents and democrats will be able to control the
lower house.
The senate is just about evenly divided be
tween stalwart republicans and insurgent
publicans and democrats, with the stalwarts per-
hapS few votes shy of a majority. The hard
work Is being done in hope of whipping the
insurgent members into line, thus making the
senate safely republican. There Is talk
Of an organized effort being made to hold up
the appointments Of the new governor, but this
Is hardly thought probable in the face Of the
fact that the senate is not in shape to pass
any measure over his veto, and that there are
few members but have something to present
in the shape Of an appropriation measure.
A. P. Peake, Valley City, will probably be
supported by the insurgent republicans and dem
ocrats for speaker, while Frank B. Chapman,
| now national bank examiner, will have the sup
Annual Debate Arranged.
The University Of Manitoba has selected the
subject for the annual debate with the Univer-
sity Of North Dakota which will be held in this
city time in February. The question:
| Resolved, That the sngle-tax system Of taxa
ton should replace the present plan of taxation
| in America
| America Is taken to mean the United States
and Canada and real estate tax is involved. The
| University OF North Dakota will choose sides.
Either Lauder or Ellsworth.
Some Of the friends of Judge W. s. Lauder
OF Wahpeton are urging his appointment to the
supreme bench to succeed Associate Justice En-
gerud, whose resignation will reach the governor
soon s. E. Ellsworth, jamestown, is also
spoken Of and there is every probability that the
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