The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-01-04
JOIN EDISSUES
lawyers of Three Counties Meet
a.. at Rugby.
ALL ARE ON. ONE SIDE
No Opposition to the Creation of New
Judicial District of B0ttineau, Nc
Henry and Pierce Counties. :

Henry and Pierce Counties. !.
''y'i'.5 yssi .5,.------ = 80 b..
Pursuant to the call issued
by the committee of the Bot.
tineau' Bar Association, a meet
ing of the members of the bar
of the counties of Bottineau,
Pierce and sMcHerlry, convened
at Rugby, ins Pierce county, on
Saturday,: the '29th day of
December, 1906, at 2 p. m.
The; meeting was largely at
tended by members of the bar
of the several counties named.
Also attended bya number. of the
Legislative members elect of
the several counties. named. =
The meeting was called to
order by {. L.. N. Thorson of
Rugby. Upon :, motion Mr..
T h ors on was named as
temporary chairman and J. G.
.Adamson of Bottineau, tenn
.porary secretary. 7 h e
temporary organization was
upon motion made. permanent.
Whereupon Chairman Thor
son called upon Mr.. Besancon
of Bottineau, to. state his views
and that of his committee
relative to the, object of the
meeting. Mr.. Besancon then
outlined the. movement in re-
gard to the proposed creation
of a new judicial district and
showed the necessity Of the
creation of another judicial
district at this time and also
the necessity of a general re-
arrangement of the several
judicial districts of the state. ..
Mr.. Bur of Bottineau,
followed with remarks along
the same lines, and moved that
the chair appoint a committee
.of three, one from each county,
to prepare and present to the
meeting a definite plan of
action.
Which motion being put and
carried the chair appointed as
members of such committee Mr..
Burr, of Bottineau county,
Mr.. Christensen of McHenry
county and Mr.. Coger of Pierce
county. Whereupon the com
mittee retired to prepare re-
port. 49,.
Mr.. Slavens of McHenry
county and Mr.. Weeks of Bot
tineau county then addressed
the meeting briefly and urged
the necessity of the creation OF
a new judicial district to con-
,.sist of the counties of Pierce,
sBottineau and McHenry and
called attention to the vast
amount of litigation in the
three counties and the delay in
getting the cases now on the
calendars disposed of.
The committee heretofore
appointed then submitted an
oral report to the effect that ii
was the sense of the bar that a
judicial district should be
created by the legislature at its
looming session and suggested
that a committee of three
members be appointed to take
charge of the campaign, to
draft a bill and to be personal
ly present at Bismarck in order
to urge upon the members OF
the legislature the necessity OF
the creation of the proposed
judicial district and also sug-
gested that further committee
he appointed to consist of three
members, said committee to
prepare plans for the organiza-
ton of a bar association fol
the new district when the same
was created.
Whereupon it was suggested
by the chair that the members
of the bar O f the several
counties select two men from
each county, one to serve as a
member Of the committee on
bar association, the other as a
4 member of the committee on
Legislation.
Whereupon the meeting was
again called to order and Botti-
neau Go. announced the follow:
ing selection: Member Com
4 1nittee On legislation, a. g.
\ Burr, member committee or
bar association, j. .C.Adamson.
No. selection having beer