The Bottineau courant., 1907-06-14

exhumed at this place and required IN
a. cemetery. Its condition had not
been changed by remaining four years
In the grave.
Bismhrck.-George Buchanan, ac-
cused Of the murder of Oscar Carr
near Gladstone, Stark county, last
July, was acquitted. The jury was
out just thirty minutes.
Fargo.-There have been so many
lynx killed in, the state this spring
some Of the old hunters claim that
they have been driven from the north
by the severity of the winter.
Bismarck.-This city will entertain
the eighteenth annual session Of the
grand lodge Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of North Dakota, and the Re-
bekah assembly Of North Dakota in
1908.
Bismarck.-The board Of pardons
granted a full pardon to Mr.. George
Upright, of this city, who has been
serving a sentence in the penitenttary
for grand larceny, and to Thomas
Grace, a young man sentenced from
Grafton for embezzlement.
Grand Forks.-M. Warren, Of Yank-
ton college, won first place in the
interstate oratorical contest Of North
and South Dakota. ]. F. T. O'Connor.
Of the University of North Dakota,
was second. Mr.. Warren had for his
theme 1.-The New Orient" and Mr..
O'Connor "The Passing Peril"
Grand Forks.-The Hotel Tioga, the
Tioga drug store, Knutson & Stub
jare's hardware store, w. A. Skeletons
general merchandise store, South's
confectionery and Hilleren's wagon
shop were consumed by fire at Tioga.
The whole town was threatened. The
loss is 100000 and insurance $500.
Cando.-Despondent over i'll health
and the fact that he had been found
by a government inspector to be near
ly $1,000 short in his accounts. POST
master A. F. Hill committed suicide.
Pie went to the nostoff1ce early in tho
morning and was found by the assist
| ant postmaster with q bullet in his
brain.
Fargo.-During tho past week, DR..
Durham, meat and milk inspector.
condemned a bunch of cattle at Leon
ard, this county, and they were or
dered killed. He is not finding nearly
as many cases of tuberculosis as was
|
Nev&a that in time the disease will
all be stamped out Of the cattle.
Bismarck.-Attorney Guy c.. H
C0rliss, acting assistant states at
tornsy for the county, applied to the
supreme court for a rehearing in the
recent temperance commissioner case
in which the court handed down a de-
cisisn declaring the law creating the
temperance commissioner unconstitu-
uonal. The court took the applica-
tion under advisement.
| Grand Forks.-The board Of state
university regents awarded three i'm
portant construction contracts, as fol-
lows: School Of mines, Dinnie Bros.
Grand Forks. s19,99S; library. Berger
& Hanson, Fergus Falls, Minn., $685.
400: gymnasium, Berger 4 Hanson
Fergus Falls. MINI, $20,955. The three
buildings are to be Of brick. nicely
trimmed and handsomely designed. II
Is planned to complete them this sum.
mer:
Fargo.-The Inter- state fair OF
Fargo will give no less than $780,
for the horse-flesh department of the
big fair that will be given during the
last week Of July, this amount being
the largest ever given in the state OF
North Dakota, and will be the means
of bringing some Of the fastest horses
in the country here. Ten thousand
dollars of this amount will be giver
for the races alone, while the s2.0O(
will be given for speed exhibitions.
Bismarck-E M. Curtess came tt
town from his farm in the northeast
ern part of this county and surren-
dered to the sheriff, saying he haG
shot a man and woman in a row over
a dividing fence. The shooting was
done with shotgun after the neigh
Dor, Ross, and his sister-in-law, Mrs
Crow, had knocked down and bea<er
Mrs. Curtess and chased Curtess te
his house. While the parties are wei
filled with birdshot, no serious results
are anticipated.
Dickinson.-F. w. Weston, veterin-
ary surgeon, died from a dose of &C.
onite taken while in a fit of de.
spondency. He was about 80 and sim
gle, and formerly lived in Kansas City
Kan, where his parents reside. He
came to Dickinson two years ago as
a federal livestock inspector, and his
mind became unbalanced a year age
over love affair. He spent some
time in a private retreat and it was
supposed he had fully recovered, but
his actions of late indicated a return
of his malafy.
Lnton.-While herding cattle or
the p. G. Levine farm near Linton
G.. M. Peterson, 56 years of age, ac-
cidentally set his clothes on fire anG
but for the timely arrival Of a neigh
boris daughter would have been Sc
verely burned. 1t seems the old gen.
tleman had some stones and matches
in the same pocket and that the ffre
started from this source. AS it was
he was only slightly burned, but the
fire from his clothes quickly caught
to the grass, which took the combined
efforts Of all the surrounding neigh
bors a half day to extinguish.
Lnton.-John Kelsch. living sever
miles north Of Dakem, was seriously
injured in a runaway accident. He
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