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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
No Chance For Land Grahher.

Land speculators who have
accumulated broad acres in the
northwest during the past few
years at isolated tract sales at
prices ridiculously low, have
bought their last land from the
United States government.
There is no possible show for
the land grabber, who is dealt
a death blow in a circular is
sued by the department of in
terror, over the signature of
Fred bennett, commissioner of
the land department, which
amends circular of December
~, 1907, as follows (in part):
That applicant desires to
purchase the land for his own
Individual use and actual oc-
cupation and not forspeculative
purposes; that he has not here
tofore purchased, under section
2455, revised statues, or the
amendments thereto, isolated
tracts, the area of which, when
added to the area now applied
for, will exceed approximately
100 acres"
The ruling is given signifi-
canoe by the land office officials.
1t is probably one of the most
far reaching regulations that
has been made, and in line
with farmer settler or home
steader, prior rights at all
times. At the same time it is
likely that the government
will not secure as good a price
for the land sold. Farmers de-
string to pick up isolated fort
les adjoining or near theirfarms,
will now be be able to do 50
without competing with city
land spectators, few of whom
have not already accumulated
more than the 16O now allo wed.
It will be necessary for the
purchaser of isolated tracts in
the future to make affidavit to
the effect that he will not ex-
ceed the 16O limit with the
land for which application is
made.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
Gas Turned on at Westhope.

Westhope Standard: The gas
has been turned on at the
wells and Tuesday night it was
burned at the main just south
of the elevators. It has not
been turned on yet into the
city as there are a few connec
tions yet to be made, but some
day next week it will be turned
on all through the city, and
those who have their places
ready can use gas for lighting g
and heating.
There was a little scare
given the citizens Wednesday
afternoon and for time some
thought the gas wells were a
failure. but an examination OF
the we'll showed that after the
exhibition given Tuesda y night
the gas had been turned off too
quickly, and the difficulty was
soon remedied. A test was
then made of the we'll,
which showed that it was
developing right along and
getting stronger, and now tests
over three million cubic feet
per day. The last test made
was in the summer when the
well did not reach that figure.
The gas filters are getting the
residences and business places
ready as fast as possible and
the gas men have big force of
men at work.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
Advertised Letters.

The following letters remain
ed uncalled for in the Bottineau
postofice, Oct. 16, 1909:
Lindsey Adkins. 3.
Fletcher Adkins.
Audre Castelloux.
Luca Claphile.
NJ. E. Fullis.
Mrs. Edna Fulton.
Tita Husa.
Lafayette Parker.
Adolph Peterson.
Harry Taylor.
If not called for in Is days
will be sent to the dead letter
office. Persons calling for same
will please say advertised. Ole
Roland, Postmaster.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

Willow City Eagle: J. H.
Cook returned home Tuesday
from his extended trip through
the west, coming over the 500
from Lethridge to Omemee
and driving home. Jay was in
wreck the other day in which
the engineer of his train was
killed, but he himself escaped
without a scratch, although his
baggage was all smashed up in
the wreck of the baggage
coach.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
BRAKEMAN LOSES HIS LIFE
1. :. Berky, Great Northern Brakeman,
Killed In Railroad Yard Friday.

Lewis F. Berky, a Great
Northern brakeman, was killed
almost instantly in the railroad
yard in this city Friday, being
crushed to death .retween the
tender of the en-, e md a car
on the south boun> freight.
The accident occn 3. about
3 o'clock on the m. . rack
north of the depot a. q st
south of the house track S ],
Berky was to uncouple q
engine from the tr.
preparatory to going to th<
tank for water. It is not known
exactly how the accident oc-
Cured. The only eyewitness
was Emil Mytron an employe
of r. H. Woods, who was in
front of the Woods livery barn
about 800 feet from the scene
of the accident. Mytron says
that after the engine had been
uncoupled Berky leaned over
to fix something evidently to
adjust the air brake) and while
thus engaged the engine back
ed up and caught him. He
did not see the unfortunate
man give the signal to back
up. Berky was caught be-
between the couplers and his
body almost cut in two just
above the waist line. His arm
was also crushed and life was
almost extinct when the body
was found.
Coroner Emil .Johnsgaard took
charge of the remains but did
not hold an inquest as it
was not deemed necessary. The
body was shipped to Great
Falls, Montana, the young
mans home, Saturday.
Berky was twenty-six years
old and had been braking on
this line only a short time. He
had had a little railroad ex-
perience in Montana before
coming to this division.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
ESQ Good Stories.

The Youths Companio on
abounds in stirring stories of
adventure and heroistn. One
may describe an escape from
accidental peril, another a
strange encounter with wild
creatures or beast.
Many of these stories are
true as to facts, and only
disguised as to names and
places. A score or more of
such stories will be published
during 1910 in addition to near
ly 200 others 25O good stories
in all, and no two alike. And
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

Frank II. Preston and wife
to Hattie 3. Preston, NV 9-161-
81.
Clinton A. Russell and wife
to +. w. Schraeder, $4OO, lot 6,
block Is, Kramer.
Ed Fortin and wife to Merch-
ants National bank of Willow
City, $3.50, el2sw, w12se, 33
1904.
Anna S. Carlson to Oliver
Sherwin, $500, senw 1904.
Daphne f. Yeomans and T.
N. her husband, to Anton
Lallum, $4,000, sw 34-161-77.
Anton Lallum and wife to
l.. Fl. Raver $4,000, sw 34-161-
II.
Jennie Harris to Butler
Lamb, quit claim deed, $1.OO,
NV 23-161-83.
William G.. Gardner to But
Ter Lamb, quitclaim deed 81 90,
NV 23-161-83.
Ethel Joscelyn to Butler
Lamb, quit claim deed 100,
NV 23-161-83.
Merton w. Gardner to Butler
Lamb, quit claim deed, $1.OO,
NV 23-161-83.
John Wittmayer to John Jr.,
andFred Wittmeier $4,000, lot
6, block 8, Kramer.
John Wittmayer to John w.
Jr., and Fred Wittmeier, $1,000,
e12 36-160- IS, (school land); sw
ne, senw, w12se 3O-16O-77, n12
ne, nese, swne 7, lots 6 and 7,
6-159-77.
Great Northern Oil Gas &
Pipe Line company to North
Dakota Gas company assign
ment of oil and gas leases in
Bottineau, Ward, and Mclean
counties.
Great Northern Oil, Gas and
Pipe Line company, to North
Dakota Gas company conveys
al lIo lIIClColo uIlttSI gas
leases.
John H. Odegaarden to Nils
T. Swanson, $1,000, sw 33- 1863 80.
Lars Holland and wife to
Louis Goldberg, $4,000, ne TO-
16O-81.
Robert TAFT and wife to l.. H.
Martin, 5000. lots 45, 46, block
A, Whites second addition to
south Bottineau.
Robert TAFT and wife to Rob-
ert A. Parker, 5000, Lots 43, "a,
block A., Whites second addi-
ton to south Bottineau.
Wall Iverson to Ludwig b.
Wall, 81. 90, NV 34, sene 33-163-
rs.
Christopher Myers and wife
to Ernest Picard, $4,000, w12sw,
sesw, swse, a. 1915.
Augusta Thada to Fred Thada,
81. 90, sw 25-16O-75.
l.. O. Tollefson and wife to
Mouse River Valley bank of
Souris, $1,000, w12se 23-163-78.
Northern Land Colonization
company to Mouse River Valley
bank Souris, $4,000, s12se, IA,
ne %, w12nw a. 1878.
Mary Fitzgerald now Mary
Leonard and Ted, her husband
to Mrs. Eta Groom, $3.50, north
80 feet of lot 6, block 10, West
hope.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
The Big Fur Sale.

On Thursday, November 4,
we will have our annual fur
sale of McKibben furs for ladies
and children. None better
made-it will pay you to wait
for the big sale of furs. Pat
rons Exchange. 1872.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
Teachers Examination.

A regular examination of ap-
pliCants for teachers certifi.
Gates will be held in Bottineau
October Goth and 3Oth begin
ming at 8: 80 a. MP. E.
Christensen, superintendent Of
of schools for Bottineau county.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22
We Reach the People.

If you want to get there, be-
fore the other chap, use the
long distance lines of the
Northern Telephone company.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

F. A. H. Smith has for sale
some choice pure bred Chester
White pigs and sows for breed
ing purposes. A-tf.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

and Bantry. H. c.. Klingle;
Velva, Benjamin Babcock;
Westhope, T. O. Grimes; Will
liston, +. S. Hollett; Willow
City, F. G.. Nelson; Devils
Lake, Il. A. Olsen.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

Estrayed, from my farm near
Cordelia, bay gelding two years
old. &C. X. Vikan. 32-tf.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

One hundred tons timothy
and red top hay for sale. Price
$5 ton in stack. B. F. Foster
42-2
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-10-22

The COurant tor fine Job
printing.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
GLOBE LOCKOUT IS
 BROUGHT TO CONCLUSION

GLOBE, Ariz., Jan. 2s.-At a special meeting of the Globe Miners Union this afternoon the resignation of Walking Delegate Wills was received and accepted by a two-thirds vote of the miners present. Wills was the offending officer of the local union and the man responsible for the close down.
 The action of the union at the meet ing this afternoon is accepted as mean ing that work in all the closed mines will be resumed at once. Superinten- dent Hegardt for the Old Dominion authorizes this statement late this af- ternoon that upon the confirmation of the unions action, that he will re- sume work at the Old Dominion in a day or so.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03

of Southwestern Indian life, and the Grand Canyon picture for the Santa Fe Railroad. Ralph Wylie is a well known viOlinist of the territory.
 The couple went on to Los Angeles on their honeymoon.
 The engagement of Miss Rollins to WarLer was announced in the society coldmns two weeks ago.
 She nad been a student of Boston Conservatory of Music, where Warn CT recently visited her on a trip east, and the date of the wedding was ar ranged.
 The bride returned about 8 week ago to Phoenix and here met Wylie at a concert. Afterwards they were en- tertained at the house of a mutual friends.
 Both were infatuated, the girl with Wylie's romantic appearance and won derful playing, and he with the young girls mezzo soprano voice and rare beauty.
 The eourtship lasted only two weeks. The elopement evidently was planned without the parents knowledge.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
WARNING NOTICE.

Notice IS hereby given that the un- dersigned owners of the mines known as the Lute, Compromise, Black Mesas Aztec, Gold Note, Iowa, Maine, 0lyn2- pia, Vesuvius, Surprise, Center and Oregon, and the improvements, ma chinery, and tools located thereon, a2 at and near Richinbar. Yavapai County, Arizona, will not be responsible foi debts of any kind contracted for labor, supplies or improvements on said prop erty or any of it, while it is being worked under a contract and lease, and that said property is now being worked under such contract and lease granted to C. W. Mitchell Dated this lst day of March, 1907.
 KENTUCKY STANDARD MINING
 COMPANY,
 By Hunter NJ Meriwetber, Pres.
 RICHINBAR MINES COMPANY,
 By Hunter NJ. Meriwether, Pres.
 First publication. March 20. 1907.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
GIVES SOLOMON JUDGMENT
Kingman Solon Divides Interests of
 case for Each Side
CFrom Fridays Daily)

After listening many hours to the arguments for and against the injunc- tions applied for by the stockholders of the old Blue Ridge Gold Mines Company against the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, Court Commissioner Aaron H. Smith at Kingman, Jan. P denied one injunction and granted the other.
 The courts order allows the Tom Reed company to go ahead with any sale contemplated but restraints it from paying any further dividends. The plaintiff wished to restrain the company from any sale. It is now a matter of record that such a sale is pending with large eastern interests.
 Attorney John Mason Ross of Pres colt appeared for the defense. Former Governor c. $. Thomas of Colorado stood for the plaintiff.
 It is understood as soon as Judge Sloan returns, motion to dissolve the injunction against issuing further div idends will be made.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
HORSE KIC4-.- LIFE OUT
 OF FIERCE VARNINT

Imprisoned in his home at Palace station by a fierce lynx, the actions of which indicated virulent senile de- mentia or hydrophObia, was the strange experience of B. C. Evans Tuesday night between 10 and Il O clock.
 Evans was on his way from his house to a stable when he became alarmed at the fierce growling of the beast. He saw its form in the dark ness coming towards him. He imme- diately ran into the house to get his gun to shoot it. The bob-talled feline however, was too quick for him. No sooner had he closed the door than the animal jumped on the porch and started chewing roll of blankets. It was too close to risk opening the door to shoot it, So Evans was compelled to content himself gazing through the window at the monster eat tearing the bedding, the music of its growl ring ing in his ears.
 After tearing the cover of the roll of bedding and indulging in kittenish pranks on the poren 8 half hour, the vicious brute somersaulted from the porch and left in the direction of the stable.
 Owing to the darkness Evans did not risk venturing out to shoot it, fearing being bitten before he could dispatch it with his gun.
 At daylight he entered the stable to feed his horse and was surprised to find his visitor dead in one stall and his horse shivering from fright and bleeding from the wounds inflicted by the lynx before the latter was kicked to death in the encounter.
 MT. Evans severed the head of the dead feline and sent it to the Pasteur Institute with a request that test be made to determine the presence of the hydrophobia germs.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
GoLCoNDA MINE IS RICH
 IN ZINC ORE BODIES

KINGMAN, Jan. 2S.-Another rich strike of zine ore was made in a winze from the 100 level of the Col eonda mine by ore contractors on the property. The Union Basin Mining Company has let contracts for the ex- traction of ore from certain part of the mine and it was on one of these contracts that three feet of solid met al was opened up this week. The miners agree to put ore running fifty per cent or over on the mine dump at certain agreed price. The company is opening up the other veins in the property and is taking out good ore. So far three veins have been opened to a depth of 100 feet and each one containing ore of shipping value. lr is expected that this company will soon be paying dividends, unless the management considers the erection of milling plant.
 Mrs. E. B. Smith, of HermOsa Beach, California, came in from that place Saturday and has been looking over her mining interests in this county. She is a part owner in the Goleonda and Alpha mines, in Wallapai district. The Goleonda mine is under bond to the Union Basin Mining Company and it is in this mine such wonderful ore bodies are showing up. Mrs. Smith expects to realize a good sum of mon ey from her Mohave county invest ments.
 E. F. Thompson and Mrs. Smith wis ited the Goleonda last Tuesday and were more than pleased with the re- suits being obtained at that property. Everywhere an opening was made good ore was found. Shipments net about $500 a ear, the values being in zine. The ore is shipped by the company to Oklahoma, where it is reduced in gas furnaces.
 At a depth of about 200 feet the drift that was run to cut the vein of the First Chance mine, at Wallapai Springs, entered the vein and exposed fine body of lead ore, bearing good values in gold. The owners were highly elated with their strike and are driving the drift along the strike of the vein. This vein showed good gold values on the surface and in a sixty foot shaft recently sunk on the prop erty.
 Returns from a small shipment of ore from the Samoan mine, at Chlo- ride, were received this week by L. Hoffan, manager of the property, show ing net results of about $1,100. The ore was of higher grade than anything previously shipped from that property. The company owning the mines (Cnlo- ride Gold Mining Company is prepar- ing to work them on a larger scale than formerly and it is believed that large ore bodies will be opened in the new ground.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
PHOENIX LEARNS NEWS
History of Leading Event Well Known
 at Capital

PHOENIX, Jan. 2S.-Romona Rol- hns. who started for Denver, where her marriage to Joseph B. Warner, a weaithy mining man of Colorado, was to have taken place January 29, is the daughter Of ". [. Rollins, painter
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
REDUCTION PLANT IS
 PLANNED FOR WICKENBURG

Wiekenburg will very soon be able to boast of one of the most perfect ore reduction plants in the country. and undoubtedly the most complete plant, including laboratories, analysis works, cyanide and smelter plants, that can be found anywhere between Colorado and the Coast, says Charles F. Brant, who will be the chemist in charge and superintendent of works. Jonathan Gordon is the metallurgieal and consulting engineer of the eom- pany, the name of which will be the Wickenburg Reduction Company.
 MT. Brant is in Phoenix now mak- ing the final arrangements for the shipment of the machinery, all of which has been bought and paid for. The site for the buildings has already been settled upon, quarter of mile south of the town of Wickenburg.
 The Santa, Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railway has made a concession to the extent of putting in a spur to the works and the water supply will be more than sufficient. The pumping machinery is on the road from the east and will be installed immediately upon it's arrival.
 This company will have a public sampling plant where miners of eith- e. large or small properties can ship their rocks in quantities of from 300 pounds to 800 tons or carloads if they wish to, at a very reasonable cost and with a comparatively small freight expense. Freight heretofore has cost the mining man so much that low grade propositions have not been con- sidered worth working in and around that country.
 Some of the new machinery going n will be a ten-stamp mill, a 50-tOn cyanide plant, a 75-ton copper stack, and complete concentrating plant. Any kind of reducing can be done and any one wishing advice as to the most economical process of reducing this ore can easily find out by sending in a sample. Every process can be worked here from the straight plate amalgamator to the most intricate of chemical processes. The men to be in charge of this reduction plant are well known as experts in their par ticular lines, MT. Brant having been superintendent of the first cyanide plant that was ever put into Colorado, at the Brodie mill in Mound City, Cripple Creek district. He also spent two and one-half years as. metallurgi- calist of the noted Yellow Aster mine. MT. Gordon is so well known that he needs no recommendation.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
MILL BUILDING PROGRESSES.

T. E. Campbell, general manager of the Big Stick Mining Company, who returned from the Big Stick camp re- gently, reports the erection of the mill under way with fair prospects of hav- ing it ready for operation in sixty days. All machinery is on the ground and it is being placed as fast as pos sible.
 Development in the mine is being pushed. There is tonnage enough blocked out to keep the plant on a steady run many months.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03

the Clara for a few days on the Bill Williams Fork.
 On Sunday the graders started in to clear the ground for the new shelter at the Clara Mine at Signal. This con stitutes the preliminary work in the building of the big shelter. Bert Freeman, who will nave charge of building the shelter, arrived in BOuse Sunday, via automobile from the mines, and states that he will rush the work and that the machinery will be hauled out from Bouse at once. It is understood that Graham Bros. of Wen den have the contract for hauling the machinery.
 The engineers started Sunday to lay off the new townsite at Swansea, which is the new name for the town of Sig nal at the Clara mine. Already there are about a hundred men working at the mines and this number will very soon be increased sn account of the men working on building the shelter. As soon as the townsite is laid off the company will build houses and the families of the men working in the mines will be moved to the camp. This cap is tributary to BOuse and will draw all of its supplies from this place. Many of the families of the men working at the Clara will live in BOuse.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
WARNING NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned, owner of the Neiman group of claims, and located about 30 miles west of Hillside and adjoining the pat ented claims of Lawler 6 Wells, in the Eureka mining district, Yavapai county, Ariz., will not be responsible for debts of any kind contracted for labor and improvements on said prop erty, while it is being worked under bond. GUY ALLEN,
 By s. J. Gnash, attorney-in-fact.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
BULGARIA. COMPLAINS

SOFIA, Jan. 29.-The Bulgarian government tonight delivered a note to the representatives of the powers, complaining of the uneOmprOmising at titude of Turkey, and declaring the Porte must be responsible for eonse- quenees.
 The note does not solicit interven- tion, but draws attention to the ten sion of the situation.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
BLIZZARD IS RAMPANT

ST. PAUL, Jan. 29.-A blizzard is raging in the northwest, and a fifty mile-an-hour gale is blowing. Tele- graphic communication to the east was almost destroyed for a part of the day. Trains are hours late