Freight Division Moves to Devils Lake Prompting Housing Strain
The Great Northern shifts freight division headquarters to Devils Lake with routes Carmen Devils Lake and Devils Lake Minot. Five to ten housing applications daily indicate a housing shortage as 25 to 50 new railroad families may arrive. Local business leaders urged prompt action to provide quarters, while residents await more buildings.
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Devils Lake
Carmen
Minot
Kipp
Inter-Ocean
Great Northern
O Callaghans Stage Two Roaring Performances at Armory
The O Callaghans presented Mr. Kork of New York to Thanksgiving crowds of about 600 at the armory. E F Flynn led with a steady performance as did Charley Smith as General Billedoux and Angie Bell as the cook lady, drawing hearty laughter.
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O’callaghans
Mr. Kork
New York
Armory
New House
E. F. Flynn
Charley Smith
Billedoux
Angie Bell
Paul C. Gorder
Count van Guggenheim
Ed. Elliott
Major DucCombe
Frank M. Gunn
Robert Walton
Addie Elliott
Mrs. Kork
Grace Tabor
Lucy Vannier
Sue E. Flynn
Emma Nelson
Ethel Gibson
Robert Cairns
Herman Huesgen, Jr
Miss Susier
Bertha Small
Miss Howe
Kalispell Division Chief Believed Dead After Missing
Nearly all efforts to locate Kalispell division superintendent R F Egan have ended. A E Long is named acting superintendent with Kalispell headquarters, replacing the deceased Egan. Friends of Egan, once in Grand Forks and connected to the Northern division, held to hope but now fear he perished.
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Egan
R. F. Egan
Kalispell
A. E. Long
Great Northern Roads
A. Leng
Kalispel
B. F. Egan
Northern Division
Supt. Jenks
Grand Forks
Murderer confession ties Williston suspect to summer killing
Williston North Dakota November 28 Sheriff Carroll and Sheriff Hefferman arrest Carl Hanson after William Roas confession. Roas awaits hanging December 5 at Bottineau for murder of lone traveler Alfonse La May. Roas said Hanson aided after a failed horse trade and the travelers were killed then body hidden in a well.
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Raachman
Williston
N. D
Carroll
Ward County
Hefferman
Missouri River
Carl Hanson
Lone Traveler
William Roas
Bottineau
Hanson
Tagus
Alfonse la May
Ross
Northern Pacific Plans Cutoff Through the Bad Lands
The Northern Pacific will build a cutoff from near Belfield northwest to Green river then west across a plateau north of Medora. A mammoth bridge over the Little Missouri will carry the line while the old line is touched west of Sentinel Butte. The Fryburg hill will be bypassed and a smoother Bad Lands route created. Beaver hill grade solutions are not announced.
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Northern Pacific
Belfield
Green River
Fryburg
Big Plateau
Medora
Little Missouri
Big McDonald Ranch
Sentinel Butte
Fryburg Hill
Beaver Hill
Home Land Buyers in Barnes County School Land Sale
Wahpeton Globe reports a state sale of 13 000 acres in Barnes county showing strong land value as adjoining owners often bought. Most parcels sold above the $10 assault valuation with prices from 20 to 23 dollars per acre. Other state sections show similar prosperity and faith in the country. Hogs wanted, see F W Cockburn.
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Wahpeton Globe
Barnes County
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H. E. Baird
Savings Bank Department
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J.J. Hi
E. J. Baten
D. W. Ensiax
H. E. Bare
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Shakopee
St. Paul
Coles
Garland
Adams Bros
Devils Lake, N. D
Anna B. Shortridge
D. D
Lila V. Shortridge
D. O
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School House
Telephone
Innesota
Skelly Avenue
The
Devils Lake Division
the Armory
NEW Railroad
Home Land Buyers
Hogs
F. W. Cockburn
Bodgkinson
W. Wood
Kerosine
Pennsylvania
C. P. Brainard
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