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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1902
Page
8
A recap of international and domestic items from Congress to finance. Pillars include pensions and census bills in the Senate, canal debates in the House, and tariff reductions. Domestic notes cover train wrecks, fires, executions, and notable deaths as well as economic and political shifts.
The notice compiles various short items: Grant’s tomb care appropriation at five thousand dollars for 1902, teachers’ salaries in Illinois averaging sixty one dollars and sixty nine cents for men and fifty three dollars and fifty one cents for women, the National Congress of Mothers sixth reunion slated for February twenty five to twenty eight in Washington, defects in sixteen torpedo boat destroyers requiring overhaul, losses from false customs invoices at New President Hayemeyer’s sugar trust report noting raw sugar duty at eighty five million dollars annually, Baltimore and Ohio’s eighty million dollar improvement plan chiefly along the Pittsburg to Chicago line, Standard Oil and rivals mobilizing fleets under sealed orders in the world markets, United States Steel profits of eighty million dollars for nine months since organization, 1901 U.S. exports to Germany at ninety nine million six hundred sixteen thousand seven hundred thirty one dollars with a decline of three million five hundred sixty-seven thousand nine hundred twenty two due to reduced sugar exports, Sir Robert Ball predicting a new glacial period in a Columbia University lecture, Daughters of the Confederacy petitioning Lexington opera managers to stop Uncle Tom’s Cabin performances, John Longking aged ninety six dies in Yonkers connected with the Methodist Book concern, American Stove Company formed to control stove market, and John D. Rockefeller offering seventy five thousand dollars to Brown University for a social and religious building contingent on twenty five thousand dollars for an endowment by June commencement.
Great Northern Coal Company seeks an agent at Devils Lake to ship lignite coal priced two dollars and ten cents per ton freight prepaid in carload lots. C A Wheelock, secretary treasurer, Fargo North Dakota. Also notes cough remedies and various local ads including hay bail, rental, and cigars.
Tickets at 40 dollars on annual excursion rates begin December 24. From Minneapolis and Saint Paul to Chicago Raport State Express leaves daily 8 30 a m and arrives 9 45 p m for quick east connections. Evening trains offer Minneapolis Saint Paul stopovers with rates and schedules for the Fast Mail Atlantic Express and North Western Lakefront service. For details contact Chas J Gray Winnipeg or A M Fenton Grand Forks traveling agents through December 24.
A contest affidavit by Laurens J Webe and supplement by Lauress J Webe challenges Abner T Woodard for no residence or building on his homestead entry No 1086 in section 20 township 62 range 40. The notice sets a hearing for January 9 1902 before the Grand Forks land office Register and Receiver and directs public notice.
Notice of foreclosure on a North Dakota mortgage executed by Alexander Butters and Ann Butters to O L Engen. The sale of the southwest quarter of section 6 and northwest quarter of section 12 in township 153 north range 63 west and 153 north range 64 west containing 320 acres more or less will occur at the courthouse front steps in Devils Lake Rumsey County on February arc day 1902 at 7 pm. The amount due is 798.34. Dated December 19 1901.
Notices announce settlers filing final proof for land claims in North Dakota. Witnesses named include Kaslow, Calof, Kéley, Kalov, King Redmond and Shea with dates scheduled for January 1902 and hearings before T Thorson and the Devils Lake register.
Sealed proposals will be received by Victoria School District No. 35 for erecting a frame schoolhouse. Work to be completed by April 1 1902. Bids opened January 14 1902 with right to reject all. Bonds double contract amount. Notices at county superintendent Devine and Victoria district clerk offices.
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