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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1905
Page
1
Fred Clark, jailed on grand larceny charges, escaped Thursday night amid a planned jail delivery. Prisoners opened the entrance door to pass dishes, with a deputy expected to create a rush to enable the break. Sten Seth drew his pistol to halt others, but Clark vanished into the dark streets with no street lights to aid pursuit.
The Chautauqua association board met in this city last Thursday. All officers were reelected except Clark W. Kelly, chosen president replacing A G Larimore. Auditing reports certified books and vouchers correct. The board paid interest on debts and cut next year’s principal by 1000, with a small treasury balance. They plan to buy park restaurants built five years ago with a option to repay three quarters of cost and own them, else perpetual rent at 50. Discussion on repurchase of the Chautauqua railway left no final decision.
Thieves forced entry into a warehouse stealing flour sugar crackers coffee and bacon. The exact quantities are unclear from the readable text, but the raid targeted essential winter provisions, suggesting a significant loss for the owner and potential supply disruption for the area.
The narrator notes about fifteen sacks stolen, likely moved in a wagon, with no clue yet identifying the perpetrators. The report emphasizes the theft and ongoing investigation.
A Supreme Court decision, written by Chief Justice Morgan and joined by all justices, voids the bill authorizing a state capitol commission to build the capitol and executive mansion and to issue 600 000 in certificates. It holds the delegation of construction budgets to a commission to be legislative overreach. The ruling allows land grants to be lawful but blocks further progress under the current spending framework.
The capitol bill's passage is framed as a personal achievement for Alexander McKenzie, who sought a suitable state capitol and had long pushed for Fort Lincoln’s role and other Bismarck and Missouri Slope developments. Supreme Court may delay the plan, though, amid debates over funding, as the project would use land proceeds not taxed or drawn from direct state appropriations.
Presidential order closes the Grand Forks land district in North Dakota on December 30, 1905, transferring its lands and archives to the Devils Lake land district, effective January 2, 1906. The notice is dated November 3 in Washington DC, with a stray line about a taro housekeeper and commercial printing.
The Wapheton Globe argues that reform exchanges see links between Ohio elections and other states where Republicans failed but Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and North Dakota show no common political pattern. It faults critics, praises Governor Herrick for clean administration, and hails Roosevelt as a dominant political boss while denouncing persistent fault finders.
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