08 Apr 1904
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1904
Page
1
Cities across the state held last Monday elections in a rehearsal for a looming campaign. Dispatches report Russia has evacuated Korea under Japanese control though Port Arthur remains unruly. Manchuria houses about 300,000 Russians while Japan fields a similar force in Korea as forces move toward the Yalu.
The county board met this week and approved a gopher bounty of two cents per head from April 1 to May 10 and one cent from May 16 to June 1. The Winona ferry lease was awarded to J H Wishek Ashley at 85 dollars per year. Franz Wolf was named to replace Andreas Kraft as Third District Assessor. A street layout to improve Cass Canon crossing was granted. Protests by Superintendent Tucker and Station Agent Byrne cited 400 feet spacing concerns. Minutes full text to be published next week.
Sunday April 3 1904 County Judge Rowerdink ties Charles Baker to Ada Wagher in Linton The bride daughter of A C Wagher sister of Mrs A B Seeley Mrs John Postle and Rufus Wagher groom a year in town The couple start life in a cozy home on Eighth Street as well wishers hope for happiness and prosperity.
One of the county’s largest crowds gathered last Sunday as H. W. Backhaus and Miss Karolina Ohlhauser were united in marriage in the groom’s parents’ farmhouse near Linton. Rev. Karl Schroeder conducted the ceremony. Attendance was estimated between 156 and 200 amid a day of dancing and a plentiful dinner before the couple began housekeeping on the groom’s expansive Beaver valley farm.
Jujigs C. Klabunde, about forty-two, drowned when a flood from melted snow surged through a river bed near his farm west of Braddock and north of Hazelton. The body was recovered in a corral after his horse was swept away. he left a wife and three daughters. He had protested railroad grade changes that redirected the stream. Life insurance totaled 4,500.
Victoria's jubilee presents arrive for the St Louis exposition. A silver casket from Trinidad island commemorates 1797 events. Satin wood casket with gold towers comes from Jamaica. An ivory tusk vase sculpture, ebony supports, and a large Prosperity ornament rise as featured pieces.
The Sixth Judicial District Republican convention will meet in Man dan North Dakota at 2 p.m. on Saturday 21 1904 to nominate a district judge. County apportionments are Billings 1 Burleigh 5 Emmons 3 Kidder 2 McLean 5 Mercer 2 Morton 9 Oliver 1 Stark 7. The Judicial Committee will convene at 10 a.m. to review credentials. Guy J. DeFrance is chairman pro tem with R M Duttls as secretary.
County Republican Central Committee members are called to meet at the courthouse in Linton on Saturday April 16 1902 at 2 pm to draft a call for precinct caucuses and a county convention to pick seven delegates to the State Republican Convention in Fargo May 18 and eight delegates to the National Republican Convention in Chicago June 21. The meeting will also address other party business.
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