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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
4
The speech calls for reorganizing the army and National Guard, strengthening the navy, and funding marksmanship and ship crew training. It urges broader rural delivery, irrigation, Alaska and Indian policy reforms, and safer railroad operations, stressing a strong navy to back the Monroe Doctrine and national defense.
A man known as Smith who killed a farmer near Coal Harbor pleaded guilty to first degree murder before the district court at Washburn and was sentenced to hanging on February 20, 1903. He previously escaped from Washburn Jail twice but was recaptured after each attempt. Sheriff Parker of Towner county pleaded guilty in Fargo federal court to freeing prisoners and was fined 1500 dollars and sentenced to his own jail. State's Attorney Gallius of Rolla was indicted in Fargo for alleged connivance in fraudulent acts by ex deputy marshals and sheriffs. Coal famine forces schools to close as lignite supply proves inadequate. Horse thieves steal from Milnor residents and are traced to Weblin, South Carolina. A dead body was found hanging in woods along the James River, later identified as Daniel A. Corking, an escaped prisoner.
Former classmates of Willis Bailey of Kansas recount his unmarried status rooted in a University of Illinois romance. A coed promised marriage married another man in Florida, leaving Bailey to pursue farming in Kansas. The lettered heartbreak and social life at Champaign ended with Bailey vowing never to trust a woman again.
J C Sanderson of Kingfisher says Oklahoma yields new possibilities yearly as soil fertility and cotton raising attract attention. He spoke to a New York Tribune reporter at the Fifth Avenue hotel, noting the territory’s growing appeal and potential for settlement.
The article notes a climate suitable for development spurring manufacturing. It highlights recent Curtis in Woodward County findings of pure rock salt layers twenty feet thick at forty seven feet depth. Beneath a hot mineral-rich stream, richer mineral deposits are suggested, raising prospects Oklahoma may rival leading states for mineral springs.
Washington dispatch reports the Board For Twelve Clerks For a Year will feed 12 young government clerks meat preserved with borax and chemicals to study digestion and appetite. Professor Wiley leads the experiment as chief. Six volunteers will eat two weeks of pure food, then switch to doctored meat, while others follow.
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