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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
7
A garbled page lists lawyers doctors and businesses in Bottineau North Dakota with multiple misspellings. Names include N C Wegner G W Baker J A Johnson A R McKay C A Leonard and Berthiaume among others. Also mentioned are United States Land Office practice mortgage loans cigars and a drug store in Bottineau.
Rio Janeiro January reports that an anarchistic plot to damage ships of the American fleet was thwarted by prompt police action. Chief and detectives traced conspirators across Rio Janeiro Petropolis Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais with chief conspirator Fedder believed to have fled to Sao Paulo. Police promised vigilance on land and sea to prevent any damage and said conspirators had taken refuge in the interior.
In Farmington Iowa January 18 a mob of men and boys dragged Ed Rockwell editor of the Farmington Herald to the town edge and tarred and feathered him. He walked back into town in the cold wearing tar and feathers after two years of harsh editorials against local business men councilmen and lodge members. Last week he published a long criticized account of a lodge initiation that angered lodge men and is believed to have sparked the attack.
A dynamite blast at a sewer excavation in Duluth on January 18 fatally injures Joseph Chinoc 40 and Gustav Erickson 26 and seriously injures P Johnson 4611 Cambridge St and Ernest Molien. Contractor Johnson was among the injured.
Roosevelt informs Governor Sparks by telegram that troops may remain in Nevada for a reasonable period to enable the state legislature to organize a police force. The move follows a Nevada request for full data on Goldfield labor troubles and ongoing efforts to draft a constabulary law. Gardner reports Congress may investigate and keep troops stationed to prevent miner operator conflict.
M T McMahon of Fergus Falls Minnesota will head the Northwestern Lumbermen s association in 1908 at the convention s final session Other officers elected include Vice president C A Sinkbring Des Moines treasurer George P Thompson secretary W G Hollis directors Ralph M Burnaide Oskaloosa John Barry Cedar Rapids and O C Barles Hillsboro ND Dues rise from five to six dollars a year The group adopted resolutions opposing parcel post extension seeking a one cent per ounce rate on ordinary sealed correspondence supporting a timber testing laboratory at Minnesota forest school and backing legislation to require an official hearing before any interstate rate or classification changes.
Governor James K. Vardaman announced a return to journalism after his governorship ends. He will publish a weekly paper in Jackson within ten days, with a daily edition planned as space is secured. In New York, J P Morgan Co denied a Wall Street report claiming control of Equitable Life.
A dense page details legal notices from Bottineau Bottineau County Court and the State of North Dakota. It lists summonses for the estate of William Ves deceased and multiple mortgage sale notices from Fargo Loan Agency Fargo ND and Reeves & Company Bottineau ND. It records required appearances, property descriptions and sale dates, with references to lots sections townships ranges in Bottineau and Maxbass regions.
Mortgage by Thon ae Feving to PS Hilt yoe as administrator, recorded March 1905 in Bottineau County, North Dakota, will be foreclosed by sale at Bottineau Court House at 2 PM on March 7, 1908, for $1,201.13, describing Northwest Quarter and related quarters in Sections 25 and 26, Township 100 North, with costs of sale. Also a separate notice for W. R. Johnson and Anna Johnson mortgage to ABR, filed in Bottineau County, North Dakota, foreclosure by sale at Bottineau Court House.
Notice details a foreclosure sale action for Davis Bennett listed by an attorney. The readable text references North Hancock and an ATM but lacks complete details on date, venue, and terms due to damaged OCR. The record preserves the core action and involved party names from the fragment.
Public notice lists a sequence of land cultivation proof actions before County Judge John Hy Kirk on a date in January 1008. It names heirs or interested parties including George Pugh, Jobo Morrixon, Hermne Holts, James Stevens of Bottinewa North Dakota and others, seeking to establish claim to a parcel described by lot and township designations.
Pastor Rev. D. Stratford Seadeng announces a series of free casual sermons for young people at the M E Church. Services will be on the first Sunday evening each month beginning February 2 with singing and swinging choruses. All young folks and everyone are invited to attend.
A sale or rental notice for the Lowrie farm adjoining Bottineau townsite invites inquiries to F. S. Lowrie in Kalispel Montana. The Courant advert would yield results.
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