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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
8
A long list of local incidents and developments across counties and towns. Lightning strikes hit a parsonage in Kindred. Jamestown and Minot see new buildings and rail activity. Crops, land sales, and infrastructure projects proliferate from Cavalier to McLean, with fires, burglaries and epidemics noted alongside civic improvements.
Aug. 1 Dakota range steer from James Philip, raised west of Pierre, sold in Chicago yards for 110.20 after weighing 1520 pounds. Purchaser was G. H. Jaynes. The animal, fed no grain, cost about 6 dollars a year to raise, indicating Dakota grass value in beef.
New Ulm Minn Aug 8 marks the fortieth anniversary of the Sioux uprising of 1862 with a major celebration. Citizens prepared an elaborate program described as unprecedented for a city of New Ulm’s size in Minnesota as they honor the massacre’s memory with a monster jubilee.
A cyclone formed about three miles west of Clearwater at 4 p.m. Saturday passed north of the village and devastated a large strip of countryside. No loss of life reported though several residents were blown down and grain damaged. A. W. Robbins’s field of grain and other crops were blown toward the Mississippi river.
New Hampton Iowa August 13 Ray Bowers aged about twenty two years committed death by own action by shooting himself through the right temple. Earlier in the same family a brother Edward C. Bowers aged nineteen died May 18 1805 from a bullet wound in the head and a father J C Bowers died November 25 1867 from a gunshot wound in the head with mystery surrounding the cause.
The United Protective Labor League plans to extend its organization into Minnesota with national headquarters in Washington. W. A. Dion, formerly of Warren in Marshall County, is appointed organizer for Minnesota and will travel to St. Paul and Minneapolis. The group aims to prevent strikes by labor unions.
Deadwood Aug 18 bullion shipments from the United States assay office in Deadwood will total about 200000 this month. Shipments to Philadelphia have reached 60000 this period. The office has seen a big rise in business recently due to new reduction plants in operation.
Bemidji Minnesota August 12 A deal closed yesterday between Winter Bros formerly of the Thief River Falls Lumber company and Walker Akeley whereby the former become owners of pine on the stump to the extent of probably 20 000 000 feet These logs will be sawed here in our mill that will peel by the Winter Bros this win
Loo loaders tribe ixty men quit work at the Minnesota and International rail road site in Bemidji on the rate of 10 cents an hour. They were earning 2.26 per day for ten hours and threaten to flood logs onto cars until the dispute is settled. Meanwhile Atchfield Minnesota reports Philip Addy released for lack of evidence in the Gorton family murder case. Father Blanton faces serious charges in Plankinton South Dakota and has left town. A 15 year old Frank Finnerty killed in Northwest Paper mill in Cloquet. Bank of Clearwater opens under W A Shaw with upscale fittings. Amy Beardshear seeks Meade county schools superintendent nomination.
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