Searching for Unknown Man Near Stroud
Schafer Aug. 20 The county authorities have conducted a week long search for an unknown man who disappeared about two weeks ago leaving his team and wagon on the prairie near Stroud post office. He came from the south through Schafer July 29 and is described as about 60, tall and slim with a thin white beard. He wore faded blue overalls and an old faded shirt, drove a bag and buckskin harnessed to a dilapidated wagon.
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Schafer
Stroud Post Office
North Dakota Land Entry Rules Relaxed by Interior Dept
Announcement from Washington states a large area of land in Northern North Dakota will be open to homestead entry, excluding certain coal lands subject to the June 1910 act. Secretary Lane says the policy shifts to designate lands without regard to appropriations status to speed up classification.
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Grand Forks
Department of the Interior
Washington
North Dakota
North Dakota Development League
Lane
Geological Survey
General Land Office
Theagle Ie Geological Survey
Recall Petition Circulates in Minot Over Street Commissioner
A recall petition for Dewey Dorman, Socialist street commissioner of Minot, circulated in the city amid the trial of 24 men arrested after Sunday night street trouble. Numerous signatures were attached as backers urged action.
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Dorman
Minot
Dewey Dorman
Overtime at Pen Making Twine Inmates Sell Twine
Fargo August 18 OverTime at the state penitentiary sees convicts toiling for weeks turning sisal into twine to offset shortages. All produced twine sold. Men paid for overtime with many sending earnings to families or saving for release. A discharged prisoner praises humane reform and the honor system reducing misconduct. Tough inmates now the most tractable under Warden Talcott.
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Fargo
N. D
Talcott
State Penitentiary
Great Northern to start track laying from Fairview
Fairview Montana reports the Great Northern will lay steel starting Monday. Twenty seven cars of steel rails sit at Snowden siding and the crew have the material needed to finish the Fairview Sidney segment. Completion promises Sally train service soon.
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Great Northern Road
Fairview
Sidney
Mont
Great Northern
Snowden
Yellowstone Valley
Sportsmen Pay Fines in North Dakota Game Violations
Minot dated Aug 20. Chief Game Warden E B McCutcheon returned from a west trip with several violators. Frank Omstead and Corel Omstead of Stanley pled guilty before Justice Libertson and were fined 10 dollars plus costs each totaling 42 dollars. Dr E F Kennedy pled guilty in White Earth before Judge Hanson, fined 25 dollars plus costs totaling 40 dollars. A valuable automatic shotgun was confiscated. Reports of two other arrests in the wardens territory were logged as well.
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Minot
E. B. McCutcheon
McCutcheon
Frank Omstead
Corel Omstead
Stanley
North Dakota
Libertson
White Earth
E. F. Kennedy
Hanson
George Blazer
Tokio
N. D
Jac
Granville Man Fined for Game Law Violations in Court
W. A. Landry of Granville faced Judge Nord Markham in Granville for breaking game laws. He admitted guilt and paid a $10 fine plus costs.
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Que
Tokio
W. A. Landry
Granville
Nord Markham
Woman Insane in Arnegard Case Shocks Community
In Arnegard North Dakota Aug 19 a sad insanity case involves Mrs Harvey Wehrung driven by anxiety over her five month old baby's health. Her husband Harvey Wehrung broke his shoulder adding to her distress. She was sent to Jamestown for treatment while he and three other children cope with the situation and the community offers sympathy.
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Arnegard
N. D
Harvey Wehrung
Wehrung
Jamestown
Mr. Wehrung
Aedren
Millionaire Griggs Missing After Strange Clues At Bridge
Minneapolis dispatch reports George W Griggs, a Minneapolis flour and feed firm member, missing since Sunday evening. A coat and straw hat were found on a city bridge with $80 in twenty dollar bills and firm stationery, prompting police to consider death by own action or possible murder. Detectives searched the river, colleagues note Griggs kept orderly routines, and no reason for suicide is evident.
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Minneapolis
Minn
St. Paul
George W Griggs
Griggs
Jameston, Havener & Griggs
High Bridge
Dodd Road
Twin City Ice Co
George Griggs
P. J. Havener
North Dakota Delegation to Attend Columbus Anti-Saloon Meet
Governor L B Hanna Senator Ashe J Gronna Porter J McCumber and R M Pollock to represent North Dakota at a large anti saloon league jubilee in Columbus Ohio November 10 to 18. The event aims to launch a national prohibition amendment drive with about 24 speakers and 20 thousand delegates expected.
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Bismarck
N. D
Ashe J. Gronna
Porter J. McCumber
L. B. Hanna
R. M. Pollock
North Dakota
Columbus
Ohio
North America
America
Thoi Id
United States
Fred S. Caldwell
Oklahoma
Webb Law
Mary Harris
Georgia
Prisoners in Minot imitate suffragettes hunger strike
In Minot North Dakota on August 19 forty prisoners from the I W W outbreak began a hunger strike after being offered bean sandwiches and coffee. They threw the food at officers and were calmed by clubs. A street meeting was disrupted as jailers cleared the crowd and released some prisoners to reduce the total to ninety.
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Minot
N. D
Bull Pen
England
Warning to Montana grain dealers on fake grain tickets
Plentywood Chief Grain Inspector Templeton warns Montana grain dealers about an eastern printing house sending grain star ticket samples that claim to meet Montana state grain inspection rules. He says the ticket is not authored by his department, omits key legal points, includes unlawful provisions, and does not conform to the Montana law.
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Plentywood
Mont
Templeton
Montana
Montana State Grain Inspection Department
Moorhead Depot Robbery Report From Night Operator
Moorhead Minnesota August 19 two unknown bandits one masked held up Grover Coxsey night operator at the Great Northern depot at 230 am yesterday and robbed the cash drawer of 170 dollars. They overlooked sealed receipts from the freight house. Coxsey said the men demanded coin and kept him covered as they escaped east with the money.
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Moorhead
Minn
Grover Coxsey
Great Northern
Jack
Coxsey
Kasota School Chief Resigns for Rolla Post
A. D. Griffin, eight years as Kasota public school superintendent, resigns and moves to Rolla North Dakota to become superintendent of the Mount Pleasant school district. The Mount Pleasant district is a large consolidated school in Rolette County’s county seat.
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Rolla Mankato
Minn
A. D. Griffin
Kasota
Rolla, N. D
Mount Pleasant
Rolette County
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