US Inspector Charged With Kidnapping Near Pembina
United States Custom Inspector George Foulkes was indicted on kidnapping charges after allegedly leading a farmer's team to the Pembina border customs house. He surrendered to the sheriff in Winnipeg and posted a $5,000 bond. Trial set for next week with the U S consul defending him. maximum penalty about seven years. The incident could raise international tensions.
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Winnipeg
United States
George Foulkes
Pembina
N. C
Foulkes
North Dakota
Custom House
Wridles
Minot High Wins State Basketball Title
Minot High School clinched the state basketball championship by defeating Enderin 29 to 25 in a fast clean exhibition. Poole led the local team with eight of nine baskets in the first half while Moon also starred. Ellsworth and Wendt refereed.
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Minot
Laurel
Magic City
Enderin Quintette
Poole
Moon
Minot High School
Ellsworth
Wendt
Farmer gravely injured stopping runaway horses
Sioux Falls March 10 — Mat Heien, a Davison County farmer, was seriously hurt while trying to halt a runaway team. He lunged for the bridles but was thrown under the wagon wheels, suffering internal injuries. The horses dashed a mile, then leaped into a stream and nearly drowned themselves.
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Sioux Falls
Matheien
Davison County
Kitchen range water heater boiler causes fatal injury
A boiler on a kitchen range burst while thawing frozen water pipes in Fargo North Dakota. The incident killed the two year old son of J S Collins and seriously injured his one year old daughter. The parents survived without injuries.
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Fargo
N. D
Collins
Wireless Averts Panic Aboard Providence Fire
Aboard the Fall River steamer Providence a fire on the freight deck near Sands Point prompted Captain Appleby to use wireless telegraphy. The Richard Peck, another nearby steamer bound for New York, answered the alert and helped transfer 350 sleeping passengers with no panic. The Providence was managed to extinguish the blaze and reach New York after the rescue.
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New York
Appleby
Providence
Long Island Sound
Fall River
Sands Point
Richard Peck
Peck
No General Probe Ordered Into Bucket Shop Inquiry
Secretary Straus clarifies that the president referred the bucket shop matter to Herbert Knox Smith for review. No broad stock exchange probe was ordered and Smith will report facts and views as his own judgment directs.
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Washington
Smith
Iawa
Straus
Thement of Commerce and Labor
Herbert Knox Smith
Ex-State Official Guilty in Public Land Fencing Case
Helena Mont March 14 David Fratt of Billings former president of the state board of stock commission and cattleman pleaded guilty to illegal fencing of 7 968 acres of public land. He was sentenced by the federal court to 48 hours in jail and a $356 fine.
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Helena
Mont
Mar
David Fratt
Billings
State Board of Stock Commissionere
Formaldehyde and land contest notice in Williston
A 1908 notice in Williston, North Dakota outlines a contest against Homestead entry No 41777 by Mary Swal, alleging abandonment and nonresidence. The hearing is set for March 31, 1908 before the U.S. Land Office Register, with publication due to service issues.
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Mary Swal
Nick L Seim
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
Spain
Register
United States Land Office
Williston
N. C
Geo. W. Wilson
H Aaen
The Lucky Quarter Drug Claim Ad
An advertisement promotes Dr King's New Life Pills with a money back guarantee from Brownell's drug store. It promises relief from headache biliousness constipation and malaria and touts the pills as health more precious than jewels.
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Dr. King
Brownell’s
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U.S
Enderlin
Farmer
Long Beach
Cal
Misa Etta Priscilla Groy
Chicago
Miss Grove
Mackay
Board of Trade
Clarence H. Makay
Roslyn
L. I
Leys
Kmarmers
Fierses
Williston Implement Company
Sam Boyd
Johnson
Matt J. Johnson Co
St. Paul, Minn
Food and Drugs
Brownell Drug Company
Department of the Interior
Williston, N. D
Oleson, Stenehjem & Anderson
M. Bartholomew
East Broadway
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