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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
4
An alias contest notice issued by the United States Land Office in Minot North Dakota directs publication. The notice states due diligence could not be completed and seeks proof regarding a contested land entry with evidence from involved parties and witnesses.
Notice announces contest actions filed by Charles Herman in the Interior Office in Williston North Dakota concerning a claim on a tract. It references a bond, a six month abandonment period, and claims about a Joseph H Badge and a Tania trust. The filing lists clerk and attorney details and a public notice style filing.
The Department of the Interior North Dakota case notes a contest filed by John C. Gregor against a homestead abandonment. The notice states the alleged absence from the land is not due to military service and sets hearings before County Judge A. A. Austill in Williston on September 5, 1905, and before the Register in Minot, ND, with service by publication if personal service cannot be effected.
A contested land claim affidavit filed October 7 in Minot North Dakota under section 33 seeks proof that the entryman abandoned a tract for over the required period. A hearing will be held at 10 o clock a.m. to determine service issues and validity of the contest. Receiver E. Fox issues the notice.
A dispatch from Portsmouth New Hampshire reports that the peace treaty is completed with a preamble and seventeen articles but wordings of the protocol remain disputed. Witte seeks swift finish to prevent home pressure on minor points as plenipotentiaries prepare to sign and transmit the text to St Petersburg and Tokyo.
Helena Mont Sept 5 John H Talem son of B H Talem assayer in charge of the United States assay office here is dead on the Cascade ranch from injuries after his horse fell during cattle round up he never regained consciousness
Twenty Mexican laborers were killed and several injured by a premature dynamite blast at the Manzanilla port works in Mazatlan Mexico on August 29. Officials say carelessness caused the explosion. Families of the deceased received indemnities from Col Edgar K Smoot, the port works contractor.
The Department of Commerce and Labor ordered steamboat inspectors to stop vessels from sailing until repairs ordered by the inspection service are completed and a formal new certificate of satisfactory condition is issued. Washington date Aug 29.
Prohibitionists in New Jersey plan to push a bill in the legislature barring habitual drunkards from obtaining marriage licenses. Similar statutes exist in Ohio and have been enforced there.
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