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•:S |S s?: c- i- ff- 11 Sfev Aft fct :i I •V If ,f fa» '. *R: iS- Hi! •!-V- ^"M fe/ -•v ,v..w: & about like that desk there, a writing desk like that. Q. What kind of a looking man -•was Gus Johnson? A. He wasn't hardly as tall as me. not as heavy as me, and he had some gray hair®, not dark, a little sandy, not very much, and he had a mustache and goatee on his chin. Q. This shot was fired iu the room? A. Right in the room where we sat. Q. Did any of the pellets hit the 'wall? A. I couldn't say. Q. Didn't examine the wall? A. No. Q. How Trig a room is that? A. 1 guess it is as long as this one, a little wider. Q. About 12 or 14? A. Something like that. Q. Where was he sitting? A. Sit ting on the side of the table. Q. Against which wall? A. That table was sitting against that wall. Q. Would that be the west wall? A. Yes, west end, one part of the table was sitting against the wall. Q. Where were you A. I was on that end of the table on the north end. Q. For instance you take those pil lows as being the table against that wall, where were you? A. About that far (indicating) while he sat where this man is lying. Q. What was he doing? A. We was talking there, we just got done eating I guess and we was talking about something. Q. Did you say anything to him just before you shot? A. Never said a word to him. Q. What was the last thing he said to you? A. The last thing he says to me, I will stay at home today and you take the load of wheat we have loaded to town, just as near as I can think now. Q. And this contract that you had there, he never signed that? A. I wrote that thing myself. Q. And signed his name to it? A. I signed his name to it. Q. When did you do that, after wards or before. A. I done that when I went to town that day. 1 wrote than on a tablet on my knee when I wen£to town. I wrote it on the road going to town on my knee. I have a fountain pen. Q. You were born in what place in Texas? A. Hakew. Q. How long did you live there? A. Something like a year, a little over a year, then we went to Pine ville, Kentucky. Q. How long did you live there? A. I was five years old. Q. Where did you go from there? A. Louisville, Kentucky. Q. How long did you live there? A. Eighteen months and my father was married there, married my moth er's sister. She was. my aunt and stepmother both. Q. You didn't get along well? A. Us children got along all right but my father didn't seem that he could get along with her all right and one day my father came in the house and II was the baby then and he said, ^goodbye, I am going, and he says, I may never return. I never seen my father any more until '97 I guess it was and my brother D. Marion Noah, he came to Louisville after me and :my other brother Willie and brought us out here to Indian Territory and be fore he come after us I had been out -through here but I hadn't been right in this country. I had been with Sells tc, Forepaugh's Pony and Dog Show and had been all over New York state and all over Michigan and Indiana and "Wisconsin and Missouri and Texas and Kansas and oh, just strolled all -over the world pretty near and then Tthey busted up in 1904 down in Hel *ena, Missouri, thirty-five miles from Uoonville. Then I went up where my stepmother was in Kentucky and my "brother came out and I came up with Mm. My father hPd been married to, an Indian and had had three children "by an Indian woman and I stayed home and I enlisted in the army at Coffeyville, Kansas, on the 26th day of January. Q. What year A. 1904, the same year we came out in the first part and I enlisted in the slat part in the fall hagen, Denmark, in 1841. In 1864 was united in marriage to Neils Peterson, who a few months later accompanied her to Roseland, Minnesota. In 1890 her companion was taken away from her by the cruel hand of death, be \^ting left with 10 children. A few years later she was united in marriage "to Pete Jenson and lived in Morgan, Minn., until 6 years ago. She and her husband came to Minot, N. D., and filed on a claim, 12 miles southwest of Minot, 4 years ago. Mrs. Jenson was again made lonely by parting with her second husband in death. From that time she and her youngest daughter, Miss Tillie, lived on their homestead during the summer. Mrs. Jenson was a woman of the highest Christian vir tues and always trusted in God and during her suffering was a patient and Born to Alonzo B. Curtis and wife, twin babies on Monday morning, March 30. Both died shortly after birth. The mother Is doing as nicely & can be expected and will recover. C. A. Johnson went toSharori, D., where he aaA Hon.^. B. Banna, caa for eongrwa, win hold a ttg rally Friday night. XENMARE FARMER BRUTALLY MUROEREB (Continued from Page 9) Death of Mrs, Anna Marie Jenson A precious one from us has gone, loving mother. A few days before her Fell asleep in Jesus, at the home of death, she prayed with her nine her daughter, Mrs. Murray Warner, children and plead with them to be 12 miles soiuhwesi of Minot, Wednes- good Christian men and women and day night, Mrs, Jenson March 4, from dropsy. and I went to Fort Snelling, Minneso ta, and 1 was in the army four months and .1 was discharged on account of disability. On account of this foot, I got a bad foot. Q. How did you cut it? A. With an ax, I was cutting a limb off a peach tree and I raised up the ax and the limb ovej the top caught me and hit the foot and cut it across like that (indicating). And then after I was discharged there I went down back into Oklahoma and through In dian Territory and then I got with a few roughs and toughs there, and went from there to Chicago with them and got on West Madison street and we got into some devilment there. Q. Where did you first get into trouble? A. Broke into a jewelry shop in Chicago, West Madison street was the first crooked work. Q. What did you do? A. Broke into a jewelry store, took paper and put molasses on it and put it up against the window and shoved it in. All the glass stuck to the paper, and it didn't make any noise, and that was in the first part of 1905, and we came back then up through Missouri, and then we came back around the edge of Missouri to Fort Scott, Kan sas, and at Fort Scott, Kansas, we stole eighteen head of horses and took the horses across to Coffeyville, Kan sas, and sold them for fifteen hundred dollars and a month after that we got caught. And I was sent to Jeffer son penitentiary and we was there a month and cut out and left and then I got into trouble again down at—I went back down to Oklahoma and down to and went over to the capltol of Indian Territory, and back to Fort Gibson, and I got mar ried there, that is about the middle of 1905. Q. Is that the wife you have now? A. No. Q. Is Jefferson City the penitenti ary? A. Yes, for the state of Mis souri. We was in there a month and we cut out and ran away and I went back to Indian Territory and I was married to my stepmother's sister, her name was Jessie Switzer then. She^ had been married beforehand her husband died and she was 28 years old and I stayed with her about a month an a half and got $2,800. from her and I left. Q. Did she know you were going? A. Yes. Q. Is she living yet? A. Yes, she is married. After I left, and her old man left, and she married again since then. Q. You got $2,800, she gave it to you? A. Yes. Q. Then where did you go? A. I went there up to Coffeyville again and then I got with another fellow there by the name of Florence Williams. Q. Who was in with you at Jeffer son City? A. Calude McGaughey. He is in Havre, Montana, now I think —and we went over to Coffeyville and I got with this other fellow and we went from there down to the capital of Oklahoma, Guthrie then, it was, I guess it is now if it ain't changed since it was admitted as a state, and we went out to Blue Star's ranch twelve miles east of Guthrie and stole twenty-seven head of cattle and sold them in Guthrie for $3,200 and a lot of hogs we had ^long, I forgot the number, I guess it must have been about thirty head, and we got sent to the reform school and my father nev er knew I had been sent to the pen itentiary and I got sent to the reform school at Benton, Missouri, and I stayed there eight months and that was the first part of 1906. Q. Did you get away from there A. My father got me out. I got out of there—Superintendent Drake was the man running that. He is running the Iowa reform school now. I went home and stayed a couple of weeks and I come up here and I started blind pigging around here and I met this Aleck Moran and I was with Aleck pretty near all the time then until I got sent to the pen for blind pigging. I was caught in Washburn and served ninety days and two hun dred dollars fine, and I was sentenced by Judge Winchester an I was sen tence under Judge Cowan at Devils Lake and got a year in the pen. (meet was born near Copen them in heaven. She then start ed to sing with a voice weak but so sweet, "Just as I am without one plea." Mrs. Jenson at the time of her death was 66 years, 10 months and 4 days, nine children, 1 step daughter are left to mourn their loss of a true and lov ing mother. The services were held at the home Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, March 7. Rev. E. P. Lawrence of Minot with 3 of his singers, conduct ed the service. Those attended the funeral were Mrs. N. F. Kelley, Mrs. J. A. Brown of Wells, Minn and N. J. Peterson of Verndale, Minn., Mrs. M. J. Warner, J. N. Peterson, Pete and Tillie Peterson of Minot, N. D. The entire neighborhood had turned out to pay their respects to the memory of the deceased and to show their sym pathy for the ones sorrow. Mrs. Jenson was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Minot cemetery. A big Clark meeting was held at held at the opera house Tuesday night, other one was held at the court house Tuesday night, and a torch light pro cession was one of the features. The band is playing for Clark this week and if he doesn't get elected, he will hare the fun of hearing the music -anyway. 't '4lLrliCMM A'A1?' Off the Water Wagon, Frank Lyman has sold the Granite Spring Water Co. to A. B. Curtis and C. C. Brownell. This is one of the growing businesses of Minot and will be handled in a .capable manner by the purchasers Gov. Burke Makes Seed Wfeeat Inves tigation. Governor John Burke spent Tues day night in this .city enroute to Stan ley where he investigated the seed -wheat shortage. The governor thot there was a way to get around the shortage of seed and will do what he can to relieve the situation. The gov ernor says the shortage at Max has been relieved, by the elevators agree ing to carry the farmers until after hardest. Scholberg and Titus Move. Dr. M. H. Scholberg, the dentist, has moved from the Lee block to room 18 of the new postoffice block, and is now admirably located. He has three rooms, which give him erery conven ience for his work. He has one of the best equipped dental offices in the state. Dr. Scholberg is one of Minot's best dentists, if not the oldest, and his practice has always been all that he could desire. Dr. Titus has also moved from the Lee block to the new postoffice block, and his rooms are next to Mr. Scholberg's. The doctor has beautiful quarters, consisting of a reception room, operating room, and consulta tion room. Dr. Titus is one of the doctors who has come to Minot in later years and his practice has been growing fast. Woodmen Convention. Thirty-one delegates of the Modern Woodmen met in session in this city Wednesday and elected J. P. McCus ker of Bowbells and C. E. Batchellor, of Donnybrook delegates to the state M. W. A. convention to be held in Mandan May 4. The meeting was held in the K. P. hall, and but four of the delegates failed to appear Tolly, lias a camp 0f seventy members was represented by three delegates, W. F. MaKee, M. E. Porter and Mr. McMasters. Ralph Heustis has rented the rear of H. Emerson & Son's store and will install a full outfit of electrical supplies, besides will do electrical workman and ought to get all he can do. C. F. Britton, a Velva farmer, was a Minot visitor last Saturday. Mr. Brit ton informs us that he will farm 300 acres this year, himself. He thinks it does not pay to hire expensive hands. He will handle seven horses. According to Tuesday's registration there are about 1300 votes in .the city, or three or four hundred more than anyone supposed could be possible. Of course some names may have been registered twice by error, and again some names may have been registered that are not those of voters at all. Great care will be taken on election day to see that no illegal votes are cast. NOTICE FORE- OF MORTGAGE CLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given that that cer tain mortgage execute' and delivered by Rolland J. Purdy and May Purdy, his wife, mortgagors, to Nettie Greisher, mortgagee, dated the first day of De cember, 1906, and filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county of Ward and state of North Dakota on the 4th day of December, 1906, and recorded in book 38 of mort gages at page 597 and assigned by said mortgagee to the undersigned John W. Maher, which assignment has been duly recorded, will be foreclos ed by a sale of the premises in such mortgage and hereinafter described at the front door of the court house in the city of Minot in the county of Ward and state of North Dakota at the hour of nine o'clock a. m., on the 11th day of May, 1908, to satisfy the amount due upon such mortgage on the day of sale. The premises de scribed in such mortgage and which will be sold to satisfy the same are described as follows: Those certain premises situated in the county of Ward state of North Dakota and known and described as the southeast quarter (SE1-4) of section nineteen (19) in township one hundred fifty nine (159) north in range eighty-four (84) west together with the heredita ments and appurtenances thereto be longing. It having been stipulated in said mortgage that if default should be made in the payment of any part of the principal or interest when due, then the mortgagee or her assigns might declare the whole principal sum due and payable and the mortgage foreclosed at once and default having been made in the payment of interest, which fell due on said mortgage on December 1, 1907, the undersigned has elected to declare the whole amount secured by said mortgage due and there will hereafter be due on such mortgage at the date of sale the? sum of $1338.67, besides the costs and expense of sale, and the attorneys fees allowed by law. Dated March 31st, 1908. r!,:y—John W. Maher, Assignee of Mortgage. Burke ft Mlddaugh, Attorneys for As- signee, Devils Lake, N. D. 4-2-5-7 Tracy In New Quarters. A. W. Tracy, the land man, "wha hustles all the time.,, now occupies quarters in suit 1 of the postoffice block. Mr. Tracy has built up one of the largest real estate businesses in the state and he probably spends as much money for printer's ink as any real estate man in th6 state. Horton & Son occupy one of Mr. Tiracy's rooms and conduct a loan business. Mr. Horton was formerly connected with a Tagus bank. WANTED—To buy a good residence lot near the north side school house. Address J. B. Otrey, Sawyer, N. D. 4-2-p The famous Russian horse poisoning case from Velva is nearing a close and win go to the jury before the day is ended. The evidence is clearly against Hekei and his son and it is generally believed that the jury will find them guilty. The crime is a felony, puish able from one to three years in the penitentiary. WANTED—A place to work in the country by a steady woman. Willing to work at reasonable wages. Com petent. Address 319 Reishus St. t-l-p Minot, N. D. store IS YOU A. E. Woolverton has returned from the south and will manage one of ihls father's large farms north of town. The Minot Hide & fur Co. Wt3 a»v paying the Highest AJ trk.'f. IVie.- for Hides and Furs Special large prices or Musk rat^, Co.yoiti», Wolfs and Foxes. These furn are in good demand and will pay extra prices for them. All other furs at highest market orice. Respectfully yours, FELDMAN & BAKER Opposite Bovey Shute Lumber Co. Phone No. 580 MINOT, N. D. probably take good care to keep ybur liver active: most people do. Do you ever realize that .your kidneys need help, too? They do. And why should they not? They perform an immense amount oi work removing the poisonous uric acid from the blood. If they do not act properly, general ill health results and chronic kidney diseases are among the most fatal known. When kidney trouble is suspected take Nyal's Stone Root Compound. Better still, take it as a preventive of kidney disease. It is the greatest kidney an bladder remedy known to science—a genuine tonic and restorative that strengthens the kidneys, aids in eliminating waste products from the body, soothes irritation and brings about a normal condition of these organs. The price is $1.00—smaller bottles 50 cts. We sell it and recommend it: and our customers know that we never recommend anything that is not richly worthy of their confidence. A. P. SLOCUM YOUR DRUGGIST Phone No. 8 MINOT, N. D. NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS handled results etegables catalogue Opposite New Masonic Temple MINOT, N. D. I will stand at mv farm 5 miles north of Burlington, twp. 156, range 84, one good jack (Jobn Hyde). Is of heavy bone about 15 hands higb, weigh about 950, good style and high life. Was brought from Mo. when 1 year old and raised in Dakota, therefore is a climated jack. Guaranteed to be a sure breeder. W ill insure living colt for $12.1:0. To insure mare in foal $10. If any one per son breeds three or more mares will in sure living colt for $10 each. If any mare that bts been bred to (Jbhn Hyde) is traded or sold by former owner or leaves the country then the services rendered falls due if same has proven to be with.foal. Otherwise no payment is required until colt is foalded. C. W. GREEN, R. F. D. No. 2. Burlington, N. D. wwewe^K"". JX^aWV f'V i» I 1 ,1 mI IV A 0" 1 1 si