Jayme L. Job

8/5/2013: Since 2010, North Dakota’s coyote population has been on the rise. In 2011, the North Dakota legislature considered a bill to established a one hundred dollar bounty on the animals. The state has a history of offering bounties on the pesky predators, offering the earliest coyote bounty in 1896. However, the efficacy and logic behind such bounties remains hotly debated, especially given some problems bounties have caused.

8/3/2013: In July of 1917, the State’s Attorney and the Bismarck Chief of Police raided a residence on the outskirts of the city.

7/29/2013: A verdict overseen by North Dakota Supreme Court Judge James Morris was released on this date in 1948, in Nuremberg, Germany. The trial was Tribunal 6, one of the twelve Nuremberg Trials in which Nazi war criminals were held accountable foratrocities committed during the course of World War II. Morris himself was selected by President Harry Truman to sit on a panel of four judges responsible for overseeing the tribunal.

7/25/2013: A citizen-led impeachment committee in Watertown, Dakota Territory, forwarded an arraignment to President Grover Cleveland on this date in 1888. The arraignment issued various charges against the appointment of Louis Church to Territorial Governor of Dakota, and argued for his immediate impeachment and removal. Of course, the fact that Church had been appointed by President Cleveland and was close friends with the President did not bode well for the citizen’s committee.

7/20/2013: During the summer of 1902, the city of Lakota had a problem.

7/14/2013: Early settlers to Dakota Territory often traveled together in large wagon trains. These trains not only provided protection from attack, but ensured help from the other travelers.

7/13/2013: In 1922, Mr. R. O. Baird of the North Dakota Food Commission became concerned over the addition of dyes to ice cream.

7/9/2013: One of the earliest Red River Valley settlers was also one of North Dakota’s most interesting and little-known characters.

7/7/2013: Mandan reported a shooting incident worthy of a modern-day soap opera on this date in 1923. Fred Massingham, a happily married rancher and father from Morton County, was arrested on July 6th for shooting at Mr. Leroy Till in broad daylight in downtown Mandan.

7/4/2013: The city of Mandan celebrated its first Fourth of July on this date in 1879, marking the nation’s 103rd birthday. Often over-shadowed by its larger neighbor, Mandan residents decided to steal some of Bismarck’s thunder, quite literally, by stealing the city’s cannon the night before the celebrations.