1890: After publishing a sensational letter naming Representative Walsh as one of the members who planned a lottery scheme, which included bribing legislature members in order to secure support to legalize the transfer and reincorporation, in the state, of the Louisiana State Lottery, Attorney General Goodwin found himself being publicly pulled by the nose, as Walsh sought revenge.

1895: A search for Mary Miller was put into place as her aunt, Lizzie Miller, arrived in Bismarck after a treacherous journey. Lizzie, 82 years old, had arrived in Bismarck after she left Parkersborg, West Virginia. Being misled, she had purchased a ticket to Portland, Oregon. However, at Ogden, Lizzie was stricken with paralysis, and laid there unconscious for six day, after which she lost her directions, and money.

1919: The State of North Dakota gets ready to start into business. With laws permitting the state to go into business, plans were created to enter into the banking, home building and flour milling industry.

1925: North Dakota repeals the statute prohibiting the sale of cigarettes, allowing cigarettes to go on sale after April 1.

1933: The board game Monopoly was invented.

1947: Representative Kenneth Fitch, of Cass County, made an apologetic speech to the state house of representatives, after having passed around a box of dog food, which he had thought was candy. A number of his fellow representatives had indeed helped themselves to the “treats.”