JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Farmers Union is contributing $5,000 to a reward fund set up for information to leading to a conviction in the shooting deaths of nine Oliver
County cattle on the Fourth of July.
     That increases the reward fund to $18,000. The North Dakota
Stockmen’s Association says it’s the largest such reward in state
history.
     State Farmers Union President Woody Barth says the organization
is concerned that someone would randomly shoot and kill cattle.

 
     Dakota Community Bank and two of its owners have contributed
$3,000 to push up the fund that began with $1,000 from the
Stockmen’s and $9,000 from the owners of the nine animals shot in
Oliver County on the Fourth of July.
     The reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.