On this date in 1900, Ira O. Jenkins, convicted of murdering Gust Stark near Bismarck, was denied clemency by Governor Fancher and scheduled to be hanged on September 14.

Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:

Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 3. — After hearing arguments of Attorney Strowell for the relatives of Ira O. Jenkins, under sentence of death in the Burleigh County jail for murder, who asked commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment, and of State’s Attorney Allen, who opposed granting the petition, Governor Fancher denied the petition.

Jenkins was convicted of the murder of Gust Stark, a companion, at a coal mine north of Bismarck. Both he and his father were prosecuted, but the latter made a confession, stating that his son had killed Stark and the two ag

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