Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1893-04-21

count of such irregularity voters were
prevented from voting.
Miss Bertha Packers school at Apple
Creek, Burleigh county. having closed,
the young lady has been home few days |
this week on visit. She leaves to-day |
for Livingston, Mont, to teach. Miss
Packer goes quite distance from home
but $40 month and board is quite an in
ducemcnt.
The Bismarck land Office has received |
official instructions regarding the new
tree-claim law, and those who have COM
Piled with the law for the last eight
years-eight years from date of filing
can now make proof, regardless of the
success Of their efforts to raise trees. No
publication Of notice Of intention is re-
quired.
Al exchange says that a preacher IN
Joliet, ILL.,, is responsible for this state.
ment: "God made the earth in six days,
and then He rested later on He made
man and rested again then He made
woman. And since that time neither God
nor man has rested' Then the preacher
wondered why the lady members abruptly
arose and left the sanctuary.
Mrs. Edick recently received letter
from her grandson Roy-her sons boy
who resides in Parish, N. Y. The writer
is seven years old. Following is the let
ter: II thought would write little. l
have little brother. 1t taint day old.
| We are all we'll. Its hair is white. We
have made a little syrup. Mamma got
he baby for a birthday present l am
trapping for skunk. don't know as l
will got him or not"
Senator Casey, says the Fargo Forum,
recently bought 1900 bushels of seed
blue stem wheat from p. F. Nash, for S.
cents per bushel, spot cash, delivered free
on board cars at Tintah, MINI. Mr.. Ca
sey is golny to SOW all blue stem on his
jamestown farm. The Cargill Elevator
company IS supplying farms on the line
of the Great Northern with blue stem,
having lately put in five cars of that kind
| of wheat.
Have you tried your seed in box to
see if 1t will grow? says the Mlnot Jour.
nal. One hundred grains of wheat, of
oats or of barley will not take much
room and, If some of 1t won't grow now,
you may have learned something which
will pay you big for your trouble. Grain
often spolls in bin without the owners
knowledge. 1t may not all be spoiled,
and. if you know the percentage, you can
sow accordingly.
Not since 1887, says the jamestown
Alert, has wheat in the local market been
so low as it is to-day. No. hard is
quoted at 48 cents, and no telling when
the bottom will be reached. In 1888
wheat was worth 81 per bushel. and q
year previous only 44@50c. Whether
the same conditions will prevail q year
from to-day is unknown but more po-
tent plea for diversified farming could
not be advanced at present than the low
price Of wheat.
When you are skipping gaily down the
path, says an exchange, IS when you
catch your toe and tumble. On the other
hand, sunshine comes only when the
clouds break. The man who gets the
pebble out Of his shoe is the happy man,
The fellow who never had pebble in his
shoe is merely an Indifferent ono. You
must go hungry occasionally to know the
real pleasure of good dinner. Mtsfor.
tune clears away the surplus of good
things and sharpens the senses for their
enjoyment when they come again.
The Mcintosh County Republican says
that Russian settler drove into Eureka
with team of big, fat oxen. He un.
hitched and tied them to wagon wheel
A train. load of steers destined for market
were standing on the track near by. The
unsuspecting farmer went about his bust
ness He returned in little while to
find one of his oxen missing. The stock
train had pulled out 1t is also reported
that IN Eureka, the other day, a stranger
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from his mouth while lie was asleep.
The editor Of the Park River Gazette
Witness (himsclf a Canadian) says One
reason why 80 many Canadians prefer
North Dakota to Manitoba is found in
the greater financial burdens borne by
the Canadian province. The Winnipeg
Free Press says that 81, 500, 900 has been
added to the provincial debt In five yca $,
:, and that the government lsYeeking ans
!, other loanspf s4Ao. .ooO.; The. entire bond
cd debt oflthls state is under $500, ,ooo'
and Chat amount was 4lmostlall expended
on pcrmahent bubllcl INSTITUTIONS. The
receipts for the last fiscal year were
$1,272, 164.21, the disbursements 1914, y
110.77, leaving surplus in cash of $685.
053.44.
An item going the rounds of the state
press, to the effect that one of the bills
passed by the late session cuts down the
fees of sheriff for all classes of service by
him, is incorrect, says the Tribune
House bill 1870, so far as it relates to sher-
ifs, fixes bis mileage fee at five cents ''in
serving citations in delinquent tax cases, -
and forbids the charging of mileage more
than once for the same trip. 1t makes no
change in his fees for other services The
effect of the law is that If, for example,