Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-08-31

| States Attorney Lynn was in town last
Wednesday, and went on to Bismarck Thurs.
day.
Mr. Israel Robinson is assisting Mr.. H.
"a. Armstrong in the work of the auditors
Office,
Milk your COWS. Butter, even at ten
cents per pound, is away ahead' of .forty-
cent wheat.
Butter and Eggs will be worth good
| price this foil and winter. Sell both to Geo.
Jennings, Bismarck. :.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Thurber left last weel,
for the eastern part of the state, where Ezra
will look for work.
Fred Carrow was up from Winona Mon
day. Mr.. Carrow is buying hay to fill
Fort Yates contract.
All the Billsportites who went east and
northeast to look for work are reported to
have been successful.
1 The state board of equalization has ad.
jaurned. The real estate valuation in this
county was reduced 10 per cent.
The death rate IN North Dakota is one in
166, Iowa in "a, Wisconsin in SO, Pennsyl.
vania in 67, all United States in 66.
Mrs. Cotton and Fred were to have re-
turned yesterday morning via Steele. The
Record. at the hour of going to press, had
not learned whether they arrived.
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buchanan valley. It is called "Bobtown,"
aNd Robert Buchanan is postmaster. Robert
was in town the other day, fixing up his
bonds, etc.
John Pekelder and Aaren Hollaar, of
southern Emmons, were up TO see Judge
Edick last Wednesday with q suit for set
tlement. The case was continued to
Monday next.
X The Record understands that, before leav-
EQg with tho remains of her deceased hus.
band, Mrs. Cotton concluded to have the
body taken to the Captains old home Bel
videre, Ill for burial, instead of to Mason
City, Iowa.
Judge Winchester will begin o term of
court, q. .,Williamsport. on Monday, the 9Th
day of October, at 2 p. m. Those wishing
to procure second papers will please take
notice. as this will be the last opportunity
before election.
\ Mr.. A. NJ Weller. Of Hampton, who hos
been in Minneapolis for some time, having
a broken arm attended to, writes that the
injured member is slowly improving, and
that he expects to be home about the middle
of next month.
Col. John Fenton, receiver Of one Of the
Mears banks, says the Grand Forks Herald,
is selling the sheep owned by the concern,
which two years ago were worth from So. so
to $3.50 each, at $1.25 per head. No won.
der the Colonel isn't very enthusiastic
democrat, as he explains how it happened
that democracy reformed the tariff on wool.
The wool market is improving a little.
H. T. Thompson & Co.. of Chicago, sold
for the writer thousand pounds of wool, as
follows: "a lbs dead at SC, 2S2 lbs dark fine
medium at l2c, 524 lbs fine medium at 13c,
1O3 lbs low medium at 12c. Even afte,
paying 100-round freight rates, commits
sion, etc., it netted over 10 cents pound.
Last year the amount received by the ship.
per was less than 8 cents pound
! 1t is hardly believable, but it is never
theless true, that in Nebraska. during the
present month, starving horses have beer
killed to prevent their further suffering
The dispatches state that one man shot 8,
Of his horses because he had nothing tt
feed them. He could not give them away
because none of his neighbors had hay
for them; and they had become too poo
and weak to drive to distant market. Ir
some parts of Nebraska, Kansas and Min
nesota vegetation is completely burned
up by drought.
The indiscriminate slaughter of prairie
chickens, says the jamestown Capital, in
North Dakota, by Minnesota sportsmep, re-
news demand for change in the game
laws of this state to conform to the Mime.
sofa statute. As it now stands vast horde
of men from our neighboring commonwealth
take advantage of 10 days shooting here,
diminishing the supply of game, and return
home in time to open the season there,
Sept. 1. Another objection to the presen,
law is that the ''open season. commences
right at time when farmers are too busy to
share in the general enjoyment, or to partic.
ipate in the benefits. They feed the chickens
for other people to kill
There is general feeling all over the
state that the next legislature will pass re-
submission resolution. No one except ON
occasional crank can see any objection to
this course, as the resolution would have to
be adopted by two legislatures and then SUBJ
mitted to vote of the people. II will be
seen that this would bring us up to 1897, and
seven years is certainly long enough for a
fair trial of the prohibition law. Then the
people can decide by their votes whether it
has been success. This district will elect
a senator and two representatives this fall,
and should choose men who have the cour-
age and ability to take leading part in Sc.
curing the passage Of resubmission resolu.