Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-04-26

of farms or claims which may be under
mortgage to hang on to them, for some
day such claim is bound to bring more
than the debt upon 1t. 1t says that dur
ing the past four years fair living crops
have been grown in almost every part Of
the state east Of the Missouri river; and
even al the prevailing low price of
wheat, enough money was made off one
crop last year 10 pay for quarter Sec
ton. The reduced cost Of growing the
crop has to some extent made amends for
the low price.
The Winona Times has its usual fling
at the editor of the Record regarding the
obscene-letter matter. II there has ever
been anything nasty or crooked in this
county that the Times hasn't defended,
the Record hasn't heard of it, But we
are much obliged to the editor of the
Times. So long as any one in this
county can keep the enmity of the
Times, he is pretty sure of having the
respect of nlne-tenths Of the people of
the county. Any business man or
official in Emmons who succeeds in
retaining the dislike of the intellectual
tray-spot of the Times Is indeed for
tunate.
Through the efforts of States Attorney
Allen and Sheriff Taylor, of Burleigh
county, w. H. Leonard, who victimized
the state and number of North Dakota
counties through fraudulent wolf scalps,
has been arrested, and there is plenty of
evidence to convict. Leonard had two
or three pals. Their plan was to buy the
scalps, for few cents, from hide dealers
in Chicago, then present them to a
county auditor and swear the wolves
were killed IN the county where the
scalps were presented. A package of
scalps shipped from Chicago TO Sterling
led to the arrest. They "did" Emmons
county for some twenty dollars.
The Winona Times talks of ''Persecutor
Streeter;" but its editor must know. if
he knows anything, thut in postoffice
cases the posteffice authorities are the
ones who Judge of the sufflciency of the
evidence. and who prosecute cases on
such evidence. A postotfice case is pros.
ecuted by the government entirely on the
\ opinion of its officers as to whether there
is ground for the prosecution, and no
individual can either begin or stop such
prosecution. Furthermore, there is no
certainty that any one who commits a
crime will be punished, as is evidenced
by the fact that young rascal who last
summer tried to get on jury, and was
proved perjurer by two witnesses, was
neither arrested, tried nor punished.
Last Friday night, just before the rain
came, the Blllsport postmaster went forth
to view the heavens and read the weather
signs, as is his wont before retiring. In
looking upward he saw what appeared to
be five balls of fire-one at each corner
of the "store 'front.' at tie top of the
street end of the building, and one at
the upper end of the flagstaff. He had
seen Faust IN Bismarck, recently, ant
he rubbed his eyes to find out whether
the sight was real or whether it wa!
caused by com bination of memory ant
imagination. But the fire-ba1ls wcr,
still there. Then he went in, took of
his shoes, and searched for snakes; bu
there we're none. He now called in thu
neighbors, and they, too, saw the fiv'
balls of fire. Sparks were emitted from
time to time, aud 1t was more than hal
an hour before the electric display wal
put an end to by the falling of the rain