Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-12-27
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Letters have been received from Mr.. S.
E. Kurtz. He's alive and we'll,
George w. Payne aud William B.
Payne, Of Glanavon, were IN town last
Saturday.
No snow has fallen since our last re.
port, and cattle and sheep are getting
their living on the prairie.
BY iceminy! 1t do look as though the
500 railroad company intends next spring
to- !! "! Let ds hope so.
1t is said that the Irish National Ali
ance has offered the President of the
United States 1OO soldiers to fight
Great Britain.
A Kansas man Is. reported to be en-
deavoring to cross the milk weed, and
strawberry plant, with view to raising
strawberries and cream.
1t is sir, the peoples constitution, the
peoples Government. nude for the peo-
pie: made by the people and answerablc
to the people.-Daniel Webster, 1880.
1t is reported now that ex-Presl d ent
Harrison will marry Mrs. Dlmmick,
beautiful widow of New York, who
assisted him in closing the dying eyes of
his wife, Oct. 25, 1892.
Col. Lounsberry's Record" for De.
cember is gem. Among the interesting
features Is an article by Donald Steven
son, describing his experience of terrific
Minnesota blizzard, in 1887
The editor went to Bismarck, Sunday;
but Mrs Streeter was not able to return
home until Thursday The editor having
been absent the most of the week, it is
impossible to give much local news this
week.
Grand Forks Herald That bill for a
military post at Grand Forks cannot be
put through too quick. From the tone
of the Winnipeg papers British army is
liable to come up the valley here most
any day.
The North Dakota Woolgrowers' Asso.
cation will meet at Bismarck next Mon
day. Business of importance will be
transacted. A kindly invitation is ex.
tended to every sheep. owner of the state
10 be present.
This tiff with Great Britain on the
Monroe doctrine, says an exchange.
brings out the fact that, when Louis
Napoleon was fighting Mexico, Lincoln
SAID as soon as the rebellion was crushed
lie would attend to Louis
The jury in the, sWadsworth murder
case tried at Bismarck. we're out for 20
hours and brought IN verdict Of "no,
guilty." Billings county. with popula-
tion of about 100, will have between
81 500 and $4,000 to pay as costs of the
rial.
A correspondent at Hampton writes !:
What is the law in regard to taking
up an estray and keeping it year with
out advertising the same?' Answer. -
The law says that an animal taken up
must be advertised within fifteen days
after the date of said taking up.
General Wesley Merritt says: "Tn case
of war, the United States will take the
aggressive, 60 over the northern border,
take possession of the Welland Canal
and thus control the inland lakes. 1t is
believed that large number of Cana
dams prefer annexation, any how
1t is said that the resolution of Senator
Chandler implies that a million men will
be needed IN a War with Great Britain.
The government has purchased the ex-
elusive right to make the Kraag Jorgenson
arm and IN case of war couple of
million of our able. bodied men will get
chance to handle them.
The Minneapolis Journal says that, if
England should decide that she wished To
take a slight fall out of her uncle, the
way Russia would drop on Turkey or
India would remind one of the fall of
red.headcd man down deep well. And
ut about the same time Ireland would go
republican, and then there would be the
old boy to pay.
The Winona Times man says that the
county C-A-N'-T collect license from
the damp.goods storekeepers. They can
do it in Bismarck, in Mandan and in
Eureka. But Of course, now that the
Times man says that it can't be done, the
authorities in those places will at once
quit" A great head has the intellectual
giant of the Times.
The Winnipeg Free Press, says an ex-
change. which few days ago was sure
the sixty millions of people in the
United States could not be whipped into
war, now advises extreme caution
among our Canadian neighbors to mot
lrritate" the American people. "who are
the most easily exclted of any in the
world outside of Africa
1t is said that four pretty New York
girls were fined 81 each for holding up a
new man" and kissing him, in spite of
protestations, as he was vending bis way
homeward one evening after dark This
is all right as matter OF principle, but
the man who objects to being kissed by
pretty girls will never become model IN
this wicked old world.--Ex.
Michael T. O'Connor. Michael o. Con-
nor, Jr, and Chas. Burlington. Of Bis
marck. were in Williamsport last Mon
day. 1t seems that the band of horses
known as the Tramel herd belong to Buff