Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1897-03-05
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Assessor Herolz was IN town the fore
part of the week consulting with the
county board ss TO his work.
Auditor Braddock 10 absent in Bis.
marck. attending the initial meeting Of
the new penlten.iary board.
Olaf Larson and little Harmie Allen.
out In Cherry Grove. have been on the
sick list for the past fortnight.
Everybody is pleased to know that the
matter has been settled, and that DR.. Car.
son will remain.in Emmons county.
Henry Reamann has gone down to the
southern part Of the county to round up
some taxes from people who are about to
emigrate.
County Judge Rowerdink and Mr..
Wleeer Rodenbere we're up from south.
ern Emmons, Monday and Tuesday OF
this week.
John Edick was up from the coal mine
yesterday. He is in good health again.
Johnny has kind words to say of DR..
Carson, who attended him while he was
sick.
A protest with a long list Of Will
Transport signers will. if necessary, 60 To
Washington. taking strong ground against
the appointment of H. A. Armstrong as
postmaster. :;
The legislature adjourned yesterday.
Some very good laws were passed at this
session. The Bismarck Tribune will soon
publish the Popular Edition" and then
we shall know where we are at.
DR.. Hobart, of Grand Forks. came
down from Steele last Saturday and re-
turned to the latter place Monday. He
is looking up a location. Although u
llttle-pill man, DR.. Hobart had some
good words to say Of DR.. Carson.
Frank Jaszkowiak sends postal-card,
written at Eureka last Friday, which
says: Il arrived At Eureka to-day. There
has been no train for week. Mr.. Heimer,
the mail contractor, was thrown out of
his sled at Thule and had his left arm
broken. yesterday"
The same man who attended \ meeting
of character assasslns 10 Bismarck, dur.
ing the late campaign. and said "The
gang is rotten from the court down"
(and we can prove by at loast two wit.
nesses that he said it), has done John
Boutillier all the harm that he can, and
now he's after Lincoln Cell.
Tribune, Wednesday: 1t is reported
from Winona that there is feeling of
certainty that the two Indians Black.
hawk aud Aleck Coudot (not Agard, az al
first reported) NOW under arrest, are the
men who arc responsible for the murder
Of the spicer family. There is hitch
between the civil authorities and the Ind.
ian police, the latter refusing to turn the
men over IT, the officers of Emmonf
county. partly through fear OF lynchlue
and partly because Of the matter of re.
ward in case the men prove to be the ones
wanted. There may be compromise ef
fected by which the men will be brough,
to this city to be held for trial, and unit
the other matters are settled,
l. Lincoln Cell is an applicant for the
Williamsport posoflce. and. il he secures
it, he will move building into town ant
reside here. He had no trouble in secur
ing the signatures to his petition of five
sixths of the patrons of the office, ant
there were several whom he could NO
see. 1t is reported that the sneak who
wrote the lying letter in which he tried Il
rum the business of an old Union sol
dier Ian old soldier, too, who has larg.
family and who has been h,s neighbor fol
Is years), the consclenceless scomndre
who is the most persistent doer ol
the dirtiest kind of dirty work of any
skunk whose presence afflicts the unfor
tunate people Of any county. in the state
wants the Office himself, and will use The
same methods against Lincoln Cell tha
he used against tho old soldier, and that
be has always used with pretty nearl,
everybody with whom he has done bust
ness. These are harsh words. but th,
people of this community know tha
they are deserved.