Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1897-04-02
IN TOWN AND OUT.

IN TOWN AND OUT.
Assessor Herolzswas in town Saturday
on business with the county board.
Miss Grace Yeater has returned from
Fargo. where she has been attending
school.
Reports from Glencoe arc to the effect
that "ooysts Benz 10 hard At work got.
ting his guns and traps ready for the com.
ing campaign against the varmints.
Napoleon Homestead. March 20: Con.
sidering the extent and severity Of the
wintaf, thus far but small loss Of stock
in this vicinity has been reported.
The initials &C." aud Nv. c." attached
to the Woodmen's notics. in another col.
umn. mean respectively "Calam,tarian"
and "Victim Of Circumstances.'
Oliver Bales came in from Glauavon
"Wednesday evening having taken two days
for the trip. On being piled with the
usual question. "How ore the roadsY' be
answered. "There arc no rosds." Mr..
Bales departed on h,S ,homeward trip
yesterday.
Under the new wolf bounty law the
county treaSurer, aud In his absence the
clerk Of the court, assists the auditor in
holding wolf lnquests. Fless and bed.
bugs should be carefully eliminated from
all wolf-hides presented for bounty 1t
Billeports county building.
Ozone. March 81: Emmons. county
wheat is coming in freely this week. The
roads are getting bad. Mr.. Beard had
Two loads upset--one mile from home
and the Other mile south Of tho Hughes
place. The Ozone corraled one load for
seed 1t was raised by Nels Peterson.
near Billsport. Good stuif. too.
Tie members Of Williamsport camp of
Woodmen have set their heads toget her
to provide ways and means for erecting
hall in which to hold their meetings,
They have concluded to give series of
entertainments to assist in the accom-.
pllshment of their object, and the first
of the series will take place on the even
ing of the 28d of this month. There will
undoubtedly be u good.slzed crowd prea.
ent.
Auditor Braddock left Monday morn.
ing on visit to his Dakem ranch. Down
on Spring creek, near Top Lee's place,
his sled event kapoot. and he started on
foot for twenty mile jsunt. Our iu.
f"rmant, who witnessed the accident At a
distance of quarter of q mile. says be
could see the auditors lips move rapidly.
but only an occasional word that sounded
like .'ham." or ''ram," or "lam," wa,
audible. The informant said that the
heat along the pedeslrian's trail was such
as to melt the snow for fifty feet on each
side.
And thus the editor of the Blllsport
Bucketofblood ia at last vindlcated. The
Ozone says: Owe wish to make it clea,
that. joshing asite, Brer streeter, rs q
chronicler of passing events. is away ur
in g. A South Dakota paper intimate,
that he hiss been printing his paper on
hay-press; but. even were it so, We will
bet that he is no hay bale as q Newspaper
man. And Dugald Campbell tells US thx,
the jackrabbit tale is all right. for he wa,
there, and he never saw such sight be.
fore" And now, you Winship. orten
you to 'pologize for printin' that horribl,
picter bout pore, innercent countr,
:eller what's been vinderkatedi
Well. that lone-looked for Thaw Is her,
at last. 1t began the latter end of last
week. and this week it has not frozen
except Wednesday night. A good par
Of the snow on the level has disappeared
and stock Of all kinds Is again feeding OF
the prairie. after being kept from it TO
$50 days. There arc still huge drifts il
the coulees and around buildings, but tn,
windmill towers and the church steeple
are beginning to poke their tops out o
The drifts. In another week or two th,
grass will be green, the meadov-lark,
will be singing, and the delinquent sub
scrlbers will be feeling good and rushing
in to pay up.
The editor Is frequently written to o.
asked by parties wanting to make proof :
but who naturally do not want to be as
sessed at once for the land upon which
proof is made-as 10 the latest date fOl
putting newly-proved-up lands upon th.
tax lists. Section 105 Of the revenue Law
says: "a list Of oil lands becoming tax
able for the first time in any county OF
the state shall be procured by the stat.
auditor from the proper land officers anc
forwarded by him to the sud,tor of th,
proper county on or before the 18th day
Of March Of each year." 1t will thus b.
seen that any one who proves up on /,
claim after the 10th Of March will not bt
assessed on the land that year.
Up to the time Of going to prcsl
(Thursdsy afternoon) Williamsport ha,
had NO mail by its daily and main line
since Saturday. This is about the long
est interruption we've ever had. The
mail came in from Steele and from Win
chester. but not from HEona. THIS va,
due to high water In Buchanan Valley
1t is said, however, that the trip can be
made all right around by Baehanan'a
bridge. Az we have had no communlca.
tion with the outside world, we are un'
able to state whether the Red River wi.
ley has been flooded and whether Fargo
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