Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1898-02-18
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enemies In Traill county are houndisk
him to death. His daughter Bsulah; who
has lived in Maine for the past few
months. has gone TO New York TO do
what Sdes can to comfort the declining
days Of her father. - =
The weather was . little. stormy fora
couple Of days this week. Thsre IL about
an inch Of snow on the ground. Last
week the swallows were Aitting In and
out Of their, old nests under the jail cor.
nices; but it seenfs that they were . little
too previous in their coming.
A pension Of sl2 per month. with back
pension Of $500. has bsen granted to
Henry Livingston, who formerly resided
In the Williamsport neighborhood, and
whose feet were badly frozen several
years ago. When Livingston left this
county he went TO the soldiers home as
Lisbon.
Much to the Joy of Mr.. and Mrs. 8. E
Kurtz and the little Kurtzes, at the be-
ginning Of the week Frank Jaszkowiak's
well-drill, at q depth Of ,l27 feet, struck
strong vein Of pjuiiis; self water. A fam
lily doesn't know how. to appreciate good
water until.it has been compelled to use
"bad" water from shallow we'll for sew
eral years.
Mr.. John McTavish, who was 20 badly
burned some time ago in prairie fire up
in the northern part of the state, returned
recently to Emmons county, and is stop.
ping with Ninian Young. Mr.. McTavish
was given in district court some $1,000
damages againbt the railroad. The com.
pany appealed, and the case is nov before
the state supreme court.
North Dakota juries are notoriously
tender-hearted, remarks Minnesota pa.
per. Since the organization Of the state
no murderer has been hanged on jury
sentence, and twelve are serving life sen-
tences who, but for the recommendation
of merciful juries, would have been exc.
cuted. But North Dakota lynching- bees
have very credftably Offset the poor rec
ords of the courts
Commissioner Macdonald wae do wn on
Sunday and took home one of his run
away dogs. The other went home by
himself day before his masters arrival.
Those vagrant dogs are causing gray
hairs to appear among the locks of the
tall official. 1t is said that when the
brace of peripatetic brutes got home and
were interviewed by their master they
listened to some very impressive remarks
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A petition is in circulation calling tor
an election for the purpose Of voting on
the question of issuing bonds with which
to take up certain outstanding bonds and
the floating Indebtedness (school war.
rants) Of Williamsport district. Money
can now be borrowed from the state
school fund at four-per-cent interest,
while we" are paying seven and eight
per cent on our bonds. and the warrants
draw eight per cent. II will thus be seen
that quite little sum could be saved by
issuing refunding bonds.
Supt. Kuiper and Mr.. John STAN, of
West6eld. visited Williamsport Tuesday.
The superintendent states that week be-
fore last there were six deaths of children
in Selz district one in Odessa andsone in
Strssburg. The remains of seven were
inferred in one cemetery. Ex.County
Commissioner Frank Wolfs daughter,
aged twelve or thirteen years, died. Ja.
kob Bohlander. Of Odessa district and .
family named volk, living about mile
north Of Frank VOLTS place, have each
lost four children by the prevailing dis.
ease.
| A couple Of years ago George Gutjahr.
who resides in this county, out near Long
Lake, sold some cattle to dealer, who
gave him in payment check on q bank
In Eureka. Before the check was pre-.
sented in Eureka creditor Of the cattle
man attached his funds, ana there was no
money left on deposit with which to pay
the check. The matter stood that way
until few weeks ago, when Mrs. Gut
jahr went to South Dakota to see the
cattle man and try to arrange matters.
She returned few days ago; and the
Record is glad to be able to state tha,
she obtained portion Of the money and
got . satisfactory note for the balance.
Roy H. Phelps, Jr.. Herndon, Kansas,
writes aking the following questions about
this country: ''What share does Q renter
have to payY, could you get farm for
me this yeari'' "Could leave here BY the
middle Of March and get out there in time
to put in cropf' 'sDo you raise much
corn,'' :'.what kind of winters do you usu.
ally have mild or severef'' sis your
country pretty well settledi'' ''Is there any
government land there7' what are wages,
q ruler ''Can man get work the mod
Of the timer The editor has replied q
most Of the inquiries; bnt. IL anybody b.
farm to rent, perhaps IL would be a-good
idea to communicate with HI. Phelps.