Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1901-03-01

The new legislative apportionment
law provides for forty senators and
one hundred representatives.
Former Senator Wishek says that
many Iowans will engage in the cattle
business in Logan county this spring.
Nonresident landowners in Steele
county have notified their agents. to
raise the price of their holdings. They
have confidence in the country.,s.*
The Oakes Republican learns that
the 500 elevators will sell wheat
cleaned-at an advance Of 10 cents
per bushel over the market price.
Farmers around st. Thomas, Penn
bina county, arc reported to be haul
ing hay from thirty-five miles west of
Milton, making seyenty-mile haul.
1t may seem strange, says the Dick
inson Recorder, but southern stock
ranges. generally report more loss and
shrinkage from exposure than more
northerly ones.
Maize. .Ed'ards is patterning after
Browning in the construction OF his
recent OCTOPUS" letters. Some Of
the paragraphs are SO obscure that
half the editors of the state are guess
ing.
Napoleon Homestead: Quite a
number OF immigrants from Russia
have settled in this county Of late,
having friends here, and just fresl,
from the old country, and there is bM
more to follow. Let 'em come; there
is plenty Of vacant land in Logan
county yet. =.
The Indians at Fort Yates didn't
want to be yaccinated against small
pox; SO the agent let them consider
the matter few days and smoke a
few pipes. Then lie suggested dis
continuance of their rations until
they were good; and they all came in
and barred their arms.
The Minneapolis Journal corre-
spondence from. Bismarck says that
North Dakota leads the world in land
Office business. The report OF the
secretary Of, the interior for the last
fiscal year shows that one-fifth OF the
entire number of homestead entries
made IN the United States were made
in North Dakota.
Judging by what the farmers in the
different parts of the state tell the
newspapers, there will be more than
the usual acreage of corn planted this
year. OF late years the Red river val
ley and other eastern parts of the
state have been raising good crops of
corn, while a corn-crop failure on the
Missouri Slope is rare occurrence.
The Bismarck Tribune wants the
attorney general to issue another proc
'lamation, as it states that saloons are
again running under the protection of
the mayor. A Christian vino turns
Turk generally wears u taller turban
than anybody, and wants to begin the
massacre Of his co-religionists right
away.
: There has been such universal kick
ing against the methods employed by
the enforcement league agents in CLOS
ing up pigs and druggists that Senator
LaMoure's bill limiting criminal prose.
cutions to states attorney meets with
general approval. 1t will shut out the
leagues attorneys, and in future, If
any money Is collected in liquor suits,
there is a prospect Of it getting into
the school fund. Grand Forks Plain
dealer.
k There is a curious treasure buried
orrthe Standing Rock and other Sioux
reservations, says the Bismarck Trib-
une, which is occasionally unearthed.
The treasure is elk teeth. These
teeth are now worth about 90 apiece.
The value is given by demand for
teeth to be made into symbolic pins
for members Of fraterlal society
known as the Benevolent Order Of
Elks. 1t was customary In former
times = and is 50 to-day where the