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

teeth can be ohtained-to bury women
and children with vests or dresses
covered with elk teeth, there: often
being from 300 to 500 teeth on dress.
1t Is only in comparatively recent
times that Indians have been buried
in the ground. The dead were form
erly placed in trees or on scaffolds. AS
a result, skeletons are occasionally
found with several hundred dollars
worth Of elk teeth lying beside them.
The Wilton News recently issued
very creditable edition giving an in
teresting write-up, with illustrations
of the coal and other interests OF it's
locality. Wilton as it was year ago
is shown by picture of two men
standing on the prairic-nothing else.
A story that was somewhat after
the pattern of the Ole Axvig incident
is related by the Jamestown Alert.
A certain English clergyman in the
Red river valley who has difficulty
with his his one day during the serv-
ices gave out the familiar hymn be-
ginning with, "Holy, Holy, Holy"
ETC., but read it, "'Oly, 'Oly, 'Oly,"
when a tall Norwegian in the back
part of the room arose and said, GAY
ben haar."
Near Peterson, in this state, one
day last week, two boys set straw
stack on fire.. The stack had been
covered with snow, which the thaw-
ing weather had converted into ice.
After the fire was set the boys amused
themselves by sliding down the stack.
The straw having burned from under
the ice, it was SO much weakened that
one of the little fellows broke through
into the fiery furnace and his body
was almost consumed.
Another boy in one of the western
counties has had his eye put out by
BIB shot from an air-gun. Many, OF
the air-guns now made will send
shot farther into plank at the same
range than will small-caliber
revolver. Yet parents who would be
Mortified at the idea of placing
rcvolvers in the hands of their child:
rem will cheerfully arm them with
air-guns and turn them loose among
their companions.-Grand Forks
Herald.
Mrs. Brucker, Of Dickey county,
killed her husband last week, and the
coroner's jury has declared that the act
was done in self-defcnse.-Grand Forks
Herald. III a woman hasn't right to
kill her own husband, things are COM
ing4to a pretty pass in these days of
"Women's rights" And it was real
mean to trouble, the lady by making
her appear before coroner's jury.
Aunty Preston ought to go down to
Dickey county and see whether she
consented TO it.
Reports from various sections Of the
state, says the Devils Lake Inter
Ocean, are to the effect that inquiry
for land is unusually large for this
season of the year, and the inference
is, therefore, that immigration will
be heavy this spring. A noticeable
feature is that there are moro in
Qdiries for improved or partially ina
proved land than has been the case
heretofore clear indication that a
large percentage of the newcomers
will be persons of some means.
Members Of the Bismarck club do
not relish the statements of the Nc
Lean countyites regarding game mat
ters. The boys here are doing what
they can for the protection of game,
and they state that they are aware OF
many and fragrant violations of the
game law by the persons in the north
ern county who are doing the most
kicking.-Bismarck Tribune. 70 yes;
''the boys here" are doing wonders to
preserve the game! As matter of
fact, the Bismarck pot-hunters, such
as those that kill for sale to N. p. din
ing cars, have done more than anybody
else to lessen the supply Of game on
the Slope. Particularly is this true
Of prairie-chickens. The Washburn
Leader is right in what it says about
the Bismarck gun club. No aid in Sc.
curing law doing away with the
open season us to deer for few years
will receive encouragement from that
direction.
Itwas singular, yet amusing, to note
the attack on the bill to raise county
commissioners pay from 50 to S. day.
The fight was not confined to either
house, as the bill failed in the senate
except where it applied to Cass and
Grand Forks counties. Tie house
committee amended the bill to make
the application general; and when the
matter came up in the house commit
tee Of the whole there was a lot of val
liable time and wind lost. The bill
finally was recommended for passage.
In many instances the commissioners
do not get enough out Of their pay to
meet expenses, unless they put up at
the cheapest houses and scrimp at cv.
cry point. They are taken from their
own work at times when it is of the
greatest loss; they are subject to the
rOaSts of the entire community il they