Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-12-05

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s%a@ Buffalo is to have a new hotel.
q Rugby claims a population of 1,01S.
Grandin is without a meat market.
Edmore boasts Of a new drug store.
Minot now has the long distance
telephone.
# Almost every town in the state re-
ports a shortage of houses.
Homesteaders around Velva are
troubled with sneak thieves.
The hospital at Mayville has been
obliged to close-lack Of fund.
Half a million acres of corn were
raised in North Dakota this year.
Trail county farmers report a good
deal Of grain yet to be threshed.
A party Of hunters thirty miles
from Buford, captured twenty deer.
The two Lisbon boys, who ran away
early in the fall, have returned home.
The Glendale Milling company paid
out 500, 900 the past month for wheat.
A large number of sales were report
ed at the sale of public school lands
at F~essenden.
I'd Mrs. P. P. Lee, of Grafton, had her
hair caught in a windmill shaft and
her scalp torn off.
One hundred and twenty carloads of
cattle, sheep and hogs were shipped
from Glendale this fall.
Joe Rowan has sold his 100 acre
farm, 90 miles southeast of Minot, to
Charles Howard for S. $1,000. =
The Russell Miller company, of
4 Jamestown, is sending flour to Los
Angeles, Cal, and to Scotland.
An Iowa man will start a creamery
at Jamestown if the farmers will agree
to bring in the milk of 800 COWS.
The largest horse barn in the state
is being erected on the Fairview farm
near Wahpeton, and sheep barns to
accommodate 800 sheep are being built.
Ward county is to have another
paper-The Maple Leaf, by Frank w.
Maple, at Renville- which will make
the twentieth paper in the county.
Percy Parker, zeal Cando, recently
enlarged his dwelling. Stoves were
put in the new part to dry the plaster.
The house caught fire and burned to
the ground.
Walter Davis, of Washburn, was
fatally shot while hunting by the &C
cidental discharge of a rife in the
hands of a friend. The young man
died a few hours after the accident.
Twenty acres of land within the
corporate limits Of st. Thomas, were
sold last week for 800 an acre. They
were bought for agricultural purposes
by a farmer who owned the adjoining
property.
Fireman Fred Bolinger, of the
Northern Pacific, has been missing
since a week ago Saturday evening.
His friends fear foul play. The
police search has thus far been I'M
successful.
A horrible accident occurred near
Lambert the 23rd. Frank Norvak was
sitting beside a leaking lantern which
in some way was upset, setting fire to
the house, and SO badly burning him
self and little daughter that his life is
I dispaired of. He is asking help as
practically all his property is destroy
/ ed.
S. n. Hayes, n Of the best known
lawyers in Bloomington, ILL.,, was
killed instantly in a wreck at Portal
i early the morning of the 22nd, and a
! 1s-year-old boy, by the name of Sells
I was seriously injured. The carload
u Of emigrant goods which Hayes was
h shipping to this state, was smashed all
II to pieces.
Michael Keogh, Of Mandan, met
ii with an accident the 22nd, which re-
;#$$ suited in his death the following
u Tuesday. His team ran away at
tached to a drag scraper. It ran over
him, bruising and mangling him in a
horrible manner. He was taken to
the Bismarck hospital but the injuries
were 40 serious he died as above stated.