Williston graphic., 1902-09-25
OberOn had q small fire.

is growing some me apples.
The wires are being strung for the
telephone system at st. Thomas.
A number of ladies are making in.
vestments in Emmons county land.
Fargo people are preparing to expe-
rience street car wrecks next summer
The members of the Aneta band pre-
| sentod Leader Eos berg with a new
| cornet.
A number of settlers will put in
$4,000 irrigation plant in Williams
county.
Starkweather starts out with the
| declaration that blind pigs will not be
tolerated.
1t is said the railroads have no diff
Guilty this fall in securing a lot of ex.
| pert trainmen.
Great Northern section foremen
want an increase in wages from $43 to
$50 per month.
The Great Northern converted
halfdozen SIS steers into mince meat
at White Earth.
A I.akota lady caught her foot in a
curtain, and was thrown so hard that
one leg was broken.
!
| land j. to become a banker at Port
land, Traill county.
TIE i"r'gations along the Cannon
Ball rtYer, in Morton county, will be
watched with interest.
The fact that burglaries are becom-
ing SC frequent has caused a boom in
the safety deposit vault business.
| Rugby people are gratitied that 80
many business meu are investing their
money in nice store buildings.
Cass county is receiving some favor
able comment on its appropriation OF
$50 for the exhibit at st. Louis.
With the claims Of gold discoveries
in Williams county, that section Of the
state is attracting lot Of attention.
Druggist Lablonde, who was charged.
with carving a man In Bottineau coun-
ty. was released and hastened across
the line.
The towns which are paying from 40
TO so mills taxes are rather env1ous OF
Dickinson, which has levy Of only 9
mills.
ExCounty Commissioner Wager has
done some threshing near Tower City.
The wheat went almost thirty bushels
to the acre.
Capt McGinnis of Jamestown has
purchased 22,00 acres Of land, and has
large number Of Pennsylvanians who
may invest.
States Attorney Wineman Of Grand
Forks county found a tomato that re-
sembled a human face with a cigar in
its mouth.
H. G. Goodrich Of Fargo is reported
to have killed 13O chickens in four
days, near Oakes, and escaped the
game warden.
Sixteen theological students have
arrived from Europe to study in the
theological seminary at Richardton,
Stark county.
At Grand Forks the school board
purchases books for all pupils whose
parents state they are unable to pay
for the books.
Ralph Lynde Of Ellendale is endeav.
oring to get that crushed feeling out OF
his system since he was run over by
bundle wagon.
A four-horse bus team, with all the
horses ruaning away, was a diversion
at Valley City. The bus was picked
up in baskets.
Deacon Wardwell Of Pembina notes
that neighbor is building strong
coal bin-with an unbreakable side
next the deacon.
Penrose Gasho of Cline was struck
by thirteen shot by the accidental dis
charge of a gun, and now believes the
number is unlucky.
Farmers are organizing to protect
their prairie chickens for their own
sport next year, and visiting hunters
will have to be good.
With the splendid crops the tran
sient peddlers are in evidence, but
they are not on hand to help out the
farmers in bad years.
Efforts are now being made to prove
the insanity Of William Ross, who
plead guilty to the murder of Thomas
Walsh in Bottineau county.
There is so much mustard in the
flax in some parts of Ward county that
the seed from many fields will not be
fit for seeding next spring.
A citizen of Sanborn missed fifty
plunks about the time a man disap-
pcared from town, and fears the other
fellow eloped with the coin.
4 is thought Iuo HAL WIZ u1u Ill0
Sheldon burglary purchased monkey
wrench at Casselton to be used in the
commission Of the crime.
At Northwood gentleman and lady
fell between the platform and the rails
and were rescued just in time to pre-.
vent frightful mangling.
1t is said that lightning rarely
strikes twice in the same place, but
the Catholic church at Bathgate is re-
ported to have been bit twice.
President Mitchell has received a
draft for 6 10000 from the Welsh min.
ers. The money was voted at meet
ing of the miners held in Wales re-
Gently.
The first consolidated school in La
Moure county has been started, and
the experiment will be watched with
considerable interest by other school
districts.
A Sargent county man was burning
fire break, and his house was de-
stroyed. He then wondered how much
better off he would have been without