Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-11-06

Some farmers pastured the fax that
/ was not thought at to cut-and the
stock are said to have grown fat on it.
The county seat fight in McHenry
4 county continues, and the people at
Towner are determined there shall; be
/ no change.
Many elevators in the state were
compelled to close down because of in
ability to secure cars for the ship
ment Of grain.
Some Of the lawyers who were adj.
mitted after hard examination seem.
inclined to jibe at the attorneys who
drifted in long ago.
! A McHenry county farmer sold his
fax and blew in all the money in q
poker game IT. Granville. He fed,
deserving his family.
| Pat Buckley of Tower City rejoices
over the fact that he was not caught on
| an identification scheme by the last
Tower City ,ferger.
! At Cando two farmers endeavored to
settle g. dispute by fist fight but
Mayor Conyers happened along and
arrested both of them.
c. H. Shiels Of Edgeley promises the
4 farmers Of that section to secure an
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farm there in operation.
About next spring some of the fel-
lows, who are selling their farms and
| moving to- the Pacific coast will be.
very anxious to get back.
e. A. Movius, one of the Richland
! county legislative candidates, is recov-
ering from injuries received from be-
| ing thrown from 4 horse.
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those farmers Institutes that Prof.
Kaufman announces. The number
this year will be limited.
A quiet poker game was in progress
at Minor, and some outsider exploded
q. bomb under the floor. The session.
was adjourned, itlstanter.
The people of Devils Lake are jubi-
liant over the prospective removal of
the Great Northern freight division to
that point from Larimore.
Grand Forks claims that the Great
/ Northern does the third largest pas
senger business out Of that point be-
tween Minneapolis and Seattle.
"A rancher near Williston drove in
to town. On his return he found q
hired man had eloped with pair Of
his horses and the best saddle.
An Arabian peddler in Cavalier
county is said to have frightened
lady into having purchased some Of
his stock by fourishing revolver.
Mandan promises to rival Bismarck
as railroad center when the North
ern Pacific gets through building pro-
spective branches from that point.
Farmers around Wheatland and MT.
falo seem to have harvested wheat
crop that averaged around nineteen
bushels. and flax that went twelve.
Some former residents of Emmons
County, who sought their fortunes
elsewhere, are returning to that Sec
ton Of the state for permanent homes.
The Sioux Indians, who we're en-
ployed on the N. p. grade in Emmons
county, gave q war dance the night
they quit to return to the reservation.
When the ferry. and, telephone be.
tween Bismarck and Mandan get in.
operation, there will be no necessity
for Bismarkers to be dry all the time.
The gentlemen who backed the Dew
lis Lake base ball team are determined
to get out of the business-after losses
two years and the fiasco Of last season.
Sylvie Marriage, four-year-old girl
of Barlow, was shot in the arm by the
accidental discharge of gun carried
by brother. The arm was amputat-
ed.
There will be general regret among
the farmers that the state apprOpria.
ton for farmers institutes is so small
that only a few can be held this win.
ter.
Cavalier county farmers had their,
crops threshed more quickly this year
than usual-owing to the large num-
Der of new machines put in there this
fall
A would-be hold.up artist at Oberon
got gay, and Clint Patterson, q black.
swith; knocked him down few times.
The fellow finally escaped in the dark
ness.
A prisoner at Darlington wrote let:
ter admitting his guilt, but begging
mercy-as he had been up against q
piece of nard luck and needed the
shoes he STOLE.
Many farmers are selling wheat and
fax to save storage and insurance,
and buying options on an equal or
larger amount, to get the benefit Of the
rise later on.
Finn Leech of Fargo has been sug-
gested for speaker of the next legis--
lature, but is said to be fernist the,
proposition as the speakers seat is
too small.
G. H. Honey of Park River adver-
tises $25 reward, in addition to the
| 500 offered by the state, for the ar
rest and conviction of the man who,
stole his horse.
Col. Dick Copeland of Williston is
making an earnest effort to secure
pardon for William Ross, the man
who murdered Farmer Walsh, near
Willow City. It is alleged Ross is
I weak-minded.
There was little romance to a. Min
neapolis marriage recently. The groom
was. George. s. Peterson of Cakes, and
the bride was a pretty Tennessee girl
with whom Peterson became acquaint-
ed while with Grigsby's Rough Riders.
! 1t is thought that the man found
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