The Wahpeton times., 1904-03-11
1T Iorth Dakota
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Bowbells claims lot of expert me.
TGhanics.
Drayton may secure an electric
light plant.
A young boy at walcott attempted
burglary.
Shack thieves have been operating
around Des Laos.
Denhigh and Towner continue to
1ibe at each other.
At Lakota the sports have consid.
cradle fun with snow boats.
The Richland county court house
seems to he good fire trap.
Willow City business men are
planning to have a city hall.
The rural mail carriers are not
boasting of snaps this winter.
Claim shanty thieves are said to
have operated north of Medina.
Devils Lake will take ON a boom il
the reservation is opened this spring.
]. ID. Cooler and r. Goer of Devils
Lake have formed legal partnership.
Many farmers around Donnybrook
will seed macaroni wheat this spring.
Two children from Flaxton were
sent to the North Dakota childrcn's
home in Fargo.
Bottfneau county will have some
me grain samples in the states ex.
6kbit at st. Louis.
George II. Bingenheimer former
agent at Standing Rock. is candidate
tor the pen wardenship.
At Kenmarc school will probably he
held In some of the churches till new
building car bc erected.
Some Of the stockmen on the slope
deny the report that cattle have been
suffering for lack of feed.
The row between Methodist parson
lpnery of Forman and County Audi
tor Herolz OF Linton is still on.
A woman elocutionist is said to
have the same sore throat i'll every
town she strikes in the state.
Threatened coal strikes have few
ferrors for Ncrth Dakotans now that
the end of winter seems in sight.
The state militia officials predict
That the next state encampment will
be the best the hoys have ever had.
Some farmers refuse to purchase
formaldehyde for treatment of seed
unless 1t is officially indorsed by chem
lists.
The Southern North Dakota racing
circuit has been reorganiZed and some
exciting sport is promised this sum-
mer.
There is some talk of organizing a
baseball league to include Hillsboro,
Mayvills. Hope, Halstead and other
towns.
s., y nth Dakotans are beginning to
appreciate the possibilities in raising
seed potatoes for farmers in other
states.
q. F. Russell of Larimore, who is
alleged to have invented a perpetual
motion machine. formerly resio ID at
Walcott.
There have been a lot of estray
horses shot this winter. and at Edge
ley wholesale business was done in
that line.
Abercrombie people want to get an
airline railroad to Duluth. A. X.
Tweeto, a prominent resident, is in
terested.
SSome people at Edmore have been
making life a burden for the Great
Northern officials because of the poor
train service '..
Since tho completion of the Pelican
Point bridge several thousand dollars
worth of hay and wood have been sold
in Devils Lake.
X. L. Rinehart and family, formerly
of Cando. who were supposed to have
Derished IN the theater in Chicago
are alive and well.
The old Red river cart that was
shown at the Chicago worlds fair will
be shown at the ST. Louis exposition
bg North Dakotans.
There is said to be heavy snow
along the Northern Pacific from Me.
dina clear to the Montana lins, heav.
lest about New Salem.
The railroad hold-up scare may re-
suit in the rounding up of some cattle
thieves that have been operating in
the hills south of Medina.
At Ashley Ia merchant refused to
shovel of the snow from the sidewalk
in front of his store and the marshal
hired q man to- do the job.
Some of the Cavalier county people
advise the officials to accept plea
of guilty by Barry on minor charge
10 avoid another expensive trial.
II the new regulation of the gem
erai land Office regarding proofs be-
comes effective. the United States
commissioners will lose lot of busi-