The Wahpeton times., 1905-10-05
5 ortll Dakota
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Several towns in the state want city
halls.
A separator was burned near Will
liston.
Lightning struck residence at Han
naford.
Griggs county produces some fine
apples.
A bridge has been built on Cut Bank,
uear upham.
H. r. schriver is the new postmaster
at Wheelock.
Some fax near Medina went nine
teen bushels.
Fine yields Of wheat are reported
around Wilton.
A collector scared McHenry coun.
ty farmer to death.
There Is protest at Courtenay over
the shortage of cars.
A lot of threshing rigs have been
burned over the state.
a rural mail route has been estab-
lished out of Wimbledon.
1t is said that Mohall is paying over
the market price for grain.
The Wimbledon city council is legis-
tating against pot gangs"
Complaints are made by farmers of
the damage to crops by blackbirds.
There have been some fakirs work.
ing the busines men OF Devils Lake.
Dunseith wants another mail route
established. with connections at York.
The car famine is causing lot OF in
convenience to the grain growers near
Courtenay.
The Northern Pacific extension from
Denhoff to Turtle Lake will be com.
pleted this fall.
Thresher men full of fighting booze
raise disturbances in some of the
smaller towns.
At Broclxet, hobos became obstreper-
o,ls and one was shot through the leg
by the marshal.
Hail storms In September in North
Dakota indicate the good old summer
time is lingering.
Horse thieves are busy near the in
tcrnational line in the northwestern
part OF the state.
There are complaints of great delay
IN the arrival of trains on the 500
branch to Bismarck.
The wheat around I.ansford is re-
ported to be averaging about twenty
two bushels per acre.
Lost. strayed or stolen--a bunch of
chickens that some one was going to
send the Kernels man.
Near Milton, Matt Doyle had his
right hand blown of by the bursting of
the breech of a shotgun.
At Antler two travelling men picked
UP some rough women along the line
and were refused rooms.
There will be some fine Shorthorn
cattle from Barnes county at the stock
sale in Fargo this winter.
In stutsman county near Cleveland
one field of flax is reported to have
gone twenty-three bushels.
A town on the Edgeley- Dawson ex.
tension has been named after Streeter.
This should be some reward.
The Stutsman reports fifty-ftve
threshing machines were being oper-
ated in the vicinity of Balfour.
Crane hunting is the popular pas
time at Hampdep. where they are said
to be so numerous they are pests.
Several instances are reported over
the state where the crops this year
will pay for the purchase of the land.
Oliver county is said to have a
wheat crop that is averaging from
twenty to thirty-fve bushels per acre
The weather men are already guess.
ing on this winter. AS usual, it will be
warm. short winter and long, cold
one.
Rowbells has a family of tough
youngsters who do not seem to be able
to keep their hands off other peoples
property.
Lightning struck big barn near
Maxbass and destroyed the building,
sixty tons of hay. three horses and
some machinery.
The state land department has is
sued bulletin giving list of all capt.
toi lands, sold and ,lnsold, by counties,
together with quantity Of useful in
formation concerning the manner Of
disposing of these lands. Attention is
called to the fact that the capitol lands
are In class of their own. and do not
come under the constitutional proyi-
sions which govern the sale of other
state lands. The lands may be sold ON
such terms and in such manner as the
; gislature may prescribe. 1t happens
that the legislature has prescribed the
manner which is employed for the sale
Of other lands. the same rules as to
time Of payment, rate of interest. ETC.,
governing, but the bulletin jilst issued
says that it is expected that the next
legislature will provide for the disp0s.
al of these lands for cash, OF on short
er time. 90 that buyers may pay up at