Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-09-21
FLIcKERTAiL NUGGETS,

. brass band.
Minot butter won highest honors
1t the state fair.
Stutsman county is letting a lot
of bridge contracts. y
High wind delayed work on the
elevator at Medina. r. !.
Burglars are reported to have done
some work at New Rockford.
The Jones ticket swept everything
at the first city election in Rugby.
Hoboes have bad habit in Barnes
county of stoning railroad employees.
The Catholic church at St. Thomas
has been redecorated and greatly i'm
proved.
Thirty-two bushels of wheat per
acre is reported from Stutsman
county.
The Great Northern yards at Grand
Forks are being equipped with auto
matte switches.
Ward county prisoners are to be
used in building cement walks
around the courthouse.
The valuation of real and personal
property in Grand Forks is 100000
greater than last year.
Wild cranberries are said to grow
plentifully along the banks of the
Sheyenne in Eddy county.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested at
jamestown on the charge of steal
ing barley from a box car.
A hunter near Hanaford was slight
~ peppered with bird shot. but it
didn't interfere with his sport.
President Robertson 10 hard at
work gathering subscriptions for the
Methodist college at Grand Forks.
The Farmers apd Merchants Ma.
tional Bank of Hatton. N. D., has
been authorized to commence busi-
ness capital, $4,000.
Mayor-elect Jones of Rugby has .
standing reward of $500 offered for
information leading to the convic-
tion of thieves stealing his cattle.
Hartell. who accidentally shot Cli-
mie near Dickinson, was discharged
from custody and acquitted of all
blame in connection with Clinics
ueath.
A house mover tore down the tele-
phone line and poles at Berwick and
was arrested. He was discharged on
the showing that the teleph one people
refused to remove the wires.
The 500 will build new passenger
depot at Kenmare if the city will
give the company the useaof one of
its streets between thes@track and
the lake for additional track room.
At the farm residence Of O. Nesset,
near Crary, Mrs. Christine Tollefson,
-
and blind. fell from second story
which she died an hour later.
While hunting a badger in COM
pany of his twin brother, near Bal
four, Henry Bernes, a lad 13 years
of age, was accidentally shot with q
22 calibre rifle, the ball passing with
in q quarter of an inch of his heart.
Returns from all sections of the
state indicate that the chicken crop
is one of the poorest on record. Va
rious explanations are offered, but
no matter what the cause, the fact
seems to be that the chickens are not
there.
Thomas Carney, founder of Emer-
son, Manitoba, who died at his home
in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 9th, aged -
years, was we'll known by all the old
settlers along the ned river, and was
one of those kind Of men needed to
start any country going.
Des Laos is to be stocked with
black bass, twenty-five gallons of
young fish being planted as a trial.
A telephone lineman broke his
shoulder at Balfour by a tumble from
a pole He had served in the Boer
war without a scratch, and thinks
peace is more dangerous.
Miss Amelia Koth has been digging
a well on her claim this week, says
the Medina Citizen, and is using the
dirt from the excavation to bank the
mouse for the winter. Miss Koth is
doing the work herself, and is max
ing a good job of it, say those who
have seen her at work there in the
evening.
Jas. Bartho and Jacob Martin, who
reside near Bathgate. went to Hum
ago to collect an inheritance. A let
ter from them states that Martin
has been arrested as a deserter from
the army and that their return is
doubtful.
The blind asylum commission mas
not as vet met to take definite action
in the matter of plans for building
at Bathgate. This means that MOTH
ing will be done this fall in excavat-
ing or constructing foundation. The
work can be completed next season
in time to open the building for pa
tients in the fall.
4 number of the business men OF
Bisbee and adjacent farmers donated
some $500 either in labor or money
toward the graveling of the road west
Of the town. Now complaint is made
that the gravel, which was dumped
in the center of the road. has not
been leveled. and the road is in worse
condition than before. 1t appears
that it was not clearly understood
who should take care of this part
of the work.
Three farmer neighbors. near Will
ton, Nsls Anderson, Ed Read and a
man by the name of Wilson, had
gotten into dispute as to the owner
ship Of some. farm machinery. when
Read called Anderson a liar, where
unon the. 1affer strucE Read and