The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-24
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Minot has a candidate ON the
socialist and republican tickets and
now is trying to land the head Of the
democratic vacancy.
The Minot Daily Reporter has se.
cured the full Scripps-M cRea news
service. cartoonist and mergen-
thaler. :.
Clearance the nine-year-old son of
G. B. Backman of Grano, died from
lockjaw caused by burns received
from firecracker July 4.
The Anamoose Progress editor
claims to have been taken through
the Chicago packing houses but did
not see any Of the things discovered
by the government inspectors.
Somebody left two pigs in the care
Of the agent at Anamoose which were
not billed. He Is unable to find the
owner and will have to adopt the ami
mails.
Land near Leeds is selling for
$4,000 per quarter which was not
thought worth settling on few years
ago.
Farmers about oberon are figuring
on thirty-five bushel crop.
Oberon has organized a gun club
to see that the game hogs are punish
ed.
Three thousand feet of lumber fell
on Fred Baker of Oberon and he es-
capped with broken leg.
Miss Tillie Romstead will have
charge of the Starkweather Times
during the absence of the editor. The
paper will be improved according.
Fred Kerzman of Garrison died
from burns received from kindling
fire with kerosene.
Several .exiles from the fued region
of Kentucky are living at jamestown.
The team drawing the pail bearers
at a Minot funeral became scared and
almost ran into the hearse.
The Herald's correspondent who
said the Ward county delegation were
herded like sheep at jamestown, has
not been able to make good.
Fifty land seekers filed near Alex
ander In one week.
The Mckenzie County Chronicle
protests against the destruction Of the
large timber on government land in
that part of the state.
Burglars entered the depot at Rosla
sometime during Wednesday night,
gaining entrance through q window
and securing about SIS from the till.
In their hurry they passed by the
safe.
1t is stated that only half million
of acres of government land are now
vacant In the Bismarck land district.
The total number of acres Is over
ten million, SO that the amount now
left is only equal to about five per
cent of the whole.
A stranger tried to hold up John
Giving as he was on his way home
from Hunter. He was driving in a
single buggy at the time and succeed
ed in escaping after having tussle
with his would be assailant.
E. B. Winship for. many years en-
gagged in the life insurance business at
Fargo, died at Jacksonville, Tex, on
July 7th, as the result of a fall from
a bicycle. He was about q years
of age and had come to North Da-
kota early in the eighties.
Tho ot~roh hoo nj
is the latest aggregation of ball
tossers in the capitol city.
A murder has been uncovered in
Mcleod, little town near Sheldon.
Last January the body of Thor Olson
was found in a slough. There was an
ugly wound in the head and re-
volver beside the man and it seemed
to the jury clear case of suicide.
Lately the relatives decided on an ex-
animation of the body which showed
it was not a bullet which killed Olson
but blow which caused three ifs
sures in the skull. Olson was drink
ing heavily short time before his
death and suspicion points strongly
toward his companions.
Chief Mcdonald of Bismarck picked
up two little tots at the circus grounds
after the show and after some trouble
succeeded in locating their home in
the city. The little ones had been at
the grounds since the time of the
parade and when found, were COM
pletely tired out, hungry and weeping,
the youngest at once going to- sleep In
the officers arms enroute home.
They were aged about two and four
years old.
Ray Coonen of Linton, while in
drugstore, went into the back room
and quenched his thirst from what he
thought was the drinking water pail.
But it was a pail in which the drug
gist had rinsed several bottles, some
of which had contained poison.
Coonen at once grew deadly sick, but
his stomach rebelled and the poison.
He is still on earth.
James Ray, surray farmer saddled
his horse and went to Minot. He re-
turned later in the day and after I'm
saddling his horse came into the
house and sat down. Since the hour
he returned no sound has come from
him and it is feared that his strange
silence is the result of his having been
suddenly stricken dumb.
While at play in her fathers barn.
Andrea Ness of Michigan City, ten
years old, sprang from the loft door,
and in her descent ring worn upon
that finger became caught on a pro-
jecting nail, biting deep into the flesh,
stripping the bone to the first knuckle