The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-17
STATE GRAB BAG

north OF Lidgerwood, accidentally shot
his daughter through the legs while
hunting gOphers. 1t was d % rifle
bullet and passed entirely through one
leg, and Embedded itself deeply In the
other. The gun was discharged by
accident, while the girl was walking
close to her father.
Vaughn Kaufman. the young man
who was shot by the cowboy at Bis
marck on the Fourth is said to be on
the way to recovery.
At the Valley City races Ed Jones,
the driver of the horse Solheart, be-
came displeased because the animal
failed In winning the heat and for
three times around the half mile track,
beat and run his horse most cruelty,
until the animal was about exhausted.
The crowd which witnessed the act
was furious with indignation and had
he not been arrested he would have
Jared badly at the hands of the people.
The Darcy Farmers Cooperative
Elevator company has declared divi-
dend of 40 per cent, payable August /.
At Valley City a family ate straw
berries on the fair grounds and were
all very sick last night. Another fam
lily in the city ate Strawberries the
same day and during the night three
of the family were quite sick. It is
thought that the berries had been
poisoned by some preserving fluid or
powder.
The town of Garrison is to have
graded school this summer
The Bismarck ball team went on
strike few days ago.
The society ladies of Wilton, pre-
scented colored play at that place
and were decidedly successful.
The Mcintosh Republican uses a
stOrk as an index to its record of
births. That is overworking the bird
some.
Stone masons and plasterers are in
great demand at Ashley.
Several of the state papers announce
that the scarcity of news last week
was due to the absence of the editors
who were assisting in saving the ma
ton at Jamestown.
The a-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. E. A. Olson of Forman, was
drowned in slough. She was with
her father who was working in the
field and growing restless attempted
to reach home and fell in the water.
Pure Food Commissioner Laid is
occupying considerable space in the
state press just now giving free ad-
vertisements to a number of firms
which sell foods in this state.
The Granville Record is now old
enough to go to school.
Attorney Hoohway of Granville, has
white clover two feet high growing on
his lawn.
A drove of bronchos stampeded at
Devils Lake and for some time 1t was
thought an insurgent convention was
on. Nothing happened. however.
Somebody started the story that J.
J. Weeks was not candidate for
states attorney in Bottineau county
and Weeks puts in vigorous protest
The Kuhn Messenger is ten years
old.
The Kuhn Messenger roasted the La
Moure County Chronicle because of
the latter's coarse base ball write-ups
That paper always has trouble on its
hands.
large number of people who have
gone to the Canadian northwest have
announced through the press that
North Dakota is good enough for them
A man was found on the edge of the
lake at Kenmare who had been drown
ed short time before the finding.
The dead man was found to be A.
Borrenson of Overly.
The hobos were run out of Ken
mare the other night.
o. o. Adams, a we'll known horse
buyer of Kenmare, has been arrested
on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses from school districts.
Kenmareites are kicking because
some farmers in attempting to kill
the gOphers in their wheat fields have
poisoned several song and game birds.
Kenmare wants normal school.
A half section of land-near Kenmare
sold for $500.
The Kramer Record wants to know
ii the town is to run itself or be run
by the floaters.
Kenmare has organized gun club.
MinOt physicians are endeavOring
to prevent the newspapers from asso-
ciating their names with the cases re-
ported.
There is possibility of the German
Baptist college in this state being To-
Gated at Surrey.
The Columbia hotel at Williston has
been sold to A. H. Gustofson of Rugby
for $500.
Michael Tande. White Earth farmer,
committed suicide by shooting himself
with shot gun.
While digging post hole at Minot,
L. p. Weatherwax discovered small
CONN buried about two feet beneath
the surface. In 1t were found the re-
mains of small child, perhaps some
months old. The little one had been
wrapped in some sort of cloth which
had widowed and decayed with age.
1t is possible that the child had been
buried in that place for five years or
more.
The prospects for an immense crop