The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-22
STATE GRAB BAG


Prairie fires are causing consider
able damage in Ward county.
A Cando farmer reports his barley
crop averaging 40 bushels to the acre.
all coed, clean grain.
A hobo camp with several gents of
the road as Inhabitants was broken up
near Cando by the officers.
In boring we'll south of Dickinson,
farmer struck a 14-foot vein of coal
which was located 60 feet down.
Hansboro will have school cleo
ton on August 81 to vote on a $1,000
bond issue for a new school house.
A new town Is to be located between
Antler and West Hope and the sur
veyors are already on the grounds.
A man named Walker was over
come by the heat at Minot the first of
the week and lay unconscious FIVE
hours.
The N. P. depot at Dickinson caught
b
soon extinguished and little damage
resulted.
DR.. E. P. Robertson of this city de-
livered the dedicatory sermon at the
dedication of the new Methodist church
at Hansboro last Sunday.
A man named Ronning, in the en-
ploy Of ohm Nelson near Lidgerwood,
got his hand caught in the cogs of a
separator and the member was badly
crushed and lacerated.
Jack Dollas, charged with pouring
oil on dog and then touching a
match to the CANNES saturated hair,
has been taken by the officers at Han
The flats in the Green river country
in the western part of the state are
flooded and the crops failure, accord
ing to the Dickinson Press. .
The states electric street car and
line have been leased by Hughes Elec-
trio company, Of Bismarck, and the
same company will supply the capitol
building with electric light.
The state press is throwing boquets
at Editor Rishoff of the Milton Globe
for his ball playing this summer. Ris-
hon Is clever player AMI popular with
the up-country fans.
Farmers along the rural routes. NAV
have unavailable parcels handled for
them by the rural carrier IL they so
desire. The carrier will be pleased to
do the work and will charge only a
small fee.
The new town of Ryder on the $780,"
1t Is reported, will have five hanks and
four hardware stores right on the
start. This sounds big, but nothing
is unreasonable in a place where lots
sell for $1,000.
North Dakota farmers. will save ap-
proximately $1,500O00 on this years
wheat crop,> as a result of the action
OF the Great Northern. the Northern
Pacific and the 500 railroads in grant
ing reduction of 10 per cent in grain
rates.
The Langdon Telephone Exchange
company's rural line extending north
ward to the boundary line and touch
ing at stilwell. Mt. Carmel and Elk
wood Is already completed as, far as
Stilwell.
The corner stone of the new NJ. E,
church at Neche was laid last Saturday
afternoon, Presiding Elder Burns con-
Quoting the ceremonies, which were
performed in the presence of a good
= sized assemblage.
]. R. Lavalle. colored, is under ar
rest at Harvey for the brutal murder
of r. Fernick. The men were at work
in cement pit when it is alleged
Lavalle struck Fernick over the head
with shovel crushing his skull.
The st. Dmytro church located Is
miles northwest of Dickinson is COM
pleted and will be dedicated in the
course of month or six weeks. This
is the first Greek Catholic church
erected in the western part of the
state.
Some vandal or vanials at Bismarck
entered the hallway where A. E,
Boyce's photograph case was hanging
and carried the case to the N. P. right
of-way, where the glass was broken
torn from their mountings.
A fire which occurred at George
CoYch's pace, z miles from Lisbon
last Wednesday at S a. m. entirely de-
stroyed his barn and contents and
cremated 6 horses besides destroying
. grain and valuable machinery.
Mr.. Mudgett, the station agent at
Valley City, had insisted on putting
aboard case of bottles in honor of
Mike De La Bere and his bride, and at
Bismarck Mike ordered case put on
on his own account, SO there was no
want of liquid refreshment with which
to toast the bride on the way out.
One of the finest strings of black
bass exhibited at Bemidji this sum-
Her was brought in Recently. There
were nineteen bass in the string and
they were large, fat fellows, averag-
ing about three pounds each. T. A.
Miller. H. A. Simons and S. D. Works
o. Niankato caught the bass and were
Justly proud of their luck on Big Bass.
lake.
A dispatch from Butte. Montana,
dated August 10th, says the largest
individual wool clip ever grown On
the American continent was shipped
that day from that city over the Bur-
lington to a Boston firm. The clip
weighed 100000 pounds and forty-'