The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-25
STATE GRAB BAG

u0 oOlyOE VI lu0 NouM6r0 N0W0
announces he recently took a bath, but
some of the people Of his town say
the statement was inadvertently made.
It is now stated that every delegate
to the recent state republican con-
venion was present but one. The
absent one was from Oliver county.
John Peterson, new arrival from
Sweden, was arrested at Churches
Ferry. He was armed with q rock
tied in handkerchief la sling shot,
and his pockets were filled with the
same kind Of weapons. He was in
sane, but was turned loose by the
sheriff and left for parts unknown.
@. Clark Of Michigan City. had his
knee dislocated while playing base
ball. He continued In the game until
It ended.
Six criminals were sentenced to the
penitentiary by Judge Goss at one sit
ting at Minot
The sale of town lots at the new
site selected for Ryder was a big sue
cess and real estate brought top notch
prices.
Ryder is after a flour mill.
The Ryder News serves notice that
the lid will be put on and locked at
the new town.
Some of the Ward county citizens
are after the fellows who file con-
tests without just grounds for doing
so.
A dozen men were hurt by the de-
struction of the railroad shacks at
Alta on the N. P. cutoff near Valley
City. The storm has the character
istics of tornado.
DR.. Peake of Valley City is inspec-
ting the slaughter houses and there
will probably be something doing
which will rival the work of the gov
eminent inspectors at Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beeman of Valley
City are making an auto trip from
Stockbridge, Michigan, to their home.
Judge Young of Valley City says,
want to say a word in regard to the
nomination of John Knauf for SUI
preme court Judge: He is a gentle
man and an able attorney, and man
no friend has need to apologize for.
John Knauf will be found all right in
every respect.
The Edgeley Mail intimates that the
La Moure County Chronicle has turn
ed democratic.
:. Tramps set fire to the ice house of
r. H. Benson near BalfOur, and the
building was consumed.
The Bottineau Courant called Matt
Johnson's bluff and now the latter is
trying to hedge.
Linton is having a diphtheria
scOurge.
Sarles and Gronna have gotten
their pictures in the patents and
some of the other candidates are jeal-
GUS.
The Cakes Times is now twelve
pages, all home print.
Nick Bishop of Bisbee told his hired
man to tear down an old straw-cover-
ed stable and after piling the straw
to burn it, he burned the entire barn.
An Enderlin man has suit against
the 500 for $4,000 damages for as
sault and battery.
John syverson has issued a souvenir
postal card of Cooperstown.
Some of the state press still feel
SO good over the jamestown conyen-
ton, that they are still talking about
it.
A Tolna young man thought he
would play joke on his best girl
by stealing her veil. 1t proved to
that of stranger and the young man
had trouble to keep from being
arrested.
A rattlesnake caught in the bad
lands is on exhibition at Dickinson.
Some of the people there claim to have
seen several at the same time.
The young men of Walhalla are
given to annoying the girls who go
in bathing and Editor Lee calls them
down.
The Minot high school band which
furnished the music at Chautauqua,
is receiving many compliments on it's
work.
The Western Union is stringing a
commercial line through from Thief
River Falls to Canada on the 500 line
telegraph poles.
There are about 24O newspapers
in North Dakota, and not one of them
a yellow sheet. The only newspaper
with any color in it is the Bathgate
Pink Paper, but Editor Wilson outside
of politics is absolutely white.
While excavating the dirt about the
dam at Adams the skeleton of an ami
NAL was unearthed which it was
thought is the remains of buffalo,
herds of which roamed the verdant
prairies of North Dakota decades be-
fore the advent of the white man.
Peter Nelson of Bisbee, was shot
through the neck by an elder brother.
The boys were in the field blowing
and the elder boy carried % caliber
revolver for the purpose of shooting
gophers. He fired at one Of the
rodents and the bullet hit stone or
pebble and glancing struck the young
er boy in the back of the neck passing
through into his mouth and knocking
out several teeth.