The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-06

tors ruined 500 bushels of fax.
"A half-breed by the name Of st.
Arneraud, who is from Manitoba, is in I.
quarantine at Walhalla. with case
Of smallpox.
Both Langdon and Lakota are look
ing forward to extensive improvements
in the Great Northern depots at the
two places.
The Munich creamery building has
been finished and the plant will soon
be in running order.
The Mandan Pioneer thinks the ap-
pointment of Clarence A. Hale proves
that Grand Forks county Is still on
the political map.
The discovery Of oil at Manitau,
Man., has led to the investigation OF
similar lands on this side Of the ma
tional boundary line.
The Langdon Courier-Democrat is
twenty-five years old and has been I'M
der the management of Editor KOehm-
stedt for nineteen years.
Milo Madison is in Jail at Cando
charged with attempt to commit rape
on the person of Miss Olive Jepson.
school teacher of the community.
Ray wants a new school house and
the Pioneer says the one the town now
has is about sufficient for the wood
shed of the building the town needs.
Billie Story, an old timer in Dickin-
son, while intoxicated gave Felix Dill
ger of the same place an ugly abdomi-
nal slash and is now confined in Jail.
Congressman Gronna has recom=.
mended Walter Wayne Webster as a
naval academy cadet. and Roscoe Faw-
cett for a similar position at West
Point.
Dump ground restrictions are being
maintained at Hannah by the threat
that violators will get county Jail
sentence unless they quite the existing
practice of menacing public health.
The general merchandise business Of
A. ]. Gronna at Lakota has been in
corporated. the Larson Bros. of Michi-
gan City taking large interest and
assuming the management.
The opening of the Williston land
office will be boon to the citizens of
Williams and Mckenzie counties, in
reducing the cost and time used in
transacting any land business with
Uncle Sam.
Skafti Gudmundson, 15-year-old
boy was accidentally shot and serious
ly wounded while playing with a o..
rifle in company with one of his
brothers, at his home one mile north
of Mountain.
Portland was visited by severe
which the lumber shed of the st. An
thony & Dakota Elevator company and
the Bruflat Academy belfry were
struck by lightning.
In a single township north of
Egeland this season over $4,000 acres
of virgin soil has been claimed by
the breaking plow. A large percen-
tage Of this ground now contains an
excellent crop of fax.
Authority was granted last week for
the organization of the Hope National
bank of Hope, in Steele county, with
capital of $4,000. The incorporators
are George A. Warner, G. 8. Moores, F.
N. Gilmore, w. H. M. Philip. John E.
Lasham and L. B. Hanna.
C. ]. Lord, the Cando banker, is get
ting richer than he wants to be. A
California mining concern has elected
him vice-president of the company,
and he did not know that he owned a
dollar of the stock. He is out in a
circular denouncing the swindle.
Last week a woman representing
herself to be authorized to solicit for
the hospital at Rugby tarried at Doy-
on for day. She obtained about SIS
at that place and started for Lakota.
Sheriff Mclean of Ramsey county
heard of her and adeputy started after
her, but she either gave up the quest
and hid, or she skipped the counties.
Archie Kennedy of Langdon twelve
years old, died as result of blood
poison contracted about two weeks
ago, at which time he received flesh
wound in the leg above the knee. The
poison germ was allowed to remain, it
spread through the system being fol-
lowed by the fatal illness. attended by
much pain.
While the North Dakota militia, on
their way to Fort Russell, were stop
ping for a short time at Sioux City,
Iowa, two members of Company G,
Valley City, were brutally assaulted by
a police officer, seriously injuring
both by blows on the head with a club.
The two injured men and Lieut.. G. A.
Willard of Wahpeton, remained be-
hind to prosecute the assailant.
The shoe and stocking on one foot
of the girl standing near the stove
were torn off from the ankle down.
blood dripping from the sole Of the in
jued foot Mrs. Hjaltalin was unin-
jured, beyond slight dizziness for
some time after the stroke, and the
child in her lap also escaped injury.
although the floor on which the rocker
was standing was torn to pieces.
Joseph G. Chandler, son of United
States Senator VIM. E. Chandler, who is
advance agent for an Uncle Toms
Cabin company, stopped at Devils
Lake. He was there on his first visit
twenty-three years ago. He was the
first probate judge of Ramsey county.
When he first came to Devils Lake,
there were ony about thirty people in
the burg. He renewed acquaintance
with the old settlers and had a