The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-17
STATE GRAB BAG

Crosby 80 near the ground that 1t
barely missed the tops of the houses.
The men who were out that night do
not state where they got it.
Fred Papst. the millionaire Milwau..
Little Missouri Horse company
The BOttineau county central COM
nittee was selected with view to
giving all factions of the party q
square deal.
A Christine barber 10 using the cut
Of corn pairing knife az an emblem Of
his trade in the advertisement he 10
carrying in his local paper.
The Mohall Tribune strenuously de-
MES the report that 1t was to change
hands. and states that 1t expects to
the plant in the form of new machin-
cry and presses.
Hannaf0rd has voted on the question
OF incorporating as q village. Thirty
four votes were cast of which only z
were against incorporating.
A party of claim hunters from One
NEE and Gardena left for the Yellow
stone valley in Montana recently.
Bottineau county is harvesting an
other big crop Of grain-the sixth sue
cessive one.
The new settlers living south of
Buffalo have perfected the organiza-
ton Of the Salem Methodist Episcopal
church.
On account of the difficulty in secur-
ing buildirS. material Of all kinds, the
Warwick-Oberon extension of the
Great Northern has been abandoned
for this fall.
A flowing we'll was struck on the
farm of Geo. Ganley. ST.. IL miles
southwest of Bowbells. which has suf-
hcient force to overflow at eft. ele-
walton and furnishes enough water to
supply three or four threshing outfits
in constant operation.
A young man who has been work.
ing for James McCanna of Cando, was
arrested by Marshall Cayers and
Deputy Sheriff Hausman at Churches
Ferry charged with stealing a watch
and money belonging to one of the do
mestics in the McCanna home. The
fellow gave up the property and was
released upon payment of'all costs.
A freight train at Medora had four
cars piled up in the ditch last week.
The track was torn up for a few feet
and the dftched cars were damaged
considerably. Some hoboes who were
slowed away on top of the lumber in
a loaded box car, miraculously escaped
injury, though the car rolled clean
over bottom side up.
Geo. Limbert, was was arrested here
last spring for stealing horse from
c. j. Clark near Crosby, was released
by Judge Goss. He was intoxicated
when he took the horse and after Sob
ering up and realizing what he had
done he started back to return tho
animal. but was arrested on the way
to Crosby.
Little Milton Baumsted was shot
through the neck by his playmate,
Martin linden on his fathers farm,
16 miles northeast of Valley City. The
boys were playing with % rifle, when
the older, Martin, accidentally dis
charged it, the bullet going through
Milton's neck. The fellow is but IL
years old. The wound is ugly one,
the wind-pipe being pierced.
The Minot barber shops are evident
ly dangerous places for the gentle sex
to NEEDLE with. Just the other week
Mrs. NUNS, Minot's lady barber eloped
with hack driver and now follows
another elopement in which a two
months married lady in the employ
OF one Of the barber shops as cashier,
flies away with one of the tonsorial
artists.
Rock Lake on the Farmers road, is
becoming quite summer recort. One
correspondent claims that the island
in the lake is an artificial one built by
the Indians, and that the material was
taken from what is now part of the
lake. A number of cracked buffalo
bones have been found on it. indicat-
ing that they had been broken for the
marrow -bich served as a part of a
feast menu. The island has been con-
verted into sort of Madison square
garden.
A fire in some rubbish at Churches
Ferry crept through the dry grass and
set fire to the barn to the rear of Abe
Gums house, destroying the building
and contents. At the time of the
alarm Gum was in the barber chair
and had half of his face nicely shaver.
He stood not upon the order of shaw
ing but hurried to the scene of the
fire. On his return he purchased the
left half of the shave at the tonsorial
parlor.
The nineteen months old child of
John Olson, a farmer living near
Bowbells, had its skull fractured while
playing near and under the farm ma
chinery sitting near the barn. The
pole of the moving machine was held
up with stick and the little child
crawling around on the ground
bumped against the stick allowing the
pol to fall upon it's head. A large
section Of the skull was crushed in
ami was raised by the doctor, the
operation proving successful.
Ed Madisan, a young lawyer was ar
rested at Lansford last week charged
with embezzlement alleged to have
been committed three years ago. He
waived examination and was placed
under $4,000 bonds to appear at the
next term of district court The bonds
were promptly furnished. Young Mad
igan was engaged in the fuel business
at l4ansford in the early days of the
village and It Is said he mortgaged
property that was not his own, also
that he blew In" money belonging to