The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-30
STATE GRAB BAG

Ross is kicking about the Great
Northern mail service.
A young farmer was found dead in
the road In Ransom county.
Ryder has Commercial club, the
vtce-president Of which is Sweet and
the treasurer a Billion.
Rugby has bachelor who drives to
town and allows his team to stand
without food while he boozes up.
A Williston boy was crushed be-
tween a Great Northern tender and
q coal chute where he was employed.
Manager Pope of one of the Will
iston elevators came near being as
phyxiated by the escaping gas from
a gasoline engine.
1t now develops that the the demo-
cratic county commissioners In Penn
bina have not only been extravagant
but they have violated the law to do
It Another proof that merely because
a man Is democrat is no proof that
he will make an honest public Of
fetal.
trapping OF muskrats is going to
prove profitable form of sport for q
large number Of young fellows on
their claims around Ryder this win
ter. good price Is paid for the hides
OF these animals and as they are very
plentiful. it will. bring the trappers
a neat sum of money.
It is not often that beer goes to
waste in Fessenden, but Wednesday
OF this week several kegs of the malt
ed fighting fluid" was dumped from
the west end of the depot platform.
1t was goods that had been ordered
and never taken out and the railroad
company took this method of getting
rid Of the stuff.
The Ryder News says the Indians
at the reservation aren't much of a
success at farming One old fellow
who has IL horses bought 500 gang
pillow and put in 20 acres of crop and
thought he was doing a wonderful
stunt at farming. Another who had
two wives was told by the agent that
Uncle Sam would. have to take one
away from him. "Ugh," the old fell
low grunted, Uncle Sam can have
both. Big Injun don't want no wife
at ALL"
A young man by the name of Bart
lett. living between Leyden and
Backoo. was driving in a buggy and
carried No. 10 shot gun along. He
must have placed the gun in the rig
cooked and leaned the muzzle against
the back of the seat, and while driv-
ing with one hand, the left rested on
the top OF the barrels. In some way
by the jolting Of the rig, the gun was
discharged, the contents Of one shell
going clear through the ball of the
hand. carrying away all that was in
front of 1t, making hole an inch and
a half pretty clearly cut out. The
whole knuckle joint of the second fin
ger was torn out.
The Granville Record has the fol-
lowing sensational divorce story:
Held up on lonely road in northern
Minnesota in the middle of the after
noon. compelled under threat Of death
to drive to Duluth and wed man
she had only seen week before, was
the sensational story related in the
district court at Minot by Mrs. Walter
Cone. pretty school teacher at
Towner, who sought to have the mar
rage annulled. Mrs. Cone alleged
Cone met her on the road at a point
six miles from the Minnesota line on
Nov. 10, 1906, compelled her to get in
the buggy and driv. to Duluth. They
were married the same night in the
Methodist parsonage. Following the
marriage the couple repaired to a
Duluth hotel. She told Cone she must
get more clothes, left the hotel and
boarded train for Minneapolis, COM
ing to North Dakota. where she has
since resided. She never has heard
from Cone since. She addressed all
letters to her family in disguised
hand to avoid discovery by Cone of
her present whereabouts. Judge Goss
granted the dissolution of the mar
rage.
Editor Patterson of the Linton Ad-
vocate, who failed to be appointed