The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19
STATE GRAB BAG

STATE GRAB BAG
Three men were held up at Rogers
There is lot of blowing being done
with steam plows.
There were two mild cases of dirh-
liberia at Lidgerwood.
Forbes, the new Dickey county town
is coming to the front rapidly.
Hankinson Foresters won at Wah-
peton as the best drilled team.
Many North Dakota farmers are
purchasing more Hand this fall.
At Minor horse became frighten-
ed at freight train and dropped dead.
There were some great corn crops
raised in Trail county this summer.
Glendale had a burglary and 49,
year-old farmer boy was held for the
crime.
oOuuo Va TIC lOWuS III llIC SldL0 are
resuming normal conditions since the
hobos left.
Thos. J. Bell, the democratic nom.
inee for sheriff in Sargent county,
withdrew from the ticket.
At McClusky little girl strayed in
to the field occupied by vicious bull
and was seriously gored.
Trail county blind piggers have
been having hard time and several
places claim the lid is ON tight.
Fire along the Cannonball and Ce-
dar rivers on the Missouri slope
alarmed some of the homesteaders.,
While trying to board stock train
at Knox Charles johnson fell under
the wheels and had both legs severed.
Farmers are paying more attention
to their plows this year and some new
kinds are said to be proving success
full.
Poison Carrots is dead. An effort
will be made to secure John Burke to
read the democratic burial service
over the remains.
Ii the frost continues to stay away
as late each fall as it did last fall and
this North Dakota will have great
reputation az corn state. NJ
Fire on the Reidemann farm, near
Litchville, occupied by Ed Breier, de-
stroyed the barn and nine horses be-
sides lot of feed and material.
The Edgeley Mail says: Don't let
any disappointed Office seeker infect
you with his complaint. It's bad
disease to have and needs treatment
of formaldehyde.
The Pink Paper gave whole page
of explanation to the Pembina demo-
cratic county commissioners, but
careful reading still indicates that
Col. Hagar has the count.
A student of an eastern university
is reported to\have cleaned up 5000
doing a bootlegging stunt in North
Dakota during the harvest and thresh-
ing. He said he needed the money.
DR.. Hugh s. Wilson is the demo-
cratic candidate for coroner In Penn
bina county and the Pink Paper says
the only serious charge against the
young man is that the editor Is his
father Thus are the sins of the father
visited upon the son.
A young lady ;Yho is candidate for
county superintendent in one of tn.
counties of the state has had fifty
offers of marriage since she begun
her campaign. She is having des-
perate time to keep from answering
until after election.
1t is thought William Suhr, en-
ployed In the construction of the 500,
tried to cabbage the coin of the Ital-
ians and that they caught him in the
act and roasted him over stove till
he disclosed the hiding place. He was
horribly burned and refused to make
any statement.
MAIDS Peterson of Dickey county
was milking the COWS one night and
noticed shadow between him and the
lantern. He looked up into the bar
rel of revolver. The man behind
the gun made Peterson dig up about
IS in loose change-and skipped.
At Jud spark from the forge in a
blacksmith shop started 25-pound
box of dynamite on the rampage. The
explosion came without warning and
blew the building to atoms. No one
was seriously hurt. except Win Mir
acle, who was quite badly bruised.
The others escaped with just few
little scratches.
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Rev. James Austin Hannah is fur
+ nishing 1900 bushels of pedigreed Red
Scotch. fife wheat to seed merchants,
for which he receives nice premium,
and in letter from the firm Rev.
Austin is congratulated on the fine
quality of the grain. Mr.. Austin has
already been engaged to grow much
larger amount Of the seed wheat next
year for the same firm. He also fur
nished the firm 500 bushels of No. rs
fax, originating at the Minnesota ex-
detrimental station. This seed was
grown On new land and some of the
wheat run as high as IS bushels to
the acre. The flax is an early variety
and yielded about 20 bushels to the
acre. Rev. Austin also experimental
this year with seed corn obtained from
James J. Hill of the Great Northern.
The corn matured nicely at point
a mile and half from the Canadian
boundary line