The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-16
STATE GRAB BAG

st. John is to have new paper
the first issue to be given to the pub
lie this week.
Ward county has the largest en-
rollmept of school children of any
county in the state
So many people are going to Will
iston that 1t is impossible for them to
find sleeping quarters.
The Deerding Enterprise says whis-
key is retailed there nearly as openly
as though there we're licensed saloons.
The Grafton News and Times is
unable to find the democratic North
star since Hearst got astride the party
mule.
A negro laborer at Williston was
stripped of his clothing and robbed
by four white thugs. The latter were
caught.
The Bowbells Bulletin thinks Ward
county needs new court house about
as much as we'll man needs an UNI
dertaker.
Two more Ward county homestead
ers have been arrested by the federal
authorities for perjury in making fin
al proofs.
The Starkweather Times knocks the
republican party while its editor acts
as chairamn of the county central
committee.
The Lidgerwood Broadaxe favors
the election of Charles E. Fish" to
the supreme bench. The Broadaxe al
ways was "fishy."
Many of the state editors are TAX
ing special courses in football slang
SO as to be able to write good reports
OF the local games.
The Pembina Pioneer-Exp heap
ed Goals of fire on Walt Taylor's head
when it expressed the wish that ne
would in time be a granny"
Republicans on the Missouri slope
say the campaign lacks interest be-
cause opposition to the democrats is
like taking candy from kid.
Ramsey county democrats, not hav-
ing enough men to go round to the
county officers, have placed three re-
publican candidates on their ticket.
James Kolar, carpenter employed
in the construction of the Hillsboro
court house, fell IS feet and escaped
without a broken bone. He weighs
232 pounds.
On complaint of Mic Rustad, John
w. Rogers, the village marshal OF
Tolley, was arrested, charged with
willfully and feloniously allowing a
prisoner to escape.
Silver Dick Shadrick, the drummer
who is stumping the state for the
democratic party, should exhibit his
order books made during the Cleve-
land starvation period.
The Mayville Tribune has just dis
covered that it is Is years old. The
first issue of the paper was printed
at Casselton, sent partly by train and
partly by wagon to it's home.
A Lidgerwood character known as
go days. died suddenly and 1t was
found that his liver was several times
too large. There is some fear that
Andrews spleen is overgrown, too.
The Northwood Cleaner prints the
republican ticket, lauds the democrats
and their platform and practically adj
vises its readers to vote for whom they
durn please. That's Independent jour-
ia
Judge Goss has issued a writ of
mandamus requiring the county COM
missioners of Mckenzie county to sub
init the location of the county seat to
a vote of the people at the coming
election.
AS result of row over a poker
game played III blind pig at Manson
Jens Christianson stabbed Jacob Bere
in the neck, the knife blade penetrat-
ing the windpipe and severing some
of the smaller blood vessels. Berg
fell on the street where the assault
was made, which was about 200 feet
from the blind pig. He bled until al
most at the point of death before a
physician arrived.
An Injunction was awarded the
Northwest Bridge company in its suit
against the county commissioners of
Ward county restraining them from
awarding a contract for the construc-
ton of several bridges in the county
to Neil McDougal. 1t appears the
county advertised for bids and they
we're opened at session "of the COM
missioners and none of them were
allowed the contract but that con-
tract was let later to Neil McDougal.
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3 THIS is MY BIRTHDAY. 8
9 Gen. VIM. r. Shafter. .
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Major-General William Rufus Shat
ter, U. S. "a. retired, was. born at
Galesbur, Mich, Oct. 16, 1885. His
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