The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-30
STATE GRAB BAG

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The Rollette Examiner is of legal
age and is a husky yearling.
A large crowd of hold up artists are
operating throughout the state.
Bowbells' chief Of police wants to
have the hoboes work on the streets.
One district in Bottineau county has
erected six school buildings this sea-
son.
Ryder with a population of less than
four hundred, Is to have the fourth.
bank soon.
A prisoner broke out of the Maxbass
bastile. being aided by number of
outside confederates.
The hot weather is said to have
reduced the barley crop about James,
town at least fifty per cent.
The assessed valuation of the Farm
ers' road was increased $1,000 per mile
this year. making 1t $500 per mile.
The town Of Flasher wants a cream
cry, and all roads Of the promoters
will lead to that town in few days.
The last one of the bonds issued to
build the Stark county court house
twenty years ago has just been paid.
The location of the Milwaukee rail-
road through Hettinger county has
precipitated bitter county seat fight.
The fact that three newspaper men
ALI abstainers-blew into Maxbass
on one train caused considerable COM
ment.
DR.. Ethel A. Payne, who is said to
have saved Sheridan at the famous
battle of Winchester. died at Towner
last week.
The Sheldon Progress demanded
that the train ON that line be run on
time-and it continues to run just the
same as before.
Work on the Harvey sewer has been
delayed because the laborers have
gone to the harvest fields where they
get better wages.
The Mandan Republican suggests
that the cheapest way to get out OF
the Major Murphy business is to have
him move to Portland and forget him.
Some Anamoose miscreant turned
a recently purchased horse belonging
to William Wagner loose on the
prairie and the animal ran into a
fence, seriously injuring 1t.
F. w. Deistler of Fingal, lost ten
dollar gold piece in the Woodman
lodge at Fargo and after offering the
janitor a dollar reward for finding 1t
received the other nine.
Anton Vesch, editor of the German
department of the Harvey Herald, hit
himself in the mouth with stick of
wood which he was attempting to cut,
and saved considerable dentist bill.
There remains unexpended $21, 1000
of the Wahpeton Indian school appro-
priation, and Superintendent Lipp has
decided to use. 1t in constructing a
barn. cottage and ice house.
A female patient escaped from the
jamestown asylum and succeeded in
evading the most vigilant search of
the attendants. She walked down one
Of the streets the next morning and
was captured.
Fred Small, an Omemee blind pigger
whose place had been closed. drove to
Kramer with load of the liquid that
makes North Dakota famous. and
while he was looking up customers
somebody swiped the booze.
Judge Dow of Wahpeton. has re-
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dress at the Homework meeting at
his native town, Epping, New Hamp-
shire, where all former citizens living
in different states have been invited.
New Rockford and Oberon are hav-
ing newspaper controversy over the
putting of Sunday train on that line.
The Oberon Reporter wants 1t but the
Transcript thinks there is about as
much need of 1t as the Reporter has
need of Mergenthaler.
A. H. Harnack who recently skipped
from Kramer, leaving sick wife and
young baby, is, the same one who went
to Kramer and told the people he in
tended building a brick block and
print a daily paper, and left with sew
eral checks floating in the wind with
out money TO ancnor them.
At Fessenden some minstrels were
giving q free performance in order to
advertise the show they would give
the following evening, but rough
house developed and the entertainers
departed. 1t is not stated whether the
trouble came because the patrons were
not getting their moneys worth or not.
Joseph Gregor, a farmer living near
Mcleod, was arrested on complaint of
his wife charging him with threatening
to kill his family. He was arrested
and the case set for later date. but
without returning to his home he pur-
chased revolver and shot himself in
the head, causing instant death. He
had been drinking.
Doctor Pence of Balfour. was called
to administer to some Russian chill
dren who had been poisoned by eat
ing water hemlock. says the. States
man. One died a few minutes after
the doctor called. To the other two
antidotes were administered and they
recovered. The doctor took some OF
the poisonous vegetables and sent
them to Prof. Bolley of the State Agrt-
cultural college at Fargo. with a his
tory of the case. He received word
back that the poisonous vegetables
were water hemlock and that those
that had eaten of the same whether
human beings or stock generally went
their way to the world beyond and
asked the doctor what his method OF
treatment was that had been so sue
cessful with the two children that re-
covered. A few days after the chill