The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-23
STATE GRAB BAG

fdfk trip are Delng faVOraDly COM
mented on by the press of the state.
Mrs. D. w. Lippincott of LaMoure,
took carbolfc acid for pepsin by mis-
take and only prompt measures saved
her life.
1t required four days Of steady work
for a wrecking crew from jamestown
to clear up the wreck west of LaMoure
1T was a bad one.
Thomas Costello of Milton has
grown rutabaga which weighs five
and half pounds and was just begin
ming to grow when pulled.
On account of III health. Prof. T. H.
Burke has resigned as principal of
the Bowbells schools. doctors advis-
ing him to give up his school work.
Druggist johnson of Cando. caught
an eight pound bass in Fish lake.
This is undoubtedly the largest one
that has ever been caught in the Tur-
tie mountains.
Miss Adell Nelson. young school
teacher Of Pleasant. east Of Kenmare,
went violently insane in hotel at the
latter place. She was taken to the
hospital at Minot.
A man giving his name as Charles
Rose was run into by the east bound
flyer at Drake and later died from
his injuries at Harvey, where he was
taken for treatment.
Supt. o. H. Lipps of the Indian
school at Wahpeton Is arrans1ng~fO
the opening of the school. The equip
ment is being shipped from Chicago
and st. Louis.
A prairie fire made things lively in
the northeast corner of Wells county
last week. So far as known no dam
age was done.
Louis Brosterhous of Eden. had the
misfortune to have five horses killed
by lightning and two more made Grip
pies in one of the recent storms.
Paul Bealer had his arm bitten
while he was shocking grain on the
John Strege farm near Lidgerwood. 1t
is supposed to have been done by
snake in the bundle of grain.
The delinquent personal property
tax list for Wells county, which has
been handed to the sheriff by the
treasurer, is small compared with for
mer years. indicating high degree
of prosperity for the county.
James Hudson. the young man who
is believed to have burglarized the
Shurlock lumber Office at Jamestown.
was held to the district court in $4,000
bonds-which he is unable to give.
A car load of wire. cross irons and
bolts has arrived at Jamestown for
the new farmers telephone line to the
lake. which will be put in this fall
and connect with jamestown and
Courtenay other points.
The barn of E. H. Hurd. who resides
near Hurdsf1eld, was burned to the
ground. Five head of horses. all the
harness, grain, ETC.. were also burned.
This is hard on Hurd.
and Mrs. w. C.. Patterson of LaMoure.
filled bottle with powder, placed it
in the ground and touched match to
1t. Elmer Is improving slowly.
Gabriel Porter and Eugene Brown,
Indians, pleaded guilty at Fargo to the
charge of cutting trees on the Fort
Sully park reserve and were sentenced
to pay fines of IS each and serve three
days in the county jail at Devils Lake.
Jean Rheum. residing on the Todd
farm near Grafton run into his young
son. concealed in the standing grain,
with a binder. The sickle bar cut an
artery of the boys leg and badly tore
the muscles. He escaped other in
juries and may recover.
The first threshing near Harvey
this season occurred last week when
four miles north of town. Fourteen
pounded out and the grain is said to
A severe rain and wind storm visited
Bathgate and vicinity last week. The
velositv of the wind was enough to
make "the Oldest inhabitant" wonder
and the rainfall was the heaviest of
the season. Small buildings were
blown over and grain flattened down.
Miss Sophia Wagner, a young wo-
man living at Twist near Fessenden,
figgered in two exciting runaways in
one week but escaped injury. No
young man figured in the affairs. they
being Just ordinary, everyday runa-
way horses.
The editor of the LaMourse Chron-
icle in an attempt to print birth no.
tice. got the names Obenchain and
Gallagher mixed and made the Oben-
chains the happy parents. The Gala
ghers. being of good Irish blood, re-
sented this Indignantly and explana-
lions followed.
The Bowdon postoffice was robbed
late last Sunday night. The burglars
blew the safe to pieces and obtained
about $3.50 in cash and also took
about $50 worth of stamps. The stamps
were found later lying near the rail-
rca' track. No clue of the guilty
pa IS have as yet been found.
"a g rumored that a suit for dam
az may grow out Of the accident
which resulted in the death Of Harry
Tavlcr at I.arimore recentlv. 1t is
claimed by some that the accident was
due to defective 2x6 plank laid
across the bin into which the young
man fell.
w. F. Lee was probably fatally in
jured nv being thrown from his hor"'
while riding through the streets at
DOnnvhrOok The horse SHE'D ~ some
object and Lee was thrown heavily