The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-12
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Two Texan gamblers attempted to
insult some ladies who were dining at
the Dacotah hotel at Minot. and when
a protest was made by their escorts,
they assaulted the crowd and threw
one man through window. They
were later arrested and paid for the
damage they had done.
4. A Minot dish washer stole the money
OF the cook at the same place, and
went to Jail in consequence.
The question as to who Sam Clark
of MinOt is. seems to have been
answered
Emmons county is having an cpl
demic of glanders among the horses
The Kidder county Herald is being
run by the devil.
James Hamilton, a pioneer business
man of Hankinson. died at Blue
Earth, MINI.
Arthur Grave of Hankinson used
hammer on the business end of cane
noise producer and his thumb was
scattered to the four winds.
Some of the people of Wilton are
trying to prevent the retention Of 8.
H. Gray as principal of the city
schools. Gray Is minister.
Forman is being considerably paint
ed this year-mostly red.
Two Mandanites became so patri-
otto over game of cards on the
Fourth that they INDUCED in French
duel.
A. P. Chennoworth, the Burleigh
county horse thief who thought he had
escaped on an insanity plea, has been
ordered confined in, the jamestown
asylum.
The ownership of the Garrison In
dependent has changed.
Ryder had five inches of rainfall. in
one month. Ryder is in the dry belt.
The earth was removed from one of
the streets in Bathgate until the river
can overflow the street, and Editor
Wilson serves notice that, the damage
will have to be paid by the city.
The boys of Bathgate procured the
money to celebrate the Fourth by pull
ing weeds for the farmers.
The editor of the Inkster Times
Vidette is spending his vacation in a
summer cottage owned by himself
The Fargo marble works may locate
at Bismarck.
All dogs found unmuzzled on the
streets Of Fargo are being killed.
A combination of small boys, match
es and hay started a fire at Napoleon.
In mixup between the telephone
and painter fraternities at Valley City.
A'telephone partisan got an ear chew
ed of. The victim was man.
The Congregationalists are planning
for a $4,000 church at Valley City to
be erected next year.
T. R. Jones of Cooperstown, denies
that he used booze to win the cleo
ton.
Wheat rust is reported in the vicin-
ity of Cooperstown, but not in suf-
ficient quantities to do any damage.
A swindler, selling "silverware"
which he claims is made by new
process, is working in the neighbor-
hool of Forman. His wares are of the
regulation cheap peddler's variety, not
worth their weight in sand.
Two cute young men stole booze
from a travelling man on train near
Kenmare and are now thinking 1t over,
In the bastile.
The Pollock State Bank advertises
for the person who dropped wad of
currency in corridor of that institu-
ton to call and take it away.
Ex-Supt Logic of Fargo schools has
brought suit for $2,40O salary alleged
to be due. He was re-engaged last
year but the new board rescinded the
action.
The Havana creamery received 4,437
pounds of cream one day recently.
Musk rats are numerous in all the
big sloughs around Hankinson, and it
is reported they are destroying the
young wild ducks, regardless of the
game law.
At Bismarck drunken soldier was
arrested on suspicion" and when
searched the pet coon of one of the
showmen was found inside his shirt.
Newspaper baseball fights between
opposing towns are more strenuous
than the fights in the late political I'M
pleasantness.
At Hillsboro the insurance UNDER
writer's have raised the existing rates
on stocks of merchandise 20 per cent.
Mr.. A. F. Sutton has sold his 800
acre farm in Blanchard township,
Trail county, to eastern parties, the
purchase price being $40 per acre.
Something has happened to the city
we'll at Wahpeton to increase the sup
ply of water, and water consmers are
now being supplied with pure we'll
water instead of the mixture of we'll
and river water they have been getting
for several months past.
Advices have been received to the
effect that Earl Robinson, Wahpeton,
nominated to be midshipman at the
Annapolis naval academy by Senator
McCumbef, has successfully passed all
his examinations and is now in a posi-
ton to be hazed and licked into shape
to fill position as an admiral of the
United States navy.