Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-05-16
THE STATE.

The dining-room of the 500 hotel at
Bismarck has been opened
Horse thieves seem to profit by
their business in Wells county.
A Bottineau lady suddenly lost he,'
voice. There are husbands who would
not rel ID this as misfortune.
Jay Wilcox, of Driscoll, tried to
calm fractious broncho, and the ami
NAL broke the pacifier's leg with a
kick.
Capt Grant Marsh, the old.time
Missouri river navigator is running q
ferry line between Bismarck and Man.
dan.
The elevator men at Marion are on
the warpath because small boys are
breaking the window glass with rife
bullets.
The Grafton News and Times, dem
ocratic, advises the Grand Forks
Press, that it has undertaken quite a
task to bottle up Hansbrough.
The summary of business at the
Dickinson United States land Office for
the month Of April shows 723 home
stead entries, or 400 more filings than
were taken III the Bismarck office for
the same period.
The mother and brother of Harry
Williams, the New York song writer,
live in Mercer county. He is the man
responsible for Under the Shade Of
the Old Apple Tree San Antonio,"
and other songs. He visited North
Dakota recently.
Editor Boyden, of The Lisbon Free
Press, calls attention to the fact that
editors-like representatives in Con-
gress-are of more value to their pub
lications after long years of service
The fily-by-night stripe of pencil
pnshers have little influence
Monday and Tuesday Justice Kin
naird's court at New Rockford was
busy as bird dog in hunting season
with case involving the ownership
of pointer dog. A. ]. Clure and A.
n. TOmlisOn both claimed the same
dog, and it took the court. about thirty
witnesses and two lawyers and two
days to decide the first round in favor
of the plaintiff, A. j. Clure. The dog
was worth. according to the jury. $50
and the costs amounted to $3.50 The
district court will probably get the
next inning.
A rather unusual accident is re-
ported from Plaza, Ward county. G..
N. Johnson was driving across the
prairie on road which had been
utilized all winter when suddenly his
horses sunk out of sight, almost pull
ing the sled with them. The horses
had gone through the sn0w-drift into
a deep we'll. Twenty men labored for
several hours in the endeavor to res
cue the poor brutes, and succeeded In
saving one of the animals. People
had been driving across the well for
months without knowing of its ex-
listence
AT Darlington, as Manager ]. p.
Haven was climbing up near the top
of the Minnekota elevator. he lost his
balance. and in his struggle to avoid
falling to the bottom of one of the
bins. He dropped a lantern he was
carrying. and when it struck the bot
tom of the bin it exploded and immed-
lately set fire to the wood work. Be-
fore anything could be done to extin-
gnish the fire the whole building was
a mass of flames and beyond control.
4 There were on hand at the time Of
II the fire about eleven thousand bushels
of grain. which were covered, together
with the building. with the regular
blanket insurance. The building will
be Immediately rebuilt.
Jim Manning's COW, at Balfour, died
of rabies, or, to be more accurate. she
was sick for week and refused to
eat or drink for six days. She was
chained head and foot. and was fin
ally shot to put her out of her mis-
cry. She was hauled out into the
pasture and buried at once, SO that
no dogs could get at her This COW
was inoculated by Manning s dog, which
went mad some 40 days ago and Bit
lot of other dogs and stock. The
end of the CANNES existence is un
known, but ii is supposed to have diet
from hydrophobia. A white pig alst
ran around mad. 1t followed hert
of cows out of town. and has no
been seen since. 1t is thought GRO:
of mad-dogs is about to mature.
Frank G. Mcdonald, who has bee;
living with his wife and sister on tn.
Dan knauss farm near Maddox, wa'
arrested by the sheriff of McLeal
county, as one of the gang of horse
thieves who have been operating II
the western part of the state for som,
time past The sheriff said that Nc
Donald received the horses from tn
gang and sold them in and aroun'
Benson county The prisoner was tab
en- to Maddox, and while arranging
some matters with his wife in the pal