Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-10
Flaxtoh has an oil famine.
New Salem had . stabbing array.

Hillsboro is to have an armory 70,
Company L.
Cogswell is to have a new school
building in the spring.
The young people Of Willow City arc
to have a skating rink.s
The directors decided to continue
the Tower creamery all winter.
Oscar Mork was badly frozen while
on his way home from White Earth.
The oil famine was so pronounced
at Sherwood that candles were used.
Prisoners in nearly all the county
jails had turkey dinners Christmas.
Gov. Burke will continue as a mem
Der of the law firm at Devils Lake.
The farm house Of E. Greenfield, 10
miles from Flaxton, was destroyed hy
fire.
The food supply was short on the
new extension of the 500 from Flax
ton.
A Kensal blind pigger is reported 10
have been so badly frightened that he
fled.
Cando pledged $l3,6O0 for the Dan.
kard college and seems to have the
inside track.
Sherbrooke-off the railroad line
was one of the points threatened With
Il coal famine.
Another batch of Stark county PEG.
pie were fined for failure to send their
children to school.
A travelling man was twenty.six
hours getting from Rugby to Devils
i.ake-sixty miles.
There are said to be six applicants
in Ramsey county for one of the state
game wardenships.
kenmare wants the normal school
which will probably be established by
the coming legislature.
Mohall has organized q commercial
club and is getting ready to do some
booming for that splendid town.
Cogswell was visited by star
theatrical attraction, the members oi
which were recently hashers at a hotel
in Aberdeen.
The North Dakota soil before the
freeze-up is said to have been driel
than for years, and the heavy snowfall
viii, not come entirely amiss.
The fact that when Cass county's
new court house was dedicated there
was no Indebtedness against 1t, causes
a lot of favorable comment by state
papers.
The hotel men got special legisla
ton to be able to collect bill from
dead beats-but they object to further
legislation favoring hotel inspection
as insisted on by the travelling men.
If the coal shortage in the state thia
winter can but get the Ignite coal
mining on business basis and result
in the more general use of that fuel
it will be blessing for North Dakota
500 claim agents have been busy in
their efforts to adjust matters arising
out of the Enderlin wreck. The total
sum that will be paid in damages will
be large.
A company of Eastern capitalists il
being formed for the purpose Of de-
veloping the immense coal fields at
White Earth. The capital will be 5000,
600, and the best business enterprise
in the coal mining world vii lbs be-
hind the concern.
On last Friday evening as G. ]
Thorkildson was driving into Colum
bus with a COW in the sled the burned
thing upset and in the general mix-up
Mr.. Thorkildson received a broken
shoulder. The horses went on up the
street, but were stopped in short
distance.
Corporations are some times CRATE
full. Last fall there was an elevator
fire at Edmore. ]. w. Wheeler hitched
his horses to some Great Northern
box cars and drew them out of danger.
The company has given him a round.
trip ticket to Seattle-and he spent the
holidays out on the coast.
At Linton Sioux warrior swiped a
quart of Christmas Joy from the sleigh
of a paleface brother, and after doing
what was explained as cross between
a war and a bear dance, was taken to
the bastile, where his pipe dream was
transformed into living realization of
the caresses of his. angry squaw who
played a one.handed game of watch.
meeting during the night.
Chief Engineer Mickey O'Connor Of
the Bismarck trolley line announces
that he will offer a prize of velvet
album to the capitol employee doing
the most riding on the trolley line the
coming year. Mickey says he must do