Emmons County record., 1907-08-29
AROUND THE STATE.

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The 500 is operating daily passen-
ger service from Bismarck to Minot.
There is q row at Devils Lake be-
cause house cut telephone
wires.
The secretary Of state will insist on
the corporations filling their reports
Some fine hunting dogs around
White Earth we're injured by attack.
Ing a porcupine.
Seventy-tive laborers at Crary arc
reported to have consumed sixteen
kegs OF beer In one evening.
There are some farmers in this state
who will insure against hail-next
year-about the time they seed the
grain.
Bismarck now claims population
of G,OOO people. One wouldn't think so
who sized up the attendance at their
ball games.
The first barley sold at Jamestown
from the 1907 crop went for 80 cents 4
busllel, and the yield was thirty BUSH
els per acre.
There is considerable adverse COM
ment over the antagonistic attitude
OF the state druggists to the pure food
law. Forum.
Two society women of Lisbon have
been caught 'swiping" garden stuff
from IA farm near the city, and all
kinds Of trouble is promised II they
don't be good.
A stroke of lightning struck the
postottice at Burnstad, eight miles
east of Napoleon. The building and
the contents, including the mail, we're
nearly all destroyed.
The chamber Of commerce OF Ed
monton, Canada. is flooding North Da-
kota with profusely illustrated adver.
tising matter setting forth the al
legged advantages of that arctic re-
gion.
A baby show was one of the attrac-
ti0ns at the second anniversary cele-
bration held at Garrison the other day.
The judges who were called upon to
decide which was the handsomest baby
are in hiding.
A travelling comedy company enter
tained the people Of Bisbee, the other
evening, and the Gazette says 1t 10 too
bad that the members OF the com pany
didn't take the hint and heed the call
for harvest hands.
Two men we're arrested at Crary for
fighting. Not having the money to
pay their fines they were put to work
on the streets and fought some more
after which they we're locked up on
a bread and water diet.
Outin Adams county a couple walked
all the way from Wolf Butte to the
county seat to be married, but found
County Judge Sonderall out of town
and no one to issue license, and the
ceremony had to be postponed.
A gang of Greek laborers on the
railroad at Berthold overpowered
Mike HeaIy, the foreman, took away
his gun and kicked him into the mid
die Of the following week. He had
eleven of them arrested, then skipped.
With The Grand Forks Herald and
The Grand Forks Press at loggerheads
the demo-insurgency in that section
of the state is having a struggle to
make its sympathies spread over suffi-
cient ground to cover both.-Forum.
AT Edmunds II. G. Streeter. while
taking trip in his auto, was held UP
by tramp and relieved of his cash,
to the amount OF 396. with the aid Of
a gun. A sheriff's posse later tried ia
round up the desperado, but without
success.
Col. e. S. Lovelace, of Fort Ramsay,
charged with the murder of his
nephew, is now enjoying his personal
liberty, as a result of a $4,000 bond
Judge Pollock, who is acting for Judge
Allen, fixed the bail Of $4,000, which
the defendant put up.
While cutting grain on his farm ter
miles out Of New Salem, recently, the
team of August Theile got fright
ened and ran away, throwing him In
front OF the moving sickle, which sew
cred one of his legs and cut the othe
so badly that it had to be amputated
| A Newport resident says that tn
/ shores OF Des Laos Lake contain larg,
Quantities Of fish bones, and that tin
fish have entirely disappeared. Th,
cause is believed to be the large quan
tity OF snow on the ice last winter
closing all air holes, smotheriug th'
| fish.
The council at Mandan has change'
the names of its avenues to numbere'
avenues, bat it has complicated mat
ters greatly by designating them north
west, northeast, southeast, etc, tina
will bewilder strangers more tha
hunting the location out under tn
old deal Forum.