The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-15
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Egeland is expecting a new nou

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Egeland is expecting new houl
mill.
There is Il distinctive odor of sui
phuric local politics down Bismarcl
way.
The Northwestern Educational as
ISOLATION OF the state will meet at Mi
not April 9Th and 9Th
1t is claimed that the 500 will be
running trains between Bismarck and
Minot over its own lines by the LIST oil
July.
The village of Know has a suit
against the Great Northern for viola
ton of the speed limit in the incorpo.
ration.
There was an explosion of acetylene
gas at the hotel at Plaza, and for /,
time things We're going skyward at q
decidedly lively rate.
The Soo's new coast line will not
l be built from enmare, the company
be built from Kenmare, the company
having decided to build from Carpio.
The Michigan Arena announces in
colored headlines that the elevators at
that point are paying three cents per
bushel above the market price for
grain.
The Pink Paper thinks the people
got all they asked from the legislature
except the anti-pass law. But Wilson
is optimistic after landing that oil in
spection job.
A Sawyer man who froze to death
according to an eastern paper-called
on the MinOt Reporter last week, just
to let the editor see what a lovely
stiff" he was.
As matter Of inquiry, will some
one please inform the public whether
or not the president of the state w. C.
T. U. is member of the Valley City
initiative and referendum club?
1t might be a good idea for the scrap
book editor to secure the services of
his political products in this county 10
do stunt for his present publication
like they did for the university while
at the legislature.
There is some talk of the newspa-
pers of the state presenting a walking
stick to Representative Piper of Cass
county, the economist who tried to get
law passed preventing the publica-
ton of the annual statement of the
board of education.
The first issue of the Mott Pioneer
Press, published at Mott, in Hettinger
county by s. j. Small, has made its
appearance. 1t is said that the policy
of the paper will be the development
OF that vast territory in the southwest
ern part Of the state.
The McCumber Herald explained its
late appearance as due to the arrival
OF baby boy at the editorial home.
We must have been mistaken hereto
fore when We took the name at the
masthead Of that journal as that Of
one of the sterner sex.
There is some talk among the rem
nants of the socialists of the state
to have Representative Garden of Bot
tineau county put in charge of the
railroads of the state. He has proven
that he knew less about them than
any other man in the state.
The new county division law which
enables county to be divided by
majority vote of the entire county in
stead of a majority vote of the entire
county as we'll as the several propos-
ed divisions, it is said will result in
division of Mclean county.
The Chautauque management are
making arrangements to increase their
railroad facilities for the coming sea-
son. new train will be put on and
sidings will be laid midway on the
road for passing purposes and trains
will be run every thirty minutes and
oftener when necessity demands.
Louis Baeverstad, C. l.. Lindstrom,
Tim Mahaney, John Kerkeby and J..
H. Forest of Minnewaukan, and c. E.
Lindstrom, of Langdon, have pur-
chased $1,000 acres Of land in Texas.
The price paid for the land was $780,.
600 and the new owners will cut the
tract up into small farms for coloniz-
alton purposes.
When the bill changing the law for
publishing the annual insurance state
ments was before the house, and an
amendment was being considered to
publish the statements but once at six
| ty per cent Of legal rates, Representa-
tive Chapman of Williams county sug-
gested that perhaps it would be better
to publish them In the catalogues of
the Chicago mail order houses so the
farmers could read them.
The way the White Earth Record
went after the st. Paul Pioneer Press
on account of the charge made in the
Pioneer Press, that there was scarcely
a case of final proof that was not
tainted with fraud was source of
delight to those who realize the sland-
ers on the honest homesteaders of this
state which have been sent out to
the world through the columns of that
moribund sheet.
An organization has been formed at
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