Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-04-30
AROUND THE STATE.

Bernard MCGOWAN. an old settler
of Grand Forks county, died last
week at the age OF %.
The government has decided not to
abandon the hallucination that the
Red River OF the North is navigable.
Many editors of the state announce
they will support the republican NOM
inees-after the primaries
less.
Farmers around the state are be-
ginning to get onto the fact that they
can pay part of their taxes by plant.
ing trees
Tony Wallershom. i'm attempting
to cross the river in buggy, was
drowned in the Sheyenne river near
Ashtabula Sunday.
George Mundell, manager of a
Minot employment agency. soaked Il
dogs tail in kerosene and then set
fire to it. He has been arrested.
Talk about Lydia Pinkham---she
isn't it it with Hanna-whose cut APP
pears in every state newspaper one
picks up.-Bismarck Tribune.
c. A. Johnson of Minot, candidate
for governor, made a good impress
ion on his recent visits to Norton,
Burleigh and Mclean counties.
The record was broken in Fargo
Tuesday-9O degrees above zero in
the shade ON the Dist day OF April.
There was one heat prostration.
There was thunder shower Fri
day in the southern part of Suits
man county. 1t is reported that a
farmer of the Sharlow neighborhood
was knocked down by stroke OF
lightning while plowing and severe
ly stunned and that both horses on
the pillow We're killed by the stroke.
A Minot report says that ..if the
governor directs Sheriff Lee of Ward
county will be called upon to go to
Bismarck and officiate at the hang
ing. II he does, the sheriff will
have to be constituted deputy war
den, as under the law only the war
den or his deputy can perform the
execution.
Supt. Waldron of the Dickinson
sub-experiment station. states tlrat
in the western part of the state for
the season of 1907, durum wheat over
yielded the hard wheats nearly elev
en- bushels per acre, and on the mar
ket the durum wheat was worth
about So per acre more than the
hard wheats. This fact proves con-
clusively that if the market price of
durum wheat should be brought
nearer it's true value as compared
with No. l northern. the benefit that
would accrue to the farmers in the
dryer portions of the state would be
enormous.
Last Saturday, while working in
we'll for l.. H. Larson near Court
enay, Geo H. Bigelow had struck a
rock and he blasted the rock with
a charge of dynamite. After the ex-
plosion he was again lowered in the
we'll and cautioned to leave the rope
attached to his body but failed to do
so. After being in the we'll few
minutes he called to Mr.. Larson to
pull him up and he was pulled up
five or ten feet when he fell back
into the we'll overcome by the fumes
of the exploded dynamite. 1t was
several hours before he could be
gotten out and life was extinct.
McClusky Gazette: Many claim
holders throughout the country have
returned after the winters absence
to resume their residence upon their
claims. Undoubtedly most of these
left last fall believing that they had
right to remain away during the
winter. An impression seems to pre-
vail that congress passed a law
granting them this privilege. Such
bill was in fact. introduced in con-
sress last year, bn, failed 10 become
law. Settlers who abandon resi-
dence on their claims during the
winter do so at the risk of losing
their homestead rights, and should
bear this in mind next fall.
The following from the Valley City
| Times Record will apply TO any conn
| ~ in the state: North Dakota is.
teeming with opportunities for the
| laborer who has been the victim OF
| the late financial stringency. There
| is MANY farmer in Barnes county
| who is looking for a trustworthy
| and faithful man to hire for the sea
| son or the wear. If the out-Of-work
| in the east would come west at this
| time instead of just before harvest,
he would find steady employment at
| good wages for the season or per
| hans for the ensuing year. The state
can use thousands of steady, sober
men. During the past the farmers
| Of North Dakota have been at the