Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-01-02
AROUND THE STATE.


A team of horses picked up at Bis
marck remain unclaimed.
Some farm papers are agitated over
when a pig becomes q hog.
Many people in the state are taking
an interest in poultry raising.
Accomplishments on Williams coun-
ty homesteads appear to be in demand.
The Mandan Pioneer states the fees
of the grand jurors were not hung up.
The howl of North Dakotans who
have been east is that the mud is so
fierce.
The people Of Palermo believe they
can secure a flowing we'll near that
town.
The weather was so warm that the
lilac bushes at Northwood budded out,
last week.
The Underwood Republican wants
Mclean county divided into five conf
missioner districts.
Some of the newspapers OF the state
fail to detect any great clamor for
Marshall for the United States senate.
Forum.
The Crystal Call is giving a hound
up there great reputation as wolf
killer, and at last accounts had the to-
tai up to 2l9.
The hustling people of Valley City
are already making arrangements for
the meeting of the North Dakota
G. A. II. there i'm June.
Grand Forks claims the youngest
Christmas bride. a girl fifteen years
old was married there that day, her
husband being twenty-six.
The Ross Promoter thinks Little
! Mac, of the Stanley Sun, is in danger
Of committing matrimony, as he has
begun to write about the beautiful
schoolma ANS in Ward county.
The wheat sharps on the boards of
trade seem surprised that the North
| Dakota farmers are in position to
hold their wheat-if they want to.
| The Page Record thinks the indorse-
ments handed out at the Grand Forks
conference are liable to prove hoo
doc to most of the candidates indorsed
there.
The people of North Dakota like Of
ticials who have made good. That's
why Commissioner of Agriculture Gill
breath appears to have such easy sail
ing. Forum.
Editor Whitehead, of the Williston
Daily State, gave up in disgust after
running the paper for year and only
securing slS worth of democratic SUBJ
scribers east of Minot.
The enthusiastic support of the
Lidgerwood Broadaxe for the parcels
post system doesn't seem 10 be in
dorsed by the merchants and CONNER
cial clubs of the state.
The Ward county commissioners
have been mandamused and ordered
to show cause why they don't submit
the question of county division to the
voters at the next general election.
If the postotiice order requiring
publishers to pay one cent postage on
all delinquent subscriptions is en-
forced. there will be lot of editors
who will have to cut off the delin-
quent list.-Forum.
Hansboro Pioneer: 'sSharpe, of La
Moure" the candidate for governor.
is gaining strength every day, and will
make the ether fellow go some at the
primaries. He is a man who is we'll
known by virtue OF being the father
of the primary-election bill, is a man
ofclean character. and one who is fully
lcipahle for the office he aspires.
I Bowbells Bulletin: On Tuesday af-
ternoon w. T.. Blaine, living north OF
town, had a narrow escape from being
killed at the hands OF an elk-a real
II cIk. ~ SGClllS UudU llO ouW OslS 0AIhIoi
at his straw stack. and, not being sure
Just what it was, he took stroll out
that way, and on nearing the stack II
came right at him and trampled him
to the earth, after which fierce fight
ensued. At last he succeeded in free
ing himself and made his way to the
house to get his shotgun. When ht
came back the elk had left, and he
took a horse and went in pursuit o1
the antlcred monarch and found him
going across Jack Emersen's plowe1
field. Again. as Mr.. Blaine nearec
him. lle made a fierce dash at the
Ihorse, knocking him twenty feet, ane
almost killing the horse. The tirs
two shots fired took effect in the head
but did not bring him down, add MIR
Blaine fired again. this time proving
fatal. 1t tipped the scales at S1'
pounds and measured eleven feet, ter
inches in length and stood about five
feet high.
Fred Falley. editor OF the Wahpetot
Glob Gazette aud one OF the bes
known men OF the state. dropped deaf
at Minneapolis, where he. with hi
wife and children, were making a
Christmas visit with friends. He hat
eaten breakfast with the family ant
was seemingly in the best OF spirits. HI
left the dining-room with the others