Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-12-24
AROUND THE STATE,

Joseph once lost his.-Fargo Forum.
The new counties down in the
southwestern part OF the state are be-
ing closely intersected with telephone
lines.
There does not appear anywhere
TO be any opposition to Jim Foley be-
ing reelected secretary of the SEN
ate
A good many of the merchants of
the state are arranging for early clos
ing programs after the holiday sea-
son is over.
The Edmore Herald thinks the price
OF wheat always goes up about the
time the grain gets out of the hands
of the farmers
Many of the papers of the state
claim that people of North Dakota
will have to go south for the winter
if they want one.
The newspaper publishers who are
using the cheap magazine supplements
know now what a lot of other editors
think of the roposition.-Forum.
The Lakota American is to lose
good managing publisher in Editor
Beveridge, who has purchased the Ell
lendale Record and will take up his
new field Jan. l.
In jamestown the city removes
snow and ice from the walks, where
owners neglect to perform the work
and the cost is taxed to the owner of
the property.
The Bad Lands were once covered
with stately forests. and there appear S
to be good logic in the effort of Pres
ident Roosevelt to establish a forest
reserve there again
Fraud is alleged in bankruptcy
case at Donnybrook A merchant
there has been discharged from bank.
rupty, and since then it has been dis
covered that he had concealed fully
enough property to have satisfied his
creditors. He will now be required
to answer to the federal court
Editor Streeter, of Linton, would
like to see a basketball game between
the senate and the lower branch of the
egislature.-Fargo Forum. The bask-
etball game suggested by the Record
was between the temporary crowd on
the hill and the more-or-less perma-
nent bunch east Of town. Record.
The cultivation Of durum in this
region rapidly modifies the character
of the grain. The kernels become
smaller and whittier, and after five or
six years from the same seed num-
Der one hard bread-wheat is evolved,
which makes the best Of -four. In this
way the writer believes we shall be
able to keep North Dakota perma-
nent producer of hard spring wheat.
A vast amount of durum is now used
in milling to the real advantage OF
the fOur.-FOrum.
Mayor Smyth of Bismarck, is an en-
thusiast on the subject of pure water
and he has objected strenuOusly fol
years to the practice of running sew
age into the streams. But, inasmucf
as the practice has always been fol
lowed, and the sewer system of all
cities, which have cost immense sums
and which cannot readily be changed
have been built in accordance with
this practice, any change that is made
must come slowly. A city cannot
change its sewer system in minute
Benedict Banner: A novel case OF q
man selling a woman for $145 and
giving a bill OF sale therefor Is what
happened in this county recently =
according to testimony brought out in
a case before the district court al
| Washburn Monday. 1t seems that ore
man sent to Europe for young s'r
whom he wanted to marry, and sen,
her $145 to pay her passage Upon
arriving in this country she met an
other man and married him at once
The first man sued the husband fol
the $145 which he had sent the girl
and won Out-but had to give Dill
of-sale for the girl.
jamestown Alert: The well-diggers
at the city test-well, made an un
usual find Yesterday when about nine
| feet below the surface. They uncov
cred the head and horns of large
| deer. buried to that depth and em'
bedded in coarse sand. The Sane
around the remaining part OF the skel
etcn OF the animal was not disturbed
and the entire body of the deer ap
pears to have been entombed man,
wears ago, and buried under the sedl
ment of the ancient lake or river thai
once filled the valley from shore tt
shore. The horns are in good state
of preservation and appear to be sol
idly petrified.
Travellers will be glad to learn thai
the new interchangeable mileage book
have arrived and will be put on sail
Dec. 10Th, and that people can nov
trave. on the Northern Pacific. Grea'
Northern, Burlington and Milwaukee
railroads with the same mileage book
So, xh.t +La odvantaoes a