Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-04-09
AROUND THE STATE.

Quoted at Valley City this summer.
The tradc-unions in Fargo intend
TO have something to say in this cam
paign
The Milnor Teller says the sena-
torial fight is between Little and
Johnson.
II cost the Fargo Forum $4,000
more for print paper this year than
last year.
Fourth place in the senatorial race
is the position assigned Marshall by
the Napoleon Homestead.
Senator McCumber has accepted
the invitation to deliver an address
ON Memorial Day at Valley City.
The sheriff OF Ward county has
purchased two bloodhounds to be
used in running down jailbreakers.
The Russell Sentinel says that this
is not good year for political sore
heads to knife the republican ticket.
Few OF the North Dakotans spend
ing the winter in California will
leave there until the fleet arrives at
Frisco.
The wolf-bounty tax is said to have
cost Cass county $500, and the
county claims NOT to have had any
benefit
A supporter OF NJ y. Johnson says
his favorite is the second choice OF
nearly all the boosters of the other
candidates.
Witnesses in blindpig cases at Bis
marck are said to be afflicted with
lapse of memory when the crucial
time comes.
The candidate who refuses to pub
lish an announcement of his candi-
dacy is as good as lost to the world.
Bismarck Tribune.
The meanest man is at Antler. Re
Gently he was invited to feast, and
then ne stole the turkey the prospec-
tive host had ready for the occas-
ion
The new ordinances of the city of
Granville provide, among other
things, that the limit of travel per
hour within the village shall be six
miles.
WAS She to Blame?" is the name
of play presented in the northern
part of the state, and, after seeing
it, some people believe she vas
Forum.
1t is reported that contracts are
being let on the n. P. survey of the
branch running from Dickinson down
through New England, Hettinger
county
Politics are just as lively in the
new counties in the western part of
the state as in other sections. The
fight is even more of free-for- all
| over there.
Even at this stage of the game. ar
rangements are being made for
quarters at Minot for the approach
ing state convention to be held there
the l4th of May.
Bishop Stanley is out with an eX-
haustive letter showing how the
Catholic church surrounds wedlock
with safeguards that prevent hasty
marriages, and thereby remove many
causes for divorce.
A prisoner escaped from the jail
at Grand Forks last week. He
wrote letter to the sheriff after he
had gone, saying he didn't expect to
be back for long time; but the
deputy sheriff picked him up the next
day or so.
Professor Bolley, of the agricul-
tural college, will test any samples of
grass seed sent to him, on condition
that the sender tell where he secured
the seed and give the grade. Prof
fessor Bolley will also give the names
| of the weed seeds found in the grade.
Editor Irysh, of the Wheatland
Eagle, made trip to the Pacific
coast. and says, on his return, that
Nobody knows the real worth of
living in this state until they have
| dwelt in good old North Dakota
awhile and then do a little compar-
ing
Small towns along the 500 line are
complaining that engineers stop at
unreasonable hours during the night
and blow out their boilers, causing.
long and continued noises. making
sleep impossible. Some citizens
have found out that it is being done
for a jolly. Ordinances prohibiting
the practice are being enacted.
The Grand Forks Press, demo-
cratic daily, the second oldest news
| paper in the state, was established
in 1879, and has been under many
/ different arrangements since that
time. 1t has had many ups and
downs, mostly downs, previous to
its recent death, and several fort
unes have been spent in an effort to
make an influential and profitable
paper out of it,
The republicans of Helgesons town
/ of Milton do not seem to be SO en-
,hus;astic for his candidacy for con