Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-08-19


burst of Monday, Aug. 9th.
Mckenzie county has an estimated
population of twelve thousand al
ready. and thre is not a foot of rail
way in operation in the county so
far.
Chief of Police Mkeen, of Botti-
neau, vows he will enforce the eight
mile speed-limit law for automobiles
in that town or be a martyr to the
cause.
The seven-year-old son of Hans
Gorder, of Grafton, was kicked by
colt few days since. and his jaw
bone was broken and several teeth
were knocked out.
Hon. 0. A. Rod, of Walsh county,
has a fine crop of Wealthy apples
this year from young trees bearing
for the first time. He also had a
large crop of the new Compass
cherry.
Miss Christine Smith, young wo-
man living near Souris. was drowned
in a stream known as Boundary
creek, Thursday of last week. She
fell from a narrow foot-bridge.
Children playing with matches set
fire to the barn on the farm of S. K.
Warnock, at Westhope, and it was
entirely consumed, together with
twelve head of horses, seventy-fve
tons of hay and all of Warnock's ma
chinery.
| During the storm Of Aug. 7th at
DEVILS Lake the weather-bureau
building at that point was struck by
lightning and many of the delicate
and valuable recording instruments
were injured. and some of them to-
tally destroyed.
John Hanson,a "a cripple. was arrest
ed in Fargo last week. charged with
doing the hold-up act with the aid
of his crutch. He relieved young
man by the name of johnson of 5000
by this method. He was committed
to the county Jail.
i William Slower, aged sixteen, old
est son of j. c. Slower, of Bottineau,
was drowned while swimming in
Lake Metigoshe. recently. He was
an excellent swimmer, but took
cramps, and his companions were
unable to save him.
| Astate pure-food inspector visited
the state capital the other day, and
as result Bismarck will havea new
slaughter house. with a cement floor,
as prescribed by the department.
and the others will have new screens
, to keep out the flies
Il George Hart, of Ryder. may keeI
the elk killed by him lately. This
lis the decision of Game-Warder
Smith; there being no law in this
state relating to elk. The animal in
question is supposed to have wan
dered from the Yellowstone park OF
from Canada.
County Commissioner Heath, OF
Cass county, narrowly escaped death
recently at his home near Gardner
He was in an clubhouse when it was
struck and destroyed by lightning.
Mr.. Heath was rendered unconscious
and did not regain his senses for up
i ward Of an hour
!. While stacking hay near Velva
three boys were struck by lightning
i during recent severe storm. They
were all badly burned. but none OF
!, them was killed. One team was in
lstantly killed. A boy was rendered
Unconscious and the other two were
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badly frightened.
Adolph Nordwall is exhibiting
samples of alfalfa raisedon his farm
near Garrison which measure nearl,
six feet in length. 1t was grown OF
land deemed rather inferior, bu
which, nevertheless, must have beer
. rich in the necessary soil-constituent
for the unusual growth of thi
plant.
During a thundershower the 9th
er day Harry Gibson, working on
farm near st. Thomas, sustained
severe shock, which left him uncon
scious for some time. And tn
Grand Forks Herald says that stril
about foot wide from his head t
4 his foot was burned slightly, but h
will recover. Which leads US to re