Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-10-21
AROUND THE STATE.

At Carson a blind-pig was raided.
1t was kept in q cave underneath the
barber-shop.
Valley City is threatened with a
loss Of the city mail delivery because
OF the condition of the sidewalks.
Charles Prellwitz. living near Will
low City. raised sugar beet weigh
Ing twelve pounds and measuring
twenty mine inches in length.
The contract has been let for the
erection Of the new general hospital
at Mandan. C. E. Wiershe, Of Glen
wood was the lowest bidder. at SO,
400.
The first thrashing outfit ever
brought to Medora arrived there
recently. and they claim they are
even raising wheat now out in the
bad lands.
Two more deaths are reported at
Fargo Of infantile paralysis. making
fourteen in that vicinity within the
past few weeks, from the mysteri-
GUS disease.
William Evans, the oldest resident
lot Walsh county. died at his home
in Walshville Saturday morning at
the age of ninety-nine years and
seven months.
The September number of the
North Dakota Magazine, just issued
by Commissioner of Agriculture Gil
breath. is one Of the most interest
ing numbers yet printed.
Editor Hurry. of the Bowbells Tri-
bune, had just assured a visitor
there was no drunkenness in that
town when three intoxicated indi-
viduals came around the corner and
crowded the stranger entirely off the
sidewalk.
County Superintendent Groom. of
Cavalier county. is instituting pro-
ceedings against several residents
who persist in fracturing the school
law by refusing to send their chill
dren to school. Two men paid fines
and costs last week amounting to
$3.50 each.
! The death of Mrs. William Lean
10 reported a the home of her grand
tson. w. J. Lean. of Drayton. at the
age Of one hundred years. She was
born on the Isle Of Skye. Scotland,
in 1909, and had lived in Canada and
this country for the past half CEN
tury. She had been in excellent
health until within the past few
weeks.
i Schafer Record: A year ago Ole
Rosen plowed under forty-seven
acre tract in the center of a large
prairie-dog town on Tobacco Gar
den, and seeded it to flax. When the
harvest time came he discovered
that the dogs had forestalled him
and reaped and cut and garnered
his crop almost to a straw. During
the winter the dog COLONY emigrat.
led, driven out by starvation prob
ably. and this spring Rosen put in
wheat on the same piece. He re.
ports yield Of 1900 bushels, an
average of "a bushels per acre, q
crop worth approximately 81 500 at
present prices.
\, Among the recent Improvement
on the Northern Pacific, which it is
hoped will add to the safety Of the
travelling public. is new emergency
brake. The feature of the brake is
the rapidity with which it can be
applied and the manner in which it
absolutely locks the wheels Of the
car. A test of the brake was made
a few nights ago at Sanborn. with
No. S. The train was running at
nearly fifty miles an hour, when the
order was given to apply the brakes
just as the train was passing the
water tank. The engine came to a
| full stop directly in front of the
depot. practically within a train.
length. The new device is said to
make difference Of about 400 feet
in stopping over the old way. The
device has been used for consider
able time on the eastern roads, but
this is the first test made in the
west.
4 HAZELTON HAPPENINGS.