Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-05-19
AROUND THE STATE.


w N. Steele is to have sixty
acre potato patch near Rolla.
Land business is reported to be
Very active in kidder county
There are said to be some black
foxes IN Towner county The hide
of a black fox is very valuable.
North Dakota is said to own more
autos in proportion to population
than any other state in the Union.
There is a law in the state against
the instigation of dog fights. A
Minoter was arrested for the otfensc.
Logan county is long on local can
didates. They were slow in getting
started. but are making up for lost
time.
The kenmare News threatens to
publish a list of the names of boys
caught boozing and smoking cigar
ettes.
The state press contains many
f1atterlng Endorsements of w {.
Gilbreath, commissioner of agricul-
ture and labor.
There is likely to be an increased
corn acreage in North Dakota this
season as a result of the success of
the crop last year.
The Fargo Forum says that up at
Hillsboro, when the boys want to
lick up keg of beer. they call it
killing a Dutchman.
Between 5000 and 900 North Da-
kotans have emigrated to the Cam
adlan northwest this spring. enticcd
there by the free land.
Old-timers at Jamestown regret
the destruction of trees around the
N. Z. depot that were removed to
make room for the new double track.
Down at Edgeley they fine owners
of automobiles who ALLOW their
mell-Wagons To remain on the main
street of the town beyond certain
time.
Walt Taylor. insurgent candidate
for insurance commissioner, is get
ting a lot of friendly boosts from
the newspaper fraternity of the
state.
The Bismarck firemen are making
arrangements on large scale for
the entertainment of the coming
state firemen's S convention and tour
Editor Jordan, of CogsweIl, had
out hot roasts for some dog poison
ers. He lost an aristocratic collie
and water spaniel by the strych-
nine route.
More than seven thousand gopher
tails were brought into the auditor $
office at New Rockford recently to
secure the two-cent bounty offered
by the county.
A Munich man ordered an auto
from MinneapoliS. The water was
not emptied out of the works :" and
the cold weather froze and smashed
up the machine.
p. A. kroshus, man held in
at Jamestown for the illegal
solicitation of liquor orders, com
mitted suicide by hanging He is
thought to have been demented
The Bathgate Pink Paper has it
figured out that car load of flax at
present prices would bring sum
large enough to buy quarter sec
tion of land valued at S2l an acre.
Collectors of the dog tax in the
various cities, towns and villages of
the state say that it is much easier
to collect the tax since the supreme
court decided that the tax law is
constitutional.
The buildings destroyed in the
Coleharbor fire recently are all to
be rebuilt as soon as arrangements
can be completed The loss will ag-
gregate $4,000, with insurance.
to SIS 900.
A number of the growing and ann
bilious new towns in the western
part of the state are talking of es-
electric light plants, both
for the illumination of the streets
and for commercial lighting
Dr Wiley is now waging war On
the infant foods. He declares
many Of them dangerous. The food
experts surround the people with
dangers all the way from the
cradle to the grave Forum.
The largest school apportionment
in the history Of the state is an
nounced from Bismarck. amounting
to ssll s3l. The school population
is now las, 77:3'9, whcih means per
capita apportionment of sd.ll.
Mrs. l.. Anderson, a widow residing
near Goodrich, Mclean county. was
recently the beneficiary Of a kindly
-ant All thl. hands of her friends and