Emmons County record., 1910-07-21
AROUND THE STATE.

\ big tire last week did about
slao,e0a of damage TO Des Iacs,
Ward county.
Washhurn is advertising for bids
/ for construction of a modern water
works system
Al Manaan they are busy discuss
ing the question of where 70 locate
their new federal building Bids for
/ the site Will be opened August 3D.
4 .NPresident Roosevelt will speak
N Fargo on Labor Nay. Sept. 2Sth.
He writes TO this effect to Congress
man Hanna The town will hardly
be big enough to contain the visit
ors.
\ recent raid ON violators of the
prohibition law at Dickinson result
ed in the discovery of much evidence
and the placing of injunctions on
seven different buildings ia the
| town
Reports from various parts of the
state indicate that the gophers are
more than usually troublesome this
year These pestferous rodents
thrive and multiply best during dry
| weather
a creamery promoter arrived at
| Langdon and worked for a time and
then the farmers decided if it was a
| good thing they wanted some of it.,
and will organize cooperative
creamcarN company.
4 The numerous realty transfers re-
ported from different parts of the
state would seem to indicate that
there are some people who are wise
enough not to be blutfed by the
present crop outlook.
Some one makes the inane remark
that straw hats provided with disap-
pearing ear -muffs would solve our
changeable weather problem. Who
wants ear-muffs in weather like this
Grand Forks Herald.
The republicans of North Dakota
will vote pretty soidly for the re
publican nominee for governor
just for fear there might be another
senatorial vacancy to fill by appoint
ment. Grand Forks Herald.
A severe wind and hail storm was
the cause of considerable damage in
Mcl1enry and Pierce counties, south
and east of Anamoose, recently A
strip of country five miles wide and
about twenty miles long was entirely
devastated
An eleven-year Russian boy,
Peter Schaton, threw switch and
wrecked a 500 line feight TRAIN at
kief. This is the second time he has
been caught at the same trick. and
he probably Will be sent to the state
reform school at Mandan
Out in Mountraill county the'vot-
ers are nothing if not gallant. I'm
willing to show any favoritism, they
handed out a tie vote at the recent
primaries to the two ladies, Miss
Bessie M. Kane and Miss Rosanna
Duffy, who were out for the position
of county superintendent.
As a mark of progress Of civiliza-
tion, it is worth while mentioning
that a couple of Indians from the
Standing Rock reservation recently
purchased AN auto from the Mandan
Mercantile Company. and took as
much pride in skinning the pave
ments as would the scion Of a
wealthy family. Mandan Pioneer.
The farmers of Morton county are
not at all daunted by the seemingly
4 unfavorable conditions Of this sea-
4 son. AT Flasher, on the new MllWau-
kee extension, they have organized
4 a farmers elevator company and
are hauling their lumber forty
miles across. country from Mandan,
So as to have their building finished
IN time To take care of this year S
\ crop.
i In what it calls a Chapter of Ac-
cidents recent issue of the Under
/ wood Miner tells of boy who near
4 III cut oil his own nose while driving
(. down posts with an ak, a boy who
4 had his head and face badly cut by
being thrown from a wagon during
a runaway, and woman and chill
| elren who were knocked down andrun
| over by an automobile. Strenuous
times out that way.
1t is probae that a number of cit
les of North Dakota will be consid-
erably disappointed when the census
returns are given because of incom-
4 plete count. says the jamestown Cap
ital jamestown Will be one of those
that viii not come UP TO expecta-
4 tions. Ii is understood that the
population ofBismacrk is ), 5,4iG. which
is believed to be less than the actual
number BY at least 800, if not more.
Minnt IS going 10 lose a thousand or