Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-04-07
AROUND THE STATE,

the farmers.
There are complaints in some sec.
tons of the state of a SHORTAGE Of
seed wheat.
Eighty acres of land adjoining
the town-site of Steele was sold at
SOL per acre.
One of the democrats in congress
says that the word insurgent is ONLY
another name for good democrat
At New Salem the thermometer
went to 50 degrees in the shade 4
few days ago which was the record
there for March.
Az Ray the buttermaker of the
local creamery gives weekly lectures
on the care of cream and other fea-
lures of interest to patrons.
Ebert Hubbard ys,if you would
avoid cltlclsm, say nothing, do moth
ing. be nothing. It's even so and
especially in the newspaper business.
Gopher tails are worth two cents
each in LaMoure county. and ON
April Both and May lst any one hav-
ing g. t.s in their possession can
take them to the county building
and get the coin for them.
Finding bottle of strvchnine
near Tioga, signe solgyeld, a young
glrl, tasted it, with fatal results.
The little girl was alone at the time
Her condition was discovered short
~ afterward, but too late to save
her life. She was seven years old.
John Linton, a laborer, was killed
by Northern Pacific freight train
near Rchardton. He was walking
along the track when the engine
struck him and ground him beneath
Its Wheels. On the mangled remains
were found a check for $40, a watch
and bottle of alcohol.
Ed Patterson has placed am order
Tor $4,000 barrels of cement for the
new hotel he is building at Bis
He proposes to complete
the new hotel in time to house the
members of the third house" at
the next legislative session, as well
as the members of the bankers
clnb" and the house of representa-
tives, and do it right.
Thomas Lillethun, farmer living
at Cuba, couldn't find anything
quite fast enough among the auto
in that section to suit him,
and he forthwith orderd a special
design with a speed record of eighty
seven miles and fifty horse power.
just to have the satisfaction of hav-
ing something faster than anything
seen in Barnes county.
Recently, as County Commissioner
Samuel, of Ramsey county, his wife,
John Jones and his mother were out
for an auto trip, the car turned tur-
tie into the ditch, imprisoning un-
der the machine allbut Mrs. Samuel,
who was thrown out as the machine
went over The trio were in the
water almost up to their necks for
more than half-hour before they
were rescued by neighbors. Com
Samuel was badly bruised
and it is feared was internally in
jured. and Mr.. Jones sustained
badly -sprained leg.
The coroner of Morton county was
recently called upon to serve papers
on the sheriff. The papers ordered
the sheriff to appear before Judge
on May I'd and tell why he
should not be adjudged in contempt
of court 1t is alleged that the
sheriff had allowed prisoners in his
charge the freedom of the city, and
that they had been allowed to go
about Mandan at their pleasure, and
that they have not been confined in
the county Jail except at night, and,
in fact, that their imprisonment up
to the present time has been farce.
The city commissioners Of Bis
marck hav, adopted a fire-limits
ordinance which, in addition to
other provisions, prohibits any one
from erecting or repairing any
inside of the fire limits
which is of frame construction and
covered with sheet metal. The fire
fighters claim that this class Of
is the hardest i'm which to
tight fire. The metal covering
does not keep the fire in the build
ing. and vet it keeps water out. and
they are a constant menace toagood
orick or cement building which may
adjoin it.
Never before for thirt, two years.
say the oldest inhabitants, has North
Dakota had such a spring as We are
having just now. remarks the Grand
Forks Herald. Four sold weeks of
.pring weather. balny and clear
nas been the record Of March. The
work in the fields does not usually