Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-03-31
AROUND THE STATE.

The insurgents are now divided
into the eliminators and the anti
eliminators.
1t is estimated that at least poo
600 acres of wild land will be broken
IN Mckenzie county this spring.
Valley City women serve notice
that they will make complaint
against violators of the automobile
speed ordinance.
Range horses are in great demand
now in the western part of the state.
A Richardton man closed ont a large
bunch at $3.50 per head.
The Wheatland News thinks that
the route agents pick out the big
gest mud-hole into which they dump
the mai-sacks for that point.
A widower Of Adams advertised
for housekeeper and received tiftv
replies. He announces that he
wants housekeeper and not a
harem.
| The Fargo Forum the best news
paper in this state has moved into
Its new building. The Forum is
prosperous, and its prosperity is de-
served.
| The Buford Tribune says that
several hundred thousand dollars of
damage was done to the ranches and
farms along the Yellowstone river
by the recent flood.
According to f. C. Cooper, state
insurance commissioner, the insur-
ance companies received five million
dollars in premiums ON North Da-
kota bushes during the year 1909.
Word is wanted of John f. Rosen-
berger, aged thirty four. light COM
pleNlon, smooth face, blue eyes, dark
hair, six feet tall, POO pounds weight.
German nationality. Relatives are
seeking the information. Address
Forum. Fargo, N. d.
Capt. S. A. Hopson. who has been
a resident of Cass county since 1879.
died last Friday morning at the ad-
vanced age of lightweight years.
He was soldier in the Mexican war
and also a member of the Union
army in the civil war.
The insurgent press batteries are
now unlimbered and trained on
long time insurgent Bardi Skulason
of Grand Forks. because he refused
to be eliminated" by the self
appointed bunch of progressive
bosses in which Aleck Macdonald
represents Emmons. county.
John Staples. farmer living six
miles from Wahpeton. made somuch
of success raising broom-corn last
season that he will grow an in
creased area this season. and some
of his neighbors will also plant large
fields of this staple The product is
manufactured into brooms at Fergus
Falls, MINI.
Clinton Goss, a five-year-old boy,
was killed few days ago at New
Rockford. The little fellow was
playing in the streets when team
turned the corner. The boy being
directly in the way. one of the horses
struck the boy in the head with its
hoof. crushing the skull like an egg
she'll.
Greatly exaggerated reports have
been sent through the press con-
cerning conditions at Mandan during
the recent high water No trouble
was experienced in the main part of
the city, although the lower-lying
lands along the river bottoms were
flooded to the depth OF few feet.
as they were all along the Missouri
from the Yellowstone down.
Local politics are apparently
warming up some at Glendale The
Record of that city this week pub
fishes retraction, signed by
prominent citizen, pronouncing as
false and untrue a statement made
by him at Sunday-school to the effect
that the mayor had two kegs of beer
at the laundry to be used to re-elect
himself as mayor of the city.
During the high wind of week
ago f. N. kile, farmer living east
of Palermo. was rudely awakened
from his slumbers by the boistelous
and sudden departure Of the roof of
his house, and later discovered that
the roof of the barn had also disap-
peared at the same time Neither
any Of the family nor the horses and
cattle in the barn sustained any in
jury whatever.
Between eight and ten carloads
of seed peas will be planted in the
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